{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_38813/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_38813","id":"gutenberg_38813","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38813","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: History - Other","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Free thought"],"text":"THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL,\n\nCONTENTS OF THE 12 VOLUMES\n\nBy Robert G. Ingersoll\n\nEdited and Compiled by David Widger\n\n\n\"The Destroyer Of Weeds, Thistles And Thorns Is A Benefactor,\nWhether He Soweth Grain Or Not.\"\n1900\n\nTHE DRESDEN EDITION\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME I.--LECTURES\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.\n\nPUBLISHER'S PREFACE.\n\nTHE GODS\n\nHUMBOLDT.\n\nTHOMAS PAINE\n\nINDIVIDUALITY.\n\nHERETICS AND HERESIES.\n\nTHE GHOSTS.\n\nTHE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.\n\nLIBERTY OF WOMAN.\n\nTHE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN.\n\nCONCLUSION.\n\nABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS\n\nWHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?\n\nI. WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE SAVED\n\nII. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW\n\nIII. THE GOSPEL OF MARK\n\nIV. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.\n\nV. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN\n\nVI. THE CATHOLICS\n\nVII. THE EPISCOPALIANS\n\nVIII. THE METHODISTS\n\nIX. THE PRESBYTERIANS\n\nX. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.\n\nXI. WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE?\n\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.\n\n\t THE GODS.\n\n\t(1872.)\n\tAn Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man\u00f3Resemblance of Gods to\n\ttheir Creators\u00f3Manufacture and Characteristics of Deities\u00f3Their\n\tAmours\u00f3Deficient in many Departments of Knowledge\u00f3Pleased with the\n\tButchery of Unbelievers\u00f3A Plentiful Supply\u00f3Visitations\u00f3One God's\n\tLaws of War\u00f3The Book called the Bible\u00f3Heresy of Universalism\u00f3Faith\n\tan unhappy mixture of Insanity and Ignorance\u00f3Fallen Gods, or\n\tDevils\u00f3Directions concerning Human Slavery\u00f3The first Appearance of\n\tthe Devil\u00f3The Tree of Knowledge\u00f3Give me the Storm and Tempest of\n\tThought\u00f3Gods and Devils Natural Productions\u00f3Personal Appearance\n\tof Deities\u00f3All Man's Ideas suggested by his Surroundings\u00f3Phenomena\n\tSupposed to be Produced by Intelligent Powers\u00f3Insanity and Disease\n\tattributed to Evil Spirits\u00f3Origin of the Priesthood\u00f3Temptation of\n\tChrist\u00f3Innate Ideas\u00f3Divine Interference\u00f3Special Providence\u00f3The\n\tCrane and the Fish\u00f3Cancer as a proof of Design\u00f3Matter and\n\tForce\u00f3Miracle\u00f3Passing the Hat for just one Fact\u00f3Sir William Hamilton\n\ton Cause and Effect\u00f3The Phenomena of Mind\u00f3Necessity and Free Will\u00f3The\n\tDark Ages\u00f3The Originality of Repetition\u00f3Of what Use have the Gods been\n\tto Man?\u00f3Paley and Design\u00f3Make Good Health Contagious\u00f3Periodicity of\n\tthe Universe and the Commencement of Intellectual Freedom\u00f3Lesson of\n\tthe ineffectual attempt to rescue the Tomb of Christ from the\n\tMohammedans\u00f3The Cemetery of the Gods\u00f3Taking away Crutches\u00f3Imperial\n\tReason\n\n\tHUMBOLDT.\n\n\t(1869.)\n\tThe Universe is Governed by Law\u00f3The Self-made Man\u00f3Poverty generally\n\tan Advantage\u00f3Humboldt's Birth-place\u00f3His desire for Travel\u00f3On what\n\tHumboldt's Fame depends\u00f3His Companions and Friends\u00f3Investigations\n\tin the New World\u00f3A Picture\u00f3Subjects of his Addresses\u00f3Victory of the\n\tChurch over Philosophy\u00f3Influence of the discovery that the World is\n\tgoverned by Law\u00f3On the term Law\u00f3Copernicus\u00f3Astronomy\u00f3Aryabhatta\u00f3\n\tDescartes\u00f3Condition of the World and Man when the morning of Science\n\tDawned\u00f3Reasons for Honoring Humboldt\u00f3The World his Monument\n\n\tTHOMAS PAINE.\n\n\t(1870.)\n\tWith his Name left out the History of Liberty cannot be Written\u00f3Paine's\n\tOrigin and Condition\u00f3His arrival in America with a Letter of\n\tIntroduction by Franklin\u00f3Condition of the Colonies\u00f3\"Common Sense\"\u00f3A\n\tnew Nation Born\u00f3Paine the Best of Political Writers\u00f3The \"Crisis\"\u00f3War\n\tnot to the Interest of a trading Nation\u00f3Paine's Standing at the Close\n\tof the Revolution\u00f3Close of the Eighteenth Century in France-The\n\t\"Rights of Man\"\u00f3Paine Prosecuted in England\u00f3\"The World is my\n\tCountry\"\u00f3Elected to the French Assembly\u00f3Votes against the Death of\n\tthe King\u00f3Imprisoned\u00f3A look behind the Altar\u00f3The \"Age of Reason\"\u00f3His\n\tArgument against the Bible as a Revelation\u00f3Christianity of Paine's\n\tDay\u00f3A Blasphemy Law in Force in Maryland\u00f3The Scotch \"Kirk\"\u00f3Hanging\n\tof Thomas Aikenhead for Denying the Inspiration of the\n\tScriptures\u00f3\"Cathedrals and Domes, and Chimes and Chants\"\u00f3Science\u00f3\"He\n\tDied in the Land his Genius Defended,\"\n\n\tINDIVIDUALITY.\n\n\t(1873.)\n\t\"His Soul was like a Star and Dwelt Apart\"\u00f3Disobedience one of the\n\tConditions of Progress.\u00f3Magellan\u00f3The Monarch and the Hermit-Why\n\tthe Church hates a Thinker\u00f3The Argument from Grandeur and\n\tProsperity-Travelers and Guide-boards\u00f3A Degrading Saying\u00f3Theological\n\tEducation\u00f3Scotts, Henrys and McKnights\u00f3The Church the Great\n\tRobber\u00f3Corrupting the Reason of Children\u00f3Monotony of Acquiescence: For\n\tGod's sake, say No\u00f3Protestant Intolerance: Luther and Calvin\u00f3Assertion\n\tof Individual Independence a Step toward Infidelity\u00f3Salute to\n\tJupiter\u00f3The Atheistic Bug-Little Religious Liberty in America\u00f3God in\n\tthe Constitution, Man Out\u00f3Decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois\n\tthat an Unbeliever could not testify in any Court\u00f3Dissimulation\u00f3Nobody\n\tin this Bed\u00f3The Dignity of a Unit\n\n\tHERETICS AND HERESIES.\n\n\t(1874.)\n\tLiberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain\u00f3The Church, the\n\tBible, and Persecution\u00f3Over the wild Waves of War rose and fell\n\tthe Banner of Jesus Christ\u00f3Highest Type of the Orthodox\n\tChristian\u00f3Heretics' Tongues and why they should be Removed before\n\tBurning\u00f3The Inquisition Established\u00f3Forms of Torture\u00f3Act of Henry\n\tVIII for abolishing Diversity of Opinion\u00f3What a Good Christian was\n\tObliged to Believe\u00f3The Church has Carried the Black Flag\u00f3For what Men\n\tand Women have been Burned\u00f3John Calvin's Advent into the\n\tWorld\u00f3His Infamous Acts\u00f3Michael Servetus\u00f3Castalio\u00f3Spread of\n\tPresbyterianism\u00f3Indictment of a Presbyterian Minister in Illinois for\n\tHeresy\u00f3Specifications\u00f3The Real Bible\n\n\tTHE GHOSTS.\n\n\t(1877.)\n\tDedication to Ebon C. Ingersoll\u00f3Preface\u00f3Mendacity of the Religious\n\tPress\u00f3\"Materialism\"\u00f3Ways of Pleasing the Ghosts\u00f3The Idea of\n\tImmortality not Born of any Book\u00f3Witchcraft and Demon-ology\u00f3Witch\n\tTrial before Sir Matthew Hale\u00f3John Wesley a Firm Believer in\n\tGhosts\u00f3\"Witch-spots\"\u00f3Lycanthropy\u00f3Animals Tried and Convicted\u00f3The\n\tGovernor of Minnesota and the Grasshoppers\u00f3A Papal Bull against\n\tWitchcraft\u00f3Victims of the Delusion\u00f3Sir William Blackstone's\n\tAffirmation\u00f3Trials in Belgium\u00f3Incubi and Succubi\u00f3A Bishop\n\tPersonated by the Devil\u00f3The Doctrine that Diseases are caused by\n\tGhosts\u00f3Treatment\u00f3Timothy Dwight against Vaccination\u00f3Ghosts as\n\tHistorians\u00f3The Language of Eden\u00f3Leibnitz, Founder of the Science\n\tof Language\u00f3Cosmas on Astronomy\u00f3Vagaries of Kepler and Tycho\n\tBrahe\u00f3Discovery of Printing, Powder, and America\u00f3Thanks to the\n\tInventors\u00f3The Catholic Murderer and the Meat\u00f3Let the Ghosts Go\n\n\tTHE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.\n\n\t(1877.)\n\tLiberty sustains the same Relation to Mind that Space does to\n\tMatter\u00f3The History of Man a History of Slavery\u00f3The Infidel Our\n\tFathers in the good old Time\u00f3The iron Arguments that Christians\n\tUsed\u00f3Instruments of Torture\u00f3A Vision of the Inquisition\u00f3Models of\n\tMan's Inventions\u00f3Weapons, Armor, Musical Instruments, Paintings,\n\tBooks, Skulls\u00f3The Gentleman in the Dug-out\u00f3Homage to Genius and\n\tIntellect\u00f3Abraham Lincoln\u00f3What I mean by Liberty\u00f3The Man who cannot\n\tafford to Speak his Thought is a Certificate of the Meanness of the\n\tCommunity in which he Resides\u00f3Liberty of Woman\u00f3Marriage and the\n\tFamily\u00f3Ornaments the Souvenirs of Bondage-The Story of the Garden of\n\tEden\u00f3Adami and Heva\u00f3Equality of the Sexes-The word \"Boss\"\u00f3The Cross\n\tMan-The Stingy Man\u00f3Wives who are Beggars\u00f3How to Spend Money\u00f3By\n\tthe Tomb of the Old Napoleon\u00f3The Woman you Love will never Grow\n\tOld\u00f3Liberty of Children\u00f3When your Child tells a Lie\u00f3Disowning\n\tChildren\u00f3Beating your own Flesh and Blood\u00f3Make Home Pleasant\u00f3Sunday\n\twhen I was a Boy\u00f3The Laugh of a Child\u00f3The doctrine of Eternal\n\tPunishment\u00f3Jonathan Edwards on the Happiness of Believing Husbands\n\twhose Wives are in Hell\u00f3The Liberty of Eating and Sleeping\u00f3Water in\n\tFever\u00f3Soil and Climate necessary to the production of Genius\u00f3Against\n\tAnnexing Santo Domingo\u00f3Descent of Man\u00f3Conclusion\n\n\tABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS.\n\n\t(1877.)\n\tTo Plow is to Pray; to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and\n\tFulfills\u00f3The Old Way of Farming\u00f3Cooking an Unknown Art-Houses, Fuel,\n\tand Crops\u00f3The Farmer's Boy\u00f3What a Farmer should Sell\u00f3Beautifying\n\tthe Home\u00f3Advantages of Illinois as a Farming State\u00f3Advantages of the\n\tFarmer over the Mechanic\u00f3Farm Life too Lonely-On Early Rising\u00f3Sleep\n\tthe Best Doctor\u00f3Fashion\u00f3Patriotism and Boarding Houses\u00f3The Farmer and\n\tthe Railroads\u00f3Money and Confidence\u00f3Demonetization of Silver-Area of\n\tIllinois\u00f3Mortgages and Interest\u00f3Kindness to Wives and Children\u00f3How\n\ta Beefsteak should be Cooked\u00f3Decorations and Comfort\u00f3Let the Children\n\tSleep\u00f3Old Age\n\n\tWHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?\n\n\t(1880.)\n\tPreface\u00f3The Synoptic Gospels\u00f3Only Mark Knew of the Necessity of\n\tBelief\u00f3Three Christs Described\u00f3The Jewish Gentleman and the Piece of\n\tBacon\u00f3Who Wrote the New Testament?\u00f3Why Christ and the Apostles wrote\n\tNothing\u00f3Infinite Respect for the Man Christ\u00f3Different Feeling for\n\tthe Theological Christ\u00f3Saved from What?\u00f3Chapter on the Gospel of\n\tMatthew\u00f3What this Gospel says we must do to be Saved\u00f3Jesus and the\n\tChildren\u00f3John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards conceived of as Dimpled\n\tDarlings\u00f3Christ and the Man who inquired what Good Thing he should\n\tdo that he might have Eternal Life\u00f3Nothing said about Belief\u00f3An\n\tInterpolation\u00f3Chapter on the Gospel of Mark\u00f3The Believe or be Damned\n\tPassage, and why it was written\u00f3The last Conversation of Christ with\n\this Disciples\u00f3The Signs that Follow them that Believe\u00f3Chapter on\n\tthe Gospel of Luke\u00f3Substantial Agreement with Matthew and Mark\u00f3How\n\tZaccheus achieved Salvation\u00f3The two Thieves on the Cross\u00f3Chapter\n\ton the Gospel of John\u00f3The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the New\n\tBirth\u00f3Shall we Love our Enemies while God Damns His?\u00f3Chapter on the\n\tCatholics\u00f3Communication with Heaven through Decayed Saints\u00f3Nuns and\n\tNunneries\u00f3Penitentiaries of God should be Investigated\u00f3The\n\tAthanasian Creed expounded\u00f3The Trinity and its Members\u00f3Chapter on the\n\tEpiscopalians\u00f3Origin of the Episcopal Church\u00f3Apostolic Succession\n\tan Imported Article\u00f3Episcopal Creed like the Catholic, with a\n\tfew Additional Absurdities\u00f3Chapter on the Methodists\u00f3Wesley and\n\tWhitfield\u00f3Their Quarrel about Predestination\u00f3Much Preaching for Little\n\tMoney\u00f3Adapted to New Countries\u00f3Chapter on the Presbyterians\u00f3John\n\tCalvin, Murderer\u00f3Meeting between Calvin and Knox\u00f3The Infamy of\n\tCalvinism\u00f3Division in the Church\u00f3The Young Presbyterian's Resignation\n\tto the Fate of his Mother\u00f3A Frightful, Hideous, and Hellish\n\tCreed\u00f3Chapter on the Evangelical Alliance\u00f3Jeremy Taylor's Opinion of\n\tBaptists\u00f3Orthodoxy not Dead\u00f3Creed of the Alliance\u00f3Total Depravity,\n\tEternal Damnation\u00f3What do You Propose?\u00f3The Gospel of Good-fellowship,\n\tCheerfulness, Health, Good Living, Justice\u00f3No Forgiveness\u00f3God's\n\tForgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to Smith\u00f3Gospel of Liberty, of\n\tIntelligence, of Humanity\u00f3One World at a Time\u00f3\"Upon that Rock I\n\tStand\"\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME II.--LECTURES\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.\n\nPREFACE.\n\nSOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.\n\nSOME REASONS WHY\n\nORTHODOXY.\n\nMYTH AND MIRACLE.\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.\n\n\t SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.\n\n\t(1879.)\n\tPreface\u00f3I. He who endeavors to control the Mind by Force is a\n\tTyrant, and he who submits is a Slave\u00f3All I Ask\u00f3When a Religion\n\tis Founded\u00f3Freedom for the Orthodox Clergy\u00f3Every Minister an\n\tAttorney\u00f3Submission to the Orthodox and the Dead\u00f3Bounden Duty of\n\tthe Ministry\u00f3The Minister Factory at Andover\u00f3II. Free Schools\u00f3No\n\tSectarian Sciences\u00f3Religion and the Schools\u00f3Scientific\n\tHypocrites\u00f3III. The Politicians and the Churches\u00f3IV. Man and Woman the\n\tHighest Possible Titles\u00f3Belief Dependent on Surroundings\u00f3Worship of\n\tAncestors\u00f3Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path\u00f3The Bible the\n\tChain that Binds\u00f3A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired\u00f3V.\n\tThe Pentateuch\u00f3Moses Not the Author\u00f3Belief out of which Grew\n\tReligious Ceremonies\u00f3Egypt the Source of the Information of Moses\u00f3VI.\n\tMonday\u00f3Nothing, in the Light of Raw Material\u00f3The Story of Creation\n\tBegun\u00f3The Same Story, substantially, Found in the Records of Babylon,\n\tEgypt, and India\u00f3Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth\u00f3Usefulness of\n\tMiracles to Fit Lies to Facts\u00f3Division of Darkness and Light\u00f3VII.\n\tTuesday\u00f3The Firmament and Some Biblical Notions about it\u00f3Laws of\n\tEvaporation Unknown to the Inspired Writer\u00f3VIII. Wednesday\u00f3The Waters\n\tGathered into Seas\u00f3Fruit and Nothing to Eat it\u00f3Five Epochs in the\n\tOrganic History of the Earth\u00f3Balance between the Total Amounts of\n\tAnimal and Vegetable Life\u00f3Vegetation Prior to the Appearance of the\n\tSun\u00f3IX. Thursday\u00f3Sun and Moon Manufactured\u00f3Magnitude of the Solar\n\tOrb\u00f3Dimensions of Some of the Planets\u00f3Moses' Guess at the Size of Sun\n\tand Moon\u00f3Joshua's Control of the Heavenly Bodies\u00f3A Hypothesis Urged\n\tby Ministers\u00f3The Theory of \"Refraction\"\u00f3Rev. Henry Morey\u00f3Astronomical\n\tKnowledge of Chinese Savants\u00f3The Motion of the Earth Reversed by\n\tJehovah for the Reassurance of Ahaz\u00f3\"Errors\" Renounced by Button\u00f3X.\n\t\"He made the Stars Also\"\u00f3Distance of the Nearest Star\u00f3XI.\n\tFriday\u00f3Whales and Other Living Creatures Produced\u00f3XII.\n\tSaturday\u00f3Reproduction Inaugurated\u00f3XIII. \"Let Us Make Man\"\u00f3Human\n\tBeings Created in the Physical Image and Likeness of God\u00f3Inquiry as\n\tto the Process Adopted\u00f3Development of Living Forms According to\n\tEvolution\u00f3How Were Adam and Eve Created?\u00f3The Rib Story\u00f3Age of\n\tMan Upon the Earth\u00f3A Statue Apparently Made before the World\u00f3XIV.\n\tSunday\u00f3Sacredness of the Sabbath Destroyed by the Theory of Vast\n\t\"Periods\"\u00f3Reflections on the Sabbath\u00f3XV. The Necessity for a Good\n\tMemory\u00f3The Two Accounts of the Creation in Genesis I and II\u00f3Order\n\tof Creation in the First Account\u00f3Order of Creation in the Second\n\tAccount\u00f3Fastidiousness of Adam in the Choice of a Helpmeet\u00f3Dr.\n\tAdam Clark's Commentary\u00f3Dr. Scott's Guess\u00f3Dr. Matthew Henry's\n\tAdmission\u00f3The Blonde and Brunette Problem\u00f3The Result of Unbelief and\n\tthe Reward of Faith\u00f3\"Give Him a Harp\"\u00f3XVI. The Garden\u00f3Location of\n\tEden\u00f3The Four Rivers\u00f3The Tree of Knowledge\u00f3Andover Appealed\n\tTo\u00f3XVII. The Fall\u00f3The Serpent\u00f3Dr. Adam Clark Gives a Zoological\n\tExplanation\u00f3Dr. Henry Dissents\u00f3Whence This Serpent?\u00f3XVIII.\n\tDampness\u00f3A Race of Giants\u00f3Wickedness of Mankind\u00f3An Ark Constructed\u00f3A\n\tUniversal Flood Indicated\u00f3Animals Probably Admitted to the Ark\u00f3How Did\n\tThey Get There?\u00f3Problem of Food and Service\u00f3A Shoreless Sea Covered\n\twith Innumerable Dead\u00f3Drs. Clark and Henry on the Situation\u00f3The Ark\n\tTakes Ground\u00f3New Difficulties\u00f3Noah's Sacrifice\u00f3The Rainbow as a\n\tMemorandum\u00f3Babylonian, Egyptian, and Indian Legends of a Flood\u00f3XIX.\n\tBacchus and Babel\u00f3Interest Attaching to Noah\u00f3Where Did Our First\n\tParents and the Serpent Acquire a Common Language?\u00f3Babel and the\n\tConfusion of Tongues\u00f3XX. Faith in Filth\u00f3Immodesty of Biblical\n\tDiction\u00f3XXI. The Hebrews\u00f3God's Promises to Abraham\u00f3The Sojourning\n\tof Israel in Egypt\u00f3Marvelous Increase\u00f3Moses and Aaron\u00f3XXII.\n\tThe Plagues\u00f3Competitive Miracle Working\u00f3Defeat of the Local\n\tMagicians\u00f3XXIII. The Flight Out of Egypt\u00f3Three Million People in a\n\tDesert\u00f3Destruction of Pharaoh ana His Host\u00f3Manna\u00f3A Superfluity of\n\tQuails\u00f3Rev. Alexander Cruden's Commentary\u00f3Hornets as Allies of the\n\tIsraelites\u00f3Durability of the Clothing of the Jewish People\u00f3An Ointment\n\tMonopoly\u00f3Consecration of Priests\u00f3The Crime of Becoming a Mother\u00f3The\n\tTen Commandments\u00f3Medical Ideas of Jehovah\u00f3Character of the God of\n\tthe Pentateuch\u00f3XXIV. Confess and Avoid\u00f3XXV. \"Inspired\" Slavery\u00f3XXVI.\n\t\"Inspired\" Marriage-XXVII. \"Inspired\" War-XXVIII. \"Inspired\" Religious\n\tLiberty\u00f3XXIX. Conclusion.\n\n\tSOME REASONS WHY.\n\n\t(1881.)\n\tI\u00f3Religion makes Enemies\u00f3Hatred in the Name of Universal\n\tBenevolence\u00f3No Respect for the Rights of Barbarians\u00f3Literal\n\tFulfillment of a New Testament Prophecy\u00f3II. Duties to God\u00f3Can we\n\tAssist God?\u00f3An Infinite Personality an Infinite Impossibility-Ill.\n\tInspiration\u00f3What it Really Is\u00f3Indication of Clams\u00f3Multitudinous\n\tLaughter of the Sea\u00f3Horace Greeley and the Mammoth Trees\u00f3A Landscape\n\tCompared to a Table-cloth\u00f3The Supernatural is the Deformed\u00f3Inspiration\n\tin the Man as well as in the Book\u00f3Our Inspired Bible\u00f3IV. God's\n\tExperiment with the Jews\u00f3Miracles of One Religion never astonish the\n\tPriests of Another\u00f3\"I am a Liar Myself\"\u00f3V. Civilized Countries\u00f3Crimes\n\tonce regarded as Divine Institutions\u00f3What the Believer in the\n\tInspiration of the Bible is Compelled to Say\u00f3Passages apparently\n\twritten by the Devil\u00f3VI. A Comparison of Books\u00f3Advancing a Cannibal\n\tfrom Missionary to Mutton\u00f3Contrast between the Utterances of Jehovah\n\tand those of Reputable Heathen\u00f3Epictetus, Cicero, Zeno,\n\tSeneca\u00f3the Hindu, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius\u00f3The Avesta\u00f3VII.\n\tMonotheism\u00f3Egyptians before Moses taught there was but One God\n\tand Married but One Wife\u00f3Persians and Hindoos had a Single Supreme\n\tDeity\u00f3Rights of Roman Women\u00f3Marvels of Art achieved without the\n\tAssistance of Heaven\u00f3Probable Action of the Jewish Jehovah incarnated\n\tas Man\u00f3VIII. The New Testament\u00f3Doctrine of Eternal Pain brought to\n\tLight\u00f3Discrepancies\u00f3Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of\n\tDivine Wisdom\u00f3Why there are Four Gospels according to Iren\u00caus\u00f3The\n\tAtonement\u00f3Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation\u00f3Christians\n\tsay, \"Charge it\"\u00f3God's Forgiveness does not Repair an Injury\u00f3Suffering\n\tof Innocence for the Guilty\u00f3Salvation made Possible by Jehovah's\n\tFailure to Civilize the Jews\u00f3Necessity of Belief not taught in the\n\tSynoptic Gospels\u00f3Non-resistance the Offspring of Weakness\u00f3IX. Christ's\n\tMission\u00f3All the Virtues had been Taught before his Advent\u00f3Perfect and\n\tBeautiful Thoughts of his Pagan Predecessors\u00f3St. Paul Contrasted\n\twith Heathen Writers\u00f3\"The Quality of Mercy\"\u00f3X. Eternal Pain\u00f3An\n\tIllustration of Eternal Punishment\u00f3Captain Kreuger of the Barque\n\tTiger\u00f3XI. Civilizing Influence of the Bible\u00f3Its Effects on the\n\tJews\u00f3If Christ was God, Did he not, in his Crucifixion, Reap what\n\the had Sown?\u00f3Nothing can add to the Misery of a Nation whose King is\n\tJehovah\n\n\tORTHODOXY.\n\n\t(1884.)\n\tOrthodox Religion Dying Out\u00f3Religious Deaths and Births\u00f3The Religion\n\tof Reciprocity\u00f3Every Language has a Cemetery\u00f3Orthodox Institutions\n\tSurvive through the Money invested in them\u00f3\"Let us tell our Real\n\tNames\"\u00f3The Blows that have Shattered the Shield and Shivered the Lance\n\tof Superstition\u00f3Mohammed's Successful Defence of the Sepulchre of\n\tChrist\u00f3The Destruction of Art\u00f3The Discovery of America\u00f3Although\n\the made it himself, the Holy Ghost was Ignorant of the Form of this\n\tEarth\u00f3Copernicus and Kepler\u00f3Special Providence\u00f3The Man and the Ship\n\the did not Take\u00f3A Thanksgiving Proclamation Contradicted\u00f3Charles\n\tDarwin\u00f3Henry Ward Beecher\u00f3The Creeds\u00f3The Latest Creed\u00f3God as\n\ta Governor\u00f3The Love of God\u00f3The Fall of Man\u00f3We are Bound\n\tby Representatives without a Chance to Vote against Them\u00f3The\n\tAtonement\u00f3The Doctrine of Depravity a Libel on the Human Race\u00f3The\n\tSecond Birth\u00f3A Unitarian Universalist\u00f3Inspiration of the\n\tScriptures\u00f3God a Victim of his own Tyranny\u00f3In the New Testament\n\tTrouble Commences at Death\u00f3The Reign of Truth and Love\u00f3The Old\n\tSpaniard who Died without an Enemy\u00f3The Wars it Brought\u00f3Consolation\n\tshould be Denied to Murderers\u00f3At the Rate at which Heathen are being\n\tConverted, how long will it take to Establish Christ's Kingdom on\n\tEarth?\u00f3The Resurrection\u00f3The Judgment Day\u00f3Pious Evasions\u00f3\"We shall\n\tnot Die, but we shall all be Hanged\"\u00f3\"No Bible, no Civilization\"\n\tMiracles of the New Testament\u00f3Nothing Written by Christ or his\n\tContemporaries\u00f3Genealogy of Jesus\u00f3More Miracles\u00f3A Master of\n\tDeath\u00f3Improbable that he would be Crucified\u00f3The Loaves and Fishes\u00f3How\n\tdid it happen that the Miracles Convinced so Few?\u00f3The Resurrection\u00f3The\n\tAscension\u00f3Was the Body Spiritual\u00f3Parting from the Disciples\u00f3Casting\n\tout Devils\u00f3Necessity of Belief\u00f3God should be consistent in the\n\tMatter of forgiving Enemies\u00f3Eternal Punishment\u00f3Some Good Men who are\n\tDamned\u00f3Another Objection\u00f3Love the only Bow on Life's dark Cloud\u00f3\"Now\n\tis the accepted Time\"\u00f3Rather than this Doctrine of Eternal Punishment\n\tShould be True\u00f3I would rather that every Planet should in its Orbit\n\twheel a barren Star\u00f3What I Believe\u00f3Immortality\u00f3It existed long before\n\tMoses\u00f3Consolation\u00f3The Promises are so Far Away, and the Dead are so\n\tNear\u00f3Death a Wall or a Door\u00f3A Fable\u00f3Orpheus and Eurydice.\n\n\tMYTH AND MIRACLE.\n\n\t(1885.)\n\tI. Happiness the true End and Aim of Life\u00f3Spiritual People and\n\ttheir Literature\u00f3Shakespeare's Clowns superior to Inspired\n\tWriters\u00f3Beethoven's Sixth Symphony Preferred to the Five Books of\n\tMoses\u00f3Venus of Milo more Pleasing than the Presbyterian Creed\u00f3II.\n\tReligions Naturally Produced\u00f3Poets the Myth-makers\u00f3The Sleeping\n\tBeauty\u00f3Orpheus and Eurydice\u00f3Red Riding Hood\u00f3The Golden Age\u00f3Elysian\n\tFields\u00f3The Flood Myth\u00f3Myths of the Seasons\u00f3III. The Sun-god\u00f3Jonah,\n\tBuddha, Chrisnna, Horus, Zoroaster\u00f3December 25th as a Birthday of\n\tGods\u00f3Christ a Sun-God\u00f3The Cross a Symbol of the Life to Come\u00f3When\n\tNature rocked the Cradle of the Infant World\u00f3IV. Difference between\n\ta Myth and a Miracle\u00f3Raising the Dead, Past and Present\u00f3Miracles\n\tof Jehovah\u00f3Miracles of Christ\u00f3Everything Told except the Truth\u00f3The\n\tMistake of the World\u00f3V. Beginning of Investigation\u00f3The Stars as\n\tWitnesses against Superstition\u00f3Martyrdom of Bruno\u00f3Geology\u00f3Steam and\n\tElectricity\u00f3Nature forever the Same\u00f3Persistence of Force\u00f3Cathedral,\n\tMosque, and Joss House have the same Foundation\u00f3Science the\n\tProvidence of Man\u00f3VI. To Soften the Heart of God\u00f3Martyrs\u00f3The God was\n\tSilent\u00f3Credulity a Vice\u00f3Develop the Imagination\u00f3\"The Skylark\" and\n\t\"The Daisy\"\u00f3VII. How are we to Civilize the World?\u00f3Put Theology out\n\tof Religion\u00f3Divorce of Church and State\u00f3Secular Education\u00f3Godless\n\tSchools\u00f3VIII. The New Jerusalem\u00f3Knowledge of the Supernatural\n\tpossessed by Savages\u00f3Beliefs of Primitive Peoples\u00f3Science is\n\tModest\u00f3Theology Arrogant\u00f3Torque-mada and Bruno on the Day of\n\tJudgment\u00f3IX. Poison of Superstition in the Mother's Milk\u00f3Ability\n\tof Mistakes to take Care of Themselves\u00f3Longevity of Religious\n\tLies\u00f3Mother's religion pleaded by the Cannibal\u00f3The Religion of\n\tFreedom\u00f3O Liberty, thou art the God of my Idolatry\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME III--LECTURES\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.\n\nSHAKESPEARE\n\nROBERT BURNS.*\n\nABRAHAM LINCOLN\n\nVOLTAIRE.\n\nLIBERTY IN LITERATURE.\n\nTHE GREAT INFIDELS.*\n\nCONCLUSION.\n\nWHICH WAY?\n\nABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.\n\n\t SHAKESPEARE\n\n\t(1891.)\n\tI. The Greatest Genius of our World\u00f3Not of Supernatural Origin or\n\tof Royal Blood\u00f3Illiteracy of his Parents\u00f3Education\u00f3His Father\u00f3His\n\tMother a Great Woman\u00f3Stratford Unconscious of the Immortal\n\tChild\u00f3Social Position of Shakespeare\u00f3Of his Personal\n\tPeculiarities\u00f3Birth, Marriage, and Death\u00f3What we Know of Him\u00f3No Line\n\twritten by him to be Found\u00f3The Absurd Epitaph\u00f3II. Contemporaries\n\tby whom he was Mentioned\u00f3III. No direct Mention of any of his\n\tContemporaries in the Plays\u00f3Events and Personages of his Time\u00f3IV.\n\tPosition of the Actor in Shakespeare's Time\u00f3Fortunately he was Not\n\tEducated at Oxford\u00f3An Idealist\u00f3His Indifference to Stage-carpentry\n\tand Plot\u00f3He belonged to All Lands\u00f3Knew the Brain and Heart of Man\u00f3An\n\tIntellectual Spendthrift\u00f3V. The Baconian Theory\u00f3VI. Dramatists before\n\tand during the Time of Shakespeare\u00f3Dramatic Incidents Illustrated in\n\tPassages from \"Macbeth\" and \"Julius C\u00casar\"\u00f3VII. His Use of the Work of\n\tOthers\u00f3The Pontic Sea\u00f3A Passage from \"Lear\"\u00f3VIII. Extravagance that\n\ttouches the Infinite\u00f3The Greatest Compliment\u00f3\"Let me not live after\n\tmy flame lacks oil\"\u00f3Where Pathos almost Touches the Grotesque\u00f3IX.\n\tAn Innovator and Iconoclast\u00f3Disregard of the \"Unities\"\u00f3Nature\n\tForgets\u00f3Violation of the Classic Model\u00f3X. Types\u00f3The Secret of\n\tShakespeare\u00f3Characters who Act from Reason and Motive\u00f3What they Say\n\tnot the Opinion of Shakespeare\u00f3XI. The Procession that issued from\n\tShakespeare's Brain\u00f3His Great Women\u00f3Lovable Clowns\u00f3His Men\u00f3Talent\n\tand Genius\u00f3XII. The Greatest of all Philosophers\u00f3Master of the\n\tHuman Heart\u00f3Love\u00f3XIII. In the Realm of Comparison\u00f3XIV. Definitions:\n\tSuicide, Drama, Death, Memory, the Body, Life, Echo, the\n\tWorld, Rumor\u00f3The Confidant of Nature\u00f3XV. Humor and\n\tPathos\u00f3Illustrations\u00f3XVI. Not a Physician, Lawyer, or Botanist\u00f3He was\n\ta Man of Imagination\u00f3He lived the Life of All\u00f3The Imagination had a\n\tStage in Shakespeare's Brain.\n\n\tROBERT BURNS.\n\n\t(1878.)\n\tPoetry and Poets\u00f3Milton, Dante, Petrarch\u00f3Old-time Poetry in\n\tScotland\u00f3Influence of Scenery on Literature\u00f3Lives that are\n\tPoems\u00f3Birth of Burns\u00f3Early Life and Education\u00f3Scotland Emerging from\n\tthe Gloom of Calvinism\u00f3A Metaphysical Peasantry\u00f3Power of the Scotch\n\tPreacher\u00f3Famous Scotch Names\u00f3John Barleycorn vs. Calvinism\u00f3Why Robert\n\tBurns is Loved\u00f3His Reading\u00f3Made Goddesses of Women\u00f3Poet of Love: His\n\t\"Vision,\" \"Bonnie Doon,\" \"To Mary in Heaven\"\u00f3Poet of Home:\n\t\"Cotter's Saturday Night,\" \"John Anderson, My Jo\"\u00f3Friendship: \"Auld\n\tLang-Syne\"\u00f3Scotch Drink: \"Willie brew'd a peck o' maut\"\u00f3Burns the\n\tArtist: The \"Brook,\" \"Tam O'Shanter\"\u00f3A Real Democrat: \"A man's a man\n\tfor a' that\"\u00f3His Theology: The Dogma of Eternal Pain, \"Morality,\"\n\t\"Hypocrisy,\" \"Holy Willie's Prayer\"\u00f3On the Bible\u00f3A Statement of his\n\tReligion\u00f3Contrasted with Tennyson\u00f3From Cradle to Coffin\u00f3His Last\n\twords\u00f3Lines on the Birth-place of Burns.\n\n\tABRAHAM LINCOLN.\n\n\t(1894.)\n\tI. Simultaneous Birth of Lincoln and Darwin\u00f3Heroes of Every\n\tGeneration\u00f3Slavery\u00f3Principle Sacrificed to Success\u00f3Lincoln's\n\tChildhood\u00f3His first Speech\u00f3A Candidate for the Senate against\n\tDouglass\u00f3II. A Crisis in the Affairs of the Republic\u00f3The South Not\n\tAlone Responsible for Slavery\u00f3Lincoln's Prophetic Words\u00f3Nominated for\n\tPresident and Elected in Spite of his Fitness\u00f3III. Secession and\n\tCivil War\u00f3The Thought uppermost in his Mind\u00f3IV. A Crisis in the\n\tNorth\u00f3Proposition to Purchase the Slaves\u00f3V. The Proclamation of\n\tEmancipation\u00f3His Letter to Horace Greeley\u00f3Waited on by Clergymen\u00f3VI.\n\tSurrounded by Enemies\u00f3Hostile Attitude of Gladstone, Salisbury,\n\tLouis Napoleon, and the Vatican\u00f3VII. Slavery the Perpetual\n\tStumbling-block\u00f3Confiscation\u00f3VIII. His Letter to a Republican\n\tMeeting in Illinois\u00f3Its Effect\u00f3IX. The Power of His Personality\u00f3The\n\tEmbodiment of Mercy\u00f3Use of the Pardoning Power\u00f3X. The Vallandigham\n\tAffair\u00f3The Horace Greeley Incident\u00f3Triumphs of Humor\u00f3XI. Promotion of\n\tGeneral Hooker\u00f3A Prophecy and its Fulfillment\u00f3XII.\u00f3States Rights vs.\n\tTerritorial Integrity\u00f3XIII. His Military Genius\u00f3The Foremost Man in\n\tall the World: and then the Horror Came\u00f3XIV. Strange Mingling of Mirth\n\tand Tears\u00f3Deformation of Great Historic Characters\u00f3Washington now\n\tonly a Steel Engraving\u00f3Lincoln not a Type\u00f3Virtues Necessary in a\n\tNew Country\u00f3Laws of Cultivated Society\u00f3In the Country is the Idea\n\tof Home\u00f3Lincoln always a Pupil\u00f3A Great Lawyer\u00f3Many-sided\u00f3Wit and\n\tHumor\u00f3As an Orator\u00f3His Speech at Gettysburg contrasted with the\n\tOration of Edward Everett\u00f3Apologetic in his Kindness\u00f3No Official\n\tRobes\u00f3The gentlest Memory of our World.\n\n\tVOLTAIRE.\n\n\t(1894.)\n\tI. Changes wrought by Time\u00f3Throne and Altar Twin Vultures\u00f3The King and\n\tthe Priest\u00f3What is Greatness?\u00f3Effect of Voltaire's Name on Clergyman\n\tand Priest\u00f3Born and Baptized\u00f3State of France in 1694\u00f3The Church\n\tat the Head\u00f3Efficacy of Prayers and Dead Saints\u00f3Bells and Holy\n\tWater\u00f3Prevalence of Belief in Witches, Devils, and Fiends\u00f3Seeds of\n\tthe Revolution Scattered by Noble and Priest\u00f3Condition in England\u00f3The\n\tInquisition in full Control in Spain\u00f3Portugal and Germany burning\n\tWomen\u00f3Italy Prostrate beneath the Priests, the Puritans in America\n\tpersecuting Quakers, and stealing Children\u00f3II. The Days of Youth\u00f3His\n\tEducation\u00f3Chooses Literature as a Profession and becomes a Diplomat\u00f3In\n\tLove and Disinherited\u00f3Unsuccessful Poem Competition\u00f3Jansenists\n\tand Molinists\u00f3The Bull Unigenitus\u00f3Exiled to Tulle\u00f3Sent to the\n\tBastile\u00f3Exiled to England\u00f3Acquaintances made there\u00f3III. The Morn\n\tof Manhood\u00f3His Attention turned to the History of the Church\u00f3The\n\t\"Triumphant Beast\" Attacked\u00f3Europe Filled with the Product of his\n\tBrain\u00f3What he Mocked\u00f3The Weapon of Ridicule\u00f3His Theology\u00f3His\n\t\"Retractions\"\u00f3What Goethe said of Voltaire\u00f3IV. The Scheme of\n\tNature\u00f3His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon\n\tEarthquake\u00f3V. His Humanity\u00f3Case of Jean Calas\u00f3The Sirven Family\u00f3The\n\tEspenasse Case\u00f3Case of Chevalier de la Barre and D'Etallonde\u00f3Voltaire\n\tAbandons France\u00f3A Friend of Education\u00f3An Abolitionist\u00f3Not\n\ta Saint\u00f3VI. The Return\u00f3His Reception\u00f3His Death\u00f3Burial at\n\tRomilli-on-the-Seine\u00f3VII. The Death-bed Argument\u00f3Serene Demise of\n\tthe Infamous\u00f3God has no Time to defend the Good and protect the\n\tPure\u00f3Eloquence of the Clergy on the Death-bed Subject\u00f3The\n\tSecond Return\u00f3Throned upon the Bastile\u00f3The Grave Desecrated by\n\tPriests\u00f3Voltaire.\n\tA Testimonial to Walt Whitman\u00f3Let us put Wreaths on the Brows of the\n\tLiving\u00f3Literary Ideals of the American People in 1855\u00f3\"Leaves of\n\tGrass\"\u00f3Its reception by the Provincial Prudes\u00f3The Religion of the\n\tBody\u00f3Appeal to Manhood and Womanhood\u00f3Books written for the\n\tMarket\u00f3The Index Expurgatorius\u00f3Whitman a believer in\n\tDemocracy\u00f3Individuality\u00f3Humanity\u00f3An Old-time Sea-fight\u00f3What is\n\tPoetry?\u00f3Rhyme a Hindrance to Expression\u00f3Rhythm the Comrade of\n\tthe Poetic\u00f3Whitman's Attitude toward Religion\u00f3Philosophy\u00f3The Two\n\tPoems\u00f3\"A Word Out of the Sea\"\u00f3\"When Lilacs Last in the Door\"\u00f3\"A Chant\n\tfor Death\"\u00f3\n\tThe History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives of\n\tInfidels\u00f3The King and the Priest\u00f3The Origin of God and Heaven, of\n\tthe Devil and Hell\u00f3The Idea of Hell born of Ignorance, Brutality,\n\tCowardice, and Revenge\u00f3The Limitations of our Ancestors\u00f3The Devil\n\tand God\u00f3Egotism of Barbarians\u00f3The Doctrine of Hell not an Exclusive\n\tPossession of Christianity\u00f3The Appeal to the Cemetery\u00f3Religion and\n\tWealth, Christ and Poverty\u00f3The \"Great\" not on the Side of Christ and\n\this Disciples\u00f3Epitaphs as Battle-cries\u00f3Some Great Men in favor of\n\talmost every Sect\u00f3Mistakes and Superstitions of Eminent Men\u00f3Sacred\n\tBooks\u00f3The Claim that all Moral Laws came from God through\n\tthe Jews\u00f3Fear\u00f3Martyrdom\u00f3God's Ways toward Men\u00f3The Emperor\n\tConstantine\u00f3The Death Test\u00f3Theological Comity between Protestants and\n\tCatholics\u00f3Julian\u00f3A childish Fable still Believed\u00f3Bruno\u00f3His Crime,\n\this Imprisonment and\n\n\tLIBERTY IN LITERATURE.\n\n\t(1890.)\n\t\"Old Age\"\u00f3\"Leaves of Grass\"\n\n\tTHE GREAT INFIDELS.\n\n\t(1881.)\n\tMartyrdom\u00f3The First to die for Truth without Expectation of Reward\u00f3The\n\tChurch in the Time of Voltaire\u00f3Voltaire\u00f3Diderot\u00f3David Hume\u00f3Benedict\n\tSpinoza\u00f3Our Infidels\u00f3Thomas Paine\u00f3Conclusion.\n\n\tWHICH WAY?\n\n\t(1884.)\n\tI. The Natural and the Supernatural\u00f3Living for the Benefit of\n\tyour Fellow-Man and Living for Ghosts\u00f3The Beginning of Doubt\u00f3Two\n\tPhilosophies of Life\u00f3Two Theories of Government\u00f3II. Is our God\n\tsuperior to the Gods of the Heathen?\u00f3What our God has done\u00f3III. Two\n\tTheories about the Cause and Cure of Disease\u00f3The First Physician\u00f3The\n\tBones of St. Anne Exhibited in New York\u00f3Archbishop Corrigan and\n\tCardinal Gibbons Countenance a Theological Fraud\u00f3A Japanese Story\u00f3The\n\tMonk and the Miraculous Cures performed by the Bones of a Donkey\n\trepresented as those of a Saint\u00f3IV.\u00f3Two Ways of accounting for Sacred\n\tBooks and Religions\u00f3V-Two Theories about Morals\u00f3Nothing Miraculous\n\tabout Morality\u00f3The Test of all Actions\u00f3VI. Search for the\n\tImpossible\u00f3Alchemy\u00f3\"Perpetual Motion\"\u00f3Astrology\u00f3Fountain of Perpetual\n\tYouth\u00f3VII. \"Great Men\" and the Superstitions in which they have\n\tBelieved\u00f3VIII. Follies and Imbecilities of Great Men\u00f3We do not know\n\twhat they Thought, only what they Said\u00f3Names of Great Unbelievers\u00f3Most\n\tMen Controlled by their Surroundings\u00f3IX. Living for God in Switzerland,\n\tScotland, New England\u00f3In the Dark Ages\u00f3Let us Live for Man\u00f3X. The\n\tNarrow Road of Superstition\u00f3The Wide and Ample Way\u00f3Let us Squeeze the\n\tOrange Dry\u00f3This Was, This Is, This Shall Be.\n\n\tABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.\n\n\t(1894.)\n\tThe Truth about the Bible Ought to be Told\u00f3I. The Origin of the\n\tBible\u00f3Establishment of the Mosaic Code\u00f3Moses not the Author of the\n\tPentateuch\u00f3Some Old Testament Books of Unknown Origin\u00f3II. Is the Old\n\tTestament Inspired?\u00f3What an Inspired Book Ought to Be\u00f3What the Bible\n\tIs\u00f3Admission of Orthodox Christians that it is not Inspired as to\n\tScience\u00f3The Enemy of Art\u00f3III. The Ten Commandments\u00f3Omissions and\n\tRedundancies\u00f3The Story of Achan\u00f3The Story of Elisha\u00f3The Story of\n\tDaniel\u00f3The Story of Joseph\u00f3IV. What is it all Worth?\u00f3Not True, and\n\tContradictory\u00f3Its Myths Older than the Pentateuch\u00f3Other Accounts\n\tof the Creation, the Fall, etc.\u00f3Books of the Old Testament Named\n\tand Characterized\u00f3V. Was Jehovah a God of Love?\u00f3VI. Jehovah's\n\tAdministration\u00f3VII. The New Testament\u00f3Many Other Gospels besides\n\tour Four\u00f3Disagreements\u00f3Belief in Devils\u00f3Raising of the Dead\u00f3Other\n\tMiracles\u00f3Would a real Miracle-worker have been Crucified?\u00f3VIII.\n\tThe Philosophy of Christ\u00f3Love of\n\tEnemies\u00f3Improvidence\u00f3Self-Mutilation\u00f3The Earth as a\n\tFootstool\u00f3Justice\u00f3A Bringer of War\u00f3Division of Families\u00f3IX. Is Christ\n\tour Example?\u00f3X. Why should we place Christ at the Top and Summit of the\n\tHuman Race?\u00f3How did he surpass Other Teachers?\u00f3What he left Unsaid,\n\tand Why\u00f3Inspiration\u00f3Rejected Books of the New Testament\u00f3The Bible and\n\tthe Crimes it has Caused.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME IV.--LECTURES\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.\n\nWHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC.\n\nTHE TRUTH.\n\nHOW TO REFORM MANKIND.\n\nA THANKSGIVING SERMON.\n\nA LAY SERMON.\n\nTHE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH.\n\nSUPERSTITION.\n\nTHE DEVIL.\n\nPROGRESS.\n\nWHAT IS RELIGION?\n\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.\n\n\t WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC.\n\n\t(1896.)\n\tI. Influence of Birth in determining Religious Belief\u00f3Scotch, Irish,\n\tEnglish, and Americans Inherit their Faith\u00f3Religions of Nations\n\tnot Suddenly Changed\u00f3People who Knew\u00f3What they were Certain\n\tAbout\u00f3Revivals\u00f3Character of Sermons Preached\u00f3Effect of Conversion\u00f3A\n\tVermont Farmer for whom Perdition had no Terrors\u00f3The Man and his\n\tDog\u00f3Backsliding and Re-birth\u00f3Ministers who were Sincere\u00f3A Free Will\n\tBaptist on the Rich Man and Lazarus\u00f3II. The Orthodox God\u00f3The\n\tTwo Dispensations\u00f3The Infinite Horror\u00f3III. Religious Books\u00f3The\n\tCommentators\u00f3Paley's Watch Argument\u00f3Milton, Young, and Pollok\u00f3IV.\n\tStudying Astronomy\u00f3Geology\u00f3Denial and Evasion by the Clergy\u00f3V. The\n\tPoems of Robert Burns\u00f3Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Shakespeare\u00f3VI.\n\tVolney, Gibbon, and Thomas Paine\u00f3Voltaire's Services to Liberty\u00f3Pagans\n\tCompared with Patriarchs\u00f3VII. Other Gods and Other Religions\u00f3Dogmas,\n\tMyths, and Symbols of Christianity Older than our Era\u00f3VIII. The Men\n\tof Science, Humboldt, Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel\u00f3IX. Matter and\n\tForce Indestructible and Uncreatable\u00f3The Theory of Design\u00f3X. God an\n\tImpossible Being\u00f3The Panorama of the Past\u00f3XI. Free from Sanctified\n\tMistakes and Holy Lies.\n\n\tTHE TRUTH.\n\n\t(1897.)\n\tI. The Martyrdom of Man\u00f3How is Truth to be Found\u00f3Every Man should be\n\tMentally Honest\u00f3He should be Intellectually Hospitable\u00f3Geologists,\n\tChemists, Mechanics, and Professional Men are Seeking for the Truth\u00f3II.\n\tThose who say that Slavery is Better than Liberty\u00f3Promises are not\n\tEvidence\u00f3Horace Greeley and the Cold Stove\u00f3III. \"The Science of\n\tTheology\" the only Dishonest Science\u00f3Moses and Brigham Young\u00f3Minds\n\tPoisoned and Paralyzed in Youth\u00f3Sunday Schools and Theological\n\tSeminaries\u00f3Orthodox Slanderers of Scientists\u00f3Religion has nothing\n\tto do with Charity\u00f3Hospitals Built in Self-Defence\u00f3What Good has the\n\tChurch Accomplished?\u00f3Of what use are the Orthodox Ministers, and\n\tWhat are they doing for the Good of Mankind\u00f3The Harm they are\n\tDoing\u00f3Delusions they Teach\u00f3Truths they Should Tell about the\n\tBible\u00f3Conclusions\u00f3Our Christs and our Miracles.\n\n\tHOW TO REFORM MANKIND.\n\n\t(1896.)\n\tI. \"There is no Darkness but Ignorance\"\u00f3False Notions Concerning\n\tAll Departments of Life\u00f3Changed Ideas about Science, Government and\n\tMorals\u00f3II. How can we Reform the World?\u00f3Intellectual Light the First\n\tNecessity\u00f3Avoid Waste of Wealth in War\u00f3III. Another Waste\u00f3Vast Amount\n\tof Money Spent on the Church\u00f3IV. Plow can we Lessen Crime?\u00f3Frightful\n\tLaws for the Punishment of Minor Crimes\u00f3A Penitentiary should be a\n\tSchool\u00f3Professional Criminals should not be Allowed to Populate the\n\tEarth\u00f3V. Homes for All-Make a Nation of Householders\u00f3Marriage\n\tand Divorce-VI. The Labor Question\u00f3Employers cannot Govern\n\tPrices\u00f3Railroads should Pay Pensions\u00f3What has been Accomplished\n\tfor the Improvement of the Condition of Labor\u00f3VII. Educate the\n\tChildren\u00f3Useless Knowledge\u00f3Liberty cannot be Sacrificed for the Sake\n\tof Anything\u00f3False worship of Wealth\u00f3VIII. We must Work and Wait.\n\n\tA THANKSGIVING SERMON.\n\n\t(1897.)\n\tI. Our fathers Ages Ago\u00f3From Savagery to Civilization\u00f3For the\n\tBlessings we enjoy, Whom should we Thank?\u00f3What Good has the Church\n\tDone?-Did Christ add to the Sum of Useful Knowledge\u00f3The Saints\u00f3What\n\thave the Councils and Synods Done?\u00f3What they Gave us, and What they\n\tdid Not\u00f3Shall we Thank them for the Hell Here and for the Hell of\n\tthe Future?\u00f3II. What Does God Do?\u00f3The Infinite Juggler and his\n\tPuppets\u00f3What the Puppets have Done\u00f3Shall we Thank these\n\tGods?\u00f3Shall we Thank Nature?\u00f3III. Men who deserve our Thanks\u00f3The\n\tInfidels, Philanthropists and Scientists\u00f3The Discoverers and\n\tInventors\u00f3Magellan\u00f3Copernicus\u00f3Bruno\u00f3Galileo\u00f3Kepler, Herschel,\n\tNewton, and LaPlace\u00f3Lyell\u00f3What the Worldly have Done\u00f3Origin and\n\tVicissitudes of the Bible\u00f3The Septuagint\u00f3Investigating the Phenomena\n\tof Nature\u00f3IV. We thank the Good Men and Good Women of the Past\u00f3The\n\tPoets, Dramatists, and Artists\u00f3The Statesmen\u00f3Paine, Jefferson,\n\tEricsson, Lincoln. Grant\u00f3Voltaire, Humboldt, Darwin.\n\n\tA LAY SERMON.\n\n\t(1886.)\n\tPrayer of King Lear\u00f3When Honesty wears a Rag and Rascality a Robe-The\n\tNonsense of \"Free Moral Agency \"\u00f3Doing Right is not Self-denial-Wealth\n\toften a Gilded Hell\u00f3The Log House\u00f3Insanity of Getting\n\tMore\u00f3Great Wealth the Mother of Crime\u00f3Separation of Rich and\n\tPoor\u00f3Emulation\u00f3Invention of Machines to Save Labor\u00f3Production and\n\tDestitution\u00f3The Remedy a Division of the Land\u00f3Evils of Tenement\n\tHouses\u00f3Ownership and Use\u00f3The Great Weapon is the Ballot\u00f3Sewing\n\tWomen\u00f3Strikes and Boycotts of No Avail\u00f3Anarchy, Communism, and\n\tSocialism\u00f3The Children of the Rich a Punishment for Wealth\u00f3Workingmen\n\tNot a Danger\u00f3The Criminals a Necessary Product\u00f3Society's Right\n\tto Punish\u00f3The Efficacy of Kindness\u00f3Labor is Honorable\u00f3Mental\n\tIndependence.\n\n\tTHE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH.\n\n\t(1895.)\n\tI. The Old Testament\u00f3Story of the Creation\u00f3Age of the Earth and\n\tof Man\u00f3Astronomical Calculations of the Egyptians\u00f3The Flood\u00f3The\n\tFirmament a Fiction\u00f3Israelites who went into Egypt\u00f3Battles of the\n\tJews\u00f3Area of Palestine\u00f3Gold Collected by David for the Temple\u00f3II. The\n\tNew Testament\u00f3Discrepancies about the Birth of Christ\u00f3Herod and\n\tthe Wise Men\u00f3The Murder of the Babes of Bethlehem\u00f3When was Christ\n\tborn\u00f3Cyrenius and the Census of the World\u00f3Genealogy of Christ\n\taccording to Matthew and Luke\u00f3The Slaying of Zacharias\u00f3Appearance of\n\tthe Saints at the Crucifixion\u00f3The Death of Judas Iscariot\u00f3Did\n\tChrist wish to be Convicted?\u00f3III. Jehovah\u00f3IV. The Trinity\u00f3The\n\tIncarnation\u00f3Was Christ God?\u00f3The Trinity Expounded\u00f3\"Let us pray\"\u00f3V.\n\tThe Theological Christ\u00f3Sayings of a Contradictory Character\u00f3Christ a\n\tDevout Jew\u00f3An ascetic\u00f3His Philosophy\u00f3The Ascension\u00f3The Best that Can\n\tbe Said about Christ\u00f3The Part that is beautiful and Glorious\u00f3The Other\n\tSide\u00f3VI. The Scheme of Redemption\u00f3VII. Belief\u00f3Eternal Pain\u00f3No Hope\n\tin Hell, Pity in Heaven, or Mercy in the Heart of God\u00f3VIII. Conclusion.\n\n\tSUPERSTITION.\n\n\t(1898.)\n\tI. What is Superstition?\u00f3Popular Beliefs about the Significance\n\tof Signs, Lucky and Unlucky Numbers, Days, Accidents, Jewels,\n\tetc.\u00f3Eclipses, Earthquakes, and Cyclones as Omens\u00f3Signs and Wonders\n\tof the Heavens\u00f3Efficacy of Bones and Rags of Saints\u00f3Diseases and\n\tDevils\u00f3II. Witchcraft\u00f3Necromancers\u00f3What is a Miracle?\u00f3The Uniformity\n\tof Nature\u00f3III. Belief in the Existence of Good Spirits or Angels\u00f3God\n\tand the Devil\u00f3When Everything was done by the Supernatural\u00f3IV. All\n\tthese Beliefs now Rejected by Men of Intelligence\u00f3The Devil's Success\n\tMade the Coming of Christ a Necessity\u00f3\"Thou shalt not Suffer a Witch\n\tto Live\"\u00f3Some Biblical Angels\u00f3Vanished Visions\u00f3V. Where are Heaven\n\tand Hell?\u00f3Prayers Never Answered\u00f3The Doctrine of Design\u00f3Why Worship\n\tour Ignorance?\u00f3Would God Lead us into Temptation?\u00f3President McKinley's\n\tThanks giving for the Santiago Victory\u00f3VI. What Harm Does Superstition\n\tDo?\u00f3The Heart Hardens and the Brain Softens\u00f3What Superstition has Done\n\tand Taught\u00f3Fate of Spain\u00f3Of Portugal, Austria, Germany\u00f3VII. Inspired\n\tBooks\u00f3Mysteries added to by the Explanations of Theologians\u00f3The\n\tInspired Bible the Greatest Curse of Christendom\u00f3VIII. Modifications\n\tof Jehovah\u00f3Changing the Bible\u00f3IX. Centuries of Darkness\u00f3The Church\n\tTriumphant\u00f3When Men began to Think\u00f3X. Possibly these Superstitions are\n\tTrue, but We have no Evidence\u00f3We Believe in the Natural\u00f3Science is the\n\tReal Redeemer.\n\n\tTHE DEVIL.\n\n\t(1899.)\n\tI. If the Devil should Die, would God Make Another?\u00f3How was the Idea\n\tof a Devil Produced\u00f3Other Devils than Ours\u00f3Natural Origin of these\n\tMonsters\u00f3II. The Atlas of Christianity is The Devil\u00f3The Devil of the\n\tOld Testament\u00f3The Serpent in Eden\u00f3\"Personifications\" of Evil\u00f3Satan\n\tand Job\u00f3Satan and David\u00f3III. Take the Devil from the Drama\n\tof Christianity and the Plot is Gone\u00f3Jesus Tempted by the Evil\n\tOne\u00f3Demoniac Possession\u00f3Mary Magdalene\u00f3Satan and Judas\u00f3Incubi\n\tand Succubi\u00f3The Apostles believed in Miracles and Magic\u00f3The Pool of\n\tBethesda\u00f3IV. The Evidence of the Church\u00f3The Devil was forced to\n\tFather the Failures of God\u00f3Belief of the Fathers of the Church\n\tin Devils\u00f3Exorcism at the Baptism of an Infant in the Sixteenth\n\tCentury\u00f3Belief in Devils made the Universe a Madhouse presided over by\n\tan Insane God\u00f3V. Personifications of the Devil\u00f3The Orthodox Ostrich\n\tThrusts his Head into the Sand\u00f3If Devils are Personifications so are\n\tall the Other Characters of the Bible\u00f3VI. Some Queries about the\n\tDevil, his Place of Residence, his Manner of Living, and his Object in\n\tLife\u00f3Interrogatories to the Clergy\u00f3VII. The Man of Straw the Master\n\tof the Orthodox Ministers\u00f3His recent Accomplishments\u00f3VIII. Keep the\n\tDevils out of Children\u00f3IX. Conclusion.\u00f3Declaration of the Free.\n\n\tPROGRESS.\n\n\t(1860-64.)\n\tThe Prosperity of the World depends upon its Workers\u00f3Veneration for the\n\tAncient\u00f3Credulity and Faith of the Middle Ages\u00f3Penalty for Reading\n\tthe Scripture in the Mother Tongue\u00f3Unjust, Bloody, and Cruel Laws\u00f3The\n\tReformers too were Persecutors\u00f3Bigotry of Luther and Knox\u00f3Persecution\n\tof Castalio\u00f3Montaigne against Torture in France\u00f3\"Witchcraft\" (chapter\n\ton)\u00f3Confessed Wizards\u00f3A Case before Sir Matthew Hale\u00f3Belief\n\tin Lycanthropy\u00f3Animals Tried and Executed\u00f3Animals received\n\tas Witnesses\u00f3The Corsned or Morsel of Execution\u00f3Kepler an\n\tAstrologer\u00f3Luther's Encounter with the Devil\u00f3Mathematician\n\tStoefflers, Astronomical Prediction of a Flood\u00f3Histories Filled with\n\tFalsehood\u00f3Legend about the Daughter of Pharaoh invading Scotland and\n\tgiving the Country her name\u00f3A Story about Mohammed\u00f3A History of the\n\tBritains written by Archdeacons\u00f3Ingenuous Remark of Eusebius\u00f3Progress\n\tin the Mechanic Arts\u00f3England at the beginning of the Eighteenth\n\tCentury\u00f3Barbarous Punishments\u00f3Queen Elizabeth's Order Concerning\n\tClergymen and Servant Girls\u00f3Inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and\n\tOthers\u00f3Solomon's Deprivations\u00f3Language (chapter on)\u00f3Belief that the\n\tHebrew was of Paradise\u00f3Geography (chapter on)\u00f3The Works of Cosmas\u00f3Printing\n\tInvented\u00f3Church's Opposition to Books\u00f3The Inquisition\u00f3The\n\tReformation\u00f3\"Slavery\" (chapter on)\u00f3Voltaire's Remark on Slavery as\n\ta Contract\u00f3White Slaves in Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, and\n\tFrance\u00f3Free minds make Free Bodies\u00f3Causes of the Abolition of White\n\tSlavery in Europe\u00f3The French Revolution\u00f3The African Slave Trade,\n\tits Beginning and End\u00f3Liberty Triumphed (chapter head)\u00f3Abolition of\n\tChattel Slavery\u00f3Conclusion.\n\n\tWHAT IS RELIGION?\n\n\t(1899.)\n\tI. Belief in God and Sacrifice\u00f3Did an Infinite God Create the Children\n\tof Men and is he the Governor of the Universe?\u00f3II. If this God Exists,\n\thow do we Know he is Good?\u00f3Should both the Inferior and the Superior\n\tthank God for their Condition?\u00f3III. The Power that Works for\n\tRighteousness\u00f3What is this Power?\u00f3The Accumulated Experience of the\n\tWorld is a Power Working for Good?\u00f3Love the Commencement of the Higher\n\tVirtues\u00f3IV. What has our Religion Done?\u00f3Would Christians have been\n\tWorse had they Adopted another Faith?\u00f3V. How Can Mankind be Reformed\n\tWithout Religion?\u00f3VI. The Four Corner-stones of my Theory\u00f3VII. Matter\n\tand Force Eternal\u00f3Links in the Chain of Evolution\u00f3VIII. Reform\u00f3The\n\tGutter as a Nursery\u00f3Can we Prevent the Unfit from Filling the World\n\twith their Children?\u00f3Science must make Woman the Owner and Mistress\n\tof Herself\u00f3Morality Born of Intelligence\u00f3IX. Real Religion and Real\n\tWorship.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME V.--DISCUSSIONS\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.\n\nPREFACE.\n\nINGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.\n\nFIRST INTERVIEW.\n\nSECOND INTERVIEW.\n\nTHIRD INTERVIEW.\n\nFOURTH INTERVIEW.\n\nFIFTH INTERVIEW,\n\nSIXTH INTERVIEW.\n\nTHE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.\n\nA VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.\n\nCONCLUSION.\n\nTHE OBSERVER'S SECOND ATTACK\n\nINGERSOLL'S SECOND REPLY.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS OF VOLUME V.\n\n\t INGERSOLL'S SIX INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.\n\n\t(1882.)\n\tPreface\u00f3First Interview: Great Men as Witnesses\n\tto the Truth of the Gospel\u00f3No man should quote\n\tthe Words of Another unless he is willing to\n\tAccept all the Opinions of that Man\u00f3Reasons of\n\tmore Weight than Reputations\u00f3Would a general\n\tAcceptance of Unbelief fill the Penitentiaries?\u00f3\n\tMy Creed\u00f3Most Criminals Orthodox\u00f3Relig-ion and\n\tMorality not Necessarily Associates\u00f3On the\n\tCreation of the Universe out of Omnipotence\u00f3Mr.\n\tTalmage's Theory about the Pro-duction of Light\n\tprior to the Creation of the Sun\u00f3The Deluge and\n\tthe Ark\u00f3Mr. Talmage's tendency to Belittle the\n\tBible Miracles\u00f3His Chemical, Geological, and\n\tAgricultural Views\u00f3His Disregard of Good Manners-\n\t-Second Interview: An Insulting Text\u00f3God's Design\n\tin Creating Guiteau to be the Assassin of\n\tGarfield\u00f3Mr. Talmage brings the Charge of\n\tBlasphemy\u00f3Some Real Blasphemers\u00f3The Tabernacle\n\tPastor tells the exact Opposite of the Truth about\n\tCol. Ingersoll's Attitude toward the Circulation\n\tof Immoral Books\u00f3\"Assassinating\" God\u00f3Mr.\n\tTalmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern\n\tTimes Mentioned in the Bible\u00f3The Reverend\n\tGentleman corrects the Translators of the Bible in\n\tthe Matter of the Rib Story\u00f3Denies that Polygamy\n\tis permitted by the Old Testament\u00f3His De-fence of\n\tQueen Victoria and Violation of the Grave of\n\tGeorge Eliot\u00f3Exhibits a Christian Spirit\u00f3Third\n\tInterview: Mr. Talmage's Partiality in the\n\tBestowal of his Love\u00f3Denies the Right of Laymen\n\tto Examine the Scriptures\u00f3Thinks the Infidels\n\tVictims of Bibliophobia \u00f3He explains the Stopping\n\tof the Sun and Moon at the Command of Joshua\u00f3\n\tInstances a Dark Day in the Early Part of the\n\tCentury\u00f3Charges that Holy Things are Made Light\n\tof\u00f3Reaffirms his Confidence in the Whale and\n\tJonah Story\u00f3The Commandment which Forbids the\n\tmaking of Graven Images\u00f3Affirmation that the\n\tBible is the Friend of Woman\u00f3The Present\n\tCondition of Woman\u00f3Fourth Interview: Colonel\n\tIngersoll Compared by Mr. Talmage tojehoiakim, who\n\tConsigned Writings of Jeremiah to the Flames\u00f3An\n\tIntimation that Infidels wish to have all copies\n\tof the Bible Destroyed by Fire\u00f3Laughter\n\tDeprecated\u00f3Col. Ingersoll Accused of Denouncing\n\this Father\u00f3Mr. Talmage holds that a Man may be\n\tPerfectly Happy in Heaven with His Mother in Hell-\n\t-Challenges the Infidel to Read a Chapter from St.\n\tJohn\u00f3On the \"Chief Solace of the World\"\u00f3Dis-\n\tcovers an Attempt is being made to Put Out the\n\tLight-houses of the Farther Shore\u00f3Affirms our\n\tDebt to Christianity for Schools, Hospitals,\n\tetc.\u00f3Denies that Infidels have ever Done any\n\tGood\u00f3\n\tFifth Interview: Inquiries if Men gather Grapes of\n\tThorns, or Figs of Thistles, and is Answered in\n\tthe Negative\u00f3Resents the Charge that the Bible is\n\ta Cruel Book\u00f3Demands to Know where the Cruelty of\n\tthe Bible Crops out in the Lives of Christians\u00f3\n\tCol. Ingersoll Accused of saying that the Bible\n\tis a Collection of Polluted Writings\u00f3Mr. Talmage\n\tAsserts the Orchestral Harmony of the Scriptures\n\tfrom Genesis to Revelation, and Repudiates the\n\tTheory of Contradictions\u00f3His View of Mankind\n\tIndicated in Quotations from his Confession of\n\tFaith\u00f3He Insists that the Bible is Scientific\u00f3\n\tTraces the New Testament to its Source with St.\n\tJohn\u00f3Pledges his Word that no Man ever Died for a\n\tLie Cheerfully and Triumphantly\u00f3As to Prophecies\n\tand Predictions\u00f3Alleged \"Prophetic\" Fate of the\n\tJewish People\u00f3Sixth Interview: Dr. Talmage takes\n\tthe Ground that the Unrivalled Circulation of the\n\tBible Proves that it is Inspired\u00f3Forgets' that a\n\tScientific Fact does not depend on the Vote of\n\tNumbers\u00f3Names some Christian Millions\u00f3His\n\tArguments Characterized as the Poor-est, Weakest,\n\tand Best Possible in Support of the Doctrine of\n\tInspira-tion\u00f3Will God, in Judging a Man, take\n\tinto Consideration the Cir-cumstances of that\n\tMan's Life?\u00f3Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believ-\n\ting that the Bible is inspired.\n\n\tTHE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.\n\n\tThe Pith and Marrow of what Mr. Talmage has been\n\tPleased to Say, set forth in the form of a Shorter\n\tCatechism.\n\n\tA VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.\n\n\n\t(1877.)\n\tLetter to the New York Observer\u00f3An Offer to Pay\n\tOne Thousand Dollars in Gold for Proof that Thomas\n\tPaine or Voltaire Died in Terror because of any\n\tReligious Opinions Either had Expressed\u00f3\n\tProposition to Create a Tribunal to Hear the\n\tEvidence\u00f3The Ob-server, after having Called upon\n\tCol. Ingersoll to Deposit the Money, and\n\tCharacterized his Talk as \"Infidel 'Buncombe,'\"\n\tDenies its Own Words, but attempts to Prove them\u00f3\n\tIts Memory Refreshed by Col. Ingersoll and the\n\tSlander Refuted\u00f3Proof that Paine did Not Recant -\n\t-Testimony of Thomas Nixon, Daniel Pelton, Mr.\n\tJarvis, B. F. Has-kin, Dr. Manley, Amasa\n\tWoodsworth, Gilbert Vale, Philip Graves, M. D.,\n\tWillet Hicks, A. C. Hankinson, John Hogeboom, W.\n\tJ. Hilton, Tames Cheetham, Revs. Milledollar and\n\tCunningham, Mrs. Hedden, Andrew A. Dean, William\n\tCarver,\u00f3The Statements of Mary Roscoe and Mary\n\tHindsdale Examined\u00f3William Cobbett's Account of a\n\tCall upon Mary Hinsdale\u00f3Did Thomas Paine live the\n\tLife of a Drunken Beast, and did he Die a Drunken,\n\tCowardly, and Beastly Death?\u00f3Grant Thorbum's\n\tCharges Examined\u00f3Statement of the Rev. J. D.\n\tWickham, D.D., shown to be Utterly False\u00f3False\n\tWitness of the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D.\u00f3W. H.\n\tLadd, James Cheetham, and Mary Hinsdale\u00f3Paine's\n\tNote to Cheetham\u00f3Mr-Staple, Mr. Purdy, Col. John\n\tFellows, James Wilburn, Walter Morton, Clio\n\tRickman, Judge Herttell, H. Margary, Elihu Palmer,\n\tMr.\n\tXV\n\tLovett, all these Testified that Paine was a\n\tTemperate Man\u00f3Washington's Letter to Paine\u00f3\n\tThomas Jefferson's\u00f3Adams and Washing-ton on\n\t\"Common Sense\"\u00f3-James Monroe's Tribute\u00f3\n\tQuotations from Paine\u00f3Paine's Estate and His\n\tWill\u00f3The Observer's Second Attack (p. 492):\n\tStatements of Elkana Watson, William Carver, Rev.\n\tE. F. Hatfield, D.D., James Cheetham, Dr. J. W.\n\tFrancis, Dr. Manley, Bishop Fenwick\u00f3Ingersoll's\n\tSecond Reply (p. 516): Testimony Garbled by the\n\tEditor of the Observer\u00f3Mary Roscoeand Mary Hins-\n\tdale the Same Person\u00f3Her Reputation for Veracity-\n\t-Letter from Rev. A. W. Cornell\u00f3Grant Thorburn\n\tExposed by James Parton\u00f3The Observer's Admission\n\tthat Paine did not Recant\u00f3Affidavit of\n\tWilliam B. Barnes.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME VI.--DISCUSSIONS\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY JEREMIAH S. BLACK.\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.\n\nFAITH OR AGNOSTICISM.\n\nTHE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.\n\nA REPLY TO THE REV. HENRY M. FIELD, D.D.\n\nA LAST WORD TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL\n\nLETTER TO DR. FIELD.\n\nCONTROVERSY ON CHRISTIANTY\n\nCOL. INGERSOLL TO MR. GLADSTONE.\n\nROME OR REASON.\n\nTHE CHURCH ITS OWN WITNESS, By Cardinal Manning.\n\nROME OR REASON: A REPLY TO CARDINAL MANNING.\n\nIS DIVORCE WRONG?\n\nDIVORCE.\n\nIS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.\n\n\t THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER\n\n\t(1881.)\n\tI. Col. Ingersoll's Opening Paper\u00f3Statement of the Fundamental Truths\n\tof Christianity\u00f3Reasons for Thinking that Portions of the Old Testament\n\tare the Product of a Barbarous People\u00f3Passages upholding\n\tSlavery, Polygamy, War, and Religious Persecution not Evidences of\n\tInspiration\u00f3If the Words are not Inspired, What Is?\u00f3Commands of\n\tJehovah compared with the Precepts of Pagans and Stoics\u00f3Epictetus,\n\tCicero, Zeno, Seneca, Brahma\u00f3II. The New Testament\u00f3Why were\n\tFour Gospels Necessary?\u00f3Salvation by Belief\u00f3The Doctrine of\n\tthe Atonement\u00f3The Jewish System Culminating in the Sacrifice of\n\tChrist\u00f3Except for the Crucifixion of her Son, the Virgin Mary would be\n\tamong the Lost\u00f3What Christ must have Known would Follow the Acceptance\n\tof His Teachings\u00f3The Wars of Sects, the Inquisition, the Fields of\n\tDeath\u00f3Why did he not Forbid it All?\u00f3The Little that he Revealed\u00f3The\n\tDogma of Eternal Punishment\u00f3Upon Love's Breast the Church has Placed\n\tthe Eternal Asp\u00f3III. The \"Inspired\" Writers\u00f3Why did not God furnish\n\tEvery Nation with a Bible?\n\tII. Judge Black's Reply\u00f3His Duty that of a Policeman\u00f3The Church not\n\tin Danger\u00f3Classes who Break out into Articulate Blasphemy\u00f3The\n\tSciolist\u00f3Personal Remarks about Col. Ingersoll\u00f3Chief-Justice Gibson of\n\tPennsylvania Quoted\u00f3We have no Jurisdiction or Capacity to Rejudge the\n\tJustice of God\u00f3The Moral Code of the Bible\u00f3Civil Government of the\n\tJews\u00f3No Standard of Justice without Belief in a God\u00f3Punishments for\n\tBlasphemy and Idolatry Defended\u00f3Wars of Conquest\u00f3Allusion to Col.\n\tIngersoll's War Record\u00f3Slavery among the Jews\u00f3Polygamy Discouraged by\n\tthe Mosaic Constitution\u00f3Jesus of Nazareth and the Establishment of\n\this Religion\u00f3Acceptance of Christianity and Adjudication upon its\n\tDivinity\u00f3The Evangelists and their Depositions\u00f3The Fundamental Truths\n\tof Christianity\u00f3Persecution and Triumph of the Church\u00f3Ingersoll's\n\tPropositions Compressed and the Compressions Answered\u00f3Salvation as a\n\tReward of Belief\u00f3Punishment of Unbelief\u00f3The Second Birth, Atonement,\n\tRedemption, Non-resistance, Excessive Punishment of Sinners, Christ and\n\tPersecution, Christianity and Freedom of Thought, Sufficiency of the\n\tGospel, Miracles, Moral Effect of Christianity.\n\tIII. Col. Ingersoll's Rejoinder\u00f3How this Discussion Came About\u00f3Natural\n\tLaw\u00f3The Design Argument\u00f3The Right to Rejudge the Justice even of a\n\tGod\u00f3Violation of the Commandments by Jehovah\u00f3Religious Intolerance\n\tof the Old Testament\u00f3Judge Black's Justification of Wars of\n\tExtermination\u00f3His Defence of Slavery\u00f3Polygamy not \"Discouraged\" by the\n\tOld Testament\u00f3Position of Woman under the Jewish System and under that\n\tof the Ancients\u00f3a \"Policeman's\" View of God\u00f3Slavery under Jehovah\n\tand in Egypt\u00f3The Admission that Jehovah gave no Commandment against\n\tPolygamy\u00f3The Learned and Wise Crawl back in Cribs\u00f3Alleged Harmony of\n\tOld and New Testaments\u00f3On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity\n\tProves the Supernatural Origin of the Gospel\u00f3The Argument applicable to\n\tAll Religions\u00f3Communications from Angels ana Gods\u00f3Authenticity of\n\tthe Statements of the Evangelists\u00f3Three Important Manuscripts\u00f3Rise\n\tof Mormonism\u00f3Ascension of Christ\u00f3The Great Public Events alleged\n\tas Fundamental Truths of Christianity\u00f3Judge Black's System\n\tof \"Compression\"\u00f3\"A Metaphysical Question\"\u00f3Right and\n\tWrong\u00f3Justice\u00f3Christianity and Freedom of Thought\u00f3Heaven and\n\tHell\u00f3Production of God and the Devil\u00f3Inspiration of the Bible\n\tdependent on the Credulity of the Reader\u00f3Doubt of Miracles\u00f3The\n\tWorld before Christ's Advent\u00f3Respect for the Man Christ\u00f3The Dark\n\tAges\u00f3Institutions of Mercy\u00f3Civil Law.\n\n\tTHE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.\n\n\t(1887.)\n\tAn Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll\u00f3Superstitions\u00f3Basis of\n\tReligion\u00f3Napoleon's Question about the Stars\u00f3The Idea of God\u00f3Crushing\n\tout Hope\u00f3Atonement, Regeneration, and Future Retribution\u00f3Socrates and\n\tJesus\u00f3The Language of Col. Ingersoll characterized as too Sweeping\u00f3The\n\tSabbath\u00f3But a Step from Sneering at Religion to Sneering at Morality.\n\tA Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D.\u00f3Honest Differences of\n\tOpinion\u00f3Charles Darwin\u00f3Dr. Field's Distinction between Superstition\n\tand Religion\u00f3The Presbyterian God an Infinite Torquemada\u00f3Napoleon's\n\tSensitiveness to the Divine Influence\u00f3The Preference of Agassiz\u00f3The\n\tMysterious as an Explanation\u00f3The Certainty that God is not what he\n\tis Thought to Be\u00f3Self-preservation the Fibre of Society\u00f3Did\n\tthe Assassination of Lincoln Illustrate the Justice of God's\n\tJudgments?\u00f3Immortality\u00f3Hope and the Presbyterian Creed\u00f3To a Mother\n\tat the Grave of Her Son\u00f3Theological Teaching of Forgiveness\u00f3On\n\tEternal Retribution\u00f3Jesus and Mohammed\u00f3Attacking the Religion of\n\tOthers\u00f3Ananias and Sapphira\u00f3The Pilgrims and Freedom to Worship\u00f3The\n\tOrthodox Sabbath\u00f3Natural Restraints on Conduct\u00f3Religion and\n\tMorality\u00f3The Efficacy of Prayer\u00f3Respect for Belief of Father and\n\tMother\u00f3The \"Power behind Nature\"\u00f3Survival of the Fittest\u00f3The Saddest\n\tFact\u00f3\"Sober Second Thought.\"\n\tA Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll, by Dr. Field\u00f3God not a\n\tPresbyterian\u00f3Why Col. Ingersoll's Attacks on Religion are Resented\u00f3God\n\tis more Merciful than Man\u00f3Theories about the Future Life\u00f3Retribution\n\ta Necessary Part of the Divine Law\u00f3The Case of Robinson\n\tCrusoe\u00f3Irresistible Proof of Design\u00f3Col. Ingersoll's View of\n\tImmortality\u00f3An Almighty Friend.\n\tLetter to Dr. Field\u00f3The Presbyterian God\u00f3What the Presbyterians\n\tClaim\u00f3The \"Incurably Bad\"\u00f3Responsibility for not seeing Things\n\tClearly\u00f3Good Deeds should Follow even Atheists\u00f3No Credit in\n\tBelief\u00f3Design Argument that Devours Itself\u00f3Belief as a Foundation\n\tof Social Order\u00f3No Consolation in Orthodox Religion\u00f3The \"Almighty\n\tFriend\" and the Slave Mother\u00f3a Hindu Prayer\u00f3Calvinism\u00f3Christ not the\n\tSupreme Benefactor of the Race.\n\n\tCOLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY.\n\n\t(1888.)\n\tSome Remarks on his Reply to Dr. Field by the Hon. Wm. E.\n\tGladstone\u00f3External Triumph and Prosperity of the Church\u00f3A Truth Half\n\tStated\u00f3Col. Ingersoll's Tumultuous Method and lack of Reverential\n\tCalm\u00f3Jephthah's Sacrifice\u00f3Hebrews xii Expounded\u00f3The Case of\n\tAbraham\u00f3Darwinism and the Scriptures\u00f3Why God demands Sacrifices of\n\tMan\u00f3Problems admitted to be Insoluble\u00f3Relation of human Genius\n\tto Human Greatness\u00f3Shakespeare and Others\u00f3Christ and the Family\n\tRelation\u00f3Inaccuracy of Reference in the Reply\u00f3Ananias and\n\tSapphira\u00f3The Idea of Immortality\u00f3Immunity of Error in Belief from\n\tMoral Responsibility\u00f3On Dishonesty in the Formation of Opinion\u00f3A\n\tPlausibility of the Shallowest kind\u00f3The System of Thuggism\u00f3Persecution\n\tfor Opinion's Sake\u00f3Riding an Unbroken Horse.\n\tCol. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladstone\u00f3On the \"Impaired\" State of the human\n\tConstitution\u00f3Unbelief not Due to Degeneracy\u00f3Objections to the\n\tScheme of Redemption\u00f3Does Man Deserve only Punishment?\u00f3\"Reverential\n\tCalm\"\u00f3The Deity of the Ancient Jews\u00f3Jephthah and Abraham\u00f3Relation\n\tbetween Darwinism and the Inspiration of the Scriptures\u00f3Sacrifices to\n\tthe Infinite\u00f3What is Common Sense?\u00f3An Argument that will Defend every\n\tSuperstition\u00f3The Greatness of Shakespeare\u00f3The Absolute Indissolubility\n\tof Marriage\u00f3Is the Religion of Christ for this Age?\u00f3As to Ananias and\n\tSapphira\u00f3Immortality and People of Low Intellectual Development\u00f3Can\n\twe Control our Thought?\u00f3Dishonest Opinions Cannot be Formed\u00f3Some\n\tCompensations for Riding an \"Unbroken Horse.\"\n\n\tROME OR REASON.\n\n\t(1888.)\n\t\"The Church Its Own Witness,\" by Cardinal Manning\u00f3Evidence\n\tthat Christianity is of Divine Origin\u00f3The Universality of the\n\tChurch\u00f3Natural Causes not Sufficient to Account for the Catholic\n\tChurch\u00f3-The World in which Christianity Arose\u00f3Birth of Christ\u00f3From\n\tSt Peter to Leo XIII.\u00f3The First Effect of Christianity\u00f3Domestic\n\tLife's Second Visible Effect\u00f3Redemption of Woman from traditional\n\tDegradation\u00f3Change Wrought by Christianity upon the Social, Political\n\tand International Relations of the World\u00f3Proof that Christianity is of\n\tDivine Origin and Presence\u00f3St. John and the Christian Fathers\u00f3Sanctity\n\tof the Church not Affected by Human Sins.\n\tA Reply to Cardinal Manning\u00f3I. Success not a Demonstration of either\n\tDivine Origin or Supernatural Aid\u00f3Cardinal Manning's Argument\n\tMore Forcible in the Mouth of a Mohammedan\u00f3Why Churches Rise and\n\tFlourish\u00f3Mormonism\u00f3Alleged Universality of the Catholic Church\u00f3Its\n\t\"inexhaustible Fruitfulness\" in Good Things\u00f3The Inquisition and\n\tPersecution\u00f3Not Invincible\u00f3Its Sword used by Spain\u00f3Its Unity not\n\tUnbroken\u00f3The State of the World when Christianity was Established\u00f3The\n\tVicar of Christ\u00f3A Selection from Draper's \"History of the Intellectual\n\tDevelopment of Europe\"\u00f3Some infamous Popes\u00f3Part II. How the Pope\n\tSpeaks\u00f3Religions Older than Catholicism and having the Same Rites\n\tand Sacraments\u00f3Is Intellectual Stagnation a Demonstration of Divine\n\tOrigin?\u00f3Integration and Disintegration\u00f3The Condition of the World 300\n\tYears Ago\u00f3The Creed of Catholicism\u00f3The \"One true God\" with a Knowledge\n\tof whom Catholicism has \"filled the World\"\u00f3Did the Catholic Church\n\toverthrow Idolatry?\u00f3Marriage\u00f3Celibacy\u00f3Human Passions\u00f3The Cardinal's\n\tExplanation of Jehovah's abandonment of the Children of Men for\n\tfour thousand Years\u00f3Catholicism tested by Paganism\u00f3Canon Law\n\tand Convictions had Under It\u00f3Rival Popes\u00f3Importance of a Greek\n\t\"Inflection\"\u00f3The Cardinal Witnesses.\n\n\tIS DIVORCE WRONG?\n\n\t(1889.)\n\tPreface by the Editor of the North American Review\u00f3Introduction, by the\n\tRev. S. W. Dike, LL. D.\u00f3A Catholic View by Cardinal Gibbons\u00f3Divorce\n\tas Regarded by the Episcopal Church, by Bishop, Henry C. Potter\u00f3Four\n\tQuestions Answered, by Robert G. Ingersoll.\n\n\tDIVORCE.\n\n\tReply to Cardinal Gibbons\u00f3Indissolubility of Marriage a Reaction\n\tfrom Polygamy\u00f3Biblical Marriage\u00f3Polygamy Simultaneous and\n\tSuccessive\u00f3Marriage and Divorce in the Light of Experience\u00f3Reply\n\tto Bishop Potter\u00f3Reply to Mr. Gladstone\u00f3Justice Bradley\u00f3Senator\n\tDolph\u00f3The argument Continued in Colloquial Form\u00f3Dialogue between\n\tCardinal Gibbons and a Maltreated Wife\u00f3She Asks the Advice of Mr.\n\tGladstone\u00f3The Priest who Violated his Vow\u00f3Absurdity of the Divorce\n\tlaws of Some States.\n\n\tREPLY TO DR. LYMAN ABBOTT.\n\n\t(1890)\n\tDr. Abbott's Equivocations\u00f3Crimes Punishable by Death under Mosaic\n\tand English Law\u00f3Severity of Moses Accounted for by Dr. Abbott\u00f3The\n\tNecessity for the Acceptance of Christianity\u00f3Christians should be\n\tGlad to Know that the Bible is only the Work of Man and that the New\n\tTestament Life of Christ is Untrue\u00f3All the Good Commandments, Known\n\tto the World thousands of Years before Moses\u00f3Human Happiness of\n\tMore Consequence than the Truth about God\u00f3The Appeal to Great\n\tNames\u00f3Gladstone not the Greatest Statesman\u00f3What the Agnostic Says\u00f3The\n\tMagnificent Mistakes of Genesis\u00f3The Story of Joseph\u00f3Abraham as a\n\t\"self-Exile for Conscience's Sake.\"\n\n\tREPLY TO ARCHDEACON FARRAR.\n\n\t(1890.)\n\tRevelation as an Appeal to Man's \"Spirit\"\u00f3What is Spirit and what is\n\t\"Spiritual Intuition\"?\u00f3The Archdeacon in Conflict with St. Paul\u00f3II.\n\tThe Obligation to Believe without Evidence\u00f3III. Ignorant Credulity\u00f3IV.\n\tA Definition of Orthodoxy\u00f3V. Fear not necessarily Cowardice\u00f3Prejudice\n\tis Honest\u00f3The Ola has the Advantage in an Argument\u00f3St.\n\tAugustine\u00f3Jerome\u00f3the Appeal to Charlemagne\u00f3Roger Bacon\u00f3Lord Bacon\n\ta Defender of the Copernican System\u00f3The Difficulty of finding out\n\twhat Great Men Believed\u00f3Names Irrelevantly Cited\u00f3Bancroft on the\n\tHessians\u00f3Original Manuscripts of the Bible\u00f3VI. An Infinite Personality\n\ta Contradiction in Terms\u00f3VII. A Beginningless Being\u00f3VIII. The\n\tCruelties of Nature not to be Harmonized with the Goodness of a\n\tDeity\u00f3Sayings from the Indian\u00f3Origen, St. Augustine, Dante, Aquinas.\n\n\tIS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?\n\n\t(1890.)\n\tA Reply to the Dean of St. Paul\u00f3Growing Confidence in the Power of\n\tKindness\u00f3Crimes against Soldiers and Sailors\u00f3Misfortunes Punished\n\tas Crimes\u00f3The Dean's Voice Raised in Favor of the Brutalities of the\n\tPast\u00f3Beating of Children\u00f3Of Wives\u00f3Dictum of Solomon.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME VII.--DISCUSSIONS\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.\n\nMY REVIEWERS REVIEWED.\n\nMY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS.\n\nTO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.\n\nTHE BROOKLYN DIVINES.\n\nTHE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.\n\nA CHRISTMAS SERMON.\n\nSUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE.\n\nIS SUICIDE A SIN?\n\nIS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?\n\nA REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.\n\nAN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.\n\nA REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.\n\nA REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.\n\nA REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.\n\nA REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.\n\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.\n\n\t MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED.\n\n\t(1877.)\n\tAnswer to San Francisco Clergymen\u00f3Definition of Liberty, Physical\n\tand Mental\u00f3The Right to Compel Belief\u00f3Woman the Equal of Man\u00f3The\n\tGhosts\u00f3Immortality\u00f3Slavery\u00f3Witchcraft\u00f3Aristocracy of the\n\tAir\u00f3Unfairness of Clerical Critics\u00f3Force and Matter\u00f3Doctrine of\n\tNegation\u00f3Confident Deaths of Murderers\u00f3Childhood Scenes returned to\n\tby the Dying\u00f3Death-bed of Voltaire\u00f3Thomas Paine\u00f3The First\n\tSectarians Were Heretics\u00f3Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard\u00f3Slaughter of\n\tthe Canaanites\u00f3Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson\u00f3Protestant\n\tPersecutions\u00f3Toleration\u00f3Infidelity and Progress\u00f3The\n\tOccident\u00f3Calvinism\u00f3Religious Editors\u00f3Reply to the Rev. Mr.\n\tIjams\u00f3Does the Bible teach Man to Enslave his Brothers?\u00f3Reply to\n\tCalifornia Christian Advocate\u00f3Self-Government of French People at\n\tand Since the Revolution\u00f3On the Site of the Bastile\u00f3French\n\tPeasant's Cheers for Jesus Christ\u00f3Was the World created in Six\n\tDays\u00f3Geology\u00f3What is the Astronomy of the Bible?\u00f3The Earth the Centre\n\tof the Universe\u00f3Joshua's Miracle\u00f3Change of Motion into Heat\u00f3Geography\n\tand Astronomy of Cosmas\u00f3Does the Bible teach the Existence of\n\tthat Impossible Crime called Witchcraft?\u00f3Saul and the Woman of\n\tEndor\u00f3Familiar Spirits\u00f3Demonology of the New Testament\u00f3Temptation of\n\tJesus\u00f3Possession by Devils\u00f3Gadarene Swine Story\u00f3Test of Belief\u00f3Bible\n\tIdea of the Rights of Children\u00f3Punishment of the Rebellious\n\tSon\u00f3Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice\u00f3Persecution of Job\u00f3The Gallantry\n\tof God\u00f3Bible Idea of the Rights of Women\u00f3Paul's Instructions to\n\tWives\u00f3Permission given to Steal Wives\u00f3Does the Bible Sanction\n\tPolygamy and Concubinage?\u00f3Does the Bible Uphold and Justify Political\n\tTyranny?\u00f3Powers that be Ordained of God\u00f3Religious Liberty of\n\tGod\u00f3Sun-Worship punishable with Death\u00f3Unbelievers to be damned\u00f3Does\n\tthe Bible describe a God of Mercy?\u00f3Massacre Commanded\u00f3Eternal\n\tPunishment Taught in the New Testament\u00f3The Plan of Salvation\u00f3Fall\n\tand Atonement Moral Bankruptcy\u00f3Other Religions\u00f3Parsee\n\tSect\u00f3Brahmins\u00f3Confucians\u00f3Heretics and Orthodox.\n\n\tMY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS.\n\n\t(1879.)\n\tRev. Robert Collyer\u00f3Inspiration of the Scriptures\u00f3Rev. Dr.\n\tThomas\u00f3Formation of the Old Testament\u00f3Rev. Dr. Kohler\u00f3Rev. Mr.\n\tHerford\u00f3Prof. Swing\u00f3Rev. Dr. Ryder.\n\n\tTO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.\n\n\t(1882.)\n\tRev. David Walk\u00f3Character of Jesus\u00f3Two or Three Christs Described\n\tin the Gospels\u00f3Christ's Change of Opinions\u00f3Gospels Later than the\n\tEpistles\u00f3Divine Parentage of Christ a Late Belief\u00f3The Man Christ\n\tprobably a Historical Character\u00f3Jesus Belittled by his Worshipers\u00f3He\n\tnever Claimed to be Divine\u00f3Christ's Omissions\u00f3Difference between\n\tChristian and other Modern Civilizations\u00f3Civilization not Promoted\n\tby Religion\u00f3Inventors\u00f3French and American Civilization: How\n\tProduced\u00f3Intemperance and Slavery in Christian Nations\u00f3Advance due to\n\tInventions and Discoveries\u00f3Missionaries\u00f3Christian Nations Preserved by\n\tBayonet and Ball\u00f3Dr. T. B. Taylor\u00f3Origin of Life on this Planet\u00f3Sir\n\tWilliam Thomson\u00f3Origin of Things Undiscoverable\u00f3Existence after\n\tDeath\u00f3Spiritualists\u00f3If the Dead Return\u00f3Our Calendar\u00f3Christ and\n\tChristmas-The Existence of Pain\u00f3Plato's Theory of Evil\u00f3Will God do\n\tBetter in Another World than he does in this?\u00f3Consolation\u00f3Life Not a\n\tProbationary Stage\u00f3Rev. D.O'Donaghue\u00f3The Case of Archibald Armstrong\n\tand Jonathan Newgate\u00f3Inequalities of Life\u00f3Can Criminals live a\n\tContented Life?\u00f3Justice of the Orthodox God Illustrated.\n\n\tTHE BROOKLYN DIVINES.\n\n\t(1883.)\n\tAre the Books of Atheistic or Infidel Writers Extensively\n\tRead?\u00f3Increase in the Number of Infidels\u00f3Spread of Scientific\n\tLiterature\u00f3Rev. Dr. Eddy\u00f3Rev. Dr. Hawkins\u00f3Rev. Dr. Haynes\u00f3Rev.\n\tMr. Pullman\u00f3Rev. Mr. Foote\u00f3Rev. Mr. Wells\u00f3Rev. Dr. Van Dyke\u00f3Rev.\n\tCarpenter\u00f3Rev. Mr. Reed\u00f3Rev. Dr. McClelland\u00f3Ministers Opposed to\n\tDiscussion\u00f3Whipping Children\u00f3Worldliness as a Foe of the Church\u00f3The\n\tDrama\u00f3Human Love\u00f3Fires, Cyclones, and Other Afflictions as Promoters\n\tof Spirituality\u00f3Class Distinctions\u00f3Rich and Poor\u00f3Aristocracies\u00f3The\n\tRight to Choose One's Associates\u00f3Churches Social Affairs\u00f3Progress\n\tof the Roman Catholic Church\u00f3Substitutes for the Churches\u00f3Henry\n\tWard Beecher\u00f3How far Education is Favored by the Sects\u00f3Rivals of the\n\tPulpit\u00f3Christianity Now and One Hundred Years Ago\u00f3French Revolution\n\tproduced by the Priests\u00f3Why the Revolution was a Failure\u00f3Infidelity\n\tof One Hundred Years Ago\u00f3Ministers not more Intellectual than a Century\n\tAgo\u00f3Great Preachers of the Past\u00f3New Readings of Old Texts\u00f3Clerical\n\tAnswerers of Infidelity\u00f3Rev. Dr. Baker\u00f3Father Fransiola\u00f3Faith and\n\tReason\u00f3Democracy of Kindness\u00f3Moral Instruction\u00f3Morality Born of Human\n\tNeeds\u00f3The Conditions of Happiness\u00f3The Chief End of Man.\n\n\tTHE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.\n\n\t(1888.)\n\tDiscussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert,\n\tand ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of\n\tNew York\u00f3Propositions\u00f3Toleration not a Disclaimer but a Waiver of the\n\tRight to Persecute\u00f3Remarks of Courtlandt Palmer\u00f3No Responsibility for\n\tThought\u00f3Intellectual Hospitality\u00f3Right of Free Speech\u00f3Origin of the\n\tterm \"Toleration\"\u00f3Slander and False Witness\u00f3Nobody can Control his own\n\tMind: Anecdote\u00f3Remarks of Mr. Coudert\u00f3Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and\n\tIngersoll\u00f3General Woodford's Speech\u00f3Reply by Colonel Ingersoll\u00f3A\n\tCatholic Compelled to Pay a Compliment to Voltaire\u00f3Responsibility for\n\tThoughts\u00f3The Mexican Unbeliever and his Reception in the Other Country.\n\n\tA CHRISTMAS SERMON.\n\n\t(1891.)\n\tChristianity's Message of Grief\u00f3Christmas a Pagan Festival\u00f3Reply\n\tto Dr. Buckley\u00f3Charges by the Editor of the Christian Advocate\u00f3The\n\tTidings of Christianity\u00f3In what the Message of Grief Consists\u00f3Fear\n\tand Flame\u00f3An Everlasting Siberia\u00f3Dr. Buckley's Proposal to Boycott the\n\tTelegram\u00f3Reply to Rev. J. M. King and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Cana Day\n\tbe Blasphemed?\u00f3Hurting Christian feelings\u00f3For Revenue only What is\n\tBlasphemy?\u00f3Balaam's Ass wiser than the Prophet\u00f3The Universalists\u00f3Can\n\tGod do Nothing for this World?\u00f3The Universe a Blunder if Christianity\n\tis true\u00f3The Duty of a Newspaper\u00f3Facts Not Sectarian\u00f3The Rev.\n\tMr. Peters\u00f3What Infidelity Has Done\u00f3Public School System not\n\tChristian\u00f3Orthodox Universities\u00f3Bruno on Oxford\u00f3As to Public\n\tMorals\u00f3No Rewards or Punishments in the Universe\u00f3The Atonement\n\tImmoral\u00f3As to Sciences and Art\u00f3Bruno, Humboldt, Darwin\u00f3Scientific\n\tWriters Opposed by the Church\u00f3As to the Liberation of Slaves\u00f3As to\n\tthe Reclamation of Inebriates\u00f3Rum and Religion\u00f3The Humanity\n\tof Infidelity\u00f3What Infidelity says to the Dying\u00f3The Battle\n\tContinued\u00f3Morality not Assailed by an Attack on Christianity\u00f3The\n\tInquisition and Religious Persecution\u00f3Human Nature Derided by\n\tChristianity\u00f3Dr. DaCosta\u00f3\"Human Brotherhood\" as exemplified by\n\tthe History of the Church\u00f3The Church and Science, Art and\n\tLearning\u00f3\u00f3Astronomy's Revenge\u00f3Galileo and Kepler\u00f3Mrs. Browning:\n\tScience Thrust into the Brain of Europe\u00f3Our Numerals\u00f3Christianity and\n\tLiterature\u00f3Institution's of Learning\u00f3Stephen Girard\u00f3James Lick\u00f3Our\n\tChronology\u00f3Historians\u00f3Natural Philosophy\u00f3Philology\u00f3Metaphysical\n\tResearch\u00f3Intelligence, Hindoo, Egyptian\u00f3Inventions\u00f3John\n\tEricsson\u00f3Emancipators\u00f3Rev. Mr. Ballou\u00f3The Right of Goa to\n\tPunish\u00f3Rev. Dr. Hillier\u00f3Rev. Mr. Haldeman\u00f3George A. Locey\u00f3The \"Great\n\tPhysician\"\u00f3Rev. Mr. Talmage\u00f3Rev. J. Benson Hamilton\u00f3How Voltaire\n\tDied\u00f3The Death-bed of Thomas Paine\u00f3Rev. Mr. Holloway\u00f3Original\n\tSin\u00f3Rev. Dr. Tyler\u00f3The Good Samaritan a Heathen\u00f3Hospitals and\n\tAsylums\u00f3Christian Treatment of the Insane\u00f3Rev. Dr. Buckley\u00f3The\n\tNorth American Review Discussion\u00f3Judge Black, Dr. Field,\n\tMr. Gladstone\u00f3Circulation of Obscene Literature\u00f3Eulogy of\n\tWhiskey\u00f3Eulogy of Tobacco\u00f3Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods\u00f3Rev.\n\tCharles Deems\u00f3Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil\u00f3The Man Christ.\n\n\tSUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE.\n\n\t(1892.)\n\tReply to the Western Watchman\u00f3Henry D'Arcy\u00f3Peter's\n\tPrevarication-Some Excellent Pagans-Heartlessness of a\n\tCatholic\u00f3Wishes do not Affect the Judgment\u00f3Devout Robbers\u00f3Penitent\n\tMurderers\u00f3Reverential Drunkards\u00f3Luther's Distich\u00f3Judge\n\tNormile\u00f3Self-destruction.\n\n\tIS SUICIDE A SIN?\n\n\t(1894.)\n\tCol. Ingersoll's First Letter in The New York World\u00f3Under what\n\tCircumstances a Man has the Right to take his Own Life\u00f3Medicine and the\n\tDecrees of God\u00f3Case of the Betrayed Girl\u00f3Suicides not Cowards\u00f3Suicide\n\tunder Roman Law\u00f3Many Suicides Insane\u00f3Insanity Caused by Religion\u00f3The\n\tLaw against Suicide Cruel and Idiotic\u00f3Natural and Sufficient Cause for\n\tSelf-destruction\u00f3Christ's Death a Suicide\u00f3Col. Ingersoll's Reply to his\n\tCritics\u00f3Is Suffering the Work of God?\u00f3It is not Man's Duty to\n\tEndure Hopeless Suffering\u00f3When Suicide is Justifiable\u00f3The\n\tInquisition\u00f3Alleged Cowardice of Suicides\u00f3Propositions\n\tDemonstrated\u00f3Suicide the Foundation of the Christian\n\tReligion\u00f3Redemption and Atonement\u00f3The Clergy on Infidelity\n\tand Suicide\u00f3Morality and Unbelief\u00f3Better injure yourself than\n\tAnother\u00f3Misquotation by Opponents\u00f3Cheerful View the Best\u00f3The\n\tWonder is that Men endure\u00f3Suicide a Sin (Interview in The New\n\tYork Journal)\u00f3Causes of Suicide\u00f3Col. Ingersoll Does Not Advise\n\tSuicide\u00f3Suicides with Tracts or Bibles in their Pockets\u00f3Suicide a Sin\n\t(Interview in The New York Herald)\u00f3Comments on Rev. Alerle St. Croix\n\tWright's Sermon\u00f3Suicide and Sanity (Interview in The York World)\u00f3As to\n\tthe Cowardice of Suicide\u00f3Germany and the Prevalence of Suicide\u00f3Killing\n\tof Idiots and Defective Infants\u00f3Virtue, Morality, and Religion.\n\n\tIS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?\n\n\t(1891.)\n\tReply to General Rush Hawkins' Article, \"Brutality and Avarice\n\tTriumphant\"\u00f3Croakers and Prophets of Evil\u00f3Medical Treatment\n\tfor Believers in Universal Evil\u00f3Alleged Fraud in Army\n\tContracts\u00f3Congressional Extravagance\u00f3Railroad \"Wreckers\"\u00f3How\n\tStockholders in Some Roads Lost Their Money\u00f3The Star-Route\n\tTrials\u00f3Timber and Public Lands\u00f3Watering Stock\u00f3The Formation\n\tof Trusts\u00f3Unsafe Hotels: European Game and Singing Birds\u00f3Seal\n\tFisheries\u00f3Cruelty to Animals\u00f3Our Indians\u00f3Sensible and Manly\n\tPatriotism\u00f3Days of Brutality\u00f3Defence of Slavery by the Websters,\n\tBentons, and Clays\u00f3Thirty Years' Accomplishment\u00f3Ennobling Influence of\n\tWar for the Right\u00f3The Lady ana the Brakeman\u00f3American Esteem of Honesty\n\tin Business\u00f3Republics do not Tend to Official Corruption\u00f3This the Best\n\tCountry in the World.\n\n\tA REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.\n\n\t(1878.)\n\tDefence of the Lecture on Moses\u00f3How Biblical Miracles are sought to\n\tbe Proved\u00f3Some Non Sequiturs\u00f3A Grammatical Criticism\u00f3Christianity\n\tDestructive of Manners\u00f3Cuvier and Agassiz on Mosaic Cosmogony\u00f3Clerical\n\tAdvance agents\u00f3Christian Threats and Warnings\u00f3Catholicism the Upas\n\tTree\u00f3Hebrew Scholarship as a Qualification for Deciding Probababilities\n\t\u00f3Contradictions and Mistranslations of the Bible\u00f3Number of Errors in\n\tthe Scriptures\u00f3The Sunday Question.\n\n\tAN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.\n\n\t(1881.)\n\tCharged with Blasphemy in the State of Delaware\u00f3Can a Conditionless\n\tDeity be Injured?\u00f3Injustice the only Blasphemy\u00f3The Lecture\n\tin Delaware\u00f3Laws of that State\u00f3All Sects in turn Charged with\n\tBlasphemy\u00f3Heresy Consists in making God Better than he is Thought\n\tto Be\u00f3A Fatal Biblical Passage\u00f3Judge Comegys\u00f3Wilmington\n\tPreachers\u00f3States with Laws against Blasphemy\u00f3No Danger of Infidel\n\tMobs\u00f3No Attack on the State of Delaware Contemplated\u00f3Comegys a\n\tResurrection\u00f3Grand Jury's Refusal to Indict\u00f3Advice about the Cutting\n\tout of Heretics' Tongues\u00f3Objections to the Whipping-post\u00f3Mr. Bergh's\n\tBill\u00f3One Remedy for Wife-beating.\n\n\tA REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.\n\n\t(1882.)\n\tSolemnity\u00f3Charged with Being Insincere\u00f3Irreverence\u00f3Old Testament\n\tBetter than the New\u00f3\"Why Hurt our Feelings?\"\u00f3Involuntary Action of\n\tthe Brain\u00f3Source of our Conceptions of Space\u00f3Good and Bad\u00f3Right and\n\tWrong\u00f3The Minister, the Horse and the Lord's Prayer\u00f3Men Responsible\n\tfor their Actions\u00f3The \"Gradual\" Theory Not Applicable to\n\tthe Omniscient\u00f3Prayer Powerless to Alter Results\u00f3Religious\n\tPersecution\u00f3Orthodox Ministers Made Ashamed of their\n\tCreed\u00f3Purgatory\u00f3Infidelity and Baptism Contrasted\u00f3Modern Conception\n\tof the Universe\u00f3The Golden Bridge of Life\u00f3\"The Only Salutation\"\u00f3The\n\tTest for Admission to Heaven\u00f3\"Scurrility.\"\n\n\tA REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.\n\n\t(1892.)\n\tDr. Hall has no Time to Discuss the subject of Starving\n\tWorkers\u00f3Cloakmakers' Strike\u00f3Warner Van Norden of the Church Extension\n\tSociety\u00f3The Uncharitableness of Organized Charity\u00f3Defence of the\n\tCloakmakers\u00f3Life of the Underpaid\u00f3On the Assertion that Assistance\n\tencourages Idleness and Crime\u00f3The Man without Pity an Intellectual\n\tBeast\u00f3Tendency of Prosperity to Breed Selfishness\u00f3Thousands Idle\n\twithout Fault\u00f3Egotism of Riches\u00f3Van Norden's Idea of Happiness\u00f3The\n\tWorthy Poor.\n\n\tA REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.\n\n\t(1898.)\n\tInterview in a Boston Paper\u00f3Why should a Minister call this a \"Poor\"\n\tWorld?\u00f3Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?\u00f3Gospel\n\tGossip\u00f3Christ's Sayings Repetitions\u00f3The Philosophy of Confucius\u00f3Rev.\n\tMr. Mills\u00f3The Charge of \"Robbery\"\u00f3The Divine Plan.\n\n\tA REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.\n\n\t(1898.)\n\tInterview in the New York Journal\u00f3Rev. Roberts. MacArthur\u00f3A\n\tPersonal Devil\u00f3Devils who held Conversations with Christ not simply\n\tpersonifications of Evil\u00f3The Temptation\u00f3The \"Man of Straw\"\u00f3Christ's\n\tMission authenticated by the Casting Out of Devils\u00f3Spain\u00f3God\n\tResponsible for the Actions of Man\u00f3Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Parks\u00f3Rev. Dr. E.\n\tF. Moldehnke\u00f3Patience amidst the Misfortunes of Others\u00f3Yellow Fever\n\tas a Divine Agent\u00f3The Doctrine that All is for the Best\u00f3Rev. Mr.\n\tHamlin\u00f3Why Did God Create a Successful Rival?\u00f3A Compliment by the\n\tRev. Mr. Belcher\u00f3Rev. W. C. Buchanan\u00f3No Argument Old until it is\n\tAnswered\u00f3Why should God Create sentient Beings to be Damned?\u00f3Rev. J.\n\tW. Campbell\u00f3Rev. Henry Frank\u00f3Rev. E. C.J. Kraeling on Christ and the\n\tDevil\u00f3Would he make a World like This?\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME VIII.--INTERVIEWS\n\nINTERVIEWS\n\nTHE BIBLE AND A FUTURE LIFE\n\nMRS. VAN COTT, THE REVIVALIST\n\nEUROPEAN TRIP AND GREENBACK QUESTION\n\nTHE PRE-MILLENNIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nTHE SOLID SOUTH AND RESUMPTION.\n\nTHE SUNDAY LAWS OF PITTSBURG.*\n\nPOLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS.\n\nPOLITICS AND GEN. GRANT\n\nPOLITICS, RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE.\n\nREPLY TO CHICAGO CRITICS.\n\nTHE REPUBLICAN VICTORY.\n\nINGERSOLL AND BEECHER.*\n\nPOLITICAL.\n\nRELIGION IN POLITICS.\n\nMIRACLES AND IMMORTALITY.\n\nTHE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.\n\nMR. BEECHER, MOSES AND THE NEGRO.\n\nHADES, DELAWARE AND FREETHOUGHT.\n\nA REPLY TO THE REV. MR. LANSING.*\n\nBEACONSFIELD, LENT AND REVIVALS.\n\nANSWERING THE NEW YORK MINISTERS.*\n\nGUITEAU AND HIS CRIME.*\n\nDISTRICT SUFFRAGE.\n\nFUNERAL OF JOHN G. MILLS AND IMMORTALITY.*\n\nSTAR ROUTE AND POLITICS.*\n\nTHE INTERVIEWER.\n\nPOLITICS AND PROHIBITION.\n\nTHE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO.\n\nTHE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.\n\nJUSTICE HARLAN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.\n\nPOLITICS AND THEOLOGY.\n\nMORALITY AND IMMORTALITY.\n\nPOLITICS, MORMONISM AND MR. BEECHER\n\nFREE TRADE AND CHRISTIANITY.\n\nTHE OATH QUESTION.\n\nWENDELL PHILLIPS, FITZ JOHN PORTER AND BISMARCK.\n\nGENERAL SUBJECTS.\n\nREPLY TO KANSAS CITY CLERGY.\n\nSWEARING AND AFFIRMING.\n\nREPLY TO A BUFFALO CRITIC.\n\nBLASPHEMY.*\n\nPOLITICS AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n\nINGERSOLL CATECHISED.\n\nBLAINE'S DEFEAT.\n\nBLAINE'S DEFEAT.\n\nPLAGIARISM AND POLITICS.\n\nRELIGIOUS PREJUDICE.\n\nCLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET.\n\nRELIGION, PROHIBITION, AND GEN. GRANT.\n\nHELL OR SHEOL AND OTHER SUBJECTS.\n\nINTERVIEWING, POLITICS AND SPIRITUALISM.\n\nMY BELIEF.\n\nSOME LIVE TOPICS.\n\nTHE PRESIDENT AND SENATE.\n\nATHEISM AND CITIZENSHIP.\n\nTHE LABOR QUESTION.\n\nRAILROADS AND POLITICS.\n\nPROHIBITION.\n\nHENRY GEORGE AND LABOR.\n\nLABOR QUESTION AND SOCIALISM.\n\nHENRY GEORGE AND SOCIALISM.\n\nREPLY TO THE REV. B. F. MORSE.*\n\nINGERSOLL ON McGLYNN.\n\nTRIAL OF THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.\n\nTHE STAGE AND THE PULPIT.\n\nROSCOE CONKLING.\n\nTHE CHURCH AND THE STAGE.\n\nPROTECTION AND FREE TRADE.\n\nLABOR, AND TARIFF REFORM.\n\nCLEVELAND AND THURMAN.\n\nTHE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF 1888.\n\nJAMES G. BLAINE AND POLITICS.\n\nTHE MILLS BILL.\n\nSOCIETY AND ITS CRIMINALS*\n\nWOMAN'S RIGHT TO DIVORCE.\n\nSECULARISM.\n\nSUMMER RECREATION\u00f3MR. GLADSTONE.\n\nPROHIBITION.\n\nROBERT ELSMERE.\n\nWORKING GIRLS.\n\nPROTECTION FOR AMERICAN ACTORS.\n\nLIBERALS AND LIBERALISM.\n\nPOPE LEO XIII.\n\nTHE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH.\n\nTHE WEST AND SOUTH.\n\nTHE WESTMINSTER CREED AND OTHER SUBJECTS.\n\nSHAKESPEARE AND BACON.\n\nGROWING OLD GRACEFULLY, AND PRESBYTERIANISM.\n\nCREEDS.\n\nTHE TENDENCY OF MODERN THOUGHT.\n\nWOMAN SUFFRAGE, HORSE RACING, AND MONEY.\n\nMISSIONARIES.\n\nMY BELIEF AND UNBELIEF.*\n\nMUST RELIGION GO?\n\nWORD PAINTING AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.\n\nPERSONAL MAGNETISM AND THE SUNDAY QUESTION.\n\nAUTHORS.\n\nINEBRIETY.*\n\nMIRACLES, THEOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALISM.\n\nTOLSTOY AND LITERATURE.\n\nWOMAN IN POLITICS.\n\nSPIRITUALISM.\n\nPLAYS AND PLAYERS.\n\nWOMAN.\n\nSTRIKES, EXPANSION AND OTHER SUBJECTS.\n\nSUNDAY A DAY OF PLEASURE.\n\nTHE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS.\n\nCLEVELAND'S HAWAIIAN POLICY.\n\nORATORS AND ORATORY.*\n\nCATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. THE POPE, THE A. P. A., AGNOSTICISM\n\nWOMAN AND HER DOMAIN.\n\nPROFESSOR SWING.\n\nSENATOR SHERMAN AND HIS BOOK.*\n\nREPLY TO THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.\n\nSPIRITUALISM.\n\nA LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.\n\nIS LIFE WORTH LIVING\u00f3CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND POLITICS.\n\nVIVISECTION.\n\nDIVORCE.\n\nMUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, LYNCHING AND ARBITRATION.\n\nA VISIT TO SHAW'S GARDEN.\n\nTHE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISCUSSION AND THE WHIPPING-POST.\n\nCOLONEL SHEPARD'S STAGE HORSES.*\n\nA REPLY TO THE REV. L. A. BANKS.\n\nCUBA\u00f3ZOLA AND THEOSOPHY.\n\nHOW TO BECOME AN ORATOR.\n\nJOHN RUSSELL YOUNG AND EXPANSION.\n\nPSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE BIBLE.*\n\nTHIS CENTURY'S GLORIES.\n\nCAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WHIPPING-POST.\n\nEXPANSION AND TRUSTS.*\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME IX.--POLITICAL\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.\n\nAN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.\n\nSPEECH AT INDIANAPOLIS.\n\nCENTENNIAL ORATION.\n\nBANGOR SPEECH.\n\nCOOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.\n\nINDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.\n\nCHICAGO SPEECH.\n\nEIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS.\n\nHARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT.\n\nSUFFRAGE ADDRESS.\n\nWALL STREET SPEECH.\n\nBROOKLYN SPEECH.\n\nADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.\n\nDECORATION DAY ORATION.\n\nDECORATION DAY ADDRESS.\n\nRATIFICATION SPEECH.\n\nREUNION ADDRESS.\n\nTHE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.\n\n\t AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.\n\n\t(1867.)\n\tSlavery and its Justification by Law and Religion\u00f3Its Destructive\n\tInfluence upon Nations\u00f3Inauguration of the Modern Slave Trade by the\n\tPortuguese Gonzales\u00f3Planted upon American Soil\u00f3The Abolitionists,\n\tClarkson, Wilberforce, and Others\u00f3The Struggle in England\u00f3Pioneers\n\tin San Domingo, Oge and Chevannes\u00f3Early Op-posers of Slavery in\n\tAmerica\u00f3William Lloyd Garrison\u00f3Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John\n\tBrown\u00f3The Fugitive Slave Law\u00f3The Emancipation Proclamation\u00f3Dread of\n\tEducation in the South\u00f3Advice to the Colored People.\n\n\tINDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.\n\n\n\t(1868.)\n\tSuspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus\u00f3Precedent Established by the\n\tRevolutionary Fathers\u00f3Committees of Safety appointed by the\n\tContinental Congress\u00f3Arrest of Disaffected Persons in Pennsylvania\n\tand Delaware\u00f3Interference with Elections\u00f3Resolution of Continental\n\tCongress with respect to Citizens who Opposed the sending of Deputies\n\tto the Convention of New York\u00f3Penalty for refusing to take Continental\n\tMoney or Pray for the American Cause\u00f3Habeas Corpus Suspended during the\n\tRevolution\u00f3Interference with Freedom of the Press\u00f3Negroes Freed and\n\tallowed to Fight in the Continental Army\u00f3Crispus Attacks\u00f3An Abolition\n\tDocument issued by Andrew Jackson\u00f3Majority rule\u00f3Slavery and the\n\tRebellion\u00f3Tribute to General Grant.\n\n\tSPEECH NOMINATING BLAINE.\n\t(1876.)\n\tNote descriptive of the Occasion\u00f3Demand of the Republicans of the\n\tUnited States\u00f3Resumption\u00f3The Plumed Knight.\n\n\tCENTENNIAL ORATION.\n\n\t(1876.)\n\tOne Hundred Years ago, our Fathers retired the Gods from Politics\u00f3The\n\tDeclaration of Independence\u00f3Meaning of the Declaration\u00f3The Old Idea\n\tof the Source of Political Power\u00f3Our Fathers Educated by their\n\tSurroundings\u00f3The Puritans\u00f3Universal Religious Toleration declared by\n\tthe Catholics of Maryland\u00f3Roger Williams\u00f3Not All of our Fathers in\n\tfavor of Independence\u00f3Fortunate Difference in Religious Views\u00f3Secular\n\tGovernment\u00f3Authority derived from the People\u00f3The Declaration and\n\tthe Beginning of the War\u00f3What they Fought For\u00f3Slavery\u00f3Results of\n\ta Hundred Years of Freedom\u00f3The Declaration Carried out in Letter and\n\tSpirit.\n\n\tBANGOR SPEECH.\n\n\t(1876.)\n\tThe Hayes Campaign\u00f3Reasons for Voting the Republican Ticket\u00f3Abolition\n\tof Slavery\u00f3Preservation of the Union\u00f3Reasons for Not Trusting the\n\tDemocratic Party\u00f3Record of the Republican Party\u00f3Democrats Assisted\n\tthe South\u00f3Paper Money\u00f3Enfranchisement of the Negroes\u00f3Samuel J.\n\tTilden\u00f3His Essay on Finance.\n\n\tCOOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.\n\n\t(1876.)\n\tAll Citizens Stockholders in the United States of America\u00f3The\n\tDemocratic Party a Hungry Organization\u00f3Political Parties\n\tContrasted\u00f3The Fugitive Slave Law a Disgrace to Hell in its Palmiest\n\tDays\u00f3Feelings of the Democracy Hurt on the Subject of Religion\u00f3Defence\n\tof Slavery in a Resolution of the Presbyterians, South\u00f3State of the\n\tUnion at the Time the Republican Party was Born\u00f3Jacob Thompson\u00f3The\n\tNational Debt\u00f3Protection of Citizens Abroad\u00f3Tammany Hall: Its Relation\n\tto the Penitentiary\u00f3The Democratic Party of New York City\u00f3\"What\n\tHands!\"\u00f3Free Schools.\n\n\tINDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.\n\n\t(1876.)\n\tAddress to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion\u00f3Objections to\n\tthe Democratic Party\u00f3The Men who have been Democrats\u00f3Why I am a\n\tRepublican\u00f3Free Labor and Free Thought\u00f3A Vision of War\u00f3Democratic\n\tSlander of the Greenback\u00f3Shall the People who Saved the Country Rule\n\tIt?\u00f3On Finance\u00f3Government Cannot Create Money\u00f3The Greenback Dollar\n\ta Mortgage upon the Country\u00f3Guarantees that the Debt will be Paid-'The\n\tThoroughbred and the Mule\u00f3The Column of July, Paris\u00f3The Misleading\n\tGuide Board, the Dismantled Mill, and the Place where there had been a\n\tHotel,\n\n\tCHICAGO SPEECH.\n\n\t(1876.)\n\tThe Plea of \"Let Bygones be Bygones\"\u00f3Passport of the Democratic\n\tParty\u00f3Right of the General Government to send Troops into Southern\n\tStates for the Protection of Colored People\u00f3Abram S. Hewitt's\n\tCongratulatory Letter to the Negroes\u00f3The Demand for Inflation of the\n\tCurrency\u00f3Record of Rutherford B. Hayes\u00f3Contrasted with Samuel J.\n\tTilden\u00f3Merits of the Republican Party\u00f3Negro and Southern White\u00f3The\n\tSuperior Man\u00f3\"No Nation founded upon Injustice can Permanently Stand.\"\n\n\tEIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS.\n\n\t(1877.)\n\tOn the Electoral Commission\u00f3Reminiscences of the Hayes-Tilden Camp\u00f3\n\tConstitution of the Electoral College\u00f3Characteristics of the Members\u00f3\n\tFrauds at the Ballot Box Poisoning the Fountain of Power\u00f3Reforms\n\tSuggested\u00f3Elections too Frequent\u00f3The Professional Office-seeker\u00f3A\n\tLetter on Civil Service Reform\u00f3Young Men Advised against Government\n\tClerkships\u00f3Too Many Legislators and too Much Legislation\u00f3Defect in the\n\tConstitution as to the Mode of Electing a President\u00f3Protection of\n\tCitizens by State and General Governments\u00f3The Dual Government in South\n\tCarolina\u00f3Ex-Rebel Key in the President's Cabinet\u00f3Implacables and\n\tBourbons South and North\u00f3\"I extend to you each and all the Olive Branch\n\tof Peace.\"\n\n\tHARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT.\n\n\t(1878.)\n\tCapital and Labor\u00f3What is a Capitalist?\u00f3The Idle and the Industrious\n\tArtisans\u00f3No Conflict between Capital and Labor\u00f3A Period of Inflation\n\tand Speculation\u00f3Life and Fire Insurance Agents\u00f3Business done on\n\tCredit\u00f3The Crash, Failure, and Bankruptcy\u00f3Fall in the Price of Real\n\tEstate a Form of Resumption\u00f3Coming back to Reality\u00f3Definitions of\n\tMoney Examined\u00f3Not Gold and Silver but Intelligent Labor the Measure\n\tof Value\u00f3Government cannot by Law Create Wealth\u00f3A Bill of Fare not\n\ta Dinner\u00f3Fiat Money\u00f3American Honor Pledged to the Maintenance of the\n\tGreenbacks\u00f3The Cry against Holders of Bonds\u00f3Criminals and Vagabonds to\n\tbe supported\u00f3Duty of Government to Facilitate Enterprise\u00f3More Men must\n\tCultivate the Soil\u00f3Government Aid for the Overcoming of Obstacles too\n\tGreat for Individual Enterprise\u00f3The Palace Builders the Friends of\n\tLabor\u00f3Extravagance the best Form of Charity\u00f3Useless to Boost a Man\n\twho is not Climbing\u00f3The Reasonable Price for Labor\u00f3The Vagrant and his\n\tstrange and winding Path\u00f3What to tell the Working Men.\n\n\tSUFFRAGE ADDRESS.\n\n\t(1880.)\n\tThe Right to Vote\u00f3All Women who desire the Suffrage should have\n\tIt\u00f3Shall the People of the District of Columbia Manage their Own\n\tAffairs\u00f3Their Right to a Representative in Congress and an Electoral\n\tVote\u00f3Anomalous State of Affairs at the Capital of the Republic\u00f3Not the\n\tWealthy and Educated alone should Govern\u00f3The Poor as Trustworthy as the\n\tRich\u00f3Strict Registration Laws Needed.\n\n\tWALL STREET SPEECH.\n\n\t(1880.)\n\tObligation of New York to Protect the Best Interests of the\n\tCountry\u00f3Treason and Forgery of the Democratic Party in its Appeal to\n\tSword and Pen\u00f3The One Republican in the Penitentiary of Maine\u00f3The\n\tDoctrine of State Sovereignty\u00f3Protection for American Brain and\n\tMuscle\u00f3Hancock on the Tariff\u00f3A Forgery (the Morey letter) Committed\n\tand upheld\u00f3The Character of James A. Garfield.\n\n\tBROOKLYN SPEECH.\n\n\t(1880.)\n\tIntroduced by Henry Ward Beecher (note)\u00f3Some Patriotic\n\tDemocrats\u00f3Freedom of Speech North and South\u00f3An Honest Ballot\u00f3\n\tADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.\n\n\n\tDECORATION DAY ORATION.\n\n\n\tDECORATION DAY ADDRESS.\n\n\n\tRATIFICATION SPEECH.\n\n\n\tREUNION ADDRESS.\n\n\n\tTHE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME X.--LEGAL\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.\n\nADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.\n\nCLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.\n\nOPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.\n\nCLOSING ADDRESS IN SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL\n\nADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.\n\nARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.\n\n\t ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.\n\n\tDemoralization caused by Alcohol\u00f3Note from the Chicago\n\tTimes\u00f3Prejudice\u00f3Review of the Testimony of Jacob Rehm\u00f3Perjury\n\tCharacterized\u00f3The Defendant and the Offence Charged (p. 21)\u00f3Testimony\n\tof Golsen Reviewed\u00f3Rehm's Testimony before the Grand Jury\u00f3Good\n\tCharacter (p. 29)\u00f3Suspicion not Evidence.\n\n\n\tCLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.\n\n\tNote from the Washington Capital\u00f3The Assertion Denied that we are\n\ta Demoralized Country and that our Country is Distinguished among\n\tthe Nations only for Corruption\u00f3Duties of Jurors and Duties of\n\tLawyers\u00f3Section under which the Indictment is Found\u00f3Cases cited to\n\tShow that Overt Acts charged and also the Crime itself must be Proved\n\tas Described\u00f3Routes upon which Indictments are Based and Overt Acts\n\tCharged (pp. 54-76)\u00f3Routes on which the Making of False Claims is\n\tAlleged\u00f3Authorities on Proofs of Conspiracy (pp. 91-94)\u00f3Examination\n\tof the Evidence against Stephen W. and John W. Dorsey (pp. 96-117)\u00f3The\n\tCorpus Delicti in a Case of Conspiracy and the Acts Necessary to be Done\n\tin Order to Establish Conspiracy (pp. 120-123)\u00f3Testimony of Walsh\n\tand the Confession of Rerdell\u00f3Extravagance in Mail Carrying (p.\n\t128)\u00f3Productiveness of Mail Routes (p. 131)\u00f3Hypothesis of Guilt and\n\tLaw of Evidence\u00f3Dangerous Influence of Suspicion\u00f3Terrorizing the\n\tJury\u00f3The Woman at Her Husband's Side.\n\n\tOPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.\n\n\tJuries the Bulwark of Civil Liberty\u00f3Suspicion Not Evidence\u00f3Brief\n\tStatement of the Case\u00f3John M. Peck, John W. Dorsey, Stephen W. Dorsey,\n\tJohn R. Miner, Mr. (A. E. ) Boone (p.p. 150-156)\u00f3The Clendenning\n\tBonds\u00f3Miner's, Peck's, and Dorsey's Bids\u00f3Why they Bid on Cheap\n\tRoutes\u00f3Number of Routes upon which there are Indictments\u00f3The\n\tArrangement between Stephen W. Dorsey and John R. Miner\u00f3Appearance\n\tof Mr. Vaile in the Contracts\u00f3Partnership Formed\u00f3The Routes\n\tDivided\u00f3Senator Dorsey's Course after Getting the Routes\u00f3His Routes\n\tturned over to James W. Bosler\u00f3Profits of the Business (p. 181)\u00f3The\n\tPetitions for More Mails\u00f3Productive and Unproductive Post-offices\u00f3Men\n\twho Add to the Wealth of the World\u00f3Where the Idea of the Productiveness\n\tof Post routes was Hatched\u00f3Cost of Letters to Recipients in 1843\u00f3The\n\tOverland Mail (p. 190)\u00f3Loss in Distributing the Mail in the District\n\tof Columbia and Other Territories\u00f3Post-office the only Evidence\n\tof National Beneficence\u00f3Profit and Loss of Mail Carrying\u00f3Orders\n\tAntedated, and Why\u00f3Routes Increased and Expedited\u00f3Additional Bonds for\n\tAdditional Trips\u00f3The Charge that Pay was Received when the Mail was\n\tnot Carried\u00f3Fining on Shares\u00f3Subcontracts for Less than the Original\n\tContracts\u00f3Pay on Discontinued Routes\u00f3Alleged False Affidavits\u00f3Right\n\tof Petition\u00f3Reviewing the Ground.\n\n\tCLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.\n\n\tScheme of the Indictment\u00f3Story of the Case\u00f3What Constitutes Fraudulent\n\tBidding\u00f3How a Conspiracy Must be Proved\u00f3The Hypothesis of Guilt and\n\tLaw of Evidence\u00f3Conversation Unsatisfactory Evidence\u00f3Fallibility of\n\tMemory\u00f3Proposition to Produce Mr. Dorsey's Books\u00f3Interruption of the\n\tCourt to Decide that Primary Evidence, having Once been Refused, can not\n\tafterwards be Introduced to Contradict Secondary Evidence\u00f3A Defendant\n\tmay not be Presumed into the Penitentiary\u00f3A Decision by Justice\n\tField\u00f3The Right of Petition\u00f3Was there a Conspiracy?\u00f3Dorsey's\n\tBenevolence (p. 250)\u00f3The Chico Springs Letter\u00f3Evidence of Moore\n\tReviewed\u00f3Mr. Ker's Defective Memory\u00f3The Informer System\u00f3Testimony\n\tof Rerdell Reviewed\u00f3His Letter to Dorsey (p. 304)\u00f3The Affidavit of\n\tRerdell and Dorsey\u00f3Petitions for Faster Time\u00f3Uncertainty Regarding\n\tHandwriting\u00f3Government Should be Incapable of Deceit\u00f3Rerdell's\n\twithdrawal of the Plea of Not Guilty (p. 362)\u00f3Informers, their Immunity\n\tand Evidence\u00f3Nailing Down the Lid of Rerdell's Coffin\u00f3Mistakes of\n\tMessrs. Ker and Merrick and the Court\u00f3Letter of H. M. Vaile to the\n\tSixth Auditor\u00f3Miner's Letter to Carey\u00f3Miner, Peck & Co. to Frank A.\n\tTuttle\u00f3Answering Points Raised by Mr. Bliss (396 et seq.)\u00f3Evidence\n\tregarding the Payment of Money by Dorsey to Brady\u00f3A. E. Boone's\n\tTestimony Reviewed\u00f3Secrecy of Contractors Regarding the Amount of their\n\tBids\u00f3Boone's Partnership Agreement with Dorsey\u00f3Explanation of Bids\n\tin Different Names\u00f3Omission of Instructions from Proposals (p.\n\t450)\u00f3Accusation that Senator Mitchell was the Paid Agent of\n\tthe Defendants\u00f3Alleged Sneers at Things held Sacred\u00f3What is a\n\tConspiracy?\u00f3The Theory that there was a Conspiracy\u00f3Dorsey's Alleged\n\tInterest\u00f3The Two Affidavits in Evidence\u00f3Inquiry of General Miles\u00f3Why\n\tthe Defendant's Books were not Produced\u00f3Tames W. Bosler's Testimony\n\tRead (p. 500)\u00f3The Court shown to be Mistaken Regarding a Decision\n\tPreviously Made (pp. 496-502)\u00f3No Logic in Abuse\u00f3Charges against John\n\tW. Miner\u00f3Testimony of A. W. Moore Reviewed-The Verdict Predicted\u00f3The\n\tDefendants in the Case\u00f3What is left for the Jury to Say\u00f3Remarks of\n\tMessrs. Henkle and Davidge\u00f3The Verdict.\n\n\tADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.\n\n\tNote from the Anaconda Standard\u00f3Senator Sander's Warning to the Jury\n\tNot to be Enticed by Sinners\u00f3Evidence, based on Quality of Handwriting,\n\tthat Davis did not Write the Will\u00f3Evidence of the Spelling\u00f3Assertion\n\tthat the Will was Forged\u00f3Peculiarities of Eddy's Handwriting\u00f3Holes\n\tin Sconce's Signature and Reputation\u00f3His Memory\u00f3Business Sagacity\n\tof Davis\u00f3His Alleged Children\u00f3Date of his Death\u00f3Testimony of Mr.\n\tKnight\u00f3Ink used in Writing the Will\u00f3Expert Evidence\u00f3Speechlessness\n\tof John A. Davis\u00f3Eddy's Failure to take the Stand\u00f3Testimony of\n\tCarruthers\u00f3Relatives of Sconce\u00f3Mary Ann Davis's Connections\u00f3The\n\tFamily Tree\u00f3The Signature of the Will\u00f3What the Evidence Shows\u00f3Duty\n\tand Opportunity of the Jury.\n\n\tARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.\n\n\tAntenuptial Waiving of Dower by Women\u00f3A Case from Illinois\u00f3At What\n\tAge Men and Women Cease to Feel the Tender Flame\u00f3Russell's Bargain with\n\tMrs. Russell\u00f3Antenuptial Contract and Parole Agreement\u00f3Definition\n\tof \"Liberal Provision \"\u00f3The Woman not Bound by a Contract Made in\n\tIgnorance of the Facts\u00f3Contract Destroyed by Deception.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME XI.--MISCELLANY\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.\n\nADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.\n\nTRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.\n\nGOD IN THE CONSTITUTION.\n\nA REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING.\n\nCRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS.\n\nA WOODEN GOD.\n\nSOME INTERROGATION POINTS.\n\nART AND MORALITY.\n\nTHE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.\n\nWHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?\n\nHUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM.\n\nERNEST RENAN.\n\nTOLSTO\u0153 AND \"THE KREUTZER SONATA.\"\n\nTHOMAS PAINE.\n\nTHE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS.\n\nSHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?\n\nA WORD ABOUT EDUCATION.\n\nWHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.\n\nFOOL FRIENDS.\n\nINSPIRATION\n\nTHE TRUTH OF HISTORY.\n\nHOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER.\n\nSECULARISM.\n\nCRITICISM OF \"ROBERT ELSMERE,\" \"JOHN WARD, PREACHER,\" AND \"AN AFRICAN FARM.\"\n\nTHE LIBEL LAWS\n\nREV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.\n\nAN ESSAY ON CHRISTMAS.\n\nHAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?\n\nTHE IMPROVED MAN.\n\nEIGHT HOURS MUST COME.\n\nTHE JEWS.\n\nCRUMBLING CREEDS.\n\nOUR SCHOOLS.\n\nVIVISECTION.\n\nTHE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.\n\nTHE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS\n\nSPIRITUALITY.\n\nSUMTER'S GUN.\n\nWHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE.\n\nCRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.\n\nLAW'S DELAY.\n\nTHE BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES.\n\nA YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY.\n\nSCIENCE AND SENTIMENT.\n\nSOWING AND REAPING.\n\nSHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?\n\nWHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?\n\nGOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.\n\nA LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.\n\nPOLITICAL MORALITY.\n\nA FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.\n\n\n\nDETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.\n\n\t ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.\n\n\tIntroduction by Frederick Douglass(\"Abou Ben Adhem\")\u00f3Decision of\n\tthe United States Supreme Court pronouncing the Civil Rights Act\n\tUnconstitutional\u00f3Limitations of Judges\u00f3Illusion Destroyed by the\n\tDecision in the Dred Scott Case\u00f3Mistake of Our Fathers in adopting\n\tthe Common Law of England\u00f3The 13th Amendment to the Constitution\n\tQuoted\u00f3The Clause of the Constitution upholding Slavery\u00f3Effect of\n\tthis Clause\u00f3Definitions of a State by Justice Wilson and Chief Justice\n\tChase\u00f3Effect of the Thirteenth Amendment\u00f3Justice Field on Involuntary\n\tServitude\u00f3Civil Rights Act Quoted\u00f3Definition of the Word Servitude by\n\tthe Supreme Court\u00f3Obvious Purpose of the Amendment\u00f3Justice Miller\n\ton the 14th Amendment\u00f3Citizens Created by this Amendment\u00f3Opinion\n\tof Justice Field\u00f3Rights and Immunities guaranteed by the\n\tConstitution\u00f3Opinion delivered by Chief-Justice Waite\u00f3Further Opinions\n\tof Courts on the question of Citizenship\u00f3Effect of the 13th, 14th and\n\t15th Amendments\u00f3\"Corrective\" Legislation by Congress\u00f3Denial of equal\n\t\"Social\" Privileges\u00f3Is a State responsible for the Action of its Agent\n\twhen acting contrary to Law?\u00f3The Word \"State\" must include the People\n\tof the State as well as the Officers of the State\u00f3The Louisiana Civil\n\tRights Law, and a Case tried under it\u00f3Uniformity of Duties essential to\n\tthe Carrier\u00f3Congress left Powerless to protect Rights conferred by the\n\tConstitution\u00f3Definition of \"Appropriate Legislation\"\u00f3Propositions laid\n\tdown regarding the Sovereignty of the State, the powers of the General\n\tGovernment, etc.\u00f3A Tribute to Justice Harlan\u00f3A Denial that Property\n\texists by Virtue of Law\u00f3Civil Rights not a Question of Social\n\tEquality\u00f3Considerations upon which Social Equality depends\u00f3Liberty not\n\ta Question of Social Equality\u00f3The Superior Man\u00f3Inconsistencies of the\n\tPast\u00f3No Reason why we should Hate the Colored People\u00f3The Issues that\n\tare upon Us.\n\n\tTRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.\n\n\tADDRESS TO THE JURY.\n\n\tReport of the Case from the New York Times (note)\u00f3The Right to express\n\tOpinions\u00f3Attempts to Rule the Minds of Men by Force\u00f3Liberty the\n\tGreatest Good\u00f3Intellectual Hospitality Defined\u00f3When the Catholic\n\tChurch had Power\u00f3Advent of the Protestants\u00f3The Puritans, Quakers.\n\tUnitarians, Universalists\u00f3What is Blasphemy?\u00f3Why this Trial should not\n\thave Taken Place\u00f3Argument cannot be put in Jail\u00f3The Constitution of\n\tNew Jersey\u00f3A higher Law than Men can Make\u00f3The Blasphemy Statute\n\tQuoted and Discussed\u00f3Is the Statute Constitutional?\u00f3The Harm done\n\tby Blasphemy Laws\u00f3The Meaning of this Persecution\u00f3Religions are\n\tEphemeral\u00f3Let us judge each other by our Actions\u00f3Men who have braved\n\tPublic Opinion should be Honored\u00f3The Blasphemy Law if enforced would\n\trob the World of the Results of Scientific Research\u00f3It declares the\n\tGreat Men of to-day to be Criminals\u00f3The Indictment Read and Commented\n\tupon\u00f3Laws that go to Sleep\u00f3Obsolete Dogmas the Denial of which was\n\tonce punished by Death\u00f3Blasphemy Characterized\u00f3On the Argument\n\tthat Blasphemy Endangers the Public Peace\u00f3A Definition of real\n\tBlasphemy\u00f3Trials for Blasphemy in England\u00f3The case of Abner\n\tKneeland\u00f3True Worship, Prayer, and Religion\u00f3What is Holy and\n\tSacred\u00f3What is Claimed in this Case\u00f3For the Honor of the State\u00f3The\n\tword Liberty\u00f3Result of the Trial (note).\n\n\tGOD IN THE CONSTITUTION.\n\n\tThe Feudal System\u00f3Office and Purpose of our Constitution\u00f3Which God\n\tshall we Select?\u00f3The Existence of any God a Matter of Opinion\u00f3What is\n\tentailed by a Recognition of a God in the Constitution\u00f3Can the Infinite\n\tbe Flattered with a Constitutional Amendment?\u00f3This government is\n\tSecular\u00f3The Government of God a Failure\u00f3The Difference between the\n\tTheological and the Secular Spirit\u00f3A Nation neither Christian nor\n\tInfidel\u00f3The Priest no longer a Necessity\u00f3Progress of Science and the\n\tDevelopment of the Mind.\n\n\tA REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING.\n\n\tOn God in the Constitution\u00f3Why the Constitutional Convention ignored\n\tthe Question of Religion\u00f3The Fathers Misrepresented\u00f3Reasons why the\n\tAttributes of God should not form an Organic Part of the Law of the\n\tLand\u00f3The Effect of a Clause Recognizing God.\n\n\tCRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS.\n\n\tThe Three Pests of a Community\u00f3I. Forms of Punishment and Torture\u00f3More\n\tCrimes Committed than Prevented by Governments\u00f3II. Are not Vices\n\ttransmitted by Nature?\u00f3111. Is it Possible for all People to be\n\tHonest?\u00f3Children of Vice as the natural Product of Society\u00f3Statistics:\n\tthe Relation between Insanity, Pauperism, and Crime\u00f3IV. The Martyrs of\n\tVice\u00f3Franklin's Interest in the Treatment of Prisoners\u00f3V. Kindness\n\tas a Remedy\u00f3Condition of the Discharged Prisoner\u00f3VI. Compensation\n\tfor Convicts\u00f3VII. Professional Criminals\u00f3Shall the Nation take\n\tLife?\u00f3Influence of Public Executions on the Spectators\u00f3Lynchers\n\tfor the Most Part Criminals at Heart\u00f3VIII. The Poverty of the Many a\n\tperpetual Menace\u00f3Limitations of Land-holding.\u00f3IX. Defective Education\n\tby our Schools\u00f3Hands should be educated as well as Head\u00f3Conduct\n\timproved by a clearer Perception of Consequences\u00f3X. The Discipline of\n\tthe average Prison Hardening and Degrading\u00f3While Society cringes before\n\tGreat Thieves there will be Little Ones to fill the Jails\u00f3XI. Our\n\tIgnorance Should make us Hesitate.\n\n\tA WOODEN GOD.\n\n\tOn Christian and Chinese worship\u00f3Report of the Select Committee\n\ton Chinese Immigration\u00f3The only true God as contrasted with\n\tJoss\u00f3Sacrifices to the \"Living God\"\u00f3Messrs. Wright, Dickey, O'Connor\n\tand Murch on the \"Religious System\" of the American Union\u00f3How to prove\n\tthat Christians are better than Heathens\u00f3Injustice in the Name of\n\tGod\u00f3An honest Merchant the best Missionary\u00f3A Few Extracts from\n\tConfucius\u00f3The Report proves that the Wise Men of China who predicted\n\tthat Christians could not be Trusted were not only Philosophers but\n\tProphets.\n\n\tSOME INTERROGATION POINTS.\n\n\tA New Party and its Purpose\u00f3The Classes that Exist in every\n\tCountry\u00f3Effect of Education on the Common People\u00f3Wants Increased by\n\tIntelligence\u00f3The Dream of 1776\u00f3The Monopolist and the Competitor\u00f3The\n\tWar between the Gould and Mackay Cables\u00f3Competition between\n\tMonopolies\u00f3All Advance in Legislation made by Repealing Laws\u00f3Wages\n\tand Values not to be fixed by Law\u00f3Men and Machines\u00f3The Specific of\n\tthe Capitalist: Economy\u00f3The poor Man and Woman devoured by\n\ttheir Fellow-men\u00f3Socialism one of the Worst Possible forms of\n\tSlavery\u00f3Liberty not to be exchanged for Comfort\u00f3Will the Workers\n\talways give their Earnings for the Useless?\u00f3Priests, Successful Frauds,\n\tand Robed Impostors.\n\n\tART AND MORALITY.\n\n\tThe Origin of Man's Thoughts\u00f3The imaginative Man\u00f3\"Medicinal View\" of\n\tPoetry\u00f3Rhyme and Religion\u00f3The theological Poets and their Purpose in\n\tWriting\u00f3Moral Poets and their \"Unwelcome Truths\"\u00f3The really Passionate\n\tare the Virtuous\u00f3Difference between the Nude and the Naked\u00f3Morality\n\tthe Melody of Conduct\u00f3The inculcation of Moral Lessons not contemplated\n\tby Artists or great Novelists\u00f3Mistaken Reformers\u00f3Art not a\n\tSermon\u00f3Language a Multitude of Pictures\u00f3Great Pictures and Great\n\tStatues painted and chiseled with Words\u00f3Mediocrity moral from a\n\tNecessity which it calls Virtue\u00f3Why Art Civilizes\u00f3The Nude\u00f3The Venus\n\tde Milo\u00f3This is Art.\n\n\tTHE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.\n\n\tThe Way in which Theological Seminaries were Endowed\u00f3Religious\n\tGuide-boards\u00f3Vast Interests interwoven with Creeds\u00f3Pretensions of\n\tChristianity\u00f3Kepler's Discovery of his Three Great Laws\u00f3Equivocations\n\tand Evasions of the Church\u00f3Nature's Testimony against the\n\tBible\u00f3The Age of Man on the Earth\u00f3\"Inspired\" Morality of the\n\tBible\u00f3Miracles\u00f3Christian Dogmas\u00f3What the church has been Compelled to\n\tAbandon\u00f3The Appeal to Epithets, Hatred and Punishment\u00f3\"Spirituality\"\n\tthe last Resource of the Orthodox\u00f3What is it to be Spiritual?\u00f3Two\n\tQuestions for the Defenders of Orthodox Creeds.\n\n\tWHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?\n\n\tPart I. Inharmony of Nature and the Lot of Man with the Goodness and\n\tWisdom of a supposed Deity\u00f3Why a Creator is Imagined\u00f3Difficulty of the\n\tAct of Creation\u00f3Belief in Supernatural Beings\u00f3Belief and Worship among\n\tSavages\u00f3Questions of Origin and Destiny\u00f3Progress impossible without\n\tChange of Belief\u00f3Circumstances Determining Belief\u00f3How may the\n\tTrue Religion be Ascertained?\u00f3Prosperity of Nations nor Virtue\n\tof Individuals Dependent on Religions or Gods\u00f3Uninspired Books\n\tSuperior\u00f3Part II. The Christian Religion\u00f3Credulity\u00f3Miracles cannot\n\tbe Established\u00f3Effect of Testimony\u00f3Miraculous Qualities of all\n\tReligions\u00f3Theists and Naturalists\u00f3The Miracle of Inspiration\u00f3How\n\tcan the alleged Fact of Inspiration be Established?\u00f3God's work and\n\tMan's\u00f3Rewards for Falsehood offered by the Church.\n\n\tHUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM.\n\n\tStatement by the Principal of King's College\u00f3On the Irrelevancy of a\n\tLack of Scientific Knowledge\u00f3Difference between the Agnostic and\n\tthe Christian not in Knowledge but in Credulity\u00f3The real name of\n\tan Agnostic said to be \"Infidel\"\u00f3What an Infidel is\u00f3\"Unpleasant\"\n\tsignificance of the Word\u00f3Belief in Christ\u00f3\"Our Lord and his Apostles\"\n\tpossibly Honest Men\u00f3Their Character not Invoked\u00f3Possession by evil\n\tspirits\u00f3Professor Huxley's Candor and Clearness\u00f3The splendid Dream\n\tof Auguste Comte\u00f3Statement of the Positive Philosophy\u00f3Huxley and\n\tHarrison.\n\n\tERNEST RENAN.\n\n\tHis Rearing and his Anticipated Biography\u00f3The complex Character of the\n\tChrist of the Gospels\u00f3Regarded as a Man by Renan\u00f3The Sin against the\n\tHoly Ghost\u00f3Renan on the Gospels\u00f3No Evidence that they were written\n\tby the Men whose Names they Bear\u00f3Written long after the Events they\n\tDescribe\u00f3Metaphysics of the Church found in the Gospel of John\u00f3Not\n\tApparent why Four Gospels should have been Written\u00f3Regarded as\n\tlegendary Biographies\u00f3In \"flagrant contradiction one with another\"\u00f3The\n\tDivine Origin of Christ an After-growth\u00f3Improbable that he intended to\n\tform a Church\u00f3Renan's Limitations\u00f3Hebrew Scholarship\u00f3His \"People of\n\tIsrael\"\u00f3His Banter and Blasphemy.\n\n\tTOLSTOY AND \"THE KREUTZER SONATA.\"\n\n\tTolstoy's Belief and Philosophy\u00f3His Asceticism\u00f3His View of Human\n\tLove\u00f3Purpose of \"The Kreutzer Sonata\"\u00f3Profound Difference between the\n\tLove of Men and that of Women\u00f3Tolstoy cannot now found a Religion, but\n\tmay create the Necessity for another Asylum\u00f3The Emotions\u00f3The Curious\n\tOpinion Dried Apples have of Fruit upon the Tree\u00f3Impracticability of\n\tselling All and giving to the Poor\u00f3Love and Obedience\u00f3Unhappiness in\n\tthe Marriage Relation not the fault of Marriage.\n\n\tTHOMAS PAINE.\n\n\tLife by Moncure D. Conway\u00f3Early Advocacy of Reforms against Dueling\n\tand Cruelty to Animals\u00f3The First to write \"The United States of\n\tAmerica\"\u00f3Washington's Sentiment against Separation from Great\n\tBritain\u00f3Paine's Thoughts in the Declaration of Independence\u00f3Author of\n\tthe first Proclamation of Emancipation in America\u00f3Establishment of a\n\tFund for the Relief of the Army\u00f3H's \"Farewell Address\"\u00f3The \"Rights of\n\tMan\"\u00f3Elected to the French Convention\u00f3Efforts to save the Life of the\n\tKing\u00f3His Thoughts on Religion\u00f3Arrested\u00f3The \"Age of Reason\" and the\n\tWeapons it has furnished \"Advanced Theologians\"\u00f3Neglect by Gouverneur\n\tMorris and Washington\u00f3James Monroe's letter to Paine and to the\n\tCommittee of General Safety\u00f3The vaunted Religious Liberty of\n\tColonial Maryland\u00f3Orthodox Christianity at the Beginning of the 19th\n\tCentury\u00f3New Definitions of God\u00f3The Funeral of Paine.\n\n\tTHE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS.\n\n\tI. Mr. A., the Professional Philanthropist, who established a Colony\n\tfor the Enslavement of the Poor who could not take care of themselves,\n\tamassed a large Fortune thereby, built several churches, and earned\n\tthe Epitaph, \"He was the Providence of the Poor\"\u00f3II. Mr. B.,\n\tthe Manufacturer, who enriched himself by taking advantage of the\n\tNecessities of the Poor, paid the lowest Rate of Wages, considered\n\thimself one of God's Stewards, endowed the \"B Asylum\" and the \"B\n\tCollege,\" never lost a Dollar, and of whom it was recorded, \"He Lived\n\tfor Others.\" III. Mr. C., who divided his Profits with the People who had\n\tearned it, established no Public Institutions, suppressed Nobody; and\n\tthose who have worked for him said, \"He allowed Others to live for\n\tThemselves.\"\n\n\tSHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?\n\n\tTrampling on the Rights of Inferiors\u00f3Rise of the Irish and Germans\n\tto Power\u00f3The Burlingame Treaty\u00f3Character of Chinese Laborers\u00f3Their\n\tEnemies in the Pacific States\u00f3Violation of Treaties\u00f3The Geary Law\u00f3The\n\tChinese Hated for their Virtues\u00f3More Piety than Principle among the\n\tPeople's Representatives\u00f3Shall we go back to Barbarism?\n\n\tA WORD ABOUT EDUCATION.\n\n\tWhat the Educated Man Knows\u00f3Necessity of finding out the Facts\n\tof Nature\u00f3\"Scholars\" not always Educated Men; from necessaries to\n\tluxuries; who may be called educated; mental misers; the first duty of\n\tman; university education not necessary to usefulness, no advantage in\n\tlearning useless facts.\n\n\tWHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.\n\n\tWould have the Kings and Emperors resign, the Nobility drop their\n\tTitles, the Professors agree to teach only What they Know, the\n\tPoliticians changed to Statesmen, the Editors print only the\n\tTruth\u00f3Would like to see Drunkenness and Prohibition abolished,\n\tCorporal Punishment done away with, and the whole World free.\n\n\tFOOL FRIENDS.\n\n\tThe Fool Friend believes every Story against you, never denies a Lie\n\tunless it is in your Favor, regards your Reputation as Common Prey,\n\tforgets his Principles to gratify your Enemies, and is so friendly that\n\tyou cannot Kick him.\n\n\tINSPIRATION.\n\n\tNature tells a different Story to all Eyes and Ears\u00f3Horace Greeley and\n\tthe Big Trees\u00f3The Man who \"always did like rolling land\"\u00f3What the\n\tSnow looked like to the German\u00f3Shakespeare's different Story for each\n\tReader\u00f3As with Nature so with the Bible.\n\n\tTHE TRUTH OF HISTORY.\n\n\tPeople who live by Lying\u00f3A Case in point\u00f3H. Hodson Rugg's Account of\n\tthe Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers\u00f3The \"Identity of\n\tLost Israel with the British Nation\"\u00f3Old Falsehoods about Infidels\u00f3The\n\tNew York Observer and Thomas Paine\u00f3A Rascally English Editor\u00f3The\n\tCharge that Ingersoll's Son had been Converted\u00f3The Fecundity of\n\tFalsehood.\n\n\tHOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER.\n\n\tThe Editor should not narrow his Horizon so that he can see only\n\tOne Thing\u00f3To know the Defects of the Bible is but the Beginning of\n\tWisdom\u00f3The Liberal Paper should not discuss Theological Questions\n\tAlone\u00f3A Column for Children\u00f3Candor and Kindness\u00f3Nothing should be\n\tAsserted that is not Known\u00f3Above All, teach the Absolute Freedom of the\n\tMind.\n\n\tSECULARISM.\n\n\tThe religion of Humanity; what it Embraces and what it Advocates\u00f3A\n\tProtest against Ecclesiastical Tyranny\u00f3Believes in Building a Home\n\there\u00f3Means Food and Fireside\u00f3The Right to express your Thought\u00f3Its\n\tadvice to every Human Being\u00f3A Religion without Mysteries, Miracles, or\n\tPersecutions.\n\n\tCRITICISM OF \"ROBERT ELSMERE,\" \"JOHN WARD, PREACHER,\" AND \"AN AFRICAN FARM.\"\n\n\tReligion unsoftened by Infidelity\u00f3The Orthodox Minister whose Wife has\n\ta Heart\u00f3Honesty of Opinion not a Mitigating Circumstance\u00f3Repulsiveness\n\tof an Orthodox Life\u00f3John Ward an Object of Pity\u00f3Lyndall of the\n\t\"African Farm\"\u00f3The Story of the Hunter\u00f3Death of Waldo\u00f3Women the\n\tCaryatides of the Church\u00f3Attitude of Christianity toward other\n\tReligions\u00f3Egotism of the ancient Jews.\n\n\tTHE LIBEL LAWS.\n\n\tAll Articles appearing in a newspaper should be Signed by the\n\tWriter\u00f3The Law if changed should throw greater Safeguards around the\n\tReputation of the Citizen\u00f3Pains should be taken to give Prominence to\n\tRetractions\u00f3The Libel Laws like a Bayonet in War.\n\n\tREV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.\n\n\tMr. Newton not Regarded as a Sceptic\u00f3New Meanings given to Old\n\tWords\u00f3The vanishing Picture of Hell\u00f3The Atonement\u00f3Confidence being\n\tLost in the Morality of the Gospel\u00f3Exclusiveness of the Churches\u00f3The\n\tHope of Immortality and Belief in God have Nothing to do with Real\n\tReligion\u00f3Special Providence a Mistake.\n\n\tAN ESSAY ON CHRISTMAS.\n\n\tThe Day regarded as a Holiday\u00f3A Festival far older\n\tthan Christianity\u00f3Relics of Sun-worship in Christian\n\tCeremonies\u00f3Christianity furnished new Steam for an old Engine\u00f3Pagan\n\tFestivals correspond to Ours\u00f3Why Holidays are Popular\u00f3They must be for\n\tthe Benefit of the People.\n\n\tHAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?\n\n\tThe Object of Freethought\u00f3what the Religionist calls \"Affirmative\n\tand Positive\"\u00f3The Positive Side of Freethought\u00f3Constructive Work of\n\tChristianity.\n\n\tTHE IMPROVED MAN.\n\n\tHe will be in Favor of universal Liberty, neither Master nor Slave; of\n\tEquality and Education; will develop in the Direction of the Beautiful;\n\twill believe only in the Religion of this World\u00f3His Motto\u00f3Will not\n\tendeavor to change the Mind of the \"Infinite\"\u00f3Will have no Bells or\n\tCensers\u00f3Will be satisfied that the Supernatural does not exist\u00f3Will be\n\tSelf-poised, Independent, Candid and Free.\n\n\tEIGHT HOURS MUST COME.\n\n\tThe Working People should be protected by Law\u00f3Life of no particular\n\tImportance to the Man who gets up before Daylight and works till\n\tafter Dark\u00f3A Revolution probable in the Relations between Labor and\n\tCapital\u00f3Working People becoming Educated and more Independent\u00f3The\n\tGovernment can Aid by means of Good Laws\u00f3Women the worst Paid\u00f3There\n\tshould be no Resort to Force by either Labor or Capital.\n\n\tTHE JEWS.\n\n\tMuch like People of other Religions\u00f3Teaching given Christian Children\n\tabout those who die in the Faith of Abraham\u00f3Dr. John Hall on\n\tthe Persecution of the Jews in Russia as the Fulfillment of\n\tProphecy\u00f3Hostility of Orthodox early Christians excited by Jewish\n\tWitnesses against the Faith\u00f3An infamous Chapter of History\u00f3Good\n\tand bad Men of every Faith\u00f3Jews should outgrow their own\n\tSuperstitions\u00f3What the intelligent Jew Knows.\n\n\tCRUMBLING CREEDS.\n\n\tThe Common People called upon to Decide as between the Universities and\n\tthe Synods\u00f3Modern Medicine, Law, Literature and Pictures as against the\n\tOld\u00f3Creeds agree with the Sciences of their Day\u00f3Apology the Prelude\n\tto Retreat\u00f3The Presbyterian Creed Infamous, but no worse than\n\tthe Catholic\u00f3Progress begins when Expression of Opinion is\n\tAllowed\u00f3Examining the Religions of other Countries\u00f3The Pulpit's\n\tPosition Lost\u00f3The Dogma of Eternal Pain the Cause of the orthodox\n\tCreeds losing Popularity\u00f3Every Church teaching this Infinite Lie must\n\tFall.\n\n\tOUR SCHOOLS.\n\n\tEducation the only Lever capable of raising Mankind\u00f3The\n\tSchool-house more Important than the Church\u00f3Criticism of New York's\n\tSchool-Buildings\u00f3The Kindergarten System Recommended\u00f3Poor Pay of\n\tTeachers\u00f3The great Danger to the Republic is Ignorance.\n\n\tVIVISECTION.\n\n\tThe Hell of Science\u00f3Brutal Curiosity of Vivisectors\u00f3The Pretence that\n\tthey are working for the Good of Man\u00f3Have these scientific Assassins\n\tadded to useful Knowledge?\u00f3No Good to the Race to be Accomplished by\n\tTorture\u00f3The Tendency to produce a Race of intelligent Wild Beasts.\n\n\tTHE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.\n\n\tRight of the Government to ask Questions and of the Citizen to refuse\n\tto answer them\u00f3Matters which the Government has no Right to pry\n\tinto\u00f3Exposing the Debtor's financial Condition\u00f3A Man might decline to\n\ttell whether he has a Chronic Disease or not.\n\n\tTHE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS.\n\n\tNatural Phenomena and Myths celebrated\u00f3The great Day of the first\n\tReligion, Sun-worship\u00f3A God that Knew no Hatred nor Sought Revenge\u00f3The\n\tFestival of Light.\n\n\tSPIRITUALITY.\n\n\tA much-abused Word\u00f3The Early Christians too Spiritual to be\n\tCivilized\u00f3Calvin and Knox\u00f3Paine, Voltaire and Humboldt not\n\tSpiritual\u00f3Darwin also Lacking\u00f3What it is to be really Spiritual\u00f3No\n\tconnection with Superstition.\n\n\tSUMTER'S GUN.\n\n\tWhat were thereby blown into Rags and Ravelings\u00f3The Birth of a\n\tnew Epoch announced\u00f3Lincoln made the most commanding Figure of the\n\tCentury\u00f3Story of its Echoes.\n\n\tWHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE.\n\n\tWhat might have been Asked of a Christian 100 years after\n\tChrist\u00f3Hospitals and Asylums not all built for Charity\u00f3Girard\n\tCollege\u00f3Lick Observatory\u00f3Carnegie not an Orthodox Christian\u00f3Christian\n\tColleges\u00f3Give us Time.\n\n\tCRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.\n\n\n\tBrockway a Savage\u00f3The Lash will neither develop the Brain nor cultivate\n\tthe Heart\u00f3Brutality a Failure\u00f3Bishop Potter's apostolical Remark.\n\n\tLAW'S DELAY.\n\n\tThe Object of a Trial\u00f3Justice can afford to Wait\u00f3The right of\n\tAppeal\u00f3Case of Mrs. Maybrick\u00f3Life Imprisonment for Murderers\u00f3American\n\tCourts better than the English.\n\tBIGOTRY OF COLLEGES.\n\tUniversities naturally Conservative\u00f3Kansas State University's\n\tObjection to Ingersoll as a commencement Orator\u00f3Comment by Mr. Depew\n\t(note)\u00f3Action of Cornell and the University of Missouri.\n\n\tA YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY.\n\n\tThe Chances a few Years ago\u00f3Capital now Required\u00f3Increasing\n\tcompetition in Civilized Life\u00f3Independence the first Object\u00f3If he has\n\tsomething to say, there will be plenty to listen.\n\n\tSCIENCE AND SENTIMENT.\n\n\tScience goes hand in hand with Imagination\u00f3Artistic and Ethical\n\tDevelopment\u00f3Science destroys Superstition, not true Religion\u00f3Education\n\tpreferable to Legislation\u00f3Our Obligation to our Children.\n\n\t\"SOWING AND REAPING.\"\n\n\tMoody's Belief accounted for\u00f3A dishonest and corrupting Doctrine\u00f3A\n\twant of Philosophy and Sense\u00f3Have Souls in Heaven no Regrets?\u00f3Mr.\n\tMoody should read some useful Books.\n\n\tSHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?\n\n\tTeachings of orthodox Sunday Schools\u00f3The ferocious God of the\n\tBible\u00f3Miracles\u00f3A Christian in Constantinople would not send his\n\tChild to a Mosque\u00f3Advice to all Agnostics\u00f3Strangle the Serpent of\n\tSuperstition.\n\n\tWHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?\n\n\tCharacter of the Bible\u00f3Men and Women not virtuous because of any\n\tBook\u00f3The Commandments both Good and Bad\u00f3Books that do not help\n\tMorality\u00f3Jehovah not a moral God\u00f3What is Morality?\u00f3Intelligence the\n\tonly moral guide.\n\n\tGOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.\n\n\tDecline of the Christian Religion in New Hampshire\u00f3Outgrown\n\tBeliefs\u00f3Present-day Views of Christ and the Holy Ghost\u00f3Abandoned\n\tNotions about the Atonement\u00f3Salvation for Credulity\u00f3The Miracles\n\tof the New Testament\u00f3The Bible \"not true but inspired\"\u00f3The \"Higher\n\tCritics\" riding two Horses\u00f3Infidelity in the Pulpit\u00f3The \"restraining\n\tInfluences of Religion\" as illustrated by Spain and Portugal\u00f3Thinking,\n\tWorking and Praying\u00f3The kind of Faith that has Departed.\n\n\tA LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.\n\n\tThe Truth Seeker congratulated on its Twenty-fifth Birthday\u00f3Teachings\n\tof Twenty-five Years ago\u00f3Dodging and evading\u00f3The Clerical Assault\n\ton Darwin\u00f3Draper, Buckle, Hegel, Spencer, Emerson\u00f3Comparison\n\tof Prejudices\u00f3Vanished Belief in the Devil\u00f3Matter and\n\tForce\u00f3Contradictions Dwelling in Unity\u00f3Substitutes for Jehovah\u00f3A\n\tProphecy.\n\n\tPOLITICAL MORALITY.\n\n\tArgument in the contested Election Case of Strobach against Herbert\u00f3The\n\tImportance of Honest Elections\u00f3Poisoning the Source of Justice\u00f3The\n\tFraudulent Voter a Traitor to his Sovereign, the Will of the\n\tPeople\u00f3Political Morality Imperative.\n\n\tA FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.\n\n\tDate and Manner of Composing the Old Testament\u00f3Other Books not now in\n\tExistence, and Disagreements about the Canon\u00f3Composite Character of\n\tcertain Books\u00f3Various Versions\u00f3Why was God's message given to the Jews\n\talone?\u00f3The Story of the Creation, of the Flood, of the Tower, and\n\tof Lot's wife\u00f3Moses and Aaron and the Plagues of Egypt\u00f3Laws of\n\tSlavery\u00f3Instructions by Jehovah Calculated to excite Astonishment and\n\tMirth\u00f3Sacrifices and the Scapegoat\u00f3Passages showing that the Laws of\n\tMoses were made after the Jews had left the Desert\u00f3Jehovah's dealings\n\twith his People\u00f3The Sabbath Law\u00f3Prodigies\u00f3Joshua's Miracle\u00f3Damned\n\tIgnorance and Infamy\u00f3Jephthah's Sacrifice\u00f3Incredible Stories\u00f3The\n\tWoman of Endor and the Temptation of David\u00f3Elijah and Elisha\u00f3Loss of\n\tthe Pentateuch from Moses to Josiah\u00f3The Jews before and after being\n\tAbandoned by Jehovah\u00f3Wealth of Solomon and other Marvels.\n\n\n\n\nVOLUME XII.--MISCELLANY\n\nPROF. VAN BUREN DENSLOW'S \"MODERN THINKERS.\"\n\nPREFACE TO DR. EDGAR C. BEALL'S \"THE BRAIN AND THE BIBLE.\"\n\nPREFACE TO \"MEN, WOMEN AND GODS.\"\n\nPREFACE TO \"FOR HER DAILY BREAD.\"\n\nPREFACE TO \"AGNOSTICISM AND OTHER ESSAYS.\"\n\nPREFACE TO \"FAITH OR FACT.\"\n\nTHE GRANT BANQUET.\n\nTHIRTEEN CLUB DINNER.\n\nROBSON AND CRANE DINNER.\n\nTHE POLICE CAPTAINS' DINNER.\n\nGENERAL GRANT'S BIRTHDAY DINNER\n\nLOTOS CLUB DINNER, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.\n\nMANHATTAN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.\n\nTHE LIEDERKRANZ CLUB, SEIDL-STANTON BANQUET.\n\nTHE FRANK B. CARPENTER DINNER.\n\nUNITARIAN CLUB DINNER.\n\nWESTERN SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BANQUET.\n\nLOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL.\n\nLOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY.\n\nADDRESS TO THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA.\n\nTHE CHILDREN OF THE STAGE.\n\nADDRESS TO THE PRESS CLUB.\n\nTHE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE.\n\nCONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE.\n\nCONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION.\n\nTHE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.\n\nORGANIZED CHARITIES.\n\nSPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS.\n\nOUR NEW POSSESSIONS.\n\nA FEW FRAGMENTS ON EXPANSION.\n\nIS IT EVER RIGHT FOR HUSBAND OR WIFE TO KILL RIVAL?\n\nPROFESSOR BRIGGS.\n\nFRAGMENTS.\n\nEFFECT OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ON THE HUMAN RACE.\n\nSABBATH SUPERSTITION.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE.\n\nAT THE GRAVE OF BENJAMIN W. PARKER.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO EBON C. INGERSOLL\n\nA TRIBUTE TO THE REV. ALEXANDER CLARK.\n\nAT A CHILD'S GRAVE.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO JOHN G. MILLS.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO ELIZUR WRIGHT.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO MRS. IDA WHITING KNOWLES.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO HENRY WARD BEECHER.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO ROSCOE CONKLING.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO RICHARD H. WHITING.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO COURTLANDT PALMER.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY H. FISKE.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO HORACE SEAVER.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE BARRETT.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO ANTON SEIDL.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO DR. THOMAS SETON ROBERTSON.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO THOMAS CORWIN.\n\nA TRIBUTE TO ISAAC H. BAILEY.\n\nJESUS CHRIST.\n\nLIFE.","title":"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents: Dresden Edition\u2014Twelve Volumes","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16475}