Deity And Design Chapman CohenTHE PIONEER PRESS THE ONE certain thing about the history of the human intellectis that it runs, from ignorance to knowledge. Man begins knowingnothing of his own nature or of the nature of the world in which heis living. He continues acquiring a little knowledge here andthere, with his vision broadening […]
Did I understand you last night to say that the chronology in the Septuagint differed from the chronologies in the authorised English version?–Yes. Which chronology is true?–The Hebrew. How do you know that the Hebrew chronology is more true than that in the Septuagint?–By a process of argument which would be too extensive to rehearse […]
The CHAIRMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, the threat that I addressed to you at the beginning we are about to remit: instead of keeping you later we intend this evening to close at ten o’clock, I shall therefore be obliged to restrict each gentlemen to ten minutes in their concluding speeches. Mr. Roberts will now speak. […]
WEDNESDAY, 21st JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, BIRMINGHAM. THE CHAIR WAS OCCUPIED BY MR. GEORGE H. ST. CLAIR The CHAIRMAN: You will be familiar by this time with the order of discussion, which is the same each evening. Last night, I think we were less interrupted than on the previous occasion, and I trust, […]
The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 THE DESCENT OF MAN by Charles Darwin INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION. THE NATURE of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XVI – Birds-Concluded WE must now consider the transmission of characters, as limited by age, in reference to sexual selection. The truth and importance of the principle of inheritance at corresponding ages need not here be discussed, as enough […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter II: Variation Under Nature BEFORE applying the principles arrived at in the last chapter to organic beings in a state of nature, we must briefly discuss whether these latter are subject to any variation. To treat this subject properly, a long catalogue of dry facts ought […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XIV: Chiloe and Concepcion: Great Earthquake San Carlos, Chiloe — Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina — Ride to Cucao — Impenetrable Forests — Valdivia Indians — Earthquake — Concepcion — Great Earthquake — Rocks fissured — Appearance of the former Towns […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Preface I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied […]
Why Do Right? A Secularist’s Answer by Charles Watts London: WATTS & CO., 17, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, E.C. INTRODUCTION MOST persons can distinguish between right and wrong; but it is not so easy to decide why certain actions are right, and others the very reverse. According to orthodox Christianity, the sanction for right-doing is […]
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 […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXV by Joseph McCabe The Moorish Civilization in Spain Contents The Crescent and the Cross The Brilliance of the Moors The City of Light and Love Moorish Science and Literature The Ministry of the Jew The Crescent and the Cross THE […]
Chapter 6 Joseph Wheless 42 page printout, pages 196 to 237 of 322 CHAPTER VI THE CHURCH FORGERY MILL "Nevertheless, the forging of papal letters was even more frequent in the Middle Ages than in the early Church." (CE. ix, 203.) LYINGLY FOUNDED on forgery upon forgery, as has been made manifest by manifold admissions […]
Chapter 13 Joseph Wheless 28 page printout, page 231 - 258 CHAPTER XIII THE "PROPHECIES" OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGHOUT the four gospel biographies of Jesus, the Christ, there are frequent references to and quotations of sundry passages in the Old Testament, which are appealed to as "prophecies" concerning Jesus Christ, and are asserted to foretell […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “FOR I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (I Cor. ii. 2.) There must have existed a very considerable amount of skepticism in the community as to the truth of the report of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the country […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. Extraordinary Revelations in History and Science RECENT explorations in the field of oriental sacred history have revealed to the antiquarian some curious and deeply interesting facts appertaining to traditions founded on, and growing out of, astronomical phenomena and changes in the visible heavens, which throw much light on, […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. CHAPTER XLV IN writing the concluding chapter of this work, the author deems it proper to re-state some points, and elaborate others, and anticipate some objections to some of the positions advanced. Each division of the subject will be marked by a separate figure, and treated in a […]
This file made available by Bill Restemeyer and the Internet Infidels for The Freethought Web. Did Jesus Christ Really Live? (ca. 1922) by Marshall J. Gauvin Scientific inquiry into the origins of Christianity begins today with the question: “Did Jesus Christ really live?” Was there a man named Jesus, who was called the Christ, living […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll TRIAL OF C.B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY. ADDRESS TO THE JURY. GENTLEMEN of the Jury: I regard this as one of the most important cases that can be submitted to a jury. It is not a case that involves a little property, neither is it […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll IF one wishes to know what orthodox religion really is — I mean that religion unsoftened by Infidelity, by doubt — let him read “John Ward, Preacher.” This book shows exactly what the love of God will do in the heart of man. This […]
