item: #1 of 214 id: 1061 author: Fiske, John title: Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology date: None words: 78473 flesch: 63 summary: It was a trap-door, below which a flight of marble steps descended into a spacious hall, where many men were sitting in solemn silence amid piles of gold and diamonds and long rows of enamelled vases. They are the offspring of other stories which were sun-myths; they are stories which conform to the sun-myth type after the manner above illustrated in the paper on Light and Darkness. keywords: aryan; belief; body; case; character; children; cloud; conception; dark; dawn; day; dead; death; demon; devil; dog; earth; evidence; fact; fire; footnote; form; god; good; greek; hand; history; home; house; human; iliad; king; language; legend; life; lightning; lore; man; men; mind; modern; moon; mother; myth; mythology; nature; new; night; order; origin; people; phenomena; place; poems; savage; science; sky; soul; stories; story; sun; tell; theory; thought; time; tylor; vol; water; way; werewolf; wife; wind; wolf; words; world; years; zeus cache: 1061.txt plain text: 1061.txt item: #2 of 214 id: 10684 author: Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell) title: A History of Freedom of Thought date: None words: 55111 flesch: 59 summary: LL.D. OF EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, AND ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES; REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF �HISTORY OF THE LATTER ROMAN EMPIRE,� �HISTORY OF GREECE,� �HISTORY OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE,� ETC. He said: �The most unlimited liberty of religion is in my eyes a right so sacred that to express it by the word �toleration� seems to me itself a sort of tyranny, keywords: authority; bible; book; century; christian; christianity; church; doctrine; england; faith; france; freedom; god �; history; human; knowledge; liberty; man; men; nature; new; opinion; persecution; power; principle; progress; reason; religion; roman; science; spirit; sqq; state; system; theory; thought; time; toleration; truth; work; world; years cache: 10684.txt plain text: 10684.txt item: #3 of 214 id: 11015 author: Picton, J. Allanson (James Allanson) title: Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern date: None words: 17795 flesch: 59 summary: [Sidenote: The Gnostics.] Such ideas of a hierarchy of subordinate emanations to fill the supposed abyss between the Infinite and the Finite were eagerly adopted and developed by the pseudo-philosophers called Gnostics, on both sides of the boundary between the Church and the World. The prevalence of such Pantheism, at least among the learned and spiritual of ancient Egypt, is, to a considerable extent, confirmed by other Greek writers besides Plutarch. keywords: divine; eternal; god; greek; human; idea; infinite; life; man; mind; pantheism; religion; sense; sidenote; spinoza; things; thought; time; universe; view; world cache: 11015.txt plain text: 11015.txt item: #4 of 214 id: 11277 author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life date: None words: 48464 flesch: 70 summary: They declared that he represented the hidden and mysterious power which created and sustains the universe, and that the sun was the symbol of this power; they therefore added his name to that of R[=a], and in this form he gradually usurped the attributes and powers of Nu, Khnemu, Ptah, H[=a]pi, and other great gods. Those who are in thy following sing unto thee with joy and bow down their foreheads to the earth when they meet thee, thou lord of heaven, thou lord of earth, thou king of Right and Truth, thou lord of eternity, thou prince of everlastingness, thou sovereign of all the gods, thou god of life, thou creator of eternity, thou maker of heaven, wherein thou art firmly established. keywords: boat; body; day; dead; deceased; divine; earth; egyptian; footnote; form; forth; god; gods; hail; hath; heart; heaven; horus; isis; judgment; king; life; lord; man; osiris; papyrus; place; power; r[=a; set; son; sun; thee; things; thou; thy; time; world cache: 11277.txt plain text: 11277.txt item: #5 of 214 id: 1185 author: Draper, John William title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science date: None words: 109356 flesch: 58 summary: Here and there, it is true, there were great men, such as Frederick II. And perhaps we shall not dissent from the remark of Montesquieu, who affirms that the destruction of the Stoics was a great calamity to the human race; for they alone made great citizens, great men. keywords: ages; alexandria; authority; bodies; body; books; catholic; century; christianity; church; city; civilization; condition; council; day; days; death; development; divine; doctrine; earth; empire; end; europe; existence; facts; faith; force; form; general; god; government; greek; heaven; history; holy; human; ideas; influence; jews; knowledge; law; laws; length; life; light; man; manner; means; men; nature; new; papacy; papal; philosophy; place; point; pope; position; power; present; principle; public; reason; reformation; religion; result; roman; rome; science; society; soul; stars; state; sun; system; things; time; truth; universal; view; way; work; world; years cache: 1185.txt plain text: 1185.txt item: #6 of 214 id: 11924 author: Archer, W. G. (William George) title: The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry date: None words: 57062 flesch: 75 summary: There arose the idea that besides Jain scriptures, secular poetry might also be illustrated and along with the growing devotion to Krishna as God came the demand for illustrated versions of Krishna texts. (comment) Kirpal Pal, Raja of Basohli, 104, 105, 107, pl. 10 (comment) Kishangarh, Rajasthan, 103, pl. 39 Kotah, Rajasthan, 103 Krishna Das, poet, 84 Kubera, yaksha king, pl. 5 (comment) Kubja, hunchback girl, 47, 53, 54 Kulu, Punjab Hills, 107, 111 Kumbhan Das, poet, 84 Kundulpur, 56 Raja of, father of Rukmini, 55 Kunti, wife of Pandu, mother of the Pandavas, sister of Vasudeva (Krishna's father), 20, 21, 51, 57, 62, 64 Kuru, common ancestor of the Pandavas and Kauravas, 20 Kurukshetra, battle-field of, 15, 21, 26, 61 Kushala, Kangra artist, 110, pls. keywords: artist; balarama; bhagavata; century; character; comment; cowgirls; cowherds; das; demon; eyes; fact; footnote; forest; gita; god; gods; great; hills; illustration; indian; kangra; kansa; king; krishna; life; little; love; man; mathura; nanda; new; night; painting; pandavas; picture; plate; present; prince; punjab; purana; radha; rukmini; son; style; time; vasudeva; vishnu; way; yadavas; yasoda cache: 11924.txt plain text: 11924.txt item: #7 of 214 id: 12255 author: Reisner, George Andrew title: The Egyptian Conception of Immortality The Ingersoll Lecture, 1911 date: None words: 11169 flesch: 69 summary: At the same time all but the poorest burials bear direct evidence of their character as Osiris burials. It is necessary, however, to correct the prevailing impression that religion played the greatest part in Egyptian life or even a greater part than it does in Moslem Egypt. keywords: burial; dead; earth; egyptian; grave; immortality; king; life; man; osiris; period; place; spirit; texts cache: 12255.txt plain text: 12255.txt item: #8 of 214 id: 12261 author: Frazer, James George title: Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul date: None words: 164418 flesch: 76 summary: At Ensival old folks tell young folks that they will have as many Easter eggs as they see bonfires on this day.[267] At Pâturages, in the province of Hainaut, down to about 1840 the custom was observed under the name of _Escouvion_ or _Scouvion_. It has been described as follows by the parish minister of the time: Upon the first day of May, which is called _Beltan_, or _Bal-tein_ day, all the boys in a township or hamlet, meet in the moors. keywords: account; africa; air; animals; ashes; aus; balder; belief; beltane; berlin; bonfires; british; burning; cattle; central; century; ceremonies; ceremony; children; christmas; church; cit; compare; country; cross; custom; cut; dance; day; days; death; der; des; deutsche; die; district; door; earth; easter; end; europe; eve; evening; evil; family; father; feet; festival; fields; fire; flames; folk; food; form; france; friction; girl; god; good; great; hallowe'en; hand; head; hill; hole; holy; home; house; husband; hut; i. p.; iii; indians; ireland; john; kindle; kindling; king; leap; life; log; london; long; lore; man; midsummer; midsummer day; midsummer eve; midsummer fire; morning; mother; mountains; need; new; night; north; notes; order; paris; people; period; person; place; priest; puberty; purpose; reason; rev; round; scotland; seclusion; second; set; sir; small; smoke; south; sqq; sticks; stones; straw; sun; sunday; thought; time; torches; touch; tree; tribes; village; vol; wales; water; way; wheel; witchcraft; witches; wolf; women; wood; year; young; yule cache: 12261.txt plain text: 12261.txt item: #9 of 214 id: 12353 author: Lang, Andrew title: The Making of Religion date: None words: 126298 flesch: 65 summary: But I do not give anecdotes of such savage successes as evidence to _facts;_ they are only illustrations, and evidence to _beliefs and methods_ (as of crystal gazing and automatic utterances of secondary personality), which, among the savages, correspond to the supposed facts examined by Psychical Research among the civilised. He says:-- 'For, first, there is _not to be found_, in _all history_, any miracle attested by a _sufficient number_ of men, of such unquestioned _good sense, education_, and _learning_, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves; of such undoubted _integrity_, as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind, as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood; and at the same time attesting facts performed in such a _public manner_, and in so _celebrated a part of the world_, as to render the detection unavoidable; all which circumstances are requisite to give us a full assurance in the testimony of men. keywords: account; ancestor; angus; animism; anthropological; australian; beings; belief; case; civilised; conception; course; creator; crystal; culture; dead; death; deity; evidence; evolution; example; experience; facts; faith; father; footnote; form; friend; ghost; god; gods; good; hallucinations; hand; herr; home; human; hypothesis; idea; israel; jehovah; kind; know; knowledge; lady; life; man; men; mind; miss; modern; mrs; mysteries; nature; new; non; opinion; origin; original; parish; people; person; phenomena; place; point; present; races; religion; sacrifice; savage; saw; science; second; soul; spencer; spirit; supreme; theory; things; thought; time; tylor; way; white; world; worship cache: 12353.txt plain text: 12353.txt item: #10 of 214 id: 12852 author: Baden-Powell, B. H. (Baden Henry) title: Creation and Its Records A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture date: None words: 59794 flesch: 59 summary: Here, too, I may remark that the idea of _creation_, which it has been one of my chief objects to develop, is illustrated. Why should _development_ have gone in different directions _towards the same object_? keywords: account; animal; case; chapter; course; creation; day; development; earth; evolution; existence; fact; footnote; forms; genesis; god; human; idea; life; light; man; matter; mind; narrative; nature; place; plant; point; power; protoplasm; reason; sense; subject; terms; theory; things; time; water; way; work; world cache: 12852.txt plain text: 12852.txt item: #11 of 214 id: 13349 author: Besant, Annie title: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History date: None words: 117695 flesch: 63 summary: So damning to the story of Christianity has this difficulty been felt, that a passage has been inserted in Josephus (born A.D. 37, died about A.D. 100) relating to Jesus Christ, which runs as follows: Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works--a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. They teach the immortality of souls, and esteem that the rewards of righteousness are to be earnestly striven for; and when they send what they have dedicated to God into the temple, they do not offer sacrifices, because they have more pure lustrations of their own; on which account they are excluded from the common court of the temple, but offer their sacrifices themselves; yet is their course of life better than that of other men; and they entirely addict themselves to husbandry. keywords: a.d; account; acts; apostles; books; canonical; century; chap; christ; christian; christianity; church; clement; day; death; epistle; eusebius; evidence; existence; fact; fathers; god; good; gospels; greek; heaven; hebrew; history; holy; ibid; jesus; jews; john; josephus; justin; life; lord; luke; man; mark; matthew; men; miracles; nature; new; number; order; paley; passage; people; peter; place; present; quotations; religion; roman; rome; second; son; sun; testament; testimony; things; thought; time; vol; words; work; world; writers; writings; years cache: 13349.txt plain text: 13349.txt item: #12 of 214 id: 13433 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion" date: None words: 60267 flesch: 64 summary: [49:1] I regret very much that some ambiguity in my language (_S.R._ i. p. 483) should have misled, and given Dr. Lightfoot much trouble. [10:3] _S.R._ ii. keywords: antioch; argument; case; contemporary; date; diatessaron; divine; epistles; eusebius; evidence; fact; gospel; greek; i. p.; ibid; ignatian; ignatius; john; lightfoot; martyrdom; miracles; note; papias; passage; place; point; question; references; review; rome; second; statement; tatian; testimony; time; version; westcott; words; work; writers; | | cache: 13433.txt plain text: 13433.txt item: #13 of 214 id: 13620 author: None title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy date: None words: 115907 flesch: 73 summary: Lastly, by learning man excels man in that wherein man excels beasts. In knowledge and in culture I am perhaps the equal of other men. keywords: act; away; body; book; brahman; children; christ; christian; church; city; common; day; death; desire; divine; doctrine; earth; end; evil; existence; faith; father; find; form; god; gods; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; history; holy; human; idea; jerusalem; jesus; king; kingdom; knowledge; law; life; lord; love; man; master; means; men; mind; nature; order; people; philosophy; place; power; present; reason; religion; rest; right; sense; set; soul; spirit; state; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; universal; virtue; way; wisdom; words; work; world; years cache: 13620.txt plain text: 13620.txt item: #14 of 214 id: 14080 author: Lang, Andrew title: Custom and Myth date: None words: 81056 flesch: 69 summary: Our position is, on the other hand, that the germs of the religious sense in early man are developed, not so much by the vision of the Infinite, as by the idea of Power. Again, it is wrongly applied, because it has some modern religious associations, which are covertly and fallaciously introduced to explain the supposed emotions of early men. keywords: account; animal; apollo; art; aryan; australians; bear; bull; case; children; cronus; custom; dawn; dead; early; earth; evidence; family; fetichism; find; form; god; gods; greece; greek; heaven; history; human; ideas; kind; magical; man; marriage; max; men; method; mice; mother; mouse; muller; mysteries; myth; mythology; names; nature; new; night; origin; people; race; red; religion; roarer; rod; savage; stars; stone; story; sun; tale; theory; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; women; world; worship; zeus cache: 14080.txt plain text: 14080.txt item: #15 of 214 id: 14120 author: Hammon, William title: Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever date: None words: 18398 flesch: 67 summary: To question with boldness and indifference, whether an individual, all-forming, all-seeing and all-governing Being exists, to whom, if he exists, we may possibly be responsible for our actions, whose intelligence and power must be infinitely superior to our own, requires a great conquest of former habitude, a firmness of nerves, as well as of understanding; it will therefore be no great wonder, if such men as Locke and Newton can be named among the believers in a Deity. In mathematics, mechanics, natural philosophy, in literature, taste, and politics the sentiments of great men of great genius are certainly of weight. keywords: argument; cause; deity; existence; god; good; happiness; infinite; man; matter; nature; power; priestley; reason cache: 14120.txt plain text: 14120.txt item: #16 of 214 id: 14499 author: Hopkins, Edward Washburn title: The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow date: None words: 224637 flesch: 73 summary: After death the wise man goes to the world of the gods (1. 5. 16); he becomes the _[=a]tm[=a]_ of all beings, just like that deity (1. 5. 20); he becomes identical ('how can one know the knower?' _vijñ[=a]tar_) in 2. 4. 12-13; and according to 3. 2. 13, the doctrine of _sams[=a]ra_ is extolled (they talked of _karma_, extolled _karma_ secretly), as something too secret to be divulged easily, even to priests. A bar to the adoption of Buddhism lies in the implicit necessity of renunciation for all who would become perfected, and in the explicit doctrine of _karma_ in its native form. keywords: account; age; agni; aryan; belief; birth; body; book; br[=a]hmanas; brahm[=a; brahmanic; buddha; buddhism; buddhistic; case; century; chief; cit; compare; course; cult; dawn; day; dead; death; die; divine; divinities; doctrine; earth; end; epic; evil; fact; faith; father; fire; footnote; form; general; god; gods; good; greek; hand; heaven; hell; hindu; holy; hymns; iii; indra; jras; king; knowledge; knows; krishna; law; let; life; light; like; literature; little; loc; lord; love; man; manes; manu; means; men; mind; moon; müller; names; nature; new; order; original; passage; people; period; philosophy; place; point; power; present; priest; rain; regard; religion; rig; rig veda; sacrifice; says; sectarian; sects; self; sky; soma; son; spirit; sun; supreme; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tribes; truth; upanishads; varuna; veda; vedic; view; vii; viii; vishnu; water; way; weber; work; world; worship; xii; yama; zdmg; çat; çiva cache: 14499.txt plain text: 14499.txt item: #17 of 214 id: 14576 author: Lang, Andrew title: Modern Mythology date: None words: 58069 flesch: 72 summary: Yet anthropologists and folk-lorists, 'agriologists' and 'Hottentotic' students, must regret that Mr. Max Muller did not state their general theory, as he understands it, fully and once for all. Adversaries rarely succeed in quite understanding each other; but had Mr. Max Muller made such a statement, we could have cleared up anything in our position which might seem to him obscure. keywords: account; artemis; author; bear; course; cronos; daphne; dawn; death; demeter; disease; earth; evidence; explanation; fact; fire; frazer; god; gods; greek; ideas; language; light; mannhardt; max muller; meaning; men; method; myth; mythology; names; nature; new; opinion; origin; people; professor; races; red; religion; savage; scholars; solar; story; sun; theory; thought; tiele; totem; totemism; tree; tuna; words; world cache: 14576.txt plain text: 14576.txt item: #18 of 214 id: 14672 author: MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott) title: The Religion of the Ancient Celts date: None words: 133190 flesch: 75 summary: But examination proves that only a few are directly parallel in name with Irish divinities, and while here there are fundamental likenesses, the _incidents_ with Irish parallels may be due to mere superficial borrowings, to that interchange of _Märchen_ and mythical _données_ which has everywhere occurred. [9] Broca, _Mem. d'Anthrop._ i. 370 ff. keywords: account; animal; battle; belief; bran; britain; bull; cases; celtic; celts; century; character; christian; corn; cult; custom; cæsar; cúchulainn; d'arbois; danann; day; dead; death; divinities; divinity; druids; e.g.; earth; elysium; fact; father; fertility; festival; fionn; fire; folk; form; gaul; god; goddess; goddesses; gods; growth; heroes; holder; human; idea; iii; images; infra; ireland; irish; island; joyce; king; life; local; lore; loth; lug; magic; manannan; men; mother; myth; names; native; nature; new; pagan; people; place; point; power; reinach; religion; rh[^y]s; rites; ritual; river; roman; sacred; sacrifice; saga; sea; slain; son; spirit; stokes; story; strabo; sun; tales; thought; time; tree; tuatha; vegetation; victims; war; water; welsh; wife; women; words; world; worship; xii; year cache: 14672.txt plain text: 14672.txt item: #19 of 214 id: 14867 author: Ellinwood, Frank F. (Frank Field) title: Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 date: None words: 105298 flesch: 62 summary: The chief emphasis and force of his teachings lay in the assumption that he did simply what other men might do; for his mission was that of a teacher and exempler merely. There has existed a feeling that they had no rights which Christian men were bound to respect. keywords: age; ages; buddha; buddhism; centuries; character; christian; christianity; church; come; day; death; doctrine; earth; evil; fact; faith; footnote; god; gods; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; heathen; heaven; hindu; hinduism; history; human; india; influence; islam; knowledge; krishna; later; life; light; love; man; men; mind; missionary; mohammed; moral; nations; nature; new; paul; people; philosophy; place; power; present; professor; races; religion; sacrifice; self; sense; sin; soul; spirit; study; supreme; systems; teachings; testament; theory; things; thought; time; tribes; truth; work; world; worship; years cache: 14867.txt plain text: 14867.txt item: #20 of 214 id: 15202 author: None title: Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Myths and Legendary Heroes date: None words: 192672 flesch: 88 summary: In those far-off days there was nothing for great men to do but fight. Said he, I am Saint Lazarus, and know that I was a leper to whom thou didst so much good keywords: battle; cave; children; city; country; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; dragon; earth; eyes; face; fair; father; fire; giant; god; gods; gold; golden; good; great; guy; hand; head; heart; help; hero; home; house; king; knights; know; land; lay; left; life; little; loki; look; man; men; morning; mother; night; odysseus; people; perseus; place; prince; proserpina; queen; river; robin; roland; round; saw; sea; set; ship; siegfried; sir; son; sword; tell; thee; theseus; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; voice; water; way; white; wife; world cache: 15202.txt plain text: 15202.txt item: #21 of 214 id: 15516 author: Griffis, William Elliot title: The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji date: None words: 124318 flesch: 62 summary: The missionary history of Japanese Buddhism is the history of Japan.--The first organized religion of the Japanese.--Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain's testimony--A picture of primeval life in the archipelago.--What came in the train of the new religion from the West. An outline of the story of Japanese Buddhism during the first three centuries of its existence. keywords: a.d; ages; art; asia; body; book; buddha; buddhism; centuries; century; chapter; china; chinese; christian; christianity; civilization; confucianism; confucius; country; dai; day; death; development; doctrine; early; earth; emperor; english; ethics; europe; fact; faith; family; father; fire; footnote; form; gautama; god; gods; good; government; great; hand; heaven; history; holy; house; human; idea; india; influence; japanese; kami; kojiki; korea; land; language; law; life; literature; love; m.e; making; man; means; men; mikado; mind; missionaries; missionary; modern; native; nature; new; northern; order; origin; original; people; philosophy; place; power; priests; religion; rev; school; sect; shint[=o; shu; spirit; state; study; sun; system; t.a.s.j; teachings; temples; term; things; thought; time; truth; vol; way; work; world; worship; years cache: 15516.txt plain text: 15516.txt item: #22 of 214 id: 1561 author: Carpenter, Edward title: Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning date: None words: 100672 flesch: 59 summary: He has some connection with the great god more intimate than that of other men... Women were persuaded that it was an honor and a privilege to be fertilized by a 'holy man' (a priest or other man connected with the rites), and children resulting from such unions were often called Children of God--an appellation which no doubt sometimes led to a legend of miraculous birth! keywords: animal; belief; birth; blood; body; book; bull; case; christian; christianity; church; consciousness; course; day; death; doubt; earth; evolution; fact; far; form; god; gods; golden; good; heaven; history; human; jesus; kind; later; life; light; love; magic; man; matter; means; men; mind; mother; mysteries; nature; new; order; pagan; people; period; place; point; power; present; religion; return; rites; ritual; sacrifice; second; self; sense; sex; sin; spirit; stage; subject; sun; things; thought; time; totem; tree; tribe; virgin; way; world; worship; year cache: 1561.txt plain text: 1561.txt item: #23 of 214 id: 15696 author: Southwell, Charles title: Superstition Unveiled date: None words: 21887 flesch: 58 summary: Pietists may be shocked by such _nonchalance_ in the face of their 'grim monster;' but philosophers will admire an indifference to inevitable consequences resulting from profoundest love of truth and contempt of superstition. There cannot be slavery where there is no tyranny, and to say, as Newton did, that we stand in the name relation to a universal God, as a slave does to his earthly master, is practically to accuse such God, at reason's bar of _tyranny_. keywords: body; cause; christian; church; deity; existence; faith; god; human; man; matter; men; mind; nature; people; priests; reason; religion; superstition; things; truth; universalists; universe; world cache: 15696.txt plain text: 15696.txt item: #24 of 214 id: 15968 author: English, George Bethune title: The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old date: None words: 79655 flesch: 63 summary: � �Think ye, (said he to his disciples) that I have come to put peace on earth, I tell you nay, but rather division. For he calls the subjects of his message �the broken in heart,� �the captives,� � the mourners of Zion,� &c. all which terms are applicable only to the Israelites. keywords: account; apostles; author; books; c. �; chapter; christ �; christianity; christians; day; death; earth; god �; good; gospel; hebrew; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; know; law; lord; man; messiah; miracles; nations; new; paul; people; place; prophecies; prophecy; prophets; reader; reason; religion; testament; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; words; world; years; � i. cache: 15968.txt plain text: 15968.txt item: #25 of 214 id: 16295 author: None title: The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 date: None words: 211520 flesch: 58 summary: For the word 'ether,' in the first place, is known to be used in the sense of elemental ether as well as of highest Brahman. So that the sense would be: through Scripture only as a means of knowledge Brahman is known to be the cause of the origin, &c., of the world. keywords: a@nkara; abode; account; action; activity; adhikara; air; assume; atoms; attributes; beginning; beings; bliss; body; brahman; cause; connexion; declares; denote; difference; discussion; distinction; doctrine; earth; effect; ether; existence; fact; fire; following; follows; footnote; form; general; gods; hand; having; iii; individual; instance; interpretation; knowledge; light; like; lord; material; matter; meaning; means; mind; nature; non; object; objection; parts; passage; person; place; point; power; pradhâna; present; principle; prâ; purpose; qualities; question; reality; reason; reference; relation; release; reply; ri/.; râmânuja; scripture; second; self; sense; soul; state; statement; subject; sun; sâ@nkhya; sûtra; term; texts; things; time; upanishads; vai; veda; vedânta; view; viz; way; word brahman; words; world cache: 16295.txt plain text: 16295.txt item: #26 of 214 id: 16470 author: Sinclair, Upton title: The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition date: None words: 87331 flesch: 64 summary: Their role in life is to exhort other men to more vigorous efforts at self-elevation, that the agents of the Wholesale Pickpockets' Association may ply their immemorial role with less chance of interference. You recall what I said at the outset about Power; the ability to control the lives of other men, to give laws and moral codes, to shape fashions and tastes, to be revered and regarded. keywords: america; bible; bishop; book; bootstrap; business; catholic; children; christian; church; churches; city; classes; clergy; clergyman; country; course; day; days; divine; dollars; earth; end; england; english; fact; faith; father; god; good; hands; head; heart; heaven; high; history; holy; house; jesus; king; labor; law; laws; life; lord; man; means; men; mind; modern; money; mother; nature; new; order; outlook; people; power; prayer; present; priests; property; public; read; religion; right; school; science; set; slave; social; society; son; spirit; state; sunday; system; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; today; use; war; way; women; words; work; world; years; york cache: 16470.txt plain text: 16470.txt item: #27 of 214 id: 16512 author: Southwell, Charles title: An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles date: None words: 39831 flesch: 57 summary: There cannot be slavery where there is no tyranny, and to say as Newton did, that we stand in the same relation to a universal God, as a slave does to his earthly master, is practically to accuse such God, at reason's bar, of _tyranny_. Measuring the _chaff_ of other men by their own bushel, they arrive at the pious but false conclusion that without fear of God there can be no genuine love of man, and that without faith in some one of our five hundred and odd true religions, all the thoughts of our hearts would be evil continually. keywords: apology; atheism; atheists; author; belief; body; cause; christian; church; deity; existence; fact; faith; god; good; human; knowledge; man; matter; men; mind; nature; people; philosophy; priests; question; reason; religion; right; sense; spirit; supernatural; superstition; system; things; time; truth; universe; world cache: 16512.txt plain text: 16512.txt item: #28 of 214 id: 16942 author: Romanes, George John title: Thoughts on Religion date: None words: 46175 flesch: 57 summary: [i.e. of the validity of the religious consciousness] has to do with the evidences of Theism presented by man, and not only by nature _minus_ man. In the first place, it does not account for mind (in the abstract) to refer it to a prior mind for its origin; and therefore, although the hypothesis, if admitted, would be _an_ explanation of _known_ mind, it is useless as an argument for the existence of the unknown mind, the assumption of which forms the basis of that explanation. keywords: argument; belief; case; causation; causes; christianity; design; evidence; experience; fact; faith; god; human; hypothesis; man; matter; mind; nature; point; present; question; reason; religion; revelation; science; sense; theism; theory; thought; time cache: 16942.txt plain text: 16942.txt item: #29 of 214 id: 16996 author: Muir, William, Sir title: Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans date: None words: 31564 flesch: 68 summary: In India the Supreme is never worshiped; but any one of the multitudinous gods may be so; and, in fact, every thing can be worshiped _except_ God. Its renowned sages were noted for irritability and selfishness--great men at cursing; and the gods for the most part were worse. keywords: character; christianity; day; divine; faith; god; gods; hinduism; india; influence; islam; koran; life; lord; man; men; mind; mohammed; moslem; nature; new; people; power; progress; religion; sidenote; social; spread; system; thou; thought; time; veda; way; world; worship cache: 16996.txt plain text: 16996.txt item: #30 of 214 id: 17194 author: Temple, Frederick title: The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 date: None words: 47656 flesch: 63 summary: It is possible that they may be due not to an interference with the uniformity of nature, but to a superiority in His mental power to the similar power possessed by other men. They would imply very great superiority in Him to other men. keywords: action; doctrine; evidence; evolution; god; human; knowledge; law; life; lord; man; men; moral; nature; power; religion; revelation; science; spiritual; teaching; things; truth; uniformity; world cache: 17194.txt plain text: 17194.txt item: #31 of 214 id: 17607 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense date: None words: 83220 flesch: 63 summary: Divinity has revealed itself in the different parts of our globe in a manner of such little uniformity, that in matters of religion men look upon each other with hatred and disdain. Although nothing is more rare than to see man use this intelligence, of which he appears so proud, I will admit that he is intelligent, that his necessities develop in him this faculty, that the society of other men contributes especially to cultivate it. keywords: beings; causes; christ; christian; conduct; death; divine; divinity; earth; effects; evil; existence; faith; fear; god; gods; good; heaven; human; idea; life; love; man; men; mind; miracles; morality; nations; nature; opinions; order; people; place; power; priests; principles; reason; religion; right; theology; things; time; truth; way; world cache: 17607.txt plain text: 17607.txt item: #32 of 214 id: 17802 author: Vignoli, Tito title: Myth and Science An Essay date: None words: 80990 flesch: 45 summary: The most frequent analogies are between natural phenomena and objects and animal forms. The Kamschatkans have a great power of imitating other men and animals, and this is also the case with the inhabitants of Vancouver. keywords: animals; case; conception; conditions; consciousness; dreams; elements; evolution; exercise; fact; faculty; form; general; genesis; god; human; ideas; images; intelligence; laws; life; man; mind; myth; nature; object; order; origin; peoples; perception; personification; phenomena; power; process; race; real; science; special; subject; theory; things; thought; time; truth; types; way; world cache: 17802.txt plain text: 17802.txt item: #33 of 214 id: 18041 author: Anwyl, E. (Edward) title: Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times date: None words: 14414 flesch: 56 summary: Transcribed from the 1906 Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price, ccx074@coventry.ac.uk CELTIC RELIGION IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES By EDWARD ANWYL, M.A. LATE CLASSICAL SCHOLAR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD PROFESSOR OF WELSH AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH ACTING-CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL WELSH BOARD FOR INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD 16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET 1906 Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty FOREWORD It is only as prehistoric archaeology has come to throw more and more light on the early civilisations of Celtic lands that it has become possible to interpret Celtic religion from a thoroughly modern viewpoint. keywords: aryan; britain; caesar; celtic; civilisation; deities; development; druids; earth; gaul; god; ideas; life; man; men; names; religion; thought; time; welsh; world cache: 18041.txt plain text: 18041.txt item: #34 of 214 id: 18191 author: Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber) title: Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" date: None words: 123957 flesch: 69 summary: But, when I observed that the author, not content with ignoring the facts and reasonings, went on to impugn the honesty of his opponents; when I noticed that again and again the arguments on one side of the question were carefully arrayed, while the arguments on the other side were altogether omitted; when I perceived that he denied the authenticity of every work, and questioned the applicability of every reference, which made against him; when in short I saw that, however sincere the writer's personal convictions might be, the critical portion of the work was stamped throughout with the character of an advocate's _ex parte_ statement, I felt that he had forfeited any claim to special forbearance. _ 51 sq (p. 271 sq), 80 sq (p. 307); Irenæus _Hær._ v. 81 sq; Tertullian _adv. keywords: a.d; account; apocalypse; apostles; asia; author; book; canon; case; century; christ; christian; church; churches; date; edition; elders; epistles; eusebius; evidence; expression; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; greek; h.e; history; i. p.; ignatian; ignatius; iii; instance; irenæus; john; language; letters; life; lord; man; mark; matthew; melito; new; papias; passage; paul; peter; place; point; polycarp; question; quotations; reference; religion; respecting; rome; s.r; says; second; st john; statement; subject; tatian; testament; testimony; time; way; words; work; writer; writings; years cache: 18191.txt plain text: 18191.txt item: #35 of 214 id: 18222 author: Carter, Jesse Benedict title: The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome date: None words: 48246 flesch: 59 summary: And thus, just as in certain of the lower organisms a group of cells breaks off and sets up an individual organism of its own, so in old Roman religion some phase of a god's activity, expressed in an adjective, broke off with the adjective from its original stock and set up for itself, turning its name from the dependent adjective form into the independent abstract noun. Unfortunately however it was not these abstract deities who could save old Roman religion. keywords: apollo; augustus; b.c; books; centuries; century; city; cult; day; deities; family; goddess; gods; greece; greek; history; individual; influence; juppiter; life; men; new; people; r.f; r.r; religion; republic; roman; rome; state; state religion; temple; time; war; world; worship cache: 18222.txt plain text: 18222.txt item: #36 of 214 id: 18564 author: Bailey, Cyril title: The Religion of Ancient Rome date: None words: 23664 flesch: 49 summary: The Floralia of the 28th does not occur in the old Calendars, probably because it was a moveable feast (_feriae conceptivae_), but it is an unmistakeable petition to the _numen_ The root-notion of _feriae_ was a day set apart for the worship of the gods, and on it therefore the citizen ought to do 'no manner of work.' keywords: ceremony; character; community; cult; day; dead; deities; deity; doubt; family; festivals; gods; household; iuppiter; life; mars; notion; offering; place; relation; religion; ritual; roman; rome; sacred; sacrifice; spirit; state; worship cache: 18564.txt plain text: 18564.txt item: #37 of 214 id: 19003 author: Romanes, George John title: A Candid Examination of Theism date: None words: 70726 flesch: 45 summary: Hence it is manifestly absurd to adduce this explanation as evidence of the hypothesis on which it rests--to argue that Theism must therefore be true; because we assume it to be so, in order to explain _known_ mind, as distinguished from _Mind_. In the first place, it does not account for mind (in the abstract) to refer it to a prior mind for its origin; and therefore, although the hypothesis, if admitted, would be _an_ explanation of _known_ mind, it is useless as an argument for the existence of the unknown mind, the assumption of which forms the basis of that explanation. keywords: argument; cause; doctrine; existence; experience; fact; force; general; god; human; hypothesis; intelligence; laws; matter; mind; natural; nature; present; probability; question; reason; relations; science; scientific; sense; theism; theory; thought cache: 19003.txt plain text: 19003.txt item: #38 of 214 id: 19051 author: Atkins, Gaius Glenn title: Modern Religious Cults and Movements date: None words: 94268 flesch: 58 summary: It needs to be said on one side that a good deal of Christian Science religion is really taking the Ark of God to battle, using religion, that is, for comfort, material prosperity, health and just such tangible things. We challenge the fortunes of the Unknown in the poet's phrase, and seek other heights in other lives, God willing. keywords: authority; belief; body; christian; christian science; christianity; church; conclusions; cults; divine; eddy; experience; facts; faith; footnote; force; god; good; healing; health; history; human; life; little; love; man; material; matter; mind; movements; mrs; need; new; order; personality; phenomena; philosophy; physical; power; quimby; reality; region; religion; science; scientific; self; sense; sin; soul; spiritual; suggestion; system; theology; things; thought; time; truth; way; world cache: 19051.txt plain text: 19051.txt item: #39 of 214 id: 19119 author: Bloomfield, Maurice title: Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea date: None words: 7383 flesch: 74 summary: Upanishad_ (viii. 13) has the same idea, mentioning both moon and sun by their ancient names and in their capacity as dogs of Yama. The passage proves the individual character of each of the two dogs of Yama; they cannot be a vague pair of heavenly dogs, but must be based each upon some definite phenomenon in the heavens. keywords: cerberus; day; dogs; greek; hades; heaven; hell; kerberos; moon; myth; night; sun; veda; yama cache: 19119.txt plain text: 19119.txt item: #40 of 214 id: 19321 author: Graebner, Theodore title: Evolution: An Investigation and a Critique date: None words: 41632 flesch: 59 summary: We quote from an article which appeared in _Theological Quarterly_ some twenty years ago: What process of evolution resulted in the lives and deeds of such men as Alexander the Great, Julius Ceasar, [tr. note: sic] Constantine the Great, Luther, Napoleon I, and Bismarck? We find in the roster of scientists who believed in an inspired Bible and a divine Savior, such men as Hans Christian Oerstedt, the great discoverer of electro-magnetism and the father of all modern electrical science, who declared that he had but a desire to lead men to God by his books; Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, a Christian; Maedler, who reached the front rank of modern astronomers without relinquishing his childhood faith and who said: A real scientist cannot be an infidel; Ritter, greatest of geographers, who said: All the world is replete with the glory of the Creator; Virchow, the surgeon of worldwide fame, who all his life was an outspoken opponent of the evolutionary theory and whose last prayer, uttered in the presence of his fellow-scientists, was: _Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit . . . . keywords: account; animals; chapter; darwin; day; development; earth; evolution; evolutionists; existence; fact; find; fish; forms; god; history; human; hypothesis; laws; life; living; man; matter; mind; nature; new; note; origin; place; plants; religion; science; scientists; sic; species; structure; theory; things; time; universe; world; years cache: 19321.txt plain text: 19321.txt item: #41 of 214 id: 19397 author: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher) title: History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology date: None words: 189779 flesch: 64 summary: In him is the Theanthropos, not God _and_ man, but God _in_ man. Berlin was completely under its sway, and _Berliner_ was a synonym of _Rationalist_. keywords: authority; bible; book; boston; century; chapter; character; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; church history; churches; colenso; common; condition; course; criticism; day; death; development; divine; doctrine; dutch; england; english; essays; evangelical; evil; faith; father; form; france; french; friends; future; general; german; god; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; history; holland; holy; human; idea; infidelity; influence; inspiration; jesus; john; knowledge; labors; language; law; left; life; light; like; literature; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; miracles; moral; nature; new; number; opinions; order; origin; orthodoxy; page; paris; people; period; philosophy; pietism; place; position; power; present; principles; professor; protestant; protestantism; public; rationalism; real; reason; religion; renan; revelation; reviews; school; science; scriptures; second; sense; sin; skepticism; soul; spirit; state; strauss; study; system; testament; theologians; theological; theology; things; thought; time; truth; views; way; words; work; world; writers; years; young cache: 19397.txt plain text: 19397.txt item: #42 of 214 id: 19879 author: English, George Bethune title: Five Pebbles from the Brook date: None words: 41765 flesch: 64 summary: to Mr. Everett; in the belief that when he should have the weakness of his arguments in behalf of what he defended and the injustice of his aspersions upon me, fairly and evidently laid before him, that he would make me at least a private apology. Mr. Everett commences his work with the following remarks. keywords: book; christians; david; day; earth; everett; god; gospels; hebrew; israel; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; lord; man; messiah; nations; new; passage; people; place; prophecy; prophets; read; testament; thee; thou; thy; time; word; work; years cache: 19879.txt plain text: 19879.txt item: #43 of 214 id: 20116 author: Frazer, James George title: The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia date: None words: 221200 flesch: 71 summary: [Footnote 649: Charles Wilkes, _Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition_, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 77; Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 18.] Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 224 _sq._; Capt. J. E. Erskine, _op. cit._ keywords: aborigines; account; ancestors; australia; away; belief; believe; blood; bodies; body; bones; burial; cause; central; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; cit; codrington; corpse; customs; cut; day; days; dead; death; deceased; die; earth; eastern; example; family; father; fear; fiji; fijians; fire; food; footnote; friends; general; ghosts; gillen; god; gods; good; grave; ground; guinea; hand; head; house; human; immortality; islanders; islands; leaves; life; live; living; london; long; magic; man; means; melanesians; men; mourning; natives; nature; new; night; order; people; person; place; power; purpose; relations; religion; return; savages; sea; second; sickness; sidenote; sorcerer; sorcery; soul; south; spencer; spirits; sqq; state; stones; story; thought; time; totem; tree; tribes; village; water; white; women; world; worship; years; young cache: 20116.txt plain text: 20116.txt item: #44 of 214 id: 20233 author: Buchanan, James title: Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws date: None words: 141569 flesch: 48 summary: My reverend friend is wrong in supposing that I admit DESIGN, and yet refuse to admit the force of the _design argument_, On the supposition, then, that _law and order_ are manifestations of _design_, the design argument might be valid and conclusive: but _no conceivable order_ could prove the existence of God; why? But there is an extreme also on the other side, which is exemplified in the singularly eloquent, but equally unsatisfactory, treatise of the Abbé Lamennais,[230] in which, as _then_ an ardent and somewhat arrogant advocate of the Romish Church, he attempts to fasten the charge of _Indifference_ or _Liberalism_ on the Protestant system, and to prove that there can be no true faith, and of course no salvation, beyond the Catholic pale. keywords: account; analogy; argument; atheism; belief; body; case; causes; christian; comte; creation; development; divine; doctrine; evidence; existence; experience; fact; faith; form; general; god; government; ground; history; holyoake; human; idea; knowledge; laws; life; man; material; matter; means; mere; mind; moral; natural; nature; new; object; pantheism; phenomena; philosophy; power; prayer; present; principle; properties; providence; question; reason; regard; religion; science; second; self; sense; soul; spirit; state; subject; substance; system; theory; things; thought; time; truth; work; world cache: 20233.txt plain text: 20233.txt item: #45 of 214 id: 20248 author: Brooks, David Marshall title: The Necessity of Atheism date: None words: 92595 flesch: 61 summary: In so doing, however, they show themselves abysmally ignorant of all that anthropology and psychology have done to study religion and religious man scientifically. Astronomy brings forth a noble array of men who have, by their intense desire for the truth, persevered against the Church, and in spite of the vilest opposition of that Church, brought to the attention of man laws that have given a meaning and order to our universe. keywords: age; ages; belief; bible; cause; centuries; century; children; christian; christianity; church; civilization; clergy; conception; creed; death; deity; devil; disease; divine; earth; existence; fact; faith; father; fear; form; god; gods; heaven; hebrew; history; human; idea; jesus; knowledge; labor; law; life; man; mankind; manner; martian; matter; medicine; men; mind; modern; mohammed; moses; nature; new; people; period; philosophy; place; power; present; progress; reason; religion; science; slavery; social; spirit; state; testament; things; thought; time; today; truth; universe; war; witchcraft; woman; work; world; years cache: 20248.txt plain text: 20248.txt item: #46 of 214 id: 20447 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews date: None words: 212425 flesch: 78 summary: A good man is not happy so long as he knows that other good men and women suffer for raiment and for food, and have no roof but the sky, no home but the highway. Great men have repeated this falsehood, until ignorance and thoughtlessness believe it. keywords: account; american; answer; belief; bible; business; care; children; christian; christianity; church; colonel; country; course; creed; crime; day; dead; democratic; doctrine; effect; fact; favor; force; general; god; good; government; heart; hell; hope; human; idea; ingersoll; judgment; justice; kind; labor; law; laws; liberty; life; living; love; man; matter; men; millions; mind; ministers; mistake; money; nation; nature; new; opinion; orthodox; party; people; place; power; president; punishment; question; read; real; reason; regard; religion; republican; result; right; society; state; subject; sunday; things; think; thought; thousands; time; trade; truth; united; use; want; way; wish; women; words; work; world; years; york cache: 20447.txt plain text: 20447.txt item: #47 of 214 id: 20523 author: Gardner, Ernest Arthur title: Religion and Art in Ancient Greece date: None words: 20625 flesch: 49 summary: When he does not do so, it is probably done with intention; and it is quite in accordance with the conditions of early religious art that he should make the image of a deity smile in order that the deity himself might smile upon his worshippers; and a pleasant expression might also, by a natural transfer of ideas, be supposed to be pleasing to the god, and so attract him to his statue. THE CONDITIONS OF RELIGIOUS ART IN GREECE . . . . . . . . . keywords: art; athena; century; character; expression; fifth; form; gods; greece; greek; human; image; imagination; influence; later; people; religion; sculpture; statues; worship cache: 20523.txt plain text: 20523.txt item: #48 of 214 id: 20758 author: Jastrow, Morris title: The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria date: None words: 264478 flesch: 69 summary: The names of many of them, as _utukku_, _shedu_, _alu_, _gallu_, point to 'strength' and 'greatness' as their main attribute; other names, as _lilu_, 'night-spirit,' and the feminine form _lilitu_, are indicative of the moment chosen by them for their work; while again, names like _ekimmu_, the 'seizer,' _akhkhazu_, the 'capturer,' _rabisu_, 'the one that lies in wait,' _labartu_, 'the oppressor,' and _labasu_, 'the overthrower,' show the aim that the demons have in view. This, however, must be an error; either Sin must be read for Bel, or _khirat_ (consort) for _marat_ (daughter). keywords: allatu; anu; ashur; ashurbanabal; association; assyrian; babylonian; bau; bel; belit; case; chapter; character; chief; city; col; connection; consort; country; course; creation; cult; day; days; dead; death; deities; deity; demons; earth; epic; euphrates; evil; fact; father; festival; form; general; gilgamesh; girsu; god; goddess; gods; great; gudea; hammurabi; hand; head; heaven; history; house; hymns; iii; importance; incantations; influence; inscriptions; ishtar; jensen; king; lagash; land; life; list; literature; lord; mankind; marduk; meaning; means; month; moon; mountain; nabu; names; nature; nergal; new; nin; ninib; nippur; note; number; omens; order; origin; pantheon; people; period; place; point; position; power; prayers; priests; proper; question; ramman; reference; relationship; religion; rulers; sacred; second; series; shamash; sin; solar; son; south; spirits; story; sun; system; tablet; temple; texts; thee; thou; thought; thy; time; tiâmat; traditions; und; uruk; view; water; way; world; worship; zikkurat cache: 20758.txt plain text: 20758.txt item: #49 of 214 id: 21533 author: Pascal, Théophile title: Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution date: None words: 67130 flesch: 58 summary: The visible bodily sheath has had its atoms scattered to the four elements; the etheric body[263] has become separated from the physical molecules whose vital support it formed; the body of passions and desires (_astral body_) has lived for a few years in what Catholics call _Purgatory_, Greeks, _Hades_, and Hindus, _Kâmaloka_; after which, only germs have been left behind; then the intelligence (_mental body_) has been dispersed in turn and endures only in a germinal state. The improvements subsequently effected by human bodies did not then exist; the difference, or distinction, which has now widened into a gulf, was scarcely perceptible, and in the early incarnations of these rudimentary human souls back-slidings and falls were so frequent that some of them, thus enfeebled, might find it to their advantage[194] to become incarnate, at times, in highly-developed animal bodies. keywords: animal; astral; atoms; beings; birth; bodies; body; book; brain; causal; causal body; chap; consciousness; death; development; divine; doctrine; earth; evil; evolution; existence; footnote; force; form; god; human; intelligence; law; life; light; lives; man; matter; memory; nature; new; past; physical; place; point; power; present; qualities; reason; reincarnation; return; soul; state; teaching; thought; time; universe; vibrations; work; world cache: 21533.txt plain text: 21533.txt item: #50 of 214 id: 216 author: Laozi title: The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics date: None words: 10731 flesch: 86 summary: (Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao). He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. keywords: death; heaven; men; people; place; sage; state; tao; things; way; world cache: 216.txt plain text: 216.txt item: #51 of 214 id: 22213 author: Cumont, Franz Valery Marie title: The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism date: None words: 94619 flesch: 65 summary: Cf. _infra_, n. 59. Cf. _infra_, n. 59. keywords: alexandrian; asia; astrology; attis; barbarian; beginning; beliefs; century; ceremonies; chaldean; character; christianity; church; cil; cit; city; clergy; col; conception; country; cult; cybele; day; death; der; des; die; divinities; divinity; doctrines; earth; egyptian; empire; end; existence; fact; faith; form; für; goddess; gods; greece; greek; heaven; history; human; ideas; iii; immortality; influence; infra; inscr; inscription; instance; isis; italy; jupiter; kai; knowledge; latin; law; life; loc; magic; matter; means; men; minor; mithra; mon; mother; mysteries; nature; number; occident; order; oriental; origin; osiris; paganism; people; period; persian; place; power; priests; principles; religion; rev; rites; ritual; roman; rome; science; semitic; serapis; soul; spirit; spread; stars; state; subject; sun; supra; syria; system; temple; theology; thought; time; traditions; und; viii; way; wissowa; world; worship cache: 22213.txt plain text: 22213.txt item: #52 of 214 id: 22381 author: Berens, E. M. title: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome date: None words: 108047 flesch: 63 summary: As we have already seen in the Legend of Heracles, that great hero conquered Troy, and after killing king Laomedon, carried away captive his beautiful daughter Hesione, whom he bestowed in marriage on his friend Telamon. Many great heroes were descended from Perseus and Andromeda, foremost among whom was Heracles, whose mother, Alcmene, was their granddaughter. keywords: achilles; aphrodite; apollo; artemis; athene; aïdes; beauty; brother; chariot; children; city; command; country; daughter; day; death; demeter; dionysus; divinities; divinity; earth; expedition; father; feet; form; friend; goddess; gods; golden; greece; greek; hand; head; heaven; heracles; hermes; hero; honour; husband; illustration; island; jason; king; length; life; light; love; maiden; man; mankind; means; men; mother; mount; nature; nymphs; odysseus; olympus; oracle; order; people; place; poseidon; power; return; rome; sacred; sacrifices; sea; set; son; sons; temple; theseus; time; war; wife; world; worship; years; youth; zeus cache: 22381.txt plain text: 22381.txt item: #53 of 214 id: 22955 author: Floyd, William title: The Mistakes of Jesus date: None words: 17526 flesch: 75 summary: The devils were among the first to recognize Christ's divinity: What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?[39] Let us alone, thou Jesus of Nazareth; art thou come to destroy us? Doubting Jesus is more impious than mocking God Almighty. keywords: father; god; heaven; jesus; john; life; luke; man; mark; matt; men; people; son; thee; things; thou; time; world cache: 22955.txt plain text: 22955.txt item: #54 of 214 id: 2330 author: Giles, Herbert Allen title: Religions of Ancient China date: None words: 13641 flesch: 68 summary: God indignant.--Finally, when the Shang dynasty sank into the lowest depths of moral abasement, King Wu, who charged himself with its overthrow, and who subsequently became the first sovereign of the Chou dynasty, offered sacrifices to Almighty God, and also to Mother Earth. Evil spirits were a later invention, and their operations were even then confined chiefly to tearing people's hearts out, and so forth, for their own particular pleasure; we certainly meet no cases of evil spirits wishing to undermine man's allegiance to God, or desiring to make people wicked in order to secure their everlasting punishment. keywords: b.c; century; china; chinese; death; emperor; evil; god; good; great; heaven; king; man; men; people; religion; sacrifices; spirits; state; time; worship cache: 2330.txt plain text: 2330.txt item: #55 of 214 id: 23349 author: Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde) title: The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus date: None words: 195044 flesch: 64 summary: The old idea of the manifestation of the Power in the various _numina_ had no longer any relation to Roman life; the kind of life in which it germinated and grew, the life of agriculture and warlike self-defence, had passed away with the growth of the great city, the decay of the small farmer, and the extension of the empire; and no new informing and inspiring principle had taken its place. If they took their name from the bridging of the Tiber, as Varro held (_L.L._ v. 83) and as the majority of scholars believe (see O. Gilbert, _Rom. keywords: account; aen; age; art; augustus; authorities; b.c; beginning; belief; book; calendar; case; century; character; christian; cicero; city; connection; course; cult; date; days; dead; death; deities; deity; development; divination; divine; divinum; doubt; duty; e.g.; early; etruscan; evidence; example; experience; explanation; fact; family; famous; fasti; feeling; festival; flamen; foll; form; frazer; general; gods; good; great; greek; help; history; house; human; i. p.; idea; iii; importance; individual; influence; italian; italy; ius; janus; juno; jupiter; kind; knowledge; land; late; latin; law; lecture; left; life; livy; magic; marquardt; mars; matter; maximus; meaning; means; men; mind; moment; names; nature; need; new; note; numa; object; order; origin; original; ovid; passage; people; period; place; pliny; poet; point; pontifices; population; power; practice; prayer; present; priest; process; public; question; r.f; r.k; read; real; reason; relation; religion; result; rex; right; rites; ritual; roman; rome; sacrifice; second; sense; sibylline; spirit; state; state religion; study; subject; system; taboo; temple; tendency; thought; time; true; universe; use; varro; victim; view; virgil; vol; war; way; wissowa; women; word; work; worship; year cache: 23349.txt plain text: 23349.txt item: #56 of 214 id: 2388 author: None title: The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna date: None words: 2313 flesch: 86 summary: Better thine own work is, though done with fault, Than doing others' work, ev'n excellently. Only that man attains Perfect surcease of work whose work was wrought With mind unfettered, soul wholly subdued, Desires for ever dead, results renounced. keywords: act; prince; thou; thy; work cache: 2388.txt plain text: 2388.txt item: #57 of 214 id: 2395 author: Colum, Padraic title: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles date: None words: 76137 flesch: 90 summary: Said Jason, the chieftain of the host: The dangers of the passage, Tiphys, we have spoken of, and it may be that we shall have to carry Argo overland to the Sea of Pontus. Heracles saw Iole, the blue-eyed and childlike maiden, and he longed to take her with him to some place near the Garden of the Hesperides. keywords: admetus; argonauts; city; day; earth; eyes; face; father; fleece; gods; golden; hands; head; heracles; heroes; jason; king; land; maidens; man; medea; men; palace; pelias; people; race; sea; ship; theseus; thought; water; way; youth; zeus cache: 2395.txt plain text: 2395.txt item: #58 of 214 id: 2510 author: Chamberlain, Basil Hall title: The Invention of a New Religion date: None words: 5061 flesch: 59 summary: For the truth, known to all critical investigators, is that, instead of going back to a remote antiquity, the origins of Japanese history are recent as compared with that of European countries. Even in the present reign--the most glorious in Japanese history--there have been two rebellions, during one of which a rival Emperor was set up in one part of the country, and a republic proclaimed in another. keywords: century; class; history; japanese; nation; people; present; religion; world cache: 2510.txt plain text: 2510.txt item: #59 of 214 id: 2513 author: Butler, Samuel title: God the Known and God the Unknown date: None words: 16539 flesch: 56 summary: I will then indicate the Living and Personal God about whose existence and about many of whose attributes there is no room for question; I will show that man has been so far made in the likeness of this Person or God, that He possesses all its essential characteristics, and that it is this God who has called man and all other living forms, whether animals or plants, into existence, so that our bodies are the temples of His spirit; that it is this which sustains them in their life and growth, who is one with them, living, moving, and having His being in them; in whom, also, they live and move, they in Him and He in them; He being not a Trinity in Unity only, but an Infinity in Unity, and a Unity in an Infinity; eternal in time past, for so much time at least that our minds can come no nearer to eternity than this; eternal for the future as long as the universe shall exist; ever changing, yet the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. GOD THE KNOWN AND GOD THE UNKNOWN By Samuel Butler Prefatory Note GOD the Known and God the Unknown first appeared in the form of a series of articles which were published in The Examiner in May, June, and July, 1879. keywords: body; earth; god; ideas; life; living; man; matter; person; soul; spirit; things; time; tree; world cache: 2513.txt plain text: 2513.txt item: #60 of 214 id: 25931 author: Klein, Sydney T. (Sydney Turner) title: Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall date: None words: 43577 flesch: 40 summary: Now with regard to this limit of time perception, which gives us the phenomenon of Solidity, I have lately been able to devise an arrangement which, acting as a microscope for Time, gives the sensation of an increase in sight perception up to several thousand units per second; it is based on the fact that though the eye can only see six times per second it can see for the one-millionth part of a second. Owing to this limit, in our unit of time perception, we also cannot perceive events which are taking place beyond a certain quickness, they become blurred and give the impression of continuity, and constitute another world of events lost to us. keywords: distance; earth; ego; fact; finite; form; human; knowledge; life; light; matter; means; motion; nature; perception; physical; point; power; present; reality; second; senses; space; spiritual; sun; thought; time; triangle; universe; view; years cache: 25931.txt plain text: 25931.txt item: #61 of 214 id: 25975 author: Denton, William title: The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science: A Discourse date: None words: 9524 flesch: 70 summary: A vast quantity of grain would be necessary for thousands of birds, rodents, marsupials, and other animals; and large granaries would be required for its storage. Nearly all the species of mammals found in Australia are confined to that country, as the wingless birds of New Zealand are confined to that, and the sloth, armadillo, and other animals, to South America. keywords: animals; ark; birds; deluge; earth; flood; man; noah; species; thing; time; water; years cache: 25975.txt plain text: 25975.txt item: #62 of 214 id: 26035 author: Tulloch, John title: Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times Preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, fifth September and in the College Church, St Andrews date: None words: 5708 flesch: 70 summary: Shut out conscience as a true source of knowledge, and the very idea of righteousness will disappear with it--there will be nothing to fall back upon but the combinations of intelligence, and such religion as may be got therefrom; admit conscience, and its verifying force transcends a mere order or impersonal power of righteousness. There is much talk in the present time of the difficulties of religion. keywords: christ; christian; divine; good; life; religion; sphere; theology cache: 26035.txt plain text: 26035.txt item: #63 of 214 id: 26364 author: Atkinson, William Walker title: Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect date: None words: 45659 flesch: 55 summary: Many souls are so earth-bound that they rush back at once into material embodiment if the conditions for rebirth are favorable, and they are generally favorable for there seems to be always an abundant supply of new bodies suitable for such souls in the families of people of the same character and nature, which afford congenial opportunities for such a soul to reincarnate. Other souls which have progressed a little further along the path of attainment, have cultivated the higher part of themselves somewhat, and enjoy to a greater extent the period of meditation and spiritual life afforded them. keywords: body; chapter; christian; death; doctrine; earth; existence; forms; future; good; hindu; human; idea; karma; law; life; man; material; mind; nature; past; people; philosophy; plane; present; reincarnation; soul; state; subject; teachings; thought; time; world cache: 26364.txt plain text: 26364.txt item: #64 of 214 id: 2832 author: Lang, Andrew title: Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 104430 flesch: 66 summary: It was through sheer ignorance and neglect of this direct knowledge how and by what manner of men myths are really made that their simple philosophy has come to be buried under masses of commentator's rubbish...(1) But in Peru we do not find nearly such abundance of other savage origin myths as will be proved to exist in the legends of Greeks and Indo-Aryans. keywords: account; ahone; american; ancient; animals; australian; beasts; beings; belief; black; chapter; character; chief; children; conception; condition; creator; culture; divine; early; earth; element; evidence; example; father; find; form; general; ghosts; gods; good; great; greece; greek; heaven; human; hymns; hypothesis; ideas; indian; legend; life; magic; man; men; mind; moon; muller; mysteries; mythology; myths; native; nature; new; north; origin; people; place; plants; power; primitive; races; red; religion; sacrifice; savage; says; smith; society; spirit; stone; stories; story; strachey; sun; tales; theory; things; thought; time; totemism; tribe; tylor; veda; vedic; way; woman; world; zeus cache: 2832.txt plain text: 2832.txt item: #65 of 214 id: 28497 author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title: Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas date: None words: 102341 flesch: 67 summary: There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood. Then Vans and Æsir, mighty gods, Of earth and air, and Asgard, lords,-- Advancing with each goddess fair, keywords: asgard; bade; balder; battle; blood; brother; cold; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; death; dwarfs; earth; edda; end; ere; eyes; fair; father; fell; fire; freya; frigga; frithiof; giant; goddess; gods; golden; good; hall; hammer; hand; head; heart; heaven; heim; hel; high; home; king; land; lay; life; like; loki; love; magic; man; men; mountain; night; northern; odin; people; place; power; return; ring; saga; sea; set; sigmund; sigurd; slain; son; sons; stood; story; sun; sword; thor; thorpe; thou; time; valhalla; way; white; wife; winter; world cache: 28497.txt plain text: 28497.txt item: #66 of 214 id: 29893 author: Menzies, Allan title: History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems date: None words: 148169 flesch: 65 summary: On the question of the specific character of Semitic as distinguished from other religions, it is one of our principal authorities. Breach with Judaism and Christianity.--As Mahomet thus freed himself, in spreading the faith of the most merciful God, from all considerations of mercy and of honour, he also shook off, as his position grew strong, relations which might have proved embarrassing with other religions. keywords: animals; aryan; beings; belief; books; case; chapter; character; china; christianity; civilisation; country; death; deities; deity; doctrine; doubt; early; earth; egypt; egyptian; faith; family; footnote; form; god; gods; good; greece; greek; growth; hand; heaven; history; human; hymns; ideas; india; individual; israel; jehovah; life; living; man; men; mind; national; nature; new; objects; order; origin; people; period; place; position; power; present; race; religion; religious; roman; sacred; sacrifice; savage; semitic; set; spirit; stage; state religion; sun; system; things; thought; time; tribes; view; way; work; world; worship; worshipped cache: 29893.txt plain text: 29893.txt item: #67 of 214 id: 30126 author: Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber) title: The Church, the Schools and Evolution date: None words: 23540 flesch: 58 summary: But although the Church and the Schools are entirely separate institutions, and although they are engaged, one in the spread of spiritual truth and the other in the diffusion of scientific truth, yet =truth is an eternal unity=. If these statements from scientific men mean anything at all, they mean, at least, that pure Darwinism is altogether unproven, if not that it is dead. keywords: attitude; bible; christ; church; doctrine; evolution; facts; faith; god; heart; life; man; realm; schools; science; sin; spiritual; theory; truth; word cache: 30126.txt plain text: 30126.txt item: #68 of 214 id: 30154 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Essays on God and Freud date: None words: 19 flesch: 89 summary: Copyright 2002, 2009 by Lidija Rangelovska Please see the Rich Text File (RTF) for the content of this eBook. keywords: copyright cache: 30154.txt plain text: 30154.txt item: #69 of 214 id: 30200 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." date: None words: 109987 flesch: 61 summary: Spinoza, like all other thinkers, found himself overpowered by the illimitable vastness of the infinite when attempting to grasp it by his mental powers, but unlike other men he did not endeavor to relieve himself by separating himself from that infinite; but, knowing he was a part of the whole, not divisible from the remainder, he was content to aim at perfecting his knowledge of existence rather than at dogmatising upon an indefinable word, which, if it represented anything, professed to represent an incomprehensible existence far beyond his reach. The animals we destroy contribute to preserve us, till we are destroyed to preserve other things, and become parts of grass, or plants, or water, or air, or something else that helps to make other animals, and they one another, or other men, and these again into stone, or wood, or metals, or minerals, or animals again, or become parts of all these and of a great many other things, animals, or vegetables, daily consuming and devouring each other--so true it is that everything lives by the destruction of another. keywords: age; bible; bodies; body; bolingbroke; book; cause; character; church; collins; common; day; death; des; doctrine; earth; england; existence; experience; fact; father; following; form; friends; future; general; god; good; happiness; history; hobbes; human; idea; infinite; king; knowledge; laws; life; little; lord; love; man; mankind; manner; matter; means; men; mind; motion; nature; new; number; opinion; order; paine; parts; people; philosophy; place; power; present; principles; public; reason; religion; right; senses; soul; state; subject; substance; system; things; thought; thy; time; toland; truth; voltaire; works; world; years cache: 30200.txt plain text: 30200.txt item: #70 of 214 id: 30202 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Flowers of Freethought (First Series) date: None words: 69832 flesch: 74 summary: But if _capable_ men are necessary, to say nothing of favorable conditions, the working of God's spirit seems lost in the natural explanation. So prevalent was the popular belief in the supernatural character of great men, that the comparatively cultivated Romans accepted a monstrous fable about Julius Caesar. keywords: age; archbishop; belief; believe; bible; blood; case; christ; christian; christianity; church; day; dead; death; devil; earth; end; fact; faith; father; fire; god; gods; good; heaven; hell; holy; human; jesus; life; lord; luther; man; means; men; mind; miracle; mother; nature; paul; people; poet; power; priests; reason; religion; right; science; sense; shelley; soul; spirit; spurgeon; story; sun; superstition; things; thought; time; truth; way; women; words; work; world; years cache: 30202.txt plain text: 30202.txt item: #71 of 214 id: 30203 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) date: None words: 100163 flesch: 72 summary: Other men indulged in gallantry, other men wrote free verses. Lord Bacon lived at a time when downright heresy, such as Raleigh and other great men of that age were accused of, could only be ventilated in private conversation. keywords: age; atheist; bacon; bible; book; bradlaugh; bruno; case; charles; children; christian; christianity; church; clergy; course; day; dead; death; england; english; evidence; fact; faith; father; free; gallienne; god; good; great; hand; hell; henson; hughes; human; humanity; jesus; law; life; like; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; moral; mrs; nature; paul; people; place; point; poor; power; present; priests; professor; public; question; real; reason; religion; right; science; sense; sir; slavery; society; spirit; story; testament; theology; things; thought; time; truth; watkinson; way; women; words; work; world; years cache: 30203.txt plain text: 30203.txt item: #72 of 214 id: 30204 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Arrows of Freethought date: None words: 39116 flesch: 69 summary: If God is on the side of right he is singularly incapable of maintaining it; for, in this world at least, according to some penetrating minds, the devil has hitherto had it pretty much his own way, and good men have had to struggle very hard to make things even as equitable as we find them. If we desire to find the language of reason in theology, we must seek it in the writings of such men as Newman, who contemplate the ignorant and passionate multitude with mingled pity and disdain. keywords: archbishop; atheism; booth; christ; christian; christianity; church; day; dean; death; devil; earth; fact; faith; father; freethought; general; god; good; heaven; history; jesus; joshua; life; literature; man; men; mind; nature; new; paine; people; power; professor; progress; reason; religion; right; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; work; world cache: 30204.txt plain text: 30204.txt item: #73 of 214 id: 30206 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: Humanity's Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889 date: None words: 5238 flesch: 54 summary: Lloyd Garrison told me himself how honored deacons of a Christian Church joined in an actual attempt to hang him. When Christian missionaries some sixty-two years ago preached to Demerara negroes under the rule of Christian England, they were treated by Christian judges, holding commission from Christian England, as criminals for so preaching. keywords: abolition; century; christian; christianity; church; england; gain; humanity; slavery; slaves; unbelief cache: 30206.txt plain text: 30206.txt item: #74 of 214 id: 30207 author: Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) title: Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures date: None words: 60189 flesch: 72 summary: Owing to circumstances which I shall presently state, the only progress which is really effective depends, not upon the bounty of nature, but upon the _energy of man_. The relief offered did sometimes reach other men, but as learning was largely confined to the clergy they were the chief beneficiaries, as the name implies and as was the intent of the law. keywords: appendix; belief; bible; children; christian; christianity; church; civilization; clergy; crime; day; faith; father; god; good; great; history; human; husband; ignorance; justice; knowledge; law; liberty; life; little; lord; man; moral; moses; mother; new; people; power; reason; religion; right; thing; thought; time; wife; wives; women; world; years cache: 30207.txt plain text: 30207.txt item: #75 of 214 id: 30209 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Bible Romances, First Series date: None words: 47938 flesch: 76 summary: By angel we are to understand a vision or appearance only, for the being within the bush was God Almighty himself; and throughout the rest of the narrative the word angel is entirely dropped, only Lord or God being used. The Ophites consequently adored the serpent, and cursed the true God Jehovah. keywords: abel; adam; ass; balaam; bible; cain; children; city; day; days; devil; earth; egypt; eve; god; good; heaven; jehovah; jews; jonah; joshua; land; left; life; lord; lord god; lot; man; men; moses; noah; people; pharaoh; poor; sea; serpent; story; thou; time; water; way; world; years cache: 30209.txt plain text: 30209.txt item: #76 of 214 id: 30210 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from "The Freethinker" date: None words: 2105 flesch: 61 summary: Dullards prophesied a speedy exhaustion of Bible topics, but they did not know how inexhaustible it is in absurdities. The following Comic Bible Sketches, which will be succeeded in due course by others, comprise all those worth preserving that appeared in the Freethinker before its editor, proprietor and publisher were imprisoned, including the drawings they were prosecuted for by that pious guinea: pig, Sir Henry Tyler, who had his dirty fingers severely rapped by Lord Coleridge, after spending several hundred pounds of somebody's money in an unsuccessful Blasphemy prosecution, in order to patch up his threadbare reputation, and perhaps also with a faint hope of cheating the Almighty into reserving him a front-seat ticket for the dress-circle in heaven. keywords: bible; comic; editor; freethinker; sketches cache: 30210.txt plain text: 30210.txt item: #77 of 214 id: 30306 author: Cohen, Chapman title: Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development date: None words: 84053 flesch: 60 summary: The primitive intelligence, frankly seeing in the phenomena of sex a manifestation of the supernatural, sees here a continuous endorsement of religious life. Why should this normal change from childhood to maturity be the period during which _religious_ conversion is experienced? keywords: belief; body; cases; character; christian; church; conditions; connection; conversion; course; day; development; early; evidence; experience; explanation; facts; feeling; form; general; god; history; human; idea; influence; kind; knowledge; life; love; man; mind; modern; nature; new; number; origin; people; period; phenomena; point; power; practice; present; question; religion; savage; sense; society; spiritual; states; study; subject; things; time; truth; use; visions; way; witchcraft; women; world; years cache: 30306.txt plain text: 30306.txt item: #78 of 214 id: 30709 author: Robinson, Arthur William title: God and the World: A Survey of Thought date: None words: 21927 flesch: 66 summary: yet when at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed glory of that creed which once was mine, and the lonely mystery of existence as now I find it--at such times I shall ever feel it impossible to avoid the sharpest pang of which my nature is susceptible. From both of these the deepest instincts of humanity--which in such matters are as fully to be relied on as its logical faculty--strongly recoil. keywords: cause; design; energy; evolution; fact; god; human; life; man; matter; men; mind; nature; new; power; purpose; science; sir; theory; things; thought; time; universe; world cache: 30709.txt plain text: 30709.txt item: #79 of 214 id: 30750 author: Brown, Sanger title: The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation date: None words: 22773 flesch: 62 summary: We shall presently give a number of references to show that the May-pole was associated with phallic worship and that it originated at a very remote period. Hodder M. Westropp has given us an excellent account of phallic worship and includes in his description the observations of a traveller in Japan at as late periods as 1864 and 1869. keywords: art; deity; development; expression; female; form; god; india; individual; male; man; motive; mysteries; nature; number; phallic; race; religion; rites; sex worship; significance; sun; symbolism; symbols; time; worship cache: 30750.txt plain text: 30750.txt item: #80 of 214 id: 30900 author: Lewis, Joseph title: The Tyranny of God date: None words: 16417 flesch: 67 summary: How often do we prefer _death_ to living life in our former condition, after our efforts have brought us to a point of vantage and comfort! In other words, Nature has taken millions of years to produce the earth as it is now formed; and if it were made particularly for human beings it is not yet completed, for we still find spots, aye, vast areas, where human life is incapable of subsisting. keywords: body; brain; child; conditions; day; death; fear; forces; god; human; life; live; living; man; nature; pain; suffering; tyranny; world cache: 30900.txt plain text: 30900.txt item: #81 of 214 id: 31275 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices date: None words: 75725 flesch: 54 summary: But do the priests themselves comprehend this ineffable God, whom they announce to other men? In this case the desire is so much the more unreasonable because it cannot be satisfied; first, because when death and proscription is the penalty, there has never been and there never will be a man of letters so imprudent, and, to speak plainly, so strangely daring, as to publish, or during his life to allow a book to be printed, in which he tramples under foot temples, altars, and the statues of the gods, and where he attacks without any disguise the most consecrated religious opinions; secondly, because it is a matter of public notoriety that all the works of this character which have appeared for many years are the secret testaments of numbers of great men, obliged during their lives to conceal their light under a bushel, whose heads death has withdrawn from the fury of persecutors, and whose cold ashes, consequently, do not hear in the tomb either the importunate and denunciatory cries of the superstitious, or the just eulogiums of the friends of truth; thirdly and lastly, _because this curiosity, so unfortunately entertained, may compromise in the most cruel manner the repose, the fortune, and the liberty of the relatives and friends of the authors of these bold books!_ keywords: christian; conduct; creatures; death; deity; divine; divinity; earth; faith; god; good; happiness; human; ideas; life; love; madam; man; mankind; men; mind; morality; nature; notions; opinions; order; passions; people; perceive; power; priests; reason; religion; society; thing; time; virtue; world cache: 31275.txt plain text: 31275.txt item: #82 of 214 id: 31608 author: Saltus, Edgar title: The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal date: None words: 27975 flesch: 76 summary: In _Matthew_, Jesus is depicted as a glutton and a wine-bibber. I am come to set a man against his father, it is written in _Matthew_. keywords: bel; brahm; day; dead; death; divine; earth; egypt; evil; footnote; gods; gotama; heaven; holy; human; ideal; israel; jahveh; jesus; land; law; life; light; lord; man; men; ormuzd; people; philosophy; poetry; religion; rome; sky; son; soul; sun; things; time; world; zeus cache: 31608.txt plain text: 31608.txt item: #83 of 214 id: 31875 author: Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron) title: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion date: None words: 68731 flesch: 60 summary: If, however, we turn to other religions less highly developed than Buddhism, we find that, in all, the existence of the individual as well as of the god of the community is assumed; that the interests of the community are the will of the community's god; that the interests of the community are higher than the interests of the individual, when they appear to differ; and that the man who prefers the interests of the community to his own is regarded as the higher type of man. What, if it was not fear, at any rate presented the appearance of fear, has been banished; and we can and do, in the greater faith that has been vouchsafed to us, look with {19} confidence on the proposal to compare Christianity with other religions. keywords: belief; communion; community; desire; end; evolution; existence; fact; fetichism; form; god; gods; history; individual; magic; man; means; morality; object; prayer; religion; rite; sacrifice; science; society; spirit; stage; things; time; truth; value; worship cache: 31875.txt plain text: 31875.txt item: #84 of 214 id: 31920 author: Sellars, Roy Wood title: The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance date: None words: 65138 flesch: 64 summary: The presbyters, or elders, were old men selected by common consent from the members of the congregation as a sort of advisory council. He lived his life sincerely as other men have done and did not dream of the use history would make of his name. keywords: beliefs; christianity; church; creation; day; earth; events; evil; fact; faith; god; gods; good; great; human; idea; immortality; jesus; knowledge; life; magic; man; men; mind; nature; new; outlook; past; people; power; present; problem; reason; religion; science; setting; social; society; soul; spiritual; things; thought; time; values; view; way; work; world cache: 31920.txt plain text: 31920.txt item: #85 of 214 id: 32006 author: Muir, Pearson M'Adam title: Modern Substitutes for Christianity date: None words: 41392 flesch: 67 summary: 'In Theism,' so Haeckel draws out the comparison, 'God is opposed to Nature as an extra-mundane being, as creating and sustaining the world, and acting upon it from without, while in Pantheism God, as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical with Nature itself, and is operative within the world as force or {73} energy.'[5] Guesses at the Riddle of Existence; Lectures on the Study of History; The founder of Christianity_. keywords: appendix; belief; christianity; christians; church; creed; day; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; humanity; jesus; life; light; living; lord; love; man; mankind; men; morality; nature; pantheism; power; religion; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; truth; universe; way; words; world; worship cache: 32006.txt plain text: 32006.txt item: #86 of 214 id: 32242 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys date: None words: 53397 flesch: 80 summary: It is a remarkable peculiarity of these October days, that each of them seems to occupy a great deal of space, although the sun rises rather tardily at that season of the year, and goes to bed, as little children ought, at sober six o'clock, or even earlier. This circumstance surprised him, because Marygold was one of the cheerfullest little people whom you would see in a summer's day, and hardly shed a thimbleful of tears in a twelvemonth. keywords: bellerophon; box; bright; children; day; epimetheus; eustace; eyes; giant; golden; good; half; head; hercules; horse; illustration; king; man; midas; pandora; pegasus; people; perseus; philemon; quicksilver; story; stranger; thought; time; way; world cache: 32242.txt plain text: 32242.txt item: #87 of 214 id: 32326 author: Lang, Andrew title: Tales of Troy and Greece date: None words: 94131 flesch: 82 summary: To other men, no doubt, they would have offered other pleasures. 'I am very angry with many men and women in the world,' said Autolycus, 'so let the child's name be _A Man of Wrath_,' which, in Greek, was Odysseus. keywords: achilles; agamemnon; beautiful; day; dead; father; gods; gold; great; greeks; hand; head; heart; hector; helen; home; house; king; left; man; men; menelaus; mother; night; paris; people; perseus; round; saw; sea; set; ship; son; spear; sword; telemachus; theseus; thought; trojans; troy; ulysses; water; way cache: 32326.txt plain text: 32326.txt item: #88 of 214 id: 3283 author: None title: The Upanishads date: None words: 17852 flesch: 74 summary: Wise men, aware of this, identify themselves with their Higher Self and thus transcend the realm of grief. We may imagine that by much study we can find out God; but merely hearing about a thing and gaining an intellectual comprehension of it does not mean attaining true knowledge of it. keywords: atman; brahman; death; fire; form; god; knowledge; life; mind; nachiketas; nature; self; senses; teacher; upanishad cache: 3283.txt plain text: 3283.txt item: #89 of 214 id: 33049 author: Dawson, John William, Sir title: The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science date: None words: 135342 flesch: 55 summary: Thirdly, with respect to the foundations of the earth, I may remark that in the tenth verse of Genesis there occurs a definition as precise as that of any lexicon--and God called the _dry land_ earth; consequently it is but fair to assume that the earth afterwards spoken of as supported above the waters is the dry land or continental masses of the earth, and no geologist can object to the statement that the dry land is supported above the waters by foundations or pillars. Is it possible that the writer who in verse 10th for the first time intimates a limitation of the meaning of this word, by the solemn announcement, And God called the _dry land_ earth, should in a previous place use it in a much more limited sense without any hint of such restriction. keywords: = =; age; ages; animals; antiquity; atmosphere; beginning; bible; case; changes; chapter; character; conditions; connection; creation; creator; creatures; day; days; earth; evidence; existence; fact; footnote; forms; general; genesis; geological; geology; god; great; heavens; hebrew; history; human; idea; introduction; land; life; light; man; manner; matter; men; nature; new; origin; parts; period; physical; place; plants; point; power; present; progress; races; reason; remains; revelation; rocks; science; scripture; sea; species; state; subject; system; things; time; view; waters; way; words; work; world; years; | | cache: 33049.txt plain text: 33049.txt item: #90 of 214 id: 3327 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable date: None words: 146923 flesch: 77 summary: They were directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant valley, where he was contemplating the ranks of his posterity, their destinies and worthy deeds to be achieved in coming times. While the majority of the Brahmans still profess to recognize the equal divinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the mass of the people worship Krishna, Rama, the Singam, and many other gods and idols. keywords: achilles; aeneas; age; air; apollo; arms; athens; beauty; blood; body; cause; chapter; chariot; city; come; country; course; daughter; day; dead; death; diana; earth; eyes; face; fall; fate; father; feet; fire; following; form; giant; goddess; gods; gold; greece; greek; hair; hand; head; heart; heaven; hercules; human; husband; island; juno; jupiter; king; know; land; lay; left; life; love; man; men; milton; minerva; moment; mother; night; oracle; people; place; poets; power; queen; race; rest; return; river; round; saw; sea; set; shore; son; statue; story; sun; temple; thee; theseus; things; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; ulysses; venus; voice; war; water; way; wife; words; work; world; young; youth cache: 3327.txt plain text: 3327.txt item: #91 of 214 id: 33524 author: Frazer, James George title: The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3) The Belief Among the Polynesians date: None words: 194575 flesch: 74 summary: _Mana_ means authority, especially divine authority or supernatural power. _Mana_ plays a leading part in the ability of a leader, or successes in war of celebrated warriors. keywords: account; bodies; body; bones; brown; burial; captain; chiefs; cit; cloth; compare; cook; corpse; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deities; deity; earth; ellis; family; father; feet; fish; food; form; general; ghosts; gods; good; grave; hawaii; hawaiian; head; hervey; house; human; islanders; islands; j. j.; journal; king; life; little; london; man; maori; mariner; maui; melanesians; men; missionary; natives; new; night; pacific; people; person; place; polynesians; priest; rank; religion; round; samoa; samoans; sea; society; soul; south; spirits; sqq; stair; stone; sun; taboo; temple; thought; time; tonga; tree; turner; twins; voyage; w. w.; war; water; way; wilson; women; world; worship; years; zealand cache: 33524.txt plain text: 33524.txt item: #92 of 214 id: 33677 author: Royce, Josiah title: The Sources of Religious Insight date: None words: 74958 flesch: 64 summary: Reason is present in such lives and inspires them. What it means for the world to have such lives lived, a very little thought will show us. keywords: cause; consciousness; divine; experience; fact; form; human; individual; insight; james; life; love; loyalty; men; nature; need; opinion; present; problem; question; real; reason; religion; salvation; sense; social; source; spirit; spiritual; truth; unity; view; way; world cache: 33677.txt plain text: 33677.txt item: #93 of 214 id: 33825 author: Lewis, Joseph title: An Atheist Manifesto date: None words: 8203 flesch: 70 summary: If man is a fallen angel, by the commission of a sin, then disease and sorrow are part of God's inscrutable plan as a penalty imposed upon him for his disobedience, and man's entire life is devoted to the expiation of that sin so as to soften the indictment before the Throne of God. When man comes to the realization that he is not the favorite of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the difficult and intricate problems of living. keywords: bible; death; disease; forms; god; knowledge; life; living; man; nature; progress; time cache: 33825.txt plain text: 33825.txt item: #94 of 214 id: 34170 author: Various title: Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern date: None words: 98394 flesch: 75 summary: Led with unwary step her virgin trains O'er Etna's steeps, and Enna's golden plains; Plucked with fair hand the silver blossomed bower, And purpled mead,--herself a fairer flower; {105} Sudden, unseen amid the twilight glade, Rushed gloomy Dis, and seized the trembling maid. And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven The fire which we endure, it was repaid By him to whom the energy was given, Which this poetic marble hath arrayed With an eternal glory, which if made By human hands, is not of human thought, And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid One ringlet in the dust, nor hath it caught A tinge of years, but breathes the flame with which 'twas wrought. keywords: apollo; arms; bacchus; beauty; beneath; blood; breast; child; come; country; daughter; day; death; deep; deity; divine; earth; engravings; eyes; face; fair; fate; father; flowers; form; god; goddess; gods; golden; good; hair; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; hercules; hero; high; honour; illustration; jove; juno; jupiter; king; left; life; light; love; man; men; minerva; mortal; mother; nature; near; nymph; o'er; ovid; people; place; power; price; round; saw; sea; son; spirit; sun; sword; temple; thee; theseus; thou; thought; thy; time; vain; venus; voice; war; waves; wife; wild; world; youth cache: 34170.txt plain text: 34170.txt item: #95 of 214 id: 34513 author: Wheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) title: A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations date: None words: 127127 flesch: 69 summary: Ackermann (Louise-Victorine, née Choquet), French poetess, b. Paris 30 Nov. 1813. Count d', French diplomat, b. Paris 20 Dec. 1700, was a nephew of Mme. de Tencin, the mother of D'Alembert. keywords: academy; account; advocate; age; american; anti; april; army; articles; assembly; atheism; aug; author; b. amsterdam; b. berlin; b. london; b. near; b. new; b. paris; b. saint; b. st; berlin; bible; blasphemy; book; boston; brussels; carlile; century; charles; chief; christianity; church; college; council; court; critic; death; dec; deist; deputy; des; dictionary; distinguished; dutch; editor; england; english; essays; etc; faith; family; father; feb; france; françois; freethinker; freethought; french; friend; general; geneva; george; german; god; great; henry; history; human; imprisonment; italian; italy; james; jan; jean; jesus; john; joseph; journal; july; june; king; law; lectures; left; letters; liberty; life; literature; louis; march; medicine; member; mind; minister; naples; national; nature; near; new; nov; oct; opinions; origin; oxford; pamphlets; parents; parliament; paul; philosophy; physician; pierre; place; poems; poet; positivist; president; principal; principles; professor; reason; reformer; religion; republican; review; revolution; revue; robert; rome; school; science; second; secretary; secular; sept; social; society; soul; spanish; state; studies; study; system; teacher; theology; thomas; time; treatise; university; views; vols; voltaire; volumes; von; war; william; work; world; writer; writings; years; york cache: 34513.txt plain text: 34513.txt item: #96 of 214 id: 34578 author: Bigandet, Paul Ambroise title: The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume I) date: None words: 123064 flesch: 66 summary: At last Buddha, assuming a lofty and commanding tone, said to them, I declare unto you that I am a Buddha, knowing the four great truths and showing the way to Neibban. Anaumadathi replied to them that the object of their wishes should be granted unto them when the Buddha Gaudama would appear in the world. keywords: assembly; beings; buddha; buddhism; buddhists; city; come; country; day; days; death; direction; disciples; doctrines; end; existence; father; following; food; gaudama; good; great; having; heart; influence; kathaba; king; knowledge; law; left; life; like; man; means; men; merits; mind; monastery; nats; nature; neibban; order; passions; people; perfect; perfection; phralaong; place; position; power; presence; present; prince; radzagio; rahan; religious; royal; season; seats; son; soul; state; things; thoodaudana; time; tree; water; way; work; world; years; young cache: 34578.txt plain text: 34578.txt item: #97 of 214 id: 34804 author: Réville, Albert title: Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru date: None words: 48159 flesch: 67 summary: [38] On the conversion of the Mexicans, &c., compare the anonymous treatise at the end of _Kingsborough's_ Mexican Antiquities, Vol. IX. Cf. also _Torquemada,_ Lib. They had conquered or shattered what was called the _Chichimec_ empire, which in its turn had destroyed, some centuries earlier, the _Toltec_ empire. keywords: america; ancient; aztecs; cap; central; civilization; day; deities; deity; empire; fact; family; fire; garcilasso; god; gods; great; history; human; idea; iii; incas; kind; lib; life; little; men; mexican; mexico; nature; new; people; peru; peruvian; place; priests; religion; sacrifices; sun; temple; time; translation; vol; world; worship cache: 34804.txt plain text: 34804.txt item: #98 of 214 id: 35087 author: Wright, Dudley title: The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites date: None words: 22863 flesch: 62 summary: The Bibliography at the end does not claim to be exhaustive, but it will be found to contain the principal sources of our knowledge of the Eleusinian Mysteries. DUDLEY WRIGHT. OXFORD. Like the Eleusinian Mysteries, properly so called, they included dramatic representations of the rape of Persephone and the wanderings of Demeter; in addition, according to Stephen Byzantium, to certain Dionysian representations. keywords: athens; candidates; celebration; ceremony; daughter; day; death; degree; demeter; earth; eleusinian; eleusinian mysteries; eleusis; goddess; gods; greece; hierophant; holy; initiates; initiation; life; man; mysteries; nature; persephone; place; rites; soul; state; temple; time cache: 35087.txt plain text: 35087.txt item: #99 of 214 id: 35377 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys date: None words: 119202 flesch: 79 summary: But, at any rate, it was higher than a thousand ant-hillocks, or a million of mole-hills; and, when measured by the short strides of little children, might be reckoned a very respectable mountain. Little children, not quite understanding what is said to them, often get such absurd notions into their heads, you know. keywords: air; away; bellerophon; box; bright; cadmus; ceres; child; children; day; dear; dragon; earth; eustace; eyes; face; father; giant; golden; good; half; hand; head; heart; hercules; jason; kind; king; left; look; man; midas; mother; palace; pandora; pegasus; people; perseus; poor; proserpina; quicksilver; saw; sea; set; story; stranger; theseus; thing; thought; time; voice; way; world cache: 35377.txt plain text: 35377.txt item: #100 of 214 id: 35772 author: Hardwick, J. C. (John Charlton) title: Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson date: None words: 39677 flesch: 57 summary: His acceptance of Kant's criticism of reason led him to understand that intellectual concepts, in the religious sphere, (i.e. dogmas) must always be of secondary importance: _experience_ comes first. For this conservation of _motion_, Leibniz substitutes the conservation of _force_ as being logically the more fundamental concept. keywords: century; chapter; existence; experience; fact; history; human; kant; knowledge; life; man; matter; mechanical; men; method; mind; nature; new; phenomena; philosophy; problem; reality; religion; results; science; scientific; system; theory; things; thought; time; universe; view; work; world cache: 35772.txt plain text: 35772.txt item: #101 of 214 id: 36268 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: Heresy: Its Utility And Morality. A Plea And A Justification date: None words: 25174 flesch: 53 summary: From Cracow and Racow, during the latter half of this century, the Unitarians (who drew into their ranks many men of advanced minds.) issued a large number of books and pamphlets, which were circulated amongst the people with considerable zeal and industry. Heresy challenges the divine right of the governor, and declares that government should be the best contrivance of national wisdom to promote the national weal, to provide against national want, and alleviate-national suffering--that government which is only a costly machinery for conserving class privileges, and preventing popular freedom, is a tyrannical usurpation of power,which it is the duty of true men to destroy. keywords: argument; atheism; bacon; century; church; day; descartes; doctrine; england; existence; france; god; heresy; ideas; life; man; men; mind; nature; orthodox; people; philosophy; power; progress; reason; religion; society; thought; time; truth; views; works; world cache: 36268.txt plain text: 36268.txt item: #102 of 214 id: 36269 author: Bradlaugh, Charles title: A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays date: None words: 78859 flesch: 66 summary: But as many men have doubts, a large majority of mankind have disagreements, and some men have disbeliefs as to God's existence and attributes, it follows either that God does not exist, or that he is not all-wise, or that he is not all-powerful, or that he is not all-good. I stand on the river's bank, I see there a man full grown, possessed of the physical figure of man, but an idiot--an idiot from his birth upward--one who could not, even if he would, think and act as other men. keywords: abraham; adam; argument; bible; body; cause; child; children; david; day; death; deity; devil; duration; earth; effect; existence; extension; fact; faith; father; gillespie; god; good; heaven; human; infinity; intelligence; jacob; jesus; john; jonah; king; land; life; lord; man; matter; means; men; moses; new; people; peter; place; point; poor; poverty; power; present; question; reason; result; sea; sin; son; soul; spirit; state; substance; thou; thought; time; universe; wages; wife; word; years cache: 36269.txt plain text: 36269.txt item: #103 of 214 id: 36270 author: Aveling, Edward B. title: The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures date: None words: 5671 flesch: 66 summary: Man wants all we can do; our heart, our brain, our love, our faculties, all, all these are sacred to man; they must not be desecrated to the use of god. THE GOSPEL OF EVOLUTION A new and better Gospel is now preached to men. keywords: animals; evolution; forms; gospel; man; matter; motion; plants; work cache: 36270.txt plain text: 36270.txt item: #104 of 214 id: 36271 author: Moss, Arthur B. title: Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures date: None words: 5858 flesch: 72 summary: But the word Nature is often used, and rightly used, to distinguish the natural from the artificial object--that is, to indicate the difference between a thing produced spontaneously by Nature, from a thing wrought by the skill and labor of man. Art simply means the adaptation, the moulding into certain forms of the things of Nature, and therefore the artistic productions of man are included in the comprehensive sense of the term Nature which I just now used. keywords: cause; existence; god; gods; man; men; nature; world cache: 36271.txt plain text: 36271.txt item: #105 of 214 id: 36767 author: Frothingham, Octavius Brooks title: The Cradle of the Christ: A Study in Primitive Christianity date: None words: 57117 flesch: 59 summary: The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. keywords: belief; book; character; christ; christianity; christians; church; city; conception; death; doctrine; faith; father; form; god; gospel; heaven; hebrew; history; human; idea; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; judaism; kingdom; law; life; literature; lord; man; messiah; mind; national; nature; new; paul; people; place; point; power; religion; roman; rome; shall; son; spiritual; state; temple; testament; thought; time; way; world; years cache: 36767.txt plain text: 36767.txt item: #106 of 214 id: 36772 author: Fielding, H. (Harold) title: The Hearts of Men date: None words: 69355 flesch: 82 summary: These are some of the questions I ask, other men have asked the same--not many. He may live a lifetime with other men and no one know or care what his faith may be. keywords: art; believe; body; boy; buddhist; christ; christian; christianity; conduct; creeds; day; emotions; facts; faith; god; gods; good; heart; heaven; idea; instinct; know; law; life; lives; love; man; men; people; prayer; reason; religion; soul; theory; things; think; truth; use; way; women; world; years cache: 36772.txt plain text: 36772.txt item: #107 of 214 id: 36794 author: Lang, Andrew title: Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 105055 flesch: 71 summary: The Huarochiri explained them by a series of _märchen_ about Huthiacuri, Pariaca (culture-heroes), and about friendly animals which aided them in the familiar way. Heaven, earth, Indra, the cow, are all thought of as _personal_ entities, however gigantic and vague. keywords: account; animal; apollo; artemis; athene; baiame; beasts; belief; birth; bull; character; chief; cit; culture; dawn; dead; death; deities; deity; demeter; dionysus; divine; earth; egypt; egyptian; evidence; example; father; find; form; goddess; gods; good; great; greece; greek; head; heaven; homer; human; ibid; ideas; iii; indian; indra; khoi; kind; legend; life; man; max; men; mother; mysteries; myth; mythology; märchen; müller; names; native; nature; new; opinion; origin; osiris; people; place; power; races; religion; rites; ritual; savage; shape; sky; son; stories; story; sun; tales; theory; things; thought; time; tree; tribes; way; world; worship; zeus cache: 36794.txt plain text: 36794.txt item: #108 of 214 id: 36797 author: Holyoake, George Jacob title: The Principles of Secularism date: None words: 15405 flesch: 60 summary: This is the state of many men all through life; and miserable politicians or Churchmen they make, unless by good luck they are in safe hands, and ruled by others, or are pledged to a course. A Society, like the State, requires the existence of the people, as well as public officers--men who* can act, as well as men who can think and direct Many men who lack refinement, and even discretion, possess courage and energy, and will go out on the inevitable forlorn hopes of progress; which the merely prudent avoid, and from which the cultivated too often shrink. keywords: duty; god; good; human; life; man; means; men; nature; opinion; policy; principles; public; reason; right; secularism; service; society; truth; world cache: 36797.txt plain text: 36797.txt item: #109 of 214 id: 36798 author: Holyoake, George Jacob title: The Limits of Atheism; Or, Why Should Sceptics Be Outlaws? date: None words: 7043 flesch: 64 summary: These are the chasms that lie in the path of mere Atheism. But with respect to Affirmative Atheism, the necessity for newness of view is chiefly felt by those who do not understand it. keywords: atheism; cosmism; error; existence; god; mind; nature; opinion; self; superstition; term; truth cache: 36798.txt plain text: 36798.txt item: #110 of 214 id: 36800 author: Holyoake, Austin title: Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester date: None words: 10763 flesch: 71 summary: We will take it as such, and see what aspect Jesus presents when viewed in the light we are able to bring to bear upon his portrait. That great French writer has evidently gone to his task with the intention or anticipation of finding an almost perfect man, and he ends by believing he really sees one in Jesus. keywords: days; disciples; god; heaven; jesus; man; men; people; peter; son; thee; thou; world cache: 36800.txt plain text: 36800.txt item: #111 of 214 id: 36882 author: Cohen, Chapman title: A Grammar of Freethought date: None words: 75387 flesch: 62 summary: In religion facts of a common and verifiable kind are almost wanting. Exactly the same phenomenon faces us in connection with social life. keywords: animal; belief; case; chapter; character; christian; christianity; church; day; death; development; environment; evolution; existence; fact; form; god; gods; history; human; individual; knowledge; life; man; matter; men; mind; morality; nature; new; people; point; present; question; reason; religion; sense; social; society; state; things; thought; time; truth; view; way; world cache: 36882.txt plain text: 36882.txt item: #112 of 214 id: 37231 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 1 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 141147 flesch: 55 summary: If we proceed to examine Paley's simple case a little more closely, however, we find that not only is it utterly inadmissible as a hypothesis, but that as an illustration of the case of Gospel miracles it is completely devoid of relevancy and argumentative force. It is clear that, this large class of Gospel miracles being due to the superstition of an ignorant and credulous age, the insufficiency of the evidence for any of the other supposed miraculous occurrences narrated in the same documents becomes at once apparent. keywords: "(1; "(2; account; angels; apostles; argument; belief; canonical; case; character; christianity; church; course; critics; demons; divine; doubt; epistles; eusebius; evidence; existence; fact; form; god; gospel; gospel miracles; greek; hand; ignatius; instance; jesus; justin; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; lightfoot; lord; luke; man; mark; matthew; memoirs; miracles; miraculous; mozley; nature; order; papias; passage; peter; place; point; power; present; question; quotation; quotes; reality; reason; revelation; second; source; spirit; statement; states; testament; testimony; text; time; tradition; truth; version; words; work; writers cache: 37231.txt plain text: 37231.txt item: #113 of 214 id: 37232 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 117798 flesch: 59 summary: They assign to the Homilies an origin at different dates within a period commencing about the middle of the second century, and extending to a century later.2 In the Homilies there are very numerous quotations {6} of sayings of Jesus and of Gospel history, which are generally placed in the mouth of Peter, or introduced with such formulae as: The teacher said, Jesus said, He said, The prophet said, but in no case does the author name the source from which these sayings and quotations are derived. We need not do more than remark that there is not a single quotation in the fragment, and that there is not a single one of the references to Gospel history or to ecclesiastical dogmas which might not have been derived from the Epistles of Paul, from any of the forms of the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Protevangelium of James, or from many another apocryphal Gospel, or the oral teaching of the Church. keywords: apocalypse; apostle; author; canon; canonical; case; century; character; christ; church; date; disciples; doctrine; epistle; evidence; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; irenæus; jesus; john; justin; life; logos; lord; luke; man; marcion; passage; paul; peter; place; point; quotation; reason; reference; says; second; son; spirit; statement; synoptics; tatian; testament; testimony; text; things; time; tischendorf; use; valentinus; way; westcott; word; work; writer; writings cache: 37232.txt plain text: 37232.txt item: #114 of 214 id: 37233 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 147972 flesch: 59 summary: It is maintained that the desire to equalise the sufferings of the two Apostles in the cause of the Gospel, as he has equalised their miraculous displays, probably led the Author to omit all mention of those {72} perils and persecutions to which the Apostle Paul refers in support of his protest, that he had laboured and suffered more than all the rest.(1) If Paul was called by a vision to the ministry of the Gentiles,(2) The statements of the Apostle Paul leave no doubt that persecution against the Christians of Jerusalem must have broken out previous to his conversion, but no details are given, and it can scarcely be considered otherwise than extraordinary, that Paul should not in any of his own writings have referred to the proto-martyr of the Christian Church, if the account which is given of him be historical. keywords: account; acts; apostle paul; apostles; author; belief; case; character; christian; church; circumcision; course; critics; death; disciples; epistle; evidence; fact; form; gentiles; god; gospel; hand; holy; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; lord; luke; man; miracles; miraculous; narrative; nature; passage; paul; peter; place; point; present; question; resurrection; second; speech; spirit; statement; time; tongues; unto; use; vision; visit; words; work; writer cache: 37233.txt plain text: 37233.txt item: #115 of 214 id: 37234 author: Besant, Annie title: My Path to Atheism date: None words: 111839 flesch: 60 summary: The band of men who accepted him as their teacher were as far from worshipping him as God as were their fellow-countrymen: their prompt desertion of him when attacked by his enemies, their complete hopelessness when they saw him overcome and put to death, are sufficient proofs that though they regarded him--to quote their own words--as a prophet mighty in word and deed, they never guessed that the teacher they followed, and the friend they lived with in the intimacy of social life was Almighty God Himself. I reject it from beginning to end, as fatally destructive of all true faith towards God, as perilously subversive of all true morality in man, as an outrage on the sacred memory of Jesus of Nazareth, and as an insult to the Justice, the Supremacy, and the Unity of Almighty God. keywords: bible; child; children; christ; christian; church; course; day; death; divine; duty; earth; eternal; existence; fact; faith; father; god; good; gospel; hands; heart; heaven; hell; holy; human; idea; inspiration; jesus; justice; law; laws; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; morality; nature; people; point; power; prayer; reason; revelation; right; science; sense; sin; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; thy; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 37234.txt plain text: 37234.txt item: #116 of 214 id: 37302 author: Stephens, William title: An Account of the Growth of Deism in England date: None words: 9625 flesch: 67 summary: Charles_'s Restoration, or King _ Nor can any Sovereign Prince keep his Word or Oath, though he had only sworn to maintain those Laws by which he Reigns as King, any longer than this Spiritual Fatherhood will give him leave, as _Lewis_ XIV. keywords: christ; christian; church; clergy; england; god; king; man; men; power; religion; right cache: 37302.txt plain text: 37302.txt item: #117 of 214 id: 3743 author: Paine, Thomas title: The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason date: None words: 72882 flesch: 60 summary: The Pope, Zachary II., decided that if his alleged doctrine, against God and his soul, that beneath the earth there is another world, other men, or sun and moon, should be acknowledged by Virgilius, he should be excommunicated by a Council and condemned with canonical sanctions. If by a prophet we are to suppose a man to whom the Almighty communicated some event that would take place in future, either there were such men, or there were not. keywords: account; age; belief; bible; book; case; chapter; children; christ; christian; church; creation; day; death; evidence; god; idea; jerusalem; jesus; jews; joshua; king; life; lord; man; manner; men; moral; moses; new; paine; people; person; place; power; reason; religion; story; sun; system; testament; thing; time; word; work; writer; years cache: 3743.txt plain text: 3743.txt item: #118 of 214 id: 37694 author: Allen, Ethan title: Reason, the Only Oracle of Man; Or, A Compendius System of Natural Religion date: None words: 48291 flesch: 34 summary: To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas. To alter or change that which is absolutely perfect, would necessarily make it cease to be perfect, inasmuch as perfection could not be altered for the better, but for the worse, and consequently an alteration could not meet with the divine approbation; which terminates the issue of the matter in question against miracles, and authorizes us to deduce the following conclusive inference, to wit: that Almighty God, having eternally impressed the universe with a certain system of laws, for the same eternal reason that they were infinitely perfect and best, they could never admit of the least alteration, but are as unchangeable, in their nature, as God their immutable author. keywords: creation; day; divine; doctrine; existence; god; good; human; infinite; knowledge; law; laws; life; lord; man; mankind; moral; moses; nature; order; original; power; providence; reason; revelation; sin; things; time; truth; world cache: 37694.txt plain text: 37694.txt item: #119 of 214 id: 37697 author: Adler, Felix title: Creed and Deed: A Series of Discourses date: None words: 63899 flesch: 65 summary: But during the ascendancy of the Christian Church, these opinions retired into the background, until in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they were revived by such men as Gassendi and La Mettrie, and others. It is true supernaturalism has often proved a valuable stay to those already morally strong, and it were absurd to deny that under its fostering care many of the noblest qualities that distinguish the filial relation have been developed in the lives of religious men. keywords: age; bible; body; century; character; day; death; earth; existence; form; future; god; good; heart; hebrew; history; human; ideal; influence; israel; jews; judaism; knowledge; law; laws; life; light; love; man; mankind; means; men; mind; moral; nature; new; order; past; people; place; power; present; progress; race; religion; science; self; sense; soul; spirit; state; things; time; truth; virtue; women; work; world; years cache: 37697.txt plain text: 37697.txt item: #120 of 214 id: 37700 author: Cooper, Robert, secularist title: Biblical Extracts; Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing Its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities date: None words: 25567 flesch: 93 summary: But _let_ man and _beast_ be covered with sackcloth, _and cry mightily unto God_; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. In this note also, as well as in note 434, we are told that they had _white_ garments on, and in note 435, we are told they were _shining_ garments. keywords: behold; day; earth; father; god; hand; hath; heaven; israel; jesus; lord; lord god; man; men; people; saith; thee; thou; thy cache: 37700.txt plain text: 37700.txt item: #121 of 214 id: 37703 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: About The Holy Bible: A Lecture date: None words: 12777 flesch: 81 summary: THE REAL BIBLE FOR thousands of years men have been writing the real Bible, and it is being written from day to day, and it will never be finished while man has life. THERE are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God--millions who think that this book is staff and guide, counselor and consoler; that it fills the present with peace and the future with hope--millions who believe that it is the fountain of law, justice and mercy, and that to its wise and benign teachings the world is indebted for its liberty, wealth and civilization--millions who imagine that this book is a revelation from the wisdom and love of God to the brain and heart of man--millions who regard this book as a torch that conquers the darkness of death, and pours its radiance on another world--a world without a tear. keywords: bible; book; christ; death; god; gospels; human; jehovah; love; man; men; people; story; testament; world; years cache: 37703.txt plain text: 37703.txt item: #122 of 214 id: 37876 author: Rydberg, Viktor title: Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 1 date: None words: 96335 flesch: 68 summary: _Heimdali_ is another form of _Heimdall_ [Footnote 21: The author of _Bragarædur_ in the Younger Edda has understood this passage to mean that the Asas, when they saw Thjasse approaching, carried out a lot of shavings, which were kindled (!)] keywords: account; age; aryan; asas; asgard; asia; battle; borgar; brother; chief; common; country; daughter; death; dieterich; earth; east; edda; emigration; europe; evil; fact; father; form; franks; frey; german; giant; gods; groa; gudmund; gulveig; hadding; halfdan; hand; heathen; heimdal; helge; hist; history; home; human; king; land; life; loke; man; manner; men; middle; mimer; mother; myth; mythic; mythology; names; nature; new; north; nos; odin; original; patriarch; people; person; place; plains; point; power; question; race; regard; river; romans; saga; saxo; sea; son; song; sons; sources; svipdag; sword; teutonic; teutons; thor; time; traditions; tribes; trojan; troy; vans; völuspa; war; words; world cache: 37876.txt plain text: 37876.txt item: #123 of 214 id: 38016 author: Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi title: Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita date: None words: 88141 flesch: 85 summary: The blissful sound of _kirtan_ penetrated through the 14 regions to the empyrean. The Master began a joyous dance and _kirtan_ in the courtyard in delight. keywords: acharya; away; bengal; bhaktas; bhakti; bhatta; bhattáchárya; bhágabat; body; brahman; brindában; chaitanya; dance; dancing; day; days; delight; devotion; faith; feet; followers; form; god; gopal; govinda; grace; great; hari; heart; holy; house; jagannáth; king; krishna; life; lord; love; man; master; men; mind; nityánanda; pandit; people; place; prasád; puri; ray; rámánanda; sanátan; saying; sight; swarup; sárvabhauma; temple; thou; thy; time; vaishnavs; vide; village; vishnu; water; words; world cache: 38016.txt plain text: 38016.txt item: #124 of 214 id: 38092 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: The Book of God : In the Light of the Higher Criticism With Special Reference to Dean Farrar's New Apology date: None words: 27656 flesch: 67 summary: Instead of making this important and, as some think, damning admission, Dr. Farrar continues his remarks on the Bible Canon. The clergy are also invited by Dr. Farrar to recognise the general diffusion of scepticism:-- In recent years much has been written under the assumption that Christianity no longer deserves the dignity of a refutation; or that, at any rate, the bases on which it rests have been seriously undermined. keywords: bible; book; canon; christian; christianity; church; criticism; fact; faith; farrar; god; history; holy; inspiration; jesus; man; reason; revelation; right; science; scripture; story; testament; theory; time; truth; way; word cache: 38092.txt plain text: 38092.txt item: #125 of 214 id: 38093 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Christian Religion: An Enquiry date: None words: 9459 flesch: 68 summary: Of such books as the present, such writings as the present, some at least are the words of men and women who have been born to, and striven toward a godly life, with intense effort, with groanings not to be uttered: who, nursed in the bosom of the Church, and partakers in all her most sacred ordinances, crushed down as unholy the first and the repeated breathings of doubt and of reasoning their minds; who held to the falseness of their early teachings,--till there came that final struggle, when they wrestled with God,--to hold him,--not to lose him; gasping with fevered lips and shut teeth and scalding eyelids, I will not let thee go : and who won a blessing they knew not of in that they proved the Jehovah of Hebraism, the God of Christianity, to be an Apollyon of Superstition: who cast him off in disgust, in loathing, in half despair; who lay faint and bleeding through a night of darkness: but to whom, with the dawn, has come the free and bracing air of reason, and then the deep warm glow of true life, and humanity, and universal love,--love given this time not to a fetish, but to every fellow being, to man and beast, to tree and moss, to stone and star. These fundamental truths, as I understand them, are: That there is a personal _God_, the creator of the material universe; that he made man of the dust, and woman from part of the man; that the man and woman were tempted by the _Devil_; that they were turned out of the garden of _Eden_; that, about fifteen hundred years afterward, _God's_ patience having been exhausted by the wickedness of mankind, he drowned his children with the exception of eight persons; that afterward he selected from their descendants _Abraham_, and through him the _Jewish_ people; that he gave laws to these people, and tried to govern them in all things; that he made known his will in many Ways; that he wrought a vast number of miracles; that he inspired men to write the _Bible_; that, in the fulness of time, it having been found impossible to reform man, this _God_ came upon earth as a child born of the _Virgin Mary_; that he lived in _Palestine_; that he preached for about three years, going from place to place, Occasionally raising the dead, curing the blind and the halt; that he was crucified--for the crime of blasphemy, as the _Jews_ supposed, but that, as a matter of fact, he was offered as a sacrifice for the sins of all who might have faith in him; that he was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven where he now is, making intercession for his followers; that he will forgive the sins of all who believe on him, and that those who do not believe will be consigned to the dungeons of eternal pain. keywords: atonement; bible; children; god; human; jehovah; man; men; people; testament; words; world cache: 38093.txt plain text: 38093.txt item: #126 of 214 id: 38094 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: Letters To Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices date: None words: 75018 flesch: 53 summary: If, as I have often said, it be impossible to believe what we cannot comprehend, or to be intimately convinced of that of which we can form no distinct and clear ideas, we may thence conclude that, when the Christians assure us they believe that God has announced himself in some secret and peculiar way to them that he has not done to other men, either they are themselves deceived, or they wish to deceive us. But do the priests themselves comprehend this ineffable God, whom they announce to other men? keywords: christian; conduct; creatures; death; deity; divine; divinity; earth; faith; god; good; happiness; human; ideas; life; love; madam; man; mankind; men; mind; morality; nature; notions; opinions; order; passions; people; perceive; power; priests; reason; religion; society; thing; time; virtue; world cache: 38094.txt plain text: 38094.txt item: #127 of 214 id: 38095 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Heretics And Heresies From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' date: None words: 8870 flesch: 72 summary: The revengeful spirit of Calvin took possession of the Puritans, and caused them to redden the soil of the New World with the brave blood of honest men. Stung to madness by this bitter truth, this galling contrast, this harassing fact, the really orthodox have raised the cry of heresy, and expect with this cry to seal the lips of honest men. keywords: calvin; children; church; creed; doctrine; god; heresy; heretics; man; men; people; presbyterian; world cache: 38095.txt plain text: 38095.txt item: #128 of 214 id: 38096 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' date: None words: 4554 flesch: 60 summary: These lectures contain the result of his investigation, observation, and experience; they furnish the connection between phenomena; they disclose some of the changes through which the earth has passed in the countless ages; the history of vegetation, animals and men, the effects of climate upon individuals and nations, the relation we sustain to other worlds, and demonstrate that all phenomena, whether insignificant or grand, exist in accordance with inexorable law. Great men do not live alone; they are surrounded by the great; they are the instruments used to accomplish the tendencies of their generation; they fulfill the prophecies of their age. keywords: earth; humboldt; law; man; men; reason; science; universe; world cache: 38096.txt plain text: 38096.txt item: #129 of 214 id: 38098 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' date: None words: 7687 flesch: 73 summary: He was liable, like other men, to support the government, and was forced to contribute his share towards paying the salaries of the very judges who decided that under no circumstances could his voice be heard in any court. In this way we are taught that the revenge of man is the justice of God; that mercy is not the same everywhere. keywords: children; church; god; individuality; liberty; man; men; power; reason; thought; truth; world cache: 38098.txt plain text: 38098.txt item: #130 of 214 id: 38099 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Mistakes of Moses date: None words: 53424 flesch: 76 summary: But we are told that it was written by inspired men; that it contains the will of God; that it is perfect, pure, and true in all its parts; the source and standard of all moral and religious truth; that it is the star and anchor of all human hope; the only guide for man, the only torch in Nature's night. But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God, and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt, the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty, and become a scorned and hateful thing to every brave and thoughtful man. keywords: account; adam; animals; ark; beasts; bible; blood; book; chapter; children; day; days; earth; egypt; fact; god; good; heaven; infinite; land; laws; life; light; lord god; man; matter; men; moses; people; pharaoh; serpent; sun; things; time; water; way; world; years cache: 38099.txt plain text: 38099.txt item: #131 of 214 id: 38100 author: Inman, Thomas title: Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. date: None words: 166712 flesch: 62 summary: In a parable, which was evidently intended to represent what was common enough in his day, he says, Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican; the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself--God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, &c (Luke xviii. Like the Pharisee, Christians boast that they are not as other men are; but by their proceedings they show that they are like the Jews, of whose paternity Jesus had not an exalted opinion. keywords: account; ancient; angels; belief; believe; bible; body; book; buddha; buddhist; christian; christianity; church; common; day; days; death; devil; disciples; divine; doctrine; doubt; earth; evidence; example; existence; fact; faith; father; followers; following; form; future; god; gods; good; greeks; hand; heaven; hebrew; hell; history; human; idea; india; individuals; jehovah; jesus; jewish; jews; john; king; knowledge; law; laws; life; like; lord; love; man; manner; mary; matter; means; men; mind; modern; moses; mother; nature; new; people; period; place; point; power; prayer; present; priests; question; reason; religion; right; sakya; second; siddartha; sin; son; spirit; state; subject; sun; taught; teaching; things; think; thought; time; truth; value; way; woman; words; world; written; years cache: 38100.txt plain text: 38100.txt item: #132 of 214 id: 38103 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy, at Morristown, N. J., May 1887: Defence date: None words: 21595 flesch: 80 summary: Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men. That is what a hospitable, good man does--he does not set the dog on him. keywords: blasphemy; children; church; defendant; god; good; human; law; liberty; man; men; new; people; religion; right; statute; world cache: 38103.txt plain text: 38103.txt item: #133 of 214 id: 38104 author: Holyoake, George Jacob title: English Secularism: A Confession of Belief date: None words: 34249 flesch: 68 summary: The association leaves to its individual members to yield whatever respects their own good sense judges to be due to the opinions of great men, living or dead, spoken or written; as also to the practice of ancient communities, national or ecclesiastical. The first condition of a reconciliation between religion and the masses of mankind would be for religious men patiently to listen to the complaints that are made by the adversaries of Christianity, and to understand the position which honest and sensible freethinkers, such as Mr. Holyoake, take. keywords: christian; christianity; church; day; death; duty; education; god; good; human; ideas; instruction; knowledge; life; man; means; men; mind; nature; new; open; opinion; people; principles; reason; religion; right; science; secularism; self; state; theology; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; world cache: 38104.txt plain text: 38104.txt item: #134 of 214 id: 38107 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Gods From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' date: None words: 16878 flesch: 71 summary: Beyond nature man cannot go even in thought--above nature he cannot rise--below nature he cannot fall. The scriptures give us the most wonderful accounts of divine interference: Animals talk like men; springs gurgle from dry bones; the sun and moon stop in the heavens in order that General Joshua may have more time to murder; the shadow on a dial goes back ten degrees to convince a petty king of a barbarous people that he is not going to die of a boil; fire refuses to burn; water positively declines to seek its level, but stands up like a wall; grains of sand become lice; common walking-sticks, to gratify a mere freak, twist themselves into serpents, and then swallow each other by way of exercise; murmuring streams, laughing at the attraction of gravitation, run up hill for years, following wandering tribes from a pure love of frolic; prophecy becomes altogether easier than history; the sons of God become enamored of the world's girls; women are changed into salt for the purpose of keeping a great event fresh in the minds of men; an excellent article of brimstone is imported from heaven free of duty; clothes refuse to wear out for forty years; birds keep restaurants and feed wandering prophets free of expense; bears tear children in pieces for laughing at old men without wigs; muscular development depends upon the length of one's hair; dead people come to life, simply to get a joke on their enemies and heirs; witches and wizards converse freely with the souls of the departed, and God himself becomes a stone-cutter and engraver, after having been a tailor and dressmaker. keywords: cause; children; devil; earth; effect; fact; force; god; gods; good; infinite; man; matter; men; nature; people; power; superior; thought; world cache: 38107.txt plain text: 38107.txt item: #135 of 214 id: 38273 author: Besant, Annie title: Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature date: None words: 5627 flesch: 73 summary: We next meet the simile of marriage, in Jeremiah ii., 20, iii. 1-3, 6-9, verse 9 being especially offensive. The keeping, or the reading, or the delighting in such things must be left to taste, and was not a subject for legal interference; the law was only to interpose where the motive of the seller was bad; when there were people who designedly and industriously manufactured books and prints with the intention of corrupting the public morals, and when they succeeded in their infamous purpose, he thought it was necessary for the legislature to interpose (Hansard, vol. 146, No. 4, p. 865). keywords: bible; book; chief; gen; justice; law; lord; ruling cache: 38273.txt plain text: 38273.txt item: #136 of 214 id: 38303 author: Pringle, Allen title: Ingersoll in Canada: A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others date: None words: 25708 flesch: 62 summary: Montreal needs more men like Bray in her churches, to mollify the bigotry, and stamp out the bitter feuds, and fierce antagonism of Christian against Christian. --_J. S. Mill, On Liberty_. keywords: argument; belief; bible; bystander; christian; christianity; church; conscience; day; existence; freethinkers; god; good; ingersoll; life; man; matter; men; people; rationalist; religion; right; science; time; toronto; truth; universe; wendling; world cache: 38303.txt plain text: 38303.txt item: #137 of 214 id: 38375 author: Mitchell, Logan title: Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures date: None words: 75730 flesch: 52 summary: To show that the saints of the fourth century had not only improved upon their predecessors in the arts of deception, but had grown bold enough in some instances to avow them, we quote St. Chrysostom, who declares that miracles are proper only to excite sluggish and vulgar minds; that men of sense have no occasion for them; and that they frequently carry _some untoward suspicion with them_ Mosheim, than whom a higher authority cannot be quoted, speaking of those times and of such men, says: The simplicity and ignorance of the generality in those times, furnished the most favorable occasion for the exercise of fraud; and the impudence of impostors in contriving false miracles, was artfully proportioned to the credulity of the vulgar: whilst the sagacity of the wise, who perceived these cheats, were overawed into silence by the dangers that threatened their lives and fortunes, if they should expose the artifice. At other times they were good friends, merry, and frolicksome, playing at bo-peep among the rocks (Exodus xxxiii., 22), the god showing his back parts only, for no man could see his face and live; yet on other occasions he talked face to face with his intimate friends. keywords: antiquity; authority; bible; blood; books; cause; century; christian; christianity; church; day; days; death; deity; earth; egypt; existence; fathers; form; god; gods; good; heaven; history; holy; human; ignorance; india; jesus; jews; knowledge; known; laws; life; lord; man; matter; meaning; men; mind; moral; moses; nature; order; paul; people; place; power; present; priests; reason; religion; science; second; sense; sign; state; sun; superstition; testament; theology; things; time; truth; way; word; years cache: 38375.txt plain text: 38375.txt item: #138 of 214 id: 38377 author: Carlile, Richard title: The Character of a Priest date: None words: 2038 flesch: 24 summary: Philosophers have only one God--the God of Nature; but roguish Priests, old women and fools have an endless number; every arch-impostor has profanely made a God of his own; Priestly genius, pregnant with extortion, and cogitating more effectually to pick pockets, with his own new trap, than with the stale tool of other men, has given rise to a multitude of diurnal Deities, if we witnessed as many variations in the laws of Nature as in the Priest-trade, the Priests might insist that some attention should be given to the business of fraud and cant. A Priest has the same essence, is composed of the same elements, endowed with the same organization as other men; he has no more natural command, no greater power, no greater right; Priests do not come into the world with crosiers, or with, mitres, or with rosaries; the revolutions of matter create and destroy them; they are decomposed as a cow or a cabbage. keywords: god; men; nature; priests cache: 38377.txt plain text: 38377.txt item: #139 of 214 id: 38446 author: Sabatier, Auguste title: Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History date: None words: 73343 flesch: 61 summary: No doubt, in the first period of physical life, sensation dominates, and at the _début_ of religious life, feeling and imagination. Protestant scholasticism corresponds to a decline of religious life. keywords: action; christian; christianity; church; consciousness; divine; dogma; ego; end; evolution; experience; faith; father; form; god; heart; history; human; idea; jesus; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; moral; nature; new; object; order; philosophy; piety; principle; religion; revelation; science; soul; spirit; theory; things; thought; time; world cache: 38446.txt plain text: 38446.txt item: #140 of 214 id: 38485 author: Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E. title: Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols date: None words: 43657 flesch: 67 summary: Figure 114 is taken from a mediaeval woodcut, lent to me by my friend, Mr. John Newton, to whom I am indebted for the sight of, and the privilege to copy, many other figures. It is not exclusively Egyptian, as it has been found in conjunction with other emblems on an Assyrian obelisc of Phallic form. keywords: assyrian; baal; christian; creator; cross; earth; egyptian; emblem; female; figure; fish; form; god; goddess; greek; hand; head; idea; isis; life; linga; man; meaning; modern; moon; mother; mystic; palm; plate; religion; serpent; signification; stone; sun; symbol; symbolism; temple; time; tree; triad; trinity; union; venus; virgin; vol; woman; word; worship; yoni cache: 38485.txt plain text: 38485.txt item: #141 of 214 id: 38585 author: Anonymous title: Study of Inner Cultivation date: None words: 5631 flesch: 70 summary: When following the Dao of restraining desire, The ten thousand creatures do not cause harm.[Z] ========================================================================== A : altho the modern translation of this symbol is sudden or abrupt (among other things), and is translated different ways by different authors, I have chosen close (as in within reach, accessible) based on the answers given each time this question is asked B : using its here (rather than the) is significant, making the difference between referring to the form of the heart/mind or referring separately to the heart/mind and the form C : this and the next 5 lines could still be talking about the sage, but because it seems to be a different section, it is translated in this fashion D : Simonis claims that the grammatical sense in which one is being used means one-ing creatures, hence knowing (or seeing, sensing, perceiving, etc.) But the phrase that Dao is used four other times, and that Dao will naturally arrive appears below (using different symbols) keywords: = =; dao; form; heart; mind cache: 38585.txt plain text: 38585.txt item: #142 of 214 id: 38600 author: Graves, Kersey title: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ date: None words: 124345 flesch: 67 summary: How the man Christ Jesus came to be worshiped as a God, is pretty clearly indicated by Bishop Horne, who shows that the doctrine of the incarnation was of universal prevalence long before Jesus Christ came into the flesh. And thus this parity of reasoning demonstrates that the very moment you attempt to make Christ God, or any part of the Godhead, you attempt a philosophical impossibility. keywords: age; author; belief; bible; birth; case; chapter; character; chrishna; christ; christian; christianity; conception; crucifixion; dead; death; disciples; divine; doctrine; earth; facts; faith; father; ghost; god; gods; great; heathen; heaven; hindoo; history; holy; human; india; infinite; jesus christ; john; life; man; matt; men; mind; miracles; miraculous; mother; new; origin; parallel; people; person; place; power; proof; religion; savior; science; sin; son; spirit; systems; time; trinity; truth; virgin; work; world; writer; years cache: 38600.txt plain text: 38600.txt item: #143 of 214 id: 38801 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 01 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date: None words: 100757 flesch: 76 summary: Great men do not live alone; they are surrounded by the great; they are the instruments used to accomplish the tendencies of their generation; they fulfill the prophecies of their age. Of that portion which is land not one-eighth has suitable soil and climate to produce great men and women. keywords: believe; bible; blood; book; children; christ; church; country; creed; crime; day; dead; death; devil; doctrine; earth; fact; faith; father; fear; force; ghosts; god; gods; good; hands; heart; heaven; hell; holy; human; idea; infinite; intellectual; law; liberty; life; love; man; matter; men; mind; nature; new; order; paine; people; power; reason; religion; right; science; soul; superstition; things; thought; time; truth; universe; way; woman; world; years cache: 38801.txt plain text: 38801.txt item: #144 of 214 id: 38802 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 02 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date: None words: 96837 flesch: 78 summary: Thou askest naught from man except the things that good men hate--the whip, the chain, the dungeon key. We believe that the love of God to sinful man has found its highest expression in the redemptive work of his Son, who became man, uniting his divine nature with our human nature in one person; who was tempted like other men and yet without sin, and by his humiliation, his holy obedience, his sufferings, his death on the cross, and his resurrection, became a perfect redeemer; whose sacrifice of himself for the sins of the world declares the righteousness of God, and is the sole and sufficient ground of forgiveness and of reconciliation with him_. keywords: account; adam; animals; ark; bible; blood; book; children; christ; christian; church; day; dead; death; earth; egypt; fact; god; gods; good; heaven; human; infinite; jehovah; jews; land; life; light; lord god; love; man; matter; men; mind; miracles; moses; nature; people; pharaoh; place; power; priests; reason; religion; science; sun; testament; things; time; truth; water; way; words; world; years cache: 38802.txt plain text: 38802.txt item: #145 of 214 id: 38803 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 03 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date: None words: 99018 flesch: 77 summary: And he knew that great men and great women are the best things that a nation can produce,--the finest crop a country can possibly raise. Volumes might be written upon the follies and imbecilities of great men. keywords: bible; blood; body; book; brain; burns; children; christ; church; day; days; dead; death; devils; earth; fact; father; fear; genius; god; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; holy; human; infinite; jehovah; john; joy; king; law; liberty; life; lincoln; lives; love; man; matter; men; mind; mother; natural; nature; new; night; people; perfect; philosophy; place; poet; power; priests; read; real; reason; religion; sea; shakespeare; slavery; soul; story; superstition; tell; things; thought; time; truth; voltaire; way; women; words; world; years cache: 38803.txt plain text: 38803.txt item: #146 of 214 id: 38804 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date: None words: 94973 flesch: 78 summary: There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women--of free mothers. FOR thousands of years men and women have been trying to reform the world. keywords: belief; believe; bible; blood; brain; children; christ; church; day; death; devil; earth; evidence; facts; faith; father; fear; force; free; god; gods; good; heart; heaven; hell; holy; human; infinite; jesus; law; life; light; love; man; matter; men; millions; mind; nature; new; people; place; poor; power; priests; reason; religion; sacred; science; superstition; testament; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; women; world; years cache: 38804.txt plain text: 38804.txt item: #147 of 214 id: 38805 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 05 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date: None words: 108042 flesch: 79 summary: The Bible has lived upon the reputations of good men and good women,--men and women who were good notwithstanding the brutality they found 189 upon the inspired page. The labor of such was apparently lost, and they pretty generally received such treatment from him as none but good men would risk a second time, though some of those persons called frequently. keywords: account; answer; bible; book; chapter; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; country; course; day; death; earth; evidence; fact; father; fire; god; good; heaven; human; infidel; infinite; jehovah; jews; king; life; lord; love; man; mary; matter; men; millions; mother; new; opinion; paine; people; power; question; reason; religion; right; second; story; subject; talmage; testament; things; thomas; thousands; time; truth; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 38805.txt plain text: 38805.txt item: #148 of 214 id: 38806 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 06 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date: None words: 166563 flesch: 70 summary: Theologians have the habit of using names instead of arguments--of appealing to some man, great in some direction, to establish their creed; but we all know that no man is great enough to be an authority, except in that particular domain in which he won his eminence; and we all know that great men are not great in all directions. Great men stand face to face. keywords: account; answer; argument; belief; bible; cardinal; catholic; character; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; creed; crime; day; death; divine; divorce; doctrine; earth; evidence; fact; faith; father; god; good; great; heart; heaven; history; human; husband; idea; infinite; ingersoll; jehovah; justice; know; law; liberty; life; love; man; marriage; men; mind; moral; mother; nations; nature; new; opinion; origin; people; place; power; question; race; reason; religion; reply; right; slavery; soul; state; subject; testament; things; thought; time; truth; way; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 38806.txt plain text: 38806.txt item: #149 of 214 id: 38807 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date: None words: 116798 flesch: 77 summary: There are thousands of good men whose society I do not covet. And if rhetoricians, anxious to tear down, anxious to pluck the faith from the young ones who are unable to defend it, come forward with nickel-plated platitudes and commonplaces clothed in second-hand purple and tinsel, and try to tear down the temple, then it is time, I shall not say for good men--for I know so few they make a small battalion--but for good women, to come to the rescue. keywords: answer; believe; bible; book; brain; children; christianity; christians; church; country; day; death; devil; doctrine; earth; fact; fear; force; gentleman; god; good; great; heart; human; idea; infinite; law; liberty; life; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; ministers; nature; new; orthodox; people; poor; power; question; reason; religion; rev; right; suicide; testament; things; thought; thousands; time; truth; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 38807.txt plain text: 38807.txt item: #150 of 214 id: 38808 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews date: None words: 211430 flesch: 78 summary: A good man is not happy so long as he knows that other good men and women suffer for raiment and for food, and have no roof but the sky, no home but the highway. Great men have repeated this falsehood, until ignorance and thoughtlessness believe it. keywords: american; answer; belief; bible; business; care; children; christian; christianity; church; colonel; country; course; creed; crime; day; dead; democratic; doctrine; effect; fact; favor; force; general; god; good; government; heart; hell; hope; human; idea; judgment; justice; kind; labor; law; laws; liberty; life; living; love; man; matter; men; millions; mind; ministers; mistake; money; nation; nature; new; opinion; orthodox; party; people; place; power; president; punishment; question; read; real; reason; regard; religion; republican; result; right; society; state; subject; sunday; things; think; thought; thousands; time; trade; truth; united; use; want; way; wish; women; words; work; world; years; york cache: 38808.txt plain text: 38808.txt item: #151 of 214 id: 38809 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political date: None words: 126536 flesch: 78 summary: If you all did only one business you would become ignorant; but by pursuing all possible avocations that call for taste, genius, calculation, discovery, ingenuity, invention--by having all these industries open to the American people, we will be able to raise great men and great women; and I am for protection, because it will enable us to raise greater men and greater women. Protection protects ingenuity; it protects intelligence; and protection raises sense; and by protection we have greater men, better looking women and healthier children. keywords: american; children; citizens; congress; country; day; democratic; democratic party; dollars; fathers; favor; flag; friends; gold; good; government; grand; hand; honor; human; ingersoll; justice; labor; land; law; liberty; life; love; man; men; millions; money; nation; new; north; party; pay; people; political; power; president; question; republican party; right; silver; slavery; south; speech; stand; states; thing; thought; thousands; time; union; united; united states; vote; want; war; way; white; work; world; years; york cache: 38809.txt plain text: 38809.txt item: #152 of 214 id: 38810 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal date: None words: 215139 flesch: 82 summary: Now, therefore, in consideration of one dollar in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I hereby, sell, assign, and transfer to Albert E. Boone all my said two-thirds interest in the routes in the name of said Boone in the States of Texas, Louisiana Arkansas, Kansas, and Nebraska, and in the name of said Dorsey in the States of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. In reply to yours of July 8th, relating to the Jennings case, I would state that I did not receive the money in manner and form as stated by one M. C. Rerdell, nor was the draft of J. W. Dorsey, on said route 40104, for the quarter named, to get an advance of money for myself or for my own use. keywords: affidavit; bid; bliss; books; boone; brady; business; case; charge; conspiracy; contract; court; davis; day; dollars; evidence; fact; general; gentlemen; good; government; indictment; ingersoll; john; john w.; jury; law; letter; mail; man; matter; miner; money; office; order; page; pay; peck; petitions; point; question; rerdell; right; route; second; service; stephen; testimony; think; time; vaile; w. dorsey; want; way; word cache: 38810.txt plain text: 38810.txt item: #153 of 214 id: 38811 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany date: None words: 165812 flesch: 73 summary: Would he feel that he was under the protection of the laws, shielded like other men by the Constitution? What is real blasphemy? To live on the unpaid labor of other men--that is blasphemy. keywords: account; amendment; believe; bible; blasphemy; book; brain; case; children; christian; church; citizens; congress; constitution; country; court; day; death; earth; fact; god; good; government; heart; human; ignorance; infinite; inspired; intelligence; jews; justice; knows; labor; law; laws; liberty; life; love; man; matter; men; millions; mind; miracles; nation; nature; new; orthodox; paine; people; place; power; purpose; question; race; real; reason; religion; right; science; slavery; soul; state; statute; subject; supreme; testament; things; thought; thousands; time; truth; united; way; women; words; work; world; years cache: 38811.txt plain text: 38811.txt item: #154 of 214 id: 38812 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany date: None words: 112498 flesch: 77 summary: Great men are, after all the instrumentalities of their time. The gods that were first made after the image of man were not made after the pattern of very good men; but they were good men according to the standard of that time, because, as I will show you in a moment, all these things are relative. keywords: bible; book; brain; children; christian; church; country; courage; day; dead; death; fact; favor; fear; friend; genius; god; good; great; hands; having; heart; hope; human; ingersoll; joy; law; laws; liberty; life; lincoln; live; love; man; men; mind; music; nation; nature; new; people; perfect; place; power; question; race; read; reason; religion; republic; right; shall; soul; spain; states; superstition; things; think; thought; time; truth; want; war; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; wrong; years cache: 38812.txt plain text: 38812.txt item: #155 of 214 id: 38813 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes date: None words: 22043 flesch: 55 summary: 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. 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. keywords: address; belief; bible; books; case; children; christ; christianity; church; col; death; devil; evidence; god; good; iii; ingersoll; jehovah; john; justice; law; liberty; life; man; men; miracles; new; orthodox; paine; people; religion; reply; rev; right; science; slavery; speech; story; testament; thomas; tribute; volume; woman; world; york; � ii cache: 38813.txt plain text: 38813.txt item: #156 of 214 id: 39015 author: Sellon, Edward title: Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World date: None words: 42073 flesch: 59 summary: The shape of it is like that of other serpents of the harmless breed. Many serpents are also seen intermixed, the arms and legs of the gods terminating in serpents' tails. keywords: america; body; character; city; country; deity; earth; egg; egypt; egyptian; emblem; father; feet; figure; form; god; goddess; gods; head; human; life; men; mexican; mexico; mounds; mythology; nations; nature; ophiolatreia; origin; people; phallic; phallus; place; power; quetzalcoatl; religion; remains; serpent; serpent worship; snake; stone; sun; symbol; temple; world cache: 39015.txt plain text: 39015.txt item: #157 of 214 id: 39414 author: Anonymous title: The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices date: None words: 42955 flesch: 57 summary: Thus was the supreme deity known by the three distinct names of, Kneph, Phthah, Khem: to these were joined the goddesses Sate, Neith, and Buto; and the number of the eight deities was completed by the addition of Ra, or Amun-Ra, this last, however, was not a distinct god, but a name common to each person of the triad: and, indeed, to all the three names above the name of Amun was constantly prefixed.[9] Phthah corresponds with the Indian Brahma, and the Orphic Phanes, and appears in several other forms. Universal prevalence of the Cross--Mistakes--The Cross not of Christian Origin--Christian Veneration of the Cross--The Roman Ritual--The Cross equally honoured by the Gentile and Christian Worlds--Druidical Crosses--The Copt Oak of Charnwood Forest--Assyrian Crosses in British Museum--Pectoral Crosses--Egyptian Crosses--Greek Cross--St. Andrew's Cross--Planetary Signs and Crosses--Monogram of Christ at Serapis--Cross in India--Pagodas in form of Crosses--Mariette Bey's Discovery--Buddhist and Roman Crosses--Chinese Crosses--Kampschatkan Crosses--American Crosses--Cross among the Red Indians--The Royal Commentaries of Peru--Mexican Ideas relative to the Cross--The Spaniards in America--Sign of the Cross--Cross as an Amulet--Hot-cross Buns--Tertullian on the Use of the Cross._ keywords: aaron; brahma; character; christian; cross; crosses; deceased; deity; doctrine; earth; egypt; egyptian; emblem; fact; female; figure; fire; form; god; gods; hand; holy; idea; india; jupiter; life; man; meaning; nature; origin; people; phallic; place; power; religion; second; siva; sun; symbol; temple; thee; things; time; tree; triad; trinity; water; women; world; worship; years cache: 39414.txt plain text: 39414.txt item: #158 of 214 id: 39455 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago date: None words: 9284 flesch: 75 summary: He is classed with such men as Sir Oliver Lodge and Lord Kelvin, who though scientists still believe in the supernatural, and by their example have made such a belief respectable. How fortunate it would have been for man had the Deity given that as his first and best thought to the world! keywords: belief; existence; god; health; james; life; man; men; mind; prof; professor; truth; world cache: 39455.txt plain text: 39455.txt item: #159 of 214 id: 39511 author: Leuba, James H. (James Henry) title: The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion date: None words: 20187 flesch: 60 summary: Although the hypothesis that gods and Religion are the consequence of the recognition of the failure of Magic, must be rejected, it does not follow that two modes of activity in the service of common purposes, as are Magic and early Religion, do not act upon each other in many ways. The adjectives _passive_ and _active_ might be used to separate amorphous from organised Religion, _i.e._ keywords: animals; behaviour; beings; belief; fear; frazer; ghosts; gods; idea; instance; life; magic; man; men; mind; nature; order; origin; power; relation; religion; savage; science; thought cache: 39511.txt plain text: 39511.txt item: #160 of 214 id: 40211 author: Carlile, Richard title: Church Reform The Only Means to That End, Stated in a Letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury date: None words: 24768 flesch: 59 summary: Repentance and enquiry are the pillars and foundations of that Church; without repentance and enquiry there can be no Church of Christ; and I ask, confidently ask, with the assurance that a true answer must be in the negative,--has anything calling itself a Christian Church in Europe, established by law, or dissenting from such an establishment, anything to do with the two principles of repentance and proving, the one meaning reflection by animadversion, the other a trial by outward tests of that reflection? This, Sir, is a true picture or effigies of the moral Trinity of the Christian Church, which you will find to be a key to every mysterious sentence of the Bible; and I ask you seriously, as between man and man, is any thing of this kind known or practised in the present Church? Are not the ministers of that Church afraid of every new discovery in science? keywords: christ; christian; church; dissent; god; good; human; knowledge; man; mind; moral; mystery; people; power; present; reform; religion; revelation; spirit; state; subject; time cache: 40211.txt plain text: 40211.txt item: #161 of 214 id: 40770 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion date: None words: 39286 flesch: 61 summary: Such men have always began by falsely pretending to have an intimate commerce with God, in order to prove which, they have performed wonders that they attribute to the Being by whom they say they were commissioned. Slave to no Sect, who takes no private read, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end in love of God, and love of Man. keywords: christian; church; conduct; death; earth; god; good; heaven; jews; love; mankind; means; men; miracles; morality; nations; nature; opinions; people; power; priests; reason; religion; society; things; time; truth; virtue; world cache: 40770.txt plain text: 40770.txt item: #162 of 214 id: 40812 author: Wilson, Thomas title: The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times date: None words: 105126 flesch: 77 summary: | Von | Dr. Julius Nan, in München. | Free Masonry | keywords: age; america; angles; arms; art; author; bronze; bureau; cat; center; ceramic; circle; city; coins; copper; cotta; county; cross; crosses; decoration; depth; design; dots; ends; ethnology; europe; evidence; feet; fig; figs; figure; form; god; goodyear; grammar; greek; greek cross; human; ilios; illustration; indians; left; lines; lotus; migration; mound; museum; national; new; north; objects; ogee swastika; origin; ornament; paper; pottery; prehistoric; report; right; schliemann; second; shell; shows; sign; size; specimens; spindle; spiral; square; stone; style; sun; swastika; swastika cross; swastika sign; symbol; terra; times; triskelion; vase; vol; waring; whorl; | | cache: 40812.txt plain text: 40812.txt item: #163 of 214 id: 40978 author: Francis, Samuel W. (Samuel Ward) title: Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff date: None words: 30770 flesch: 66 summary: ver. 16, there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord, on account of the tres pass against the Lord, when he ordered thus, Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him; but all the women children that hath not known man by lying with him, keep for yourselves. And in like manner, you refer to other books frequently quoted as authorities in the Bible. keywords: author; bible; book; chap; children; christ; daniel; god; history; israel; jews; joshua; like; lord; man; men; moses; nations; paine; passage; people; priests; prophecy; prove; reason; sun; time; ver; weeks; work; world; years cache: 40978.txt plain text: 40978.txt item: #164 of 214 id: 40979 author: Anonymous title: A Letter to Sir Samuel Shepherd, Knt., His Majesty's Attorney General Upon the Subject of His Prosecutions of Richard Carlile, for Publishing Paine's Age of Reason date: None words: 8317 flesch: 58 summary: The legislative bodies, I repeat, and their accomplices, are the real blaspheming party, who have given, as they testify by their concealing practices, a bad and slanderous character to the Almighty, and whose guilt is aggravated by their endeavours to hinder other men from vindicating him from their foul aspersions. We have such men at present in office, of greatest power and trust, who are of such principles that they would countenance and patronize no religion but what suited their purpose, and promoted their tyranny and oppressive objects and designs. keywords: attorney; general; good; jesus; jury; men; priests; question; religion; society; truth; world cache: 40979.txt plain text: 40979.txt item: #165 of 214 id: 40980 author: Anonymous title: The Life of David; Or, The History of the Man After God's Own Heart date: None words: 21370 flesch: 67 summary: A reverence for the memory of a worthy Prince, has occasioned the world's being troubled with a new history of king David, (which, otherwise might not have appeared) merely to shew how the memory of the British monarch is affected by the comparison. Had the flattering sycophants of king David been satisfied with applying to him this common-place appellation, rational men, who form their conclusions from the result of general experience, would have inferred only that he had been one of the numerous herd of bad princes who have oppressed mankind, and there would have been nothing peculiar either in the fact or the inference. keywords: absalom; army; city; david; father; general; god; history; joab; king; life; lord; man; manner; men; people; present; sam; samuel; saul; son; thou; time; ver cache: 40980.txt plain text: 40980.txt item: #166 of 214 id: 40981 author: Nicholson, William title: The Doubts of Infidels Or, Queries Relative to Scriptural Inconsistencies & Contradictions date: None words: 9160 flesch: 66 summary: Greatrix published a pamphlet, to which the attestations of Boyle, Wilkins, Cud-worth, and many other great men were affixed. The world is divided into two classes of men...the one have understanding but no religion; the other have religion but no understanding. keywords: act; book; christ; david; enemies; god; holy; infidels; lord; lordships; man; men; people; time cache: 40981.txt plain text: 40981.txt item: #167 of 214 id: 40982 author: Annet, Peter title: The Miraculous Conception Or, The Divinity of Jesus Christ Considered as the Foundation of the Christian Religion date: None words: 5148 flesch: 79 summary: In Matthew, Joseph is made the important personage, while poor Mary seems to have been ignorant of all that was passing; in Luke she is made the important personage, and poor Joseph is now as ignorant as Mary was according to the former relation. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: _when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. keywords: angel; child; god; joseph; lord; mary cache: 40982.txt plain text: 40982.txt item: #168 of 214 id: 40983 author: Anonymous title: Thoughts on the Christian Religion, by a Deist To Which Are Added, a Few Ideas on Miraculous Conversion, and Religion in General, by a Theophilanthropist date: None words: 8429 flesch: 54 summary: They may tell us all this if they choose, and likewise, that this is quite another thing, to an express command from God himself to one set of human beings to annihilate another.--Thus we refute it all: such arguments are built on _human reason_, which it behoves every pious Christian to distrust! made use of no other weapon but _human reason_; who ridiculed _Faith_ as a mere _chimera_; and maintained, that a strict observance of _moral virtue_ constituted the only worship that was in _reality_ pleasing to the Deity. keywords: bible; christian; doctrine; god; good; human; mankind; nature; reason; religion; system cache: 40983.txt plain text: 40983.txt item: #169 of 214 id: 40984 author: Anonymous title: Christian Mystery: A Chinese Tale, Found in the Portfolio of a Portuguese Friar date: None words: 2169 flesch: 84 summary: O, Sir, these are mysteries which God himself has revealed to men, to the end that they might understand nothing. The father was the man after God's own heart, and the son was the wisest of men. keywords: god; people; son cache: 40984.txt plain text: 40984.txt item: #170 of 214 id: 41450 author: Various title: The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. date: None words: 344 flesch: 73 summary: Then double-click on 41450-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named files to any name you wish, such as FREETHINKERS. This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. keywords: index cache: 41450.txt plain text: 41450.txt item: #171 of 214 id: 41935 author: Thorne, Guy title: The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer date: None words: 23746 flesch: 89 summary: Alecto and Tisiphone, the Furies, circled round Ulysses, and Megeara flew through the dark to her sisters. AT MANCHESTER CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 9 Brief Account of Principal Characters in the Odyssey 13 The First Episode--How They blinded the Son of Poseidon 21 The Second Episode--The Adventure of the Palace in the Wood 39 The Third Episode--How Ulysses walked in Hell, and of the Adventure of the Sirens and Scylla 48 The Fourth Episode--How Ulysses lost his Merry Men and came a Waif to Calypso with the Shining Hair 63 The Last Episode--How the King came Home again after the Long Years 80 keywords: cave; day; eyes; face; god; goddess; gods; hand; heart; home; island; ithaca; king; like; man; men; night; palace; penelope; sea; ship; son; time; ulysses; wind; years; zeus cache: 41935.txt plain text: 41935.txt item: #172 of 214 id: 42466 author: Dawson, John William, Sir title: Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief date: None words: 41347 flesch: 54 summary: It will be observed that in the above extract, under the formula the causes which affected the development of the five-fingered foot ... must certainly be found, all that other men would regard as demanding proof is quietly assumed, and the animal grows before our eyes from a fish to a reptile as under the wand of a conjurer. In some places there are in Haeckel's book touches of a grim humor which are not without interest, as showing the subjective side of the monistic theory and illustrating the attitude of its professors to things held sacred by other men. keywords: age; agnostic; animals; development; evidence; evolution; existence; facts; force; forms; god; haeckel; law; laws; life; man; matter; men; nature; new; origin; palã; period; power; present; reason; science; species; things; time; universe; | | cache: 42466.txt plain text: 42466.txt item: #173 of 214 id: 42747 author: Terry, Milton Spenser title: The Shinto Cult: A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan date: None words: 19156 flesch: 64 summary: It is noteworthy that we find no bloody sacrificial rites in Shinto worship, in which one life, animal or human, was made a vicarious substitute for a guilty soul. The temple which, though less venerated than those at Isè, is the shrine-center of the more ancient Shinto cult, is the one at Kitzuki, in the ancient province of Idzumo. keywords: buddhism; cult; deities; gods; heaven; heavenly; japan; japanese; land; life; mikado; new; people; religion; ritual; shinto; society; temples; things; transactions; way; world; worship cache: 42747.txt plain text: 42747.txt item: #174 of 214 id: 43550 author: Graves, Lydia M. title: The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations date: None words: 167248 flesch: 69 summary: And as the primitive or primordial Bible God Jehovah is represented as possessing, as we have already shown, a comprehensible body, eyes, nose, mouth, hands, arms, legs, feet, bowels, &c., and as being a jealous, angry, revengeful, fighting God (the God of battles), and inferior in several respects to some of the men who worshiped him, such worship is consequently idolatry. I trust that other men... have not the anguish of spirit which I have. keywords: act; age; belief; bible; book; case; chapter; character; christian; christian bible; church; churches; day; death; divine; doctrine; earth; errors; evil; fact; faith; father; find; gen; god; gods; good; heathen; heaven; history; holy; human; iii; infinite; jehovah; jews; john; language; law; life; light; lord; man; matt; men; mind; moral; moses; nation; nature; new; number; order; paul; people; place; present; question; reason; religion; respect; revelation; science; sense; set; sin; spirit; state; system; thing; time; truth; way; work; world; writers; wrong; years cache: 43550.txt plain text: 43550.txt item: #175 of 214 id: 43681 author: Crooke, William title: The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 106331 flesch: 74 summary: The kalsa or water jar is always placed near the pole of the marriage shed, and the use of these beehive-shaped vessels at village shrines is found all along the hills of Central India. As in many other places the cocoa-nut represents the head of a human victim, which in olden times was the proper offering. keywords: baiga; belief; black; blood; body; bombay; brâhman; campbell; case; central; child; children; class; common; connection; custom; day; dead; death; deities; deity; demon; devî; disease; district; earth; evil; family; father; fire; folk; form; ganges; gazetteer; ghost; goat; god; goddess; godling; gods; head; hill; hindu; holy; honour; house; idea; iii; image; india; influence; instances; legend; life; little; lore; man; marriage; milk; mirzapur; moon; mother; night; north; northern; notes; offerings; panjâb; people; person; place; priest; principle; provinces; queries; races; rain; rice; rite; river; round; râja; sacred; sacrifice; saint; shrine; son; soul; spirits; stone; story; sun; tales; temple; time; tomb; tree; tribes; village; water; way; western; wife; women; world; worship cache: 43681.txt plain text: 43681.txt item: #176 of 214 id: 43682 author: Crooke, William title: The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 119560 flesch: 75 summary: [236] He shows that to the savage in general the world is animate and trees are no exception to the rule; he thinks they have souls like his own and treats them accordingly; they are supposed to feel injuries done to them; the souls of the dead sometimes animate them; the tree is regarded sometimes as the body, sometimes as the home of the tree spirit; trees and tree spirits give rain and sunshine; they cause the crops to grow; the tree spirit makes the herds to multiply and blesses women with offspring; the tree spirit is often conceived and represented as detached from the tree and even as embodied in living men and women. Many such trees appear in the Indian folk-tales. keywords: animal; belief; bengal; black; blood; body; bombay; bride; brâhman; campbell; case; cattle; ceremony; charm; child; children; cit; corpse; cow; custom; dalton; day; days; dead; death; disease; dog; evil; eye; family; fire; folk; food; form; gazetteer; ghost; god; gods; good; grain; hair; hand; head; hindu; history; home; house; human; idea; iii; india; influence; instances; kind; king; leaves; legend; life; loc; london; lore; magic; man; marriage; milk; night; north; northern; notes; panjâb; people; person; piece; place; power; provinces; queries; races; respect; rice; rite; round; râja; sacred; sacrifice; serpent; snake; spirit; sqq; stone; tales; tawney; temple; tiger; time; tree; tribes; village; vishnu; vols; water; way; wife; witch; witches; women; wood; world; worship; year cache: 43682.txt plain text: 43682.txt item: #177 of 214 id: 43728 author: Moss, Arthur B. title: Natural Man date: None words: 5455 flesch: 68 summary: Haeckel says (Pedigree of Man, p. 36): If we can only prove the general truth of the Darwinian theory, our idea of the origin of man from lower vertebrata follows of necessity, and we are not obliged to give a special proof as to this latter view if the general proposition is well established. For centuries man groped about in the dark. keywords: earth; god; life; man; men; nature; people; theory; world cache: 43728.txt plain text: 43728.txt item: #178 of 214 id: 45053 author: Phelips, Vivian title: The Churches and Modern Thought An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour date: None words: 128749 flesch: 62 summary: [137] We must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man, with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men, but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect, which has penetrated into the movement and constitution of the solar system--with all these exalted powers--man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. So far we have seen that the opponents of the Universal theory presume in their argument that devil-worship has no relation to true god-worship, and we may note that it never even entered the heads of such men as Darwin and Lubbock that it would ever be held that these are essentially identical. keywords: account; ancient; animal; argument; belief; bible; birth; bishop; book; case; century; chapter; character; children; christian; christianity; church; criticism; day; days; death; divine; doctrine; earth; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; faith; fall; form; god; good; gospels; history; human; idea; instinct; jesus; knowledge; life; like; lord; man; matter; means; men; mind; miracles; modern; moral; morality; nature; new; opinion; origin; people; place; power; present; professor; question; read; reason; religion; remarks; resurrection; rev; revelation; science; sense; study; subject; sun; testament; theory; things; thought; time; truth; virgin; way; woman; words; work; world; worship; years cache: 45053.txt plain text: 45053.txt item: #179 of 214 id: 45068 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated date: None words: 57315 flesch: 70 summary: There were those, then, in the early church who denied the historicity, not of a _title_,--for what meaning would there be in denying that a _title_ is come in the flesh,--but of a person, known as _Jesus Christ. There were many anointed kings, who are historical, and the question is, Is Jesus Christ--or Jesus the Anointed--also historical? keywords: adler; answer; argument; christian; christianity; church; cross; day; dead; death; evidence; existence; god; good; gospel jesus; gospels; heaven; history; human; illustration; jesus; jesus christ; jesus story; life; man; men; mind; mother; myth; new; pagan; paul; people; place; question; reason; religion; science; son; sun; tell; things; time; truth; words; world; years cache: 45068.txt plain text: 45068.txt item: #180 of 214 id: 45414 author: None title: A Handbook of Freethought Containing in Condensed and Systematized Form a Vast Amount of Evidence Against the Superstitious Doctrines of Christianity date: None words: 129791 flesch: 76 summary: They are not in trouble as other men.... Theodore Parker, John Wesley, Jeremy Taylor, Coleridge, Lamartine, Agassiz, and hosts of other men well known to fame, taught that animals as well as men, had immortal souls. keywords: adam; believe; bible; body; book; cause; children; christ; christian; church; day; days; death; devil; disciples; doctrine; earth; evidence; existence; fact; father; gen; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; history; holy; human; infinite; jesus; john; know; knowledge; law; life; lord; lord god; luke; man; mark; mat; matter; men; mind; miracles; nature; new; people; place; power; reason; religion; revelation; right; sabbath; sepulcher; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; universe; unto; wife; wine; woman; work; world; years cache: 45414.txt plain text: 45414.txt item: #181 of 214 id: 45483 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: The Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist date: None words: 28234 flesch: 68 summary: Where there is an infallible faith there can be no liberty of thought, and without liberty of thought there is no mind, and without mind man is not different from the brute. All we wish is to make good men and women out of them, they said. keywords: christian; christianity; church; desire; ethical; faith; god; good; hand; help; jesus; life; man; men; mind; movement; new; people; reason; religion; right; science; society; teacher; thought; time; truth; way; world; years cache: 45483.txt plain text: 45483.txt item: #182 of 214 id: 45823 author: Newman, Charles Robert title: Essays in Rationalism date: None words: 15505 flesch: 54 summary: First principles must, accordingly, be of two kinds. Reason perceives that these are primary facts or first principles, neither admitting nor requiring any proof, testified by consciousness, and self-evidently verified on that testimony. keywords: brother; charles; conscience; experience; having; locke; mind; newman; philosophy; principles; public; question; reason; truth; way; word cache: 45823.txt plain text: 45823.txt item: #183 of 214 id: 45850 author: Flint, Robert title: Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 date: None words: 108445 flesch: 57 summary: I. Is belief in God a reasonable belief, or is it not? And religion includes more even than an apprehension of God supplemented by feeling--than the love or fear of God based on knowledge. keywords: absolute; argument; belief; cause; character; conscience; design; divine; earth; end; evidence; existence; fact; faith; feeling; form; general; god; good; history; human; idea; inference; infinite; intelligence; knowledge; law; laws; life; light; love; man; matter; means; mind; natural; nature; order; perfect; power; present; principle; proof; question; reason; religion; science; self; sense; system; theism; theory; things; thought; time; truth; universe; view; wisdom; work; world cache: 45850.txt plain text: 45850.txt item: #184 of 214 id: 46024 author: Beyer, H. Otley (Henry Otley) title: Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines date: None words: 16551 flesch: 77 summary: Having provided for the comfort of his sister, Wígan started out to find if there were not other people left alive in the Earth World. and she added that on the following day the mother should send many people to collect the dead game which they had left in the lonely hut of her son. keywords: beliefs; brother; búgan; day; earth; fire; house; ifugao; men; myths; people; place; rice; said; sky; son; thou; water; world cache: 46024.txt plain text: 46024.txt item: #185 of 214 id: 46063 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) date: None words: 228318 flesch: 79 summary: Figures in italics preceded by _C._ refer to sections of the Commentary and incidentally to the corresponding sections in the Text. Figures in italics preceded by _C._ refer to sections of the Commentary and incidentally to the corresponding sections in the Text. keywords: 298; = =; achilles; adonis; agamemnon; age; apollo; ariadne; arms; bacchus; balder; battle; baumeister; beauty; blood; body; bore; brother; chapter; chariot; children; city; commentary; country; course; cupid; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; death; deep; diana; divinities; earth; end; english; eyes; face; fair; fall; family; fate; father; feet; fell; fig; fire; following; form; giant; goddess; gods; golden; good; greece; greek; hades; half; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; hector; helen; hercules; hero; heroes; high; home; house; human; husband; iii; iliad; illustration; island; jove; juno; jupiter; king; land; lang; latin; lay; left; life; loki; london; lord; love; maiden; man; marble; mars; means; men; mercury; milton; minerva; moon; morris; mother; mount; mountain; music; mythology; myths; nature; neptune; new; night; norse; nymphs; odyssey; origin; orpheus; ovid; painting; pan; paradise; paris; people; perseus; place; poem; poetry; poets; power; prometheus; proserpine; psyche; queen; race; return; ring; river; roman; rome; round; sacred; saw; sculpture; sea; set; shakespeare; siegfried; sister; sleep; son; song; sons; spear; spring; stars; statue; stories; story; sun; sword; table; temple; text; thebes; thee; theseus; things; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; translation; tree; trojan; troy; ulysses; vase; venus; vulcan; war; water; way; white; wife; wind; women; words; work; world; years; young; youth; zeus; | +; | =; | |; æneas cache: 46063.txt plain text: 46063.txt item: #186 of 214 id: 46118 author: Craigie, William A. (William Alexander), Sir title: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia date: None words: 16737 flesch: 67 summary: Hence the verb _blóta_, which was the distinctive word for worshipping the heathen gods, very frequently (if not usually) implies the accompaniment of sacrifice; and the noun _blót_ similarly means either the act of worship or that of sacrifice. By the older constitution of Iceland the number of recognised _goðar_ was thirty-nine, distributed pretty equally in the various parts of the island. keywords: account; evidence; frey; gods; heathen; iceland; king; men; names; norway; odin; place; religion; sacrifice; saga; scandinavian; sweden; temple; thor; worship cache: 46118.txt plain text: 46118.txt item: #187 of 214 id: 46212 author: Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay) title: The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought date: None words: 38611 flesch: 74 summary: In this figure, _fire_ is to accomplish what _salt_ performs; the work of _salt_ is to be done by _fire_. Arabian Nights, reference to, 64. Arabs: regard for salt covenant among, 29; not accustomed to put salt on table, 29 f.; rite of bread and salt among, 31; John Macgregor taken prisoner by, 32 f.; swearing by salt of, 54; milk sometimes accepted as substitute for salt by, 62; honesty of, 111 f., 166. keywords: bible; blood; blood covenant; bread; covenant; covenanting; customs; death; father; fire; flesh; god; idea; life; light; lord; loving; man; means; mind; new; oriental; people; reference; sacrifice; salt; salt covenant; sharing; table; thought; threshold; union; use; water; wine; words; world cache: 46212.txt plain text: 46212.txt item: #188 of 214 id: 46531 author: Valmiki title: The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) date: None words: 231546 flesch: 77 summary: Then were the clusters of stars seen spangled in the etherial sphere under the canopy of heaven, and appeared as handfuls of _lájas_ or fried rice scattered by the hands of celestial maiden on the auspicious occasion. Therefore whatever comes from these five elements, is but transitory, but owing to the firm belief on _ego_, we enjoy a firm faith for the same. keywords: action; acts; air; beings; bodies; body; brahma; breath; cause; chapter; chúdálá; consciousness; course; creation; day; death; desire; divine; dream; earth; egoism; end; entity; error; essence; existence; fire; flowers; forest; form; future; god; gods; good; having; heart; heaven; holy; human; i.e.; ignorance; intellect; intellectual; intelligence; knowledge; kumbha; liberation; life; light; living; lord; lotus; man; manner; means; meditation; men; mind; moon; mountain; nature; objects; ocean; organs; pain; person; place; pleasure; power; present; prince; quiet; reality; remains; rest; rise; rising; ráma; sage; sanskrit; sea; self; sense; sikhidhwaja; siva; sky; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; stone; subject; sun; supreme; thee; things; thought; thy; time; tree; truth; understanding; unity; universe; vasishtha; view; want; water; waves; way; wise; words; world; yoga cache: 46531.txt plain text: 46531.txt item: #189 of 214 id: 46986 author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title: The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence date: None words: 125779 flesch: 72 summary: Strauss in his work, one of the masterpieces of Freethought literature, endeavors to prove, and proves to the satisfaction of a majority of his readers, that Jesus Christ is a historical myth. Gradually the title took the place of the name, so that Jesus, Jesus Christ, and Christ became interchangeable terms--synonyms. keywords: believe; bible; birth; body; christ; christian; christianity; church; crucifixion; david; day; days; dead; death; disciples; earth; father; following; galilee; god; gods; gospel; heaven; herod; history; holy; iii; james; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; joseph; josephus; law; life; lord; luke; man; mark; mary; matthew; men; messiah; ministry; miracles; mother; new; old; passage; paul; people; peter; place; religion; resurrection; roman; second; son; sun; synoptics; temple; testament; things; thou; thy; time; unto; virgin; vol; words; world; worship; xiv; years cache: 46986.txt plain text: 46986.txt item: #190 of 214 id: 47127 author: Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron title: Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations date: None words: 166327 flesch: 64 summary: Why it was that harmony was not attained seems to be disclosed, if we read the passage in our sense and with a certain transposition of parts, at p. 3--There were at Athens then, as there have been at all times and in all countries, men who had no sense for the miraculous and supernatural, and who, without having the moral courage to deny altogether what they could not bring themselves to believe, endeavoured to find some plausible explanation _by which the sacred legends_ which _tradition_ had _handed down to them_, and which had been _hallowed_ by _religious observances_, and sanctioned by the authority of the law, might be brought _into harmony with_ [119] The most favourable review of Mr B. Gould's work which I have seen says:--In tracing the origin and development of religious belief, the object of Mr Baring Gould is to establish the foundation of _Christian_ doctrine on the nature, the intuitions, and the reason of man, _rather than upon traditionary dogmas_, historical documents, or written inspirations. keywords: account; adam; age; america; antiquity; argument; ark; bacchus; belief; bryant; bull; bunsen; captain; case; catlin; ceremonies; certain; chapter; chinese; chronology; civilisation; colonel; commencement; compare; connection; creation; custom; cycle; day; declaration; deity; deluge; des; deucalion; divine; doubt; dynasty; earth; egypt; egyptian; evidence; evil; existence; fact; families; family; father; fire; fish; following; form; general; generations; god; gods; good; greece; greek; ground; hand; happiness; head; history; human; i. p.; i.e.; idea; iii; indians; infra; instance; john; king; knowledge; law; laws; legend; les; life; lord; lubbock; macdonell; maine; man; mankind; manner; matter; max; means; men; mythology; müller; nations; nature; new; noah; opinion; order; origin; passage; people; period; place; point; power; present; question; race; rawlinson; reason; reference; religion; right; roman; saturn; science; second; sense; sir; society; spirit; state; stone; subject; sun; supra; system; testimony; theory; things; time; tradition; tribes; truth; universal; vide; view; war; water; way; white; words; work; world; worship; years cache: 47127.txt plain text: 47127.txt item: #191 of 214 id: 47314 author: Jackson, William title: The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day date: None words: 163799 flesch: 62 summary: Let something be seen by the impressible Power, but not apprehended as an object of _common_ perception. * * We look upon the starry heavens and say, _as_ man creates within his own soul, and gives to airy nothing a thought, a name, a purpose, and a reality, _so_ keywords: account; action; analogy; animal; answer; argument; bacon; belief; body; book; causation; cause; chapter; conception; conclusion; conditions; consciousness; course; day; death; design; difference; difficulties; divine; doubt; earth; effect; end; essay; evidence; example; existence; experience; eye; fact; final; following; force; form; function; general; god; good; great; hand; history; human; hume; idea; individual; intelligence; kind; know; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; light; living; look; man; mankind; manner; material; matter; means; men; mill; mind; modern; moral; nature; necessity; new; note; objects; order; paley; parts; personal; phenomena; philosophy; place; point; power; present; principles; process; professor; purpose; question; reader; reason; reasoning; relation; religion; science; second; self; sense; series; soul; spencer; spirit; subject; supreme; system; theology; theory; things; thought; time; truth; universe; view; way; words; work; world; writer cache: 47314.txt plain text: 47314.txt item: #192 of 214 id: 48589 author: Kusel, Emil Edward title: Humanitarian Philosophy, 4th Edition date: None words: 8193 flesch: 75 summary: They should do God's will one earth as it is in Heaven, absolutely abstaining from the fleshpots of Egypt, thereby discouraging the blotting out of animal life, proving conclusively by their lives that their God is just and kind and merciful. Get yourself in touch with the Infinite and you will see that the taking of animal life for food is a greater sin than smoking, drinking or satisfying animal desires. keywords: animal; bible; eating; flesh; god; killing; life; man; philosophy; right; slaughter cache: 48589.txt plain text: 48589.txt item: #193 of 214 id: 4925 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: The Age of Fable date: None words: 143880 flesch: 73 summary: Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods by night, for the gloom and loneliness of such scenes dispose the mind to superstitious fears. On that fatal night when the wooden horse disgorged its contents of armed men, and the capture and conflagration of the city were the result, Aeneas made his escape from the scene of destruction, with his father, and his wife, and young son. keywords: achilles; aeneas; age; air; apollo; arms; arthur; beauty; blood; body; brother; cause; chapter; chariot; chief; city; country; daughter; day; dead; death; diana; earth; eyes; face; fall; fate; father; feet; fire; following; form; giant; goddess; gods; gold; good; greece; greeks; hand; head; heaven; hector; hercules; hero; horse; human; husband; island; juno; jupiter; king; lay; left; life; loki; love; man; men; milton; minerva; monster; mother; mountain; mythology; near; neptune; new; night; nymphs; oracle; people; place; poet; power; psyche; queen; race; rest; return; river; round; sacred; saw; sea; set; shore; slain; sleep; son; story; sun; sword; temple; thee; theseus; things; thor; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; trojan; troy; ulysses; venus; war; water; way; wife; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 4925.txt plain text: 4925.txt item: #194 of 214 id: 4928 author: Bulfinch, Thomas title: Bulfinch's Mythology date: None words: 332154 flesch: 76 summary: Then King Arthur saluted her, and demanded of her wherefore she made such lamentation; to whom she answered: Sir knight, speak low, for yonder is a devil, and if he hear thee speak, he will come and destroy thee. Sir knight, they said, thou must understand thou art our prisoner; and we know thee well, that thou art Sir Launcelot of the Lake, King Ban's son, and that thou art the noblest knight living. keywords: achilles; aeneas; age; angelica; apollo; armor; arms; army; arthur; astolpho; battle; beautiful; beauty; blood; blow; body; bore; bradamante; brother; castle; cause; chapter; charlemagne; chief; city; combat; come; country; course; court; damsel; daughter; day; days; dead; death; earth; emperor; enemy; eyes; face; fair; fall; fate; father; feet; fire; foot; forest; form; fountain; france; friends; gawain; geraint; giant; goddess; gods; gold; golden; good; great; guenever; hall; hand; head; heart; heaven; hector; hercules; hero; high; honor; horse; huon; husband; island; isoude; jupiter; kay; king; king arthur; knight; know; lady; lay; leave; left; length; life; little; lord; love; maiden; man; means; meet; men; merlin; moment; monster; mother; near; new; ogier; orlando; owain; people; perceval; place; power; prince; queen; rest; return; rinaldo; ring; river; rock; rogero; rose; round; saw; sea; set; shield; shore; sight; sir; sir gawain; sir launcelot; sir tristram; sister; slain; sleep; son; story; strength; sun; sword; table; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; tristram; ulysses; unto; venus; voice; war; water; way; white; wife; wood; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 4928.txt plain text: 4928.txt item: #195 of 214 id: 505 author: White, Andrew Dickson title: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom date: None words: 328629 flesch: 56 summary: See Bertand, Fondateurs de l'Astronomie moderne, p. 57. See Apologia Tychonis in Kepler's Opera Omnia, Frisch's edition, vol. keywords: account; adam; ages; almighty; america; animals; archbishop; argument; article; attempt; augustine; authorities; authority; beginning; belief; bible; bishop; bodies; body; book; case; catholic; centuries; century; chap; chapter; christian; christianity; church; city; civilization; comets; copernicus; creation; darwin; day; days; dead; death; deluge; des; development; discoveries; discovery; disease; divine; doctrine; early; earth; edition; effect; efforts; egypt; egyptian; eighteenth; eminent; england; english; europe; evidence; evil; evolution; examples; existence; fact; faith; father; field; following; form; france; french; galileo; general; genesis; geology; germany; giving; god; good; great; growth; hand; heaven; hebrew; high; histoire; history; holy; human; idea; iii; implements; influence; interest; interpretation; jews; john; knowledge; language; later; law; legends; letters; lib; life; light; literature; london; lot; luther; magic; main; making; man; mass; matter; means; medicine; men; method; middle; mind; miracles; modern; moses; myths; natural; nature; near; new; nineteenth; note; number; opinion; opposition; order; origin; orthodox; paris; passage; people; period; place; point; pope; possessed; possession; power; present; professor; protestant; public; question; reasoning; religion; remains; result; rev; roman; rome; sacred; salt; satan; saw; scholars; science; scripture; sea; second; seq; series; seventeenth; showing; simple; sort; spirit; statement; statue; stone; striking; strong; struggle; study; subject; sun; sundry; system; testament; text; theologians; theological; theology; theory; things; thinking; thomas; thought; time; translation; truth; universe; university; use; view; vol; way; wife; witchcraft; words; work; world; xavier; years; york cache: 505.txt plain text: 505.txt item: #196 of 214 id: 50534 author: None title: The Three Impostors date: None words: 28885 flesch: 62 summary: Although this is apparent enough we will attempt to explain it more at length, by inquiring, if there is any evidence that the Prophets and Apostles were differently constituted from other men. He will acknowledge that I am quite prepared to overturn his arguments, when I inform him that I have read this celebrated little work, and that I have it in my library. keywords: account; author; believe; body; book; chap; christ; day; death; deity; divinity; existence; god; good; impostors; jesus; law; mahomet; man; mankind; men; moses; nature; opinions; order; people; religion; soul; spirits; subject; time; truth; way; work; world cache: 50534.txt plain text: 50534.txt item: #197 of 214 id: 50715 author: None title: De Tribus Impostoribus, A. D. 1230: The Three Impostors Translated (with notes and comments) from a French manuscript of the work written in the year 1716, with a dissertation on the original treatise and a bibliography of the various editions date: None words: 40535 flesch: 67 summary: But for mind, it must be that God favored them more than other men, for they claimed an understanding more brilliant than others. The matter is self-evident, but to make it more clear, let us see if they are differently constituted than other men. keywords: author; body; book; christ; death; edition; enemies; following; frederick; god; gods; good; iii; jesus; latin; law; life; mahomet; man; manuscript; matter; men; moses; nature; new; order; people; place; power; reason; religion; soul; spirit; testimony; things; time; title; treatise; tribus; truth; world; worship cache: 50715.txt plain text: 50715.txt item: #198 of 214 id: 51793 author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title: A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes date: None words: 240718 flesch: 67 summary: cp. Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, Eng. tr. p. 120); and when we note these data, and further the plain fact that Samson is a solar myth, being a personage Evemerized from Samas, the Sun-God, we are prepared to find further traces of Evemeristic redaction in the Hebrew books. Eng. tr. p. 84). keywords: account; age; ages; ancient; anti; aristotle; art; authority; b.c; belief; bishop; book; calvin; case; catholic; centuries; century; certain; character; christian; christianity; church; cited; civilization; clergy; common; conception; conditions; course; creed; criticism; culture; current; d. p.; d. pp; day; death; deity; des; development; doctrine; doubt; early; effect; egypt; end; eng; england; english; etc; europe; fact; faith; force; france; freethinking; freethought; french; general; gesch; god; gods; good; great; greece; greek; ground; hand; having; heresy; hist; history; human; idea; iii; influence; inquisition; intellectual; introd; italian; italy; jews; john; kind; king; knowledge; later; latin; law; lea; life; literature; luther; making; man; matter; men; meyer; middle; mind; modern; mosheim; movement; müller; nature; new; non; note; number; order; original; orthodox; pagan; people; period; persecution; philosophy; place; plato; point; pope; power; practice; priests; principle; process; prof; progress; protestant; protestantism; question; rationalism; reason; reformation; religion; renaissance; renan; roman; rome; save; school; science; scientific; sect; sense; set; skepticism; social; spain; spirit; state; superstition; system; teaching; theory; things; thought; tiele; time; treatise; truth; turn; unbelief; view; viii; vol; way; work; world; worship; years cache: 51793.txt plain text: 51793.txt item: #199 of 214 id: 52160 author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title: A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes date: None words: 252093 flesch: 65 summary: In connection with the frequently cited anecdote as to Lamb's religious feeling given in Leigh Hunt's Autobiography (rep. p. 253), also by Hazlitt (Winterslow, essay ii, ed. 1902, p. 39), may be noted the following, given by Allsopp: After a visit to Coleridge, during which the conversation had taken a religious turn, Leigh Hunt ... expressed his surprise that such a man as Coleridge should, when speaking of Christ, always call him Our Saviour. [145] The Pope and the Council, Eng. tr. p. 260; French tr. p. 285. keywords: account; age; anti; argument; atheism; atheists; attack; author; authority; bacon; belief; bishop; bolingbroke; book; bruno; case; catholic; century; character; charles; christian; christianity; church; cited; clergy; collins; common; course; creed; criticism; culture; d'holbach; d. p.; day; de la; death; defence; deism; deistic; deists; des; descartes; diderot; divine; doctrine; doubt; edition; effect; eighteenth; end; england; english; essay; europe; fact; faith; form; france; freethinkers; freethinking; freethought; french; friend; galileo; general; generation; german; god; good; great; ground; half; hand; heresy; historical; history; hobbes; human; hume; iii; influence; intellectual; jesus; john; kant; kind; knowledge; la religion; later; law; les; letter; lettres; life; light; like; lines; literary; literature; little; locke; long; lord; louis; main; man; matter; men; method; mind; miracles; modern; moral; movement; natural; nature; new; newton; note; opinion; order; orthodox; paris; people; period; philosophy; place; point; pope; position; power; principles; professor; propaganda; protestant; public; question; rationalism; rationalistic; reaction; read; reason; religion; religious; rep; result; revolution; rousseau; save; school; science; second; sense; set; sir; social; society; spinoza; spirit; state; strauss; study; sur; system; testament; theological; theology; theory; things; thomas; thought; time; translation; treatise; truth; unbelief; unitarian; view; voltaire; war; way; work; world; writer; writing; wrote; years cache: 52160.txt plain text: 52160.txt item: #200 of 214 id: 55531 author: Beecher, Catharine Esther title: Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People date: None words: 99284 flesch: 59 summary: This surely is the highest possible evidence that its Author _intended_ mind should thus act. The following is an example where an object is called by the name of another with which it is connected by _time_: And _night_ weighed down his heavy eyes. keywords: action; author; belief; cause; circumstances; conceptions; constitution; creator; desire; emotions; enjoyment; evidence; evil; example; existence; experience; god; good; habits; happiness; human; ideas; knowledge; laws; life; love; man; mind; nature; new; object; pain; power; principle; purpose; qualities; reason; reference; regard; right; sense; system; things; time; truth; wrong cache: 55531.txt plain text: 55531.txt item: #201 of 214 id: 57764 author: Billings, M. E. title: Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada date: None words: 63932 flesch: 70 summary: Bridells, Rev. J., or William Marietta, Pa.; Adultery, drunkenness; expelled. Fenton, Rev. J., San Jon, N. M. Holiness. keywords: adultery; ark; assault; baptist; bastardy; battery; beating; bigamy; brooklyn; cal; catholic; chicago; children; christian; church; city; co.; conduct; congregational; conn; convicted; criminal; cruelty; deserting; desertion; divorce; drunkenness; e. j.; elopement; embezzlement; episcopal; evangelist; father; forgery; fraud; funds; geo; george; girl; guilty; henry; ill; immoral; immorality; ind; indicted; iowa; j. a.; j. h.; j. j.; j. m.; j. w.; john; kan; larceny; little; louis; lutheran; lying; m. e.; mass; methodist; mich; minister; minn; miss; money; mrs; murder; n. c.; n. j.; n. y.; new; ohio; old; penitentiary; philadelphia; preacher; presbyterian; prison; pulpit; rape; rev; seduction; sister; slander; smith; stealing; suicide; swindling; tenn; tex; wife; wis; woman; years; york; young cache: 57764.txt plain text: 57764.txt item: #202 of 214 id: 59651 author: Hartmann, Jacob title: The Creation of God date: None words: 124367 flesch: 68 summary: Josephus describes the condition of affairs as follows: For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different customs, and despised one another's sacred and accustomed rites, and were very angry one with another on that account, Abraham conferred with each of them, and confuting the reasoning they made use of, every one for their own practices, he demonstrated that such reasoning was vain and void of truth; whereupon he was admired by them in those conferences, as a very wise man and of great sagacity when he discoursed on any subject he undertook; and this not only in understanding it, but in persuading other men also to assent to him. As to his other qualifications, he had such a full command of his passions, as if he hardly had any such in his soul, and only knew them by their names, as rather perceiving them in other men than himself. keywords: acid; action; air; animal; atmosphere; b.c; blood; body; brain; carbon; carbonic; chapter; chemical; christ; church; common; composition; condition; day; earth; elements; existence; food; force; form; general; god; gods; good; heat; holy; human; hydrogen; ideas; imagination; inches; jehova; kind; king; knowledge; laws; left; life; like; liver; living; lord; lungs; man; matter; men; mind; moses; muscles; nation; nature; new; nitrogen; number; organic; organs; oxygen; parts; people; period; place; plants; portion; power; present; priest; quantity; reason; right; sense; soul; state; substances; sun; surface; system; things; time; tissues; truth; vegetable; verse; water; woman; world; years cache: 59651.txt plain text: 59651.txt item: #203 of 214 id: 6107 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? date: None words: 57415 flesch: 70 summary: There were those, then, in the early church who denied the historicity, not of a _title_,--for what meaning would there be in denying that a _title_ is come in the flesh,--but of a person, known as _Jesus Christ. There were many anointed kings, who are historical, and the question is, Is Jesus Christ--or Jesus the Anointed--also historical? keywords: adler; answer; argument; christian; christianity; church; cross; day; dead; death; evidence; existence; god; good; gospel jesus; gospels; heaven; history; human; illustration; jesus; jesus christ; jesus story; life; man; men; mind; mother; myth; new; pagan; paul; people; place; question; reason; religion; science; son; sun; tell; things; time; truth; words; world; years cache: 6107.txt plain text: 6107.txt item: #204 of 214 id: 6172 author: Blatchford, Robert title: God and My Neighbour date: None words: 64954 flesch: 75 summary: Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. Many good men and women will look blank at such heresy. keywords: bible; book; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; day; dead; death; earth; evidence; evil; fact; father; god; gods; good; gospels; heaven; human; infidel; jahweh; king; life; lord; love; man; matthew; men; millions; miracles; moses; new; people; power; reason; religion; resurrection; revelation; sin; story; sun; theory; thing; thou; time; women; words; world; years cache: 6172.txt plain text: 6172.txt item: #205 of 214 id: 621 author: James, William title: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature date: None words: 188551 flesch: 65 summary: It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop-lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on. If, then, there be a wider world of being than that of our every-day consciousness, if in it there be forces whose effects on us are intermittent, if one facilitating condition of the effects be the openness of the subliminal door, we have the elements of a theory to which the phenomena of religious life lend plausibility. keywords: absolute; account; belief; believe; body; book; case; change; character; christian; church; condition; consciousness; conversion; course; cure; day; death; difference; divine; evil; example; existence; experience; fact; faith; fear; feeling; form; fruits; general; god; good; hand; happiness; having; heart; help; hour; human; ideas; individual; infinite; kind; know; lecture; life; light; like; live; living; lord; love; makes; man; matter; meaning; means; melancholy; men; mind; moment; mystical; nature; need; new; non; order; people; persons; phenomena; philosophy; place; point; power; prayer; presence; present; question; reality; reason; religion; result; saint; science; self; sense; set; sin; sort; soul; spirit; state; subject; theology; things; think; thought; time; truth; turn; type; universe; use; value; view; way; words; work; world; years cache: 621.txt plain text: 621.txt item: #206 of 214 id: 639 author: Gamble, Eliza Burt title: The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion date: None words: 92060 flesch: 57 summary: Inman, in his Ancient Faiths, calls attention to the fact that in the Old Testament kings, priests, captains, and other great men have had names bestowed upon them, each of which has some religious signification; that this name was given the individual at circumcision, or soon after birth. A colony of Brahmins settled near the Imans, and in Northern Thibet, where in ancient times they established celebrated colleges, particularly at Nagraent and Cashmere. keywords: ages; ancient; child; christ; christian; church; creation; creator; cross; deity; doctrines; early; earth; egypt; emblem; energy; fact; female; figure; fire; force; form; god; goddess; gods; heaven; history; holy; human; idea; india; jews; life; light; little; lord; man; mankind; matter; mother; nations; nature; new; people; place; power; present; principle; race; religion; serpent; subject; sun; symbols; things; time; tree; vol; water; wisdom; woman; world; worship; writers; years cache: 639.txt plain text: 639.txt item: #207 of 214 id: 7076 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Prisoner for Blasphemy date: None words: 66017 flesch: 71 summary: Mr. Foote and Mr. Ramsey, it said, were sent to prison by Mr. Justice North for publishing a blasphemous libel. Mr. Justice North: What for? Mr. Foote: To show that identical views to those expressed in the cheap paper before the court are expressed in expensive volumes. keywords: blasphemous; blasphemy; book; bradlaugh; case; cell; christian; coleridge; course; court; criminal; day; days; defence; foote; freethinker; freethought; gaol; god; good; governor; guilty; half; hand; imprisonment; indictment; judge; jury; justice; law; life; lord; lordship; man; men; months; morning; new; north; number; paper; people; prison; prisoners; prosecution; public; ramsey; religion; right; sentence; sir; time; trial; verdict; way; william cache: 7076.txt plain text: 7076.txt item: #208 of 214 id: 7297 author: None title: The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 date: None words: 283441 flesch: 60 summary: 'When that view which gives rise to difference is absolutely destroyed, who then will make the untrue distinction between the individual Self and Brahman?' (VI, 7, 94).--The following passages from the Bhagavad-Gîtâ: 'I am the Self dwelling within all beings' (X, 20); 'Know me to be the soul within all bodies' (XIII, 2); 'Being there is none, movable or immovable, which is without me' (X, 39).-- All these and other texts, the purport of which clearly is instruction as to the essential nature of things, declare that Brahman only, i.e. non-differenced pure intelligence is real, while everything else is false. Other texts declare that this Nescience comes to an end through the cognition of the essential unity of the Self with Brahman which is nothing but non-differenced intelligence. keywords: account; action; attributes; beings; bliss; body; brahman; breath; bri; cause; cognition; connexion; consciousness; constitutes; difference; earth; effect; end; ether; evil; existence; fact; fire; follows; form; forth; hand; having; iii; individual; knowing; knowledge; light; lord; matter; meaning; means; meditation; mind; nature; nescience; non; object; passage; person; place; power; qualities; real; reason; release; reply; scripture; self; sense; sentient; soul; state; subject; substance; sûtra; text; things; time; true; veda; view; viz; way; works; world cache: 7297.txt plain text: 7297.txt item: #209 of 214 id: 7319 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: Good Sense date: None words: 59446 flesch: 67 summary: his justice is not the justice of man_. The idea of God is impossible 9. keywords: beings; believe; causes; conduct; divine; effects; evil; existence; fear; god; good; goodness; happiness; human; idea; life; man; men; morality; nations; nature; order; people; power; priests; reason; religion; right; theology; thing; world cache: 7319.txt plain text: 7319.txt item: #210 of 214 id: 7377 author: Abhedananda, Swami title: Five Lectures on Reincarnation date: None words: 20510 flesch: 64 summary: The Platonic theory teaches that human souls migrate into animal bodies or angelic bodies and return from the angelic to the human or the animal, and that some of them prefer to become animals; while the theory of Reincarnation, taking its stand upon the scientific truth of gradual evolution, teaches that the human souls have already passed through different grades of the animal, nay, of the vegetable kingdom, by the natural process of evolution. Such is the life of the gods; other souls which follow God best and are likest to Him succeed in seeing the vision of truth and in entering into the outer world with great difficulty. keywords: animal; body; cause; death; evolution; existence; form; germ; human; individual; law; life; nature; powers; reincarnation; soul; theory; time cache: 7377.txt plain text: 7377.txt item: #211 of 214 id: 8140 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. date: None words: 123412 flesch: 80 summary: Great men do not live alone; they are surrounded by the great; they are the instruments used to accomplish the tendencies of their generation; they fulfill the prophecies of their age. Let me tell you, whoever attacks a creed will be confronted with a list of great men who have believed in it. keywords: account; believe; bible; book; children; christ; christian; church; country; crime; day; dead; death; devil; doctrine; earth; fact; father; fear; ghosts; god; gods; good; heart; heaven; hell; human; idea; infinite; joy; law; liberty; life; lord; love; man; matter; men; mother; nature; new; order; people; place; power; question; reason; religion; right; science; soul; superstition; thee; thing; thought; thy; time; truth; universe; want; way; wife; woman; world; worship; years cache: 8140.txt plain text: 8140.txt item: #212 of 214 id: 8389 author: Ingersoll, Robert Green title: Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest date: None words: 140020 flesch: 80 summary: I have known men that would trust a woman with their heart--if you call that thing which pushes their blood around a heart; and with their honor--if you call that fear, of getting into the penitentiary, honor; I have known men that would trust that heart and that honor with a woman, but not their pocket-book--not a dollar bill. [* Speaking of the Inquisition, Prof. Draper says: With such savage alacrity did it carry out its object of protecting the interests of religion, that between 1480 and 1808 it had punished 340,000 persons, and of these nearly 32,000 had been burnt!--Conflict between Religion and Science] Upon this rack I have described, this victim was placed, and those chains were attached to his ankles and then to his waist, and clergymen--good men! keywords: account; bible; blood; book; brain; children; christ; christian; church; country; creed; crime; day; dead; death; devil; doctrine; earth; fact; fear; fellow; fire; god; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; hell; holy; human; idea; infinite; kind; liberty; life; like; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; new; orthodox; paine; people; place; power; priests; question; reason; religion; right; saw; slavery; soul; superstition; thing; thomas; thought; time; today; truth; voltaire; want; way; wife; woman; world; years cache: 8389.txt plain text: 8389.txt item: #213 of 214 id: 9411 author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title: Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations date: None words: 60873 flesch: 76 summary: , O great god, who dost drive away the spirits which attack! And Ra said unto Horus of Heben, O Winged Disk, thou great god and lord of heaven, seize thou them . . . . . . keywords: behutet; boat; body; child; city; day; earth; egyptian; enemies; eye; father; form; god; god ra; goddess; gods; hath; head; heart; heaven; heru; horus; house; i.e.; isis; king; land; legend; life; lord; majesty; men; nile; north; osiris; place; poison; power; set; son; south; sun; text; thee; things; thoth; thou; thy; time; water; words cache: 9411.txt plain text: 9411.txt item: #214 of 214 id: 9914 author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title: The Babylonian Legends of the Creation date: None words: 18714 flesch: 84 summary: This fact is proved by the tablet (No. 47,406), [1] which contains a long list of gods who are equated with Marduk in his various forms.[2] Out of this mass there were evolved two orders of beings, namely, demons and gods. keywords: anshar; anu; babylonian; battle; creation; footnote; gods; hath; heaven; kingu; legend; man; marduk; mouth; set; tablet; text; thou; thy; tiâmat cache: 9914.txt plain text: 9914.txt