The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XIIIFrom Miracles To Medicine. by Andrew Dickson White I. THE EARLY AND SACRED THEORIES OF DISEASE. Naturalness of the idea of supernatural intervention in causing and curing diseasePrevalence of this idea in ancient civilizationsBeginnings of a scientific theory of medicineThe twofold influence of Christianity on the healing art […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter I From Creation to Evolution by Andrew Dickson White I. The Visible Universe. Ancient and medieval views regarding the manner of creation Regarding the matter of creation Regarding the time of creation Regarding the date of creation Regarding the Creator Regarding light and darkness Rise of the conception […]
HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS FOREWORD BY HENRY S. SALT As a brief summary of Shelley’s attitude toward the Christian religion, I may be allowed to quote from what I have written elsewhere. [Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Pioneer (Watts & Co., 1913] “I regard Shelley’s early ‘atheism’ and later Pantheism, as simply the negative and […]
Deity And Design Chapman Cohen THE PIONEER PRESS THE ONE certain thing about the history of the human intellectis that it runs, from ignorance to knowledge. Man begins knowingnothing of his own nature or of the nature of the world in which heis living. He continues acquiring a little knowledge here andthere, with his vision […]
Did I understand you last night to say that the chronology in the Septuagint differed from the chronologies in the authorised English version?–Yes. Which chronology is true?–The Hebrew. How do you know that the Hebrew chronology is more true than that in the Septuagint?–By a process of argument which would be too extensive to rehearse […]
The CHAIRMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, the threat that I addressed to you at the beginning we are about to remit: instead of keeping you later we intend this evening to close at ten o’clock, I shall therefore be obliged to restrict each gentlemen to ten minutes in their concluding speeches. Mr. Roberts will now speak. […]
WEDNESDAY, 21st JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, BIRMINGHAM. THE CHAIR WAS OCCUPIED BY MR. GEORGE H. ST. CLAIR The CHAIRMAN: You will be familiar by this time with the order of discussion, which is the same each evening. Last night, I think we were less interrupted than on the previous occasion, and I trust, […]
The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 THE DESCENT OF MAN by Charles Darwin INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION. THE NATURE of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XVI – Birds-Concluded WE must now consider the transmission of characters, as limited by age, in reference to sexual selection. The truth and importance of the principle of inheritance at corresponding ages need not here be discussed, as enough […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter II: Variation Under Nature BEFORE applying the principles arrived at in the last chapter to organic beings in a state of nature, we must briefly discuss whether these latter are subject to any variation. To treat this subject properly, a long catalogue of dry facts ought […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XIV: Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake San Carlos, Chiloe — Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina — Ride to Cucao — Impenetrable Forests — Valdivia Indians — Earthquake — Concepcion — Great Earthquake — Rocks fissured — Appearance of the former Towns […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Preface I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied […]
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer by Charles Watts London: WATTS & CO., 17, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, E.C. INTRODUCTION MOST persons can distinguish between right and wrong; but it is not so easy to decide why certain actions are right, and others the very reverse. According to orthodox Christianity, the sanction for right-doing is […]
Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man A Compendious System Of Natural Religion Ethan Allen BOSTON: J.P. MENDUM, CORNHILL. 1854. INTRODUCTION Colonel Ethan Allen, the author of Oracles of Reason, was the son of Joseph Allen, a native of Coventry, Connecticut, a farmer in moderate circumstances. He afterwards resided in Litchfield, where Ethan was born in […]
[Back To Chapter 11] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 12 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? Did He ‘Tear Down without Building Up’? There is another criticism that is even more frequently made than the one to which the preceding chapter is devoted. It holds, season after season, […]
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding EPISTLE TO THE READER I HAVE put into thy hands what has been the diversion of some of my idle and heavy hours. If it has the good luck to prove so of any of thine, and thou hast but half so much pleasure in reading as I had in […]
Chapter XIX Of the Modes of Thinking 1. Sensation, remembrance, contemplation, &c., modes of thinking. When the mind turns its view inwards upon itself, and contemplates its own actions, thinking is the first that occurs. In it the mind observes a great variety of modifications, and from thence receives distinct ideas. Thus the perception or […]
Chapter VI Of Simple Ideas of Reflection 1. Simple ideas are the operations of mind about its other ideas. The mind receiving the ideas mentioned in the foregoing chapters from without, when it turns its view inward upon itself, and observes its own actions about those ideas it has, takes from thence other ideas, which […]
Chapter X Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God 1. We are capable of knowing certainly that there is a God. Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those […]
Chapter VI Of Universal Propositions: their Truth and Certainty 1. Treating of words necessary to knowledge. Though the examining and judging of ideas by themselves, their names being quite laid aside, be the best and surest way to clear and distinct knowledge: yet, through the prevailing custom of using sounds for ideas, I think it […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. How The Pope Of Peace Traded In Blood The Red Pope by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 2 Contents Chapter I – The Red Record Of The Holy Fathers Chapter II – Who Is This Pius XII? Chapter III – His Glorious […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Artistic Sterility Of The Church How The Church Stupefies Folk By Crude Emotionalism by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 18 Contents Chapter I – The Alleged Beautiful Services Chapter II – There Never Was A Catholic Art Chapter III – Few […]
THE POPES AND THEIR CHURCH A CANDID ACCOUNT BY JOSEPH McCABE (Author of “Twelve Years in a Monastery,” etc.) FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION 370 WEST 35TH STREET NEW YORK 1, NEW YORK First Edition1918 Second Edition (revised) 1924 Third Edition (further revised) 1933 Second Impression of Third Edition 1936 Fourth Edition (further revised) 1940 […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter VIII by Joseph McCabe Religion and Morals in Ancient Babylon Contents Babylon and Its People The Code of Laws Babylonian Prayer Books The Land of Devils Babylon And Its People THE first great historian, Herodotus, a Greek who traveled widely over […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXIV by Joseph McCabe Medieval Art and the Church Contents Art and Religion Christ and Apollo The Age of Faith and Ugliness The Cathedral Builders The Painters of the Renaissance Art and Religion WHEN the good American sits down to arrange […]
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Chapter 12 Joseph Wheless 15 page printout, page 216 - 230 CHAPTER XII BIBLE THEOLOGY AND MODERN TRUTH BEFORE essaying frankly, for the sake of truth, to "search the scriptures" of the New Testament, wherein, says the Christ, "ye think ye have eternal life" (John v, 39), it is of prime importance to consider briefly […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IT is unwarrantably assumed by Christian writers that the incarnated Gods and crucified Saviors of the pagan religions were all either mere fabulous characters, or ordinary human beings invested with divine titles, and divine attributes; while, on the other hand, the assumption is put forth with equal boldness […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “AND I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.” (Gen. iii. 15.) This text is often cited by Christian writers and controversialists as prefiguring the mission of the Christian […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE most important lesson deducible from all the religious systems, commemorated in history, and noticed in this work, is, that all religious conceptions, whether in the shape of doctrine, precept, prophecy, prayer, religious devotion, or a belief in miracles, are a spontaneous outgrowth of the moral and religious […]
