Do Not Leave Things at All

Urthred: It is all the same thing — God, or Evolution, or what you will — so long as you mean a Power beyond your own which excuses you from your duty. Utopia says, 'Do not leave things at all. Take hold.'

Urthred Men Like Gods (1923) by H. G. Wells

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Context: Urthred, a Utopian, answers the Earthlings who trust God or Nature to manage the world for them.

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Source: Men Like Gods, Book the First, Chapter the Sixth (Some Earthly Criticisms), Section 5

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