Top 3 Quotes by Elihu Palmer

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Elihu Palmer

Progress, Age, Empires

Elihu PALMER (1823). “Principles of Nature; or, a development of the moral causes of Happiness and Misery among the human species”, p.198

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.

Elihu Palmer

Common Sense, Religion, Obscurity

Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.

Elihu Palmer

Christian, Religious, Men

Elihu Palmer (1823). “Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species”, p.9