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Shaw Mark Twain Voltaire Emile Zola Ambroise Bierce Creed And Deed By Felix Adler (1851 - 1933) Monks, Popes, and their Intrigues By John Alberger (circa 1850) Reason, The Only Oracle of Man By Ethan Allen (1737 - 1789) Letter To Sir Samuel Shepherd By Anonymous (--) The Life of David By Anonymous (--) The Doubts Of Infidels By Anonymous (--) The Miraculous Conception By Anonymous (--) Thoughts on the Christian Religion By Anonymous (--) Christian Mystery By Anonymous (--) The Gospel of Evolution By Edward Aveling (1849 - 1898) My Path to Atheism By Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) What it is Blasphemy to Deny By Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) God and my Neighbour by Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio () Life of St. Paul by Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722-1759) Christianity Unveiled by Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722-1759) Ancient and Modern Freethinkers By Bradlaugh, Collins and Watts (--) Humanity's Gain from Unbelief By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) Impeachment of The House of Brunswick By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) The Bible: what it is By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) When Were Our Gospels Written? By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) Heresy: Its Utility And Morality By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) A Few Words About the Devil By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) Some Objections To Socialism By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) Theological Essays By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) L'Histoire Des Vaudois By J. Bresse (--) Bacon And Shakspere By William Henry Burr (--) The Battle of The Press By T. Carlile Campbell (--) Address to Men of Science By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) Life of Thomas Paine By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) Church Reform By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) Society for the Suppression of Vice By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) Marriage In Free Society by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. By Walter Richard Cassels (1826 - 1907) Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. By Walter Richard Cassels (1826 - 1907) Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. By Walter Richard Cassels (1826 - 1907) A Grammar of Freethought By Chapman Cohen (1868 - 1954) The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. By Moncure D. Conway (1832 - 1907) The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. By Moncure D. Conway (1832 - 1907) Biblical Extracts By Robert Cooper (--) The Power Of The Popes By Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761 - 1840) On the Origin of Species, Ed. 1 by Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) On the Origin of Species, Ed. 6 by Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) Religion and Science by John William Draper (1811-1882) In Praise of Folly By Desiderius Erasmus (1466? - 1536) Tales and Novels By Jean de la Fontaine (1621 - 1695) Prisoner for Blasphemy by George William Foote (1850-1915) Flowers of Freethought, I By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Flowers of Freethought, II By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Arrows of Freethought By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Bible Romances By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Comic Bible Sketches By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh By George W. Foote (1850-1915) The Book Of God By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Satires And Profanities By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Salvation Syrup By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life By George W. Foote (1850-1915) Watson Refuted By Samuel Francis (1850-1915) God-Idea of the Ancients By Eliza Burt Gamble ( ) Men, Women, and Gods By Helen H. Gardener (1853-1925) Rule of the Monk By Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 - 1882) Sixteen Crucified Saviors By Kersey Graves (1813 - 1883) Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) Auricular Confession + Nunneries By William Hogan (circa 1795) Popery! As it Was and Is By William Hogan (circa 1795) Good Sense by Baron D'Holbach (1723-1789) Letters To Eugenia By Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1723-1789) Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland (--) Bygones, Vol. 1 By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) Bygones, Vol. 2 By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) Principles Of Secularism By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) The Limits Of Atheism By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) Last Trial For Atheism By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) A Logic of Facts By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) English Secularism By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) Life of Richard Carlile By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) Ludicrous Christianity By Austin Holyoak (--) The Ghosts By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Hell By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) About The Holy Bible By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Oration on Thomas Paine By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) The Christian Religion By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Heretics And Heresies By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Humboldt By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Individuality By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Mistakes of Moses By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Thomas Paine-A Lecture By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Trial of C. B. Reynolds By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Shakespeare By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Ingersollia By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) The Gods By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) Ancient Faiths And Modern By Thomas Inman (1820-1876) Ancient Pagan Symbolism By Thomas Inman (1820-1876) Fruits of Philosophy By Charles Knowlton (1800 - 1850) Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 by Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 2 by Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) Tyanny of God (produced by DP) by Joseph Lewis (1889 - 1968) The Story of the Mormons by William Alexander Linn (1886-1944) Supernatural Claims of Christianity by Lionel Lisle ( ) The Story of Mankind By Hendrik van Loon (1882 - 1944) Superstition In All Ages by Jean Meslier (1664-1729) Religion In The Heavens by Logan Mitchell (--) Exempting the Churches by James F. Morton, Jr (--) Nature and the Gods By Arthur B. Moss ( ) Friends of Free Discussion By Benjamin Offen ( ) The Non-Christian Cross By John Denham Parsons ( ) Character Of The Jew Books By Philanthropos ( ) Character Of a Priest By Philanthropos ( ) Ingersoll in Canada By Allen Pringle ( ) Anthem by Ayn Rand (1905-1982) The Christ Of Paul By George Reber ( ) Bygone Beliefs by H. Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943) Lincoln: Was He A Christian? By John B. Remsburg ( ) The Christian Sabbath By John E. Remsburg ( ) Thomas Paine, The Apostle of Liberty By John E. Remsburg ( ) Maxims of Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) The Holy Coat Of Treves By John Ronge ( ) Preface to Androcles and the Lion By George B. Shaw (1856 - 1950) The Wandering Jew By Eugene Sue (1804 - 1857) Arguments of Celsus By Thomas Taylor (1858 - 1938) The Innocents Abroad By Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) The Entire Forbidden Gospels by Archbishop William Wake (1657 - 1737) Is The Bible Worth Reading by Lemuel K. Washburn ( ) The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys by R. B. Westbrook ( ) A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers By Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (--) Frauds and Follies of the Fathers By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) Bible Studies By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) The Christian Doctrine of Hell By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) Warfare of Science with Theology by Andrew Dickson White (1832 - 1918) The Ruins by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney (1757-1820) CHAPTER AND SECTION DETAIL FOR THE WORKS OF PAINE AND INGERSOLL INGERSOLL VOLUME I.--LECTURES DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. THE GODS HUMBOLDT. THOMAS PAINE INDIVIDUALITY. HERETICS AND HERESIES. THE GHOSTS. THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD. LIBERTY OF WOMAN. THE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN. CONCLUSION. ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED? I. WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE SAVED II. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW III. THE GOSPEL OF MARK IV . THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. V . THE GOSPEL OF JOHN VI. THE CATHOLICS VII. THE EPISCOPALIANS VIII. THE METHODISTS IX. THE PRESBYTERIANS X. THE EV ANGELICAL ALLIANCE. XI. WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE? DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. THE GODS. (1872.) An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man—Resemblance of Gods to their Creators—Manufacture and Characteristics of Deities—Their Amours—Deficient in many Departments of Knowledge—Pleased with the Butchery of Unbelievers—A Plentiful Supply—Visitations—One God's Laws of War—The Book called the Bible—Heresy of Universalism—Faith an unhappy mixture of Insanity and Ignorance—Fallen Gods, or Devils—Directions concerning Human Slavery—The first Appearance of the Devil—The Tree of Knowledge—Give me the Storm and Tempest of Thought—Gods and Devils Natural Productions—Personal Appearance of Deities—All Man's Ideas suggested by his Surroundings—Phenomena Supposed to be Produced by Intelligent Powers—Insanity and Disease attributed to Evil Spirits—Origin of the Priesthood—Temptation of Christ—Innate Ideas—Divine Interference—Special Providence—The Crane and the Fish—Cancer as a proof of Design—Matter and Force—Miracle—Passing the Hat for just one Fact—Sir William Hamilton on Cause and Effect—The Phenomena of Mind—Necessity and Free Will—The Dark Ages—The Originality of Repetition—Of what Use have the Gods been to Man?—Paley and Design—Make Good Health Contagious—Periodicity of the Universe and the Commencement of Intellectual Freedom—Lesson of the ineffectual attempt to rescue the Tomb of Christ from the Mohammedans—The Cemetery of the Gods—Taking away Crutches—Imperial Reason HUMBOLDT. (1869.) The Universe is Governed by Law—The Self-made Man—Poverty generally an Advantage—Humboldt's Birth-place—His desire for Travel—On what Humboldt's Fame depends—His Companions and Friends—Investigations in the New World—A Picture—Subjects of his Addresses—Victory of the Church over Philosophy—Influence of the discovery that the World is governed by Law—On the term Law—Copernicus—Astronomy—Aryabhatta— Descartes—Condition of the World and Man when the morning of Science Dawned—Reasons for Honoring Humboldt—The World his Monument THOMAS PAINE. (1870.) With his Name left out the History of Liberty cannot be Written—Paine's Origin and Condition—His arrival in America with a Letter of Introduction by Franklin—Condition of the Colonies—"Common Sense"—A new Nation Born—Paine the Best of Political Writers—The "Crisis"—War not to the Interest of a trading Nation—Paine's Standing at the Close of the Revolution—Close of the Eighteenth Century in France-The "Rights of Man"—Paine Prosecuted in England—"The World is my Country"—Elected to the French Assembly—Votes against the Death of the King—Imprisoned—A look behind the Altar—The "Age of Reason"—His Argument against the Bible as a Revelation—Christianity of Paine's Day—A Blasphemy Law in Force in Maryland—The Scotch "Kirk"—Hanging of Thomas Aikenhead for Denying the Inspiration of the Scriptures—"Cathedrals and Domes, and Chimes and Chants"—Science—"He Died in the Land his Genius Defended," INDIVIDUALITY. (1873.) "His Soul was like a Star and Dwelt Apart"—Disobedience one of the Conditions of Progress.—Magellan—The Monarch and the Hermit-Why the Church hates a Thinker—The Argument from Grandeur and Prosperity-Travelers and Guide-boards—A Degrading Saying—Theological Education—Scotts, Henrys and McKnights—The Church the Great Robber—Corrupting the Reason of Children—Monotony of Acquiescence: For God's sake, say No—Protestant Intolerance: Luther and Calvin—Assertion of Individual Independence a Step toward Infidelity—Salute to Jupiter—The Atheistic Bug-Little Religious Liberty in America—God in the Constitution, Man Out—Decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois that an Unbeliever could not testify in any Court—Dissimulation—Nobody in this Bed—The Dignity of a Unit HERETICS AND HERESIES. (1874.) Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain—The Church, the Bible, and Persecution—Over the wild Waves of War rose and fell the Banner of Jesus Christ—Highest Type of the Orthodox Christian—Heretics' Tongues and why they should be Removed before Burning—The Inquisition Established—Forms of Torture—Act of Henry VIII for abolishing Diversity of Opinion—What a Good Christian was Obliged to Believe—The Church has Carried the Black Flag—For what Men and Women have been Burned—John Calvin's Advent into the World—His Infamous Acts—Michael Servetus—Castalio—Spread of Presbyterianism—Indictment of a Presbyterian Minister in Illinois for Heresy—Specifications—The Real Bible THE GHOSTS. (1877.) Dedication to Ebon C. Ingersoll—Preface—Mendacity of the Religious Press—"Materialism"—Ways of Pleasing the Ghosts—The Idea of Immortality not Born of any Book—Witchcraft and Demon-ology—Witch Trial before Sir Matthew Hale—John Wesley a Firm Believer in Ghosts—"Witch-spots"—Lycanthropy—Animals Tried and Convicted—The Governor of Minnesota and the Grasshoppers—A Papal Bull against Witchcraft—Victims of the Delusion—Sir William Blackstone's Affirmation—Trials in Belgium—Incubi and Succubi—A Bishop Personated by the Devil—The Doctrine that Diseases are caused by Ghosts—Treatment—Timothy Dwight against Vaccination—Ghosts as Historians—The Language of Eden—Leibnitz, Founder of the Science of Language—Cosmas on Astronomy—Vagaries of Kepler and Tycho Brahe—Discovery of Printing, Powder, and America—Thanks to the Inventors—The Catholic Murderer and the Meat—Let the Ghosts Go THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD. (1877.) Liberty sustains the same Relation to Mind that Space does to Matter—The History of Man a History of Slavery—The Infidel Our Fathers in the good old Time—The iron Arguments that Christians Used—Instruments of Torture—A Vision of the Inquisition—Models of Man's Inventions—Weapons, Armor, Musical Instruments, Paintings, Books, Skulls—The Gentleman in the Dug-out—Homage to Genius and Intellect—Abraham Lincoln—What I mean by Liberty—The Man who cannot afford to Speak his Thought is a Certificate of the Meanness of the Community in which he Resides—Liberty of Woman—Marriage and the Family—Ornaments the Souvenirs of Bondage-The Story of the Garden of Eden—Adami and Heva—Equality of the Sexes-The word "Boss"—The Cross Man-The Stingy Man—Wives who are Beggars—How to Spend Money—By the Tomb of the Old Napoleon—The Woman you Love will never Grow Old—Liberty of Children—When your Child tells a Lie—Disowning Children—Beating your own Flesh and Blood—Make Home Pleasant—Sunday when I was a Boy—The Laugh of a Child—The doctrine of Eternal Punishment—Jonathan Edwards on the Happiness of Believing Husbands whose Wives are in Hell—The Liberty of Eating and Sleeping—Water in Fever—Soil and Climate necessary to the production of Genius—Against Annexing Santo Domingo—Descent of Man—Conclusion ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS. (1877.) To Plow is to Pray; to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfills—The Old Way of Farming—Cooking an Unknown Art-Houses, Fuel, and Crops—The Farmer's Boy—What a Farmer should Sell—Beautifying the Home—Advantages of Illinois as a Farming State—Advantages of the Farmer over the Mechanic—Farm Life too Lonely-On Early Rising—Sleep the Best Doctor—Fashion—Patriotism and Boarding Houses—The Farmer and the Railroads—Money and Confidence—Demonetization of Silver-Area of Illinois—Mortgages and Interest—Kindness to Wives and Children—How a Beefsteak should be Cooked—Decorations and Comfort—Let the Children Sleep—Old Age WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED? (1880.) Preface—The Synoptic Gospels—Only Mark Knew of the Necessity of Belief—Three Christs Described—The Jewish Gentleman and the Piece of Bacon—Who Wrote the New Testament?—Why Christ and the Apostles wrote Nothing—Infinite Respect for the Man Christ—Different Feeling for the Theological Christ—Saved from What?—Chapter on the Gospel of Matthew—What this Gospel says we must do to be Saved—Jesus and the Children—John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards conceived of as Dimpled Darlings—Christ and the Man who inquired what Good Thing he should do that he might have Eternal Life—Nothing said about Belief—An Interpolation—Chapter on the Gospel of Mark—The Believe or be Damned Passage, and why it was written—The last Conversation of Christ with his Disciples—The Signs that Follow them that Believe—Chapter on the Gospel of Luke—Substantial Agreement with Matthew and Mark—How Zaccheus achieved Salvation—The two Thieves on the Cross—Chapter on the Gospel of John—The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the New Birth—Shall we Love our Enemies while God Damns His?—Chapter on the Catholics—Communication with Heaven through Decayed Saints—Nuns and Nunneries—Penitentiaries of God should be Investigated—The Athanasian Creed expounded—The Trinity and its Members—Chapter on the Episcopalians—Origin of the Episcopal Church—Apostolic Succession an Imported Article—Episcopal Creed like the Catholic, with a few Additional Absurdities—Chapter on the Methodists—Wesley and Whitfield—Their Quarrel about Predestination—Much Preaching for Little Money—Adapted to New Countries—Chapter on the Presbyterians—John Calvin, Murderer—Meeting between Calvin and Knox—The Infamy of Calvinism—Division in the Church—The Young Presbyterian's Resignation to the Fate of his Mother—A Frightful, Hideous, and Hellish Creed—Chapter on the Evangelical Alliance—Jeremy Taylor's Opinion of Baptists—Orthodoxy not Dead—Creed of the Alliance—Total Depravity, Eternal Damnation—What do You Propose?—The Gospel of Good-fellowship, Cheerfulness, Health, Good Living, Justice—No Forgiveness—God's Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to Smith—Gospel of Liberty, of Intelligence, of Humanity—One World at a Time—"Upon that Rock I Stand" VOLUME II.--LECTURES DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. PREFACE. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES. SOME REASONS WHY ORTHODOXY. MYTH AND MIRACLE.