Secular Morality: What Is It? An Exposition and a Defence (1880) by Charles Watts AMONG the systems of moral philosophy that have been promulgated as guides for human conduct, Utilitarianism occupies the foremost place. It appears to Secularists as more definite and satisfactory than any other, and certainly at the present time it is more […]
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[Back To Chapter 8] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 9 FROM EIGHTEEN NINETY-SEVEN TO EIGHTEEN NINETY-NINE Two lectures, The Truth and A Thanksgiving Sermon, were published in 1897. The orator’s attitude toward the subject of the first, and the objects and recipients of his gratitude and thankfulness […]
A Bit Of Church History by John W. Gunn One thousand Years ago, the church (Roman Catholic) claimed and, on the whole, effectually maintained supreme power in the affairs of Europe. The church punished with torture and death those who disagreed with its teachings. The church was the biggest grafting Institution — or, more plainly, […]
Chapter XVI Idea of Number 1. Number the simplest and most universal idea. Amongst all the ideas we have, as there is none suggested to the mind by more ways, so there is none more simple, than that of unity, or one: it has no shadow of variety or composition in it: every object our […]
Chapter XXXI Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas 1. Adequate ideas are such as perfectly represent their archetypes. Of our real ideas, some are adequate, and some are inadequate. Those I call adequate, which perfectly represent those archetypes which the mind supposes them taken from: which it intends them to stand for, and to which it […]
Chapter VIII Of Abstract and Concrete Terms 1. Abstract terms not predictable one of another, and why. The ordinary words of language, and our common use of them, would have given us light into the nature of our ideas, if they had been but considered with attention. The mind, as has been shown, has a […]
Chapter III Of the Extent of Human Knowledge 1. Extent of our knowledge. Knowledge, as has been said, lying in the perception of the agreement or disagreement of any of our ideas, it follows from hence That, It extends no further than we have ideas. First, we can have knowledge no further than we have […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. Is The Position Of Atheism Growing Stronger by Joseph McCabe HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS By E. Haldeman-Julius CHAPTER I – THE ODDS AGAINST THE ATHEIST In my ‘Rise and Fall of the Gods’ (1931) I traced the weird and ever-changing belief in Gods from the days of […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Church Defies Modern Life One Sound Catholic Boast – We Never Change by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 15 Contents Chapter I – The Hell-Ethic And Modern Psychology Chapter II – Primitive Superstition About Sex Chapter III – Saints And Other […]
SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER V DOWN THE SLOPE WE have reached the thirteenth century, which Catholic writers seem to propose as a shining model for the twentieth century. What art! What splendid trade unions (or guilds)! What beautiful saints, like Francis and Dominic! What – Mr. Chesterton would say – […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter V by Joseph McCabe The Futility of Belief in God Contents The Silence of God Who Made the World? Does Evolution Exclude God The Voice of Conscience The Religious Instinct Disproofs The Silence Of God A WEEK or two ago I […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXI by Joseph McCabe The Dark Ages Contents The Making of the Middle Ages The Morals of the New Europe The Iron Age The Blight of Life The Making of the Middle Ages ONE Sunday morning in the year 1922 I […]
Chapter 2 Joseph Wheless 35 page printout, pages 56 to 88 of 322 CHAPTER II HEBREW HOLY FORGERIES "Hinneh lash-sheqer asah et sheqer sepharim -- Behold, the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought lies." Jeremiah, viii. 8. SUNDRY HOLY HEBREW men of old, we are told on the authority of the name of the […]
Chapter 09 Joseph Wheless 17 page printout, page 162 - 178 CHAPTER IX THE PAGAN GOD -- AND GODS -- OF ISRAEL THERE is (it may be) a God, the Supreme Architect, the Creator of the earth and of the fullness thereof, and of the wondrous "finite but unlimited" universe. Lord Bacon has said: "I […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. OF course such an extraordinary circumstance as the birth of a God into the world must be marked with unusual incidents and great eclat. This was first exhibited by angels, shepherds, prophets, magi or “wise men,” flocking around their cradles. In the second place we observe an unusual […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. At the feast of the Passover, Christ is represented, while distributing bread to his disciples, to have said, “Take, eat; this is my body” (Matt. xxvi. 26); and while handing round the consecrated cup, he enjoined, “Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS THE exaltation of men to the character and homage of divine beings has always had the effect to draw a vail over their errors and imperfections, so as to render them imperceptible to those who worship them as Gods. This is true of nearly […]
Protestant Menace To Our Government PROTESTANT MENACE TO OUR GOVERNMENT. A LECTURE DELIVERED IN INVESTIGATOR HALL, BOSTON, BEFORE THE INGERSOLL SECULAR SOCIETY, SUNDAY, JAN. 27, 1889, BY L.K. WASHBURN. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY J.P. MENDUM, INVESTIGATOR OFFICE, PAINE MEMORIAL BUILDING, APPLETON STREET. 1889 THE BOSTON INVESTIGATOR. For more than fifty years this paper […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. WESTERN SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BANQUET. by Robert G. Ingersoll Chicago, January 31, 1894. **** **** FIRST of all, I wish to thank you for allowing me to be present. Next, I wish to congratulate you that you are all alive. I congratulate […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1883) Robert Green Ingersoll On the 22d of October, 1883, a vast number of citizens met at Lincoln Hall, Washington, D.C., to give expression to their views concerning the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in which it is held that the Civil Rights […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Forward to the Complete Works of Robert G. Ingersoll In presenting to the public this edition of the writings of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, it has been the aim to make it as handsome, durable and complete as possible worthy in every way of the valiant, generous, […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1876) Robert Green Ingersoll Delivered to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FELLOW CITIZENS AND CITIZEN SOLDIERS: — I am opposed to the Democratic party, and I will tell you why. Every State that seceded from the United States was a Democratic State. Every […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll WHEN I was a child, I was taught that the Jews were an exceedingly hard-hearted and cruel people, and that they were so destitute of the finer feelings that they had a little while before that time crucified the only perfect man who had […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1877) Robert Green Ingersoll THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD LIBERTY SUSTAINS THE SAME RELATION TO MIND THAT SPACE DOES TO MATTER There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Spirituality Robert Green Ingersoll SPIRITUALITY. IF there is an abused word in our language, it is "spirituality." It has been repeated over and over for several hundred years by pious pretenders and snivelers as though it belonged exclusively to them. Bank of Wisdom Box 926, Louisville, KY […]
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