The CHAIRMAN: Mr. Roberts will now speak for a quarter of an hour. Mr. ROBERTS: I said in my opening speech that I did not require the testimony of these men whom I have been compelled to produce, in order to be persuaded that the apostles wrote the New Testainent at the time they professed […]
The CHAIRMAN: I had hoped, after the experience of our first meeting, that weakminded people who could not command their feelings would have stayed at home, and that egotistical people would have sent challenges of their own to the disputants against whose sentiments they wished to protest. The troublers are so much in the minority […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Part Two – Sexual Selection Chapter VIII – Principles of Sexual Selection WITH animals which have their sexes separated, the males necessarily differ from the females in their organs of reproduction; and these are the primary sexual characters. But the […]
The Origin Of Species Charles Darwin 1859 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Charles Darwin 1859 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION WHEN on board H.M.S. Beagle as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Glossary Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used In the Present Volume I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. S. Dallas for this Glossary, which has been given because several readers have complained to me that some of the terms used were unintelligible to them. Mr. Dallas […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XXI: Mauritius to England Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of Mountains — Hindoos — St. Helena — History of the changes in the Vegetation — Cause of the extinction of Land-shells — Ascension — Variation in the imported Rats — Volcanic […]
Evolution and Special Creation (1880?) by Charles Watts TAKING a retrospective view of the dark and unenlightened past, when the mighty forces of nature were almost entirely hidden from the human gaze; contemplating the sad spectacle of our forefathers being sunken in gross superstition, ere the light of to-day had arisen above the horizon of […]
Suicide David Hume ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL: THE COMPLETE UNAUTHORIZED 1783 EDITION David Hume Version 1.0 Copyright notice: (c) 1995, James Fieser (email removed). This text file may be freely distribute for personal and classroom use with this copyright notice attached. Except to cover nominal distribution costs, this file cannot […]
[Back To Chapter 3] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 4 FROM EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SEVEN TO EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN On February 28, 1867, Ingersoll became attorney-general of Illinois, serving as such until January 11, 1869. He was appointed by Governor Richard J. Oglesby, but undoubtedly would have succeeded himself when […]
Did Jesus Ever Live or Is Christianity Founded Upon A Myth? Historicus United Secularists of America, Inc. Introduction The Non-Historicity of Jesus Christ Jesus: A Mythological Character The Vindication of the Jesus Myth Theory John M. Robertson and the Jesus Myth Theory Did Josephus Write It? DEDICATED With homage to the memory of my mentor […]
Chapter XI Of Discerning, and other operations of the Mind 1. No knowledge without discernment. Another faculty we may take notice of in our minds is that of discerning and distinguishing between the several ideas it has. It is not enough to have a confused perception of something in general. Unless the mind had a […]
Chapter XXVI Of Cause and Effect, and other Relations 1. Whence the ideas of cause and effect got. In the notice that our senses take of the constant vicissitude of things, we cannot but observe that several particular, both qualities and substances, begin to exist; and that they receive this their existence from the due […]
Chapter III Of General Terms 1. The greatest part of words are general terms. All things that exist being particulars, it may perhaps be thought reasonable that words, which ought to be conformed to things, should be so too,- I mean in their signification: but yet we find quite the contrary. The far greatest part […]
Chapter XVIII Of Faith and Reason, and their Distinct Provinces 1. Necessary to know their boundaries. It has been above shown, 1. That we are of necessity ignorant, and want knowledge of all sorts, where we want ideas. 2. That we are ignorant, and want rational knowledge, where we want proofs. 3. That we want […]
Six Historic Americans George Washington by John E. Remsburg During the presidential campaign of 1880, the Christian Union made the startling admission that, of the nineteen men who, up to that time, had held the office of President of the United States, not one, with the Possible exception of Washington, had ever been a member […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. Fascist Romanism Defies Civilization How The Pope Keeps To The Plot While The World Curses It by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 10 Contents Chapter I – Guilty Or Not Guilty? Chapter II – Will Catholics Disown The Pope? Chapter III – […]
THE POPES AND THEIR CHURCH A CANDID ACCOUNT BY JOSEPH McCABE (Author of “Twelve Years in a Monastery,” etc.) PREFACE SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH I. THE ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY II. EUROPE DECAYS AND THE POPES THRIVE III. THE PAPACY IN THE DARK AGES IV. THE PAPACY AT ITS HEIGHT V. […]
The Story Of Religious Controversy by Joseph McCabe Contents Introduction Chapter I – The Revolt Against Religion Chapter II – The Origin Of Religion Chapter III – A Few Of The World’s Great Religions Chapter IV – The Myth Of Immortality Chapter V – The Futility Of Belief In God Chapter VI – The Human […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XVI by Joseph McCabe How Christianity “Triumphed” Contents The Legendary Triumph The “Conversion” of Constantine The Legendary Triumph IT was the year 312. All the blood of all the martyrs had converted only a small fraction of the Roman world, and […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXXII by Joseph McCabe The Triumph of Materialism Contents Materialism and Idealism What Is Matter? The Supposed Vital Principle The Human Machine The Mystery of Consciousness Determinism and Morals Materialism and Idealism FIFTY years of exceptionally industrious and varied study have […]
Chapter 04 Joseph Wheless 17 page printout, page 79 - 95 CHAPTER IV THE WONDERS OF THE EXODUS THE exodus is so wonderful, and so humanly impossible that its accomplishment by Providence deserves our especial attention. We will therefore attentively review its wonders, which are superlative if one Bible wonder may excel another; they differ […]
PREFACE EXPLANATION INTRODUCTION ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY CHAPTER I : RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS CHAPTER II : MESSIANIC PROPHECIES CHAPTER III : PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT CHAPTER IV : MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS CHAPTER V : VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS CHAPTER VI : STARS POINT OUT THE […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. OF all the weird, fanciful, and fabulous stories appertaining to the Gods and other spiritual entities of the olden times, whose capricious adventures we find so profusely narrated in oriental mythology — of all the strange, mythical and mystical feats, and ever-varying and ever-diverging changes in the shape, […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE is also a physiological principle (discovered by the author) comprised in the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation fatal in its practical and logical application to the divinity of Jesus Christ, and all the other incarnate or flesh-invested Gods of antiquity. It is evidently fraught with much logical […]
IMPORTANT FACTS CONSTITUTING THE BASIS OF THIS WORK. IGNORANCE of science and ignorance of history are the two great bulwarks of religious error. There is scarcely a tenet of religious faith now propagated to the world by the professed disciples of Christ but that, if subjected to a rigid test in the ordeal of modern […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Eight Hours Must Come by Robert G. Ingersoll 1890 **** **** I HARDLY know enough on the subject to give an opinion as to the time when eight hours are to become a day’s work, but I am perfectly satisfied that eight hours will become a […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1879) Robert Green Ingersoll Chicago Times, 1879 To the Editor: Nothing is more gratifying than to see ideas that were received with scorn, flourishing in the sunshine of approval. Only a few weeks ago, I stated that the Bible was not inspired; that Moses was mistaken; that […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. V Black Christianity 1b Robert Green Ingersoll 15 page printout. Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. **** **** This file, its printout, or copies of either are to be copied and given away, but NOT sold. Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 The Works of […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll A FEW FRAGMENTS ON EXPANSION. A NATION rises from infancy to manhood and sinks from dotage to death. I think that the great Republic is in the morning of her life — the sun just above the horizon — the grass still wet with […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1880) Robert Green Ingersoll PREFACE If what is known as the Christian Religion is true, nothing can be more wonderful than the fact that Matthew, Mark and Luke say nothing about “salvation by faith;” that they do not even hint at the doctrine of the atonement, and […]
