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 III Astronomy by Andrew Dickson White I. The Old Sacred Theory of the Universe. The early Church’s conviction of the uselessness of astronomy The growth of a sacred theory–Origen, the Gnostics, Philastrius, Cosmas, Isidore The geocentric, or Ptolemaic, theory its origin, and its acceptance by the Christian world […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: First, the evidence as to the Septuagint is exactly the opposite to the statement Mr. Roberts has made, and it shows, therefore, the misfortune in conducting this debate without giving authorities as we go on. Mr. Roberts — and I am quite sure that he means to tell you, at least I think […]
The CHAIRMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, I can understand that this process of questioning and answering might be extremely interesting if we were only permitted to listen to it quietly. Mr. Bradlaugh will now have the privilege of either making a speech or questioning Mr. Roberts. By whom do you think the Book of Genesis was […]
Mr. ROBERTS: It suits Mr. Bradlaugh’s purpose to make these statements, but it would not suit my purpose to do what he challenges me to do, because–and he knows that well–in pursuing these unimportant enquiries, I would be prevented from doing other things which I am more particularly intent upon doing, and which are of […]
THURSDAY, 22nd JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, BIRMINGHAM. THE CHAIR WAS OCCUPIED BY MR. GEORGE H. ST. CLAIR. THE CHAIRMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, this being the last night of the debate, time is of more consequence. I trust it is not necessary to make a single remark, and I shall sit down at […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter IX – Secondary Sexual Characters in the Lower Classes of the Animal Kingdom WITH animals belonging to the lower classes, the two sexes are not rarely united in the same individual, and therefore secondary sexual characters cannot be developed. […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter I: Variation Under Domestication Causes of Variability WHEN we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us is, that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Introduction WHEN on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter III: Maldonado Monte Video — Excursion to R. Polanco — Lazo and Bolas — Partridges — Absence of Trees — Deer — Capybara, or River Hog — Tucutuco — Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits — Tyrant- flycatcher — Mocking-bird — Carrion Hawks — Tubes formed by […]
The Existence of God or Questions for Theists (1894) by Charles Watts THEISTS of marked intellectual ability persistently avoid any attempt to defend the Christian’s notion of their God as he is delineated in the Bible. The reason, no doubt, of this is that the character given to the deity by the "inspired writers" is […]
The Church Is A Burden, Not A Benefit, In Social Life by E. Haldeman-Julius I have no doubt that many persons — a minority but a zealously vociferous group — would have so little feeling of humor and anachronism as to claim that churches should be exempted from taxation because they are “houses of God.” […]
[Back To Chapter 4] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 5 FROM EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-FIVE In 1878 Ingersoll wrote his Robert Burns, a lecture. It was published posthumously, the unrevised original “notes” of it being found among the orator’s papers. Robert Ingersoll adored Robert Burns; but […]
Joseph McCabe: Fighter For Freethought Fifty Years on the Rationalist Front by Issac Goldberg THE REVIEWER'S LIBRARY No. 4 Copyright 1936, Haldeman-Julius Company Contents Chapter I – Intellectual Snobbery Chapter II – “While All The Catholics Ring The Bell…” The Policy Of Ignorance “Doctrinally Bankrupt” Chapter III – The New Paganism Internation Chapter IV – […]
Chapter XII Of Complex Ideas 1. Made by the mind out of simple ones. We have hitherto considered those ideas, in the reception whereof the mind is only passive, which are those simple ones received from sensation and reflection before mentioned, whereof the mind cannot make one to itself, nor have any idea which does […]
Chapter XXVII Of Identity and Diversity 1. Wherein identity consists. Another occasion the mind often takes of comparing, is the very being of things, when, considering anything as existing at any determined time and place, we compare it with itself existing at another time, and thereon form the ideas of identity and diversity. When we […]
Chapter IV Of the Names of Simple Ideas 1. Names of simple ideas, modes, and substances, have each something peculiar. Though all words, as I have shown, signify nothing immediately but the ideas in the mind of the speaker; yet, upon a nearer survey, we shall find the names of simple ideas, mixed modes (under […]
Chapter XIX Of Enthusiasm 1. Love of truth necessary. He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it. […]
Six Historic Americans Benjamin Franklin by John E. Remsburg The world has produced few wiser or better men than our American Socrates, Benjamin Franklin. While he lived he was loved and honored by all; when he died, two continents mourned as a child mourns the loss of a beloved father. Eagerly has the church striven […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Totalitarian Church Of Rome Its Fuehrer, Its Gauleiter, Its Gestapo, And Its Money-box by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 11 Contents Introduction Chapter I – The Holy Father Chapter II – The Right Reverend Fathers Chapter III – The Common Or […]
SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY OF all the fictions which still shelter from the storm of modern criticism under the leaky umbrella of "Catholic Truth," the legend of the divine foundation of the Papacy and the Papal system is quite the boldest and most romantic. […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter I by Joseph McCabe The Revolt Against Religion Contents The World-Revolt Against Religion A New Age Of Mankind The Origin Of The Rebellion The Battle Of The Nineteenth Century Enter Science The Voice Of The Heart The World-Revolt Against Religion SOME […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XVII by Joseph McCabe The Evolution of Christian Doctrine Contents The Religion of Jesus The Mists of Gnosticism Fights Over Formulae The Evolution of Priestcraft The Religion of Jesus THE primary educational need of America is to persuade believers to examine […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy by Joseph McCabe Introduction by E. Haldeman-Julius THE scholarship, immense and convincing, of the present volume will enlighten any reader (although I trust few are actually in need of such enlightenment) concerning the absurdity of a charge often made: namely, the charge […]
Chapter 05 Joseph Wheless 19 page printout, page 96 - 114 CHAPTER V THE FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS IN the third month after the hegira from Egypt the hosts of Yahveh came to the "desert of Sinai, and pitched in the wilderness, and camped before the mount" (Ex. xix, 1, 2). This was Mt. […]
FRIENDS and brethren — teachers of the Christian faith: Will you believe us when we tell you the divine claims of your religion are gone — all swept away by the “logic of history,” and nullified by the demonstrations of science? The recently opened fountains of historic law, many of whose potent facts will be […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE WORD AS CREATOR, AS SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, AND ITS PRE-EXISTENCE The Word of Oriental Origin “IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John i. 1.) The doctrine of the divine creative word (from the Greek […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. A MOST fatal distrust is thrown upon the miraculous portions of the history of Jesus Christ, as found in his Gospel narratives, by the discovery of the fact (brought to light through recent archaeological researches), that the same marvelous feats, the same miraculous incidents, which were recorded in […]