Dominant creed

“A system which knows no God in the Western sense, which denies a soul to man, which counts the belief in immortality a blunder, which refuses any efficacy to prayer and sacrifice, which bides men to look to nothing but their own efforts for salvation, which in its original purity knew nothing of vows of obedience and never sought the aid of the secular arm, yet spread over a considerable motley of the old world with marvelous rapidity and is still, which whatever base admixture of forcing superstitions, the dominant creed of a large fraction of mankind.”

T.H. Huxley