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prerequisite of life -- as I see and feel it -- is to have a sturdy faith in oneself and in one's own powers. Other beliefs of necessity must be subservient to this and of relatively small import. Otherwise how is one to find stability and under in a chaotic world and in an existence paved with dynamite, if not in oneself -- the good stick for measuring and knowing all? How else may a universe so properly righted, established and viewed, if not through an individual equanimity and belief in one self? How would it be possible to establish a trust in anything for anyone, if a confidence of his own ability does not arise within himself, and project itself outwardly in deed. To me religion -- not in the sense of pious adherence to superstition and maudlin sentimental worship on both in the sense of being taprooted in the confidence of one's own flower, makes reason.

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prerequisite of life -- as I see and feel it -- is to have a sturdy faith in oneself and in one's own powers. Other beliefs of necessity must be subservient to this and of relatively small import. Otherwise how is one to find stability and under in a chaotic world and in an existence paved with dynamite, if not in oneself -- the good stick for measuring and knowing all? How else may a universe so properly righted, established and viewed, if not through an individual equanimity and belief in one self? How would it be possible to establish a trust in anything for anyone, if a confidence of his own ability does not arise within himself, and project itself outwardly in deed. To me religion -- not in the sense of pious adherence to superstition and maudlin sentimental worship on both in the sense of being taprooted in the confidence of one's own flower, makes reason.