“Mr. Ellis is neither a scientist nor an expert on the natural behavior of wolves.”

&quot;The Christian Religion&quot; The North American Review, August 1881 http://books.google.com/books?id=OPmfAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22There+are+in+nature+neither+rewards+nor+punishments+there+are+consequences%22&amp;pg=PA14#v=onepage http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora&amp;cc=nora&amp;view=image&amp;seq=121&amp;idno=nora0133-2<br>Variants:<br>We must remember that in nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences. The life and death of Christ do not constitute an atonement. They are worth the example, the moral force, the heroism of benevolence, and in so far as the life of Christ produces emulation in the direction of goodness, it has been of value to mankind.<br>As published in Some Reasons Why (1895) http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_reasons_why.html<br>In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.<br>Letters and Essays, 3rd Series. Some Reasons Why, viii. <br class="br">Source: The Christian Religion An Enquiry <br class="br">Context: There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. The life of Christ is worth its example, its moral force, its heroism of benevolence.

"A Devil's Chaplain"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.

In an interview with Gilbert in Göring&#x27;s jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp <br class="br">Nuremberg Diary (1947) <br class="br">Context: p&gt; Göring: Why, of course, the people don&#x27;t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don&#x27;t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.&lt;/p

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Quoted in The Perfect Way in Diet by Anna Kingsford (London: Kegan Paul, Trench &amp; Co., 1881), p. 14 https://archive.org/stream/perfectwayindie00kinggoog#page/n36.

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 163