Superstition corner, by Sheila Kaye-Smith.

In a word, as Seneca concludes, Religio Deum colit, superstitio destruit, superstition destroys, but true religion honours God.

He's never left the pole for a minute; but suppose, Ike, Barry has tipped off 'Cam' that all the boys will let go their fliers, and most of them will take one on the short side over to-night for a superstition drop at the opening; and suppose 'Cam' has told him to take them all into camp and give her a rafter-scraper at the opening, where would old Friday, 13th, land on to-morrow's dope-sheets?

"Superstition festers in their very bones!

Superstition flourishes at Rome now not less than it did thirteen hundred years ago; and superstitious practices have a wonderful vitality in the close air of Romanism.]

But heretofore, almost in all countries, in all places, superstition hath blinded the hearts of men; in all ages what a small portion hath the true church ever been!

aux manes de Voltaire et de J.J. Rousseau, qui m'ont appris à mépriser toutes les vaines superstitions de ce monde, et tous les vains préjugés qu'a enfantés la grossièreté des hommes, et surtout les subtiles noirceurs des fourbes de Prêtres.

It struck me as an odd thing, that even then, considering how prone to superstition persons in his rank of life usually are, he did not seem to suspect any thing supernatural in the occurrence; and, on the contrary, was thoroughly persuaded that his visitant was a living person, who had got into the house by some hidden entrance.

I found this same superstition prevalent in France fifty years later.

and so easily does the most effeminate superstition ally, both with the most heroic courage and with the fiercest barbarity!

Well shall it be for humanity that creeds and dogmas pass away, that superstition vanishes, and the clear light of freedom and science dawns on a regenerated earthbut well only if men draw tighter and closer the links of trustworthiness, of honour, and of truth.