The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter IFrom Creation to Evolution by Andrew Dickson White I. The Visible Universe. Ancient and medieval views regarding the manner of creationRegarding the matter of creationRegarding the time of creationRegarding the date of creationRegarding the CreatorRegarding light and darknessRise of the conception of an evolution: among the Chaldeans,The Hebrews, […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XIII From 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 disease Prevalence of this idea in ancient civilizations Beginnings of a scientific theory of medicine The twofold influence of Christianity […]
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 […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter IV From “Signs and Wonders” To Law In The Heavans. by Andrew Dickson White I. The Theological View. Early beliefs as to comets meteors and eclipses Their inheritance by Jews and Christians The belief regarding comets especially harmful as a source of superstitious terror Its transmission through the […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Your statement was that the Septuagint was accepted and recognised by all educated men; you made no exception whatever. You have curiously forgotten that I said that you classed together Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria, and Irenaeus, as "of those days"; and you said you gave the date of Tertullian. I did […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Mr. Roberts has been good enough to sketch to you what has happened on the previous two nights of this debate, but his sketch lacks one or two features which I will take the liberty of supplying. The question for discussion and the point that Mr. Roberts ought to try to prove is […]
Mr. Roberts’ First Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s Second Speech Mr. Roberts Questions Mr. Bradlaugh Mr. Bradlaugh Questions Mr. Roberts Mr. Roberts’ Second Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s Second Speech Mr. Roberts’ Third Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s Third Speech
The CHAIRMAN: We have only one hour left. Let us listen with the utmost quietness. Mr. Roberts now speaks for a quarter of an hour. Mr. ROBERTS: I am surprised that Mr. Bradlaugh should insist on an English translation when the original is presented to him illustrative of a point referred to. When he asked […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter X – Secondary Sexual Characters of Insects IN the immense class of insects the sexes sometimes differ in their locomotive-organs, and often in their sense-organs, as in the pectinated and beautifully plumose antennae of the males of many species. […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter X: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record IN THE sixth chapter I enumerated the chief objections which might be justly urged against the views maintained in this volume. Most of them have now been discussed. One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not […]
The Voyage Of The Beagle Charles Darwin The Internet Wiretap Online Edition of THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE BY CHARLES DARWIN From The Harvard Classics Volume 29 Copyright, 1909 P. F. Collier & Son, New York Prepared by John Hamm <email removed> from text scanned by Internet Wiretap About the online edition. The degree symbol […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter IV: Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca Rio Negro — Estancias attacked by the Indians — Salt-Lakes — Flamingoes — R. Negro to R. Colorado — Sacred Tree — Patagonian Hare — Indian Families — General Rosas — Proceed to Bahia Blanca — Sand Dunes […]
Is There a Life Beyond the Grave? A Reply to R.B. Westbrook, AM., D.D. (1894) by Charles Watts It has been aptly remarked that it does not necessarily follow, because an opponent has been replied to, that his arguments have been answered. The truth of this statement never appeared to me so evident as when […]
Is Theism A Logical Philosophy Debate between E. Haldeman-Julius and Rev. Burris Jenkins The following debate was held at The Linwood Forum of Kansas City, Mo. — in Dr. Jenkins’ Linwood Boulevard Christian Church — on Sunday evening, April 13, 1930. Rev. Burris A. Jenkins argued the affirmative and E. Haldeman-Julius argued the negative in […]
[Back To Chapter 5] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 6 FROM EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-SIX TO EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-EIGHT Ingersoll was now in his fifty-third year, when a large majority of geniuses have long since done the most and the best of their work. Astir almost at the dawn, arduously […]
What Church Statistics Show by J.H. Patterson Some interesting facts have been brought to light in the “Comparative Summary of the Church in the United States for the Last Five Years” published in the July 2 Christian Observer. In this treatise, at the Presbyterian Church in the United States, with a little more than 2,000,000 […]
Chapter XIII Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:- and First, of the Simple Modes of the Idea of Space 1. Simple modes of simple ideas. Though in the foregoing part I have often mentioned simple ideas, which are truly the materials of all our knowledge; yet having treated of them there, rather in the way that […]
Chapter XXVIII Of Other Relations 1. Ideas of proportional relations. Besides the before-mentioned occasions of time, place, and causality of comparing or referring things one to another, there are, as I have said, infinite others, some whereof I shall mention. First, The first I shall name is some one simple idea, which, being capable of […]
Chapter V Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations 1. Mixed modes stand for abstract ideas, as other general names. The names of mixed modes, being general, they stand, as has been shewed, for sorts or species of things, each of which has its peculiar essence. The essences of these species also, as has […]
Chapter II Of the Degrees of our Knowledge 1. Of the degrees, or differences in clearness, of our knowledge: 1. Intuitive. All our knowledge consisting, as I have said, in the view the mind has of its own ideas, which is the utmost light and greatest certainty we, with our faculties, and in our way […]
Six Historic Americans Abraham Lincoln by John E. Remsburg Introduction The Republic established by our Fathers, after enduring for three-quarters of a century, was menaced by destruction. Slavery, which had been planted in both sections of the Union, had proved unprofitable in the North and profitable in the South. The South sought to expand the […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Tyranny Of The Clerical Gestapo Catholics The Most Priest-Ridden Of All People by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 12 Contents Chapter I – Poisoning The Mind Of The Young Chapter II – The Priest Rules The Family Chapter III – The […]
SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER II EUROPE DECAYS AND THE POPES THRIVE SIMULTANEOUSLY with this forging of credentials and lowering of character in the Roman Church there was a singular transformation of its originally simple offices. The Pagans were accustomed to highly coloured and picturesque ceremonies, and the new Church indulgently […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter II by Joseph McCabe The Origin of Religion Contents Was Religion Revealed? Modern Theories of Its Origin The Real Roots of Religion How Gods Were Made The Rise of Priesthoods The Psychology of Religion Was Religion Revealed? SIXTEEN centuries ago there […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XVIII by Joseph McCabe The Degradation of Woman Contents The Claim of the Churches Women Before Christ The Greek and Roman Woman The Clergy and the Modern Struggle The Claim of the Churches I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. Why I Believe In Fair Taxation Of Church Property by Joseph McCabe LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 1502 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS Copyright, 1930, Haldeman-Julius Company A week or two ago I stood before the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Paris, enjoying one more […]
Chapter 06 Joseph Wheless 21 page printout, page 115 - 135 CHAPTER VI THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS" AND THE "LAW" EVERYBODY in Christian communities knows, supposedly, and many can even quote the "ten commandments" given by God to Moses on Sinai, and hung neatly framed in all well-conducted Sunday schools, Christian and Jewish alike, for here […]
IT is claimed by the disciples of Jesus Christ, that he was of supernatural and divine origin; that he had a human being for a mother, and a God for his father; that, although he was woman- conceived, he was Deity-begotten, and molded in the human form, but comprehending in essence a full measure of […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “THERE are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.” (i John v. 7.) This text, which evidently discloses a belief in the existence of three separate and distinct beings in the Godhead, sets forth a doctrine […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE monstrous scientific paradox (as coming ages will regard it) comprehended in the conception of an almighty, omnipresent, and infinite Being, “the Creator of innumerable worlds,” (“by him [Christ] were all things made that were made,” John i. 3-10), being born of a frail and finite woman, as […]
