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... churches found it necessary to attack his character . There was a general resort to falsehood . In trying to destroy the repu- tation of Paine , the churches have demoralized themselves . Nearly every minister has been a willing witness ...
... churches found it necessary to attack his character . There was a general resort to falsehood . In trying to destroy the repu- tation of Paine , the churches have demoralized themselves . Nearly every minister has been a willing witness ...
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... Church of Rome . De- struction is the only reformation of which that church is capable . Every religion is based upon a misconception , not only of the cause of phenomena , but of the real object of life ; that is to say , upon ...
... Church of Rome . De- struction is the only reformation of which that church is capable . Every religion is based upon a misconception , not only of the cause of phenomena , but of the real object of life ; that is to say , upon ...
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... church — who do not go to the literature of barbarism for consolation , or use the falsehoods and mistakes of the past for the foundation of their hope— women brave enough and tender enough to meet and bear the facts and fortunes of ...
... church — who do not go to the literature of barbarism for consolation , or use the falsehoods and mistakes of the past for the foundation of their hope— women brave enough and tender enough to meet and bear the facts and fortunes of ...
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... church furnishes but little food for the mind . People of intelligence are growing tired of the platitudes of the pulpit — the iterations of the itinerants . The average sermon is " as tedious as a twice told tale vexing the ears of a ...
... church furnishes but little food for the mind . People of intelligence are growing tired of the platitudes of the pulpit — the iterations of the itinerants . The average sermon is " as tedious as a twice told tale vexing the ears of a ...
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... church still talks about " evidence , " about " reason , " about freedom of con- science " and the " liberty of speech , " and yet denounces those who ask for evidence , who appeal to reason , and who honestly express their thoughts ...
... church still talks about " evidence , " about " reason , " about freedom of con- science " and the " liberty of speech , " and yet denounces those who ask for evidence , who appeal to reason , and who honestly express their thoughts ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Admiral AMERICAN SECULAR UNION ANTON SEIDL babes beautiful become believe better Bible born brain brave called charity Christ Christian church civilized CLUB Colonel Ingersoll Comstock laws courage creed Cuba dead death dream Elizur Wright enemies eternal fact favor fear feel fellow-men filled Freethought genius GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE give gods greatest hands happiness heart heaven honest thought honor hope human race husband idea imagination infinite inspired intellectual intelligence Jehovah kill kind knew labor Lawrence Barrett liberty Lincoln lived millions mind miracles Monroe doctrine moral nation National Liberal League nature never orthodox Paine perfect poor Professor Briggs question reason religion religious Republic Roscoe Conkling Sabbath sacred savage soul Spain superstition tears tell thing Thomas Paine thousands tion TRIBUTE true truth Wagner wife Winfield Scott Schley woman women words wrong
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Página 250 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you," applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty.
Página 391 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death, hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Página 391 - ... can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath,
Página 14 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 400 - The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest. We know that through the common wants of life — the needs and duties of each hour — their grief will lessen day by day, until at last this grave will be to them a place of rest and peace — almost of joy. There is for them this consolation : The dead do not suffer. If they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the...
Página 390 - ... lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
Página 429 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to over-peer.— CorManus.
Página 390 - He added to the sum of human joy, and were everyone to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers "Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
Página 389 - I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling towards the West.