Our Sexual ethics

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:12:10 GMT

If women are to have sexual freedom, fathers must fade out, and wives must no longer expect to be supported by their husbands.

Bertrand Russell: Is There a God?

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:59:43 GMT

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

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Our Sexual ethics

Bertrand Russell: Is There a God?