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• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. -- Plotinu
• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. -- Sophocle
• The Popes, like Jesus, are conceived by their mothers through the over- shadowing of the Holy Ghost.
  All Popes are a certain species of man-gods, for the purpose of being able to conduct the functions of mediator between God and mankind....
• The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as between God and gods.
• Mankind has no need for gods. We find the One quite adequate.
  -- Kirk, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1....
• TO MANKIND And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.
  -- Dedicatory note of The Gods Themselve...
• HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science.
  To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not....
• Man are beasts, and even beasts don't behave as they do.
• Between amoebas and mankind There seems to be a mighty chasm But if you study both, you'll find Your body, and perhaps, your mind Is largely of this very kind Of animated protoplasm.
  -- Gerald Lynton Kaufma...