The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter IFrom Creation to Evolution by Andrew Dickson White I. The Visible Universe. Ancient and medieval views regarding the manner of creationRegarding the matter of creationRegarding the time of creationRegarding the date of creationRegarding the CreatorRegarding light and darknessRise of the conception of an evolution: among the Chaldeans,The Hebrews, […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XIII From Miracles To Medicine. by Andrew Dickson White I. THE EARLY AND SACRED THEORIES OF DISEASE. Naturalness of the idea of supernatural intervention in causing and curing disease Prevalence of this idea in ancient civilizations Beginnings of a scientific theory of medicine The twofold influence of Christianity […]
HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS FOREWORD BY HENRY S. SALT As a brief summary of Shelley’s attitude toward the Christian religion, I may be allowed to quote from what I have written elsewhere. [Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Pioneer (Watts & Co., 1913] “I regard Shelley’s early ‘atheism’ and later Pantheism, as simply the negative and […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XIX From Leviticus To Political Economy by Andrew Dickson White I. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF HOSTILITY TO LOANS AT INTEREST. Universal belief in the sin of loaning money at interest The taking of interest among the Greeks and Romans Opposition of leaders of thought, especially Aristotle Condemnation of […]
Mr. Roberts’ First Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s First Speech Mr. Roberts Questions Mr. Bradlaugh Mr. Bradlaugh Questions Mr. Roberts Mr. Roberts’ Second Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s Second Speech Mr. Roberts’ Third Speech Mr. Bradlaugh’s Third Speech
The CHAIRMAN: Mr. Roberts will now have a quarter of an hour’s speech. Mr. ROBERTS: Mr. Bradlaugh occupied a considerable portion of his half hour’s speech in reminding me of what he considered my failures. I have to remind him of what is a much greater failure on his part, and that is to deal […]
Does the Koran foretell the existence of Mahomedanism at a period 3,000 years after its establishment?- I think not. Then in what sense does the hypothesis of the Koran’s truth require the existence of Mahomedanism at the end of a similar time?–At what time? 3,000 years after the writing of the Koran?–3,000 years have not […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: Mr. Roberts says he never meant it to be understood that we were to be bound, in this debate, by the ordinary English version. But I will remind him that, in my first speech, I said I should assume, for the purposes of this debate, that he meant the ordinary authorised English version, […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter VI – On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man EVEN if it be granted that the difference between man and his nearest allies is as great in corporeal structure as some naturalists maintain, and although we must grant that […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Introduction THE NATURE of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter VIII: Instinct MANY instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. I may here premise that I have nothing to do with the origin of the mental powers, any more than I have […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter II: Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — Slavery — Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planariae — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frogs — Phosphorescent Insects — Elater, springing powers of — […]
The Death of Christ (1896) by Charles Watts THE sermons preached on Good Friday last, as reported in the various newspapers, afforded strange and peculiar reading to the non-theological mind. The one theme dwelt upon in all the pulpits was the death of christ with its complete and sublime scheme of redemption for fallen man." […]
The War Between Science And Faith Clay Fulks Glancing over that page of the New York Times of Monday, October 13, 1930, which carries reports of “Sermons Preached Yesterday in the Metropolitan District,” my eye caught the headlines: “Science Found Void Compared to Faith — Dr. G.J. Russell Says It Will Never Dethrone God.” What! […]
[Back To Chapter 1] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 2 FROM EIGHTEEN FORTY-ONE TO EIGHTEEN FIFTY-SEVEN Of his boyhood, Ingersoll seldom spoke: it was a subject too reminiscent of struggle and hardship, — of unutterable sorrow. But the story of a man necessarily involves, to some extent, […]
[Back to Chapter 17] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 18 HIS FACULTIES OF ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL EXPRESSION He who would rise to the full scope of Ingersoll’s art, in its varied manifestations — oratory, poetry, prose — must be familiar with the elements of things. He must […]
BOOK II Of Ideas Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original 1. Idea is the object of thinking. Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks; and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds […]
Chapter XXIV Of Collective Ideas of Substances 1. A collective idea is one idea. Besides these complex ideas of several single substances, as of man, horse, gold, violet, apple, &c., the mind hath also complex collective ideas of substances; which I so call, because such ideas are made up of many particular substances considered together, […]
Chapter XI Of the Remedies of the Foregoing Imperfections and Abuses of Words 1. Remedies are worth seeking The natural and improved imperfections of languages we have seen above at large: and speech being the great bond that holds society together, and the common conduit, whereby the improvements of knowledge are conveyed from one man […]
Chapter XVI Of the Degrees of Assent 1. Our assent ought to be regulated by the grounds of probability. The grounds of probability we have laid down in the foregoing chapter: as they are the foundations on which our assent is built, so are they also the measure whereby its several degrees are, or ought […]
Six Historic Americans Thomas Paine by John E. Remsburg The religious opinions of no other man have been so greatly misrepresented and so little understood as those of Thomas Paine. Orthodox Christians have, almost with the same breath, declared that he died an unrepentant Atheist and a convert to Christianity. A presentation of his religious […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Pope And The Italian Jackal How Mussolini’s Invincible Legions Were Blessed by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 8 Contents Chapter I – No Tears Over Albania Chapter II – The Stab In The Back Chapter III – Greece, Not Being Romanist, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. Luther Burbank Speaks Out by Joseph McCabe There were two Pillars of Hercules in the United States whom I wished to see. Thomas A. Edison towers on the eastern coast, but I had to rush through New York and could not stay for my friend to present […]
CHAPTER VI THE CATHOLIC CLERGY THE system of making priests I have described in my Twelve Years in a Monastery. Recruits are now sought at a very early age, and usually from the less educated class. In order that I may state the case quite accurately, I run over, in memory, the list of my […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XIV by Joseph McCabe Pagan Christs Before Jesus Contents The Myth of the Virgin Birth Christmas Before Christ Divine Sons and Sages Christ and Krishna The Myth of the Virgin Birth THERE are few doctrines of the Christian faith so vulnerable, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXX by Joseph McCabe The Conflict Between Science and Religion Contents The Historical Conflict Is There a Conflict Today? The Twilight of the Gods The Historical Conflict SCIENCE has, ever since its birth, been in conflict with religion. Apart from the […]
Chapter 02 Joseph Wheless 36 page printout, Page 24 - 59 CHAPTER II A SKETCH OF HEBREW SCRIPTURES THE Bible, as all must admit, is the only source of knowledge which we have, of the great questions of miracle and of "revealed religion" which come to us through its pages. The authenticity of its remarkable […]
Chapter 18 Joseph Wheless 16 page printout, page 390 - 405 CHAPTER XVIII REVELATIONS OF THE HEREAFTER HEAVEN, HELL, AND PURGATORY IN the twentieth century after the traditional advent of the Son of Yahveh on earth, the religion which is built around that event persists in a congeries of primitive cosmological notions, which modern knowledge […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MANY cases are related by their respective sacred narratives of the ancient Saviors, and other beings possessing the form of man, and previously recognized as men, reappearing to their disciples and friends, after having been consigned to the tomb for three days, or a longer or shorter period […]
Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE incarnation of an infinite God is a shocking absurdity, and an infinite impossibility. We ask in all solemn earnestness, and in the name of the intuitive monitions of an unshackled reason and an unbiased conscience, can, any man in his sober senses, who has been in the […]
