The Agnostic's Position

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Title:     The Agnostic's Position
Author: Lemuel K. Washburn [More Titles by Washburn]

Some avowed Liberal writers are engaged in abusing the Agnostic. One looks upon him as a fool, while another considers him a hypocrite. One pities him for his ignorance, the other abuses him for confessing it. I side with the Agnostic. I sit down with the ignorant. I take my place in the class of “I-don’t-know.” The difference between people is this: Some don’t know, and some don’t know that they don’t know, and the rest won’t admit that they don’t know.

It seems to me that the Agnostic’s position is an honest one. He is asked the question; Is there a future life for man? What shall he answer? If he does not know whether there is not, why should he not say so? To say: I believe there is, is not an answer to the question. He must say, I know, or, I do not know. On this question are we not all Agnostics?

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The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

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Lemuel K. Washburn's essay: Agnostic's Position

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