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 […]
Contents Chapter I – The Author’s Profession Of Faith Chapter II – Of Missions And Revelations Chapter III – Concerning The Character of Jesus Christ, And His History Chapter IV – Of The Bases Of Christianity Chapter V – Examination In Detail Of The Preceding Bases Chapter VI – Of The True Theology Chapter VII […]
Order books by Thomas Paine now. A Letter To Camille Jordan [NOTE: This pamphlet has never been published fully in English. It was printed in Paris in the summer of 1797 with the title: “Lettre de Thomas Paine sur les Cultes. A Paris, Imprimerie- Librairie du Cercle-Social, rue du Theatre-Fran-caise No. 4. 1797.” The inner […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XVII From Babel To Comparative Philology by Andrew Dickson White I. THE SACRED THEORY IN ITS FIRST FORM. Difference of the history of Comparative Philology from that of other sciences as regards the attitude of theologians Curiosity of early man regarding the origin, the primitive form, and the […]
A Plea For Atheism Charles Bradlaugh THIS essay is issued in the hope that it may succeed in removing some of the many prejudices prevalent, not only against the actual holders of Atheistic opinions, but also against those wrongfully suspected of Atheism. Men who have been famous for depth of thought, for excellent wit, or […]
Mr. Bradlaugh, you have admitted the reliability of the evidence of Tacitus and of Pliny to the fact that there existed a large Christian community at the end of the first century, and that they were the subjects of persecution?–I have not admitted the reliability of the quotation from Tacitus. I am inclined to think […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Mr. Roberts, in his first speech, said he had a large number of witnesses, and that he could read from them, chapter and verse. For I challenged him to do so–that will be in the memory of all of you. I challenged them in very explicit terms; and instead of venturing to read […]
Do you admit my definition of life as applied to man?–I don’t recollect what your definition was. Do you mean seriously to tell me that you have forgotten my definition of life last night?–Yes, but if you will repeat it, I will tell you whether I agree with it. Kindly tell me your ideas of […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter IV – Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals (continued) I FULLY subscribe to the judgment of those writers* who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XX – Secondary Sexual Characters of Man- Continued WE have seen in the last chapter that with all barbarous races ornaments, dress, and external appearance are highly valued; and that the men judge of the beauty of their women […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter VI: Difficulties of the Theory LONG before the reader has arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to him. Some of them are so serious that to this day I can hardly reflect on them without being in some […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XVIII: Tahiti and New Zealand Pass through the Low Archipelago — Tahiti — Aspect — Vegetation on the Mountains — View of Eimeo — Excursion into the Interior — Profound Ravines — Succession of Waterfalls — Number of wild useful Plants — Temperance of […]
Christianity And Civilization Charles Watts 14 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. **** **** CHRISTIANITY AND CIVILIZATION. Why Christianity is Still […]
Why I Am An Agnostic Clarence Darrow An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Everyone is an agnostic as to the beliefs or creeds they do not accept. Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds, and the Protestants are […]
A Biographical Appreciation of Robert G. Ingersoll (1911) By Herman E. Kittredge Chapter I : 1833 – 1840 Chapter II : 1841 – 1857 Chapter III : 1858 – 1866 Chapter IV : 1867 – 1877 Chapter V : 1878 – 1885 Chapter VI : 1876 – 1888 Chapter VII : 1889 – 1892 Chapter […]
[Back To Chapter 15] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 16 HIS DOMESTIC TEACHINGS (Cont.) Children — Their Rearing and Education Since the preceding presentation of Ingersoll as the liberator and champion of the wife and mother necessarily involves the logical correlative that he was also the liberator […]
BOOK I Neither Principles nor Ideas Are Innate Chapter I No Innate Speculative Principles 1. The way shown how we come by any knowledge, sufficient to prove it not innate. It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, koinai ennoiai, characters, as it […]
Chapter XXII Of Mixed Modes 1. Mixed modes, what. Having treated of simple modes in the foregoing chapters, and given several instances of some of the most considerable of them, to show what they are, and how we come by them; we are now in the next place to consider those we call mixed modes; […]
BOOK III Of Words Chapter I Of Words or Language in General 1. Man fitted to form articulate sounds. God, having designed man for a sociable creature, made him not only with an inclination, and under a necessity to have fellowship with those of his own kind, but furnished him also with language, which was […]
Chapter XIV Of Judgment 1. Our knowledge being short, we want something else. The understanding faculties being given to man, not barely for speculation, but also for the conduct of his life, man would be at a great loss if he had nothing to direct him but what has the certainty of true knowledge. For […]
A History Of The British Secular Movement by John Edwin McGee edited by E. Haldeman-Julius CONTENTS Preface Chapter I – ORIGINS Chapter II – A PERIOD OF FREE ASSOCIATION Basic Features A Masterful Convert Literature Assemblages Advancing Secularist Doctrines Attacking the Churches Opposition to Secularism Dissension Chapter III – THE BRADLAUGH EPOCH Organization Leaders Publications […]
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Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Columbia Encyclopedia’s Crimes Against The Truth HOW A POPULAR REFERENCE WORK IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON AGAINST FREE CULTURE AND TWISTED TO FIT THE PURPOSES OF LYING OBSCURANTISTS by Joseph McCabe HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS FOREWORD A few months ago I published a work, “History’s […]
CHAPTER IV CATHOLIC SERVICES THE services that I have so far noticed are conducted entirely in Latin, and the language of the priest is, as a rule, as inaudible to the people as it would be unintelligible. This has its advantages. The fact that the "mass" is in Latin saves considerable time, as we saw, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XII by Joseph McCabe Did Jesus Ever Live? Contents The Modern Denial The Fiction of the Gospels Jewish and Pagan Witnesses A Broad View The Modern Denial THERE were hundreds of Jesuses. A life of the Rabbi Hillel, if we […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXVIII by Joseph McCabe The Truth About Galileo and Medieval Science Contents Science and Christianity Roger Bacon and His Age Copernicus and Galileo The Reformation and Science Science and Christianity SCIENCE is simply the Latin word for knowledge. A good deal […]
Is It God’s Word? By: Joseph Wheless Chapter I – The Genesis Of Christianity Chapter II – A Sketch Of Hebrew Scriptures Chapter III – The Patriarchs And The Covenants of Yahweh Chapter IV – The Wonders Of The Exodus Chapter V – The Forty Years In The Wilderness Chapter VI – The “Ten Commandments” […]
Chapter 16 Joseph Wheless 38 page printout, page 339 - 376 CHAPTER XVI THE SACRED DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY THE creeds, says a poet, are in number some seventy-three. Of Christian sects or denominations, each founded upon chosen texts, there are in fact a much greater number, some hundreds, each quite out of harmony with all […]
