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 XVI From Diabolism To Hysteria by Andrew Dickson White I. THE EPIDEMICS OF “POSSESSION.” Survival of the belief in diabolic activity as the cause of such epidemics Epidemics of hysteria in classical times In the Middle Ages The dancing mania Inability of science during the fifteenth century to […]
Humanity’s Gain From Unbelief Charles Bradlaugh With prefatory note by his daughter, Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner. Introductory Note THROWN on his own resources as a boy, with every man’s hand against him, my father was both essentially and by force of circumstances a man of action, and his writings were usually inspired by the need […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: I have not admitted, and I carefully guarded my answer to prevent the possibility of such an admission, that there was a body of Christians in the first century believing in the story of Jesus as recorded in the gospels; for I pointed out that the people called Christians were people whom I […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: On this, the fourth night of the debate, the names of the witnesses are mentioned, and Mr. Roberts says he can quote from them, but he has carefully refrained from doing it, and I will give you the reasons in my speech why he has not done so. He says I admitted that […]
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
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter III – Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals WE HAVE seen in the last two chapters that man bears in his bodily structure clear traces of his descent from some lower form; but it […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Part Three – Sexual Selection in Relation to Man and Conclusion Chapter XIX – Secondary Sexual Characters of Man WITH mankind the differences between the sexes are greater than in most of the Quadrumana, but not so great as in […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter V: Laws of Variation I HAVE hitherto sometimes spoken as if the variations- so common and multiform with organic beings under domestication, and in a lesser degree with those under nature- were due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XVII: Galapagos Archipelago The whole Group Volcanic — Numbers of Craters — Leafless Bushes Colony at Charles Island — James Island — Salt-lake in Crater — Natural History of the Group — Ornithology, curious Finches — Reptiles — Great Tortoises, habits of — Marine […]
Was Christ a Political and Social Reformer? by Charles Watts ALTHOUGH Thomas Carlyle has said that "in these days it is professed that hero-worship has gone out and finally ceased," thousands of the professed followers of Christ idolize his memory to such an extent that they appear to be entirely oblivious of any defect either […]
The Lord’s Day Alliance Clarence Darrow This veteran of the Courts, who has spent fifty years tearing deserved holes in the law, takes and swings his priceless irony towards these professional Christians. When do we rest and when do we play? Apparently we don’t. What Price salvation? it’s not worth it Among the various societies […]
Men, Women, And Gods And Other Lectures by Helen H. Gardener AUTHOR OF "A Thoughtless Yes;" "Is This Your Son, My Lord," A Radical Novel "Sex In Brain;" And Other Essays. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL 1885 THIRTEENTH EDITION. NEW YORK: THE TRUTH SEEKER COMPANY, 28 LAFAYETTE PLACE. THIS LITTLE VOLUME, is RESPECTFULLY […]
[Back To Chapter 14] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 15 HIS DOMESTIC TEACHINGS Woman, Love, Marriage, Home It has been written, that upon the urn inclosing the ashes of our reformer should be the words, “Liberator of Men.” Without attributing to the author of the latter any […]
Chapter II No Innate Practical Principles 1. No moral principles so clear and so generally received as the forementioned speculative maxims. If those speculative Maxims, whereof we discoursed in the foregoing chapter, have not an actual universal assent from all mankind, as we there proved, it is much more visible concerning practical Principles, that they […]
Chapter XXI Of Power 1. This idea how got. The mind being every day informed, by the senses, of the alteration of those simple ideas it observes in things without; and taking notice how one comes to an end, and ceases to be, and another begins to exist which was not before; reflecting also on […]
Chapter IX Of Perception 1. Perception the first simple idea of reflection. PERCEPTION, as it is the first faculty of the mind exercised about our ideas; so it is the first and simplest idea we have from reflection, and is by some called thinking in general. Though thinking, in the propriety of the English tongue, […]
Chapter XIII Some Further Considerations Concerning our Knowledge 1. Our knowledge partly necessary, partly voluntary. Our knowledge, as in other things, so in this, has so great a conformity with our sight, that it is neither wholly necessary, nor wholly voluntary. If our knowledge were altogether necessary, all men’s knowledge would not only be alike, […]
Chapter IX Of our Threefold Knowledge of Existence 1. General propositions that are certain concern not existence. Hitherto we have only considered the essences of things; which being only abstract ideas, and thereby removed in our thoughts from particular existence, (that being the proper operation of the mind, in abstraction, to consider an idea under […]
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CHAPTER III THE CONFESSIONAL AND INDULGENCES IF there is one part of the Catholic system which more than any other has attracted the attention of non-Catholics, it is what the Church calls "the sacrament of penance," and others call the practice of confession. No part of a church is observed by the visitor with such […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XI by Joseph McCabe Phallic Elements in Religion Contents Modern Modesty Phallism in the Old Testament The Phallic Stage Phallism Under Christianity Modern Modesty SCIENCE enables you to see the world grow. It produces a slow moving-picture of the unfolding of […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXVII by Joseph McCabe The Reformation and Protestant Reaction Contents The Disgust of Christendom Why the Reformation Succeeded Martin Luther The Catholic Reformation Humanity Crucified for Christ The Disgust of Christendom In the spring of the year 1415 a General Council […]
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Chapter 15 Joseph Wheless 33 page printout, page 306 - 338 CHAPTER XV MORE "HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS" THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE DRAMA WE have thus reviewed the salient features of the recorded events of the birth and career of the Man of Nazareth, and thus have been enabled to form an intelligent, if […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE next most important event in the histories of the Saviors after their crucifixion, and the act of giving up the ghost, is that of their descent into the infernal regions. That Jesus Christ descended into hell after his crucifixion is not expressly taught in the Christian bible, […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THEIR MIRACULOUS HISTORY AND LEADING PRINCIPLES The advent of each Savior was miraculously foretold by prophets. The fallen and degenerate condition of the human race is taught in the religion of each. A plan of restoration or salvation is provided for in each case. A […]
