II. AGNOSTICISM. BY PROF. THOMAS H. HUXLEY Within the last few months the public has received much and varied information on the subject of agnostics, their tenets, and even their future. Agnosticism exercised the orators of the Church Congress at Manchester.* It has been furnished with a set of "articles" fewer, but not less […]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section XI John 7:1 AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. Mark 7:1 THEN came together unto him, the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2. And when […]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section XXVI Matthew 22:1 AND Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son. 3. And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden […]
Editor’s Introduction to the Age of Reason Moncure D. Conway WITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES. IN the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign. But eventualities had brought among them a great English and […]
Order The Rights of Man now. Part The First Being An Answer To Mr. Burke’s Attack On The French Revolution George Washington PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SIR, I present you a small treatise in defence of those principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XV From “Demoniacal Possession” To Insanity by Andrew Dickson White I. THEOLOGICAL IDEAS OF LUNACY AND ITS TREATMENT. The struggle for the scientific treatment of the insane The primitive ascription of insanity to evil spirits Better Greek and Roman theories–madness a disease The Christian Church accepts the demoniacal […]
Doubts In Dialogue Charles Bradlaugh Contents Christian Priest And Unbeliever Part I Part II Christian Priest And Skeptic On Christmastide A Theist And Atheist A Church Of England Curate And A Doubter A Respectable Man Of The World, Reputedly Pious, And A Heritic Addicted To Public Advocacy Of Freethought A Missionary And An Atheist, On […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: I understand Mr. Roberts now to say that it is impossible for him to prove his case in six nights. Then he ought not to have challenged me to this debate. He says he could do it before a judge and jury. He selected his own tribunal–a public audience. He says that all […]
Will you please find me the quotation in which Josephus speaks about Jesus? Mr. R. (reading): "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it is lawful to call him a man, for he was a great doer of miracles." Do you find a word there about Tacitus?–No. What do you mean […]
Mr. ROBERTS: There are always two ways of looking at every case, and he pursues the best course who puts all the facts together harmoniously. I daresay I might appeal to the experience of every one as to mystery hanging over some particular incident, till one fact is ascertained which throws all the rest into […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter II – On the Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form IT is manifest that man is now subject to much variability. No two individuals of the same race are quite alike. We may compare millions of […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XVIII – Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals- Continued QUADRUPEDS use their voices for various purposes, as a signal of danger, as a call from one member of a troop to another, or from the mother to her lost offspring, […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter IV: Natural Selection; Or the Survival of the Fittest How will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature? […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XVI: Northern Chile and Peru Coast-road to Coquimbo — Great Loads carried by the Miners — Coquimbo — Earthquake — Step-formed Terrace — Absence of recent Deposits — Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations — Excursion up the Valley — Road to Guasco — Deserts […]
Bible Morality (1873?) by Charles Watts From an old, undated, book published by Watts & Co. entitled: 'Pamphlets by Charles Watts' Vol. I. The book contains the motto: -- "To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly." -- Volney. **** **** BIBLE MORALITY. by Charles Watts Vice-President of the National […]
Facing Life Fearlessly Clarence Darrow The Pessimistic Versus The Optimistic View Of Life HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS (Report of a lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Poetry Club, and the Liberal Club; revised by Mr. Darrow.) I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. A.E. Housman in […]
G. W. Foote and A. D. McLaren Published for the Secular Society Ltd. The Pioneer Press (G.W. Foot and Co. Ltd.) 61, Farringdon Street, E.C.4 Index Part I Introduction Amberley, Lord Baskerville, John Bayle, Pierre Bentham, Jeremy Bert, Paul Bolingbroke, Lord Bradlaugh, Charles Broussais, Francois Bruno, Giordano Buckle, Henry Thomas Burton, Sir Richard F. Byron, […]
[Back To Chapter 13] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 14 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? (Cont.) Did He Endeavor To Destroy the Hope of Immortality? In dealing with the specific charges of iconoclasm that have been so insistently pressed by the theological indicters of Ingersoll, there yet […]
AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all things. — Eccles. 11. 5. Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire […]
Chapter XX Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain 1. Pleasure and pain, simple ideas. Amongst the simple ideas which we receive both from sensation and reflection, pain and pleasure are two very considerable ones. For as in the body there is sensation barely in itself, or accompanied with pain or pleasure, so the thought or […]
Chapter VIII Some further considerations concerning our Simple Ideas of Sensation 1. Positive ideas from privative causes. Concerning the simple ideas of Sensation, it is to be considered,- that whatsoever is so constituted in nature as to be able, by affecting our senses, to cause any perception in the mind, doth thereby produce in the […]
Chapter XII Of the Improvement of our Knowledge 1. Knowledge is not got from maxims. It having been the common received opinion amongst men of letters, that maxims were the foundation of all knowledge; and that the sciences were each of them built upon certain praecognita from whence the understanding was to take its rise, […]
Chapter VIII Of Trifling Propositions 1. Some propositions bring no increase to our knowledge. Whether the maxims treated of in the foregoing chapter be of that use to real knowledge as is generally supposed, I leave to be considered. This, I think, may confidently be affirmed, That there are universal propositions, which, though they be […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Vatican Buries International Law How Mussolini And The Yellow Brother Got Their Share by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 4 Contents Chapter I – The Church’s Vile Record In Spain Chapter II – Enter First And Second Murderers — Under The […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. Rome’s Syllabus Of Condemned Opinions The Last Blast Of The Catholic Church’s Medieval Trumpet by Joseph McCabe INTRODUCTION In recent literature about the Roman Catholic Church one still occasionally meets references to “the Syllabus,” or the “Syllabus of Condemned Opinions.” A “syllapub” was a delectable medieval drink […]
CHAPTER II THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH WITH the bulk of the teaching of the Church I am ,not concerned, since it is the common teaching of Christianity. Let us rather consider what are the distinctive doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome to-day: the perfect outcome of eighteen centuries of the "supernatural gift," […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter X by Joseph McCabe Life and Morals in Greece and Rome Contents The Glory That Was Greece Morals of the Athenians The Development of Religion Rise of Philosophy and Skepticism The Splendor That Was Rome Morals in Ancient Rome The Glory […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXVI by Joseph McCabe The Renaissance: A European Awakening Contents The End of the Nightmare The Call of Greece The Papacy and the Renaissance The Spirit of Humanism Erasmus and the Other Humanists The End of the Nightmare RENAISSANCE is the […]
Chapter 7 Joseph Wheless 82 page printout, pages 238 to 319 of 322 CHAPTER VII THE "TRIUMPH" OF CHRISTIANITY "Destruction to the Triumphant Beast!" Giordano Bruno. "Ecrasez l'Infame!" Voltaire. Even MORE INDUCIVE than its own sweet reasonableness and persuasive truth, as accredited by the records and vouchers we have examined, were several very effective forcible […]
Chapter 14 Joseph Wheless 47 page printout, page 259 - 305 CHAPTER XIV THE INSPIRED "HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS" OF THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST THE life and times of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the King of the Jews, the Savior of the world, are preserved in four short monographs, called after their Greek […]
