Superstition

Arrival - acrylic by William Haskell

 “Superstition was rising everywhere. People like to see human life as an upwardly sloping line towards knowledge and tolerance. But I have to say that has never been my experience. It isn’t in this century, and it wasn’t in that one. The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition can rise up in almost anyone at any moment, and what starts as doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world." Matt Haig - from How to Stop Time

“Superstition and understanding can never combine. When the final physical and moral effects of Christian Science are fully apprehended, the conflict between truth and error, understanding and belief, Science and material sense, foreshadowed by the prophets and inaugurated by Jesus, will cease, and spiritual harmony reign." Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 288:9