Will you please find me the quotation in which Josephus speaks about Jesus? Mr. R. (reading): "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it is lawful to call him a man, for he was a great doer of miracles." Do you find a word there about Tacitus?–No. What do you mean […]
Mr. ROBERTS: There are always two ways of looking at every case, and he pursues the best course who puts all the facts together harmoniously. I daresay I might appeal to the experience of every one as to mystery hanging over some particular incident, till one fact is ascertained which throws all the rest into […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter II – On the Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form IT is manifest that man is now subject to much variability. No two individuals of the same race are quite alike. We may compare millions of […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XVIII – Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals- Continued QUADRUPEDS use their voices for various purposes, as a signal of danger, as a call from one member of a troop to another, or from the mother to her lost offspring, […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter IV: Natural Selection; Or the Survival of the Fittest How will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature? […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XVI: Northern Chile and Peru Coast-road to Coquimbo — Great Loads carried by the Miners — Coquimbo — Earthquake — Step-formed Terrace — Absence of recent Deposits — Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations — Excursion up the Valley — Road to Guasco — Deserts […]
Bible Morality (1873?) by Charles Watts From an old, undated, book published by Watts & Co. entitled: 'Pamphlets by Charles Watts' Vol. I. The book contains the motto: -- "To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly." -- Volney. **** **** BIBLE MORALITY. by Charles Watts Vice-President of the National […]
Facing Life Fearlessly Clarence Darrow The Pessimistic Versus The Optimistic View Of Life HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS (Report of a lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Poetry Club, and the Liberal Club; revised by Mr. Darrow.) I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. A.E. Housman in […]
G. W. Foote and A. D. McLaren Published for the Secular Society Ltd. The Pioneer Press (G.W. Foot and Co. Ltd.) 61, Farringdon Street, E.C.4 Index Part I Introduction Amberley, Lord Baskerville, John Bayle, Pierre Bentham, Jeremy Bert, Paul Bolingbroke, Lord Bradlaugh, Charles Broussais, Francois Bruno, Giordano Buckle, Henry Thomas Burton, Sir Richard F. Byron, […]
[Back To Chapter 13] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 14 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? (Cont.) Did He Endeavor To Destroy the Hope of Immortality? In dealing with the specific charges of iconoclasm that have been so insistently pressed by the theological indicters of Ingersoll, there yet […]
AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all things. — Eccles. 11. 5. Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire […]
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 […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. A PROFUSION of evidence is furnished at every step, along the devious pathway of sacred history, tending to show that all the systems of worship which have existed in the past have had a dip in “the halo of the heavenly orbs,” and hence shine with a light […]
Confessions Of An Abortionist Martin Avery (nom de plume) Big Blue Book No. 474 Intimate Sidelights on the Secret Human, Sorrow, Drama and Tragedy in the Experience of a Doctor Whose Profession It Is To Perform Illegal Operations. 1939 Haldeman-Julius Company GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS Contents Early Days and Ideas My Family Speaks […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1883) Robert Green Ingersoll Question. The clergymen who have been interviewed, almost unanimously have declared that the church is suffering very little from the skepticism of the day, and that the influence of the scientific writers, whose opinions are regarded as atheistic or infidel, is not great; […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1891) Robert Green Ingersoll NOTE: The matchless eloquence of Ingersoll! Where will one look for the like of it? What other man living has the faculty of blending wit and humor, pathos and fact and logic with such exquisite grace, or with such impressive force? Senator […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1899) Robert Green Ingersoll I — If the Devil Should Die Would God Make Another? A little while ago I delivered a lecture on “Superstition,” in which, among other things, I said that the Christian world could not deny the existence of the Devil; that the Devil […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1872) Robert Green Ingersoll An honest God is the Noblest Work of Man. Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in […]
