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 […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1876) Robert Green Ingersoll NOTE: The nomination of Blaine was the passionately dramatic scene of the day. Robert G. Ingersoll had been fixed upon to present Blain’s name to the Convention, and, as the result proved, a more effective champion could not have been selected in the […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Preface Robert Green Ingersoll NOTE for the computer edition, 1990. This Preface begins on page 259 of volume 1 of the Dresden Edition, it was in the beginning of an earlier volume of THE GHOSTS TO EBON C. INGERSOLL, NY BROTHER FROM WHOSE LIPS I HEARD THE […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Sumters Gun Robert Green Ingersoll SUMTER'S GUN. 1861 -- April 12th -- 1891. FOR about three-quarters of a century the statesmen, that is to say, the politicians, of the North and South, had been busy making compromises, adopting constitutions and enacting laws; busy making speeches, framing platforms […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Tribute Beckwith Robert Green Ingersoll A TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH. Dowagiac, Mich., January 25, 1893. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Nothing is nobler than to plant the flower of gratitude on the grave of a generous man -- of one who labored for the good of all -- […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Tribute Whitman Robert Green Ingersoll A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN. Camden, N.J., March 30, 1892. MY FRIENDS: Again we, in the mystery of Life, are brought face to face with the mystery of Death. A great man, a great American, the most eminent citizen of this Republic, […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Worlds Fair Robert Green Ingersoll EFFECT OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ON THE HUMAN RACE. THE Great Fair should be for the intellectual, mechanical, artistic, political and social advancement of the world. Nations, like small communities, are in danger of becoming provincial, and must become so, unless they […]
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The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section XIX Luke 16:1 Of the unjust steward. AND he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2. And he called him, and said unto […]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section V Matthew 6:1 TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as […]
Order books by Thomas Paine now. [NOTE: Mr. Dean, who rented Paine’s farm at New Rochelle, had written: “I have read with good attention your manuscript on Dreams, and Examination on the Prophecies in the Bible., I am now searching the old prophecies and comparing the same to those said to be quoted in the […]
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 […]