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Оглавление5. Happiness the Object of Life
6. The Sunset of the Farmer's Life
7. Farmers, Protect Yourselves!
8. Roast the Beef, Not the Cook.
10. The Wages of Slovenly Farming.
15. What to do with the Idlers
18. The Laborers, the Kings and Queens
19. The Family the Only Heaven in this World
20. The Far-Seeing Eyes of Children.
21. Love and Freedom in a Cabin
22. The Turnpike Road of Happiness
24. A Word to the Cross-Grained
25. Oh! Daughters and Wives be Beautiful
26. A Wholesome Word to the Stingy
30. A Child's laugh sweeter than Apollo's lyre
34. The Greatest Liars in Michigan
36. A Solemn Satire on Whipping Children
37. The Whips and Gods are Gone!
38. Absolute Independence of the Individual
42. I Want to Put Out the Fires of Hell
44. A Star in the Sky of Despair
46. I will Settle with God Myself
50. Every Man a Bight to Think
51. Too Early to Write a Creed
54. Gold makes a Barren Landscape
56. The Divorce of Church and State
63. Liberty—Fraternity—Equality!
65. Ingersoll Not a Politician
68. Church and School Divorced
72. Candidates Made Hypocrites
78. The Best Blood of the Old Word come to the New
81. The Church Must Have no Sword
82. We are All of Us Kings! I want the power where some one can use
87. Years Without Seeing a Dollar!
89. What the Republican Party Did
92. I am a Republican, I Tell You!
95. Who Shall Rule the Country?
96. The Declaration of Independence
104. Our Government the best on Earth
105. Will the Second Century of America be as good as the First?
108. Science Better than a Creed
111. The Epitaph of all Religions
115. Science Opening the Gates of Thought
118. The Old and the New Old ideas perished in the retort of the
122. The Colonel Short of Words!!!
123. Slavery in the Name of Religion
125. A Colored Man in Congress
127. Black People have Suffered Enough
128. The History of Civilization
131. The Soldiers of the Republic
133. What Were We Fighting For?
134. The Revolution Consummated
135. Fighting Done!—Work Begun!
136. Manhood worth more than Gold
137. Grander than Greek or Roman.
138. Let us Drink to the Living and the Dead
139. Will the Wounds of the War be Healed?
147. Prosperity and Resumption hand in hand
148. Every Poor Man should Stand by the Government
150. A Government with a Long Arm
157. The Old Woman of Tewksbury
158. American Muscle, Coined into Gold
166. Honesty is Best always and Everywhere
170. Silver demonetized by Fraud!
172. Faith—A Mixture of Insanity and Ignorance
173. What the Saints Could Cure!
175. Crime Rampant and God Silent!
176. How Criminals Die Serenely!
177. The first Corpse and the first Cathedral
182. Weak ones Suffering—Heaven deaf
183. Heaven has no Ear, no Hand
186. Religion not the End of Life
188. The Worst Religion in the World
189. Religion Demanding Miracles
195. The Church Forbids Investigation
196. The Church Charges Falsely
197. The Church in the "Dark Ages"
199. The Church and the Tree of Knowledge
200. The Church Cries, "Believe!"
201. The Heretics Cried, "Halt!"
202. The World not so Awful Flat
204. Another Day of Divine Work
208. The Church the Great Robber
211. Shakespeare's Plays v. Sermons
212. Why Should the Church be Merciful?
213. The Church and the Infidel.
215. Infinite Impudence of the Church
227. The Parson, the Crane and the Fish
231. The Parson Factory at Andover
236. I Don't Believe the Bible
237. The Bible the Real Persecutor
238. Immoralities of the Bible
239. The Bible Stands in the Way
243. Damned for Laughing at Samson
244. The Man, Not the Book, Inspired
246. Absurd and Foolish Fables
247. The Bible the Work of Man
248. Something to Admire, not Laugh at
249. An Intellectual Deformity
251. The Bible the Battle Ground of Sects
253. Where Moses got the Pentateuch
254. God's Letter to His Children
257. An Infallible Book Makes Slaves
258. Can a Sane Man Believe in Inspiration?
261. The Bad Passages in the Bible not Inspired
263. One Plow worth a Million Sermons
265. The Legitimate Influence of Religion
266. Infidels the Flowers of the World
267. The Noblest Sons of, Earth
268. How Ingersoll became an Infidel
269. Why Should Infidels Die in Fear?
271. The World in Debt to Infidels
272. Infidels the Pioneers of Progress
273. Infidels the Great Discoverers
275. Every Nation has Created a God
277. Creation the Decomposition of the Infinite
278. The Gods Are as the People Are
279. Gods Shouldn't Make Mistakes
286. Fancy a Devil Drowning a World
287. Some Gods Very Particular About Little Things
288 The Gods of To-day the Scorn of To-morrow
289. No Evidence of a God in Nature
294. On the Horns of a Dilemma
299. The Devils better than the Gods
304. What if Death Does End All?
305. The Old World Ignorant of Destiny
306. Where the Doctrine of Hell was born
307. The Grand Companionships of Hell
310. Annihilation rather than be a God
311. "All that have Red Hair shall be Damned."
312. The Conscience of a Hyena
317. Did Franklin and Jefferson Die in Fear?
318. Angels at Constantino's Dying Bed!
322. The Greatest of all Political Writers
327. Paine, Franklin, Jefferson
334. Humboldt's Illustrious Companions
335. Humboldt the Apostle of Science
336. Ingersoll Muses by Napoleon's Tomb
348. Professor Swing, a Dove amongst Vultures
349. Queen Victoria and George Eliot
352. "Wealthy in Integrity; In Brain a Millionaire."
353. Garfield a Certificate of the Splendor of the American Constitution
356. The Aristocracy that will Survive.
360. The People are Beginning to Think
362. Man the Victor of the Future
365. Away to the Hills and the Sea
367. Moses took Egyptian Law for his Model
368. A False Standard of Success
370. The Sad Wilderness History
371. Law Much Older than Sinai
378. Early Rising is Barbaric!
380. Never Rise at Four O'Clock
384. The One Window in the Ark
385. No Ante-Diluvian Camp-Meetings!
387. What did Moses know about the Sun?
390. The Colonel in the Kitchen—How to Cook a Beefsteak
393. Scathing Impeachment of Intemperance
396. Ingersoll Prefers Shoemakers to Princes
399. Who is the True Nobleman?
402. The Worker Wearing the Purple
Education is the most radical thing in the world.
408. The Gospel of Cheerfulness
410. The Gospel of 'Good Living
411. The Gospel of Intelligence
GEMS FROM THE CONTROVERSIAL GASKET
413. The Origin of the Controversy
415. Summary of Evangelical Belief
416. A Profound Change in the World of Thought
417. The Believer in the Inspiration of the Bible has too Much to Believe
419. The Bible Should be Better than any other Book
421. If the Bible is Not Verbally Inspired, What Then?
427. Man the Author of all Books
430. Christianity Takes no Step in Advance
431. Christianity a Mixture of Good and Evil
432. Jehovah, Epictetus and Cicero
442. Jehovah Breaking His Own Laws
443. Who Designed the Designer?
444. What we Know of the Infinite
445. The Universe Self-Existent
447. Character Bather than Creed
448. Mohammed the Prophet of God
449. Wanted!—A Little More Legislation
450. Is all that Succeeds Inspired?
451. The Morality in Christianity
454. Christianity has no Monopoly in Morals
455. Old Age in Superstition's Lap
457. How Gods and Devils are Made
460. Why was Christ so Silent?
462. Infinite Punishment for Finite Crimes.
465. The Stars Upon the Door of France
466. The Select Committee Afraid
467. The Gods of the Joss-House and Patmos
469. Christianity has a Fair Show in San Francisco
470. An Arrow from the Quiver of Satire
471. We Have no Religious System
472. Congress Nothing to Do with Religion
473. Concessions of the Illustrious Four!
474. Do not Trample on John Chinaman
475. Be Honest with the Chinese
476. An Honest Merchant the Best Missionary
477. Good Words from Confucius
479. The Chinese and Civil Service Reform
480. Invading China in the Name of Opium and Christ
481. Don't be Dishonest in the Name of God
CONCERNING CREEDS AND THE TYRANNY OF SECTS
482. Diversity of Opinion Abolished by Henry VIII
483. Spencer and Darwin Damned
484. The Dead do Not Persecute
485. The Atheist a Legal Outcast in Illinois
487. The Fate of Theological Students
489. Presbyterianism Softening
490. The Methodist "Hoist with his own Petard."
491. The Precious Doctrine of Total Depravity
494. Self-Reliance a Deadly Sin!
495. A Hundred and Fifty Years Ago
502. While the Preachers Talked the People Slept
503. Christianity no Friend to Progress
507. Where Did the Serpent Come From?
508. Must We Believe Fables to be Good and True? Must we, in order to be
509. Why Did Not God Kill the Serpent?
511. Was Language Confounded at Babel.
512. Would God Kill a Man for Making Ointment?
513. How Did Water run up Hill?
514. Would a Real God Uphold Slavery?
515. Will There Be an Eternal Auto da Fe?
ORIENT PEARLS AS RANDOM STRUNG
I do not believe that Christians are as bad as their creeds.
INGERSOLL'S ORATION AT HIS BROTHER'S GRAVE
