For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.

People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given them primarily for useful purposes. They do not seek to expand...

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Citizens of a modern society need […] more than that ordinary “common sense” which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.