Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Ancient Superstition and Modern Superstition

If people should laugh at religion because most religions declare that men must believe in mythologies taught by such and such a prophet, they ought to laugh more at these moderns. 
In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt. "Huxley has said it", that is enough for many. 
We are free from superstitions indeed! 

That was a religious superstition, and this is a scientific superstition; 
only, in and through that superstition came life-giving ideas of spirituality; in and through this modern superstition come lust and greed. 

               - Swami Vivekananda, 
                  Jnana-Yoga, London



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