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 VI The Antiqutity Of Man, Egyptology, And Assyriology by Andrew Dickson White I. The Sacred Chronology. Two fields in which Science has gained a definite victory over Theology Opinious of the Church fathers on the antiquity of man The chronology of Isidore Of Bede Of the medieval Jewish […]
TUESDAY, 13th JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, LEICESTER. THE CHAIR WAS OCCUPIED BY MR. W. STANYON OF LEICESTER. THE CHAIRMAN having stated the order of proceedings, and asked the meeting to restrain the manifestation of their feelings, he called upon Mr. Roberts to open the Debate. Mr. ROBERTS: Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,–I would […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Mr. Roberts said why don’t I touch the question that Christ rose from the dead. I thought I had challenged that what he had said about Christ being seen for forty days according to Acts was contradicted in Luke. I thought I had said, giving texts to him on the previous nights, and […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: I will dispose of a matter of fact first. Mr. Roberts has said that he had Tatian, Theophilus, Mileto, Athenagoras, Barnabas, Polycarp, Ignatius and others giving evidence as to the existence of the New Testament gospels, before A.D. 150. 1 call for the writings of Tatian, and I sit down until they are […]
IT is an unusual and unsatisfactory circumstance for a discussion to be divided up into two parts between two separate towns. The reader will naturally be curious to know, not only how the discussion came about, but also how it came to assume this extraordinary and inconvenient shape, from which, however, with the whole discussion […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XII Secondary Sexual Characteristics of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles WE have now arrived at the great sub-kingdom of the Vertebrata, and will commence with the lowest class, that of fishes. The males of plagiostomous fishes (sharks, rays) and of […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter XII: Geographical Distribution IN considering the distribution of organic beings over the face of the globe, the first great fact which strikes us is, that neither the similarity nor the dissimilarity of the inhabitants of various regions can be wholly accounted for by climatal and other […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter X: Tierra Del Fuego Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An Account of the Fuegians on board — Interview With the Savages — Scenery of the Forests — Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable Condition of the Savages — […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter VI: Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Third Posta — Driving Horses — Bolas — Partridges and Foxes — Features of the Country — Long-legged Plover — Teru-tero — Hail-storm — Natural Enclosures […]
Saits or Sinners: Which? by Charles Watts Author of “History of Freethought,” “Secularism: Constructive and Destructive,” “The Philosophy of Unbelief,” etc. NEW YORK: “TRUTHSEEKER” OFFICE, 33, CLINTON PLACE. SAINTS and sinners are not two selected from the numerous classes to be met with in the world, with which in every-day life we come in contact. […]
Studies In Rationalism Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius BIG BLUE BOOK NO. B-7 THE ORDEAL OF INGERSOLL A LIE can travel halfway around the world, said Mark Twain, while the truth is getting its clothes on. Robert G. Ingersoll, who began each day with an answer to a lie, put it this way: “It is almost […]
[Back To Chapter 7] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 8 FROM EIGHTEEN NINETY-THREE TO EIGHTEEN NINETY-SIX As already evident, Ingersoll was the pronouncer of many eulogies of the dead; but of all his contributions to what I shall venture to term elegiac prose-poetry, none, perhaps, is more […]
Papal Despotism (Chapter VIII of Romanism) Father Jeremiah J. Crowley 1912 Nothing more startling has ever been put before the public than Rome’s recent resolutions of boycott of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Watson’s Magazine, the Protestant Magazine, the Menace, etc., and her attitude as Censor of the United States Mails. At the annual convention of the […]
Chapter XV Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together 1. Both capable of greater and less. Though we have in the precedent chapters dwelt pretty long on the considerations of space and duration, yet, they being ideas of general concernment, that have something very abstruse and peculiar in their nature, the comparing them one with […]
Chapter III Of Simple Ideas of Sense 1. Division of simple ideas. The better to conceive the ideas we receive from sensation, it may not be amiss for us to consider them, in reference to the different ways whereby they make their approaches to our minds, and make themselves perceivable by us. First, then, There […]
Chapter VII Of Particles 1. Particles connect parts, or whole sentences together. Besides words which are names of ideas in the mind, there are a great many others that are made use of to signify the connexion that the mind gives to ideas, or to propositions, one with another. The mind, in communicating its thoughts […]
Chapter XXI Of the Division of the Sciences 1. Science may be divided into three sorts. All that can fall within the compass of human understanding, being either, First, the nature of things, as they are in themselves, their relations, and their manner of operation: or, Secondly, that which man himself ought to do, as […]
Six Historic Americans Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and Grant The Fathers And Saviors Of Our Republic, Freethinkers by John E. Remsburg New York The Truth Seeker Company forty-nine Vesey Street Affectionately Inscribed to My Daughter, Reullura R. Harness Preface Were the American people asked to name the five great historic figures of the […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Church The Enemy Of The Workers Rome Is The Natural Ally Of All Exploiters by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 14 Contents Chapter I – A Picture Of Life In A Catholic Country Chapter II – Those Beautiful Papal Encyclicals Chapter […]
SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER IV THE PAPACY AT ITS HEIGHT IN the preceding three chapters I have described a thousand years of Papal history: a thousand years since, according to the Roman tradition, Peter had brought his special inspiration to Rome and inaugurated a "divinely inspired" series of pontiffs. What […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter IV by Joseph McCabe The Myth of Immortality Contents The Law of Death Evolution and the Soul Is the Mind a Spirit? What Is Personality? Modern Theories of Immortality The Freedom of the Will The Law Of Death IN Chapter II, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XX by Joseph McCabe The Church and the School Contents The Moral Value of Education The Child Under Paganism Education in the Roman Empire What the Church Did Learning in the Middle Ages The Moral Value of Education “YOU have one […]
Chapter 1 Joseph Wheless 32 page printout, pages 24 to 55 of 322 FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY "Being crafty, I caught you with guile" ... For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my LIE unto his glory; why yet am I also adjudged a sinner?" St. Paul. "What profit has not that fable […]
Chapter 08 Joseph Wheless 16 page printout, page 146 - 161 CHAPTER VIII THE HEBREW HEATHEN RELIGION. SEX WORSHIP AND IDOLS THE first that we know of the Hebrew Yahveh, after the fabled Flood of Noah and the fabulous Tower of Babel, is his appearance to the Chaldean heathen Abram at Haran, telling him to […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IN order to exalt the dignity and character of the Christian Messiah still higher than a mere claim for a divine origin paternally would have the effect to do, two of his assumed to be inspired biographers have set up for him a claim to a royal lineage […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. BAPTISM, in some of its various forms, is a very ancient rite, and was extensively practiced in several oriental countries. It was administered in a great variety of forms, and with the use of different elements. Water was the most common, but fire and air, wind, spirit or […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IF Jesus Christ were truly God, or if there existed such a coequal and co-essential oneness between the Father and the Son that they constituted but one being or divine essence, then what is true of one is true of the other, and a change of names and […]
