“The light of Christianity has only served to show how much more hypocrisy and vice its teachings have begotten in the world since its advent, and how immensely superior were the ancients over us in every point of honor.”

Statements at trial http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C5%9Fescu (25 December 1989)

Dominion (2002)

The Illustrated London News (14 December 1907)

Preface (Scribner edition, 1872) <!-- New York, Scribner pp xxv - xxvi -->
Chips from a German Workshop (1866)
Context: How can a missionary in such circumstances meet the surprise and questions of his pupils, unless he may point to that seed, and tell them what Christianity was meant to be; unless he may show that. like all other religions, Christianity, too, has had its history; that the Christianity of the nineteenth century is not the Christianity of the Middle Ages, that the Christianity of the MiddIe Ages was not that of the early Councils, that the Christianity of the early Councils was not that of the Apostles, and "that what has been said by Christ, that alone was weII said?"

"Sources of Intolerance"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem