The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith.

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.

I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.