[Back To Chapter 2] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersollby Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 3 FROM EIGHTEEN FIFTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SIXIngersoll’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 of his […]
[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 […]
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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 […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. The Christian Religion The Ingersoll–Black Debate, Part I Robert G. Ingersoll, 1881 **** **** I In the presence of eternity the mountains are as transient as the clouds. _______ A profound change has taken place in the world of thought. The pews are trying to set themselves […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY. IN my judgment, no human being was ever made better, nobler, by being whipped or clubbed. Mr. Brockway, according to his own testimony, is simply a savage. He belongs to the Dark Ages — to the Inquisition, to […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1874) Robert Green Ingersoll LIBERTY, A WORD WITHOUT WHICH ALL WORDS ARE VAIN. WHOEVER has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrine of […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Dr. Plumb Robert Green Ingersoll A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB. Question. Last Sunday the Rev. Dr. Plumb paid some attention to the lecture which you delivered here on the 23rd of October. Have you read a report of it, and what have you to say? […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Our Schools Robert Green Ingersoll OUR SCHOOLS. I BELIEVE that education is the only lever capable of raising mankind. If we wish to make the future of the Republic glorious we must educate the children of the present. The greatest blessing conferred by our Government is the […]
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Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Three Philanthropists Robert Green Ingersoll THE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS. 1891 "Well, while I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich." MR. A. lived in the kingdom of ---. He was a sincere professional philanthropist. He was absolutely certain that […]
Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Tribute Seaver Robert Green Ingersoll A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SEAVER. At Paine Hall, Boston, August 25, 1889. HORACE SEAVER was a pioneer, a torch-bearer, a toiler in that great field we call the world -- a worker for his fellow-men. At the end of his task he […]
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