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发帖数: 6791 | 1 For thousands of years men have been writing the real Bible, and it is being
written from day to day, and it will never be finished while man has life.
All the facts that we know, all the truly recorded events, all the
discoveries and inventions, all the wonderful machines whose wheels and
levers seem to think, all the poems, crystals from the brain, flowers from
the heart, all the songs of love and joy, of smiles and tears, the great
dramas of Imagination's world, the wondrous paintings, miracles of form and
color, of light and shade, the marvelous marbles that seem to live and
breathe, the secrets told by rock and star, by dust and flower, by rain and
snow, by frost and flame, by winding stream and desert sand, by mountain
range and billowed sea.
All the wisdom that lengthens and ennobles life -- all that avoids or cures
disease, or conquers pain -- all just and perfect laws and rules that guide
and shape our lives, all thoughts that feed the flames of love, the music
that transfigures, enraptures and enthralls, the victories of heart and
brain, the miracles that hands have wrought, the deft and cunning hands of
those who worked for wife and child, the histories of noble deeds, of brave
and useful men, of faithful loving wives, of quenchless mother-love, of
conflicts for the right, of sufferings for the truth, of all the best that
all the men and women of the world have said, and thought and done through
all the years.
These treasures of the heart and brain -- these are the Sacred Scriptures of
the human race.
(Robert Green Ingersoll. About the holy Bible, 1894, section XII, "the real
bible")
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