A blind submission to uncriticized authority is something that we do not get out of his teaching. As a matter of fact, Christ lost his life just because people would not think. The mob allowed themselves to be worked up into a fictitious loyalty to an insurrectionary leader. They veered round from the hero-worship of Christ to a temporary adulation of Barabbas just because they did not think. After the Crucifixion they beat their breasts and returned to the city miserable and unhappy, forgetting then about Barabbas and remembering only that they had failed their true friend.
Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart.
When one thinks of the long tale of sins committed by thoughtless men, how great is the comfort in the remembrance of his prayer for those who did not think. When life is withdrawn from the material body, the material envelope in which it mysteriously dwells, we say that it is death. But science teaches us very clearly that matter cannot be destroyed. It can only be redistributed. Even when anything is burnt, it is not destroyed but merely reduced to its ultimate elements.