item: #1 of 52
          id: 1016
      author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
       title: On the Improvement of the Understanding
        date: None
       words: 16490
      flesch: 59
     summary: (2) Neither shall we wonder why we understand some things which in nowise fall within the scope of the imagination, while other things are in the imagination but wholly opposed to the understanding, or others, again, which agree therewith. [p] To be connected with other things is to be produced by them, or to produce them.
    keywords: attention; cause; certain; circle; clear; concerned; definition; different; distinct; doubt; end; essence; eternal; evident; existence; fact; false; fiction; fictitious; form; god; good; idea; imagination; instance; intellect; kind; knowledge; life; matter; means; memory; men; method; mind; mode; motion; nature; necessary; need; number; object; order; particular; perception; perfect; peter; possible; power; properties; reality; reasoning; rules; said; second; simple; soul; standard; subjective; things; thoughts; time; true; true idea; truth; understanding; way; words
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        item: #2 of 52
          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: able; accepted; account; acts; adopted; advance; age; ages; ancient; anti; antiquity; argument; articles; atheism; atheists; athens; attempt; attitude; authorities; authority; bayle; beliefs; bible; bishop; blasphemy; book; brilliant; calvin; case; catholic; causes; centuries; century; certain; change; chapter; chief; christ �; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; civil; civilization; claim; class; coercion; common; complete; comte; condition; conscience; constitution; contemporary; controversy; convinced; countries; country; course; creation; creed; crime; criticism; dangerous; day; days; death; defence; deists; deity; design; development; different; difficult; direct; discovery; discussion; divine; doctrine; documents; dogmas; duty; early; earth; easy; ecclesiastical; edict; education; effect; eighteenth; eighteenth century; emperor; empire; end; enemies; england; english; error; established; europe; evidence; evil; existence; experience; fact; faith; fall; false; favour; fear; field; force; form; france; frederick; freedom; freethinkers; french; friend; fundamental; future; galileo; general; germany; god �; gods; good; government; great; greatest; greece; greek; ground; growth; half; hand; harm; heaven; hell; heresy; heretics; high; higher; highest; historical; history; hold; holy; human; hume; hypothesis; ideas; iii; immortality; important; independent; individual; infallibility; influence; innocent; inquisition; inspiration; inspired; instance; intellectual; interest; interference; intolerance; italy; jesus; jews; judge; judgment; justice; kind; king; knowledge; large; later; law; laws; lay; legal; liberal; liberty; life; limited; literature; little; locke; long; lord; luther; man; mankind; matter; means; measure; mediaeval; members; men; middle; mill; mind; miracles; miraculous; modern; moral; morality; movement; natural; nature; necessary; new; nineteenth; number; object; offence; old; open; opinion; order; ordinary; origin; orthodox; paine; paris; particular; party; people; period; persecution; personal; persons; phenomena; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physical; place; point; policy; political; poor; pope; popular; position; possible; power; powerful; present; press; principle; process; progress; protestant; public; purpose; question; race; rationalism; rationalistic; reality; reason; received; reformation; religion; religious; religious liberty; renaissance; results; revealed; revelation; right; roman; rome; rousseau; rule; sacred; salvation; science; scientific; scripture; second; sects; secular; sense; separation; set; seventeenth; short; social; society; socrates; soul; spain; speculation; speech; spinoza; spirit; spread; sqq; state; stephen; struggle; study; subject; success; superior; supernatural; supreme; system; teaching; testament; theological; theology; theory; things; thinkers; thinking; thought; time; tolerant; toleration; trinity; true; truth; ultimate; universe; use; utility; valuable; value; view; voltaire; way; words; work; world; worship; writers; writings; wrong; years; young
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        item: #3 of 52
          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: absurd; answer; argument; atheist; attributes; author; beings; belief; benevolence; better; capable; cause; clarke; contrary; convinced; course; crimes; deity; design; difficulty; divine; doubt; effect; end; eternal; eternity; evil; existence; existent; experience; favour; force; form; free; friend; future; general; god; good; goodness; great; happiness; happy; health; human; hume; idea; infinite; intelligence; justice; knowledge; letters; life; like; little; long; man; mankind; manner; matter; mind; misery; moral; morality; natural; nature; necessary; object; pain; philosophical; poor; power; present; priestley; principles; proof; properties; question; reason; reasoning; religion; revelation; sense; society; space; state; subject; superior; system; table; thing; thinking; thought; time; truth; unbeliever; universe; virtue; way; wisdom; works; world
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        item: #4 of 52
          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: --_the; able; absolute; absurd; accordance; account; acting; action; actors; acts; administration; advanced; affairs; afraid; amendment; american; american people; ancient; angels; animals; answer; appeal; argument; army; article; arts; asking; atheist; attack; attention; authority; average; bacon; bad; banks; basis; bear; beautiful; beauty; beecher; beginning; beings; belief; believer; benefit; best; better; bible; bill; blaine; blood; bodies; body; book; bound; boy; brain; briggs; brooklyn; brother; burden; business; cabinet; campaign; candidate; capital; care; case; catholic; causes; centuries; century; certain; chances; change; character; charity; chicago; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; cincinnati; circumstances; citizens; city; civilization; civilized; civilized man; claim; class; clergy; clergyman; cleveland; clothes; colonel; colored; colored man; colored people; coming; common; community; company; concerned; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; congress; conkling; consequence; consideration; consolation; constitution; contract; contrary; control; convention; convinced; corn; countless; countries; country; courage; course; court; credit; creed; crime; criminals; cruel; cruelty; cut; damned; dangerous; darwin; day; days; dead; deal; death; decided; decision; defeat; degree; delaware; demand; democracy; democratic; department; desire; destruction; development; difference; direction; discussion; disease; disgrace; dishonest; district; divided; divorce; doctrine; dollars; door; doubt; drama; drink; duties; duty; earth; education; effect; effort; election; endeavor; endeavoring; enemies; enemy; england; english; entire; equal; equality; eternal; eternity; europe; evening; evidence; evil; example; excellent; existence; experience; express; extent; eyes; fact; failure; fair; faith; fall; falsehood; family; far; father; favor; fear; federal; feeling; feet; fellow; fields; fine; fire; flag; flesh; following; food; foolish; force; foreign; form; foundation; free; freedom; french; friends; future; garfield; general; generous; genius; gentleman; george; germany; glad; god; gods; gold; good; good man; good people; goodness; gospel; government; grant; grave; great; great man; great people; great question; greater; greatest; ground; growth; guilty; guiteau; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; harlan; harm; harmony; hate; hatred; head; heart; heartless; heathen; heaven; hell; help; helpless; henry; herald; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; hope; hours; house; human; humanity; hundreds; hungry; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; illinois; imagination; immortality; importance; increase; indiana; individual; industries; industry; infamous; infidel; infinite; influence; information; ingersoll; insane; inspiration; inspired; instance; institutions; integrity; intellectual; intelligent; intelligent man; interest; interview; islands; issue; jehovah; jews; john; journal; joy; judge; judgment; jury; justice; keeping; kind; kindness; kings; knowledge; known; labor; lack; language; lansing; large; law; laws; leader; leave; lecture; legislation; liberal; liberalism; liberty; life; like; line; liquor; literature; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; majority; making; malicious; man; mankind; market; marriage; material; matter; mean; meaning; meeting; members; memory; men; mental; mercy; methodist; millions; mills; mind; ministers; miracles; miraculous; miserable; missionaries; mistake; mob; modern; moment; money; moral; morality; morning; moses; mother; movement; murder; music; names; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neighbors; new; new man; new york; newton; noble; nomination; november; number; oath; object; objection; obligation; ocean; office; ohio; old; open; opinion; opportunity; opposed; orator; order; origin; orthodox; pain; papers; parents; particular; parties; partnership; party; passages; passion; past; pay; penitentiary; people; perfect; period; person; personal; philosophy; pictures; piece; place; platform; plays; pleasure; plenty; poetic; poetry; point; policy; political; politics; polygamy; poor; poor man; pope; popular; position; possession; possible; post; poverty; power; prayers; preach; preached; preachers; prejudices; presbyterian; presence; present; president; price; priest; principal; principle; probability; produce; progress; prohibition; prohibitionists; property; proportion; prosperous; protection; pulpit; punishment; purpose; question; race; raw; read; reading; real; reason; reasonable; rebellion; recent; reform; regard; relation; religion; religious; religious people; remains; reply; republican; reputation; resort; respect; responsible; result; rev; revenge; rich; right; road; robert; rule; sabbath; sacred; sake; salvation; satisfied; savage; saw; saying; schools; science; scientific; scriptures; sea; second; section; secularism; self; senate; senator; sense; sensible; sentiment; sermons; service; set; shakespeare; sherman; short; shows; silver; simple; sincere; slavery; slightest; small; social; society; soul; source; south; southern; sovereignty; speak; speaking; speech; spirit; spiritualism; spite; splendid; stand; standard; star; state; statement; step; strength; strong; subject; success; successful; sugar; sunday; superior; supernatural; superstition; support; supreme; surplus; sympathy; system; talk; talking; tariff; tax; taxation; temperance; tendency; testament; theatre; theological; theology; theories; theory; things; think; thinking; thomas; thought; thousands; throw; ticket; time; tired; toil; trade; trial; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; understood; union; united; universal; universe; use; useless; value; vast; vice; victim; victory; views; virtue; vote; vulgar; wages; wait; want; war; washington; water; way; weak; wealth; week; west; whipping; white; wife; wild; willing; wine; wisdom; wise; wish; wishes; witness; witnesses; wives; women; wonderful; words; work; working; workingmen; world; worse; worth; wrong; years; york; york world; young; young man
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        item: #5 of 52
          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: advice; angels; belief; believe; best; bible; birth; century; character; children; christ; christians; conception; confidence; days; dead; death; devils; divinity; divorce; earth; employer; end; error; eternal; ethical; evidence; evil; fact; faith; false; father; fear; followers; forgiveness; god; good; gospels; greater; guide; hand; hath; hear; heaven; hell; human; important; jehovah; jesus; jews; john; judge; judgment; kingdom; knowledge; laws; lazarus; life; living; lord; luke; man; mark; marriage; matt; men; messiah; miracles; mistake; modern; mount; natural; new; non; old; opinion; original; pass; peace; people; perfect; person; physical; power; prayer; principles; punishment; religious; resistance; rich; right; saying; scriptures; sermon; servant; sins; son; spirit; superior; teachings; testament; thee; theology; theory; things; thou; thought; thy; time; today; true; truth; value; viii; war; way; whosoever; world; xiii; xiv; xxii
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        item: #6 of 52
          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: able; absurdity; accident; account; acts; africa; age; ages; ancient; angels; answer; apostle; archbishop; argument; army; article; ascension; atheist; authority; awe; bad; basis; battle; beautiful; beings; belief; believe; benson; best; better; bible; black; blasphemy; blood; body; book; brain; bread; brother; business; byron; care; carlyle; case; catholic; centuries; century; certain; change; chapel; chapter; character; children; christ; christian; christianity; christmas; church; churches; civilisation; clear; clergy; coat; coit; cold; coleridge; collins; colors; coming; common; consecrated; country; courage; course; court; creation; creatures; creed; crime; cross; crucifixion; cry; damnation; damned; danger; darwin; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; definition; deity; devil; die; difference; difficult; dignity; disciples; divine; doctrine; doubt; early; earth; easy; education; effect; end; enemy; england; english; equal; eternal; europe; everlasting; evidence; evolution; existence; experience; express; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; false; family; famous; fancy; fate; father; fear; feet; fellow; fighting; fine; fire; fit; following; folly; foolish; form; france; fraud; freedom; freethinker; freethought; fresh; friends; future; game; general; genius; gentleman; ghost; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; gosse; grand; grave; great; greater; greatest; greek; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; head; heart; heaven; heine; hell; high; higher; history; hold; holy; home; honest; hope; hour; house; hugo; human; humanity; hume; hundreds; husband; huxley; idea; idle; ignorance; ignorant; imagination; impossible; infinite; inquiry; instance; intellect; intellectual; interest; james; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; john; join; joy; judge; judgment; justice; knowledge; labor; language; large; laugh; law; laws; letters; liberty; lies; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; live; living; logic; logical; long; look; lord; lost; love; luther; majesty; making; man; manhood; mankind; mark; marriage; martin; mary; matter; matthew; meaning; means; men; mental; mere; mighty; miles; millions; mind; miracle; miserable; mistaken; modern; moment; money; moon; moral; morning; mother; multitude; mystery; national; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; new; nick; noble; notion; number; object; obvious; occasion; old; open; opinion; order; ordinary; origin; orthodox; pagan; party; passage; past; paul; pay; people; perfect; persecution; person; personal; piety; pilot; pious; place; plain; play; pleasure; poem; poet; point; political; poor; pope; popular; possession; power; powerful; practical; practice; prayer; presence; present; pretty; priests; principle; prison; professor; progress; proof; proper; prophet; providence; public; purpose; question; race; reader; reading; real; reason; regard; religion; religious; respect; rest; resurrection; return; rich; ridicule; right; roman; round; rule; sacred; safe; saints; salvation; satan; savage; science; sea; second; self; sense; sentiment; sermons; service; set; sex; shakespeare; shelley; short; silence; similar; single; sinners; sir; sky; social; society; soul; space; special; speech; spencer; spirit; spiritual; splendid; spooks; spurgeon; stanley; state; statement; stockwell; story; strength; strong; study; style; subject; suffering; sun; sunday; supernatural; superstition; sure; teaching; tennyson; terms; terrible; terror; testament; theology; theory; things; thomas; thought; thousands; throne; time; title; trial; true; trust; truth; turn; tyranny; universal; universe; unknown; use; victor; view; virtue; voltaire; volume; vulgar; want; war; water; way; weak; weather; white; whitman; wife; wine; wisdom; wise; wish; wit; women; wonder; words; work; world; worship; worst; worth; writer; writings; wrong; years; young
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        item: #7 of 52
          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: able; abolition; abraham; absolute; absurd; absurdity; account; adam; advanced; age; agnostic; almighty; ancient; angels; answer; apostles; appeal; argument; arnold; article; atheist; attention; attitude; authority; aware; bacon; bad; battle; beginning; belief; bert; besant; best; better; bible; big; bishop; black; blomfield; blood; body; bonner; book; booth; boy; bradlaugh; brain; bread; brooke; brother; bruno; business; byron; carlyle; case; catholic; centuries; century; certain; change; chapter; character; charity; charles; chief; children; christendom; christian; christianity; church; churches; city; civilisation; civilised; classes; clear; clergy; clergymen; clerical; come; coming; common; conception; condition; contemporary; contempt; conversion; converted; copy; corpse; country; course; court; creed; crime; criticism; cross; cruelty; cry; curious; daily; damned; dark; darwin; daughters; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; decided; deep; description; desire; determined; development; devil; devotion; different; difficult; disciples; discussion; divine; doctors; doctrine; documents; doubt; early; earth; east; easter; easy; education; edwin; effect; eminent; emperor; empire; end; enemy; england; english; erasmus; essay; eternal; eunuchs; europe; everlasting; evidence; evils; existence; explanation; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; false; family; famous; fancy; far; fashion; fate; father; fear; features; feeling; fellow; fiction; figure; fine; fire; flesh; following; folly; fond; foolish; fools; force; form; france; free; freedom; freethinkers; freethought; french; friend; future; gallienne; gambetta; general; generation; genius; gentleman; george; ghost; glorious; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; grave; great; greater; greatest; ground; guilty; half; hall; hand; happy; hardie; harrison; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; henson; heresy; heretics; hero; high; higher; highest; history; hitchens; hold; holden; holy; home; honest; honor; hope; hot; house; hughes; human; humanity; hundreds; ideas; idle; ignorance; ignorant; ill; imagination; immortality; importance; infallible; infidel; infinite; influence; inquisition; inspired; instance; institution; intellect; intelligence; interest; isaac; jack; james; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; jewish; jews; john; judge; judgment; justice; keir; kind; king; knowledge; labor; ladies; lady; language; large; late; law; laws; lay; leave; lecture; left; length; letters; level; liberal; liberty; lies; life; like; likely; line; lips; literature; little; live; living; logic; london; long; longer; look; lord; lordship; lost; love; luther; madame; magdalene; making; man; mankind; marlowe; marriage; mary; masters; matter; matthew; meaning; means; melchizedek; member; memory; men; mental; mere; method; millions; mind; ministers; miracles; mistaken; mivart; modern; moment; money; moral; morality; morning; moses; mother; mount; mouth; movement; mrs; multitude; murderer; mystery; national; nations; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; new; nix; noble; nonsense; notice; number; oath; object; obscure; obvious; occasion; old; open; opinion; opportunity; opposed; order; ordinary; origin; original; orthodox; pagan; pages; paine; particular; party; passage; past; paul; pay; people; perfect; personal; persons; peter; philosophers; philosophy; physical; piece; pious; place; planet; poem; poet; poetry; point; political; poor; pope; popular; position; positive; possible; poverty; power; practical; practice; praise; prayer; preacher; present; pretty; price; priests; principles; private; process; produce; professed; professional; professor; profound; progress; proof; proper; protestant; proud; providence; public; purpose; question; questionable; rabbis; race; rate; readers; reading; ready; real; reason; rees; reformation; regard; relations; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; remarks; reply; respect; responsible; rest; result; resurrection; return; rev; revolution; right; rise; roman; rome; room; rule; sabbath; safe; said; satisfied; savage; saved; saying; scepticism; schools; science; scientific; scripture; second; secular; self; sense; sentence; sentiment; sermon; service; set; shadow; shakespeare; share; sheer; shelley; short; shows; silence; similar; simple; single; sir; sky; slavery; slaves; small; social; society; soldiers; somewhat; soul; sound; sovereign; special; species; spirit; spiritual; splendid; spoken; spread; stand; star; state; statement; stokes; stories; story; strange; striking; strong; struggle; study; style; subject; sufficient; sunday; superior; supernatural; superstition; sure; system; talk; talking; talmage; task; taste; taught; teaching; tender; tennyson; terrible; terror; testament; text; theological; theology; theory; theosophy; things; thought; thousands; thy; time; title; tolstoi; trouble; true; truth; tucker; turn; universal; universe; unknown; unto; use; view; virtue; voice; voltaire; volume; vulgar; wage; want; water; watkinson; waugh; way; wealth; week; whitechapel; wife; wisdom; wise; witness; women; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worship; worst; writer; writing; wrong; years; young
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        item: #8 of 52
          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: able; account; ages; animals; answer; archbishop; argument; army; arnold; articles; aside; ask; atheism; atheists; authority; beauty; belief; best; better; bible; big; birth; blackie; blasphemy; blessed; blood; book; booth; brain; bramwell; brown; business; cardinal; carlyle; case; causes; century; certain; character; charge; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; city; claim; classes; clear; clergy; common; courage; course; creed; crime; critic; criticism; cry; darwin; david; day; days; deal; dean; death; despair; development; devil; different; disease; divine; doctrine; dogmatic; doubt; drink; dust; early; earth; easy; education; end; enemies; england; english; established; eternal; europe; evolution; existence; extent; eyes; face; fact; faculty; faith; fall; family; father; fear; feet; fire; flint; fool; force; form; france; freedom; freethinker; freethought; french; fresh; general; ghost; god; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greatest; gross; ground; guide; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heaven; hell; heresy; hidden; high; higher; history; hold; holy; honest; house; human; humanity; idea; ignorance; ignorant; imagination; impossible; infidelity; infinite; influence; intellect; intellectual; interest; jehovah; jesus; jews; john; joshua; justice; knowledge; labor; language; law; lecture; liberty; life; like; likely; literary; literature; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; lordship; love; low; majority; man; mankind; marriage; material; matter; matthew; means; men; mere; millions; mind; misery; modern; moon; moral; moses; multitude; mystery; names; natural; nature; need; new; newman; noble; old; open; opinion; order; original; orthodoxy; paine; paper; paris; passions; past; people; persons; philosophy; pious; place; play; poet; point; political; poor; position; power; practical; present; press; professor; progress; promise; proof; public; purpose; queen; question; read; real; reason; regard; reign; religion; religious; reply; respectable; rest; rich; right; salvationism; sceptic; school; science; scientific; secular; sense; sermon; service; shakespeare; share; shelley; showman; simple; small; social; society; solid; souls; sound; special; spirit; spiritual; stanley; star; statement; storm; strange; strength; strong; subject; sunday; supernatural; superstition; supreme; talmage; theological; theology; theory; things; thomas; thomson; thought; thousands; time; trinity; true; truth; turn; tyranny; universal; universe; use; virtue; voice; walls; washington; way; wisdom; wise; wonderful; words; work; working; world; worst; worth; writer; writings; wrong; years
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        item: #9 of 52
          id: 30205
      author: Foote, G. W. (George William)
       title: Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh
        date: None
       words: 13643
      flesch: 76
     summary: Mr. Watts and I did not win the seat for Mr. Bradlaugh, nor did he win it himself at the next election, but we managed to increase his vote, and he expressed his pleasure at the result. I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Bradlaugh more or less intimately for twenty years.
    keywords: air; austin; bench; best; bigots; bradlaugh; case; chair; charles; charles bradlaugh; coleridge; committee; commons; conference; course; court; crowded; day; days; dead; deal; death; defendants; demonstration; election; enemies; evening; eyes; face; favor; figure; following; freethinker; freethought; french; fresh; friends; general; gentleman; giffard; good; great; ground; half; hall; hand; hard; hardinge; heart; hero; holyoake; hour; house; imprisonment; indictment; james; judges; jury; justice; later; law; lecture; legal; life; little; london; long; look; lord; man; manner; meeting; members; men; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; national; newdegate; northampton; old; people; place; platform; poetry; point; poor; power; present; public; republican; responsibility; right; room; science; seat; second; secular; sense; shelley; sir; society; splendid; square; struggle; sunday; talk; terrible; thing; time; tories; trafalgar; trial; true; verdict; watts; way; witness; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #10 of 52
          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; abolitionist; alike; america; bible; centuries; century; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; civilisation; claim; court; day; divine; england; english; faith; freedom; gain; god; great; humanity; infidel; jews; knowledge; late; law; laws; long; lord; march; men; modern; necessary; new; old; past; people; practice; progress; rejection; religion; religious; rev; right; roman; scepticism; science; scotland; slavery; slaves; states; supernatural; testament; trade; unbelief; united; witchcraft; women; world; years
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        item: #11 of 52
          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: "--buckle; "--ibid; absolute; account; acts; afraid; age; ages; america; ancient; answer; appendix; apple; argument; atonement; authority; basis; beautiful; belief; best; better; bible; blackstone; body; book; box; brain; brave; canon; capacity; case; century; certain; chapter; character; chief; children; china; choice; christian; christianity; church; churches; civilization; claim; clergy; climate; comfort; common; community; condition; control; countries; country; credit; credulity; creed; crime; criminal; cruel; curse; dangerous; daughter; david; day; days; dead; deal; death; degradation; desire; development; devil; dictates; different; dignity; divine; doctrine; door; doubt; duty; early; earnest; earth; ecclesiastical; education; england; equal; europe; evidence; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; false; family; father; fear; female; field; fire; fit; followers; following; force; form; france; free; freedom; friend; future; general; gentleman; girls; glad; glory; god; gods; good; good man; great; greater; greatest; guilty; half; hand; happy; having; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honor; honorable; hope; house; human; humanity; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; important; individual; inferior; infidels; infinite; influence; ingersoll; injustice; innocent; intellectual; jehovah; jesus; judgment; justice; kind; knowledge; labor; large; law; laws; legal; liberty; life; like; likely; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; lost; lot; love; maine; male; man; mankind; marriage; married; matter; means; mental; mind; minister; mistake; modern; money; moral; morality; moses; mother; murder; nation; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; nineteenth; noble; number; object; occupation; old; opinion; order; pagan; pain; past; paul; people; perfect; personal; persons; philosophy; physical; place; point; poor; position; possible; power; present; priest; principle; progress; property; protection; public; pulpit; punishment; pure; purity; purpose; question; race; real; reason; relations; religion; religious; respect; responsible; rest; result; revelation; right; roman; round; rule; sacred; safe; saying; science; scientific; second; self; sense; sentiment; set; sex; simple; sins; slavery; social; society; soil; sort; soul; spirit; stand; state; status; strange; strength; strong; subject; suffering; superior; superstition; support; supreme; system; teaching; tender; testament; thee; theological; theology; theory; thing; thought; thy; time; tribe; true; truth; turn; use; vicarious; vice; virtue; want; water; way; wicked; wife; willing; wisdom; wise; wish; wives; women; words; work; world; worship; worst; worth; wrong; years; young
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        item: #12 of 52
          id: 30208
      author: Ingersoll, Robert Green
       title: The Ghosts, and Other Lectures
        date: None
       words: 47503
      flesch: 80
     summary: Of that portion which is land not one-eighth has suitable soil and climate to produce great men and women. I do not know that I can better illustrate the great truth that only part of the world is adapted to the production of great men and women than by calling your attention to the difference between vegetation in valleys and upon mountains.
    keywords: account; afraid; ages; air; ancestors; answer; arms; authority; beasts; beautiful; best; better; bible; blood; blow; bodies; body; books; brain; brave; bread; business; care; century; certain; chains; chance; children; church; civilization; clouds; common; condition; confidence; corn; country; courage; creed; crime; cruel; darkness; day; days; dead; death; declaration; demand; devil; divine; doctors; doctrine; dollars; doubt; dug; dust; earth; education; england; equal; eternal; existence; eyes; fact; family; farmer; farming; fathers; favor; fear; feet; fellow; fields; fire; flag; flowers; force; forget; form; forward; free; freedom; frightful; future; generous; genius; gentleman; ghosts; glory; god; gold; golden; good; government; grand; grander; great; great man; greatest; ground; guilty; half; hand; happiness; happy; hate; hatred; head; heart; heaven; hell; high; history; holy; home; honest; honor; hope; house; human; husband; hypocrisy; idea; ignorance; ignorant; illinois; independence; infamous; infinite; intellectual; interest; iron; joy; judgment; justice; kindness; king; labor; land; language; law; laws; liberty; lie; life; like; lips; little; living; long; look; lost; love; man; mankind; matter; means; mechanic; men; miles; millions; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; murder; music; nation; natural; nature; necessary; new; number; old; opinion; order; orthodox; pain; past; people; persons; phantoms; piece; place; pleasant; plenty; political; poor; possible; power; prayer; present; priest; progress; prosperity; punishment; question; race; railroads; real; reason; religion; religious; republic; respect; rest; rich; right; rocks; room; sacred; sad; savage; science; sea; second; sense; skulls; slavery; slaves; sleep; snow; soil; soldiers; soul; source; spite; splendid; stand; stars; states; storm; sublime; sun; superstition; supreme; tender; things; thought; thousands; throne; time; tom; trees; true; truth; turn; united; universal; value; vast; wait; want; war; water; way; wealth; wife; wild; willing; winter; wish; witchcraft; witches; wives; woman; words; work; world; worship; worth; writing; wrong; years; young
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        item: #13 of 52
          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: aaron; abel; able; abraham; absurd; account; adam; ages; ancient; angel; animals; answer; apple; ark; ass; asses; author; bad; balaam; balak; bear; beasts; belief; best; better; bible; big; book; brother; building; business; cain; canaan; case; cattle; centuries; certain; change; chapter; character; children; christian; cities; city; clear; clergy; colenso; commentators; common; creation; cry; curse; cut; date; daughters; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; delitzsch; deluge; desert; destruction; devil; die; different; difficulty; divine; doctrine; door; doubt; dry; early; earth; east; eden; egypt; egyptians; end; eve; evening; existence; explanation; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; family; father; feet; fell; female; field; fierce; fire; fish; flesh; flood; foote; force; form; fourth; fruit; garden; general; genesis; geology; god; gods; good; great; ground; hand; hard; hardened; head; heap; heart; heaven; hebrew; hell; high; history; holy; house; human; idea; inhabitants; instance; israel; jehovah; jericho; jesus; jewish; jews; job; jonah; joshua; journey; kalisch; kind; king; knowledge; known; land; language; large; laws; learned; leave; left; life; like; little; live; living; long; lord; lord god; lot; male; man; manna; means; men; mere; messengers; miles; millions; milton; mind; miracle; miraculously; morning; moses; mother; mount; myth; narrative; nations; natural; nature; near; neddy; new; night; noah; number; occasion; offering; old; order; original; pair; paradise; parents; people; period; persons; pharaoh; place; plague; plain; poor; population; portion; presence; present; pretty; priests; primitive; prophet; quantity; question; race; rain; reader; reason; record; red; regard; religion; remains; respect; rest; result; righteous; river; rod; romance; sacred; sacrifice; salt; satan; scene; science; scripture; sea; second; serpent; set; seth; seventh; sheep; ship; sin; single; slaughter; slew; small; sodom; son; sons; space; spirit; state; stones; story; strange; subject; sun; surface; sword; tempest; temple; text; thee; theory; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tower; tree; trouble; true; truth; universal; unknown; utmost; vast; wall; wandering; war; water; way; week; whale; wicked; wife; wilderness; wind; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; worship; writer; years
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        item: #14 of 52
          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: absurdities; ancient; artist; bible; comic; comic bible; common; day; editor; england; english; freethinker; french; histories; holy; laugh; months; object; old; picture; proprietor; publisher; ridicule; satire; science; sense; sketches; spirit; truth; voltaire; way; word
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        item: #15 of 52
          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: able; agony; animals; answer; attraction; beings; belief; benefits; best; better; birth; bodies; body; book; brain; capable; cause; certain; chemical; child; children; concerned; conditions; conviction; cruel; day; dead; death; degree; desire; development; die; dillingham; disease; earth; edition; efforts; end; existence; experience; face; fact; fear; fearful; feeble; feelings; fit; flesh; fly; forces; form; free; future; god; great; greatest; harm; health; heart; help; human; human life; improved; improvement; innumerable; instrument; joseph; joy; knowledge; labor; lewis; life; light; like; limbs; little; live; living; longer; love; man; mankind; material; matter; means; mental; mind; moments; mother; nature; necessary; new; ones; organs; pain; painful; parents; past; people; perfect; person; pessimism; physical; place; portion; possible; power; present; progress; race; religious; result; science; self; senses; sorrow; soul; state; subject; substance; suffering; sufficient; things; thought; time; torment; torture; true; truth; tyranny; unable; understanding; use; vital; woman; wonder; work; world; years
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        item: #16 of 52
          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: 1812; 1828; a.d; able; abolition; abu; academy; account; acquaintance; active; adam; addition; address; adolphe; adopted; advanced; advocate; africa; age; ages; agnostic; alexander; alfred; allen; american; american author; analysis; anatomy; ancient; andré; animals; annet; anonymous; answer; anthony; anthropologist; anthropology; anti; antiquity; antoine; antonio; apology; april; arabian; archbishop; ardent; arguments; aristotle; army; arnold; arthur; articles; arts; assembly; assistant; association; astronomer; asylum; atheism; atheistic; athens; attacks; attempt; attention; aug; august; author; authoress; authority; b. amsterdam; b. aug; b. barcelona; b. berlin; b. besançon; b. birmingham; b. bordeaux; b. boston; b. bristol; b. chartres; b. delft; b. dijon; b. dublin; b. frankfort; b. geneva; b. hamburg; b. la; b. langres; b. leipsic; b. limoges; b. london; b. lyons; b. milan; b. naples; b. near; b. new; b. orleans; b. oxford; b. paris; b. rouen; b. saint; b. st; b. turin; b. vienna; b.a; b.c; baden; baptiste; bar; baron; bayle; beginning; belgian; belgium; belief; benjamin; bentham; berlin; berne; best; better; bible; biblical; bibliothèque; biographical; biography; birth; bishop; blasphemy; blind; body; bold; boldness; bologna; bonn; book; bookseller; boston; botany; bradlaugh; british; broad; brochures; brother; bruno; brussels; business; büchner; cabanis; calls; calvin; cambridge; captain; career; carlile; catechism; catholic; catholicism; cause; celebrated; century; chair; character; charge; charles; chemistry; chevalier; chief; children; christianity; christians; chronicle; church; cicero; city; civil; civilisation; classes; claude; clergy; clergyman; clerical; club; co.; collected; collection; college; collins; colonel; common; commune; company; comparative; complete; comte; condorcet; congregation; congress; conjunction; consequence; contemporary; continent; contradictions; contributor; controversy; convention; cooper; correspondent; cortes; council; councillor; country; coup; court; creation; creed; critic; critical; criticism; critique; cross; culture; curious; d'alembert; d'holbach; d'état; dageraad; danton; darwin; darwinism; daughter; david; day; days; de la; dead; death; debates; dec; declared; defence; degree; deist; deistic; deity; democratic; deputy; des; descent; deux; development; devil; devoted; dialogues; dictionary; dictionnaire; diderot; dieu; director; disciple; discourses; discussion; distinction; distinguished; divinity; doctor; doctrine; dogmas; dolet; doubts; dramas; dramatic; dublin; duke; dupanloup; dutch; early; earth; east; economist; economy; edinburgh; edition; editor; education; edward; egypt; eighteenth; elements; eliot; eloquence; eloquent; emancipation; emerson; emile; eminent; emperor; empire; encyclopédie; engineer; england; english; english writer; epicurus; ernst; errors; essays; essence; esteemed; etc; eternity; ethics; etienne; eugène; europe; evidences; examination; existence; expedition; experience; extreme; f.r.s; faith; fall; false; family; famous; farm; father; favor; feb; federation; felix; fellow; ferdinand; feuerbach; fine; florence; follower; following; foote; force; fortnightly; fortune; founders; fragments; france; francis; francisco; françois; frederick; freedom; freethinker; freethinking; freethought; french; french author; french man; french philosopher; french physician; french poet; french revolution; french writer; friedrich; friend; friendship; funeral; future; garibaldi; gazette; general; geneva; genius; geologist; geology; george; german; german author; german writer; giovanni; glasgow; god; gods; goethe; good; gospels; government; grand; great; greatest; greek; ground; gustav; göttingen; hague; half; halle; hamburg; happiness; harvard; head; health; heaven; hebrew; hegel; heidelberg; heine; heinrich; helvetius; henry; herbert; heresy; heretical; hibbert; high; historian; historic; history; holland; holy; holyoake; home; honor; house; hugo; human; humanity; humboldt; hume; ibn; ideas; iii; illustrated; immortality; impiety; important; imprisonment; independent; index; india; influence; ingersoll; inquiry; inquisition; institute; instruction; intended; international; intimate; introduction; investigator; italian; italian writer; italy; jacob; jacques; james; jan; jean; jena; jesuits; jesus; jewish; jews; johann; john; joseph; journal; journalist; judge; jules; julian; julius; july; june; jurisprudence; jurist; jury; justice; kant; karl; king; knowledge; known; königsberg; l'avenir; lady; lalande; language; large; larousse; later; latin; law; laws; lawyer; leader; learned; learning; leaving; lectures; lecturing; leeds; left; legal; legion; legislative; leipsic; lessing; letters; lettres; lewes; leyden; liberal; libero; liberty; librarian; library; libre; life; light; like; literary; literature; little; littré; lived; living; ll.d; long; lord; louis; love; lucretius; ludwig; léon; m.a; m.d; m.p; madame; madrid; magazine; manchester; mankind; manual; march; marie; marquis; marriage; married; marseilles; martin; martyr; mary; maréchal; mass; materialism; materialistic; mathematician; mathematics; matter; mazzini; medical; medicine; member; memoirs; mental; mention; methodist; milan; military; mill; mind; minister; ministry; mirabeau; miracles; miscellaneous; miss; mme; modern; mondes; monks; monthly; months; moral; morality; moses; mother; movement; mrs; muhammad; munich; municipal; museum; music; mythology; n.y; naples; napoleon; national; nations; native; natural; natural history; naturalist; nature; nazareth; near; new; nicolas; nineteenth; noble; north; norwich; notes; nouvelle; nov; novelist; novels; number; numerous; née; object; oct; offence; officer; old; operative; opinions; opposition; oracle; orator; order; organ; oriental; orientalist; origin; original; orthodox; outcry; owen; oxford; padua; pagan; paine; pamphlets; pantheism; papal; paper; parents; parliament; party; past; patriot; paul; pen; pensée; people; periodicals; perpetual; personal; peter; petersburg; philadelphia; philip; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physical; physician; physiological; physiologist; physiology; pieces; pierre; pietro; pious; pisa; place; plays; poems; poet; poetry; poland; political; politics; poor; pope; popular; positive; positivist; post; posthumous; power; prayer; preacher; preceding; preface; present; president; press; priest; priestcraft; prince; principal; principal work; principles; printer; prisoner; private; prize; professed; professor; profound; progress; pronounced; property; prosecution; protestant; proudhon; prussia; pseudonym; psychology; publication; publicist; publisher; publishing; pupil; pure; question; rabelais; radical; rationalist; reading; reason; reasoner; reformer; refuge; reign; release; religion; religious; remarkable; renaissance; reply; republican; reputation; researches; restoration; result; retired; return; review; revolution; revolutionary; revolutionist; revue; richard; rights; robert; robespierre; roman; romance; rome; rotterdam; rousseau; royal; russian; sacred; samuel; satan; satire; satirical; saying; sceptical; scepticism; scholar; school; schopenhauer; science; scientific; scientist; scotch; scotland; scott; seat; second; secretary; secular; self; senate; senator; sensation; sense; sentence; sentiments; separation; sept; series; sermons; service; set; shakespeare; shelley; short; signature; similar; simon; sir; sister; sketches; slavery; small; social; socialist; societies; society; sociology; soldier; songs; soul; spain; spanish; speaker; special; speech; spencer; spinoza; spirit; standard; standpoint; state; statesman; stephen; stockholm; stories; strauss; street; strong; student; studies; study; stuttgart; style; subject; success; suicide; sunday; supernatural; superstition; sur; surgeon; swedish; swiss; switzerland; system; taking; task; taylor; teacher; teaching; testament; theodor; theological; theology; theory; things; thinkers; thomas; thomson; thoughts; time; title; toulouse; town; tracts; translation; traveller; travels; treatise; trial; trinity; true; truthseeker; turin; tübingen; uncle; union; unitarian; united; universal; universe; university; unveiled; upsala; valuable; van; venice; victor; vienna; views; vindication; virgin; virginia; volney; vols; voltaire; volumes; von; voyage; war; watson; way; weekly; westminster; wife; wilhelm; william; women; words; work; world; worship; writer; writer b.; writings; xvi; years; york; young; youth; zürich
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        item: #17 of 52
          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: ability; account; active; advanced; age; alleged; animal; argument; atheism; atheists; attributes; author; authority; bacon; berkeley; bible; birth; bishop; body; books; brain; bruno; buckle; butler; case; centuries; century; certain; change; character; chief; christianity; church; class; clergy; common; conception; consciousness; considerable; content; contrary; country; creation; david; day; death; deity; descartes; destruction; divine; doctrine; doubt; early; earth; education; effect; eighteenth; endeavour; england; english; escape; eternal; europe; evidence; example; existence; fact; faculties; faith; fall; false; family; famous; favour; fear; feeling; following; force; form; france; general; god; good; government; grand; great; ground; heaven; hebrew; heresy; heretical; heretics; history; hobbes; holy; human; ideas; image; important; impressions; infinite; influence; intellect; italy; jesus; john; knowledge; known; language; large; latin; laws; learned; left; life; little; living; locke; long; lord; luther; man; mankind; mass; matter; means; men; method; mind; miracles; modern; montaigne; moral; movement; natural; nature; necessary; new; notions; object; old; opinions; order; ordinary; origin; orthodox; paine; particular; parts; pen; people; phenomena; philosophers; philosophy; place; plain; point; political; popular; position; possible; power; present; priests; principles; progress; prominent; public; qualities; read; reason; reasoning; records; rejection; religion; religious; reply; result; revealed; revelation; right; rome; scepticism; school; science; scriptures; sensation; senses; set; seventeenth; sir; sixteenth; society; soul; special; spinoza; spirit; state; subject; substance; sun; superstition; system; theology; things; thought; time; tongue; true; truth; understanding; unknown; use; views; virtue; voltaire; vulgar; william; works; world; writers; writings; years
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        item: #18 of 52
          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: aaron; able; abraham; absolute; absurd; account; action; adam; advantage; afterward; aid; alleged; ancient; angel; animal; answer; argument; assert; atheism; atonement; attention; attributes; authorities; authority; bad; balaam; bear; beginning; beings; belief; believer; best; better; bible; birth; bishop; black; blood; body; book; brain; bread; brethren; brightness; broken; brother; building; capable; capital; cause; certain; change; character; chief; child; children; christian; christianity; chronology; church; circumstances; city; classes; clear; coming; common; complete; conception; conditions; conduct; consequence; consideration; content; country; course; court; creation; creator; crime; crowded; dark; date; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; debate; definition; deity; denial; design; desire; determined; devil; devonport; different; difficulty; disciples; discussion; disease; distinct; divine; doctrine; doubt; drink; duration; duty; early; earth; education; effect; egypt; egyptians; end; endeavor; england; english; esau; escape; essay; eternal; eternity; evening; evidence; existence; existing; expansion; experience; extension; extent; eyes; face; fact; faculties; faculty; fair; faith; fall; false; family; far; father; favor; fear; feeling; fever; fields; finite; fire; fish; flesh; following; follows; food; force; form; fourth; france; free; friends; fruit; fund; future; general; genesis; gillespie; god; gods; good; good god; gospel; government; grave; great; greater; ground; half; hall; hand; happiness; hard; hath; head; heart; heaven; hebrew; hell; help; high; higher; history; hold; holy; home; hope; hour; house; human; humanity; hunger; hungry; idea; ignorance; ignorant; immortal; immutable; important; increase; indefinite; independent; individual; infidel; infinity; influence; intelligence; interest; isaac; israel; jacob; jehovah; jesus; jewish; jews; job; john; jonah; joseph; justice; king; kingdom; knowledge; laban; labor; laborer; land; language; large; late; law; laws; lecture; left; legal; life; like; limited; little; live; living; london; long; look; lord; lost; love; luke; making; man; mankind; manner; mark; material; matter; matthew; meaning; means; meeting; memory; men; mental; mere; mighty; mill; mind; miracle; misery; mode; modern; moment; money; moral; morning; moses; mother; mountain; mouth; murder; nation; natural; nature; nay; near; necessary; need; negro; new; nights; nineveh; notice; number; objection; occasion; offense; offering; office; old; omnipotent; open; opinion; order; ordinary; organization; original; orthodox; pamphlet; paper; parts; past; people; perception; perfect; period; personal; persons; peter; pharaoh; physical; pious; place; pleased; point; political; poor; poor man; population; portion; possible; poverty; power; powerful; prayer; prepared; presence; present; priest; prominent; promise; proof; property; prophet; proposition; public; purpose; quality; question; race; rate; reader; real; reason; reasoning; record; religion; religious; reply; respect; rest; result; rev; revelation; rich; right; road; room; sacrifice; saint; sarah; satan; saul; saying; science; sea; second; self; sense; separate; series; share; ship; short; simon; simple; sin; sir; small; society; sole; son; soul; special; speech; spirit; state; stone; street; strong; struggle; subject; substance; sufficient; sunday; superior; system; talk; tarshish; taught; teach; teachings; temptation; testament; text; thee; theist; theory; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tree; true; truth; turn; types; unable; universe; unknown; urge; value; version; virtue; wages; want; water; way; ways; wealth; wife; wisdom; wise; woman; wonderful; word; word god; work; working; worse; wretched; writer; wrong; years; young
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        item: #19 of 52
          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: able; actions; argument; assistance; belief; cause; certain; day; deity; design; designer; earth; effect; evil; existence; experience; eye; fact; fellows; god; gods; good; great; help; human; improved; infinite; jahveh; kind; life; man; matter; men; method; mode; natural; nature; need; object; organisation; person; poor; reasoning; suffering; theist; things; thought; time; universe; watch; way; work; world; worship
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        item: #20 of 52
          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: age; answer; certain; child; christian; christianity; city; daughter; days; dead; death; delusion; descended; devil; direct; disciples; doubt; earth; end; fact; faith; father; fish; followers; glory; god; good; gospels; great; hand; hath; heart; heaven; high; house; instance; jerusalem; jesus; john; joseph; kingdom; law; life; long; lord; man; mary; men; miracles; mother; multitude; new; nights; people; perfect; peter; place; poor; power; preaching; priests; prophecy; religion; resurrection; right; sea; ship; son; spirit; temple; thee; things; thou; time; true; truth; water; way; whosoever; women; world; worthy
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        item: #21 of 52
          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: able; absence; accepted; account; actions; actual; adaptation; agreement; aim; altogether; ancient; animal; anti; appeal; appearance; application; argument; aspects; associated; assume; assumption; attack; attempt; attitude; authority; bad; beginning; beings; belief; believer; best; better; birth; body; brain; break; capable; capacity; case; causes; centuries; century; certain; change; chapman; chapter; character; chief; child; children; christian; christian religion; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; civilization; civilized; claim; class; clear; cohen; comfort; common; community; complete; conception; concerned; conclusion; conditions; conduct; conflict; conscious; consequence; consideration; control; conviction; country; course; cover; creation; creed; criticism; culture; current; customs; dangerous; darwinism; day; dead; deal; death; defence; definite; definition; degree; deity; design; desire; destruction; development; differences; different; difficult; direction; discussion; distinction; doubt; duty; earlier; early; education; effect; end; england; english; environment; essential; established; ethical; ethics; evidence; evil; evolution; exact; example; existence; experience; explanation; expressed; expression; extent; face; fact; factor; faith; far; favour; fear; features; feelings; food; forces; form; frame; freedom; freethinker; freethought; french; function; future; general; generation; ghost; god; gods; good; government; grave; great; greater; greatest; ground; group; growth; hand; heaven; hell; help; heresy; heretic; higher; historic; history; hold; human; human life; human nature; human society; humanity; ideas; ignorance; immortality; important; independent; individual; inevitable; influence; institutions; intellectual; intelligence; interest; interpretation; intolerance; issue; james; jesus; justice; justification; kind; knowledge; known; language; large; later; law; laws; level; life; like; literature; little; lives; living; long; longer; love; making; man; mankind; manner; material; matter; meaning; means; measure; medium; member; men; mental; mere; method; mind; miracle; modern; moral; morality; motives; movement; mystery; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; non; normal; number; old; ones; operation; opinion; order; organism; origin; particular; past; people; period; persecution; personal; phenomena; philosophical; philosophy; physical; place; plain; play; plea; point; popular; position; positive; possible; postage; power; practice; present; price; priest; primitive; primitive man; principle; problem; process; product; professor; profound; progress; proof; psychological; public; purpose; qualities; quality; question; race; ready; real; reason; rebel; reform; regard; relation; religion; religionist; religious; religious belief; religious man; remains; reply; respect; result; revolt; right; rise; roman; rules; sacrifice; said; savage; saying; schiller; science; scientific; secular; selection; self; sense; service; set; significance; simple; single; slightest; small; social; social life; society; soul; special; speech; spirit; stages; stand; state; statement; strength; strong; structure; struggle; study; subject; supernatural; superstition; survival; system; teaching; terms; theist; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; tribe; true; truth; turn; type; understanding; use; value; variation; view; virtue; war; way; welfare; women; words; work; world; worse; writers; wrong; years
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        item: #22 of 52
          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: bible; blood; body; book; bread; calvin; catholic; children; christ; christian; church; city; creed; crime; day; dead; death; depravity; doctrine; earth; effort; eternal; fact; faith; fire; geneva; god; good; grace; great; hatred; heart; heaven; hell; heresy; heretics; honest; human; idea; ignorant; infamous; infinite; intellectual; irresistible; jesus; john; kind; law; little; lord; man; men; mercy; millions; ministers; nature; old; order; orthodox; people; points; power; prayer; presbyterian; priests; progress; psalm; real; redemption; soul; spirit; sword; thinking; thought; total; true; truth; women; words; world; years
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        item: #23 of 52
          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: ages; animals; astronomy; century; climate; connection; day; death; discoveries; distribution; earth; eternal; fact; faith; fear; general; genius; grand; great; greatest; history; humboldt; ignorance; infinite; intellectual; investigation; knowledge; law; laws; life; man; mankind; men; mountains; nature; new; people; phenomena; physical; picture; plants; pleasure; position; reason; science; scientific; soul; spite; sublime; superstition; thought; time; truth; universe; vast; world
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        item: #24 of 52
          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: advice; best; better; bible; book; brain; brave; children; christian; church; churches; constitution; creed; crime; day; dead; existence; faith; fathers; fear; free; freedom; god; gods; government; great; hand; heaven; hermit; honest; honor; human; ideas; individuality; infamous; infinite; justice; kings; law; liberty; like; little; man; men; mental; minds; obedience; old; opinion; orthodox; people; possible; power; race; reason; religion; religious; right; science; soul; superstition; suppression; thing; thought; traveler; true; truth; tyranny; way; world; worship
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        item: #25 of 52
          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: aaron; abraham; absurd; account; adam; ages; air; animals; answer; ark; author; babes; beasts; belief; best; better; bible; birds; blood; book; canaan; cattle; cause; certain; change; chapter; children; christian; church; civilized; clean; clergy; command; country; course; creation; creature; crime; cruel; darkness; daughters; day; day god; days; dead; death; desert; different; dust; earth; eden; effect; egypt; egyptians; end; eternal; eve; evil; face; fact; faith; fall; family; far; fathers; fear; feet; female; field; fire; firmament; flesh; flies; food; force; form; fourth; fowls; free; frogs; fruit; garden; god; good; grass; great; ground; hail; hand; hate; heart; heaven; hebrews; hell; helpmeet; herb; history; holy; honest; hornets; hours; houses; human; hundreds; ideas; ignorance; ignorant; image; imagination; increase; infamous; infinite; infinite god; inspiration; inspired; intelligent; intended; israel; jehovah; jewish; jews; journey; joy; justice; kind; knowledge; known; labor; land; language; laws; liberty; life; light; like; little; living; long; lord god; lost; love; making; male; man; mankind; matter; meaning; means; men; miles; millions; mind; minister; miracle; mistakes; moment; moon; morning; mosaic; moses; mother; nations; natural; nature; necessary; new; noah; old; order; orthodox; pentateuch; people; person; pharaoh; place; point; polygamy; poor; possible; power; priests; proper; purpose; question; rain; real; reason; reasonable; records; religion; religious; rest; result; revelation; rivers; sabbath; sacred; salvation; savage; science; scientific; sea; seas; second; serpent; seventh; sinai; slavery; sons; soul; speech; spirit; stars; state; stone; stories; story; subject; sun; sweet; sword; things; thought; thousands; time; tree; true; truth; turn; unclean; universe; use; vast; virtue; war; water; way; wicked; wife; wilderness; woman; words; work; world; worship; years
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        item: #26 of 52
          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: account; ages; aid; bad; beautiful; belief; best; bible; blood; book; brain; cause; children; christ; church; conceive; cruel; day; dead; deaf; death; deities; deity; devil; divine; dumb; earth; effect; end; eternal; eternity; evidence; existence; eyes; fact; faith; fall; fear; force; forms; free; fruit; god; gods; good; great; happiness; happy; heaven; history; holy; human; idea; ignorance; ignorant; impossible; infinite; intelligence; interference; knees; knowledge; laws; life; little; long; lord; love; man; material; matter; means; men; mind; miracle; moment; motion; nations; natural; nature; necessity; new; old; order; pain; peace; people; perfect; persons; phenomena; power; powerful; prayer; priests; purpose; real; reason; religion; religious; right; sacred; savage; science; sea; slavery; souls; spirits; stone; superior; superstition; sword; temple; thee; thought; thy; time; tree; true; truth; universal; universe; unknown; war; way; wife; women; world; worship; years
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        item: #27 of 52
          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: absurd; account; advanced; afraid; ages; agony; air; altar; america; angels; animals; answer; argument; arms; army; astronomy; attention; authority; bad; beasts; beautiful; beginning; belief; believe; believers; believeth; best; better; bible; blessed; blood; blow; bodies; body; book; boy; brain; brave; bread; burning; business; calvin; capable; care; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; chain; change; chapter; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; churches; cities; city; civilization; claim; clergy; climate; clouds; coming; command; common; conceive; condition; confidence; constitution; control; corn; countless; countries; country; courage; course; court; cradle; creed; crime; cross; cruel; cruelty; cry; damnation; damned; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deity; depravity; desert; desire; development; devil; difference; direction; disciples; diseases; divine; doctrine; dollars; doubt; dug; dungeons; dust; earth; education; effect; effort; end; enemies; enemy; england; entire; equal; eternal; eternity; europe; everlasting; evidence; existence; experience; express; extent; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; false; family; famine; far; farmer; farming; father; favor; fear; feet; fellow; fields; fire; flames; flesh; flowers; following; food; force; forgiveness; forms; forward; france; free; freedom; friends; frightful; fruit; future; garden; general; generous; genius; gentleman; ghosts; glory; god; gods; gold; good; good man; gospel; government; grand; great; great man; greatest; ground; guilty; half; hands; happiness; happy; hate; hatred; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; heresy; heretics; heroic; high; highest; history; holy; home; honest; honor; hope; house; human; humanity; humboldt; hundreds; husband; hypocrisy; idea; ignorance; ignorant; illinois; imagination; inconsistent; independence; individuality; infamous; infamy; infidel; infinite; innocent; inquisition; inspired; intellectual; intelligence; interest; investigation; iron; jesus; john; joy; judgment; justice; kindness; king; knees; knowledge; known; labor; land; language; law; laws; left; liberty; life; like; lips; little; living; long; look; lord; lost; love; lowest; luke; making; malice; man; mankind; mark; material; matter; matthew; means; medicine; men; mental; merciful; mercy; millions; mind; minister; miracles; moment; money; morning; mother; mountains; murder; music; mysterious; nations; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; new; number; object; old; open; opinion; order; origin; orthodox; paine; particular; passage; past; people; perfect; persons; phantoms; phenomena; piece; pious; pity; place; points; poor; possession; possible; power; powerful; prayer; presbyterian; presence; present; pretended; priests; progress; prosperity; pulpit; punishment; pure; purpose; question; race; real; reason; regard; religion; religious; respect; result; revelation; rich; right; sacred; sacrifice; saints; sake; salvation; satisfied; savage; saved; saying; science; scientific; scriptures; sea; second; self; sense; skulls; sky; slavery; slaves; sleep; small; soil; soul; spirit; spite; splendid; stars; state; stone; storm; strange; subject; sublime; suffering; sun; sunday; superior; supernatural; superstition; supposed; supreme; sweet; sword; system; temple; tender; terrible; testament; thee; theological; things; thinking; thomas; thought; thousands; throne; thy; time; tom; tomb; torture; total; touch; trees; trinity; trouble; true; truth; turn; tyranny; universal; universe; unknown; value; vast; virtue; voice; want; war; water; way; wealth; wesley; white; wife; wild; willing; winter; wisdom; wish; witchcraft; witches; wives; woman; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worship; worth; wrong; years; young
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        item: #28 of 52
          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: aaron; abraham; absurd; account; adam; ages; air; ancient; angels; animals; answer; ark; arms; astronomy; atonement; attention; author; babes; bad; beasts; beautiful; beings; belief; best; better; bible; birds; birth; blood; body; book; brain; brother; care; cattle; cause; centuries; certain; change; chapter; children; christ; christian; christian world; christianity; church; churches; civilization; civilized; clean; clergy; command; conceive; confidence; control; countless; countries; country; course; creation; creator; creature; credulity; creed; crime; cross; cruel; damned; darkness; darwin; daughters; day; day god; days; dead; death; desert; destruction; devil; different; discoveries; divine; doctrine; doubt; dust; duty; earth; eden; effect; egypt; egyptians; end; enemies; eternal; eternity; eve; evidence; existence; experience; eyes; face; fact; fact god; faith; fall; false; falsehood; family; far; father; fear; feet; fellow; field; fire; firmament; fish; flesh; food; force; form; foundation; fourth; fowls; free; freedom; fruit; future; garden; geology; god; gods; good; good god; government; grass; grave; great; greatest; ground; hail; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hate; hatred; head; heart; heathen; heaven; hebrews; hell; help; helpmeet; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; hope; hours; house; human; hundreds; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; image; imagination; immortality; increase; india; infamous; infinite; infinite god; innocent; inspiration; inspired; intellectual; intelligent; investigation; israel; jehovah; jerusalem; jewish; jews; journey; joy; judgment; justice; kind; king; knowledge; known; labor; land; language; laws; left; liberty; life; light; like; lips; little; living; long; lord god; lost; love; making; male; man; mankind; matter; meaning; means; memory; men; mercy; miles; millions; mind; minister; miracles; miraculous; missionary; mistakes; modern; moment; money; moon; morning; mosaic; moses; mother; music; myth; nations; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; noah; old; order; origin; original; orthodox; pain; parts; passages; past; pentateuch; people; perfect; person; pharaoh; philosophy; place; polygamy; poor; possible; power; priests; providence; punishment; pure; purpose; question; race; real; real god; reason; reasonable; records; religion; religious; rest; result; resurrection; revelation; reward; rights; rivers; sabbath; sacred; sacrifice; salvation; savage; schools; science; scientific; sea; seas; second; serpent; seventh; shakespeare; sin; sinai; single; sins; slavery; slaves; sons; soul; space; special; speech; spirit; spiritual; standard; stars; state; stone; stories; story; subject; sun; supernatural; superstition; sword; system; temples; testament; thee; theologians; theology; things; thought; thousands; thy; time; tree; true; truth; turn; universal; universe; unknown; use; vast; virtue; want; war; water; way; white; wicked; wife; wilderness; willing; wise; wish; wives; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; worship; wrath; wrong; years; young
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        item: #29 of 52
          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: absurd; account; action; afterward; age; american; ancestors; angels; argument; arms; army; ashes; astronomy; attention; author; authority; babes; bacon; bad; battle; bear; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bed; belief; believers; best; better; bible; birds; birth; blood; blossom; bodies; body; bones; book; brain; break; breast; breath; broken; burning; burns; business; care; cast; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; chains; change; character; children; christ; christians; church; city; civilized; clay; close; clouds; cold; committed; common; conscience; contempt; council; country; courage; course; cradle; creed; cries; crime; cross; cruel; cruelty; cry; cured; cæsar; daniel; darkness; david; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; declaration; devils; diderot; difference; disciples; diseases; divine; divinity; doctrine; doubt; dramatic; dramatist; dream; dungeons; dust; duty; dying; earth; education; effort; emancipation; emperor; enemies; enemy; england; english; equal; eternal; evidence; example; existence; expression; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; fallen; false; familiar; family; famine; far; father; favor; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fields; fighting; fire; flame; flesh; flower; following; force; form; france; free; freedom; french; friends; general; generous; genius; gentle; ghost; glory; god; gods; gold; good; good man; gospel; government; grave; great; great man; greater; greatest; grief; ground; hand; happiness; happy; hath; hatred; head; heart; heaven; hell; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; hope; horror; house; human; humanity; hume; humor; husband; hypocrisy; idea; ignorance; ignorant; iii; imagination; independence; infamous; infidels; infinite; innocent; insane; inspiration; inspired; intellectual; intelligent; iron; jehovah; jesus; jews; john; joseph; joshua; joy; judges; judgment; julian; justice; kind; king; knowledge; known; labor; lands; language; laughter; law; laws; lawyer; learning; leaves; left; liberty; lies; life; like; lincoln; line; lips; literature; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; luke; macbeth; makes; man; mankind; mark; marvelous; mary; matter; matthew; means; meet; memory; men; merciful; mercy; millions; mind; ministers; miracles; miraculous; mistakes; moment; money; moral; morality; morning; moses; mother; murder; music; names; nation; natural; nature; necessary; new; night; noble; north; number; old; old man; open; opinion; oppressed; order; origin; pain; painter; parents; party; passion; past; pathos; people; perfect; perpetual; person; philosophers; philosophy; pictures; pieces; pity; place; play; poem; poet; poetic; poetry; political; poor; pope; position; possession; possible; poverty; power; prayer; presence; present; president; pretended; priests; principle; proclamation; progress; property; protestants; pulpit; pure; queen; question; race; read; reading; real; reason; regard; religion; religious; republic; respectable; rest; result; return; revelation; revenge; rich; rights; road; robert; rome; rule; sacred; saint; sake; satisfied; saw; saying; scene; science; scorn; scotch; scotland; sea; second; seeds; self; sense; shadows; shakespeare; silent; simple; sky; slavery; slaves; sleep; small; smile; soldiers; solemn; song; sons; soul; south; speech; spinoza; spirit; spite; stage; stand; stars; states; stone; story; strange; subject; success; sun; superior; supernatural; superstition; supposed; sweet; sword; taking; tear; temple; tender; tennyson; testament; thee; theologians; theological; theories; theory; things; thinkers; thomas; thought; thousands; throne; thy; time; torture; touch; tree; true; truth; turn; union; universal; universe; unknown; use; uttered; value; vast; virtue; voice; voltaire; walls; walt; want; war; water; way; ways; weak; wealth; white; whitman; wide; wife; willing; wings; wisdom; wise; wish; wit; wives; women; wonderful; words; work; world; worship; writers; wrong; years; young
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        item: #30 of 52
          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: absurd; accordance; account; adam; ages; aid; air; ancient; angels; animals; answer; apostles; arms; atonement; babes; bad; beasts; beautiful; beginning; beings; belief; believe; best; better; bible; birth; blessed; blood; bodies; body; bones; books; brain; brave; business; care; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; chains; change; chapter; children; christ; christianity; christians; church; churches; civilization; civilized; clergy; coming; common; conditions; countless; countries; country; courage; course; creation; creator; credulity; creed; crime; cruel; cruelty; darkness; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; denial; design; desire; devil; difference; disciples; disease; divided; divine; dogma; dollars; doubt; dream; dumb; dungeons; dust; duty; earth; education; effect; egypt; end; enemies; enemy; england; enslaved; eternal; europe; evidence; existence; experience; eyes; facts; faith; fall; false; famine; far; father; favor; fear; feet; fellow; field; fire; firmament; flames; flesh; flower; food; force; forms; foundation; free; freedom; friends; future; generous; genius; ghost; god; gods; gold; good; good god; goodness; government; great; greatest; hand; happiness; happy; hate; hatred; heart; heaven; hell; help; herod; highest; history; holy; home; honest; hope; horror; house; human; hundreds; idea; idiotic; ignorance; ignorant; iii; imagination; increase; infamous; infinite; infinite god; innocent; insane; inspired; intellectual; intelligent; interest; investigation; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; joseph; joy; judas; judgment; justice; kindness; king; knowledge; known; labor; land; language; law; laws; leaves; left; liberty; life; light; like; lips; little; lives; living; long; longer; lord; lost; love; luke; making; malicious; man; mankind; mary; matter; matthew; means; mechanics; men; mental; merciful; mercy; millions; mind; ministers; miracles; mistakes; money; monsters; moon; moral; moses; mother; murder; myths; nations; nature; necessary; need; new; number; old; old man; origin; orthodox; pain; parents; passion; past; pay; people; perfect; personification; persons; pestilence; philosophy; pious; pity; place; poem; poor; popes; possible; poverty; power; prayer; present; priests; prison; progress; public; punishment; purpose; question; race; rags; real; reason; reasonable; reform; religion; religious; result; revelation; revenge; reward; rich; road; sacred; sacrifice; saints; sake; salvation; satan; satisfied; savage; schools; science; scriptures; second; seeds; self; sense; serpent; sins; slavery; slaves; soul; speech; spirits; spite; stand; stars; states; step; stone; story; straw; subject; substance; suffering; sun; superior; supernatural; superstition; sword; talk; temple; terrible; testament; thee; theologians; theological; theology; things; think; thinkers; thought; thousands; time; torture; trinity; true; truth; united; universal; universe; unknown; use; useful; vain; value; vast; vii; virtues; virtuous; voice; voltaire; walls; want; war; waste; water; way; wealth; white; wicked; wife; wild; wings; wisdom; wise; wish; witchcraft; witches; women; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; worship; worth; writers; wrong; years; young
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        item: #31 of 52
          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: able; absurd; accordance; account; adam; air; american; angels; animals; answer; appearance; argument; ark; ask; atonement; attention; author; authority; average; babes; bad; bear; beastly; beasts; bed; belief; believers; best; better; bible; birds; bishop; blasphemy; body; book; brain; business; canaanites; care; catholic; century; certain; chains; chapter; character; charge; cheetham; children; christ; christian; christianity; church; cities; city; civilized; clear; coming; commandment; common; condition; confidence; consideration; control; convinced; country; course; cowardly; creed; crime; cross; cruel; cruelty; dangerous; daniel; david; day; days; dead; death; destruction; die; disease; divine; doctrine; dollars; doubt; drunken; dust; duty; early; earth; education; effect; egypt; enemies; england; equal; esther; eternal; eternity; eusebius; evidence; evil; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; false; falsehood; famine; father; favor; fear; feet; fellow; field; fire; fish; flesh; flood; following; force; forgive; form; fourth; france; free; friends; fruit; garden; general; genesis; gentleman; geology; glory; god; gold; good; good god; good man; gospel; government; grapes; great; greater; ground; hand; happy; hate; hatred; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; hicks; high; hinsdale; history; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; house; human; hundreds; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; impure; infamous; infidel; infidelity; infinite; infinite god; ingersoll; inspiration; inspired; intellectual; interview; irenæus; israel; james; jehovah; jeremiah; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; john; jonah; joshua; joy; judge; judgment; justice; kind; kindness; king; knowledge; koran; land; language; laws; left; liberty; life; like; little; live; living; long; look; lord; lord god; lost; love; making; man; mankind; mary; matter; means; men; merciful; mercy; millions; mind; ministers; miracles; miraculous; mistake; modern; moment; money; moon; moral; morning; moses; mother; mount; mouth; murder; nation; natural; nature; necessary; new; noah; number; object; observer; offer; office; oil; old; omnipotence; open; opinion; order; original; orthodox; paine; paper; parents; particular; passages; paul; people; perfect; person; personal; pestilence; pity; place; pleased; point; political; polygamy; poor; position; possible; power; prepared; presbyterian; present; pretended; priest; prophets; protestant; public; punishment; purpose; question; reading; ready; real; reason; reasonable; regard; religion; religious; reputation; respect; rest; rev; revelation; right; room; roscoe; rule; sacred; saint; salvation; satisfied; saying; science; scientific; scriptures; sea; second; sense; sermon; seventh; sheep; ship; sin; sinner; sir; slavery; slightest; small; solomon; sons; soul; spirit; stand; state; statement; stories; story; subject; suffer; sufficient; sun; supernatural; superstition; sword; system; talmage; testament; testimony; thee; theology; theory; things; thomas; thomas paine; thorburn; thorns; thought; thousands; thy; time; time god; tree; true; truth; turn; united; universe; use; visit; voltaire; vote; want; war; wars; water; way; whale; wife; william; willing; wings; wisdom; wish; witnesses; wives; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; worship; writers; writings; wrong; years; york; young
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        item: #32 of 52
          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: able; abraham; absolute; absurd; acceptance; accordance; account; action; acts; adultery; affection; air; almighty; american; ananias; ancient; angels; animals; answer; apostles; appeal; archdeacon; argument; arms; article; assertion; assistance; atonement; attention; augustine; authority; babes; bad; beasts; beginning; beings; belief; believer; believing; benevolence; best; better; bible; birth; bishop; black; blasphemy; blind; blood; bodies; body; bond; book; brain; breast; bring; broken; calling; canon; capable; cardinal; care; case; catholic; catholic church; catholicism; causes; centuries; century; certain; change; chapter; character; charity; children; christ; christendom; christian; christian church; christian world; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; city; civilization; civilized; claim; clouds; code; col; cold; coming; command; commandments; common; conceive; conception; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; conscience; consequences; consideration; consolation; contempt; contract; contrary; control; council; countless; countries; country; course; creation; creator; creatures; credulity; creed; crime; criminal; cruel; cruelties; cruelty; damned; darkness; darwin; daughter; day; days; dead; dean; dear; death; deeds; degree; demand; desert; design; desire; destruction; development; difference; direct; disciples; divine; divorce; doctrine; dogma; doubt; dungeons; duty; early; earth; education; effect; effort; egypt; end; enemies; enemy; england; episcopal; equal; error; escape; established; eternal; eternity; everlasting; evidence; evil; example; existence; exists; experience; expression; extermination; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; false; family; famine; far; fate; father; favor; fear; feel; feeling; feet; fellow; field; fire; flames; flesh; followers; following; food; force; forgiveness; form; foundation; founder; freedom; friend; future; general; ghost; giving; gladstone; god; gods; good; good god; good man; goodness; gospel; government; grave; great; greater; greatest; greek; ground; guilty; half; hand; happiness; happy; harmony; hate; hath; hatred; head; heart; heathen; heaven; hell; help; helpless; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honest man; hope; house; human; human heart; human life; human mind; human nature; human race; hundreds; husband; idea; idolatry; ignorance; ignorant; iii; imagination; immortality; important; increase; indissolubility; infallible god; infamous; infinite; infinite god; influence; ingersoll; innocent; inquisition; insane; inspiration; inspired; instance; institution; integrity; intellectual; intelligence; interest; investigation; irenã; jehovah; jephthah; jesus; jewish; jews; john; joseph; joy; judea; judge; judgment; justice; justified; kindness; kings; know; knowledge; labor; land; language; large; law; laws; leave; legislation; liberty; life; like; line; lips; little; long; look; lord; lost; love; loving; luke; majority; making; man; mankind; mark; marriage; married; matter; matthew; meaning; means; memory; men; mental; merciful; mercy; mere; millions; mind; minister; miracles; miraculous; misery; mistake; modern; mohammed; moment; money; monster; moral; morality; mosaic; moses; mother; murder; music; mystery; names; nations; natural; natural man; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neighbor; new; noble; number; obedience; obligation; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; origin; original; orthodox; pagan; pain; parents; particular; parties; party; passages; passion; past; paul; people; perfect; perpetual; persecution; personal; personality; persons; peter; pharaoh; philosophers; philosophy; pity; place; pleasure; point; political; polygamy; poor; pope; position; possibility; possible; poverty; power; powerful; practice; prayer; prejudice; presbyterian; presence; present; priests; principles; process; progress; prohibition; promise; proof; property; prophets; public; punishment; pure; purity; purpose; question; race; reach; real; reason; reasoning; record; regard; relations; religion; religious; reply; respect; responsible; rest; result; resurrection; retribution; return; revelation; revenge; review; right; righteousness; robert; rome; rule; sacrament; sacred; sacrifice; sake; salvation; satisfied; savage; saying; scheme; science; scriptures; sea; second; self; sense; sentence; set; shakespeare; shows; simple; sin; sins; slavery; slightest; small; social; society; soldiers; soul; source; space; special; spirit; spiritual; spite; spread; standard; star; state; statement; step; strange; strong; subject; success; suffering; sufficient; sun; superior; supernatural; superstition; supposed; supreme; sword; system; teacher; teachings; tender; terms; testament; thee; theologians; theological; theory; things; thought; thousands; thy; time; torture; tradition; treatment; true; true god; truth; turn; tyranny; unbelief; united; unity; universal; universe; unknown; vast; vicar; victims; view; virtue; virtuous; visible; voice; vow; want; war; wars; water; way; weak; weight; wicked; wide; wife; wild; willing; wisdom; wise; wish; witnesses; wives; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; worship; worth; writer; wrong; years; young; young man
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        item: #33 of 52
          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: able; absolute; absurd; account; actions; acts; advance; afraid; ages; agony; american; angels; answer; argument; article; astronomy; atonement; attack; attention; authority; average; bad; bad man; beautiful; belief; believe; best; better; bible; blasphemy; blood; body; book; brain; buckley; burning; business; calls; care; catholic; cause; centuries; century; certain; chains; change; character; charitable; charity; children; christianity; christians; church; churches; circumstances; city; civilization; civilized; clergy; clergymen; colonel; comegys; common; conceive; conception; conditions; consequences; contempt; control; countries; country; courage; course; creator; credit; creed; crime; cruel; cruelty; damned; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; death; degree; delaware; destruction; devil; die; difference; discussion; distinctions; divine; doctor; doctrine; doubt; dust; duty; dying; earth; editor; education; effect; end; enemies; england; eternal; eternity; europe; evidence; example; existence; experience; extent; eyes; fact; failure; faith; fall; false; far; father; fault; favor; fear; fellow; field; fire; flame; flesh; following; food; force; form; foundation; france; free; freedom; french; friends; frightful; future; general; gentleman; ghosts; god; gods; good; good god; good man; goodness; gospels; government; grand; great; great man; greatest; grief; ground; guilty; hand; happiness; happy; hatred; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; heretic; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; hope; house; human; hundreds; idea; ignorance; ignorant; imagination; imagine; immortality; importance; imprisoned; increase; infamous; infidelity; infidels; infinite; infinite god; ingersoll; insane; inspiration; inspired; institution; intellectual; intelligent; interest; interview; jehovah; jesus; jews; john; joy; judge; judgment; jury; justice; kind; kindness; king; known; labor; land; language; large; law; laws; leave; lecture; left; liberty; life; like; line; lips; literature; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; lost; love; majority; man; man christ; mankind; matter; mean; men; merciful; mercy; message; millions; mind; ministers; misery; mistaken; modern; moment; money; morality; moses; mother; murder; nations; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; norden; object; old; opinion; opposed; order; origin; orthodox; pain; paper; penitentiary; people; perfect; persecution; personal; persons; philosophy; physical; pity; place; plumb; political; polygamy; poor; position; possible; power; prayer; present; priests; progress; protestant; public; pulpit; punishment; purpose; question; race; reading; real; reason; regard; religion; religious; reply; republic; respect; responsibility; responsible; rest; result; rev; revenge; reverence; reverend; rich; right; robert; rome; sacred; salvation; satisfied; schools; science; scientific; scriptures; sea; second; self; sense; sermon; shakespeare; sin; slavery; sleep; slightest; society; soul; speech; spirit; spiritual; spite; splendid; stand; stars; state; statement; step; stone; storm; subject; suffering; suicide; sun; superior; supernatural; superstition; supposed; sword; talk; telegram; testament; thee; theology; theory; things; thinking; thomas; thought; thousands; thy; tidings; time; torture; trouble; true; truth; united; universe; use; value; vast; views; virtues; voltaire; want; watchman; water; way; wealth; whipping; wife; willing; wisdom; wise; wish; woman; words; work; world; worse; worship; worth; wrong; years; york
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        item: #34 of 52
          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: --_the; able; absolute; absurd; accordance; account; acting; action; actors; acts; administration; advanced; affairs; afraid; amendment; american; american people; ancient; angels; animals; answer; appeal; argument; army; article; arts; asking; atheist; attack; attention; authority; average; bacon; bad; banks; basis; bear; beautiful; beauty; beecher; beginning; beings; belief; believer; benefit; best; better; bible; bill; blaine; blood; bodies; body; book; bound; boy; brain; briggs; brother; burden; business; cabinet; campaign; candidate; capital; care; case; catholic; causes; centuries; century; certain; chances; change; character; charity; chicago; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; citizens; city; civilization; civilized; civilized man; claim; class; clergy; clergyman; cleveland; clothes; colonel; colored; colored man; colored people; coming; common; community; company; concerned; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; congress; conkling; consequence; consideration; consolation; constitution; contract; contrary; control; convention; convinced; corn; countless; countries; country; courage; course; court; credit; creed; crime; criminals; cruel; cruelty; cut; damned; dangerous; darwin; day; days; dead; deal; death; decided; decision; defeat; degree; demand; democracy; democratic; department; desire; destruction; difference; direction; discussion; disease; disgrace; dishonest; district; divided; divorce; doctrine; dollars; door; doubt; drama; drink; duties; duty; earth; education; effect; effort; election; endeavor; endeavoring; enemies; enemy; england; english; entire; equal; equality; eternal; eternity; europe; evidence; evil; example; excellent; existence; experience; express; extent; eyes; fact; failure; fair; faith; fall; falsehood; family; far; father; favor; fear; federal; feeling; feet; fellow; fields; fine; fire; flag; flesh; following; food; foolish; force; foreign; form; foundation; free; freedom; french; friends; future; garfield; general; generous; genius; gentleman; george; germany; glad; god; gods; gold; good; good man; good people; goodness; gospel; government; grant; grave; great; great man; great people; great question; greater; greatest; ground; growth; guilty; guiteau; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; harlan; harm; harmony; hate; hatred; head; heart; heartless; heathen; heaven; hell; help; helpless; henry; herald; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; hope; hours; house; human; humanity; hundreds; hungry; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; illinois; imagination; immortality; importance; increase; indiana; individual; industries; industry; infamous; infidel; infinite; influence; information; ingersoll; insane; inspiration; inspired; instance; institutions; integrity; intellectual; intelligent; intelligent man; interest; interview; islands; issue; jehovah; jews; john; joy; judge; judgment; jury; justice; keeping; kind; kindness; kings; knowledge; known; labor; lack; language; lansing; large; law; laws; lead; leave; lecture; legislation; liberal; liberalism; liberty; life; like; line; liquor; literature; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lord; lost; love; majority; making; malicious; man; mankind; market; marriage; material; matter; mean; meaning; meeting; members; memory; men; mental; mercy; methodist; millions; mills; mind; ministers; miracles; miraculous; miserable; mistake; mob; modern; moment; money; moral; morality; morning; moses; mother; movement; murder; music; names; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neighbors; new; new man; newton; noble; nomination; november; number; oath; object; objection; obligation; office; ohio; old; open; opinion; opportunity; opposed; orator; order; origin; orthodox; pain; papers; parents; particular; parties; partnership; party; passages; passion; past; pay; penitentiary; people; perfect; period; person; personal; philosophy; pictures; piece; place; platform; play; pleasure; plenty; poetic; poetry; point; policy; political; politics; polygamy; poor; poor man; pope; popular; position; possession; possible; post; poverty; power; prayers; preach; preached; preachers; prejudices; presbyterian; presence; present; president; price; priest; principal; principle; probability; produce; progress; prohibition; prohibitionists; property; proportion; prosperous; protection; pulpit; punishment; purpose; question; race; raw; read; reading; real; reason; reasonable; rebellion; recent; reform; regard; relation; religion; religious; religious people; remains; reply; republican; reputation; resort; respect; responsible; result; rev; revenge; rich; right; road; robert; rule; sabbath; sacred; sake; salvation; satisfied; savage; saw; saying; schools; science; scientific; scriptures; sea; second; section; secularism; self; senate; senator; sense; sensible; sentiment; sermons; service; set; shakespeare; sherman; short; shows; silver; simple; sincere; slavery; slightest; small; social; society; soul; source; south; southern; sovereignty; speak; speaking; speech; spirit; spiritualism; spite; splendid; stand; standard; star; state; statement; step; strength; strong; subject; success; successful; sugar; sunday; superior; supernatural; superstition; support; supreme; surplus; sympathy; system; talk; talking; tariff; tax; taxation; temperance; tendency; testament; theatre; theological; theology; theories; theory; things; think; thinking; thomas; thought; thousands; throw; ticket; time; tired; toil; trade; trial; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; understood; union; united; universal; universe; use; useless; value; vast; vice; victim; victory; views; virtue; vote; vulgar; wages; wait; want; war; washington; water; way; weak; wealth; week; west; whipping; white; wife; wild; willing; wine; wisdom; wise; wish; wishes; witness; witnesses; wives; women; wonderful; words; work; working; workingmen; world; worse; worth; wrong; years; york; young; young man
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        item: #35 of 52
          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: abraham; account; address; air; american; american people; appeal; applause; argument; arms; army; audience; average; babes; bad; ballot; banner; battle; beings; best; better; bill; black man; blaine; blood; bloodhound; body; bonds; books; box; brain; brave; broad; broken; brothers; bryan; bushel; business; campaign; capital; care; cause; cents; century; certain; chains; change; character; charity; cheap; cheers; chicago; children; church; cities; citizens; city; civilization; civilized; claim; coin; col; colonies; colored; colored man; commerce; committee; common; condition; confidence; congress; conscience; constitution; continent; control; convention; corn; corner; country; courage; course; courts; credit; crime; cruel; cry; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; debt; declaration; defence; demand; democracy; democratic party; democrats; desire; destruction; difference; disgrace; district; doctrine; dollars; door; dream; duty; earth; education; election; enemy; england; entire; equal; equality; eternal; europe; extent; eyes; face; fact; failure; fair; false; far; farmers; fathers; favor; fear; federal; feet; fellow; fiat; field; fighting; financial; fire; flag; flame; force; forward; foundation; fraud; free; free country; free government; free labor; free man; free speech; freedom; friends; fugitive; future; garfield; general; genius; gentlemen; globe; glorious; glory; god; gold; good; good man; governed; government; governor; grand; grandest; great; great men; great party; great republic; greater; greatest; greenback; ground; half; hall; hancock; hand; happy; hard; hate; hayes; head; heart; heaven; help; heroes; heroic; high; history; hold; home; honest; honest man; honest money; honor; hope; hour; house; human; humanity; hundreds; husbands; idea; ignorant; illinois; independence; indiana; individual; industry; infamous; inflation; influence; ingersoll; intellectual; intelligence; interest; iron; jail; james; john; joy; judge; judgment; justice; keeping; kind; kings; labor; ladies; land; large; law; laws; leave; left; legal; liberties; liberty; lie; life; like; lincoln; line; lips; little; lived; living; long; look; lost; love; magnificent; maine; majority; making; man; manhood; mankind; market; material; matter; means; measure; meeting; men; miles; millions; mind; moment; money; mothers; music; nation; national; nature; necessary; need; negro; negroes; new; noble; north; northern; note; number; object; office; officers; old; old man; open; opinion; opposed; orator; order; pacific; page; paper; parties; partnership; party; pass; past; patriotism; pay; peace; penitentiary; people; perpetual; persons; platform; plenty; point; policy; political; politics; poor; poor man; possible; power; present; preservation; president; press; principle; produce; progress; promise; prosperity; prosperous; protection; pure; purpose; question; race; raw; real; reason; rebellion; rebels; record; reform; religion; religious; republican party; republicans; reputation; respect; result; revenue; revolution; rich; rich man; right; rivers; robert; room; rule; run; rutherford; sacred; safety; said; samuel; satisfied; saw; saying; schools; sea; second; section; secure; self; sense; service; set; shining; shot; silver; single; sixteen; slavery; slaves; soil; soldiers; soul; source; south; southern; sovereignty; speaker; speech; speeches; spirit; splendid; stand; standard; standing; star; states; step; stop; street; subject; sublime; successful; sun; superior; support; supreme; sword; talk; tariff; taxes; tender; terrible; thing; thought; thousands; ticket; tilden; time; tired; toil; trade; trouble; true; trust; truth; union; union men; united; united states; universal; use; value; vast; victory; voice; vote; wall; want; war; washington; way; wealth; west; wheat; white; white man; wide; wife; wild; william; willing; wives; women; wonderful; words; work; world; wrong; years; york
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        item: #36 of 52
          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: absolute; accordance; account; action; acts; admission; advanced; affidavit; afraid; agreement; alleged; american; animals; answer; april; argument; arrangement; assistant; attention; attorney; august; bad; balance; bargain; benefit; best; bid; bidding; bids; blank; bliss; bond; books; boone; bosler; brady; brother; business; care; case; cent; certain; character; charge; check; children; circumstances; city; claim; clear; clients; colonel; comes; committee; common; concerned; confidence; congress; connection; consideration; consistent; conspiracy; conspirator; contract; contractors; conversation; copy; correct; corroboration; cost; counsel; country; course; court; cousin; crime; cross; daily; date; davis; day; days; dead; deal; december; decide; defendants; defraud; department; description; difference; distance; divided; division; doctrine; dollars; donnelly; doubt; duty; earth; eddy; effect; entire; entitled; evidence; exact; examination; expedition; fact; false; far; faster; fatal; fellow; file; filing; fines; fraud; fraudulent; free; friend; general; gentlemen; genuine; good; government; great; ground; guilty; half; hands; handwriting; hard; heart; honest; honest man; honor; hope; horses; hours; house; human; hundreds; idea; important; increase; indictment; information; ingersoll; innocence; innocent; instance; instead; instructions; interest; j. w.; jacob; james; january; jennings; job; john; john w.; judge; judgment; july; june; jury; justice; ker; kind; knight; known; large; law; leave; left; letter; liberal; liberty; lie; life; like; line; little; logwood; long; looking; loss; macveagh; mail; making; man; man rerdell; march; marked; matter; mcbean; means; memorandum; memory; merrick; mexico; miles; millions; mind; miner; mistake; mitchell; moment; money; month; moore; morning; mr dorsey; mrs; munn; national; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; note; notice; number; oath; object; offence; offer; office; old; opinion; order; original; overt; page; papers; particular; parties; partnership; pay; peck; pencil; penitentiary; people; perfect; perjury; persons; petitions; place; point; poor; position; possession; possible; postmaster; power; prejudice; presence; present; price; profit; proof; property; proportion; proposals; prosecution; public; purpose; quarter; question; rascality; reason; reasonable; received; record; red; reference; regard; rehm; report; reputation; rerdell; result; right; room; route; rule; s. w.; said; sake; sanderson; schedule; scheme; sconce; second; secret; security; senate; senator; sense; service; set; settlement; showing; shows; sign; sir; slightest; smith; solitary; speech; stand; star; statement; states; stealing; stephen; stephen w.; story; subcontract; subcontractors; subject; sum; suspicious; swearing; talk; testimony; things; think; thirty; thought; thousands; time; time mr; torrey; treasury; trial; trips; trouble; true; truth; turn; turner; united; utterly; vaile; variance; verdict; w. dorsey; want; washington; way; week; west; white; wife; willing; witness; witnesses; woman; woodward; word; work; worth; wrong; years; york
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        item: #37 of 52
          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: 13th; 14th; absolute; absurd; absurdities; accordance; account; action; acts; addition; advantage; afraid; ages; agnostic; air; altar; amendment; american; ancient; animals; answer; appeal; argument; army; article; artist; astronomy; atonement; attack; attention; authority; average man; babes; bad; battle; bear; beasts; beautiful; beings; belief; believe; believers; benefit; best; better; bible; bishop; black; blasphemous; blasphemy; blood; body; book; brain; business; capable; capital; care; case; catholic; centuries; century; certain; chains; change; character; charity; children; china; chinese; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; citizens; civilization; civilized; civilized man; claim; clause; clothes; college; colonel; color; colored; commandments; commerce; common; community; conceive; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; congress; conscience; consequences; consideration; constitution; contempt; contrary; control; convict; convinced; countless; countries; country; courage; course; court; creation; creator; credulity; creed; crime; criminals; cruel; cruelty; damned; darkness; darwin; david; day; days; dead; deal; death; decided; decision; declaration; defendant; deformed; demand; denial; desire; development; difference; direction; divine; doctrine; dogma; dollars; doubt; duties; duty; early; earth; easy; educated; education; effect; effort; egotism; egypt; enemies; enemy; england; english; entire; equal; equality; established; eternal; evidence; evil; exercise; existence; experience; express; expression; extent; eyes; fact; faith; fall; false; falsehoods; far; fathers; favor; fear; federal; feel; feeling; feet; fellow; field; fire; flag; flame; flesh; following; food; force; form; foundation; free; free man; freedom; friends; fruit; future; general; generous; genius; gentlemen; geology; glory; god; gods; gold; good; good man; good people; goodness; gospel; government; great; great man; greater; greatest; ground; guide; guilty; hand; happiness; happy; hard; harmony; hate; hatred; head; heart; heartless; heathen; heaven; hebrew; hell; help; higher; highest; history; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; hope; horizon; hours; house; human; human race; humanity; hundreds; huxley; idea; ignorance; ignorant; imagination; immunities; important; improved man; increased; independence; indictment; individual; industry; infamous; infidel; infinite; ingersoll; insane; inspiration; inspired; intellectual; intelligence; intelligent man; interest; investigation; involuntary; jehovah; jersey; jesus; jewish; jews; john; joy; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; jury; justice; kind; kindness; king; knowledge; knows; labor; land; language; large; law; laws; leave; left; legislation; liable; liberty; life; like; lips; little; lives; living; long; look; lord; lost; love; majority; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; meaning; means; meet; men; mental; merciful; mercy; millions; mind; ministers; minority; miracles; miraculous; missionaries; mistakes; mob; moment; money; moral; morality; morristown; moses; mother; music; names; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; noblest; number; object; obligation; office; old; opinion; opposed; order; origin; orthodox; paine; pamphlet; paper; particular; party; passages; passion; past; pay; penitentiary; people; perfect; perfect man; perpetual; persons; philosophy; pictures; pity; place; pleasure; point; political; poor; poor man; positive; possible; poverty; power; prayer; prejudice; presbyterian; presence; present; preservation; priests; principal; principles; prison; private; privileges; probable; progress; property; protection; providence; public; pulpit; punishment; purpose; question; race; reading; real; reason; reasonable; reformation; regard; relations; religion; religious; renan; republic; responsible; result; revenge; rich; right; robert; room; rule; sacred; sacrifice; said; sake; salvation; satisfied; savage; saying; school; science; scientific; scriptures; sea; second; seeds; self; sense; sentiment; service; servitude; slavery; slaves; sleep; slightest; social; society; solomon; soul; sound; sovereign; speaking; speech; spirit; spiritual; spite; splendid; spoken; stand; stars; state; statement; statues; statute; step; stone; story; strong; subject; sun; sunday; superior; supernatural; superstition; supply; support; suppose; supreme; sword; sympathy; system; talk; testament; testimony; theological; things; thinking; thomas; thought; thousands; time; torture; touch; trial; trouble; true; true god; truth; turn; tyranny; unconstitutional; union; united; united states; universal; universe; unknown; use; useful; value; vast; verdict; victims; view; virtue; vote; vs.; want; war; water; way; weak; wealth; white; white man; wicked; wife; wild; willing; wisdom; wise; wish; witnesses; women; wonderful; words; work; working; world; worse; worship; worth; writers; written; wrong; years; york; young man
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        item: #38 of 52
          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: absolute; account; action; actors; admiral; afraid; american; answer; anxious; arms; army; artist; attack; attention; author; authority; average; babes; bad; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beings; belief; best; better; bible; blessed; blood; body; book; brain; brave; briggs; business; capable; care; cause; centuries; century; certain; chains; change; character; charitable; charity; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; citizens; city; civilization; civilized; civilized man; claim; clouds; club; cold; colonel; coming; committee; common; conditions; confidence; congress; conscience; consequences; constitution; contempt; countless; country; courage; course; court; creed; crime; cruel; cruelty; cuba; darkness; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; deeds; defence; destruction; development; difference; dinner; direction; divine; doctrine; doubt; drama; dream; dust; duty; earth; education; enemies; enemy; england; enslave; equal; eternal; evening; evidence; existence; experience; express; extent; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; false; family; far; farewell; father; fault; favor; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fields; fire; fit; flag; flame; flesh; flower; food; force; form; foundation; free; freedom; freethought; friend; fruit; funeral; future; gain; general; generous; generous man; genius; gentlemen; giving; glad; gloom; glory; god; gods; gold; good; good man; goodness; government; grant; gratitude; great; great good; great man; greater; greatest; grief; growth; half; hands; happens; happiness; happy; hate; hatred; having; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; higher; highest; history; hold; holy; home; honest; honest man; honor; honored; hope; horizon; hour; house; human; humanity; humor; hundreds; husband; idea; ignorance; ignorant; imagination; immoral; increase; independence; individual; industry; infinite; influence; ingersoll; insane; inspiration; inspired; intellectual; intelligence; interest; islands; jehovah; jews; john; joy; judge; judgment; justice; kind; kindness; kings; knowledge; known; labor; language; laughter; law; laws; league; leave; liberal; liberty; lies; life; lincoln; lips; literature; little; live; long; lost; love; loving; mails; making; man; mankind; march; marriage; matter; means; memory; men; mental; mighty; millions; mind; ministers; miracles; mistakes; moment; money; monster; moral; morality; mother; murder; music; mystery; names; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; new world; noble; noblest; object; obscene; old; old world; open; opinions; opportunity; opposed; orator; order; orthodox; paine; party; passions; past; patriotism; pay; people; perfect; personal; persons; philosophy; physical; picture; pious; pity; place; play; pleasure; poet; point; poor; position; possible; power; praise; prayer; presence; present; president; press; pride; priests; principle; prison; professor; progress; property; proud; pure; purpose; quality; question; race; reach; read; real; rear; reason; regard; relation; religion; religious; repeal; republic; reputation; resolution; respect; result; reverence; rich; right; rise; road; robert; rocks; rule; sabbath; sacred; sake; satisfied; savage; saying; science; sea; second; secular; self; selfishness; sense; sensible; set; shadow; shakespeare; shall; shore; silent; sincere; sky; slavery; sleep; smiles; society; soil; soldiers; song; soul; sound; spain; spaniards; spanish; speaking; speech; spirit; spiritual; spite; splendid; spring; stage; standard; stars; states; stone; storm; strength; subject; success; summer; sun; sunday; sunshine; supernatural; superstition; support; supposed; supreme; sword; sympathy; system; talk; tender; theatre; theologians; theories; things; think; thinking; thought; thousands; time; toast; touch; tree; tribute; trouble; true; truth; unfortunate; union; united; universal; universe; unknown; useful; uttered; value; vast; victory; virtue; wagner; waiting; want; war; washington; way; ways; weak; wealth; white; wide; wife; willing; winds; wisdom; wise; wish; wives; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worship; worth; writer; wrong; wronged; years; york; young; youth
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        item: #39 of 52
          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: abraham; address; ages; agnostic; alleged; american; appeal; argument; art; astronomy; atonement; beecher; beginning; belief; believe; best; bible; birth; bishop; blasphemy; books; brain; bruno; burns; calvin; capital; cardinal; case; catholic; century; chapter; character; chicago; chief; children; chinese; christ; christianity; christmas; church; civil; clergy; club; col; common; conclusion; condition; constitution; contents; country; court; creation; credulity; creed; crimes; criminals; darwin; day; dead; death; defence; democratic; design; detailed; devil; difference; dinner; discussion; divine; divorce; doctrine; dorsey; duty; early; earth; educated; education; effect; egypt; enemies; england; eternal; evidence; faith; false; fathers; field; force; form; free; freedom; french; general; genius; ghosts; gladstone; god; gods; good; gospel; government; grant; great; heart; heaven; hell; henry; history; holy; honest; human; humboldt; idea; iii; illinois; immortality; infidelity; infidels; infinite; influence; ingersoll; inquisition; inspiration; inspired; intellectual; interview; james; jehovah; jesus; jewish; jews; john; judge; jury; justice; kindness; king; knowledge; labor; law; laws; letter; liberty; life; lincoln; literature; live; living; love; man; mankind; marriage; mary; matter; matthew; memory; men; mind; ministers; miracles; mistakes; modern; money; morality; moses; mother; mrs; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; new; old; opinion; origin; orthodox; paine; paper; party; pay; people; persecution; philosophy; political; politics; polygamy; poor; power; preface; presbyterian; progress; punishment; question; real; reasons; relation; religion; religious; reply; republican; revolution; right; robert; routes; sabbath; schools; science; scientific; scriptures; second; self; sermon; shakespeare; slavery; social; society; south; speech; star; state; story; suicide; sun; sunday; supernatural; superstition; system; talmage; testament; testimony; theological; theology; theory; thomas; thought; time; trial; tribute; true; truth; universe; van; viii; voltaire; volume; war; ward; way; wealth; william; wives; woman; words; world; worship; writers; years; york; young; � ii; � ix; � rev; � vii
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        item: #40 of 52
          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: actions; ages; apostles; attached; authority; beings; bible; blind; blood; body; books; busied; cause; ceremonies; certain; chap; children; christian; christian religion; christianity; church; citizens; clergy; commands; conduct; contempt; continual; country; creatures; credulity; crimes; cruelty; day; death; destitute; destruction; different; disciples; disputes; divine; divinity; doctrines; doubt; duties; duty; earth; easy; education; effect; empire; endeavour; enemies; enlightened; enthusiasm; esteem; eternal; evils; existence; experience; eyes; fables; fact; faith; fanaticism; father; favour; fear; felicity; fellow; fine; followers; form; general; god; gods; good; gospel; government; great; greater; greatest; guides; hands; happiness; happy; heart; heaven; hebrews; high; history; holy; hope; human; ideas; ignorance; ignorant; important; impossible; impostors; incapable; incomprehensible; infancy; injurious; injustice; inspired; interest; jesus; jewish; jews; justice; kings; known; laws; life; little; long; love; mankind; martyrs; marvellous; means; men; merit; messiah; minds; ministers; miracles; moment; morality; moses; mysteries; mystery; nations; nature; necessary; need; new; number; object; old; opinions; oracles; order; passions; paul; people; persecution; persons; place; plato; pleasure; policy; political; poor; power; powerful; precepts; prejudices; pretended; priesthood; priests; princes; principles; prophecies; prophets; public; quarrels; race; real; reason; religion; religious; revealed; revelation; riches; ridiculous; right; roman; sacred; salvation; science; sects; sin; slaves; society; source; sovereigns; spirit; spiritual; state; subjects; submission; sufficient; supernatural; superstition; support; supreme; system; temporal; testament; testimony; things; thought; time; torments; true; truth; unjust; unknown; useful; useless; vice; virtue; virtuous; wisdom; wise; work; world; wrath; writings; zeal
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        item: #41 of 52
          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: computer; directory; files; index
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        item: #42 of 52
          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: abraham; absolute; absurdities; absurdity; account; act; action; acts; adam; advanced; age; agency; agent; ages; aid; allen; ancient; angels; anger; angry; animal; answer; apostles; argument; arts; assumed; assumption; astronomy; atonement; attempt; attention; attributes; authority; bad; bear; beasts; beautiful; beings; belief; believers; believing; beneath; benefit; best; better; bible; bible believers; bible doctrine; bible god; bible history; bible writers; birds; blessing; blind; blood; bodies; body; book; brain; brief; brother; business; cain; case; causes; century; certain; change; chapter; character; children; chinese; christendom; christian; christian bible; christian faith; christian religion; christian world; christianity; chron; church; churches; circumstance; cities; city; civilization; civilized; claim; class; clergy; code; coming; command; commandment; commission; common; complete; conception; conclusion; condition; conduct; conscience; consequences; considerable; constituted; construction; contradictions; contrary; control; cor; council; countries; country; course; creation; creator; creeds; crime; crucified; cruel; cruelty; custom; cut; daily; dark; darkness; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; declaration; deeds; deep; defective; defects; deity; demoralizing; department; depraved; depravity; desire; destruction; deut; devils; devout; die; different; difficulty; direct; disciples; disgusting; disposition; divine; divinity; doctrine; dogmas; door; doubt; drink; dust; duties; duty; early; earth; educated; education; effect; egypt; egyptians; elements; elijah; end; endless; enemies; enlightened; entire; equal; erroneous; errors; escape; essential; established; eternal; eternity; events; evidence; evident; evil; example; exercise; existence; exod; expedient; experience; extent; eyes; fact; faculties; faith; fall; falling; false; falsehood; family; father; favor; fear; features; feelings; feet; figures; find; fire; fish; flesh; following; food; fool; foolish; foot; force; forgiveness; form; free; freedom; fruit; furnishes; future; garden; gen; general; genesis; glorious; god; gods; golden; good; goodness; government; grand; great; greater; greek; ground; growth; guide; guilty; habits; hair; half; hands; happiness; happy; hath; head; health; heart; heathen; heaven; heavenly; hell; high; higher; highest; hindoo; historical; history; hold; holy; holy book; honest; house; human; humanity; hundreds; idea; idolatry; idols; ignorance; ignorant; iii; illustration; image; imaginary; imagination; immoral; imperfect; important; impossibility; impossible; improved; improvement; incredible; india; infallible; infidelity; infidels; infinite; influence; inhabitants; injunction; innocent; inspiration; inspired; institutions; intellectual; intelligence; interpretation; investigation; iron; isa; israel; jacob; jehovah; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; job; john; jonah; judge; judgment; justice; kind; kingdom; kings; knowledge; known; koran; labor; land; language; large; law; laws; lay; learned; learning; left; lessons; lev; liberty; license; life; light; like; list; little; live; living; logical; long; longer; lord; lord god; love; luke; luther; lying; mahomedan; making; man; manhood; mankind; manner; mark; mass; matt; matter; matthew; meaning; means; members; men; mental; mercy; mere; mighty; miles; millions; mind; miracles; miraculous; missionaries; missionary; mistake; modern; moment; moon; moral; moral sense; morality; moses; mother; mount; mountains; mouth; murder; names; nation; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; need; new; noah; nonsense; notice; number; numerous; object; obscene; occasion; offering; old; omnipotent; omnipresent; order; oriental; origin; original; orthodox; pagan; page; paradise; parents; past; paul; peculiar; penalty; people; perfect; perfection; performance; period; pernicious; persians; person; personal god; peter; pharaoh; philosophy; physical; picture; pious; place; plain; point; policy; poor; pope; popular; portion; position; possessing; power; practical; practice; prayer; preaching; precepts; present; priests; primitive; principal; principles; professors; progress; progressive; proof; propensities; prophecies; prophets; proposition; protestant; punishment; pure; purpose; question; race; rational; read; reader; reading; real; reason; reasoning; recent; record; reform; regard; reign; relative; religion; religious; remarkable; repentance; respect; result; revelation; ridiculous; righteous; rise; river; road; robbery; rocks; rom; rule; running; sabbath; sacred; sacrifices; salvation; sam; samson; sanction; saviors; saying; science; scientific; scriptures; second; sects; self; sense; senseless; sensible; serpent; servant; set; shape; shocking; short; similar; sin; sinful; single; singular; sinner; sins; slay; small; society; solomon; soul; sound; source; space; speaking; special; species; spirit; spiritual; spring; stand; standard; stars; state; statement; step; stone; stop; stories; strange; strength; striking; strong; study; subject; suffering; sufficient; sun; superior; superstition; supreme; supreme god; surface; sword; system; task; teach; teachings; tendency; terms; testament; testimony; text; theological; theology; thing; thought; thousands; throne; thy; time; total; tradition; translation; tree; tribes; true; true god; truth; universal; universe; use; useful; vedas; vessel; views; vii; viii; virtue; voice; volume; want; war; water; way; wicked; wickedness; wife; wine; wisdom; wise; wives; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worse; worship; worshipers; worshiping; writers; writings; written; wrong; xiii; xiv; xix; xvi; xxi; xxii; xxiv; xxvi; xxx; xxxi; years; york; young
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        item: #43 of 52
          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.
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        item: #44 of 52
          id: 46737
      author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer)
       title: The Bible: I. Authenticity II. Credibility III. Morality
        date: None
       words: 98003
      flesch: 75
     summary: From a work entitled The New Bible and Its Uses Prof. Andrew D. White, our present minister to Germany, in his Warfare of Science (vol. ii, p. 306), quotes the following in relation to John, which shows how rapidly the supposed authenticity of Bible books is disappearing before the investigations of the Higher Critics: In the period of thirty years ending in 1860, of the fifty great authorities in this line, four to one were in favor of the Johannine authorship.... The Hebrew names for these, as well as many other books of the Old Testament, are the initial words of the books.
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        item: #45 of 52
          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).
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        item: #46 of 52
          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.
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        item: #47 of 52
          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.
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        item: #48 of 52
          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!
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        item: #49 of 52
          id: 989
      author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
       title: Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1
        date: None
       words: 31137
      flesch: 60
     summary: (90) Moses admitted, indeed, that there were beings (doubtless by the plan and command of the Lord) who acted as God's vicegerents - that is, beings to whom God had given the right, authority, and power to direct nations, and to provide and care for them; but he taught that this Being Whom they were bound to obey was the highest and Supreme God, or (to use the Hebrew phrase) God of gods, and thus in the song (Exod. xv:11) (42) The truth of a historical narrative, however assured, cannot give us the knowledge nor consequently the love of God, for love of God springs from knowledge of Him, and knowledge of Him should be derived from general ideas, in themselves certain and known, so that the truth of a historical narrative is very far from being a necessary requisite for our attaining our highest good.
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        item: #50 of 52
          id: 990
      author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
       title: Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 2
        date: None
       words: 32669
      flesch: 66
     summary: (11) An examination of these assures me that the prophecies therein contained have been compiled from other books, and are not always set down in the exact order in which they were spoken or written by the prophets, but are only such as were collected here and there, so that they are but fragmentary. (36) Aben Ezra, however, as I have already stated, affirms, in his commentaries, that the work is a translation into Hebrew from some other language: I could wish that he could advance more cogent arguments than he does, for we might then conclude that the Gentiles also had sacred books.
    keywords: aben; attention; authority; bible; book; case; causes; certain; chap; chapter; chronicles; clear; common; conclusion; contrary; covenant; david; day; death; decrees; deut; deuteronomy; different; difficulties; divine; doctrine; doubt; endnote; eternal; events; evident; existence; ezra; fact; fire; fixed; god; great; hath; hebrew; historian; histories; history; human; instance; intention; interpretation; interpreting; israel; jacob; jeremiah; jews; joseph; joshua; judah; judges; kings; knowledge; land; language; laws; life; light; like; little; long; lord; maimonides; man; marginal; masses; matters; meaning; means; men; method; mind; miracles; moses; narrative; natural; nature; necessary; need; nehemiah; new; obscure; old; opinions; order; ordinary; passages; pentateuch; people; person; pharisees; place; plain; point; power; present; principles; prophecy; prophets; providence; question; read; readings; reason; reign; related; religion; rest; sacred; said; samuel; saul; scribes; scripture; second; sense; set; similar; state; subject; testament; text; things; time; true; truth; understanding; universal; verse; version; way; words; work; world; writer; writings; years
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        item: #51 of 52
          id: 991
      author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
       title: A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III]
        date: None
       words: 16433
      flesch: 62
     summary: , we are bound, solely by the authority of this text, and not by reason, to believe that God has no body: consequently we must explain metaphorically, on the sole authority of Scripture, all those passages which attribute to God hands, feet, &c., and take them merely as figures of speech. CHAPTER XII - Of the true Original of the Divine Law, and wherefore Scripture is called Sacred, and the Word of God.
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        item: #52 of 52
          id: 992
      author: Spinoza, Benedictus de
       title: A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV]
        date: None
       words: 28413
      flesch: 63
     summary: However, as we have shown that the natural right of the individual is only limited by his power, it is clear that by transferring, either willingly or under compulsion, this power into the hands of another, he in so doing necessarily cedes also a part of his right; and further, that the Sovereign right over all men belongs to him who has sovereign power, wherewith he can compel men by force, or restrain them by threats of the universally feared punishment of death; such sovereign right he will retain only so long as he can maintain his power of enforcing his will; otherwise he will totter on his throne, and no one who is stronger than he will be bound unwillingly to obey him. (5) If it were really the case, that men could be deprived of their natural rights so utterly as never to have any further influence on affairs [Endnote 29], except with the permission of the holders of sovereign right, it would then be possible to maintain with impunity the most violent tyranny, which, I suppose, no one would for an instant admit.
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