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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete
+Contents, by Robert G. Ingersoll
+
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+Title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents
+       Dresden Edition--Twelve Volumes
+
+Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
+
+Editor: David Widger
+
+Release Date: February 9, 2012 [EBook #38813]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONTENTS OF INGERSOLL'S WORKS ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL,
+
+CONTENTS OF THE 12 VOLUMES
+
+By Robert G. Ingersoll
+
+Edited and Compiled by David Widger
+
+
+"The Destroyer Of Weeds, Thistles And Thorns Is A Benefactor,
+Whether He Soweth Grain Or Not."
+1900
+
+THE DRESDEN EDITION
+
+
+
+
+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 EVANGELICAL 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.
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
+
+	 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.
+
+	(1879.)
+	Preface--I. He who endeavors to control the Mind by Force is a
+	Tyrant, and he who submits is a Slave--All I Ask--When a Religion
+	is Founded--Freedom for the Orthodox Clergy--Every Minister an
+	Attorney--Submission to the Orthodox and the Dead--Bounden Duty of
+	the Ministry--The Minister Factory at Andover--II. Free Schools--No
+	Sectarian Sciences--Religion and the Schools--Scientific
+	Hypocrites--III. The Politicians and the Churches--IV. Man and Woman the
+	Highest Possible Titles--Belief Dependent on Surroundings--Worship of
+	Ancestors--Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path--The Bible the
+	Chain that Binds--A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired--V.
+	The Pentateuch--Moses Not the Author--Belief out of which Grew
+	Religious Ceremonies--Egypt the Source of the Information of Moses--VI.
+	Monday--Nothing, in the Light of Raw Material--The Story of Creation
+	Begun--The Same Story, substantially, Found in the Records of Babylon,
+	Egypt, and India--Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth--Usefulness of
+	Miracles to Fit Lies to Facts--Division of Darkness and Light--VII.
+	Tuesday--The Firmament and Some Biblical Notions about it--Laws of
+	Evaporation Unknown to the Inspired Writer--VIII. Wednesday--The Waters
+	Gathered into Seas--Fruit and Nothing to Eat it--Five Epochs in the
+	Organic History of the Earth--Balance between the Total Amounts of
+	Animal and Vegetable Life--Vegetation Prior to the Appearance of the
+	Sun--IX. Thursday--Sun and Moon Manufactured--Magnitude of the Solar
+	Orb--Dimensions of Some of the Planets--Moses' Guess at the Size of Sun
+	and Moon--Joshua's Control of the Heavenly Bodies--A Hypothesis Urged
+	by Ministers--The Theory of "Refraction"--Rev. Henry Morey--Astronomical
+	Knowledge of Chinese Savants--The Motion of the Earth Reversed by
+	Jehovah for the Reassurance of Ahaz--"Errors" Renounced by Button--X.
+	"He made the Stars Also"--Distance of the Nearest Star--XI.
+	Friday--Whales and Other Living Creatures Produced--XII.
+	Saturday--Reproduction Inaugurated--XIII. "Let Us Make Man"--Human
+	Beings Created in the Physical Image and Likeness of God--Inquiry as
+	to the Process Adopted--Development of Living Forms According to
+	Evolution--How Were Adam and Eve Created?--The Rib Story--Age of
+	Man Upon the Earth--A Statue Apparently Made before the World--XIV.
+	Sunday--Sacredness of the Sabbath Destroyed by the Theory of Vast
+	"Periods"--Reflections on the Sabbath--XV. The Necessity for a Good
+	Memory--The Two Accounts of the Creation in Genesis I and II--Order
+	of Creation in the First Account--Order of Creation in the Second
+	Account--Fastidiousness of Adam in the Choice of a Helpmeet--Dr.
+	Adam Clark's Commentary--Dr. Scott's Guess--Dr. Matthew Henry's
+	Admission--The Blonde and Brunette Problem--The Result of Unbelief and
+	the Reward of Faith--"Give Him a Harp"--XVI. The Garden--Location of
+	Eden--The Four Rivers--The Tree of Knowledge--Andover Appealed
+	To--XVII. The Fall--The Serpent--Dr. Adam Clark Gives a Zoological
+	Explanation--Dr. Henry Dissents--Whence This Serpent?--XVIII.
+	Dampness--A Race of Giants--Wickedness of Mankind--An Ark Constructed--A
+	Universal Flood Indicated--Animals Probably Admitted to the Ark--How Did
+	They Get There?--Problem of Food and Service--A Shoreless Sea Covered
+	with Innumerable Dead--Drs. Clark and Henry on the Situation--The Ark
+	Takes Ground--New Difficulties--Noah's Sacrifice--The Rainbow as a
+	Memorandum--Babylonian, Egyptian, and Indian Legends of a Flood--XIX.
+	Bacchus and Babel--Interest Attaching to Noah--Where Did Our First
+	Parents and the Serpent Acquire a Common Language?--Babel and the
+	Confusion of Tongues--XX. Faith in Filth--Immodesty of Biblical
+	Diction--XXI. The Hebrews--God's Promises to Abraham--The Sojourning
+	of Israel in Egypt--Marvelous Increase--Moses and Aaron--XXII.
+	The Plagues--Competitive Miracle Working--Defeat of the Local
+	Magicians--XXIII. The Flight Out of Egypt--Three Million People in a
+	Desert--Destruction of Pharaoh ana His Host--Manna--A Superfluity of
+	Quails--Rev. Alexander Cruden's Commentary--Hornets as Allies of the
+	Israelites--Durability of the Clothing of the Jewish People--An Ointment
+	Monopoly--Consecration of Priests--The Crime of Becoming a Mother--The
+	Ten Commandments--Medical Ideas of Jehovah--Character of the God of
+	the Pentateuch--XXIV. Confess and Avoid--XXV. "Inspired" Slavery--XXVI.
+	"Inspired" Marriage-XXVII. "Inspired" War-XXVIII. "Inspired" Religious
+	Liberty--XXIX. Conclusion.
+
+	SOME REASONS WHY.
+
+	(1881.)
+	I--Religion makes Enemies--Hatred in the Name of Universal
+	Benevolence--No Respect for the Rights of Barbarians--Literal
+	Fulfillment of a New Testament Prophecy--II. Duties to God--Can we
+	Assist God?--An Infinite Personality an Infinite Impossibility-Ill.
+	Inspiration--What it Really Is--Indication of Clams--Multitudinous
+	Laughter of the Sea--Horace Greeley and the Mammoth Trees--A Landscape
+	Compared to a Table-cloth--The Supernatural is the Deformed--Inspiration
+	in the Man as well as in the Book--Our Inspired Bible--IV. God's
+	Experiment with the Jews--Miracles of One Religion never astonish the
+	Priests of Another--"I am a Liar Myself"--V. Civilized Countries--Crimes
+	once regarded as Divine Institutions--What the Believer in the
+	Inspiration of the Bible is Compelled to Say--Passages apparently
+	written by the Devil--VI. A Comparison of Books--Advancing a Cannibal
+	from Missionary to Mutton--Contrast between the Utterances of Jehovah
+	and those of Reputable Heathen--Epictetus, Cicero, Zeno,
+	Seneca--the Hindu, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius--The Avesta--VII.
+	Monotheism--Egyptians before Moses taught there was but One God
+	and Married but One Wife--Persians and Hindoos had a Single Supreme
+	Deity--Rights of Roman Women--Marvels of Art achieved without the
+	Assistance of Heaven--Probable Action of the Jewish Jehovah incarnated
+	as Man--VIII. The New Testament--Doctrine of Eternal Pain brought to
+	Light--Discrepancies--Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of
+	Divine Wisdom--Why there are Four Gospels according to Irenaeus--The
+	Atonement--Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation--Christians
+	say, "Charge it"--God's Forgiveness does not Repair an Injury--Suffering
+	of Innocence for the Guilty--Salvation made Possible by Jehovah's
+	Failure to Civilize the Jews--Necessity of Belief not taught in the
+	Synoptic Gospels--Non-resistance the Offspring of Weakness--IX. Christ's
+	Mission--All the Virtues had been Taught before his Advent--Perfect and
+	Beautiful Thoughts of his Pagan Predecessors--St. Paul Contrasted
+	with Heathen Writers--"The Quality of Mercy"--X. Eternal Pain--An
+	Illustration of Eternal Punishment--Captain Kreuger of the Barque
+	Tiger--XI. Civilizing Influence of the Bible--Its Effects on the
+	Jews--If Christ was God, Did he not, in his Crucifixion, Reap what
+	he had Sown?--Nothing can add to the Misery of a Nation whose King is
+	Jehovah
+
+	ORTHODOXY.
+
+	(1884.)
+	Orthodox Religion Dying Out--Religious Deaths and Births--The Religion
+	of Reciprocity--Every Language has a Cemetery--Orthodox Institutions
+	Survive through the Money invested in them--"Let us tell our Real
+	Names"--The Blows that have Shattered the Shield and Shivered the Lance
+	of Superstition--Mohammed's Successful Defence of the Sepulchre of
+	Christ--The Destruction of Art--The Discovery of America--Although
+	he made it himself, the Holy Ghost was Ignorant of the Form of this
+	Earth--Copernicus and Kepler--Special Providence--The Man and the Ship
+	he did not Take--A Thanksgiving Proclamation Contradicted--Charles
+	Darwin--Henry Ward Beecher--The Creeds--The Latest Creed--God as
+	a Governor--The Love of God--The Fall of Man--We are Bound
+	by Representatives without a Chance to Vote against Them--The
+	Atonement--The Doctrine of Depravity a Libel on the Human Race--The
+	Second Birth--A Unitarian Universalist--Inspiration of the
+	Scriptures--God a Victim of his own Tyranny--In the New Testament
+	Trouble Commences at Death--The Reign of Truth and Love--The Old
+	Spaniard who Died without an Enemy--The Wars it Brought--Consolation
+	should be Denied to Murderers--At the Rate at which Heathen are being
+	Converted, how long will it take to Establish Christ's Kingdom on
+	Earth?--The Resurrection--The Judgment Day--Pious Evasions--"We shall
+	not Die, but we shall all be Hanged"--"No Bible, no Civilization"
+	Miracles of the New Testament--Nothing Written by Christ or his
+	Contemporaries--Genealogy of Jesus--More Miracles--A Master of
+	Death--Improbable that he would be Crucified--The Loaves and Fishes--How
+	did it happen that the Miracles Convinced so Few?--The Resurrection--The
+	Ascension--Was the Body Spiritual--Parting from the Disciples--Casting
+	out Devils--Necessity of Belief--God should be consistent in the
+	Matter of forgiving Enemies--Eternal Punishment--Some Good Men who are
+	Damned--Another Objection--Love the only Bow on Life's dark Cloud--"Now
+	is the accepted Time"--Rather than this Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
+	Should be True--I would rather that every Planet should in its Orbit
+	wheel a barren Star--What I Believe--Immortality--It existed long before
+	Moses--Consolation--The Promises are so Far Away, and the Dead are so
+	Near--Death a Wall or a Door--A Fable--Orpheus and Eurydice.
+
+	MYTH AND MIRACLE.
+
+	(1885.)
+	I. Happiness the true End and Aim of Life--Spiritual People and
+	their Literature--Shakespeare's Clowns superior to Inspired
+	Writers--Beethoven's Sixth Symphony Preferred to the Five Books of
+	Moses--Venus of Milo more Pleasing than the Presbyterian Creed--II.
+	Religions Naturally Produced--Poets the Myth-makers--The Sleeping
+	Beauty--Orpheus and Eurydice--Red Riding Hood--The Golden Age--Elysian
+	Fields--The Flood Myth--Myths of the Seasons--III. The Sun-god--Jonah,
+	Buddha, Chrisnna, Horus, Zoroaster--December 25th as a Birthday of
+	Gods--Christ a Sun-God--The Cross a Symbol of the Life to Come--When
+	Nature rocked the Cradle of the Infant World--IV. Difference between
+	a Myth and a Miracle--Raising the Dead, Past and Present--Miracles
+	of Jehovah--Miracles of Christ--Everything Told except the Truth--The
+	Mistake of the World--V. Beginning of Investigation--The Stars as
+	Witnesses against Superstition--Martyrdom of Bruno--Geology--Steam and
+	Electricity--Nature forever the Same--Persistence of Force--Cathedral,
+	Mosque, and Joss House have the same Foundation--Science the
+	Providence of Man--VI. To Soften the Heart of God--Martyrs--The God was
+	Silent--Credulity a Vice--Develop the Imagination--"The Skylark" and
+	"The Daisy"--VII. How are we to Civilize the World?--Put Theology out
+	of Religion--Divorce of Church and State--Secular Education--Godless
+	Schools--VIII. The New Jerusalem--Knowledge of the Supernatural
+	possessed by Savages--Beliefs of Primitive Peoples--Science is
+	Modest--Theology Arrogant--Torque-mada and Bruno on the Day of
+	Judgment--IX. Poison of Superstition in the Mother's Milk--Ability
+	of Mistakes to take Care of Themselves--Longevity of Religious
+	Lies--Mother's religion pleaded by the Cannibal--The Religion of
+	Freedom--O Liberty, thou art the God of my Idolatry
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME III--LECTURES
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
+
+SHAKESPEARE
+
+ROBERT BURNS.*
+
+ABRAHAM LINCOLN
+
+VOLTAIRE.
+
+LIBERTY IN LITERATURE.
+
+THE GREAT INFIDELS.*
+
+CONCLUSION.
+
+WHICH WAY?
+
+ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
+
+	 SHAKESPEARE
+
+	(1891.)
+	I. The Greatest Genius of our World--Not of Supernatural Origin or
+	of Royal Blood--Illiteracy of his Parents--Education--His Father--His
+	Mother a Great Woman--Stratford Unconscious of the Immortal
+	Child--Social Position of Shakespeare--Of his Personal
+	Peculiarities--Birth, Marriage, and Death--What we Know of Him--No Line
+	written by him to be Found--The Absurd Epitaph--II. Contemporaries
+	by whom he was Mentioned--III. No direct Mention of any of his
+	Contemporaries in the Plays--Events and Personages of his Time--IV.
+	Position of the Actor in Shakespeare's Time--Fortunately he was Not
+	Educated at Oxford--An Idealist--His Indifference to Stage-carpentry
+	and Plot--He belonged to All Lands--Knew the Brain and Heart of Man--An
+	Intellectual Spendthrift--V. The Baconian Theory--VI. Dramatists before
+	and during the Time of Shakespeare--Dramatic Incidents Illustrated in
+	Passages from "Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar"--VII. His Use of the Work of
+	Others--The Pontic Sea--A Passage from "Lear"--VIII. Extravagance that
+	touches the Infinite--The Greatest Compliment--"Let me not live after
+	my flame lacks oil"--Where Pathos almost Touches the Grotesque--IX.
+	An Innovator and Iconoclast--Disregard of the "Unities"--Nature
+	Forgets--Violation of the Classic Model--X. Types--The Secret of
+	Shakespeare--Characters who Act from Reason and Motive--What they Say
+	not the Opinion of Shakespeare--XI. The Procession that issued from
+	Shakespeare's Brain--His Great Women--Lovable Clowns--His Men--Talent
+	and Genius--XII. The Greatest of all Philosophers--Master of the
+	Human Heart--Love--XIII. In the Realm of Comparison--XIV. Definitions:
+	Suicide, Drama, Death, Memory, the Body, Life, Echo, the
+	World, Rumor--The Confidant of Nature--XV. Humor and
+	Pathos--Illustrations--XVI. Not a Physician, Lawyer, or Botanist--He was
+	a Man of Imagination--He lived the Life of All--The Imagination had a
+	Stage in Shakespeare's Brain.
+
+	ROBERT BURNS.
+
+	(1878.)
+	Poetry and Poets--Milton, Dante, Petrarch--Old-time Poetry in
+	Scotland--Influence of Scenery on Literature--Lives that are
+	Poems--Birth of Burns--Early Life and Education--Scotland Emerging from
+	the Gloom of Calvinism--A Metaphysical Peasantry--Power of the Scotch
+	Preacher--Famous Scotch Names--John Barleycorn vs. Calvinism--Why Robert
+	Burns is Loved--His Reading--Made Goddesses of Women--Poet of Love: His
+	"Vision," "Bonnie Doon," "To Mary in Heaven"--Poet of Home:
+	"Cotter's Saturday Night," "John Anderson, My Jo"--Friendship: "Auld
+	Lang-Syne"--Scotch Drink: "Willie brew'd a peck o' maut"--Burns the
+	Artist: The "Brook," "Tam O'Shanter"--A Real Democrat: "A man's a man
+	for a' that"--His Theology: The Dogma of Eternal Pain, "Morality,"
+	"Hypocrisy," "Holy Willie's Prayer"--On the Bible--A Statement of his
+	Religion--Contrasted with Tennyson--From Cradle to Coffin--His Last
+	words--Lines on the Birth-place of Burns.
+
+	ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
+
+	(1894.)
+	I. Simultaneous Birth of Lincoln and Darwin--Heroes of Every
+	Generation--Slavery--Principle Sacrificed to Success--Lincoln's
+	Childhood--His first Speech--A Candidate for the Senate against
+	Douglass--II. A Crisis in the Affairs of the Republic--The South Not
+	Alone Responsible for Slavery--Lincoln's Prophetic Words--Nominated for
+	President and Elected in Spite of his Fitness--III. Secession and
+	Civil War--The Thought uppermost in his Mind--IV. A Crisis in the
+	North--Proposition to Purchase the Slaves--V. The Proclamation of
+	Emancipation--His Letter to Horace Greeley--Waited on by Clergymen--VI.
+	Surrounded by Enemies--Hostile Attitude of Gladstone, Salisbury,
+	Louis Napoleon, and the Vatican--VII. Slavery the Perpetual
+	Stumbling-block--Confiscation--VIII. His Letter to a Republican
+	Meeting in Illinois--Its Effect--IX. The Power of His Personality--The
+	Embodiment of Mercy--Use of the Pardoning Power--X. The Vallandigham
+	Affair--The Horace Greeley Incident--Triumphs of Humor--XI. Promotion of
+	General Hooker--A Prophecy and its Fulfillment--XII.--States Rights vs.
+	Territorial Integrity--XIII. His Military Genius--The Foremost Man in
+	all the World: and then the Horror Came--XIV. Strange Mingling of Mirth
+	and Tears--Deformation of Great Historic Characters--Washington now
+	only a Steel Engraving--Lincoln not a Type--Virtues Necessary in a
+	New Country--Laws of Cultivated Society--In the Country is the Idea
+	of Home--Lincoln always a Pupil--A Great Lawyer--Many-sided--Wit and
+	Humor--As an Orator--His Speech at Gettysburg contrasted with the
+	Oration of Edward Everett--Apologetic in his Kindness--No Official
+	Robes--The gentlest Memory of our World.
+
+	VOLTAIRE.
+
+	(1894.)
+	I. Changes wrought by Time--Throne and Altar Twin Vultures--The King and
+	the Priest--What is Greatness?--Effect of Voltaire's Name on Clergyman
+	and Priest--Born and Baptized--State of France in 1694--The Church
+	at the Head--Efficacy of Prayers and Dead Saints--Bells and Holy
+	Water--Prevalence of Belief in Witches, Devils, and Fiends--Seeds of
+	the Revolution Scattered by Noble and Priest--Condition in England--The
+	Inquisition in full Control in Spain--Portugal and Germany burning
+	Women--Italy Prostrate beneath the Priests, the Puritans in America
+	persecuting Quakers, and stealing Children--II. The Days of Youth--His
+	Education--Chooses Literature as a Profession and becomes a Diplomat--In
+	Love and Disinherited--Unsuccessful Poem Competition--Jansenists
+	and Molinists--The Bull Unigenitus--Exiled to Tulle--Sent to the
+	Bastile--Exiled to England--Acquaintances made there--III. The Morn
+	of Manhood--His Attention turned to the History of the Church--The
+	"Triumphant Beast" Attacked--Europe Filled with the Product of his
+	Brain--What he Mocked--The Weapon of Ridicule--His Theology--His
+	"Retractions"--What Goethe said of Voltaire--IV. The Scheme of
+	Nature--His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon
+	Earthquake--V. His Humanity--Case of Jean Calas--The Sirven Family--The
+	Espenasse Case--Case of Chevalier de la Barre and D'Etallonde--Voltaire
+	Abandons France--A Friend of Education--An Abolitionist--Not
+	a Saint--VI. The Return--His Reception--His Death--Burial at
+	Romilli-on-the-Seine--VII. The Death-bed Argument--Serene Demise of
+	the Infamous--God has no Time to defend the Good and protect the
+	Pure--Eloquence of the Clergy on the Death-bed Subject--The
+	Second Return--Throned upon the Bastile--The Grave Desecrated by
+	Priests--Voltaire.
+	A Testimonial to Walt Whitman--Let us put Wreaths on the Brows of the
+	Living--Literary Ideals of the American People in 1855--"Leaves of
+	Grass"--Its reception by the Provincial Prudes--The Religion of the
+	Body--Appeal to Manhood and Womanhood--Books written for the
+	Market--The Index Expurgatorius--Whitman a believer in
+	Democracy--Individuality--Humanity--An Old-time Sea-fight--What is
+	Poetry?--Rhyme a Hindrance to Expression--Rhythm the Comrade of
+	the Poetic--Whitman's Attitude toward Religion--Philosophy--The Two
+	Poems--"A Word Out of the Sea"--"When Lilacs Last in the Door"--"A Chant
+	for Death"--
+	The History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives of
+	Infidels--The King and the Priest--The Origin of God and Heaven, of
+	the Devil and Hell--The Idea of Hell born of Ignorance, Brutality,
+	Cowardice, and Revenge--The Limitations of our Ancestors--The Devil
+	and God--Egotism of Barbarians--The Doctrine of Hell not an Exclusive
+	Possession of Christianity--The Appeal to the Cemetery--Religion and
+	Wealth, Christ and Poverty--The "Great" not on the Side of Christ and
+	his Disciples--Epitaphs as Battle-cries--Some Great Men in favor of
+	almost every Sect--Mistakes and Superstitions of Eminent Men--Sacred
+	Books--The Claim that all Moral Laws came from God through
+	the Jews--Fear--Martyrdom--God's Ways toward Men--The Emperor
+	Constantine--The Death Test--Theological Comity between Protestants and
+	Catholics--Julian--A childish Fable still Believed--Bruno--His Crime,
+	his Imprisonment and
+
+	LIBERTY IN LITERATURE.
+
+	(1890.)
+	"Old Age"--"Leaves of Grass"
+
+	THE GREAT INFIDELS.
+
+	(1881.)
+	Martyrdom--The First to die for Truth without Expectation of Reward--The
+	Church in the Time of Voltaire--Voltaire--Diderot--David Hume--Benedict
+	Spinoza--Our Infidels--Thomas Paine--Conclusion.
+
+	WHICH WAY?
+
+	(1884.)
+	I. The Natural and the Supernatural--Living for the Benefit of
+	your Fellow-Man and Living for Ghosts--The Beginning of Doubt--Two
+	Philosophies of Life--Two Theories of Government--II. Is our God
+	superior to the Gods of the Heathen?--What our God has done--III. Two
+	Theories about the Cause and Cure of Disease--The First Physician--The
+	Bones of St. Anne Exhibited in New York--Archbishop Corrigan and
+	Cardinal Gibbons Countenance a Theological Fraud--A Japanese Story--The
+	Monk and the Miraculous Cures performed by the Bones of a Donkey
+	represented as those of a Saint--IV.--Two Ways of accounting for Sacred
+	Books and Religions--V-Two Theories about Morals--Nothing Miraculous
+	about Morality--The Test of all Actions--VI. Search for the
+	Impossible--Alchemy--"Perpetual Motion"--Astrology--Fountain of Perpetual
+	Youth--VII. "Great Men" and the Superstitions in which they have
+	Believed--VIII. Follies and Imbecilities of Great Men--We do not know
+	what they Thought, only what they Said--Names of Great Unbelievers--Most
+	Men Controlled by their Surroundings--IX. Living for God in Switzerland,
+	Scotland, New England--In the Dark Ages--Let us Live for Man--X. The
+	Narrow Road of Superstition--The Wide and Ample Way--Let us Squeeze the
+	Orange Dry--This Was, This Is, This Shall Be.
+
+	ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.
+
+	(1894.)
+	The Truth about the Bible Ought to be Told--I. The Origin of the
+	Bible--Establishment of the Mosaic Code--Moses not the Author of the
+	Pentateuch--Some Old Testament Books of Unknown Origin--II. Is the Old
+	Testament Inspired?--What an Inspired Book Ought to Be--What the Bible
+	Is--Admission of Orthodox Christians that it is not Inspired as to
+	Science--The Enemy of Art--III. The Ten Commandments--Omissions and
+	Redundancies--The Story of Achan--The Story of Elisha--The Story of
+	Daniel--The Story of Joseph--IV. What is it all Worth?--Not True, and
+	Contradictory--Its Myths Older than the Pentateuch--Other Accounts
+	of the Creation, the Fall, etc.--Books of the Old Testament Named
+	and Characterized--V. Was Jehovah a God of Love?--VI. Jehovah's
+	Administration--VII. The New Testament--Many Other Gospels besides
+	our Four--Disagreements--Belief in Devils--Raising of the Dead--Other
+	Miracles--Would a real Miracle-worker have been Crucified?--VIII.
+	The Philosophy of Christ--Love of
+	Enemies--Improvidence--Self-Mutilation--The Earth as a
+	Footstool--Justice--A Bringer of War--Division of Families--IX. Is Christ
+	our Example?--X. Why should we place Christ at the Top and Summit of the
+	Human Race?--How did he surpass Other Teachers?--What he left Unsaid,
+	and Why--Inspiration--Rejected Books of the New Testament--The Bible and
+	the Crimes it has Caused.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME IV.--LECTURES
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
+
+WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC.
+
+THE TRUTH.
+
+HOW TO REFORM MANKIND.
+
+A THANKSGIVING SERMON.
+
+A LAY SERMON.
+
+THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH.
+
+SUPERSTITION.
+
+THE DEVIL.
+
+PROGRESS.
+
+WHAT IS RELIGION?
+
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
+
+	 WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC.
+
+	(1896.)
+	I. Influence of Birth in determining Religious Belief--Scotch, Irish,
+	English, and Americans Inherit their Faith--Religions of Nations
+	not Suddenly Changed--People who Knew--What they were Certain
+	About--Revivals--Character of Sermons Preached--Effect of Conversion--A
+	Vermont Farmer for whom Perdition had no Terrors--The Man and his
+	Dog--Backsliding and Re-birth--Ministers who were Sincere--A Free Will
+	Baptist on the Rich Man and Lazarus--II. The Orthodox God--The
+	Two Dispensations--The Infinite Horror--III. Religious Books--The
+	Commentators--Paley's Watch Argument--Milton, Young, and Pollok--IV.
+	Studying Astronomy--Geology--Denial and Evasion by the Clergy--V. The
+	Poems of Robert Burns--Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Shakespeare--VI.
+	Volney, Gibbon, and Thomas Paine--Voltaire's Services to Liberty--Pagans
+	Compared with Patriarchs--VII. Other Gods and Other Religions--Dogmas,
+	Myths, and Symbols of Christianity Older than our Era--VIII. The Men
+	of Science, Humboldt, Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel--IX. Matter and
+	Force Indestructible and Uncreatable--The Theory of Design--X. God an
+	Impossible Being--The Panorama of the Past--XI. Free from Sanctified
+	Mistakes and Holy Lies.
+
+	THE TRUTH.
+
+	(1897.)
+	I. The Martyrdom of Man--How is Truth to be Found--Every Man should be
+	Mentally Honest--He should be Intellectually Hospitable--Geologists,
+	Chemists, Mechanics, and Professional Men are Seeking for the Truth--II.
+	Those who say that Slavery is Better than Liberty--Promises are not
+	Evidence--Horace Greeley and the Cold Stove--III. "The Science of
+	Theology" the only Dishonest Science--Moses and Brigham Young--Minds
+	Poisoned and Paralyzed in Youth--Sunday Schools and Theological
+	Seminaries--Orthodox Slanderers of Scientists--Religion has nothing
+	to do with Charity--Hospitals Built in Self-Defence--What Good has the
+	Church Accomplished?--Of what use are the Orthodox Ministers, and
+	What are they doing for the Good of Mankind--The Harm they are
+	Doing--Delusions they Teach--Truths they Should Tell about the
+	Bible--Conclusions--Our Christs and our Miracles.
+
+	HOW TO REFORM MANKIND.
+
+	(1896.)
+	I. "There is no Darkness but Ignorance"--False Notions Concerning
+	All Departments of Life--Changed Ideas about Science, Government and
+	Morals--II. How can we Reform the World?--Intellectual Light the First
+	Necessity--Avoid Waste of Wealth in War--III. Another Waste--Vast Amount
+	of Money Spent on the Church--IV. Plow can we Lessen Crime?--Frightful
+	Laws for the Punishment of Minor Crimes--A Penitentiary should be a
+	School--Professional Criminals should not be Allowed to Populate the
+	Earth--V. Homes for All-Make a Nation of Householders--Marriage
+	and Divorce-VI. The Labor Question--Employers cannot Govern
+	Prices--Railroads should Pay Pensions--What has been Accomplished
+	for the Improvement of the Condition of Labor--VII. Educate the
+	Children--Useless Knowledge--Liberty cannot be Sacrificed for the Sake
+	of Anything--False worship of Wealth--VIII. We must Work and Wait.
+
+	A THANKSGIVING SERMON.
+
+	(1897.)
+	I. Our fathers Ages Ago--From Savagery to Civilization--For the
+	Blessings we enjoy, Whom should we Thank?--What Good has the Church
+	Done?-Did Christ add to the Sum of Useful Knowledge--The Saints--What
+	have the Councils and Synods Done?--What they Gave us, and What they
+	did Not--Shall we Thank them for the Hell Here and for the Hell of
+	the Future?--II. What Does God Do?--The Infinite Juggler and his
+	Puppets--What the Puppets have Done--Shall we Thank these
+	Gods?--Shall we Thank Nature?--III. Men who deserve our Thanks--The
+	Infidels, Philanthropists and Scientists--The Discoverers and
+	Inventors--Magellan--Copernicus--Bruno--Galileo--Kepler, Herschel,
+	Newton, and LaPlace--Lyell--What the Worldly have Done--Origin and
+	Vicissitudes of the Bible--The Septuagint--Investigating the Phenomena
+	of Nature--IV. We thank the Good Men and Good Women of the Past--The
+	Poets, Dramatists, and Artists--The Statesmen--Paine, Jefferson,
+	Ericsson, Lincoln. Grant--Voltaire, Humboldt, Darwin.
+
+	A LAY SERMON.
+
+	(1886.)
+	Prayer of King Lear--When Honesty wears a Rag and Rascality a Robe-The
+	Nonsense of "Free Moral Agency "--Doing Right is not Self-denial-Wealth
+	often a Gilded Hell--The Log House--Insanity of Getting
+	More--Great Wealth the Mother of Crime--Separation of Rich and
+	Poor--Emulation--Invention of Machines to Save Labor--Production and
+	Destitution--The Remedy a Division of the Land--Evils of Tenement
+	Houses--Ownership and Use--The Great Weapon is the Ballot--Sewing
+	Women--Strikes and Boycotts of No Avail--Anarchy, Communism, and
+	Socialism--The Children of the Rich a Punishment for Wealth--Workingmen
+	Not a Danger--The Criminals a Necessary Product--Society's Right
+	to Punish--The Efficacy of Kindness--Labor is Honorable--Mental
+	Independence.
+
+	THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH.
+
+	(1895.)
+	I. The Old Testament--Story of the Creation--Age of the Earth and
+	of Man--Astronomical Calculations of the Egyptians--The Flood--The
+	Firmament a Fiction--Israelites who went into Egypt--Battles of the
+	Jews--Area of Palestine--Gold Collected by David for the Temple--II. The
+	New Testament--Discrepancies about the Birth of Christ--Herod and
+	the Wise Men--The Murder of the Babes of Bethlehem--When was Christ
+	born--Cyrenius and the Census of the World--Genealogy of Christ
+	according to Matthew and Luke--The Slaying of Zacharias--Appearance of
+	the Saints at the Crucifixion--The Death of Judas Iscariot--Did
+	Christ wish to be Convicted?--III. Jehovah--IV. The Trinity--The
+	Incarnation--Was Christ God?--The Trinity Expounded--"Let us pray"--V.
+	The Theological Christ--Sayings of a Contradictory Character--Christ a
+	Devout Jew--An ascetic--His Philosophy--The Ascension--The Best that Can
+	be Said about Christ--The Part that is beautiful and Glorious--The Other
+	Side--VI. The Scheme of Redemption--VII. Belief--Eternal Pain--No Hope
+	in Hell, Pity in Heaven, or Mercy in the Heart of God--VIII. Conclusion.
+
+	SUPERSTITION.
+
+	(1898.)
+	I. What is Superstition?--Popular Beliefs about the Significance
+	of Signs, Lucky and Unlucky Numbers, Days, Accidents, Jewels,
+	etc.--Eclipses, Earthquakes, and Cyclones as Omens--Signs and Wonders
+	of the Heavens--Efficacy of Bones and Rags of Saints--Diseases and
+	Devils--II. Witchcraft--Necromancers--What is a Miracle?--The Uniformity
+	of Nature--III. Belief in the Existence of Good Spirits or Angels--God
+	and the Devil--When Everything was done by the Supernatural--IV. All
+	these Beliefs now Rejected by Men of Intelligence--The Devil's Success
+	Made the Coming of Christ a Necessity--"Thou shalt not Suffer a Witch
+	to Live"--Some Biblical Angels--Vanished Visions--V. Where are Heaven
+	and Hell?--Prayers Never Answered--The Doctrine of Design--Why Worship
+	our Ignorance?--Would God Lead us into Temptation?--President McKinley's
+	Thanks giving for the Santiago Victory--VI. What Harm Does Superstition
+	Do?--The Heart Hardens and the Brain Softens--What Superstition has Done
+	and Taught--Fate of Spain--Of Portugal, Austria, Germany--VII. Inspired
+	Books--Mysteries added to by the Explanations of Theologians--The
+	Inspired Bible the Greatest Curse of Christendom--VIII. Modifications
+	of Jehovah--Changing the Bible--IX. Centuries of Darkness--The Church
+	Triumphant--When Men began to Think--X. Possibly these Superstitions are
+	True, but We have no Evidence--We Believe in the Natural--Science is the
+	Real Redeemer.
+
+	THE DEVIL.
+
+	(1899.)
+	I. If the Devil should Die, would God Make Another?--How was the Idea
+	of a Devil Produced--Other Devils than Ours--Natural Origin of these
+	Monsters--II. The Atlas of Christianity is The Devil--The Devil of the
+	Old Testament--The Serpent in Eden--"Personifications" of Evil--Satan
+	and Job--Satan and David--III. Take the Devil from the Drama
+	of Christianity and the Plot is Gone--Jesus Tempted by the Evil
+	One--Demoniac Possession--Mary Magdalene--Satan and Judas--Incubi
+	and Succubi--The Apostles believed in Miracles and Magic--The Pool of
+	Bethesda--IV. The Evidence of the Church--The Devil was forced to
+	Father the Failures of God--Belief of the Fathers of the Church
+	in Devils--Exorcism at the Baptism of an Infant in the Sixteenth
+	Century--Belief in Devils made the Universe a Madhouse presided over by
+	an Insane God--V. Personifications of the Devil--The Orthodox Ostrich
+	Thrusts his Head into the Sand--If Devils are Personifications so are
+	all the Other Characters of the Bible--VI. Some Queries about the
+	Devil, his Place of Residence, his Manner of Living, and his Object in
+	Life--Interrogatories to the Clergy--VII. The Man of Straw the Master
+	of the Orthodox Ministers--His recent Accomplishments--VIII. Keep the
+	Devils out of Children--IX. Conclusion.--Declaration of the Free.
+
+	PROGRESS.
+
+	(1860-64.)
+	The Prosperity of the World depends upon its Workers--Veneration for the
+	Ancient--Credulity and Faith of the Middle Ages--Penalty for Reading
+	the Scripture in the Mother Tongue--Unjust, Bloody, and Cruel Laws--The
+	Reformers too were Persecutors--Bigotry of Luther and Knox--Persecution
+	of Castalio--Montaigne against Torture in France--"Witchcraft" (chapter
+	on)--Confessed Wizards--A Case before Sir Matthew Hale--Belief
+	in Lycanthropy--Animals Tried and Executed--Animals received
+	as Witnesses--The Corsned or Morsel of Execution--Kepler an
+	Astrologer--Luther's Encounter with the Devil--Mathematician
+	Stoefflers, Astronomical Prediction of a Flood--Histories Filled with
+	Falsehood--Legend about the Daughter of Pharaoh invading Scotland and
+	giving the Country her name--A Story about Mohammed--A History of the
+	Britains written by Archdeacons--Ingenuous Remark of Eusebius--Progress
+	in the Mechanic Arts--England at the beginning of the Eighteenth
+	Century--Barbarous Punishments--Queen Elizabeth's Order Concerning
+	Clergymen and Servant Girls--Inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and
+	Others--Solomon's Deprivations--Language (chapter on)--Belief that the
+	Hebrew was of Paradise--Geography (chapter on)--The Works of Cosmas--Printing
+	Invented--Church's Opposition to Books--The Inquisition--The
+	Reformation--"Slavery" (chapter on)--Voltaire's Remark on Slavery as
+	a Contract--White Slaves in Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, and
+	France--Free minds make Free Bodies--Causes of the Abolition of White
+	Slavery in Europe--The French Revolution--The African Slave Trade,
+	its Beginning and End--Liberty Triumphed (chapter head)--Abolition of
+	Chattel Slavery--Conclusion.
+
+	WHAT IS RELIGION?
+
+	(1899.)
+	I. Belief in God and Sacrifice--Did an Infinite God Create the Children
+	of Men and is he the Governor of the Universe?--II. If this God Exists,
+	how do we Know he is Good?--Should both the Inferior and the Superior
+	thank God for their Condition?--III. The Power that Works for
+	Righteousness--What is this Power?--The Accumulated Experience of the
+	World is a Power Working for Good?--Love the Commencement of the Higher
+	Virtues--IV. What has our Religion Done?--Would Christians have been
+	Worse had they Adopted another Faith?--V. How Can Mankind be Reformed
+	Without Religion?--VI. The Four Corner-stones of my Theory--VII. Matter
+	and Force Eternal--Links in the Chain of Evolution--VIII. Reform--The
+	Gutter as a Nursery--Can we Prevent the Unfit from Filling the World
+	with their Children?--Science must make Woman the Owner and Mistress
+	of Herself--Morality Born of Intelligence--IX. Real Religion and Real
+	Worship.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME V.--DISCUSSIONS
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
+
+PREFACE.
+
+INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.
+
+FIRST INTERVIEW.
+
+SECOND INTERVIEW.
+
+THIRD INTERVIEW.
+
+FOURTH INTERVIEW.
+
+FIFTH INTERVIEW,
+
+SIXTH INTERVIEW.
+
+THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.
+
+A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.
+
+CONCLUSION.
+
+THE OBSERVER'S SECOND ATTACK
+
+INGERSOLL'S SECOND REPLY.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
+
+	 INGERSOLL'S SIX INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.
+
+	(1882.)
+	Preface--First Interview: Great Men as Witnesses
+	to the Truth of the Gospel--No man should quote
+	the Words of Another unless he is willing to
+	Accept all the Opinions of that Man--Reasons of
+	more Weight than Reputations--Would a general
+	Acceptance of Unbelief fill the Penitentiaries?--
+	My Creed--Most Criminals Orthodox--Relig-ion and
+	Morality not Necessarily Associates--On the
+	Creation of the Universe out of Omnipotence--Mr.
+	Talmage's Theory about the Pro-duction of Light
+	prior to the Creation of the Sun--The Deluge and
+	the Ark--Mr. Talmage's tendency to Belittle the
+	Bible Miracles--His Chemical, Geological, and
+	Agricultural Views--His Disregard of Good Manners-
+	-Second Interview: An Insulting Text--God's Design
+	in Creating Guiteau to be the Assassin of
+	Garfield--Mr. Talmage brings the Charge of
+	Blasphemy--Some Real Blasphemers--The Tabernacle
+	Pastor tells the exact Opposite of the Truth about
+	Col. Ingersoll's Attitude toward the Circulation
+	of Immoral Books--"Assassinating" God--Mr.
+	Talmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern
+	Times Mentioned in the Bible--The Reverend
+	Gentleman corrects the Translators of the Bible in
+	the Matter of the Rib Story--Denies that Polygamy
+	is permitted by the Old Testament--His De-fence of
+	Queen Victoria and Violation of the Grave of
+	George Eliot--Exhibits a Christian Spirit--Third
+	Interview: Mr. Talmage's Partiality in the
+	Bestowal of his Love--Denies the Right of Laymen
+	to Examine the Scriptures--Thinks the Infidels
+	Victims of Bibliophobia --He explains the Stopping
+	of the Sun and Moon at the Command of Joshua--
+	Instances a Dark Day in the Early Part of the
+	Century--Charges that Holy Things are Made Light
+	of--Reaffirms his Confidence in the Whale and
+	Jonah Story--The Commandment which Forbids the
+	making of Graven Images--Affirmation that the
+	Bible is the Friend of Woman--The Present
+	Condition of Woman--Fourth Interview: Colonel
+	Ingersoll Compared by Mr. Talmage tojehoiakim, who
+	Consigned Writings of Jeremiah to the Flames--An
+	Intimation that Infidels wish to have all copies
+	of the Bible Destroyed by Fire--Laughter
+	Deprecated--Col. Ingersoll Accused of Denouncing
+	his Father--Mr. Talmage holds that a Man may be
+	Perfectly Happy in Heaven with His Mother in Hell-
+	-Challenges the Infidel to Read a Chapter from St.
+	John--On the "Chief Solace of the World"--Dis-
+	covers an Attempt is being made to Put Out the
+	Light-houses of the Farther Shore--Affirms our
+	Debt to Christianity for Schools, Hospitals,
+	etc.--Denies that Infidels have ever Done any
+	Good--
+	Fifth Interview: Inquiries if Men gather Grapes of
+	Thorns, or Figs of Thistles, and is Answered in
+	the Negative--Resents the Charge that the Bible is
+	a Cruel Book--Demands to Know where the Cruelty of
+	the Bible Crops out in the Lives of Christians--
+	Col. Ingersoll Accused of saying that the Bible
+	is a Collection of Polluted Writings--Mr. Talmage
+	Asserts the Orchestral Harmony of the Scriptures
+	from Genesis to Revelation, and Repudiates the
+	Theory of Contradictions--His View of Mankind
+	Indicated in Quotations from his Confession of
+	Faith--He Insists that the Bible is Scientific--
+	Traces the New Testament to its Source with St.
+	John--Pledges his Word that no Man ever Died for a
+	Lie Cheerfully and Triumphantly--As to Prophecies
+	and Predictions--Alleged "Prophetic" Fate of the
+	Jewish People--Sixth Interview: Dr. Talmage takes
+	the Ground that the Unrivalled Circulation of the
+	Bible Proves that it is Inspired--Forgets' that a
+	Scientific Fact does not depend on the Vote of
+	Numbers--Names some Christian Millions--His
+	Arguments Characterized as the Poor-est, Weakest,
+	and Best Possible in Support of the Doctrine of
+	Inspira-tion--Will God, in Judging a Man, take
+	into Consideration the Cir-cumstances of that
+	Man's Life?--Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believ-
+	ing that the Bible is inspired.
+
+	THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.
+
+	The Pith and Marrow of what Mr. Talmage has been
+	Pleased to Say, set forth in the form of a Shorter
+	Catechism.
+
+	A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.
+
+
+	(1877.)
+	Letter to the New York Observer--An Offer to Pay
+	One Thousand Dollars in Gold for Proof that Thomas
+	Paine or Voltaire Died in Terror because of any
+	Religious Opinions Either had Expressed--
+	Proposition to Create a Tribunal to Hear the
+	Evidence--The Ob-server, after having Called upon
+	Col. Ingersoll to Deposit the Money, and
+	Characterized his Talk as "Infidel 'Buncombe,'"
+	Denies its Own Words, but attempts to Prove them--
+	Its Memory Refreshed by Col. Ingersoll and the
+	Slander Refuted--Proof that Paine did Not Recant -
+	-Testimony of Thomas Nixon, Daniel Pelton, Mr.
+	Jarvis, B. F. Has-kin, Dr. Manley, Amasa
+	Woodsworth, Gilbert Vale, Philip Graves, M. D.,
+	Willet Hicks, A. C. Hankinson, John Hogeboom, W.
+	J. Hilton, Tames Cheetham, Revs. Milledollar and
+	Cunningham, Mrs. Hedden, Andrew A. Dean, William
+	Carver,--The Statements of Mary Roscoe and Mary
+	Hindsdale Examined--William Cobbett's Account of a
+	Call upon Mary Hinsdale--Did Thomas Paine live the
+	Life of a Drunken Beast, and did he Die a Drunken,
+	Cowardly, and Beastly Death?--Grant Thorbum's
+	Charges Examined--Statement of the Rev. J. D.
+	Wickham, D.D., shown to be Utterly False--False
+	Witness of the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D.--W. H.
+	Ladd, James Cheetham, and Mary Hinsdale--Paine's
+	Note to Cheetham--Mr-Staple, Mr. Purdy, Col. John
+	Fellows, James Wilburn, Walter Morton, Clio
+	Rickman, Judge Herttell, H. Margary, Elihu Palmer,
+	Mr.
+	XV
+	Lovett, all these Testified that Paine was a
+	Temperate Man--Washington's Letter to Paine--
+	Thomas Jefferson's--Adams and Washing-ton on
+	"Common Sense"---James Monroe's Tribute--
+	Quotations from Paine--Paine's Estate and His
+	Will--The Observer's Second Attack (p. 492):
+	Statements of Elkana Watson, William Carver, Rev.
+	E. F. Hatfield, D.D., James Cheetham, Dr. J. W.
+	Francis, Dr. Manley, Bishop Fenwick--Ingersoll's
+	Second Reply (p. 516): Testimony Garbled by the
+	Editor of the Observer--Mary Roscoeand Mary Hins-
+	dale the Same Person--Her Reputation for Veracity-
+	-Letter from Rev. A. W. Cornell--Grant Thorburn
+	Exposed by James Parton--The Observer's Admission
+	that Paine did not Recant--Affidavit of
+	William B. Barnes.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME VI.--DISCUSSIONS
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.
+
+THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER
+
+THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY JEREMIAH S. BLACK.
+
+THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
+
+FAITH OR AGNOSTICISM.
+
+THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.
+
+A REPLY TO THE REV. HENRY M. FIELD, D.D.
+
+A LAST WORD TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
+
+LETTER TO DR. FIELD.
+
+CONTROVERSY ON CHRISTIANTY
+
+COL. INGERSOLL TO MR. GLADSTONE.
+
+ROME OR REASON.
+
+THE CHURCH ITS OWN WITNESS, By Cardinal Manning.
+
+ROME OR REASON: A REPLY TO CARDINAL MANNING.
+
+IS DIVORCE WRONG?
+
+DIVORCE.
+
+IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.
+
+	 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER
+
+	(1881.)
+	I. Col. Ingersoll's Opening Paper--Statement of the Fundamental Truths
+	of Christianity--Reasons for Thinking that Portions of the Old Testament
+	are the Product of a Barbarous People--Passages upholding
+	Slavery, Polygamy, War, and Religious Persecution not Evidences of
+	Inspiration--If the Words are not Inspired, What Is?--Commands of
+	Jehovah compared with the Precepts of Pagans and Stoics--Epictetus,
+	Cicero, Zeno, Seneca, Brahma--II. The New Testament--Why were
+	Four Gospels Necessary?--Salvation by Belief--The Doctrine of
+	the Atonement--The Jewish System Culminating in the Sacrifice of
+	Christ--Except for the Crucifixion of her Son, the Virgin Mary would be
+	among the Lost--What Christ must have Known would Follow the Acceptance
+	of His Teachings--The Wars of Sects, the Inquisition, the Fields of
+	Death--Why did he not Forbid it All?--The Little that he Revealed--The
+	Dogma of Eternal Punishment--Upon Love's Breast the Church has Placed
+	the Eternal Asp--III. The "Inspired" Writers--Why did not God furnish
+	Every Nation with a Bible?
+	II. Judge Black's Reply--His Duty that of a Policeman--The Church not
+	in Danger--Classes who Break out into Articulate Blasphemy--The
+	Sciolist--Personal Remarks about Col. Ingersoll--Chief-Justice Gibson of
+	Pennsylvania Quoted--We have no Jurisdiction or Capacity to Rejudge the
+	Justice of God--The Moral Code of the Bible--Civil Government of the
+	Jews--No Standard of Justice without Belief in a God--Punishments for
+	Blasphemy and Idolatry Defended--Wars of Conquest--Allusion to Col.
+	Ingersoll's War Record--Slavery among the Jews--Polygamy Discouraged by
+	the Mosaic Constitution--Jesus of Nazareth and the Establishment of
+	his Religion--Acceptance of Christianity and Adjudication upon its
+	Divinity--The Evangelists and their Depositions--The Fundamental Truths
+	of Christianity--Persecution and Triumph of the Church--Ingersoll's
+	Propositions Compressed and the Compressions Answered--Salvation as a
+	Reward of Belief--Punishment of Unbelief--The Second Birth, Atonement,
+	Redemption, Non-resistance, Excessive Punishment of Sinners, Christ and
+	Persecution, Christianity and Freedom of Thought, Sufficiency of the
+	Gospel, Miracles, Moral Effect of Christianity.
+	III. Col. Ingersoll's Rejoinder--How this Discussion Came About--Natural
+	Law--The Design Argument--The Right to Rejudge the Justice even of a
+	God--Violation of the Commandments by Jehovah--Religious Intolerance
+	of the Old Testament--Judge Black's Justification of Wars of
+	Extermination--His Defence of Slavery--Polygamy not "Discouraged" by the
+	Old Testament--Position of Woman under the Jewish System and under that
+	of the Ancients--a "Policeman's" View of God--Slavery under Jehovah
+	and in Egypt--The Admission that Jehovah gave no Commandment against
+	Polygamy--The Learned and Wise Crawl back in Cribs--Alleged Harmony of
+	Old and New Testaments--On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity
+	Proves the Supernatural Origin of the Gospel--The Argument applicable to
+	All Religions--Communications from Angels ana Gods--Authenticity of
+	the Statements of the Evangelists--Three Important Manuscripts--Rise
+	of Mormonism--Ascension of Christ--The Great Public Events alleged
+	as Fundamental Truths of Christianity--Judge Black's System
+	of "Compression"--"A Metaphysical Question"--Right and
+	Wrong--Justice--Christianity and Freedom of Thought--Heaven and
+	Hell--Production of God and the Devil--Inspiration of the Bible
+	dependent on the Credulity of the Reader--Doubt of Miracles--The
+	World before Christ's Advent--Respect for the Man Christ--The Dark
+	Ages--Institutions of Mercy--Civil Law.
+
+	THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.
+
+	(1887.)
+	An Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll--Superstitions--Basis of
+	Religion--Napoleon's Question about the Stars--The Idea of God--Crushing
+	out Hope--Atonement, Regeneration, and Future Retribution--Socrates and
+	Jesus--The Language of Col. Ingersoll characterized as too Sweeping--The
+	Sabbath--But a Step from Sneering at Religion to Sneering at Morality.
+	A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D.--Honest Differences of
+	Opinion--Charles Darwin--Dr. Field's Distinction between Superstition
+	and Religion--The Presbyterian God an Infinite Torquemada--Napoleon's
+	Sensitiveness to the Divine Influence--The Preference of Agassiz--The
+	Mysterious as an Explanation--The Certainty that God is not what he
+	is Thought to Be--Self-preservation the Fibre of Society--Did
+	the Assassination of Lincoln Illustrate the Justice of God's
+	Judgments?--Immortality--Hope and the Presbyterian Creed--To a Mother
+	at the Grave of Her Son--Theological Teaching of Forgiveness--On
+	Eternal Retribution--Jesus and Mohammed--Attacking the Religion of
+	Others--Ananias and Sapphira--The Pilgrims and Freedom to Worship--The
+	Orthodox Sabbath--Natural Restraints on Conduct--Religion and
+	Morality--The Efficacy of Prayer--Respect for Belief of Father and
+	Mother--The "Power behind Nature"--Survival of the Fittest--The Saddest
+	Fact--"Sober Second Thought."
+	A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll, by Dr. Field--God not a
+	Presbyterian--Why Col. Ingersoll's Attacks on Religion are Resented--God
+	is more Merciful than Man--Theories about the Future Life--Retribution
+	a Necessary Part of the Divine Law--The Case of Robinson
+	Crusoe--Irresistible Proof of Design--Col. Ingersoll's View of
+	Immortality--An Almighty Friend.
+	Letter to Dr. Field--The Presbyterian God--What the Presbyterians
+	Claim--The "Incurably Bad"--Responsibility for not seeing Things
+	Clearly--Good Deeds should Follow even Atheists--No Credit in
+	Belief--Design Argument that Devours Itself--Belief as a Foundation
+	of Social Order--No Consolation in Orthodox Religion--The "Almighty
+	Friend" and the Slave Mother--a Hindu Prayer--Calvinism--Christ not the
+	Supreme Benefactor of the Race.
+
+	COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY.
+
+	(1888.)
+	Some Remarks on his Reply to Dr. Field by the Hon. Wm. E.
+	Gladstone--External Triumph and Prosperity of the Church--A Truth Half
+	Stated--Col. Ingersoll's Tumultuous Method and lack of Reverential
+	Calm--Jephthah's Sacrifice--Hebrews xii Expounded--The Case of
+	Abraham--Darwinism and the Scriptures--Why God demands Sacrifices of
+	Man--Problems admitted to be Insoluble--Relation of human Genius
+	to Human Greatness--Shakespeare and Others--Christ and the Family
+	Relation--Inaccuracy of Reference in the Reply--Ananias and
+	Sapphira--The Idea of Immortality--Immunity of Error in Belief from
+	Moral Responsibility--On Dishonesty in the Formation of Opinion--A
+	Plausibility of the Shallowest kind--The System of Thuggism--Persecution
+	for Opinion's Sake--Riding an Unbroken Horse.
+	Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladstone--On the "Impaired" State of the human
+	Constitution--Unbelief not Due to Degeneracy--Objections to the
+	Scheme of Redemption--Does Man Deserve only Punishment?--"Reverential
+	Calm"--The Deity of the Ancient Jews--Jephthah and Abraham--Relation
+	between Darwinism and the Inspiration of the Scriptures--Sacrifices to
+	the Infinite--What is Common Sense?--An Argument that will Defend every
+	Superstition--The Greatness of Shakespeare--The Absolute Indissolubility
+	of Marriage--Is the Religion of Christ for this Age?--As to Ananias and
+	Sapphira--Immortality and People of Low Intellectual Development--Can
+	we Control our Thought?--Dishonest Opinions Cannot be Formed--Some
+	Compensations for Riding an "Unbroken Horse."
+
+	ROME OR REASON.
+
+	(1888.)
+	"The Church Its Own Witness," by Cardinal Manning--Evidence
+	that Christianity is of Divine Origin--The Universality of the
+	Church--Natural Causes not Sufficient to Account for the Catholic
+	Church---The World in which Christianity Arose--Birth of Christ--From
+	St Peter to Leo XIII.--The First Effect of Christianity--Domestic
+	Life's Second Visible Effect--Redemption of Woman from traditional
+	Degradation--Change Wrought by Christianity upon the Social, Political
+	and International Relations of the World--Proof that Christianity is of
+	Divine Origin and Presence--St. John and the Christian Fathers--Sanctity
+	of the Church not Affected by Human Sins.
+	A Reply to Cardinal Manning--I. Success not a Demonstration of either
+	Divine Origin or Supernatural Aid--Cardinal Manning's Argument
+	More Forcible in the Mouth of a Mohammedan--Why Churches Rise and
+	Flourish--Mormonism--Alleged Universality of the Catholic Church--Its
+	"inexhaustible Fruitfulness" in Good Things--The Inquisition and
+	Persecution--Not Invincible--Its Sword used by Spain--Its Unity not
+	Unbroken--The State of the World when Christianity was Established--The
+	Vicar of Christ--A Selection from Draper's "History of the Intellectual
+	Development of Europe"--Some infamous Popes--Part II. How the Pope
+	Speaks--Religions Older than Catholicism and having the Same Rites
+	and Sacraments--Is Intellectual Stagnation a Demonstration of Divine
+	Origin?--Integration and Disintegration--The Condition of the World 300
+	Years Ago--The Creed of Catholicism--The "One true God" with a Knowledge
+	of whom Catholicism has "filled the World"--Did the Catholic Church
+	overthrow Idolatry?--Marriage--Celibacy--Human Passions--The Cardinal's
+	Explanation of Jehovah's abandonment of the Children of Men for
+	four thousand Years--Catholicism tested by Paganism--Canon Law
+	and Convictions had Under It--Rival Popes--Importance of a Greek
+	"Inflection"--The Cardinal Witnesses.
+
+	IS DIVORCE WRONG?
+
+	(1889.)
+	Preface by the Editor of the North American Review--Introduction, by the
+	Rev. S. W. Dike, LL. D.--A Catholic View by Cardinal Gibbons--Divorce
+	as Regarded by the Episcopal Church, by Bishop, Henry C. Potter--Four
+	Questions Answered, by Robert G. Ingersoll.
+
+	DIVORCE.
+
+	Reply to Cardinal Gibbons--Indissolubility of Marriage a Reaction
+	from Polygamy--Biblical Marriage--Polygamy Simultaneous and
+	Successive--Marriage and Divorce in the Light of Experience--Reply
+	to Bishop Potter--Reply to Mr. Gladstone--Justice Bradley--Senator
+	Dolph--The argument Continued in Colloquial Form--Dialogue between
+	Cardinal Gibbons and a Maltreated Wife--She Asks the Advice of Mr.
+	Gladstone--The Priest who Violated his Vow--Absurdity of the Divorce
+	laws of Some States.
+
+	REPLY TO DR. LYMAN ABBOTT.
+
+	(1890)
+	Dr. Abbott's Equivocations--Crimes Punishable by Death under Mosaic
+	and English Law--Severity of Moses Accounted for by Dr. Abbott--The
+	Necessity for the Acceptance of Christianity--Christians should be
+	Glad to Know that the Bible is only the Work of Man and that the New
+	Testament Life of Christ is Untrue--All the Good Commandments, Known
+	to the World thousands of Years before Moses--Human Happiness of
+	More Consequence than the Truth about God--The Appeal to Great
+	Names--Gladstone not the Greatest Statesman--What the Agnostic Says--The
+	Magnificent Mistakes of Genesis--The Story of Joseph--Abraham as a
+	"self-Exile for Conscience's Sake."
+
+	REPLY TO ARCHDEACON FARRAR.
+
+	(1890.)
+	Revelation as an Appeal to Man's "Spirit"--What is Spirit and what is
+	"Spiritual Intuition"?--The Archdeacon in Conflict with St. Paul--II.
+	The Obligation to Believe without Evidence--III. Ignorant Credulity--IV.
+	A Definition of Orthodoxy--V. Fear not necessarily Cowardice--Prejudice
+	is Honest--The Ola has the Advantage in an Argument--St.
+	Augustine--Jerome--the Appeal to Charlemagne--Roger Bacon--Lord Bacon
+	a Defender of the Copernican System--The Difficulty of finding out
+	what Great Men Believed--Names Irrelevantly Cited--Bancroft on the
+	Hessians--Original Manuscripts of the Bible--VI. An Infinite Personality
+	a Contradiction in Terms--VII. A Beginningless Being--VIII. The
+	Cruelties of Nature not to be Harmonized with the Goodness of a
+	Deity--Sayings from the Indian--Origen, St. Augustine, Dante, Aquinas.
+
+	IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
+
+	(1890.)
+	A Reply to the Dean of St. Paul--Growing Confidence in the Power of
+	Kindness--Crimes against Soldiers and Sailors--Misfortunes Punished
+	as Crimes--The Dean's Voice Raised in Favor of the Brutalities of the
+	Past--Beating of Children--Of Wives--Dictum of Solomon.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME VII.--DISCUSSIONS
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.
+
+MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED.
+
+MY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS.
+
+TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.
+
+THE BROOKLYN DIVINES.
+
+THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.
+
+A CHRISTMAS SERMON.
+
+SUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE.
+
+IS SUICIDE A SIN?
+
+IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
+
+A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
+
+AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.
+
+A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.
+
+A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.
+
+A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.
+
+A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.
+
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.
+
+	 MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED.
+
+	(1877.)
+	Answer to San Francisco Clergymen--Definition of Liberty, Physical
+	and Mental--The Right to Compel Belief--Woman the Equal of Man--The
+	Ghosts--Immortality--Slavery--Witchcraft--Aristocracy of the
+	Air--Unfairness of Clerical Critics--Force and Matter--Doctrine of
+	Negation--Confident Deaths of Murderers--Childhood Scenes returned to
+	by the Dying--Death-bed of Voltaire--Thomas Paine--The First
+	Sectarians Were Heretics--Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard--Slaughter of
+	the Canaanites--Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson--Protestant
+	Persecutions--Toleration--Infidelity and Progress--The
+	Occident--Calvinism--Religious Editors--Reply to the Rev. Mr.
+	Ijams--Does the Bible teach Man to Enslave his Brothers?--Reply to
+	California Christian Advocate--Self-Government of French People at
+	and Since the Revolution--On the Site of the Bastile--French
+	Peasant's Cheers for Jesus Christ--Was the World created in Six
+	Days--Geology--What is the Astronomy of the Bible?--The Earth the Centre
+	of the Universe--Joshua's Miracle--Change of Motion into Heat--Geography
+	and Astronomy of Cosmas--Does the Bible teach the Existence of
+	that Impossible Crime called Witchcraft?--Saul and the Woman of
+	Endor--Familiar Spirits--Demonology of the New Testament--Temptation of
+	Jesus--Possession by Devils--Gadarene Swine Story--Test of Belief--Bible
+	Idea of the Rights of Children--Punishment of the Rebellious
+	Son--Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice--Persecution of Job--The Gallantry
+	of God--Bible Idea of the Rights of Women--Paul's Instructions to
+	Wives--Permission given to Steal Wives--Does the Bible Sanction
+	Polygamy and Concubinage?--Does the Bible Uphold and Justify Political
+	Tyranny?--Powers that be Ordained of God--Religious Liberty of
+	God--Sun-Worship punishable with Death--Unbelievers to be damned--Does
+	the Bible describe a God of Mercy?--Massacre Commanded--Eternal
+	Punishment Taught in the New Testament--The Plan of Salvation--Fall
+	and Atonement Moral Bankruptcy--Other Religions--Parsee
+	Sect--Brahmins--Confucians--Heretics and Orthodox.
+
+	MY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS.
+
+	(1879.)
+	Rev. Robert Collyer--Inspiration of the Scriptures--Rev. Dr.
+	Thomas--Formation of the Old Testament--Rev. Dr. Kohler--Rev. Mr.
+	Herford--Prof. Swing--Rev. Dr. Ryder.
+
+	TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.
+
+	(1882.)
+	Rev. David Walk--Character of Jesus--Two or Three Christs Described
+	in the Gospels--Christ's Change of Opinions--Gospels Later than the
+	Epistles--Divine Parentage of Christ a Late Belief--The Man Christ
+	probably a Historical Character--Jesus Belittled by his Worshipers--He
+	never Claimed to be Divine--Christ's Omissions--Difference between
+	Christian and other Modern Civilizations--Civilization not Promoted
+	by Religion--Inventors--French and American Civilization: How
+	Produced--Intemperance and Slavery in Christian Nations--Advance due to
+	Inventions and Discoveries--Missionaries--Christian Nations Preserved by
+	Bayonet and Ball--Dr. T. B. Taylor--Origin of Life on this Planet--Sir
+	William Thomson--Origin of Things Undiscoverable--Existence after
+	Death--Spiritualists--If the Dead Return--Our Calendar--Christ and
+	Christmas-The Existence of Pain--Plato's Theory of Evil--Will God do
+	Better in Another World than he does in this?--Consolation--Life Not a
+	Probationary Stage--Rev. D.O'Donaghue--The Case of Archibald Armstrong
+	and Jonathan Newgate--Inequalities of Life--Can Criminals live a
+	Contented Life?--Justice of the Orthodox God Illustrated.
+
+	THE BROOKLYN DIVINES.
+
+	(1883.)
+	Are the Books of Atheistic or Infidel Writers Extensively
+	Read?--Increase in the Number of Infidels--Spread of Scientific
+	Literature--Rev. Dr. Eddy--Rev. Dr. Hawkins--Rev. Dr. Haynes--Rev.
+	Mr. Pullman--Rev. Mr. Foote--Rev. Mr. Wells--Rev. Dr. Van Dyke--Rev.
+	Carpenter--Rev. Mr. Reed--Rev. Dr. McClelland--Ministers Opposed to
+	Discussion--Whipping Children--Worldliness as a Foe of the Church--The
+	Drama--Human Love--Fires, Cyclones, and Other Afflictions as Promoters
+	of Spirituality--Class Distinctions--Rich and Poor--Aristocracies--The
+	Right to Choose One's Associates--Churches Social Affairs--Progress
+	of the Roman Catholic Church--Substitutes for the Churches--Henry
+	Ward Beecher--How far Education is Favored by the Sects--Rivals of the
+	Pulpit--Christianity Now and One Hundred Years Ago--French Revolution
+	produced by the Priests--Why the Revolution was a Failure--Infidelity
+	of One Hundred Years Ago--Ministers not more Intellectual than a Century
+	Ago--Great Preachers of the Past--New Readings of Old Texts--Clerical
+	Answerers of Infidelity--Rev. Dr. Baker--Father Fransiola--Faith and
+	Reason--Democracy of Kindness--Moral Instruction--Morality Born of Human
+	Needs--The Conditions of Happiness--The Chief End of Man.
+
+	THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.
+
+	(1888.)
+	Discussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert,
+	and ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of
+	New York--Propositions--Toleration not a Disclaimer but a Waiver of the
+	Right to Persecute--Remarks of Courtlandt Palmer--No Responsibility for
+	Thought--Intellectual Hospitality--Right of Free Speech--Origin of the
+	term "Toleration"--Slander and False Witness--Nobody can Control his own
+	Mind: Anecdote--Remarks of Mr. Coudert--Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and
+	Ingersoll--General Woodford's Speech--Reply by Colonel Ingersoll--A
+	Catholic Compelled to Pay a Compliment to Voltaire--Responsibility for
+	Thoughts--The Mexican Unbeliever and his Reception in the Other Country.
+
+	A CHRISTMAS SERMON.
+
+	(1891.)
+	Christianity's Message of Grief--Christmas a Pagan Festival--Reply
+	to Dr. Buckley--Charges by the Editor of the Christian Advocate--The
+	Tidings of Christianity--In what the Message of Grief Consists--Fear
+	and Flame--An Everlasting Siberia--Dr. Buckley's Proposal to Boycott the
+	Telegram--Reply to Rev. J. M. King and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Cana Day
+	be Blasphemed?--Hurting Christian feelings--For Revenue only What is
+	Blasphemy?--Balaam's Ass wiser than the Prophet--The Universalists--Can
+	God do Nothing for this World?--The Universe a Blunder if Christianity
+	is true--The Duty of a Newspaper--Facts Not Sectarian--The Rev.
+	Mr. Peters--What Infidelity Has Done--Public School System not
+	Christian--Orthodox Universities--Bruno on Oxford--As to Public
+	Morals--No Rewards or Punishments in the Universe--The Atonement
+	Immoral--As to Sciences and Art--Bruno, Humboldt, Darwin--Scientific
+	Writers Opposed by the Church--As to the Liberation of Slaves--As to
+	the Reclamation of Inebriates--Rum and Religion--The Humanity
+	of Infidelity--What Infidelity says to the Dying--The Battle
+	Continued--Morality not Assailed by an Attack on Christianity--The
+	Inquisition and Religious Persecution--Human Nature Derided by
+	Christianity--Dr. DaCosta--"Human Brotherhood" as exemplified by
+	the History of the Church--The Church and Science, Art and
+	Learning----Astronomy's Revenge--Galileo and Kepler--Mrs. Browning:
+	Science Thrust into the Brain of Europe--Our Numerals--Christianity and
+	Literature--Institution's of Learning--Stephen Girard--James Lick--Our
+	Chronology--Historians--Natural Philosophy--Philology--Metaphysical
+	Research--Intelligence, Hindoo, Egyptian--Inventions--John
+	Ericsson--Emancipators--Rev. Mr. Ballou--The Right of Goa to
+	Punish--Rev. Dr. Hillier--Rev. Mr. Haldeman--George A. Locey--The "Great
+	Physician"--Rev. Mr. Talmage--Rev. J. Benson Hamilton--How Voltaire
+	Died--The Death-bed of Thomas Paine--Rev. Mr. Holloway--Original
+	Sin--Rev. Dr. Tyler--The Good Samaritan a Heathen--Hospitals and
+	Asylums--Christian Treatment of the Insane--Rev. Dr. Buckley--The
+	North American Review Discussion--Judge Black, Dr. Field,
+	Mr. Gladstone--Circulation of Obscene Literature--Eulogy of
+	Whiskey--Eulogy of Tobacco--Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods--Rev.
+	Charles Deems--Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil--The Man Christ.
+
+	SUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE.
+
+	(1892.)
+	Reply to the Western Watchman--Henry D'Arcy--Peter's
+	Prevarication-Some Excellent Pagans-Heartlessness of a
+	Catholic--Wishes do not Affect the Judgment--Devout Robbers--Penitent
+	Murderers--Reverential Drunkards--Luther's Distich--Judge
+	Normile--Self-destruction.
+
+	IS SUICIDE A SIN?
+
+	(1894.)
+	Col. Ingersoll's First Letter in The New York World--Under what
+	Circumstances a Man has the Right to take his Own Life--Medicine and the
+	Decrees of God--Case of the Betrayed Girl--Suicides not Cowards--Suicide
+	under Roman Law--Many Suicides Insane--Insanity Caused by Religion--The
+	Law against Suicide Cruel and Idiotic--Natural and Sufficient Cause for
+	Self-destruction--Christ's Death a Suicide--Col. Ingersoll's Reply to his
+	Critics--Is Suffering the Work of God?--It is not Man's Duty to
+	Endure Hopeless Suffering--When Suicide is Justifiable--The
+	Inquisition--Alleged Cowardice of Suicides--Propositions
+	Demonstrated--Suicide the Foundation of the Christian
+	Religion--Redemption and Atonement--The Clergy on Infidelity
+	and Suicide--Morality and Unbelief--Better injure yourself than
+	Another--Misquotation by Opponents--Cheerful View the Best--The
+	Wonder is that Men endure--Suicide a Sin (Interview in The New
+	York Journal)--Causes of Suicide--Col. Ingersoll Does Not Advise
+	Suicide--Suicides with Tracts or Bibles in their Pockets--Suicide a Sin
+	(Interview in The New York Herald)--Comments on Rev. Alerle St. Croix
+	Wright's Sermon--Suicide and Sanity (Interview in The York World)--As to
+	the Cowardice of Suicide--Germany and the Prevalence of Suicide--Killing
+	of Idiots and Defective Infants--Virtue, Morality, and Religion.
+
+	IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
+
+	(1891.)
+	Reply to General Rush Hawkins' Article, "Brutality and Avarice
+	Triumphant"--Croakers and Prophets of Evil--Medical Treatment
+	for Believers in Universal Evil--Alleged Fraud in Army
+	Contracts--Congressional Extravagance--Railroad "Wreckers"--How
+	Stockholders in Some Roads Lost Their Money--The Star-Route
+	Trials--Timber and Public Lands--Watering Stock--The Formation
+	of Trusts--Unsafe Hotels: European Game and Singing Birds--Seal
+	Fisheries--Cruelty to Animals--Our Indians--Sensible and Manly
+	Patriotism--Days of Brutality--Defence of Slavery by the Websters,
+	Bentons, and Clays--Thirty Years' Accomplishment--Ennobling Influence of
+	War for the Right--The Lady ana the Brakeman--American Esteem of Honesty
+	in Business--Republics do not Tend to Official Corruption--This the Best
+	Country in the World.
+
+	A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
+
+	(1878.)
+	Defence of the Lecture on Moses--How Biblical Miracles are sought to
+	be Proved--Some Non Sequiturs--A Grammatical Criticism--Christianity
+	Destructive of Manners--Cuvier and Agassiz on Mosaic Cosmogony--Clerical
+	Advance agents--Christian Threats and Warnings--Catholicism the Upas
+	Tree--Hebrew Scholarship as a Qualification for Deciding Probababilities
+	--Contradictions and Mistranslations of the Bible--Number of Errors in
+	the Scriptures--The Sunday Question.
+
+	AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.
+
+	(1881.)
+	Charged with Blasphemy in the State of Delaware--Can a Conditionless
+	Deity be Injured?--Injustice the only Blasphemy--The Lecture
+	in Delaware--Laws of that State--All Sects in turn Charged with
+	Blasphemy--Heresy Consists in making God Better than he is Thought
+	to Be--A Fatal Biblical Passage--Judge Comegys--Wilmington
+	Preachers--States with Laws against Blasphemy--No Danger of Infidel
+	Mobs--No Attack on the State of Delaware Contemplated--Comegys a
+	Resurrection--Grand Jury's Refusal to Indict--Advice about the Cutting
+	out of Heretics' Tongues--Objections to the Whipping-post--Mr. Bergh's
+	Bill--One Remedy for Wife-beating.
+
+	A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.
+
+	(1882.)
+	Solemnity--Charged with Being Insincere--Irreverence--Old Testament
+	Better than the New--"Why Hurt our Feelings?"--Involuntary Action of
+	the Brain--Source of our Conceptions of Space--Good and Bad--Right and
+	Wrong--The Minister, the Horse and the Lord's Prayer--Men Responsible
+	for their Actions--The "Gradual" Theory Not Applicable to
+	the Omniscient--Prayer Powerless to Alter Results--Religious
+	Persecution--Orthodox Ministers Made Ashamed of their
+	Creed--Purgatory--Infidelity and Baptism Contrasted--Modern Conception
+	of the Universe--The Golden Bridge of Life--"The Only Salutation"--The
+	Test for Admission to Heaven--"Scurrility."
+
+	A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.
+
+	(1892.)
+	Dr. Hall has no Time to Discuss the subject of Starving
+	Workers--Cloakmakers' Strike--Warner Van Norden of the Church Extension
+	Society--The Uncharitableness of Organized Charity--Defence of the
+	Cloakmakers--Life of the Underpaid--On the Assertion that Assistance
+	encourages Idleness and Crime--The Man without Pity an Intellectual
+	Beast--Tendency of Prosperity to Breed Selfishness--Thousands Idle
+	without Fault--Egotism of Riches--Van Norden's Idea of Happiness--The
+	Worthy Poor.
+
+	A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.
+
+	(1898.)
+	Interview in a Boston Paper--Why should a Minister call this a "Poor"
+	World?--Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?--Gospel
+	Gossip--Christ's Sayings Repetitions--The Philosophy of Confucius--Rev.
+	Mr. Mills--The Charge of "Robbery"--The Divine Plan.
+
+	A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.
+
+	(1898.)
+	Interview in the New York Journal--Rev. Roberts. MacArthur--A
+	Personal Devil--Devils who held Conversations with Christ not simply
+	personifications of Evil--The Temptation--The "Man of Straw"--Christ's
+	Mission authenticated by the Casting Out of Devils--Spain--God
+	Responsible for the Actions of Man--Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Parks--Rev. Dr. E.
+	F. Moldehnke--Patience amidst the Misfortunes of Others--Yellow Fever
+	as a Divine Agent--The Doctrine that All is for the Best--Rev. Mr.
+	Hamlin--Why Did God Create a Successful Rival?--A Compliment by the
+	Rev. Mr. Belcher--Rev. W. C. Buchanan--No Argument Old until it is
+	Answered--Why should God Create sentient Beings to be Damned?--Rev. J.
+	W. Campbell--Rev. Henry Frank--Rev. E. C.J. Kraeling on Christ and the
+	Devil--Would he make a World like This?
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME VIII.--INTERVIEWS
+
+INTERVIEWS
+
+THE BIBLE AND A FUTURE LIFE
+
+MRS. VAN COTT, THE REVIVALIST
+
+EUROPEAN TRIP AND GREENBACK QUESTION
+
+THE PRE-MILLENNIAL CONFERENCE.
+
+THE SOLID SOUTH AND RESUMPTION.
+
+THE SUNDAY LAWS OF PITTSBURG.*
+
+POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS.
+
+POLITICS AND GEN. GRANT
+
+POLITICS, RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE.
+
+REPLY TO CHICAGO CRITICS.
+
+THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
+
+INGERSOLL AND BEECHER.*
+
+POLITICAL.
+
+RELIGION IN POLITICS.
+
+MIRACLES AND IMMORTALITY.
+
+THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
+
+MR. BEECHER, MOSES AND THE NEGRO.
+
+HADES, DELAWARE AND FREETHOUGHT.
+
+A REPLY TO THE REV. MR. LANSING.*
+
+BEACONSFIELD, LENT AND REVIVALS.
+
+ANSWERING THE NEW YORK MINISTERS.*
+
+GUITEAU AND HIS CRIME.*
+
+DISTRICT SUFFRAGE.
+
+FUNERAL OF JOHN G. MILLS AND IMMORTALITY.*
+
+STAR ROUTE AND POLITICS.*
+
+THE INTERVIEWER.
+
+POLITICS AND PROHIBITION.
+
+THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO.
+
+THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
+
+JUSTICE HARLAN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
+
+POLITICS AND THEOLOGY.
+
+MORALITY AND IMMORTALITY.
+
+POLITICS, MORMONISM AND MR. BEECHER
+
+FREE TRADE AND CHRISTIANITY.
+
+THE OATH QUESTION.
+
+WENDELL PHILLIPS, FITZ JOHN PORTER AND BISMARCK.
+
+GENERAL SUBJECTS.
+
+REPLY TO KANSAS CITY CLERGY.
+
+SWEARING AND AFFIRMING.
+
+REPLY TO A BUFFALO CRITIC.
+
+BLASPHEMY.*
+
+POLITICS AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
+
+INGERSOLL CATECHISED.
+
+BLAINE'S DEFEAT.
+
+BLAINE'S DEFEAT.
+
+PLAGIARISM AND POLITICS.
+
+RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE.
+
+CLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET.
+
+RELIGION, PROHIBITION, AND GEN. GRANT.
+
+HELL OR SHEOL AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
+
+INTERVIEWING, POLITICS AND SPIRITUALISM.
+
+MY BELIEF.
+
+SOME LIVE TOPICS.
+
+THE PRESIDENT AND SENATE.
+
+ATHEISM AND CITIZENSHIP.
+
+THE LABOR QUESTION.
+
+RAILROADS AND POLITICS.
+
+PROHIBITION.
+
+HENRY GEORGE AND LABOR.
+
+LABOR QUESTION AND SOCIALISM.
+
+HENRY GEORGE AND SOCIALISM.
+
+REPLY TO THE REV. B. F. MORSE.*
+
+INGERSOLL ON McGLYNN.
+
+TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
+
+THE STAGE AND THE PULPIT.
+
+ROSCOE CONKLING.
+
+THE CHURCH AND THE STAGE.
+
+PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE.
+
+LABOR, AND TARIFF REFORM.
+
+CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
+
+THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF 1888.
+
+JAMES G. BLAINE AND POLITICS.
+
+THE MILLS BILL.
+
+SOCIETY AND ITS CRIMINALS*
+
+WOMAN'S RIGHT TO DIVORCE.
+
+SECULARISM.
+
+SUMMER RECREATION--MR. GLADSTONE.
+
+PROHIBITION.
+
+ROBERT ELSMERE.
+
+WORKING GIRLS.
+
+PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN ACTORS.
+
+LIBERALS AND LIBERALISM.
+
+POPE LEO XIII.
+
+THE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH.
+
+THE WEST AND SOUTH.
+
+THE WESTMINSTER CREED AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
+
+SHAKESPEARE AND BACON.
+
+GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY, AND PRESBYTERIANISM.
+
+CREEDS.
+
+THE TENDENCY OF MODERN THOUGHT.
+
+WOMAN SUFFRAGE, HORSE RACING, AND MONEY.
+
+MISSIONARIES.
+
+MY BELIEF AND UNBELIEF.*
+
+MUST RELIGION GO?
+
+WORD PAINTING AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.
+
+PERSONAL MAGNETISM AND THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
+
+AUTHORS.
+
+INEBRIETY.*
+
+MIRACLES, THEOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALISM.
+
+TOLSTOY AND LITERATURE.
+
+WOMAN IN POLITICS.
+
+SPIRITUALISM.
+
+PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
+
+WOMAN.
+
+STRIKES, EXPANSION AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
+
+SUNDAY A DAY OF PLEASURE.
+
+THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS.
+
+CLEVELAND'S HAWAIIAN POLICY.
+
+ORATORS AND ORATORY.*
+
+CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. THE POPE, THE A. P. A., AGNOSTICISM
+
+WOMAN AND HER DOMAIN.
+
+PROFESSOR SWING.
+
+SENATOR SHERMAN AND HIS BOOK.*
+
+REPLY TO THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
+
+SPIRITUALISM.
+
+A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
+
+IS LIFE WORTH LIVING--CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND POLITICS.
+
+VIVISECTION.
+
+DIVORCE.
+
+MUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, LYNCHING AND ARBITRATION.
+
+A VISIT TO SHAW'S GARDEN.
+
+THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISCUSSION AND THE WHIPPING-POST.
+
+COLONEL SHEPARD'S STAGE HORSES.*
+
+A REPLY TO THE REV. L. A. BANKS.
+
+CUBA--ZOLA AND THEOSOPHY.
+
+HOW TO BECOME AN ORATOR.
+
+JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG AND EXPANSION.
+
+PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE BIBLE.*
+
+THIS CENTURY'S GLORIES.
+
+CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WHIPPING-POST.
+
+EXPANSION AND TRUSTS.*
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME IX.--POLITICAL
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.
+
+AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
+
+SPEECH AT INDIANAPOLIS.
+
+CENTENNIAL ORATION.
+
+BANGOR SPEECH.
+
+COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.
+
+INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.
+
+CHICAGO SPEECH.
+
+EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS.
+
+HARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT.
+
+SUFFRAGE ADDRESS.
+
+WALL STREET SPEECH.
+
+BROOKLYN SPEECH.
+
+ADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.
+
+DECORATION DAY ORATION.
+
+DECORATION DAY ADDRESS.
+
+RATIFICATION SPEECH.
+
+REUNION ADDRESS.
+
+THE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.
+
+	 AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
+
+	(1867.)
+	Slavery and its Justification by Law and Religion--Its Destructive
+	Influence upon Nations--Inauguration of the Modern Slave Trade by the
+	Portuguese Gonzales--Planted upon American Soil--The Abolitionists,
+	Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Others--The Struggle in England--Pioneers
+	in San Domingo, Oge and Chevannes--Early Op-posers of Slavery in
+	America--William Lloyd Garrison--Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John
+	Brown--The Fugitive Slave Law--The Emancipation Proclamation--Dread of
+	Education in the South--Advice to the Colored People.
+
+	INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.
+
+
+	(1868.)
+	Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus--Precedent Established by the
+	Revolutionary Fathers--Committees of Safety appointed by the
+	Continental Congress--Arrest of Disaffected Persons in Pennsylvania
+	and Delaware--Interference with Elections--Resolution of Continental
+	Congress with respect to Citizens who Opposed the sending of Deputies
+	to the Convention of New York--Penalty for refusing to take Continental
+	Money or Pray for the American Cause--Habeas Corpus Suspended during the
+	Revolution--Interference with Freedom of the Press--Negroes Freed and
+	allowed to Fight in the Continental Army--Crispus Attacks--An Abolition
+	Document issued by Andrew Jackson--Majority rule--Slavery and the
+	Rebellion--Tribute to General Grant.
+
+	SPEECH NOMINATING BLAINE.
+	(1876.)
+	Note descriptive of the Occasion--Demand of the Republicans of the
+	United States--Resumption--The Plumed Knight.
+
+	CENTENNIAL ORATION.
+
+	(1876.)
+	One Hundred Years ago, our Fathers retired the Gods from Politics--The
+	Declaration of Independence--Meaning of the Declaration--The Old Idea
+	of the Source of Political Power--Our Fathers Educated by their
+	Surroundings--The Puritans--Universal Religious Toleration declared by
+	the Catholics of Maryland--Roger Williams--Not All of our Fathers in
+	favor of Independence--Fortunate Difference in Religious Views--Secular
+	Government--Authority derived from the People--The Declaration and
+	the Beginning of the War--What they Fought For--Slavery--Results of
+	a Hundred Years of Freedom--The Declaration Carried out in Letter and
+	Spirit.
+
+	BANGOR SPEECH.
+
+	(1876.)
+	The Hayes Campaign--Reasons for Voting the Republican Ticket--Abolition
+	of Slavery--Preservation of the Union--Reasons for Not Trusting the
+	Democratic Party--Record of the Republican Party--Democrats Assisted
+	the South--Paper Money--Enfranchisement of the Negroes--Samuel J.
+	Tilden--His Essay on Finance.
+
+	COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.
+
+	(1876.)
+	All Citizens Stockholders in the United States of America--The
+	Democratic Party a Hungry Organization--Political Parties
+	Contrasted--The Fugitive Slave Law a Disgrace to Hell in its Palmiest
+	Days--Feelings of the Democracy Hurt on the Subject of Religion--Defence
+	of Slavery in a Resolution of the Presbyterians, South--State of the
+	Union at the Time the Republican Party was Born--Jacob Thompson--The
+	National Debt--Protection of Citizens Abroad--Tammany Hall: Its Relation
+	to the Penitentiary--The Democratic Party of New York City--"What
+	Hands!"--Free Schools.
+
+	INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.
+
+	(1876.)
+	Address to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion--Objections to
+	the Democratic Party--The Men who have been Democrats--Why I am a
+	Republican--Free Labor and Free Thought--A Vision of War--Democratic
+	Slander of the Greenback--Shall the People who Saved the Country Rule
+	It?--On Finance--Government Cannot Create Money--The Greenback Dollar
+	a Mortgage upon the Country--Guarantees that the Debt will be Paid-'The
+	Thoroughbred and the Mule--The Column of July, Paris--The Misleading
+	Guide Board, the Dismantled Mill, and the Place where there had been a
+	Hotel,
+
+	CHICAGO SPEECH.
+
+	(1876.)
+	The Plea of "Let Bygones be Bygones"--Passport of the Democratic
+	Party--Right of the General Government to send Troops into Southern
+	States for the Protection of Colored People--Abram S. Hewitt's
+	Congratulatory Letter to the Negroes--The Demand for Inflation of the
+	Currency--Record of Rutherford B. Hayes--Contrasted with Samuel J.
+	Tilden--Merits of the Republican Party--Negro and Southern White--The
+	Superior Man--"No Nation founded upon Injustice can Permanently Stand."
+
+	EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS.
+
+	(1877.)
+	On the Electoral Commission--Reminiscences of the Hayes-Tilden Camp--
+	Constitution of the Electoral College--Characteristics of the Members--
+	Frauds at the Ballot Box Poisoning the Fountain of Power--Reforms
+	Suggested--Elections too Frequent--The Professional Office-seeker--A
+	Letter on Civil Service Reform--Young Men Advised against Government
+	Clerkships--Too Many Legislators and too Much Legislation--Defect in the
+	Constitution as to the Mode of Electing a President--Protection of
+	Citizens by State and General Governments--The Dual Government in South
+	Carolina--Ex-Rebel Key in the President's Cabinet--Implacables and
+	Bourbons South and North--"I extend to you each and all the Olive Branch
+	of Peace."
+
+	HARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT.
+
+	(1878.)
+	Capital and Labor--What is a Capitalist?--The Idle and the Industrious
+	Artisans--No Conflict between Capital and Labor--A Period of Inflation
+	and Speculation--Life and Fire Insurance Agents--Business done on
+	Credit--The Crash, Failure, and Bankruptcy--Fall in the Price of Real
+	Estate a Form of Resumption--Coming back to Reality--Definitions of
+	Money Examined--Not Gold and Silver but Intelligent Labor the Measure
+	of Value--Government cannot by Law Create Wealth--A Bill of Fare not
+	a Dinner--Fiat Money--American Honor Pledged to the Maintenance of the
+	Greenbacks--The Cry against Holders of Bonds--Criminals and Vagabonds to
+	be supported--Duty of Government to Facilitate Enterprise--More Men must
+	Cultivate the Soil--Government Aid for the Overcoming of Obstacles too
+	Great for Individual Enterprise--The Palace Builders the Friends of
+	Labor--Extravagance the best Form of Charity--Useless to Boost a Man
+	who is not Climbing--The Reasonable Price for Labor--The Vagrant and his
+	strange and winding Path--What to tell the Working Men.
+
+	SUFFRAGE ADDRESS.
+
+	(1880.)
+	The Right to Vote--All Women who desire the Suffrage should have
+	It--Shall the People of the District of Columbia Manage their Own
+	Affairs--Their Right to a Representative in Congress and an Electoral
+	Vote--Anomalous State of Affairs at the Capital of the Republic--Not the
+	Wealthy and Educated alone should Govern--The Poor as Trustworthy as the
+	Rich--Strict Registration Laws Needed.
+
+	WALL STREET SPEECH.
+
+	(1880.)
+	Obligation of New York to Protect the Best Interests of the
+	Country--Treason and Forgery of the Democratic Party in its Appeal to
+	Sword and Pen--The One Republican in the Penitentiary of Maine--The
+	Doctrine of State Sovereignty--Protection for American Brain and
+	Muscle--Hancock on the Tariff--A Forgery (the Morey letter) Committed
+	and upheld--The Character of James A. Garfield.
+
+	BROOKLYN SPEECH.
+
+	(1880.)
+	Introduced by Henry Ward Beecher (note)--Some Patriotic
+	Democrats--Freedom of Speech North and South--An Honest Ballot--
+	ADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.
+
+
+	DECORATION DAY ORATION.
+
+
+	DECORATION DAY ADDRESS.
+
+
+	RATIFICATION SPEECH.
+
+
+	REUNION ADDRESS.
+
+
+	THE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME X.--LEGAL
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.
+
+ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.
+
+CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
+
+OPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
+
+CLOSING ADDRESS IN SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL
+
+ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.
+
+ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.
+
+	 ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.
+
+	Demoralization caused by Alcohol--Note from the Chicago
+	Times--Prejudice--Review of the Testimony of Jacob Rehm--Perjury
+	Characterized--The Defendant and the Offence Charged (p. 21)--Testimony
+	of Golsen Reviewed--Rehm's Testimony before the Grand Jury--Good
+	Character (p. 29)--Suspicion not Evidence.
+
+
+	CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
+
+	Note from the Washington Capital--The Assertion Denied that we are
+	a Demoralized Country and that our Country is Distinguished among
+	the Nations only for Corruption--Duties of Jurors and Duties of
+	Lawyers--Section under which the Indictment is Found--Cases cited to
+	Show that Overt Acts charged and also the Crime itself must be Proved
+	as Described--Routes upon which Indictments are Based and Overt Acts
+	Charged (pp. 54-76)--Routes on which the Making of False Claims is
+	Alleged--Authorities on Proofs of Conspiracy (pp. 91-94)--Examination
+	of the Evidence against Stephen W. and John W. Dorsey (pp. 96-117)--The
+	Corpus Delicti in a Case of Conspiracy and the Acts Necessary to be Done
+	in Order to Establish Conspiracy (pp. 120-123)--Testimony of Walsh
+	and the Confession of Rerdell--Extravagance in Mail Carrying (p.
+	128)--Productiveness of Mail Routes (p. 131)--Hypothesis of Guilt and
+	Law of Evidence--Dangerous Influence of Suspicion--Terrorizing the
+	Jury--The Woman at Her Husband's Side.
+
+	OPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
+
+	Juries the Bulwark of Civil Liberty--Suspicion Not Evidence--Brief
+	Statement of the Case--John M. Peck, John W. Dorsey, Stephen W. Dorsey,
+	John R. Miner, Mr. (A. E. ) Boone (p.p. 150-156)--The Clendenning
+	Bonds--Miner's, Peck's, and Dorsey's Bids--Why they Bid on Cheap
+	Routes--Number of Routes upon which there are Indictments--The
+	Arrangement between Stephen W. Dorsey and John R. Miner--Appearance
+	of Mr. Vaile in the Contracts--Partnership Formed--The Routes
+	Divided--Senator Dorsey's Course after Getting the Routes--His Routes
+	turned over to James W. Bosler--Profits of the Business (p. 181)--The
+	Petitions for More Mails--Productive and Unproductive Post-offices--Men
+	who Add to the Wealth of the World--Where the Idea of the Productiveness
+	of Post routes was Hatched--Cost of Letters to Recipients in 1843--The
+	Overland Mail (p. 190)--Loss in Distributing the Mail in the District
+	of Columbia and Other Territories--Post-office the only Evidence
+	of National Beneficence--Profit and Loss of Mail Carrying--Orders
+	Antedated, and Why--Routes Increased and Expedited--Additional Bonds for
+	Additional Trips--The Charge that Pay was Received when the Mail was
+	not Carried--Fining on Shares--Subcontracts for Less than the Original
+	Contracts--Pay on Discontinued Routes--Alleged False Affidavits--Right
+	of Petition--Reviewing the Ground.
+
+	CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
+
+	Scheme of the Indictment--Story of the Case--What Constitutes Fraudulent
+	Bidding--How a Conspiracy Must be Proved--The Hypothesis of Guilt and
+	Law of Evidence--Conversation Unsatisfactory Evidence--Fallibility of
+	Memory--Proposition to Produce Mr. Dorsey's Books--Interruption of the
+	Court to Decide that Primary Evidence, having Once been Refused, can not
+	afterwards be Introduced to Contradict Secondary Evidence--A Defendant
+	may not be Presumed into the Penitentiary--A Decision by Justice
+	Field--The Right of Petition--Was there a Conspiracy?--Dorsey's
+	Benevolence (p. 250)--The Chico Springs Letter--Evidence of Moore
+	Reviewed--Mr. Ker's Defective Memory--The Informer System--Testimony
+	of Rerdell Reviewed--His Letter to Dorsey (p. 304)--The Affidavit of
+	Rerdell and Dorsey--Petitions for Faster Time--Uncertainty Regarding
+	Handwriting--Government Should be Incapable of Deceit--Rerdell's
+	withdrawal of the Plea of Not Guilty (p. 362)--Informers, their Immunity
+	and Evidence--Nailing Down the Lid of Rerdell's Coffin--Mistakes of
+	Messrs. Ker and Merrick and the Court--Letter of H. M. Vaile to the
+	Sixth Auditor--Miner's Letter to Carey--Miner, Peck & Co. to Frank A.
+	Tuttle--Answering Points Raised by Mr. Bliss (396 et seq.)--Evidence
+	regarding the Payment of Money by Dorsey to Brady--A. E. Boone's
+	Testimony Reviewed--Secrecy of Contractors Regarding the Amount of their
+	Bids--Boone's Partnership Agreement with Dorsey--Explanation of Bids
+	in Different Names--Omission of Instructions from Proposals (p.
+	450)--Accusation that Senator Mitchell was the Paid Agent of
+	the Defendants--Alleged Sneers at Things held Sacred--What is a
+	Conspiracy?--The Theory that there was a Conspiracy--Dorsey's Alleged
+	Interest--The Two Affidavits in Evidence--Inquiry of General Miles--Why
+	the Defendant's Books were not Produced--Tames W. Bosler's Testimony
+	Read (p. 500)--The Court shown to be Mistaken Regarding a Decision
+	Previously Made (pp. 496-502)--No Logic in Abuse--Charges against John
+	W. Miner--Testimony of A. W. Moore Reviewed-The Verdict Predicted--The
+	Defendants in the Case--What is left for the Jury to Say--Remarks of
+	Messrs. Henkle and Davidge--The Verdict.
+
+	ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.
+
+	Note from the Anaconda Standard--Senator Sander's Warning to the Jury
+	Not to be Enticed by Sinners--Evidence, based on Quality of Handwriting,
+	that Davis did not Write the Will--Evidence of the Spelling--Assertion
+	that the Will was Forged--Peculiarities of Eddy's Handwriting--Holes
+	in Sconce's Signature and Reputation--His Memory--Business Sagacity
+	of Davis--His Alleged Children--Date of his Death--Testimony of Mr.
+	Knight--Ink used in Writing the Will--Expert Evidence--Speechlessness
+	of John A. Davis--Eddy's Failure to take the Stand--Testimony of
+	Carruthers--Relatives of Sconce--Mary Ann Davis's Connections--The
+	Family Tree--The Signature of the Will--What the Evidence Shows--Duty
+	and Opportunity of the Jury.
+
+	ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.
+
+	Antenuptial Waiving of Dower by Women--A Case from Illinois--At What
+	Age Men and Women Cease to Feel the Tender Flame--Russell's Bargain with
+	Mrs. Russell--Antenuptial Contract and Parole Agreement--Definition
+	of "Liberal Provision "--The Woman not Bound by a Contract Made in
+	Ignorance of the Facts--Contract Destroyed by Deception.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME XI.--MISCELLANY
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.
+
+ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
+
+TRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.
+
+GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION.
+
+A REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING.
+
+CRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS.
+
+A WOODEN GOD.
+
+SOME INTERROGATION POINTS.
+
+ART AND MORALITY.
+
+THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.
+
+WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
+
+HUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM.
+
+ERNEST RENAN.
+
+TOLSTOI AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."
+
+THOMAS PAINE.
+
+THE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS.
+
+SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
+
+A WORD ABOUT EDUCATION.
+
+WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.
+
+FOOL FRIENDS.
+
+INSPIRATION
+
+THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.
+
+HOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER.
+
+SECULARISM.
+
+CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."
+
+THE LIBEL LAWS
+
+REV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.
+
+AN ESSAY ON CHRISTMAS.
+
+HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
+
+THE IMPROVED MAN.
+
+EIGHT HOURS MUST COME.
+
+THE JEWS.
+
+CRUMBLING CREEDS.
+
+OUR SCHOOLS.
+
+VIVISECTION.
+
+THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.
+
+THE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS
+
+SPIRITUALITY.
+
+SUMTER'S GUN.
+
+WHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE.
+
+CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.
+
+LAW'S DELAY.
+
+THE BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES.
+
+A YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY.
+
+SCIENCE AND SENTIMENT.
+
+SOWING AND REAPING.
+
+SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
+
+WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
+
+GOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.
+
+A LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.
+
+POLITICAL MORALITY.
+
+A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.
+
+
+
+DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.
+
+	 ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
+
+	Introduction by Frederick Douglass("Abou Ben Adhem")--Decision of
+	the United States Supreme Court pronouncing the Civil Rights Act
+	Unconstitutional--Limitations of Judges--Illusion Destroyed by the
+	Decision in the Dred Scott Case--Mistake of Our Fathers in adopting
+	the Common Law of England--The 13th Amendment to the Constitution
+	Quoted--The Clause of the Constitution upholding Slavery--Effect of
+	this Clause--Definitions of a State by Justice Wilson and Chief Justice
+	Chase--Effect of the Thirteenth Amendment--Justice Field on Involuntary
+	Servitude--Civil Rights Act Quoted--Definition of the Word Servitude by
+	the Supreme Court--Obvious Purpose of the Amendment--Justice Miller
+	on the 14th Amendment--Citizens Created by this Amendment--Opinion
+	of Justice Field--Rights and Immunities guaranteed by the
+	Constitution--Opinion delivered by Chief-Justice Waite--Further Opinions
+	of Courts on the question of Citizenship--Effect of the 13th, 14th and
+	15th Amendments--"Corrective" Legislation by Congress--Denial of equal
+	"Social" Privileges--Is a State responsible for the Action of its Agent
+	when acting contrary to Law?--The Word "State" must include the People
+	of the State as well as the Officers of the State--The Louisiana Civil
+	Rights Law, and a Case tried under it--Uniformity of Duties essential to
+	the Carrier--Congress left Powerless to protect Rights conferred by the
+	Constitution--Definition of "Appropriate Legislation"--Propositions laid
+	down regarding the Sovereignty of the State, the powers of the General
+	Government, etc.--A Tribute to Justice Harlan--A Denial that Property
+	exists by Virtue of Law--Civil Rights not a Question of Social
+	Equality--Considerations upon which Social Equality depends--Liberty not
+	a Question of Social Equality--The Superior Man--Inconsistencies of the
+	Past--No Reason why we should Hate the Colored People--The Issues that
+	are upon Us.
+
+	TRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.
+
+	ADDRESS TO THE JURY.
+
+	Report of the Case from the New York Times (note)--The Right to express
+	Opinions--Attempts to Rule the Minds of Men by Force--Liberty the
+	Greatest Good--Intellectual Hospitality Defined--When the Catholic
+	Church had Power--Advent of the Protestants--The Puritans, Quakers.
+	Unitarians, Universalists--What is Blasphemy?--Why this Trial should not
+	have Taken Place--Argument cannot be put in Jail--The Constitution of
+	New Jersey--A higher Law than Men can Make--The Blasphemy Statute
+	Quoted and Discussed--Is the Statute Constitutional?--The Harm done
+	by Blasphemy Laws--The Meaning of this Persecution--Religions are
+	Ephemeral--Let us judge each other by our Actions--Men who have braved
+	Public Opinion should be Honored--The Blasphemy Law if enforced would
+	rob the World of the Results of Scientific Research--It declares the
+	Great Men of to-day to be Criminals--The Indictment Read and Commented
+	upon--Laws that go to Sleep--Obsolete Dogmas the Denial of which was
+	once punished by Death--Blasphemy Characterized--On the Argument
+	that Blasphemy Endangers the Public Peace--A Definition of real
+	Blasphemy--Trials for Blasphemy in England--The case of Abner
+	Kneeland--True Worship, Prayer, and Religion--What is Holy and
+	Sacred--What is Claimed in this Case--For the Honor of the State--The
+	word Liberty--Result of the Trial (note).
+
+	GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION.
+
+	The Feudal System--Office and Purpose of our Constitution--Which God
+	shall we Select?--The Existence of any God a Matter of Opinion--What is
+	entailed by a Recognition of a God in the Constitution--Can the Infinite
+	be Flattered with a Constitutional Amendment?--This government is
+	Secular--The Government of God a Failure--The Difference between the
+	Theological and the Secular Spirit--A Nation neither Christian nor
+	Infidel--The Priest no longer a Necessity--Progress of Science and the
+	Development of the Mind.
+
+	A REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING.
+
+	On God in the Constitution--Why the Constitutional Convention ignored
+	the Question of Religion--The Fathers Misrepresented--Reasons why the
+	Attributes of God should not form an Organic Part of the Law of the
+	Land--The Effect of a Clause Recognizing God.
+
+	CRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS.
+
+	The Three Pests of a Community--I. Forms of Punishment and Torture--More
+	Crimes Committed than Prevented by Governments--II. Are not Vices
+	transmitted by Nature?--111. Is it Possible for all People to be
+	Honest?--Children of Vice as the natural Product of Society--Statistics:
+	the Relation between Insanity, Pauperism, and Crime--IV. The Martyrs of
+	Vice--Franklin's Interest in the Treatment of Prisoners--V. Kindness
+	as a Remedy--Condition of the Discharged Prisoner--VI. Compensation
+	for Convicts--VII. Professional Criminals--Shall the Nation take
+	Life?--Influence of Public Executions on the Spectators--Lynchers
+	for the Most Part Criminals at Heart--VIII. The Poverty of the Many a
+	perpetual Menace--Limitations of Land-holding.--IX. Defective Education
+	by our Schools--Hands should be educated as well as Head--Conduct
+	improved by a clearer Perception of Consequences--X. The Discipline of
+	the average Prison Hardening and Degrading--While Society cringes before
+	Great Thieves there will be Little Ones to fill the Jails--XI. Our
+	Ignorance Should make us Hesitate.
+
+	A WOODEN GOD.
+
+	On Christian and Chinese worship--Report of the Select Committee
+	on Chinese Immigration--The only true God as contrasted with
+	Joss--Sacrifices to the "Living God"--Messrs. Wright, Dickey, O'Connor
+	and Murch on the "Religious System" of the American Union--How to prove
+	that Christians are better than Heathens--Injustice in the Name of
+	God--An honest Merchant the best Missionary--A Few Extracts from
+	Confucius--The Report proves that the Wise Men of China who predicted
+	that Christians could not be Trusted were not only Philosophers but
+	Prophets.
+
+	SOME INTERROGATION POINTS.
+
+	A New Party and its Purpose--The Classes that Exist in every
+	Country--Effect of Education on the Common People--Wants Increased by
+	Intelligence--The Dream of 1776--The Monopolist and the Competitor--The
+	War between the Gould and Mackay Cables--Competition between
+	Monopolies--All Advance in Legislation made by Repealing Laws--Wages
+	and Values not to be fixed by Law--Men and Machines--The Specific of
+	the Capitalist: Economy--The poor Man and Woman devoured by
+	their Fellow-men--Socialism one of the Worst Possible forms of
+	Slavery--Liberty not to be exchanged for Comfort--Will the Workers
+	always give their Earnings for the Useless?--Priests, Successful Frauds,
+	and Robed Impostors.
+
+	ART AND MORALITY.
+
+	The Origin of Man's Thoughts--The imaginative Man--"Medicinal View" of
+	Poetry--Rhyme and Religion--The theological Poets and their Purpose in
+	Writing--Moral Poets and their "Unwelcome Truths"--The really Passionate
+	are the Virtuous--Difference between the Nude and the Naked--Morality
+	the Melody of Conduct--The inculcation of Moral Lessons not contemplated
+	by Artists or great Novelists--Mistaken Reformers--Art not a
+	Sermon--Language a Multitude of Pictures--Great Pictures and Great
+	Statues painted and chiseled with Words--Mediocrity moral from a
+	Necessity which it calls Virtue--Why Art Civilizes--The Nude--The Venus
+	de Milo--This is Art.
+
+	THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.
+
+	The Way in which Theological Seminaries were Endowed--Religious
+	Guide-boards--Vast Interests interwoven with Creeds--Pretensions of
+	Christianity--Kepler's Discovery of his Three Great Laws--Equivocations
+	and Evasions of the Church--Nature's Testimony against the
+	Bible--The Age of Man on the Earth--"Inspired" Morality of the
+	Bible--Miracles--Christian Dogmas--What the church has been Compelled to
+	Abandon--The Appeal to Epithets, Hatred and Punishment--"Spirituality"
+	the last Resource of the Orthodox--What is it to be Spiritual?--Two
+	Questions for the Defenders of Orthodox Creeds.
+
+	WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
+
+	Part I. Inharmony of Nature and the Lot of Man with the Goodness and
+	Wisdom of a supposed Deity--Why a Creator is Imagined--Difficulty of the
+	Act of Creation--Belief in Supernatural Beings--Belief and Worship among
+	Savages--Questions of Origin and Destiny--Progress impossible without
+	Change of Belief--Circumstances Determining Belief--How may the
+	True Religion be Ascertained?--Prosperity of Nations nor Virtue
+	of Individuals Dependent on Religions or Gods--Uninspired Books
+	Superior--Part II. The Christian Religion--Credulity--Miracles cannot
+	be Established--Effect of Testimony--Miraculous Qualities of all
+	Religions--Theists and Naturalists--The Miracle of Inspiration--How
+	can the alleged Fact of Inspiration be Established?--God's work and
+	Man's--Rewards for Falsehood offered by the Church.
+
+	HUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM.
+
+	Statement by the Principal of King's College--On the Irrelevancy of a
+	Lack of Scientific Knowledge--Difference between the Agnostic and
+	the Christian not in Knowledge but in Credulity--The real name of
+	an Agnostic said to be "Infidel"--What an Infidel is--"Unpleasant"
+	significance of the Word--Belief in Christ--"Our Lord and his Apostles"
+	possibly Honest Men--Their Character not Invoked--Possession by evil
+	spirits--Professor Huxley's Candor and Clearness--The splendid Dream
+	of Auguste Comte--Statement of the Positive Philosophy--Huxley and
+	Harrison.
+
+	ERNEST RENAN.
+
+	His Rearing and his Anticipated Biography--The complex Character of the
+	Christ of the Gospels--Regarded as a Man by Renan--The Sin against the
+	Holy Ghost--Renan on the Gospels--No Evidence that they were written
+	by the Men whose Names they Bear--Written long after the Events they
+	Describe--Metaphysics of the Church found in the Gospel of John--Not
+	Apparent why Four Gospels should have been Written--Regarded as
+	legendary Biographies--In "flagrant contradiction one with another"--The
+	Divine Origin of Christ an After-growth--Improbable that he intended to
+	form a Church--Renan's Limitations--Hebrew Scholarship--His "People of
+	Israel"--His Banter and Blasphemy.
+
+	TOLSTOY AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."
+
+	Tolstoy's Belief and Philosophy--His Asceticism--His View of Human
+	Love--Purpose of "The Kreutzer Sonata"--Profound Difference between the
+	Love of Men and that of Women--Tolstoy cannot now found a Religion, but
+	may create the Necessity for another Asylum--The Emotions--The Curious
+	Opinion Dried Apples have of Fruit upon the Tree--Impracticability of
+	selling All and giving to the Poor--Love and Obedience--Unhappiness in
+	the Marriage Relation not the fault of Marriage.
+
+	THOMAS PAINE.
+
+	Life by Moncure D. Conway--Early Advocacy of Reforms against Dueling
+	and Cruelty to Animals--The First to write "The United States of
+	America"--Washington's Sentiment against Separation from Great
+	Britain--Paine's Thoughts in the Declaration of Independence--Author of
+	the first Proclamation of Emancipation in America--Establishment of a
+	Fund for the Relief of the Army--H's "Farewell Address"--The "Rights of
+	Man"--Elected to the French Convention--Efforts to save the Life of the
+	King--His Thoughts on Religion--Arrested--The "Age of Reason" and the
+	Weapons it has furnished "Advanced Theologians"--Neglect by Gouverneur
+	Morris and Washington--James Monroe's letter to Paine and to the
+	Committee of General Safety--The vaunted Religious Liberty of
+	Colonial Maryland--Orthodox Christianity at the Beginning of the 19th
+	Century--New Definitions of God--The Funeral of Paine.
+
+	THE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS.
+
+	I. Mr. A., the Professional Philanthropist, who established a Colony
+	for the Enslavement of the Poor who could not take care of themselves,
+	amassed a large Fortune thereby, built several churches, and earned
+	the Epitaph, "He was the Providence of the Poor"--II. Mr. B.,
+	the Manufacturer, who enriched himself by taking advantage of the
+	Necessities of the Poor, paid the lowest Rate of Wages, considered
+	himself one of God's Stewards, endowed the "B Asylum" and the "B
+	College," never lost a Dollar, and of whom it was recorded, "He Lived
+	for Others." III. Mr. C., who divided his Profits with the People who had
+	earned it, established no Public Institutions, suppressed Nobody; and
+	those who have worked for him said, "He allowed Others to live for
+	Themselves."
+
+	SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
+
+	Trampling on the Rights of Inferiors--Rise of the Irish and Germans
+	to Power--The Burlingame Treaty--Character of Chinese Laborers--Their
+	Enemies in the Pacific States--Violation of Treaties--The Geary Law--The
+	Chinese Hated for their Virtues--More Piety than Principle among the
+	People's Representatives--Shall we go back to Barbarism?
+
+	A WORD ABOUT EDUCATION.
+
+	What the Educated Man Knows--Necessity of finding out the Facts
+	of Nature--"Scholars" not always Educated Men; from necessaries to
+	luxuries; who may be called educated; mental misers; the first duty of
+	man; university education not necessary to usefulness, no advantage in
+	learning useless facts.
+
+	WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.
+
+	Would have the Kings and Emperors resign, the Nobility drop their
+	Titles, the Professors agree to teach only What they Know, the
+	Politicians changed to Statesmen, the Editors print only the
+	Truth--Would like to see Drunkenness and Prohibition abolished,
+	Corporal Punishment done away with, and the whole World free.
+
+	FOOL FRIENDS.
+
+	The Fool Friend believes every Story against you, never denies a Lie
+	unless it is in your Favor, regards your Reputation as Common Prey,
+	forgets his Principles to gratify your Enemies, and is so friendly that
+	you cannot Kick him.
+
+	INSPIRATION.
+
+	Nature tells a different Story to all Eyes and Ears--Horace Greeley and
+	the Big Trees--The Man who "always did like rolling land"--What the
+	Snow looked like to the German--Shakespeare's different Story for each
+	Reader--As with Nature so with the Bible.
+
+	THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.
+
+	People who live by Lying--A Case in point--H. Hodson Rugg's Account of
+	the Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers--The "Identity of
+	Lost Israel with the British Nation"--Old Falsehoods about Infidels--The
+	New York Observer and Thomas Paine--A Rascally English Editor--The
+	Charge that Ingersoll's Son had been Converted--The Fecundity of
+	Falsehood.
+
+	HOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER.
+
+	The Editor should not narrow his Horizon so that he can see only
+	One Thing--To know the Defects of the Bible is but the Beginning of
+	Wisdom--The Liberal Paper should not discuss Theological Questions
+	Alone--A Column for Children--Candor and Kindness--Nothing should be
+	Asserted that is not Known--Above All, teach the Absolute Freedom of the
+	Mind.
+
+	SECULARISM.
+
+	The religion of Humanity; what it Embraces and what it Advocates--A
+	Protest against Ecclesiastical Tyranny--Believes in Building a Home
+	here--Means Food and Fireside--The Right to express your Thought--Its
+	advice to every Human Being--A Religion without Mysteries, Miracles, or
+	Persecutions.
+
+	CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."
+
+	Religion unsoftened by Infidelity--The Orthodox Minister whose Wife has
+	a Heart--Honesty of Opinion not a Mitigating Circumstance--Repulsiveness
+	of an Orthodox Life--John Ward an Object of Pity--Lyndall of the
+	"African Farm"--The Story of the Hunter--Death of Waldo--Women the
+	Caryatides of the Church--Attitude of Christianity toward other
+	Religions--Egotism of the ancient Jews.
+
+	THE LIBEL LAWS.
+
+	All Articles appearing in a newspaper should be Signed by the
+	Writer--The Law if changed should throw greater Safeguards around the
+	Reputation of the Citizen--Pains should be taken to give Prominence to
+	Retractions--The Libel Laws like a Bayonet in War.
+
+	REV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.
+
+	Mr. Newton not Regarded as a Sceptic--New Meanings given to Old
+	Words--The vanishing Picture of Hell--The Atonement--Confidence being
+	Lost in the Morality of the Gospel--Exclusiveness of the Churches--The
+	Hope of Immortality and Belief in God have Nothing to do with Real
+	Religion--Special Providence a Mistake.
+
+	AN ESSAY ON CHRISTMAS.
+
+	The Day regarded as a Holiday--A Festival far older
+	than Christianity--Relics of Sun-worship in Christian
+	Ceremonies--Christianity furnished new Steam for an old Engine--Pagan
+	Festivals correspond to Ours--Why Holidays are Popular--They must be for
+	the Benefit of the People.
+
+	HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
+
+	The Object of Freethought--what the Religionist calls "Affirmative
+	and Positive"--The Positive Side of Freethought--Constructive Work of
+	Christianity.
+
+	THE IMPROVED MAN.
+
+	He will be in Favor of universal Liberty, neither Master nor Slave; of
+	Equality and Education; will develop in the Direction of the Beautiful;
+	will believe only in the Religion of this World--His Motto--Will not
+	endeavor to change the Mind of the "Infinite"--Will have no Bells or
+	Censers--Will be satisfied that the Supernatural does not exist--Will be
+	Self-poised, Independent, Candid and Free.
+
+	EIGHT HOURS MUST COME.
+
+	The Working People should be protected by Law--Life of no particular
+	Importance to the Man who gets up before Daylight and works till
+	after Dark--A Revolution probable in the Relations between Labor and
+	Capital--Working People becoming Educated and more Independent--The
+	Government can Aid by means of Good Laws--Women the worst Paid--There
+	should be no Resort to Force by either Labor or Capital.
+
+	THE JEWS.
+
+	Much like People of other Religions--Teaching given Christian Children
+	about those who die in the Faith of Abraham--Dr. John Hall on
+	the Persecution of the Jews in Russia as the Fulfillment of
+	Prophecy--Hostility of Orthodox early Christians excited by Jewish
+	Witnesses against the Faith--An infamous Chapter of History--Good
+	and bad Men of every Faith--Jews should outgrow their own
+	Superstitions--What the intelligent Jew Knows.
+
+	CRUMBLING CREEDS.
+
+	The Common People called upon to Decide as between the Universities and
+	the Synods--Modern Medicine, Law, Literature and Pictures as against the
+	Old--Creeds agree with the Sciences of their Day--Apology the Prelude
+	to Retreat--The Presbyterian Creed Infamous, but no worse than
+	the Catholic--Progress begins when Expression of Opinion is
+	Allowed--Examining the Religions of other Countries--The Pulpit's
+	Position Lost--The Dogma of Eternal Pain the Cause of the orthodox
+	Creeds losing Popularity--Every Church teaching this Infinite Lie must
+	Fall.
+
+	OUR SCHOOLS.
+
+	Education the only Lever capable of raising Mankind--The
+	School-house more Important than the Church--Criticism of New York's
+	School-Buildings--The Kindergarten System Recommended--Poor Pay of
+	Teachers--The great Danger to the Republic is Ignorance.
+
+	VIVISECTION.
+
+	The Hell of Science--Brutal Curiosity of Vivisectors--The Pretence that
+	they are working for the Good of Man--Have these scientific Assassins
+	added to useful Knowledge?--No Good to the Race to be Accomplished by
+	Torture--The Tendency to produce a Race of intelligent Wild Beasts.
+
+	THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.
+
+	Right of the Government to ask Questions and of the Citizen to refuse
+	to answer them--Matters which the Government has no Right to pry
+	into--Exposing the Debtor's financial Condition--A Man might decline to
+	tell whether he has a Chronic Disease or not.
+
+	THE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS.
+
+	Natural Phenomena and Myths celebrated--The great Day of the first
+	Religion, Sun-worship--A God that Knew no Hatred nor Sought Revenge--The
+	Festival of Light.
+
+	SPIRITUALITY.
+
+	A much-abused Word--The Early Christians too Spiritual to be
+	Civilized--Calvin and Knox--Paine, Voltaire and Humboldt not
+	Spiritual--Darwin also Lacking--What it is to be really Spiritual--No
+	connection with Superstition.
+
+	SUMTER'S GUN.
+
+	What were thereby blown into Rags and Ravelings--The Birth of a
+	new Epoch announced--Lincoln made the most commanding Figure of the
+	Century--Story of its Echoes.
+
+	WHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE.
+
+	What might have been Asked of a Christian 100 years after
+	Christ--Hospitals and Asylums not all built for Charity--Girard
+	College--Lick Observatory--Carnegie not an Orthodox Christian--Christian
+	Colleges--Give us Time.
+
+	CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.
+
+
+	Brockway a Savage--The Lash will neither develop the Brain nor cultivate
+	the Heart--Brutality a Failure--Bishop Potter's apostolical Remark.
+
+	LAW'S DELAY.
+
+	The Object of a Trial--Justice can afford to Wait--The right of
+	Appeal--Case of Mrs. Maybrick--Life Imprisonment for Murderers--American
+	Courts better than the English.
+	BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES.
+	Universities naturally Conservative--Kansas State University's
+	Objection to Ingersoll as a commencement Orator--Comment by Mr. Depew
+	(note)--Action of Cornell and the University of Missouri.
+
+	A YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY.
+
+	The Chances a few Years ago--Capital now Required--Increasing
+	competition in Civilized Life--Independence the first Object--If he has
+	something to say, there will be plenty to listen.
+
+	SCIENCE AND SENTIMENT.
+
+	Science goes hand in hand with Imagination--Artistic and Ethical
+	Development--Science destroys Superstition, not true Religion--Education
+	preferable to Legislation--Our Obligation to our Children.
+
+	"SOWING AND REAPING."
+
+	Moody's Belief accounted for--A dishonest and corrupting Doctrine--A
+	want of Philosophy and Sense--Have Souls in Heaven no Regrets?--Mr.
+	Moody should read some useful Books.
+
+	SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
+
+	Teachings of orthodox Sunday Schools--The ferocious God of the
+	Bible--Miracles--A Christian in Constantinople would not send his
+	Child to a Mosque--Advice to all Agnostics--Strangle the Serpent of
+	Superstition.
+
+	WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
+
+	Character of the Bible--Men and Women not virtuous because of any
+	Book--The Commandments both Good and Bad--Books that do not help
+	Morality--Jehovah not a moral God--What is Morality?--Intelligence the
+	only moral guide.
+
+	GOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.
+
+	Decline of the Christian Religion in New Hampshire--Outgrown
+	Beliefs--Present-day Views of Christ and the Holy Ghost--Abandoned
+	Notions about the Atonement--Salvation for Credulity--The Miracles
+	of the New Testament--The Bible "not true but inspired"--The "Higher
+	Critics" riding two Horses--Infidelity in the Pulpit--The "restraining
+	Influences of Religion" as illustrated by Spain and Portugal--Thinking,
+	Working and Praying--The kind of Faith that has Departed.
+
+	A LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.
+
+	The Truth Seeker congratulated on its Twenty-fifth Birthday--Teachings
+	of Twenty-five Years ago--Dodging and evading--The Clerical Assault
+	on Darwin--Draper, Buckle, Hegel, Spencer, Emerson--Comparison
+	of Prejudices--Vanished Belief in the Devil--Matter and
+	Force--Contradictions Dwelling in Unity--Substitutes for Jehovah--A
+	Prophecy.
+
+	POLITICAL MORALITY.
+
+	Argument in the contested Election Case of Strobach against Herbert--The
+	Importance of Honest Elections--Poisoning the Source of Justice--The
+	Fraudulent Voter a Traitor to his Sovereign, the Will of the
+	People--Political Morality Imperative.
+
+	A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.
+
+	Date and Manner of Composing the Old Testament--Other Books not now in
+	Existence, and Disagreements about the Canon--Composite Character of
+	certain Books--Various Versions--Why was God's message given to the Jews
+	alone?--The Story of the Creation, of the Flood, of the Tower, and
+	of Lot's wife--Moses and Aaron and the Plagues of Egypt--Laws of
+	Slavery--Instructions by Jehovah Calculated to excite Astonishment and
+	Mirth--Sacrifices and the Scapegoat--Passages showing that the Laws of
+	Moses were made after the Jews had left the Desert--Jehovah's dealings
+	with his People--The Sabbath Law--Prodigies--Joshua's Miracle--Damned
+	Ignorance and Infamy--Jephthah's Sacrifice--Incredible Stories--The
+	Woman of Endor and the Temptation of David--Elijah and Elisha--Loss of
+	the Pentateuch from Moses to Josiah--The Jews before and after being
+	Abandoned by Jehovah--Wealth of Solomon and other Marvels.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME XII.--MISCELLANY
+
+PROF. VAN BUREN DENSLOW'S "MODERN THINKERS."
+
+PREFACE TO DR. EDGAR C. BEALL'S "THE BRAIN AND THE BIBLE."
+
+PREFACE TO "MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."
+
+PREFACE TO "FOR HER DAILY BREAD."
+
+PREFACE TO "AGNOSTICISM AND OTHER ESSAYS."
+
+PREFACE TO "FAITH OR FACT."
+
+THE GRANT BANQUET.
+
+THIRTEEN CLUB DINNER.
+
+ROBSON AND CRANE DINNER.
+
+THE POLICE CAPTAINS' DINNER.
+
+GENERAL GRANT'S BIRTHDAY DINNER
+
+LOTOS CLUB DINNER, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
+
+MANHATTAN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.
+
+THE LIEDERKRANZ CLUB, SEIDL-STANTON BANQUET.
+
+THE FRANK B. CARPENTER DINNER.
+
+UNITARIAN CLUB DINNER.
+
+WESTERN SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BANQUET.
+
+LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL.
+
+LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY.
+
+ADDRESS TO THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA.
+
+THE CHILDREN OF THE STAGE.
+
+ADDRESS TO THE PRESS CLUB.
+
+THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE.
+
+CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE.
+
+CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION.
+
+THE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
+
+ORGANIZED CHARITIES.
+
+SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS.
+
+OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
+
+A FEW FRAGMENTS ON EXPANSION.
+
+IS IT EVER RIGHT FOR HUSBAND OR WIFE TO KILL RIVAL?
+
+PROFESSOR BRIGGS.
+
+FRAGMENTS.
+
+EFFECT OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ON THE HUMAN RACE.
+
+SABBATH SUPERSTITION.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE.
+
+AT THE GRAVE OF BENJAMIN W. PARKER.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO EBON C. INGERSOLL
+
+A TRIBUTE TO THE REV. ALEXANDER CLARK.
+
+AT A CHILD'S GRAVE.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO JOHN G. MILLS.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO ELIZUR WRIGHT.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO MRS. IDA WHITING KNOWLES.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO HENRY WARD BEECHER.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO ROSCOE CONKLING.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD H. WHITING.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO COURTLANDT PALMER.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY H. FISKE.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SEAVER.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE BARRETT.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO ANTON SEIDL.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO DR. THOMAS SETON ROBERTSON.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS CORWIN.
+
+A TRIBUTE TO ISAAC H. BAILEY.
+
+JESUS CHRIST.
+
+LIFE.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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