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Adam ANDREW DIXON atheist authority believe Bible BISHOP BOSTON CANON Catholic century CHARLES Christian church civilization clergy creation creed death deity devil divine doctrine dogma earth ecclesiastical EDWARD EDWARD CLODD ERNST HAECKEL eternal existence fact faith Father FRANCE FREDERICK Genesis GEORGE GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE gods Gospel HAECKEL HARRIET MARTINEAU heaven hell HENRY HERBERT SPENCER holy human HUXLEY idea ignorance immortality infidel INGERSOLL JAMES Jesus Jews JOHN JOSEPH KING LEMUEL living LL.D LORD LYMAN ABBOTT mankind mind ministers miracles missionaries modern moral Moses nature never Old Testament pagan PAUL philosophers Pope prayer preach PRES priests PROF PROFESSOR reason religion religious revelation ROBERT G Roman Rome Sabbath SAMUEL scientific Scriptures soul spirit Sunday supernatural superstition teach theologians theology things THOMAS JEFFERSON Thomas Paine thought to-day truth universe VOLTAIRE WASHBURN WILLIAM WILLIAM SANDAY word worship
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Page 681 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 38 - If we take in our hand any volume, of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 740 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Page 107 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 119 - Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
Page 153 - To promote the increase of natural knowledge and to forward the application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of life to the best of my ability, in the conviction which has grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength that there is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
Page 11 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 256 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type...
Page 471 - It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
Page 741 - Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...