Mr. ROBERTS: I was only asking the chairman that I might have a quarter of an hour for the conclusion of my argument, but it seems we are pledged to close at 10 o’clock, and, therefore, I must submit to the partition of the remaining time. I have, therefore, to say that Mr. Bradlaugh has […]
TUESDAY, 20th JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, BIRMINGHAM. MR. GEORGE H. ST. CLAIR IN THE CHAIR. THE CHAIRMAN: Ladies and Gentlemen, The order of the discussion, this evening, will be the same as last Thursday. The order of the meeting will, I trust, be kept at least as well. There was not much to […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: I have elected not to occupy your time beyond ten o’clock in allowing Mr. Roberts to proceed with his prepared speech, and shall, I think, be able to limit myself to eight minutes, if allowed to proceed free from interruption. First, I regret that Mr. Roberts, in his written finale, should have said […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter VII – On the Races of Man IT is not my intention here to describe the several so-called races of men; but I am about to enquire what is the value of the differences between them under a classificatory […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Supplemental Note – On Sexual Selection in relation to monkeys Reprinted from NATURE, November 2, 1876, p. 18. IN the discussion on Sexual Selection in my Descent of Man, no case interested and perplexed me so much as the brightly-coloured […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter IX: Hybridism THE view commonly entertained by naturalists is that species, when intercrossed, have been specially endowed with sterility, in order to prevent their confusion. This view certainly seems at first highly probable, for species living together could hardly have been kept distinct had they […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XX: Keeling Island: — Coral Formations Keeling Island — Singular appearance — Scanty Flora — Transport of Seeds — Birds and Insects — Ebbing and flowing Springs — Fields of dead Coral — Stones transported in the roots of Trees — Great Crab — […]
Discreditable Tactics of Christian Disputants (1880?) by Charles Watts DURING the past thirty years I have met in public discussion fifty Christian disputants, many of whom were fair in controversy. But some of my opponents appeared to have peculiar views as to what was right and horrorable in their dealings with Secularists. In 1872 I […]
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume 1748 Sect. I. Of the different Species of Philosophy 1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man […]
[Back To Chapter 2] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 3 FROM EIGHTEEN FIFTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SIX Ingersoll’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 […]
[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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
