Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man A Compendious System Of Natural Religion Ethan Allen BOSTON: J.P. MENDUM, CORNHILL. 1854. INTRODUCTION Colonel Ethan Allen, the author of Oracles of Reason, was the son of Joseph Allen, a native of Coventry, Connecticut, a farmer in moderate circumstances. He afterwards resided in Litchfield, where Ethan was born in […]
[Back To Chapter 11] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 12 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? Did He ‘Tear Down without Building Up’? There is another criticism that is even more frequently made than the one to which the preceding chapter is devoted. It holds, season after season, […]
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding EPISTLE TO THE READER I HAVE put into thy hands what has been the diversion of some of my idle and heavy hours. If it has the good luck to prove so of any of thine, and thou hast but half so much pleasure in reading as I had in […]
Chapter XIX Of the Modes of Thinking 1. Sensation, remembrance, contemplation, &c., modes of thinking. When the mind turns its view inwards upon itself, and contemplates its own actions, thinking is the first that occurs. In it the mind observes a great variety of modifications, and from thence receives distinct ideas. Thus the perception or […]
Chapter VI Of Simple Ideas of Reflection 1. Simple ideas are the operations of mind about its other ideas. The mind receiving the ideas mentioned in the foregoing chapters from without, when it turns its view inward upon itself, and observes its own actions about those ideas it has, takes from thence other ideas, which […]
Chapter X Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God 1. We are capable of knowing certainly that there is a God. Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those […]
Chapter VI Of Universal Propositions: their Truth and Certainty 1. Treating of words necessary to knowledge. Though the examining and judging of ideas by themselves, their names being quite laid aside, be the best and surest way to clear and distinct knowledge: yet, through the prevailing custom of using sounds for ideas, I think it […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. How The Pope Of Peace Traded In Blood The Red Pope by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 2 Contents Chapter I – The Red Record Of The Holy Fathers Chapter II – Who Is This Pius XII? Chapter III – His Glorious […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Artistic Sterility Of The Church How The Church Stupefies Folk By Crude Emotionalism by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 18 Contents Chapter I – The Alleged Beautiful Services Chapter II – There Never Was A Catholic Art Chapter III – Few […]
THE POPES AND THEIR CHURCH A CANDID ACCOUNT BY JOSEPH McCABE (Author of “Twelve Years in a Monastery,” etc.) FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION 370 WEST 35TH STREET NEW YORK 1, NEW YORK First Edition1918 Second Edition (revised) 1924 Third Edition (further revised) 1933 Second Impression of Third Edition 1936 Fourth Edition (further revised) 1940 […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter VIII by Joseph McCabe Religion and Morals in Ancient Babylon Contents Babylon and Its People The Code of Laws Babylonian Prayer Books The Land of Devils Babylon And Its People THE first great historian, Herodotus, a Greek who traveled widely over […]
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Chapter 12 Joseph Wheless 15 page printout, page 216 - 230 CHAPTER XII BIBLE THEOLOGY AND MODERN TRUTH BEFORE essaying frankly, for the sake of truth, to "search the scriptures" of the New Testament, wherein, says the Christ, "ye think ye have eternal life" (John v, 39), it is of prime importance to consider briefly […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IT is unwarrantably assumed by Christian writers that the incarnated Gods and crucified Saviors of the pagan religions were all either mere fabulous characters, or ordinary human beings invested with divine titles, and divine attributes; while, on the other hand, the assumption is put forth with equal boldness […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “AND I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.” (Gen. iii. 15.) This text is often cited by Christian writers and controversialists as prefiguring the mission of the Christian […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE most important lesson deducible from all the religious systems, commemorated in history, and noticed in this work, is, that all religious conceptions, whether in the shape of doctrine, precept, prophecy, prayer, religious devotion, or a belief in miracles, are a spontaneous outgrowth of the moral and religious […]
The Truth About Jesus Is He A Myth? by M.M. MANGASARIAN Independent Religious Society ORCHESTRA HALL CHICAGO By education most have been misled, So they believe because they were so bred; The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. DRYDEN Preface The following work offers […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1891) Robert Green Ingersoll This unfinished and unrevised article was among Col. Ingersoll’s papers and is here reproduced without change. — It is a reply to the Dean of St. Paul’s Contribution to the North American Review for Dec., 1891, entitled: “Is Corporal Punishment Degrading?” ________ IS […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE? THE object of the Freethinker is to ascertain the truth — the conditions of well-being — to the end that this life will be made of value. This is the affirmative, positive, and constructive side. Without liberty there […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Letters Of Robert G. Ingersoll A Reply To Dr. Lyman Abbott A Reply To The Cincinnati Gazette And The Catholic Telegraph A Reply To Archdeacon Farrar A Reply To Rev. John Hall and Warner Van Norden A Reply To The Indianapolis Clergy […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1898) Robert Green Ingersoll I CONGRATULATE The Truth Seeker on its twenty-fifth birthday. It has fought a good fight. It has always been at the front. It has carried the flag, and its flag is a torch that sheds light. Twenty-five years ago the people of this […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Tribute Knowles Robert Green Ingersoll A TRIBUTE TO MRS. IDA WHITING KNOWLES. New York, Dec. 16, 1887. MY FRIENDS: Again we stand in the shadow of the great mystery -- a shadow as deep and dark as when the tears of the first mother fell upon the […]
