in the days that are at hand neither creed nor code must be accepted upon authority human superhuman or divine (morality and conventionalism are for subordinates) religions and constitutions and all arbitrary principles every mortal theorem must be deliberately put to the question no moral dogma must be taken for granted no standard of measurement deified there is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes like the wooden idols of long ago they are all the work of human hands and what man has made man can destroy