Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Improved Man (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll THE Improved Man will be in favor of universal liberty — that is to say, he will be opposed to all kings and nobles, to all privileged classes. He will give to all others the rights he claims for himself. He […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1889) Robert Green Ingersoll By Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Henry C. Potter, and Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. The attention of the public has been particularly directed of late to the abuses of divorce, and to the facilities afforded by the complexities of American law, and by the looseness […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll Question. Have you any suggestions to make in regard to remodeling the libel laws? Answer. I believe that every article appearing in a paper should be signed by the writer. If it is libelous, then the writer and the publisher should both be […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Obscene Literature Robert Green Ingersoll 17 page printout Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. Contents of this file page THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE. 1 EFFECT OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ON THE HUMAN RACE. 11 A TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY H. FISKE. 14 THE LAW'S DELAY. 16 […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Press Club Robert Green Ingersoll 7 page printout Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. Contents of this file page ADDRESS TO THE PRESS CLUB. 1 LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY. 4 **** **** This file, its printout, or copies of either are to […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Sowing And Reaping Robert Green Ingersoll "SOWING AND REAPING." I HAVE read the sermon on "Sowing and Reaping," and I now understand Mr. Moody better than I did before. The other day, in New York, Mr. Moody said that he implicitly believed the story of Jonah and […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Superstition Robert Green Ingersoll 22 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 ROBERT G. INGERSOLL […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Tribute Beecher Robert Green Ingersoll 9 page printout Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. **** **** contents of this file page A TRIBUTE TO HENRY WARD BEECHER. 1 A TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE BARRETT. 4 A TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH. 5 A TRIBUTE TO ISAAC H. BAILEY. […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Tribute Wright Robert Green Ingersoll A TRIBUTE TO ELIZUR WRIGHT. New York. December 19, 1885. ANOTHER hero has fallen asleep -- one who enriched the world with an honest life. Elizur Wright was one of the Titans who attacked the monsters, the Gods, of his time -- […]
Young Mans Chances Robert Green Ingersoll A YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY. A FEW years ago there were many thousand miles of railroads to be built, a great many towns and cities to be located, constructed and filled; vast areas of uncultivated land were waiting for the plow, vast forests the axe, and thousands of mines […]
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The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section II Luke 3:1 NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, […]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section VI Matthew 7:1 JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. 2. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good […]
The Ethics of Belief (1877) William K. Clifford Originally published in Contemporary Review, 1877. Reprinted in Lectures and Essays (1879). Presently in print in The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays (Prometheus Books, 1999). I. THE DUTY OF INQUIRY A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship. He knew that she was old, […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter VI The Antiqutity Of Man, Egyptology, And Assyriology by Andrew Dickson White I. The Sacred Chronology. Two fields in which Science has gained a definite victory over Theology Opinious of the Church fathers on the antiquity of man The chronology of Isidore Of Bede Of the medieval Jewish […]
TUESDAY, 13th JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, LEICESTER. THE CHAIR WAS OCCUPIED BY MR. W. STANYON OF LEICESTER. THE CHAIRMAN having stated the order of proceedings, and asked the meeting to restrain the manifestation of their feelings, he called upon Mr. Roberts to open the Debate. Mr. ROBERTS: Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,–I would […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Mr. Roberts said why don’t I touch the question that Christ rose from the dead. I thought I had challenged that what he had said about Christ being seen for forty days according to Acts was contradicted in Luke. I thought I had said, giving texts to him on the previous nights, and […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: I will dispose of a matter of fact first. Mr. Roberts has said that he had Tatian, Theophilus, Mileto, Athenagoras, Barnabas, Polycarp, Ignatius and others giving evidence as to the existence of the New Testament gospels, before A.D. 150. 1 call for the writings of Tatian, and I sit down until they are […]
IT is an unusual and unsatisfactory circumstance for a discussion to be divided up into two parts between two separate towns. The reader will naturally be curious to know, not only how the discussion came about, but also how it came to assume this extraordinary and inconvenient shape, from which, however, with the whole discussion […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XII Secondary Sexual Characteristics of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles WE have now arrived at the great sub-kingdom of the Vertebrata, and will commence with the lowest class, that of fishes. The males of plagiostomous fishes (sharks, rays) and of […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter XII: Geographical Distribution IN considering the distribution of organic beings over the face of the globe, the first great fact which strikes us is, that neither the similarity nor the dissimilarity of the inhabitants of various regions can be wholly accounted for by climatal and other […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter X: Tierra Del Fuego Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An Account of the Fuegians on board — Interview With the Savages — Scenery of the Forests — Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable Condition of the Savages — […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter VI: Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Third Posta — Driving Horses — Bolas — Partridges and Foxes — Features of the Country — Long-legged Plover — Teru-tero — Hail-storm — Natural Enclosures […]
Saits or Sinners: Which? by Charles Watts Author of “History of Freethought,” “Secularism: Constructive and Destructive,” “The Philosophy of Unbelief,” etc. NEW YORK: “TRUTHSEEKER” OFFICE, 33, CLINTON PLACE. SAINTS and sinners are not two selected from the numerous classes to be met with in the world, with which in every-day life we come in contact. […]
Studies In Rationalism Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius BIG BLUE BOOK NO. B-7 THE ORDEAL OF INGERSOLL A LIE can travel halfway around the world, said Mark Twain, while the truth is getting its clothes on. Robert G. Ingersoll, who began each day with an answer to a lie, put it this way: “It is almost […]
[Back To Chapter 7] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 8 FROM EIGHTEEN NINETY-THREE TO EIGHTEEN NINETY-SIX As already evident, Ingersoll was the pronouncer of many eulogies of the dead; but of all his contributions to what I shall venture to term elegiac prose-poetry, none, perhaps, is more […]
Papal Despotism (Chapter VIII of Romanism) Father Jeremiah J. Crowley 1912 Nothing more startling has ever been put before the public than Rome’s recent resolutions of boycott of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Watson’s Magazine, the Protestant Magazine, the Menace, etc., and her attitude as Censor of the United States Mails. At the annual convention of the […]
Chapter XV Ideas of Duration and Expansion, considered together 1. Both capable of greater and less. Though we have in the precedent chapters dwelt pretty long on the considerations of space and duration, yet, they being ideas of general concernment, that have something very abstruse and peculiar in their nature, the comparing them one with […]
Chapter III Of Simple Ideas of Sense 1. Division of simple ideas. The better to conceive the ideas we receive from sensation, it may not be amiss for us to consider them, in reference to the different ways whereby they make their approaches to our minds, and make themselves perceivable by us. First, then, There […]
Chapter VII Of Particles 1. Particles connect parts, or whole sentences together. Besides words which are names of ideas in the mind, there are a great many others that are made use of to signify the connexion that the mind gives to ideas, or to propositions, one with another. The mind, in communicating its thoughts […]
