#joseph mccabe

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"An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason."

Joseph McCabe, writer, speaker, and former priest (12 November 1867-1955)

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Joseph McCabe: Different reason

“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”—Joseph McCabe.

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Joseph McCabe: Law of nature

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a “bundle of facts.” Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the “law” because they act in that way.

~ Joseph McCabe. 

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funny

"Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny, and of nothing else."- GK Chesterton, about Joseph McCabe

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Do you realize that within the life-time of men now living, within a hundred years, or a hundred and thirty years at the most, all the material conditions under which man lives his life on this earth have been more completely revolutionized than during all the ages of recorded history which preceded? My great-grandfather lived essentially the same kind of life, so far as external conditions were concerned, as did his Assyrian prototype 6,000 years ago.

(Joseph McCabe, 1825-1925: A Century of Stupendous Progress, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926).