The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XIX From Leviticus To Political Economy by Andrew Dickson White I. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF HOSTILITY TO LOANS AT INTEREST. Universal belief in the sin of loaning money at interest The taking of interest among the Greeks and Romans Opposition of leaders of thought, especially Aristotle Condemnation of […]
Mr. Roberts’ First Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s First 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
The CHAIRMAN: Mr. Roberts will now have a quarter of an hour’s speech. Mr. ROBERTS: Mr. Bradlaugh occupied a considerable portion of his half hour’s speech in reminding me of what he considered my failures. I have to remind him of what is a much greater failure on his part, and that is to deal […]
Does the Koran foretell the existence of Mahomedanism at a period 3,000 years after its establishment?- I think not. Then in what sense does the hypothesis of the Koran’s truth require the existence of Mahomedanism at the end of a similar time?–At what time? 3,000 years after the writing of the Koran?–3,000 years have not […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Mr. Roberts says he never meant it to be understood that we were to be bound, in this debate, by the ordinary English version. But I will remind him that, in my first speech, I said I should assume, for the purposes of this debate, that he meant the ordinary authorised English version, […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter VI – On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man EVEN if it be granted that the difference between man and his nearest allies is as great in corporeal structure as some naturalists maintain, and although we must grant that […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] 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 […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter VIII: Instinct MANY instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. I may here premise that I have nothing to do with the origin of the mental powers, any more than I have […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter II: Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — Slavery — Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planariae — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frogs — Phosphorescent Insects — Elater, springing powers of — […]
The Death of Christ (1896) by Charles Watts THE sermons preached on Good Friday last, as reported in the various newspapers, afforded strange and peculiar reading to the non-theological mind. The one theme dwelt upon in all the pulpits was the death of christ with its complete and sublime scheme of redemption for fallen man." […]
The War Between Science And Faith Clay Fulks Glancing over that page of the New York Times of Monday, October 13, 1930, which carries reports of “Sermons Preached Yesterday in the Metropolitan District,” my eye caught the headlines: “Science Found Void Compared to Faith — Dr. G.J. Russell Says It Will Never Dethrone God.” What! […]
[Back To Chapter 2] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 3 FROM EIGHTEEN FIFTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SIX Ingersoll’s reputation for brilliancy having preceded him, success in Peoria was his from the start. His services were eagerly sought. But he did not on that account neglect the theoretical side […]
[Back To Chapter 18] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 19 UNIVERSAL REGRET AT HIS DEATH A SUMMARY OF HIS LIFE-WORK IN (1) POLITICS, (2) THE LAW, (3) THE FIELD OF RATIONALISM HIS INFLUENCE ON RELIGIOUS THOUGHT The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was […]
Chapter X Of Retention 1. Contemplation. The next faculty of the mind, whereby it makes a further progress towards knowledge, is that which I call retention; or the keeping of those simple ideas which from sensation or reflection it hath received. This is done two ways. First, by keeping the idea which is brought into […]
Chapter XXV Of Relation 1. Relation, what. Besides the ideas, whether simple or complex, that the mind has of things as they are in themselves, there are others it gets from their comparison one with another. The understanding, in the consideration of anything, is not confined to that precise object: it can carry an idea […]
Chapter II Of the Signification of Words 1. Words are sensible signs, necessary for communication of ideas. Man, though he have great variety of thoughts, and such from which others as well as himself might receive profit and delight; yet they are all within his own breast, invisible and hidden from others, nor can of […]
Chapter XVII Of Reason 1. Various significations of the word “reason”. The word reason in the English language has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles: sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles: and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause. But the consideration I shall have […]
Six Historic Americans Thomas Jefferson by John E. Remsburg Had Jefferson’s works been edited by some pious churchman who would have expunged or modified his radical sentiments; or had his works been suppressed after they were published, as some desired, the clergy might with less fear of exposure claim that their author was a Christian. […]
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CHAPTER VII THE LOSSES OF THE CHURCH ONE of the funniest aspects of the situation as regards the Roman Church in Great Britain is the astonishment at each other of Catholics and non-Catholics. How, asks the innocent non-Catholic when he reads such things as I have described, can this sort of thing be accepted by […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XV by Joseph McCabe Legends of Saints and Martyrs Contents Discovery of the Fraud The Genuine Persecutions The Manufacture of Martyrs Discovery of the Fraud THERE came a stage in the evolution of the ancient world when the old creeds decayed, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXXI by Joseph McCabe Do We Need Religion? Contents The Fear of the Godly Our Personal Morals The Nightmare of Sex Religion and Progress The Fear of the Godly THE criticism of religion seems to be an unpopular job. I am, […]
Chapter 03 Joseph Wheless 19 page printout, page 60 - 78 CHAPTER III THE PATRIARCHS AND THE COVENANTS OF YAHVEH IN the year 1996 B.C. according to the chronology of Bishop Ussher, or just 352 years after Noah's Flood, there was born a heathen Chaldee who was christened Abram (Abu-ramu, an ordinary Babylonian name meaning […]
Chapter 19 Joseph Wheless 22 page printout, page 406 - 427 END CHAPTER XIX CESSET SUPERSTITIO! AND THEN? "But if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men" (Matt. V, 13). -- "It […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE were various practices in vogue amongst the orientalists, which originated with the design of appeasing the anger and propitiating the favor of a presumed to be irascible deity. Most of these practices consisted in some kind of sacrifice or destructive offering called the “atonement.” But here let […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE is a philosophical principle underlying the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, whose logical deductions completely overthrow the claim of Jesus of Nazareth to the Godhead, and which we regard as settling the question as conclusively as any demonstrated problem in mathematics. This argument is predicated upon the […]
“THE WORLD’S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS.” What an imposing title for a book! What startling developments of religious history it implies! Is it founded on fact or on fiction? If it has a basis of truth, where was such an extraordinary mine of sacred lore discovered? Where were such startling facts obtained as the title of […]
A Preacher Advocates Church Taxation Rev. L. M. Birkhead (Minister, All Souls’ Unitarian Church, Kansas City, mo.) One of the most amazing and paradoxical of modern Political situations is that of the United States committed fundamentally to the absolute divorce of church and state, and yet contributing indirectly, by means of the exemption of church […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll One hundred years ago, our fathers retired the gods from politics. THE Declaration of Independence is the grandest, the bravest, and the profoundest political document that was ever signed by the representatives of a people. It is the embodiment of physical and moral courage […]
