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 […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XII From Magic To Chemistry And Physics. by Andrew Dickson White I. The Supremacy of Magic. Primitive tendency to belief in magic The Greek conception of natura laws Influence of Plato and Aristotle on the growth of science Effect of the establishment of Christianity on the development of […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter IX The “Fall Of Man” And Ethnology by Andrew Dickson White The “Fall Of Man” And Ethnology The beginnings of the science of Comparative Ethnology Its testimony to the upward tendency of man from low beginning Theological efforts to break its force–De Maistre and De Bonald Whately’s attempt […]
Mr. Roberts’ First Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s First 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: Mr. Roberts will now speak for a quarter of an hour. Mr. ROBERTS: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I only wish Mr. Bradlaugh would employ the opportunity he has during his option of questioning me for 15 minutes, to put to me that host of difficulties he says I did not answer, instead […]
Mr. Bradlaugh, do you believe that the Jews are an ancient nation?–I believe they were an ancient race. Do you believe they have always accepted Moses as the writer of the works bearing his name?–I don’t think I have very clear evidence on the point. Some time ago an eminent Jew wrote a letter, and […]
Who Was Jesus Christ? Charles Bradlaugh MANY persons will consider the question one to which the Gospels give a sufficient answer and that no further inquiry is necessary. But while the general Christian body affirm that Jesus was God incarnate on earth, the Unitarian Christians, less in numerical strength but numbering a large proportion of […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XV – Birds- Continued WE have in this chapter to consider why the females of many birds have not acquired the same ornaments as the male; and why, on the other hand, both sexes of many other birds are […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion AS THIS whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading facts and inferences briefly recapitulated. That many and serious objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through variation and […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XIII: Chiloe and Chonos Islands Chiloe — General Aspect — Boat Excursion — Native Indians — Castro — Tame Fox — Ascend San Pedro — Chonos Archipelago — Peninsula of Tres Montes — Granitic Range — Boat-wrecked Sailors — Low’s Harbour — Wild Potato […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter IX: Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and The Falkland Islands Santa Cruz — Expedition up the River — Indians — Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava — Fragments not transported by the River — Excavations of the Valley — Condor, Habits of — Cordillera — Erratic Boulders […]
Secularists Catechism Charles Watts 17 page printout From an old, undated, book published by Watts & Co. entitled: 'Pamphlets by Charles Watts' Vol. I. The book contains the motto: -- "To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly." -- Volney. **** **** THE SECULARIST'S CATECHISM: BEING AN EXPOSITION OF SECULAR […]
The Life Of Jesus by Ernest Renan COMPLETE EDITION LONDON: WATTS & Co., 5 & 6 JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET, E-C-4 **** **** To THE PURE SOUL of MY SISTER HENRIETTE, Who died at Byblus, on September 24th, 1861. Dost thou recall, from the bosom of God where thou reposest long days at Ghazir, […]
[Back To Chapter 10] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 11 DID HE ATTACK ‘THE THEOLOGY OF FIFTY YEARS AGO’? OR DID HE ATTACK THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE TIME? A Criticism very frequently heard from those who seem to have in view the double object of belittling Ingersoll’s […]
AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING by John Locke 1690 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY, BARRON HERBERT OF CARDIFF, LORD ROSS, OF KENDAL, PAR, FITZHUGH, MARMION, ST. QUINTIN, AND SHURLAND; LORD PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; AND LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, AND OF SOUTH […]
Chapter XVIII Other Simple Modes 1. Other simple modes of simple ideas of sensation. Though I have, in the foregoing chapters, shown how, from simple ideas taken in by sensation, the mind comes to extend itself even to infinity; which, however it may of all others seem most remote from any sensible perception, yet at […]
Chapter V Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses Ideas received both by seeing and touching. The ideas we get by more than one sense are, of space or extension, figure, rest, and motion. For these make perceivable impressions, both on the eyes and touch; and we can receive and convey into our minds the ideas […]
BOOK IV Of Knowledge and Probability Chapter I Of Knowledge in General 1. Our knowledge conversant about our ideas only. Since the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about […]
Chapter V Of Truth in General 1. What truth is. What is truth? was an inquiry many ages since; and it being that which all mankind either do, or pretend to search after, it cannot but be worth our while carefully to examine wherein it consists, and so acquaint ourselves with the nature of it, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Vatican’s Last Crime How The Black International Joined The World-Plot Against Freedom, Liberalism, And Democracy by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 1 Contents Chapter I – The Foulest War In History Chapter II – Just What The Papacy Needed Chapter III […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. How The Faith Is Protected The Unique Apparatus Of The Black International To Secure Loyalty by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 17 Contents Chapter I – Death And Damnation For The Unbeliever Chapter II – Blinkers For The Believer Chapter III – […]
SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER VII THE MODERN PHASE IN the opinion of "Catholic Truth," the reform of the Church, which it grossly exaggerates, was due to its own vital powers of recovery, not to the pressure of heretics. As I have repeatedly pointed out, the most irritating feature of Catholic […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter VII by Joseph McCabe The Forgery of the Old Testament Contents How We Detect the Forgery The Priestly Forgers The Mistakes of Moses The Mythical History of the Jews The Truth About the Prophets Pious Fiction How We Detect The Forgery […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXIII by Joseph McCabe The Horrors of the Inquisition Contents The Massacre of the Albigenses The Origin of the Inquisition The Infamy of Its Procedure The Roman Inquisition The Spanish Inquisition The Massacre of the Albigenses BY modern history we mean […]
Chapter 4 Joseph Wheless 36 page printout, pages 112 to 147 of 322 CHAPTER IV THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH "The greater Saint, the greater Liar." Diegesis. "The principal historians of the patristic period cannot always be completely trusted." (CE. vi, 14.) EMBRACED WITIFIN CE.'s confession of patristic untrustworthines and perversion of truth is […]
Chapter 11 Joseph Wheless 21 page printout, page 195 - 215 CHAPTER XI THE HOLY PRIESTS AND PROPHETS OF YAHVEH TURNING from the self-portrait of the Hebrew chief God, let us view the holy priests and prophets of Yahveh, the votaries of this Hebrew war-god. This examination will show the vague and shadowy notions of […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. RETIREMENT AND FORTY DAYS’ FASTING CHRIST taught, “My kingdom is not of this world.” And we find that most of the other Saviors virtually and practically taught the same doctrine. The first practical evincement of it was exhibited by retiring from the world; that is, they retired from […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. CHAPTER XXIX JESUS CHRIST A DEMIGOD, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN WRITERS IT is truly surprising to observe the damaging concessions of some of the early Christian writers, ruinous to the dogmas of their own faith with respect to the divinity of Jesus Christ, placing him, as they do, on […]
