Questions

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30206	Has not humanity clearly gained a little in this struggle through unbelief?
30206	One hundred and forty- five years since, the Attorney- General, pleading in our highest court, said( 1):"What is the definition of an infidel?
30206	What of the effect of Christianity on these powers in the centuries which had preceded?
30206	What then is Christianity?
33825	And does not the Bible God place a curse upon man for the knowledge that has been such a solace and benefit to him?
33825	And what did the priests tell him?
33825	And what was the priest''s interpretation of the text of that book?
33825	Churches or Homes-- preparation for death or happiness for the living?
33825	Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering?
33825	Does not the Bible plainly state that only by the sweat of his brow is man to labor for the bread he eats?
33825	Here is the exact Biblical quotation:"In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread..."and why?
33825	How futile are the petty problems of individuals, with their hates and jealousies, when all vanish with death?
33825	If all man needed upon earth was a"knowledge of God,"then why the necessity of establishing educational institutions?
33825	If death ends all, why fight while we are living?
33825	If printing has been hailed as one of the world''s great inventions, what must we say of the phonograph?
33825	If the voice was part of"God''s plan,"how do we account for its absence in the giraffe?
33825	If they can not fulfill their promises while you are alive, how can they accomplish them when you are dead?
33825	Is it to be God or Man?
33825	Is its face and form the perfection of beauty and grace?
33825	Is the hippopotamus one of nature''s masterpieces?
33825	Is this, then, an indication of the"ugliness"of nature?
33825	One dies and another is born-- for what?
33825	What perversity justified inflicting pain, suffering and death upon others who have done no wrong?
33825	What were the results?
33825	Why shorten life with unnecessary pain and suffering?
33825	Why should life come into existence only to be destroyed?
33825	Would you consider this animal a work of living art if you were responsible for it?
36798	Condemned to poverty and pain, how many human beings are there whose every word is a prayer, and every thought a throb, and every pulsation a pang?
36798	Did Achilles plant his spear by it?
36798	Did it lie on the plains of Marathon on the morning of the memorable battle?
36798	Did some Assyrian lover watch the wave which washed it up?
36798	Did some young Pharaoh play with it?
36798	Has it been dyed by the blood of Caesar in the streets of Rome?
36798	Has it been imbedded in the walls of Troy?
36798	Have Chaldean shepherds picked it up as the orient morning sun broke over their silent plains?
36798	How imposingly he exclaims in his Confessions:-- What art Thou then, my God?
36798	If a poor pebble be a surpassing mystery, who shall understand the Deity?
36798	If we can not tell the history of a single stone, who shall tell the history of God?
36798	If we suppose an interposing Providence to direct the affairs of this world, what scenes of sorrow must meet his eye?
36798	Is it in the power of ignorance, profligacy, and passion, to crowd the porticoes of Paradise with illicit offspring?
36798	Is it worth while to live at all the prey of these awful anxieties, to sport for a few years on the borders of Hell?
36798	Of what star did it form a part?
36798	On what shore did it reappear?
36798	THE LIMITS OF ATHEISM Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws?
36798	The question is not-- is such a state desirable?
36798	The vital inquiry is-- are we to conduct life on the basis of what we hope or what we know?
36798	Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine?
36798	To what astral system did the matter of this pebble once belong?
36798	Whence came the electrical properties of the one, the lurid brilliancy of the other, or the density of the stone?
36798	Where was it before time on this planet began to be?
36798	Where were they when the earth was without form or void?
36798	Who would enter the dance of life with the devil for a partner?
36798	Why should any man mourn at truth?
36798	Why should it not be honourable to observe a scientific reservation in the exposition of opinion?
36798	but-- is it true?
15696	''Canst thou by searching find out God?
15696	''What kind of religion is that?''
15696	And can any one fail to perceive that such a religion must needs be political?
15696	And how stand they affected towards the poor?
15696	Are they to blame for thus thinking?
15696	Ask the''Shepherd''where is mind without the body?
15696	Ask these broad- day dreamers where mind is_ minus_ body?
15696	Besides, how can we imagine a God, who is''totally destitute of body and of corporeal figure,''to have any kind of substance?
15696	But does this undeniable truth make against Universalism?
15696	But how should he convey to others what he did not, could not, himself possess?
15696	Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?''
15696	Do we not know that orthodox Christianity means Christianity as by law established?
15696	Does any one suppose the religion of the Irish has little, if anything, to do with their political condition?
15696	How many Atheists and profane persons have brought holy men to the stake under the pretext of heresy?
15696	If Bacon had openly treated Christianity as mere superstition, will any one say that his life would have been worth twenty- four hours''purchase?
15696	If so, body is the mind and the mind is body; and our Shepherd, if asked,''Where is mind without the body?''
15696	Is it possible to have experience of, or even to imagine, a Being with attributes so strange, anomalous, and contradictory?
15696	Or can it be believed they will be fit for, much less achieve, political emancipation, while priests and priests alone, are their instructors?
15696	The question then is, have you, the Church of England, got the picture for your frame?
15696	Theologians ask, who created Nature?
15696	There is an old story about a certain lady who said to her physician,''Doctor, what is your religion?''
15696	Under cover, then, of what reason can Christians escape the imputation of pretending to adore what they have no conception of?
15696	Universalists are frequently asked-- What moves matter?
15696	Very good-- but one_ what?_ From the information,''He is the same for ever and everywhere,''we conclude that Newton thought him a Being.
15696	What care they for universal emancipation?
15696	What is the result of this?
15696	Will any one say the Christian absolutely knows more about Jehovah than the Heathen did about Jupiter?
15696	and what is the moral that they point?
15696	finally, of the gift of freedom of will, when the abuse of freedom becomes the cause of general misery?''
15696	of the distinction between vice and virtue, crime and innocence, sin and duty?
15696	of the existence of evil, moral and natural, in the work of an Infinite Being, powerful, wise, and good?
15696	of the infinite goodness of a Being who existed through eternity without any emanation of his goodness manifested in the creation of sensitive beings?
15696	or, if it be contended that there was an eternal creation, of an effect coeval with its cause, of matter not posterior to its maker?
30900	After we build our homes, make our cities and add improvements, what happens?
30900	And is it also afraid of that God''s supposed wrath?
30900	And may I answer for you, that he was where Moses was when the light went out?
30900	As I watched this fly in its labor, this thought came to me: Is the fly unlike the human being in its desire to live?
30900	But if we possess a soul and it is capable of passing through the many and varied stages that life suffers, what becomes of its impressions?
30900	But in the final analysis, what does it avail us?
30900	Can you imagine the wildness of life in such a jungle of cannibalism?
30900	Did you ever stop to consider that the child, when born, does not know that you are its parent?
30900	Do those who believe in such a creature ever consider him taking a bath-- and in what?
30900	Do you know and realize the suffering that we endure?
30900	Does it derive happiness when it is able to labor to make happy its fly Juliet?
30900	Does it love?
30900	Does it really think to better its species and solve the problem of its kind?
30900	Does it want to live because it is ambitious and is trying to excel other flies?
30900	Has it, too, all the agony of fear of passing to the"Great Beyond"?
30900	Has it, too, an imaginary God in the form of a Big Fly?
30900	I ask for what reason has Nature imposed this terrible penalty upon woman?
30900	If it is the"soul"that causes the functioning of the body, where is it when such an action takes place?
30900	If it is the"soul"that gives us"life,"how is it that we can materially and mechanically destroy it?
30900	If the fly''s desire to live is so great, what interest does it have in life?
30900	If we live after death, by what means can one person communicate with another?
30900	Is it afraid of death and of the mystery of dissolution?
30900	Is it any wonder that we grow up to be serfs and slaves?
30900	Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?
30900	Is there a fly family to mourn its death?
30900	Is_ all_ of life worth the sorrow, the agony and fear of death?
30900	JOSEPH LEWIS_ January 10, 1928_ INTRODUCTION_ Where did we come from?
30900	May I ask, where was God, and what did he do, to stop this frightful nightmare of torture committed in"his"name?
30900	Or of eating his breakfast-- and of what it consists?
30900	What and where are the benefits of its retention?
30900	What are we doing here?
30900	What is there to repay us for living?
30900	What must be the horror, darkness and emptiness of those living substances that are"inferior"to us?
30900	What sort of crust in the earth''s formation are we to make?
30900	What will be the future living forces?
30900	What will be the product of the future living forces that will utilize the materials that our bodies will make?
30900	Where is the soul when we are in a state of unconsciousness?
30900	Whither are we going?_ These questions have puzzled thinking people since consciousness first dawned in the brain.
30900	Why must we be made to suffer such dreadful torment before death, since by eternal decree it is the common lot all must endure?
30900	Within the movements and actions of that fly was wrapped up the secret of"Whence did I come, and whither am I going?"
30900	X But after this life with all our pains and sorrows, what then?
30900	_ Why?_ Would you, reader, were it in your power, formulate such a method of reproduction?
30900	_ Why?_ Would you, reader, were it in your power, formulate such a method of reproduction?
36568	And what will the people be taught in these schools?
36568	And its last word?
36568	And the name of the Roman civilization?
36568	And the proof?
36568	But if no person has seen it, how is it that men have come to believe in its existence?
36568	But suppose it were definitely developed, what could it give us?
36568	But, if this social power exists, why has it not sufficed hitherto to moralize, to humanize men?
36568	But, then, what is their God?
36568	Could they have received in the distribution a particle at once divine and stupid?
36568	Do you know what took place in the great Social Revolution of 1789- 1793?
36568	Do you wish to render its authority and influence beneficent and human?
36568	Does it follow that I reject all authority?
36568	GOD AND THE STATE Who are right, the idealists or the materialists?
36568	How do they get over this?
36568	How is this sanction manifested?
36568	How solve this antinomy?
36568	In France, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, and-- shall I say it?
36568	In the name of the bourgeois interest bluntly confessed?
36568	In the name of what?
36568	Is it necessary to point out to what extent and in what manner religions debase and corrupt the people?
36568	Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses?
36568	Is not the number of men who find supreme enjoyment in sacrifice and devotion exceedingly limited?
36568	May we not suppose that all men are equally inspired by God?
36568	Must it be concluded that this exploitation and this oppression are necessities absolutely inherent in the very existence of human society?
36568	Must we, then, eliminate from society all instruction and abolish all schools?
36568	Now, where find it if not in religion, that good protectress of all the well- fed and the useful consoler of the hungry?
36568	On the contrary, can we not foresee in these new masters the same follies and the same crimes found in those of former days and of the present time?
36568	Shall we blame the science of history?
36568	To- day even, what is it that kills, what is it that crushes brutally, materially, in all European countries, liberty and humanity?
36568	Unless we suppose that the various divine particles have been irregularly distributed, how is this difference to be explained?
36568	Was not everybody mistaken?
36568	What does it care for the particular conditions and chance fate of Peter or James?
36568	What has been and still is the principal object of all her contests with the sovereigns of Europe?
36568	What is authority?
36568	What is more ancient and more universal than slavery?
36568	What matters it?
36568	Whence, then, could we derive the power and the wish to rebel against them?
36568	Which is the most materialistic, the most natural, in its point of departure, and the most humanly ideal in its results?
36568	Which?
36568	Who are the real idealists-- the idealists not of abstraction, but of life, not of heaven, but of earth-- and who are the materialists?
36568	Why not?
36568	Why?
36568	[ 7] But until the masses shall have reached this degree of instruction, will it be necessary to leave them to the government of scientific men?
14120	Do all people receive that satisfaction?
14120	He does it, perhaps to try themBut, if he knows all things, what occasion is there for him to try any?
14120	1788?)
14120	A great triumph truly for religion to make men baptise or fast?
14120	After this he asks, who will pretend to dictate to such a Being?
14120	Alas?
14120	Another question has been raised"whether a society of atheists can exist?"
14120	Are all things in the universe infinite?
14120	Are these men privy counsellors of the Divinity, or on what do they found their romantic hopes?
14120	At least after all the observations about a table, it may be modestly asked, whether there is not some difference between a table and the world?
14120	But do not the present appearances of his want of wisdom or goodness justify us in concluding, that he will always want them?
14120	But if he is perfectly good, why will he let them suffer at all?
14120	But if nothing visible can to us account for the operations of nature, why must we have recourse to what is invisible?
14120	But if pain is, as he says, in this world necessary for happiness, why will it not still be necessary hereafter?
14120	But if the opinions of men of great genius are to have weight, what is to be said of modern men of genius?
14120	But if this God is jealous of his glory, his titles and prerogative, why does he permit such numbers of men to offend him?
14120	But let it be asked, is it not absurd to reason with a man about that of which that same man asserts we have no idea at all?
14120	But surely, with all this infinity it may be asked, why may not there have been an infinity of causes?
14120	But who made the eye?
14120	Does experience shew us more of a man than that he came from a man and a woman?
14120	Grant that we do not know, whether man has been eternal, or from a time, is it therefore because we do not know, that we must say he came from God?
14120	How unquestionable?
14120	If he is omnipotent, why need he vex himself about the vain design any one may form against him?
14120	If it is asked me,"why am I honest and honourable?"
14120	If the course of nature does not give sufficient proof, why does not the hand divine shew itself by an extraordinary interposition of power?
14120	If the justice of God is not the same with human justice, why lastly do any men pretend to announce it, comprehend and explain it to others?"
14120	If they are so often manifestly deficient in this world, what can assure us that they will abound more in the next?
14120	In other words"whether honesty sufficient for the purposes of civil society can be insured by other motives than the belief of a Deity?"
14120	Is not that alone an argument of there being no such thing?
14120	Is not the reparation of vegitable life the spring equally wonderful now as its first production?
14120	Is not this to be turned upon Theists?
14120	My countenance brightened up and I replied,"You are then, my friend, convinced?"
14120	Or grant that God made the eye, which can only see in the light, must he necessarily see in the dark?
14120	Or why may not visible things account for them, although this person or another can not tell which?
14120	Shall then such a tremendous Being with such a care for the creatures he has made, suffer his own existence to be a perpetual doubt?
14120	Take a view of human existence, and who can even allow, that there is more happiness than misery in the world?
14120	The Theist exclaims in triumph,"He that made the eye, must he not see?"
14120	To conclude he asks,"how it is possible to teach children caution, but by feeling pain?"
14120	What can be said to this?
14120	What more has Helvetius said than that?
14120	Where is that other ecclesiastic who will allow the same?
14120	Where is the absurdity of that?
14120	Why an infinite maker of a finite work?
14120	Why are any found daring enough to refuse the incense which his pride expects?
14120	Why necessary to account at all for them?
14120	Why then all his own reasoning?
14120	Why then any other God than Necessity?
14120	Why then attribute infinity to the cause?
14120	why did he present him with a gift of which he must have foreseen the abuse?
16512	''Canst thou, by searching, find out God?
16512	''Great Queen,''said she,''is not your presence able to bring me some comfort under my misery?
16512	''What kind of religion is that?''
16512	And can any one fail to perceive that such a religion must needs be political?
16512	And how can we so test conflicting faiths as to distinguish the true from the false?
16512	And how stand they affected towards the poor?
16512	And is it not absurd to say that what He pre- ordains mere mortals can hinder coming to pass?
16512	And who does not so understand Cause?
16512	Are they to blame for thus thinking?
16512	Ask the''Shepherd''where is mind without the body?
16512	Ask these broad- day dreamers where mind is,_ minus_ body?
16512	Atheists are frequently asked-- What moves matter?
16512	Besides, how can we imagine a God who is''totally destitute of body and of corporeal figure,''to have any kind of attributes?
16512	But does this undeniable truth make against Atheism?
16512	But how should he convey to others what he did not, could not, himself possess?
16512	But where are the scales in which we can weigh to a nicety true and false religions?
16512	By admirers of such sanction,(?)
16512	Can Atheists do more?
16512	Can Atheists object to that?
16512	Can error be fraught with good and truth with evil, that we should shrink from doing justice to both?
16512	Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?''
16512	Could revenge be carried farther than in this instance?
16512	Do they not abound in anathema, and literally teem with the venom of intolerance?
16512	Do they not shock the better feelings even of those who believe them divine?
16512	Do we not know that orthodox Christianity means Christianity as by law established?
16512	Even the Devil, believed in by Christians, is a creature-- how then could he be anything else than the Creator thought fit to make him?
16512	How can you be witness of so horrid a sight without shuddering?''
16512	How dare they then pretend to sympathise with the opinions of Bacon?
16512	How many Atheists and profane persons have brought holy men to the stake under the pretext of heresy?
16512	If so, body is the mind and the mind is body; and our Shepherd, if asked,''Where is mind without the body?''
16512	If the God of our Deists and Christians is not matter, what is He?
16512	Is it possible to have experience of, or even to imagine a Being with attributes so strange, anomalous, and contradictory?
16512	Is not God a name of this class?
16512	Is superstition no evil?
16512	It teaches there is a God; but throws no light on the dark questions, who, what, or where is God?
16512	None at all?_ Cries the Priest.
16512	Shall the Creator of Nature act less worthily than one of his creatures?
16512	Tell us, ye men of mystery, shall a God need praises beneath the dignity of a man?
16512	The question then is, have you, the Church of England, got the picture for your frame?
16512	Theologians ask, who created Nature?
16512	There is an old story about a certain lady who said to her physician,''Doctor, what is your religion?''
16512	They are not ashamed, why should they?
16512	We often see organs void of sensibility, but who ever saw, or who can imagine sensibility independent of organs?
16512	What care they for universal emancipation?
16512	What is God out of Nature?
16512	What is that verbiage, but that the reason gives the name of soul to something that does not exist at all?''
16512	What is the result of this?
16512	Where is God?
16512	Where is out?
16512	Why do we admit design in any machine of human contrivance?
16512	Will any one say the Christian absolutely knows more about Jehovah than the Heathen did about Jupiter?
16512	[ 76:1] Can the same be said of religion?
16512	and what is the moral that they point?
16512	finally, of the gift of freedom of will, when the abuse of freedom becomes the cause of general misery?''
16512	have you got the truth, the one truth; the same truth as the men of the middle ages?
16512	is_ one_.--Very good-- but one_ what_?
16512	of the distinction between vice and virtue, crime and innocence, sin and duty?
16512	of the existence of evil, moral and natural, in the work of an Infinite Being, powerful, wise, and good?
16512	or can Pantheists do so much without themselves being Atheists?
16512	or if it be contended that there was an eternal creation of an effect coeval with its''cause, of matter not posterior to its maker?
32006	''Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?
32006	''Do I not fill heaven and earth?
32006	''He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?
32006	''Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion?
32006	''Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
32006	''What do I see in all{ 78} Nature?''
32006	''What if some did not believe?
32006	''What if some do not believe?
32006	''What think ye of Christ?
32006	''When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him?
32006	''Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit?
32006	''[ 12] What shall we say to these accusations?
32006	''[ 13] Where these distinctions are lost, where this confusion exists, what logically must be the consequence?
32006	''[ 15] But is this to admit that the hope of the world lies in renouncing Christianity?
32006	''[ 9] What are the facts?
32006	''_ What then have I gained in these nine foundation pillars_?
32006	--GOLDWIN SMITH:_ Guesses at the Riddle of Existence_(''Is There Another Life?'').
32006	And the Abyss shouts from her depth laid bare''Heaven, hast thou secrets?
32006	And where else should God dwell than in the human heart?
32006	Are we to believe, it is asked, that only the comparatively few to whom the knowledge of Jesus Christ has come can possibly be accepted of the Father?
32006	Are we to_ worship_ the self- ideality?
32006	Bousset, W.,_ Jesus; What is Religion?
32006	But we can not help also asking,''Whence have you drawn those lofty ideas?
32006	But what does this prove with regard to Christianity?
32006	But what is meant by Personality?
32006	But what is the All, or the Good, or the True, or the Beautiful?
32006	But what is the superstructure which Dr. Stanton Coit proceeds to build upon this foundation?
32006	But what is to prevent the withdrawal of the traditional sanction from producing its natural effect upon the morality of the mass of mankind?
32006	Can there be any doubt, we are triumphantly asked, that of these two, the religious is inferior to the irreligious?
32006	Could anything be more pathetic or, at the same time, more self- refuting?
32006	Does it in the least degree indicate that the masses of the European nations have weighed Christianity in the balance and found it wanting?
32006	Drawbridge, C. L.,_ Is Religion Undermined_?
32006	For who hath{ 90} known the mind of the Lord?
32006	Gladden, Washington,_ How Much is Left of the Old Doctrines_?
32006	HUNT, B.D.,_ Good without God: Is it Possible_?
32006	Harnack, Adolf,_ What is Christianity?
32006	Have we not reason to confess that, if the commandment be not new, universal obedience to it would be new indeed?
32006	How can I look up to myself as the higher that reproaches me?
32006	How can any one meaning be affixed to the word so that one person can be said to use it properly and another to abuse it?
32006	How can anything be greater than the Infinite, more enduring than the Eternal, better than the All- Pure and All- Perfect?
32006	How can he in any way combine these people into a single object of thought?
32006	How far are these semblances, these battles in the clouds, to carry their mimicry of reality?
32006	IV In the face of such tremendous indictments, what is the duty incumbent on us who profess and call ourselves Christians?
32006	If God be such, and our relations to God be such, as Theists describe, would not that Son of Man be the confirmation of their thoughts?
32006	Is God not Infinite?
32006	Is it not the fact that the whole realm of Nature is explored by him, is compelled to minister to his wants or to unfold its treasures of knowledge?
32006	Leaving the name of our Lord out of the discussion, why should a prayer to Serenity have more moral influence than a prayer to the Sea?
32006	Monod, Wilfrid,_ Aux Croyants et aux Athà © es; Peut- on rester Chrà © tien_?
32006	Now it is Lord Tennyson: The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains, Are not these, O Soul, the vision of Him Who reigns?
32006	One in a certain place testified, saying,''What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that Thou visitest him?
32006	Sen, Keshub Chunder, India asks,_ Who is Christ_?
32006	So we persist in asking, not"Is it true?
32006	The comment is eminently just, but does it not apply with equal force to Miss Cobbe herself?
32006	Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
32006	They believe in God: why should it, on their own showing, be so hard to believe in Christ?
32006	They have a pantheistic tinge: what is there to dread in Pantheism?
32006	Warschauer, J.,_ The New Evangel; Jesus: Seven Questions; Anti- Nunquam; Jesus or Christ?_ Watkinson, W. L.,_ Influence of Scepticism on Character_.
32006	Was Earth too small to be of God created?
32006	What can any one definitely assert or deny about it?
32006	What has human law to do with our hearts?
32006	What is the explanation of the horrors which have been perpetrated in the Name of God?
32006	What legislation can deal with''envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness,''unless they manifest themselves in outward acts?
32006	When the sceptical physician, in Tennyson''s poem, murmured:''The good Lord Jesus has had his day,''{ 213} the believing nurse made the comment:''Had?
32006	Whether of them twain did the will of his father?
32006	Why is Christianity after all these centuries only beginning to be manifested?
32006	Why should a prayer to the Stars be less efficacious than a prayer to Milton, whose soul was like a star and dwelt apart?
32006	Why then too small to be redeemed?
32006	Would He Himself not be the radiant illustration, the eagerly longed for proof of the truth for which they contend?
32006	Would not His testimony be of infinite value on their side?
32006	Yet where rather should the weak rest than on the strong, the creature of the day than on the Eternal, the imperfect than on the Centre of Perfection?
32006	[ 15] Can it be doubted that the claim of Humanity to worship is less credible if we exclude the Perfect Man, Christ Jesus, from our view?
32006	_ Do we Believe_?
32006	_ Is Christianity True_?
32006	and so through all the drama of moral conflict and enthusiasm between myself in a mask and myself in_ propria persona_?
32006	and the son of man that Thou visitest him?
32006	and they, too, seem to be infinite in their cravings: who but He can satisfy them?
32006	ask forgiveness from myself for sins which myself has committed?
32006	but,"What say the learned men, the influential men, the eloquent men?"
32006	can only, with heartfelt conviction, give the answer,''Lord, to whom shall we go?
32006	has it come?
32006	issue commands to myself which I dare not disobey?
32006	or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?''
32006	or who hath been His counsellor?
32006	or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again?
32006	or,"Has the Lord said it?"
32006	shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?
32006	shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?''
32006	surrender to myself with a martyr''s sacrifice?
32006	that in confining ourselves to the seen and the temporal, we shall best elevate mankind?
32006	to trust in sorrow a creature of thought which is but a phenomenon of sorrow?
32006	to_ pray_ to an empty image in the air?
32006	true to our souls?"
32006	{ 230} APPENDIX X''Without prejudice, what would be the effect upon modern civilisation if the Divine Ideal should vanish from modern thought?
32006	{ 262} Picard, L''Abbà ©,_ Christianity or Agnosticism?
32006	{ 64} III THE RELIGION OF THE UNIVERSE''Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?
20248	I wonder,mused the Martian,"did the grim spectre of death finally instill a grain of scepticism into his mind?"
20248	Again Jerome Davis asks,"Is it possible that our Church leaders are to some extent blinded by current conventional standards?
20248	Again, if witchcraft is given up, why not the chief witch of the Bible, the Devil?
20248	Aloud he muses,"Is there no place on Earth which is free from this contradiction?"
20248	And how well he must have rewarded his faithful servants, for was this not done in His name?
20248	And then all Gods laughed and shook on their chairs and cried:"Is Godliness not just that there are Gods, but no God?"
20248	And, behold, they cried out, saying,''What have we to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God?
20248	Are not the wants of his family, the hunger, and ostracism torture?
20248	Are they so busy sharing the wealth of the prosperous with others in spiritual quests that they fail to see some areas of desperate social need?
20248	Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?''
20248	Brahmanism, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Hebrewism, Mohammedanism, Christianity-- which is the true religion?
20248	But actually who created this creator?
20248	But does the Mohammedan or the Christian analyze as critically each his own belief?
20248	But if the wife is displeased, is there any justice?
20248	But what effectual check has Christianity contributed?
20248	But, is the modern worshipper who is contemptuous of the ancients very different from them?
20248	By what process of thought had Mohammed come to exalt Allah not merely above all Arabian gods, but above the gods of all times?
20248	Can anything stronger be said to discourage research, investigation, experiment, and retard progress?
20248	Did the clergymen stand firm when men with dollars talked?
20248	Divine Justice?
20248	Do certain diseases as yet remain to plague man?
20248	Do certain diseases still baffle the physician?
20248	Do they to some degree unconsciously exchange the gift of prophecy for yearly budgets and business boards?"
20248	Does any one believe that Jew, Mohammedan, Catholic, and Protestant can long live in peace together?
20248	Does not this apologist confuse his god with his devil?
20248	For how much longer will man be a slave to his inferiority complex with regard to his own rational capacities?
20248	Furthermore, why was he so certain of his own intimate association with Allah?
20248	Good God-- surely in the face of all this sense of aliveness and motion, and this and that, there should be some intimation of WHY?
20248	Has man profited by having remained in his mental infancy so long?
20248	Has not his mind so co-*ordinated his movements that he has enslaved those forces of nature to be his aid?
20248	How can we attribute these qualities to a being who is described to us as devoid of any nerve structure?
20248	How can we know the actual number of earthlings that are sceptics?
20248	How much longer before humanity can begin to build on a sound foundation?
20248	How, then, could an omnipotent being permit wholesale and private murder?
20248	However, the Martian argues,"Is it not a fact that in your earthly experience, you have created your gods in your own image?
20248	If everything must have a cause, then the First Cause must be caused and therefore: Who made God?
20248	If faith is vital to man, why not relate it to that which at least holds a promise of solution?
20248	If men were possessed of devils in Jesus''time, what has happened to these devils now?
20248	If the God of these earthlings bothers not about them, why should they trouble about God?
20248	If the grocer, the butcher, the doctor, the lawyer, the scholar, the business man, were to boldly announce his scepticism, what would happen to him?
20248	If this be God''s word, did God err when He said it?
20248	In how many of the advanced ideas of our time has the Church taken the lead?
20248	In this series of complications where may we discern a first cause?
20248	Is He not rather a demon than a God?
20248	Is anything so pitiful to behold as the firm grasp that the Church places on the mind of the youngest of children?
20248	Is it necessary that you should salt your truth that it will no longer quench thirst_?
20248	Is it not a fact that if the Christian nations of the world would only live at peace together, war would be impossible?
20248	Is it not renowned for being a long way in the rear rather than in the vanguard of progressive thought and action?
20248	Is religion, is church membership a help to virtue?
20248	Is religion, is church membership, a help to virtue?
20248	Is this all that is left to the theologian: that he must use the pitiful"Theology of Gaps"?
20248	It is an absurd answer to reply that the creator created himself, yet, even if this is granted, may not the universe have created itself?
20248	It is an excellent and comprehensive statement, but one is left wondering why the name"religious humanism"?
20248	It was Lactantius who asked,"Is there any one so senseless as to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher than their heads?
20248	Must it take five hundred years for all mankind to come to a similar conclusion?
20248	Now is it strange that Sinai should have excited reverence and dread?
20248	Now it is the Martian''s turn to inquire of the Hebrew whether the latter had ever read this story to his own daughter?
20248	Or did the Divine Father know that even a self- respecting germ could not inhabit the filthy floor of the Tabernacle?
20248	Or, the story of Abraham''s affair with Hagar, his handmaiden?
20248	Professor James T. Shotwell when speaking of paganism reminds us,"Who of us can appreciate antique paganism?
20248	Surely, Jesus could not misinterpret his own words or deeds, if the religionists contend that we are now misinterpreting the Bible?
20248	Surely, a man is not burned at the stake for his scepticism in this age; but is he not done to death?
20248	That I have ten coats in my wardrobe while he goes naked?
20248	That at each of my meals enough is served to feed his family for a week?
20248	That the crops and trees grow downward?
20248	That the rains and snow and hail fall upwards toward the earth?
20248	The oft- repeated question still admits of no answer,"Who created the creator"?
20248	Then again, has it not occurred to this apologist that he is in all futility attempting to prove something which is a contradiction within itself?
20248	Then was heard the last despairing cry of the desolate, dying martyr,"My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
20248	To confuse the evil spirit causing the disease?
20248	Truly, Jehovah at that time must have loved them well, or did some other Deity form the Egyptians?
20248	Was it the brotherhood of man that Christianity bestowed on the conquered Mexican and Peruvian nations, and on the Indians of our own country?
20248	What could be more explicit?
20248	What did the prophetic movement do with his sacred powers?
20248	What effect has Christianity had upon our moral life, upon crime, drug- addiction, sexual immorality, prostitution, and perversion?
20248	What immense structures have been founded on these shifting sands, on this morass of ignorance and childish fable?
20248	What is the cause?
20248	What is the value of a church that has claimed the moral leadership of the world when such things can happen?
20248	What kind of brotherhood did Christians bestow on Jews or heretics in the Middle Ages?
20248	What of those countless millions of men that died before Christ came to save the world from damnation?
20248	What sort of person would be the father who would announce divine punishment or reward in order to obtain the love and respect of his children?
20248	What supernatural in their deeds?
20248	What wisdom poured forth from their lips which did not come from other philosophers?
20248	When the minds of men are from infancy perverted with these ideals, how can mankind build a virile race?
20248	Who does not feel the absurdity of the opinion that the lavish care for a sick child by a mother is given because of a belief in God and immortality?
20248	Why do n''t the masses go to Church?''
20248	Why does the ecclesiastic not leave off his advances until the child reaches a mature age, an age when he can reason?
20248	Why, therefore, not give Allah, the leading icon in Arabia, an opportunity?
20248	Why?
20248	Wieman, Macintosh, and Otto:"Is There a God?
20248	Will he endeavor to analyze it at all?
20248	Years ago I was asked,''Why do n''t people accept religion?
36799	''And, my dear sir, has it never occurred to you that the language of the Christian is shocking to atheistical feeling?''
36799	''Any butter?''
36799	''Any water?''
36799	''Are n''t you''ligious?''
36799	''Are you doing otherwise?
36799	''But did you not say that you had evidence that you wished to give?''
36799	''But if the atheist has so much on his side, why does he not make it known?
36799	''But you really can not be an atheist?''
36799	''Can it be that I shall wish to hold a creed that I distrust-- one that leads me to deny another the liberty I claim for myself?
36799	''Did you not hear that bell?''
36799	''Do n''t you know where you are?''
36799	''Do n''t you know you are a prisoner?''
36799	''Has it not been at your request that you have been brought before us for that purpose?''
36799	''Has the atheist an equal opportunity with you?
36799	''How know you that?
36799	''In what respect was I different?''
36799	''It has?''
36799	''Now, Mr. Holyoake, what have you to complain of?''
36799	''Really me-- how can you say so, sir?''
36799	''Tea?''
36799	''Then I presume,''the clerk observed,''you mean that you will provide one yourselves?''
36799	''Then what are we to understand by your present statement?''
36799	''Then what do you mean?
36799	''Then where would you leave the question of atheism?''
36799	''Well, Mr. Holyoake,''he said, when I met him,''how is it you did not come to prayers?''
36799	''What do you mean?''
36799	''Why should you be shocked to hear what you are not shocked to say?''
36799	''Why what danger do you run?''
36799	''Why, sir?''
36799	''Will you have it_ toasted?_''I will.
36799	''Yes,''I said;''what of that?''
36799	''You deny that there is a God?''
36799	* and if, after the circumstances I have related, I did not think so highly of church''as by law established''as before, can you be surprised?
36799	Addressing the Bench, I asked whether it was legal in these cases to apprehend persons without the authority of a warrant?
36799	After first stating that I did not believe there was a Deity, is it likely I should say I would put him on half- pay?
36799	Am I not in the power of governor and surgeon?
36799	And how would this account for the death of man himself?''
36799	And we lie on it, like good metal Long hammer''d by a senseless hand; But will such thumping make a kettle?
36799	And what does he mean by''laws which the church has in ancient writing?''
36799	Are you ready?
36799	Atheism and Blasphemy.--On Tuesday evening last a person named Holyoake, from Manchester,(?)
36799	But how is this accomplished in gaol?
36799	But let us see what Christianity is according to common law?
36799	But what would you say to a man who would manure his land, and leave it to find seed for itself?
36799	Can I be allowed to read the indictment against me?
36799	Can I have a copy of the indictment?
36799	Can they not retaliate in your absence?
36799	Can you punish me for it?
36799	Could you not make coffee?''
36799	Did I wish to give it as evidence?
36799	Did you ever examine the question without prejudice, or read that written in its favour without fear?
36799	Did you not know before the day of my commitment something of this matter?
36799	Did you think I spoke my honest convictions?
36799	Do I not reap the whirlwind for my pains?
36799	Do you not preach to me and place me here where prisoners stand?
36799	Do you not see that I am nearly friendless?
36799	Does it become you, a clergyman and a magistrate, to ask me to commit crime?''
36799	Gentlemen, where are these sentiments evinced in this prosecution?
36799	Gentlemen, which is to be believed, divines and philosophers, or the common law?
36799	Gentlemen, will you pray for truth in your churches and brand it in your courts?
36799	Gentlemen, will you wonder if, after this, I doubted a little the utility of church establishments?
36799	Had I not better accept the editorship of a paper, where I should not be required to contradict, but merely to avoid advocating my views?
36799	Have we no government now?
36799	He asked me was it not Robert Owen who made me an atheist?
36799	He said''Would I go with him?''
36799	He then put the question-- do you consider the words blasphemous?
36799	Holyoake, you are a Deist-- are you not?''
36799	Holyoake?''
36799	How much more is religion degraded that is made the subject of reward and punishment here?
36799	I only answered,''Why do you address me thus, since you will not allow me to reply?''
36799	I will thank you to state the other reasons?
36799	If I had acted disgracefully, would the people of Cheltenham have met a stranger and showed him marks of esteem and friendship?
36799	If I had been conscious of guilt, should I have returned?
36799	If I point to the wrong I see in this Christian country, and ask, is this Christianity?
36799	If it be absurd in me to deny what I can not demonstrate, is it not improper for you to avert so dogmatically what you can not prove?''
36799	If it did, the question is-- where is it?
36799	If it was an aggravation of my crime to have chosen an innocent subject, what would the learned counsel have said if I had chosen a guilty one?
36799	If, as I admit, persecution will put down opinion, what objection''s there to its employment when it puts down error?
36799	Is it generous in you to taunt him with lack of evidence, when you are prepared to punish its production?''
36799	Is this a course becoming those who say they have_ truth_ on their side?
36799	Is this the doing of a God of love?
36799	It is for you, gentlemen, to say whether I knowingly, wickedly, and maliciously offended the law?
36799	It is true he was not asked,''Do you believe in a God?''
36799	Looking up, I said''What do you want?''
36799	Mr. Pinching asked me the irrelevant question''Did I believe in Jesus Christ?''
36799	My lord, am I to be classed with thieves and felons?
36799	Now, gentlemen, how is a man to act under these circumstances in which I am placed?
36799	On our way I asked him if it would be necessary for me to take an oath, before my own bond could be accepted, as I should object to take an oath?
36799	One day he took me to the door, and pointing upwards, asked,''did I not see there proofs sufficient of the existence of a God?''
36799	Priests have affirmed the existence of a God, but who will maintain that they have complied with the rule of logic?
36799	Religion never did me a service, how then should I love it?
36799	Shall it be said that we are content to wear mental fetters?
36799	Suppose, gentlemen, that I did refer to the Deity, was my notion a dishonourable one?
36799	The Commissioners referred to in this letter asked me, when I was first taken before them, whether I had any complaint to make?
36799	The captain, in a gentlemanly way, inquired if I would allow Mr. Pinching to reason with me on my opinions?
36799	The witness against me says he is a preacher; had he no word in answer?
36799	Then, gentlemen, would you punish me for simply saying that which other men, unpunished, are every day doing?
36799	Tyranny has its soldiers, and why not Freedom?
36799	What can I do if I go?
36799	What can be more wholly condemnatory of these proceedings than these instructions of the''Manual of Devotion?''
36799	What can we think of the morality of a law which requires secret inquiry, which prohibits the_ free_ publication of opinion?
36799	What do you mean by galleys pulled?
36799	What patrimony has the poor man but his free thoughts?
36799	What shadow of evidence has been adduced to substantiate this extravagant charge?
36799	When taken into the general room next morning the prisoners surrounded me, exclaiming,''What are ye come for?''
36799	While thousands daily perish at the shrine of passion, what is the pain of a sacrifice now and then for public principle or personal freedom?
36799	Who advised you to attend as a witness?
36799	Who has instructed you to define blasphemy thus?
36799	Why do you think them blasphemous?
36799	Why what do you mean?''
36799	Will you state if the words are blasphemous?
36799	Will you state your opinion of morality?
36799	Will you suffer this court to proclaim the sacred nature of an oath, and openly violate it in the same hour and under the same roof?
36799	Will you swear you have not concocted that answer for this occasion?
36799	Will you, by a verdict of guilty this day, send forth to the world this card of credentials of the religion of Jesus?
36799	Worship being thus expensive, I appeal to your heads and your pockets whether we are not too poor to have a God?
36799	Would that have been done had he been prosecuted?
36799	Would you put a servant on half- pay whom you never hired or had?
36799	Would you test my opinions by my emotions on the bed of death?
36799	You have bread, I suppose?''
36799	You know the prisoners only go because the turnkey is behind them?''
36799	You mean, I suppose, till all the types were up?
36799	You say I said the people were too poor to have any religion; will you state the reasons I gave?
36799	You say your feelings are insulted-- your opinions outraged; but what of mine?
36799	You see yonder gratings?
36799	could he say no word for his God?
36799	or are there two Gods-- a kind one, giving life; and an unkind one taking it away; and the wicked one invariably the victor?
40770	A God who delights in the tears of his unhappy creatures, who sets for them the ambush, and then punishes them for having fallen into it?
40770	A God who himself ordains robbery, persecution, and carnage?
40770	A mild and humane religion can never belong to a partial and cruel God?
40770	After such principles, is not the whole earth to become a prey to Christian rapacity?
40770	Among the orthodox courtiers, who surround Christian thrones, do we see intrigues, calumny, or perfidy?
40770	And are the virtues less because professed by heathens?
40770	And further, how can the Christian love beings who continually offend his God?
40770	And have we not a right to refuse their testimonies?
40770	And how can goodness be an attribute of a God, who has created most of the human race only to damn them eternally?
40770	And if so, what are they?
40770	And is not hatred eternalized where implacable revenge is exercised?
40770	Are not they calculated to discourage man, and throw him into despair?
40770	Are the men, redeemed by the blood of even a Deity, more honest than others?
40770	Are the witnesses who transmitted, or the Apostles who saw them, extremely deserving of credit?
40770	Are they strong?
40770	Are they weak?
40770	Are those miracles confirmed by the testimony of cotemporary historians?
40770	Are we acquainted with his character and temperament?
40770	At this remote period, how can we be certain that Moses conversed with God, and received from him the law which he communicated to the Hebrews?
40770	Beings who would continually betray himself into offence?
40770	But are we not at liberty to doubt the truth of this assertion?
40770	But have not many wise men among the heathens discovered, without the assistance of the Jewish revelation, one supreme God, superior to all others?
40770	But in another view, does not it imply mistrust of the wisdom of God to prescribe rules for his conduct?
40770	But what is it to have morals, in; the language of Christians?
40770	But what is the foundation of this confidence?
40770	But when has he spoken?
40770	But who are these masters?
40770	But who shall decide whether the laws, most advantageous to society, are conformed to the will of this God?
40770	But will the revelation, upon which Judaism and Christianity are founded, bear the test of this criterion?
40770	But, be this as it may, is it true that Christianity admits but one God, the same which was revealed by Moses?
40770	But, if this be the case, why did the apostles preach to them the gospel?
40770	But, on the other side, is not reason proscribed by the Christian religion?
40770	By what fatality have writings revealed by God himself still need of commentaries?
40770	Can it be supposed that such a Being, without equal and without rival, should be jealous of his glory?
40770	Can man love a God above all things, who is represented as wrathful, capricious, unjust, and implacable?
40770	Can man love, above all things, an object the most dreadful that human imagination could ever conceive?
40770	Can not Christians see, that, in endeavouring to honour and exalt their God, they only degrade and debase him?
40770	Can reason subscribe to the ridiculous obligation of abstaining from certain aliments and meats which is imposed by some sects of Christians?
40770	Can such an object excite in the human heart a sentiment of love?
40770	Can the abject and isolated mind of these mercenary pedagogues be capable of instructing their pupils in that of which themselves are ignorant?
40770	Can the prayers of man add glory to a Being beyond comparison superior to all others?
40770	Can we draw from them any just conceptions of its attributes?
40770	Could it be expected that the Jews would believe the report of the apostles, rather than their own eyes?
40770	Do not they themselves, in certain cases, have recourse to reason?
40770	Do they exhibit any precise ideas of the God, whose oracles they announce?
40770	Do they not appeal to reason, when they endeavour to prove the existence of their God?
40770	Do we not see Christians adore a threefold divinity, under the name of the Trinity?
40770	Does he not paint himself as false, unjust, deceitful, and Cruel; as setting snares for mankind; seducing, hardening, and leading them astray?
40770	Does it not continually exclaim against a profane reason, which it accuses of insufficiency, and often regards as rebellious to heaven?
40770	Does it not imply a doubt of his immutability, to believe he can be prevailed on by his creatures to alter his designs?
40770	Does it render empires flourishing and powerful?
40770	Does it render mankind better?
40770	Does it, better than any other, make us acquainted with the nature and essence of God?
40770	Does not every man, who is desirous to live, perceive that vice, intemperance, and voluptuousness must shorten the period of life?
40770	For why should a man mingle with the affairs of a world, which his religion informs him is only a place of passage?
40770	From their instructions for eighteen hundred years past, what advantages have nations derived?
40770	Has it any superior qualities, by which it merits the preference?
40770	Has this religion influenced the manners of sovereigns, who derive their divine power from it?
40770	Have not Popes arrogated the right of disposing of distant empires to their favourite Monarchs in Europe?
40770	Have these infallible men found it possible to agree among themselves, on the most essential points of a religion, revealed by God himself?
40770	Have we not room to accuse the Saviour of the world with want of benevolence, in shewing himself only to his disciples and favourites?
40770	How can a God, who enjoys a supreme felicity, be offended with the actions of his creatures?
40770	How can a benevolent God bestow on his creatures a fatal liberty by the abuse of which they may incur his anger, and their own destruction?
40770	How can a man, in his senses, see, in the Immanuel announced by Isaiah, the Messiah, whose name is Jesus?
40770	How can an only God become triple without injuring his unity?
40770	How can he love sinners?
40770	How can that Being, who is himself the author of life and nature, suffer death?
40770	How can we delight in the God under whose rod we tremble?
40770	How can we know, without the aid of reason, that God hath spoken?
40770	How can we love that which we dread?
40770	How discover, in an obscure and crucified Jew, a leader who shall govern Israel?
40770	How does it happen that such extraordinary events have been noticed only by a handful of Christians?
40770	How prove the validity of its pretensions?
40770	How shall we be made sure that they have not been the dupes of some illusion, or an overheated imagination?
40770	How then can we discover what confidence is due to the testimony which these organs of heaven give in favour of their own mission?
40770	How then shall we decide in its favour?
40770	If he is almighty, how can he be flattered with the submissions, adorations, and formalities with which Christians prostrate themselves before him?
40770	If he knows all things, what need is there of continually informing him what are the dispositions and desires of his subjects?
40770	If justice, humanity, generosity, temperance, and patience be not virtues, to what can the name be given?
40770	If literally practised, would they not prove ruinous to society?
40770	If nothing be due from God to his creatures, how can any thing be due from them to him?
40770	If so, why do they eternally dispute about them?
40770	If this revelation be, as is supposed, an emanation from God himself, who can confide in him?
40770	If we know that the Apostles sometimes wandered from the truth, how shall we believe them at others?
40770	In this case what need was there of having spoken?
40770	In this case, how does it happen that Christians continue to sin, as if they had never been redeemed and delivered from sin?
40770	Indeed, how can it be otherwise, when they confound the cause of God with that of their own vanity?
40770	Is it but to reveal such mysteries as these that the Godhead has taken pains to instruct mankind?
40770	Is it certain that the books which are attributed to Moses, and report so many miraculous circumstances, are perfectly authentic?
40770	Is it even practicable for mankind to love their neighbours as themselves?
40770	Is it not astonishing, that what was intended as a guide for mankind, should be wholly above their comprehending?
40770	Is it not cruel, that what is of most importance to them should be least known?
40770	Is it not rather a proof of his ferocity, cruelty, and implacable vengeance?
40770	Is it possible to obey this precept?
40770	Is it so with the Bible?
40770	Is it, then by subterfuges, subtilties, and falsehoods, that we are to render service to God?
40770	Is not such conduct as ridiculous as it is unreasonable?
40770	Is not such conduct calculated to multiply our friends?
40770	Is not the forgiveness of injuries connected with this principle?
40770	Is not the pardoning of our enemies a greatness of soul, which gives us an advantage over those who offend us?
40770	Is not the use of reason forbidden, in the examination of the marvellous dogmas with which we are presented by this religion?
40770	Is not this God represented as a mass of extraordinary qualities, which form an inexplicable enigma?
40770	Is the Godhead described when it is said that it is a spirit, an immaterial being, which resembles nothing presented to us by our senses?
40770	May not reason be permitted to hope, that she shall one day re- assume the power so long usurped from her by error, illusion, and deceit?
40770	May not we, also, oppose to the miracles of Moses, and Christ, those performed by Mahomet in presence of all Mecca and Arabia assembled?
40770	May we not, however, ask them how far this renunciation of reason ought to be carried?
40770	Moreover, was not Fate, to which all the other gods of the heathens were subordinate, an only God, to whose sovereign law all nature was subject?
40770	Must it not be a great temerity and sin for a Christian to serve in war?
40770	Must not a true Christian, to whose imitation the example of the saints and heroes of the Old Testament are proposed, become ferocious and sanguinary?
40770	Now, it is said, that the death of man is the effect of the sin of Adam; and if, by baptism, sin be effaced, why is man still subject to death?
40770	On what, then, is Revelation itself founded?
40770	Ought a God to reveal himself to mankind for the sole purpose of not being comprehended?
40770	Ought he not to imagine that the surest means of pleasing his God, is to imitate his ferocity and cruelty?
40770	Ought not all these things to excite a doubt of the infallibility of the Evangelists, and the reality of their divine inspirations?
40770	Ought not they to have perceived, that this conduct was calculated only to produce hypocrites and hidden enemies, of open rebellions?
40770	These interpreters of the divine will were then men; and are not men liable to be deceived themselves, and prone to deceive others?
40770	To justify his own, will he not appeal to the perfidious cruelty of Phineas, Jabel, and Judith?
40770	Was he phlegmatic or enthusiastic, honest or knavish, ambitious or disinterested, a practiser of truths or of falsehood?
40770	Was it necessary that a God should speak, to shew that they have need of mutual aid and mutual love?
40770	Was it not religious and supernatural ideas which caused sovereigns to be looked upon as gods?
40770	Were they the only persons who perceived them?
40770	Were those witnesses disinterested?
40770	Were those witnesses very deserving men?
40770	What advantage are mankind to derive from all this?
40770	What assistance can it receive from a religion by which it is continually contradicted and degraded?
40770	What do I say?
40770	What good results to society from these practices, all of which may be observed by a man who has not the shadow of virtue?
40770	What indulgence can the Christian, who believes this fable, shew to his fellow- creature?
40770	What indulgence have mankind a right to expect from a God, who spared not even his own son?
40770	What kind of being shall we contemplate, when we add to this the ineffable attributes ascribed to him in the Christian theology?
40770	What must be thought of these divine writings, which every sect understands so differently?
40770	What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?
40770	What proofs does the Christian religion give us of the mission of Jesus Christ?
40770	What real good can result to society from the melancholy and ferocious virtues which Christians consider indispensible?
40770	What shall we say of the false and forged prophecies, applied to Christ in the gospel?
40770	What shall we say of the morality, which commands the human heart to detach itself from objects which reason commands it to love?
40770	What then are the proofs which are to establish the superiority of the Christian religion over all others?
40770	What was the temperament of this Moses?
40770	What, then, are the motives of the Christian, for pretending to such a belief?
40770	When we do good to our enemies does it not give us a superiority over them?
40770	When we refuse the blessings offered us by nature, do we not despise the benefactions of the One Supreme?
40770	When will nations renounce chimerical hopes, to contemplate their true interests?
40770	Wherever it reigns, do we not see the people debased, destitute of energy, and ignorant of true morality?
40770	Who does not see, in these sublime precepts, the language of enthusiasm and hyperbole?
40770	Why assign to him qualities which destroy each other?
40770	Why quarrel and cut each others throats, because they are differently interpreted by different persons?
40770	Why recount fables concerning him?
40770	Why then do they dispute incessantly concerning him?
40770	Why was he transported thither, and what did he learn by his journey?
40770	Will they never shake off the yokes of those hypocritical tyrants, who are interested only in the errors of mankind?
40770	Will they teach then to love the public good, to serve their country, to know the duties of the man and citizen?
40770	and do its revealed truths occasion no disputes among divines?
40770	and why do they demand additional lights from on high, before they can be believed or understood?
40770	the virtues of Greece and Rome, so amiable, and so heroic, were they not true virtues?
40770	who is said to be cruel enough to damn his creatures eternally?
20233	But one question remains to be answered, If Religion is not our proper business, what is? 20233 For what,"says Lord Brougham,"is this matter?
20233	How can we form an idea of a substance destitute of extension, and yet acting on our senses, that is, on material organs which are extended? 20233 If something must be self- existent and eternal, says another, why may not matter and all its properties be that something?"
20233	If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
20233	Mr. Harrison demanded of me, where the first man came from? 20233 The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom"?
20233	[ 153] The principle is a sound one; and the only question is, whether matter alone is sufficient to account for mental phenomena? 20233 [ 265] That there is here a strong expression of Skeptical Atheism is evident; but is there not something more?
20233	[ 266] If it means more than this, will he say that it is insufficient for others as well as for him? 20233 [ 292] He sees the necessity, and seems to feel the attractiveness, of the doctrine; yet he denies its truth: why?
20233	[ 304] And is the_ wise use of Nature_ inconsistent with Religion? 20233 [ 316] We might answer, If Christianity be_ true_, what then?
20233	[ 317] Is there not something here that should arrest the attention and awaken the anxiety even of the Secularist himself? 20233 [ 44] Such is the objection; and how does he attempt to answer it?
20233	[ 57] Now, what, it may be asked, is this marvellous discovery, which bids so fair both to immortalize its author and to enlighten the world? 20233 ''For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? 20233 --If we are asked, what is man?
20233	--"The world possesses as_ yet_ no adequate logic for that province of speculation"--"Men must die to solve the problem of Deity''s existence?"
20233	--"What, is Humanity considered as comprehending all men?
20233	--"Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?
20233	..."A man will come to me and say, Can you account for this?
20233	..."But are these teachers the_ only_ destroyers of Faith and Morals?
20233	..."But what are our sensations?
20233	..."How is it that liberty is in chains all over Europe, if God be still interposing in human affairs?
20233	..."When a glass of wine turns a wise man into a fool, is it not clear that the result is the consequence of a change in the material conditions?
20233	A mountain of desolating facts rises up to shame into silence the hazardous supposition?
20233	A quoi bon une methode, une autorité infaillible, un enseignement Divin, si nous n''avons que des facultés trompeuses pour user de ces secours?
20233	All Christians combine the two; why should Mr. Holyoake seek to divorce them?
20233	Am I not as_ certain_ that I see four objects before me, as that two and two make four?
20233	And as to the plea of insufficient evidence, what is its precise meaning?
20233	And could they be reassured or comforted by any other article of the Secular Creed?
20233	And how are they demonstrated?
20233	And how does Mr. Holyoake save his consistency?
20233	And on what ground am I asked to receive this astonishing discovery?
20233	And what are the proofs to which it appeals, what the principles on which it rests?
20233	And what ground is left for the reckless prediction that Theology is doomed, and_ must_ fall before the onward march of Positive Science?
20233	And what is the ground on which it rests?
20233	And what is there in this extension of the argument that should exclude the idea of a First Cause?
20233	And who was the predestined heir of that Majesty?
20233	And why may not"a substance"be produced?
20233	And why?
20233	And why?
20233	And yet can it be said to belong to the head of necessary truth?
20233	Are even those who have no ideas of God Atheists?
20233	Are the philosophers of this last opinion Atheists?
20233	Are there no instances of an opposite kind?
20233	Are they necessarily incompatible or mutually exclusive?
20233	Because it is_ useful_?
20233	Because it will be followed by certain natural consequences?
20233	But does Mr. Holyoake give, or pretend to give, any such_ assurance_?
20233	But how are_ these facts proved_?
20233	But how does his extension of Paley''s argument justify the position which he now assumes?
20233	But how is this proved by the extension of the analogy?
20233	But how?
20233	But in what sense?
20233	But is it a correct account of the fact?
20233	But is it a self- evident truth, that there can be no substance in nature excepting such as is self- existent and eternal?
20233	But is it not an agency of an unspeakably loftier character?
20233	But is it so?
20233	But is there no room for both?
20233	But is this the law of development and progress?
20233	But the question is, whether,_ in all cases_, the"subject"and"object"of thought are the same?
20233	But what analogy suggests, or what law of reason requires, an_ infinite series_ of such causes?
20233	But what if this affirmation be denied?
20233	But what is the matter of fact?
20233	But what kind of a person is a Deity?
20233	But what weight is due to his testimony in such a case?
20233	But why should the spirituality of the soul be more affected by the one set of organs than it was by the other?
20233	But why, if others believe on the ground of that evidence, and if, according to his favorite theory, belief is_ the inevitable_ result of evidence?
20233	But, even if it did, what influence would it exert on our present happiness?
20233	But, is there any real danger of such a disastrous consummation?
20233	Can we have_ fixed_ articles of faith and morals in this system, any more than in the other?
20233	Can you account for that?
20233	Created beings?
20233	Croit- il qu''il existe, par exemple?
20233	Did Final Causes disappear from the view of Newton when he discovered the law which regulates the movements of the heavenly bodies?
20233	Did Galen or did Paley discard them when they surveyed the human frame in the light of scientific anatomy?
20233	Does his question imply, that if these doctrines were_ true_, he would have just reason to fear death?
20233	Does it mean merely that it has hitherto failed to convince himself and his associates?
20233	Does it not amount to a denial of the analogy itself?
20233	Does the generation of the animated tribes diminish the evidence of design in the actual constitution of the world?
20233	Et comment pourrions- nous l''employer, si ce ne''est avec notre raison?
20233	Every one whose conscience has not been utterly seared must instinctively feel the force of that appeal,"If I be a Father, where is mine honor?
20233	For example, Is Certitude the same with the highest probability?
20233	For how can I be more assured of an_ impersonal reason_ than of my own?
20233	For if the three methods have coexisted hitherto, why may they not equally coexist hereafter?
20233	For what is Idealism?
20233	For what is death?
20233	For what is the real import of the law of"vis inertiæ?"
20233	For where is the egg that comes not from a bird, and where is the bird that comes not from an egg?
20233	For why_ ought_ I to do this, or refrain from that?
20233	He is bound to give some intelligible answer to the question, What is the cause of these marvellous phenomena which I behold?
20233	How can a being without extension be capable of motion, and of putting matter into motion?"
20233	How did it originate?
20233	How do we assure ourselves of its existence?
20233	How does it stand related to the question concerning the nature and existence of God, or the constitution and destiny of Man?
20233	I ask, has the person of Deity an organization?
20233	If Christianity be false, is it nothing that day after day you have the fear of death before your eyes?
20233	If a person, is it organized like a person?
20233	If it be, why may it not be solved before death?
20233	If it has already introduced a Christian Polytheism, why may it not issue in a Christian Pantheism?
20233	If not eternal, how was it produced?
20233	If what is called in reproach''Saint- worship''resembled the Polytheism which it supplanted, or was a corruption, how did Dogmatism survive?
20233	Is Humanity a collective being, or is it nothing but a series of individual men?"
20233	Is his belief, or theirs, the measure of truth?
20233	Is it a law that is uniform and invariable in its operation?
20233	Is it a self- evident truth that man, with his distinct personality and individual consciousness, is a mere"mode"or affection of another being?
20233	Is it a self- evident truth that the ape, the lizard, and the worm are equally"modes"of the same substance with the angel and the seraph?
20233	Is it a self- evident truth that_ extension_ and_ thought_ are equally expressive of the uncreated Essence and necessary"attributes"of the Eternal?
20233	Is it not in those very departments of Nature whose laws have been most fully ascertained?
20233	Is it not the coöperation of an immortal spirit, bearing the impress of the Divine image, and at the moment acting in unison with the Divine will?
20233	Is it nothing else than the Inductive Science of Bacon, but under a new and less attractive name?
20233	Is it self- existent and eternal?
20233	Is it something, or is it nothing but an abstraction of our mind?
20233	Is it still a problem, and one, too, which may after all be solved, and solved even in the affirmative?
20233	Is it yet too late for him to reconsider his opinions, and retrace his steps?
20233	Is it, then, to be restricted to_ necessary_ and_ absolute_, as contrasted with_ contingent_ and_ relative_ truths?
20233	Is not my personal consciousness infallibly certain?
20233	Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
20233	Is such an idea accordant with our general conception of the dignity, not to speak of the power, of the Great Author?"
20233	Is this a matter of sense?
20233	It seeks to solve the question, What is the first Being, and what are its relations to other beings?
20233	Let it still advance in the same direction, and who shall assure us that it may not develop into still grosser idolatry, or even into Pantheism?
20233	Might they not exist as_ creatures_, as_ products_, as_ effects_, without partaking of the nature of their cause?
20233	Morality makes the wiser inquiry, Is an act useful to man?
20233	N''est ce pas par notre raison individuelle que la verité- arrivé a nous et devient notre bien?
20233	Nay, why is it that the axiom of causation needs only to be announced to command the immediate assent of the whole human race?
20233	On the former supposition, how vast the difference between the Secularist and the Christian?
20233	On the supposition that one or other of the two must be dispensed with, the question still remains, which of them can be most easily spared?
20233	On this point three distinct questions have been raised:_ First_, whether Atheism be conducive to personal happiness?
20233	Or are both views of the matter true_ on a different interpretation of the terms_?
20233	Or how can it invalidate the admissions which he had previously made?
20233	Or is spiritual dependence necessarily incompatible with industrial pursuits?
20233	Quel moyen plus immediat pourrons- nous avoir de saisir la verité?
20233	Quel principe de connaisance ou de Certitude pourrait- on placer entre nous et notre raison?
20233	Religion asks but one question, Is an act pleasing to Deity?
20233	Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you"?
20233	Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
20233	Still it is competent, and it may be highly useful, to entertain the question, What are the grounds on which the theory of Materialism rests?
20233	The programme of the Academy very properly places this question on the foreground, Is Certitude the same with the highest probability?
20233	The question arises,--In what manner has this set of phenomena originated?
20233	They have asked, and have attempted to answer, such questions as these: What are we?
20233	Was it formed, as it is said to have formed us?...
20233	Was not the whole land a short time ago convulsed with horror at the fate of the_ Amazon_?
20233	What am I to think, he might say, of my own father and mother?
20233	What are the forms in which it has appeared, and what the ground on which it rests?
20233	What code of Pantheism, French or German, can be said to equal the mystic dreams of the Vedanta School?
20233	What does this argument amount to?
20233	What eternal and necessary impediment prevents?
20233	What evidence have we at all respecting either its being or its qualities?
20233	What godless theory of Natural Law can compete with the Epicurean philosophy, as illustrated in the poetry of Lucretius?
20233	What if, founding on the clearest data of consciousness, we refuse to acknowledge that_ existence_ is identical with_ thought_?
20233	What is Science?
20233	What is the faculty, or what are the faculties, which give us Certitude?
20233	What modern system of Skepticism can rival that of Sextus Empiricus?
20233	What then?
20233	What, then, are they?
20233	What, then, is the doctrine of Materialism?
20233	Whence came it?
20233	Whence came this stupendous fabric of Nature?
20233	Whence do we derive any knowledge of it?
20233	Whence the order which pervades it, and the beauty by which it is adorned?
20233	Whence, above all, the evil, moral and physical, by which it is disfigured and cursed?
20233	Which of these is the truth?
20233	Who have been the most scientific and the most industrious members of the community, the small band of Atheists, or the great body of Christians?
20233	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
20233	Why may it not perceive, why not think, why not become conscious?
20233	Why should it be supposed that there is, or can only be,_ one_ substance in Nature?
20233	Why should it not develop, for example, into Sun worship?
20233	Why should the Science of man be opposed to the Providence of God, or secular industry to religious faith?
20233	Why?
20233	Why?
20233	Would it not deprive us of the loftiest hopes?
20233	Would it not diminish the pleasure which we derive even from earthly objects, and aggravate the bitterness of every trial?
20233	Would it not limit our enjoyments, by confining our views within the narrow range of things seen and temporal?
20233	Yet who had ever seen it?
20233	Yet, why thus degrade matter, the plastic and prolific creature of the Deity, beyond what we are authorized to do?
20233	You look with fear on the progress of Rationalism; and what hope can any man derive from that of Romanism?
20233	[ 267] But what has their belief, or his unbelief, to do with the great, the momentous fact?
20233	_ Secondly_, whether it be compatible with pure morality and virtue?
20233	and if I be a Master, where is my fear?"
20233	and may it not thus become manifest that"godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come?"
20233	and what is the ground of that religious belief which has always prevailed in the world?
20233	and whether a theory of this kind can afford"a key to the government of God?"
20233	and why may we not at once embrace Pantheism, and conceive of God only as"the soul of the world?"
20233	and,_ thirdly_, whether it be consistent with social well- being, with the authority of the laws, and the safety or comfort of the community?
20233	because it is conducive to_ happiness_?
20233	but, what are the grounds on which they rest?--not, what is your belief?
20233	but, what is the truth?
20233	by chance or by design?
20233	by inevitable fate or by spontaneous will?
20233	how long?"
20233	in those very branches of Science which have been most thoroughly matured?
20233	is it not like a vapor, which appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away?"
20233	is it not the dictate of enlightened prudence, were we to look no further than to the present life?
20233	is it the exclusive monopoly of Atheism?
20233	one substance invested with all those properties and powers which exist, in such manifold diversity, in the organic and inorganic kingdoms?
20233	or Harvey, when, impelled and guided by this doctrine as his governing principle, he discovered the circulation of the blood?
20233	or did it come into being at some definite time?
20233	or does it mean merely, that whether they be true or false, he can have no reason to fear death, simply because he_ disbelieves_ them?
20233	or is it a philosophy radically different from it, and entitled, therefore, to be regarded as an original method?
20233	or what self- contradiction and absurdity is hereby implied?
20233	or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?''
20233	or what_ other_ evidence will there be after death?
20233	or, whether existence and thought are_ universally_ identical?
20233	or, which of them can be most conclusively proved?
20233	what is our destination?
20233	what was our origin?
20233	who could ever see it?
18168	Was it then love,he asks,"which impelled the Divine Will, and said to it unceasingly: Go and create?
18168	Why, what are you doing there?
18168	[ 114] What does the author understand by law? 18168 [ 156] What is there beneath these strange lines?
18168	[ 158] And are these sublime_ pressentiments_ only dreams after all? 18168 [ 24] Does the man who speaks in this way appear to you to have wished to break the link which connects morality with religion?
18168	[ 47] Why? 18168 A physiologist absorbed in the study of sensible phenomena says:Where is that soul they talk of?
18168	A request is made, and for what?
18168	Again, do the most learned chemists find in the study of the elements of matter a revelation of atheism?
18168	Again, what shall we say to those philosophers, who do not wish for truth except when they have succeeded in educing it by themselves?
18168	Allow me to reproduce some old questions: If a machine implies intelligence, does the universe imply none?
18168	Am I not the dupe of an illusion?
18168	And at what shall we have arrived at last?
18168	And do the men who profess them believe them, taking the word''believe''in its real and deep meaning?
18168	And do you not know the part which cowardice has played in history?
18168	And how can deeds so hideous glare Beneath the beams of holy light, That on the lips of hapless wight Dies at their view the trembling prayer?
18168	And if a religious man asks,"Are you falling then into atheism?"
18168	And if there is intelligence in the universe, is this intelligence a chemical result of the combination of molecules?
18168	And now where do we stand?
18168	And of whom is happiness asked?
18168	And since the thought is a beautiful one, it has adorned the strains of the poets: says Lamartine-- Dost thou happiness resign To another?
18168	And what have we now before us?
18168	And what is pestilence, or crime, Or death, O righteous God, to Thee?
18168	And what is the answer?
18168	And what is the consequence?
18168	And what is the real account to give of all this?
18168	And what next?
18168	And what result do they attain?
18168	And whence comes this idea?
18168	And whence proceeds our spirit?
18168	Any religious theory whatever is put aside as inadmissible, and with some such remarks as these:"How is it that real sciences are formed?
18168	Are the beings which we call inferior only the cadets of the universe, and are they too in their turn to mount all the steps of the ladder?
18168	Are truth, holiness, beauty considered separately from the real and infinite Spirit in which is found their reason for existing?
18168	Are we in the domain of tradition, or in that of free inquiry?
18168	Are we occupied about religion or philosophy?
18168	Are we treading upon the ground of faith, or on the ground of reason?
18168	At first sight what do we find in the opinions of that ancient world?
18168	At what shall it stop?
18168	But do I say the truth?
18168	But do the affections of earth offer us sufficient guarantees?
18168	But do these doctrines exercise any influence for the perversion of public morals?
18168	But do we wish to rise above nature and humanity?
18168	But how shall young Frenchmen be made to hear this with regard to that signal defeat of the armies of France?
18168	But if reason does not rise to God, what will happen?
18168	But is it a question of reality?
18168	But is it not sad to see men of mind, men of heart too, perhaps, making themselves the theorists of baseness, and the philosophers of cowardice?
18168	But let us go more directly to the root of the question: What do we gather from the universality of prayer?
18168	But might we not, in looking at the work of God, discern in it the evidence of its design?
18168	But of what love?
18168	But on what altar shall we stretch this great victim?
18168	But what conceivable interest can influence Him who is the plentitude of being?
18168	But what is the soul of a monkey?
18168	But whence should come the obligation for the Being who is in Himself the absolute law?
18168	But will our mind be able to entertain together two directly opposite assertions?
18168	But, without pausing at this consideration, let us ask what pure reason can do, if deprived of all objects of experience?
18168	By what means?
18168	Can God be demonstrated_ Ã   priori_ by syllogisms?
18168	Can we enter into the counsels of God?
18168	Can we in the same way, by looking at the universe, that grand work, succeed in discovering its end?
18168	Come now, I said to myself, canst thou recognize them as thine ancestors?
18168	Comment, sous la sainte lumière, Voit- on des actes si hideux, Qu''ils font expirer la prière Sur les lèvres du malheureux?
18168	Could one demonstrate it by reasoning?
18168	Creatures of a day, how should we understand the Eternal?
18168	Did humanity begin with a coarse fetichism, and thence rise by slow degrees to higher conceptions?
18168	Did reason perceive the nothingness of these national divinities?
18168	Do not the United States bear in large characters upon their banner this inscription: LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE?
18168	Do the atheistical consequences which it is desired to draw from this doctrine proceed logically from it?
18168	Do the traces of a comparatively pure monotheism first show themselves in the most recent periods of idolatry?
18168	Do these sciences suffice for resolving the universal enigma?
18168	Do we desire progress by the ever wider diffusion of justice and love?
18168	Do we wish to know the object which a man has in view in his labor?
18168	Do you believe that the people will long consent to hear it said that they only live on errors, but that those errors are necessary for them?
18168	Do you know the feeling of anxiety?
18168	Do you not see that though we grant everything to the extreme pretensions of naturalists, the question comes up again whole and entire?
18168	Do you not see?
18168	Do you understand how an axiom undulates, and how the heavens and the earth are only the undulations of an axiom?
18168	Does botany teach the human mind to dispense with God?
18168	Does it mean that every soul bears witness to God, perhaps unconsciously to itself, either by a secret hope, or by a secret dread?
18168	Does it never happen to you, by a sinister presentiment, to see features you love to gaze on convulsed with agony or pale in death?
18168	Does it not in some sort triumph over itself?
18168	Does it result from mere experience?
18168	Does nature manifest the intervention of a directing mind, or do we see in it only a fortuitous aggregation of atoms?
18168	Does non- existence become existence little by little?
18168	Does the question concern the relations of man with his fellows?
18168	Does this mean that the lips which deny God, always in some way contradict themselves?
18168	Faith carries with it the remedy for fanaticism, but where shall be found the remedy for the fanaticism of doubt?
18168	Had then the vast knowledge of Ritter turned him away from God?
18168	Has an artist discovered in a mass of rubbish, under vulgar appearances, a product of the marvellous chisel of the Greeks?
18168	Has it, at a later period, made any discoveries calculated to efface from the life of vegetables the marks of Divine intelligence?
18168	Has reason nothing to tell us respecting the intentions of the Creator?
18168	Has the religious liberty which Great Britain practises sprung from indifference?
18168	Has the veil been lifted by reflection, that is to say by the labors of philosophers?
18168	Have the elements of matter all the same age?
18168	Have we not the right to conclude that he believed in God?
18168	Have you no dear one in a distant land of whom you are expecting tidings?
18168	Have you not remarked the surprising simplicity with which Jesus speaks of His work?
18168	Have you received the hard lessons of death?
18168	He will doubt even of the certainty of reason: what if the reason were a warped and broken instrument?
18168	How comes the editor of the almanac to know that?
18168	How does Descartes upraise himself?
18168	How does the fact manifest itself?
18168	How is it possible to approve, when we have no power to blame?
18168	How is it then that atheism sometimes manifests itself in attempts at social reform?
18168	How then does hypothesis come to be made light of?
18168	How then is it to be judged?
18168	I have told you whence liberty does not come; but whence comes it?
18168	If a telescope implies intelligence in the optician, does the eye imply none in its author?
18168	If imagination will cross the abyss, we shall come of necessity to say-- what?
18168	If it is asked, What is the cause of the motion of the stars?
18168	If our nature is ill constructed, what warrants to us our reason?
18168	If perfection alone exists, how comes that imperfect mind to exist which deceives itself in believing in the reality of the world?
18168	If so, why have some followed the law of progress, and others not?
18168	If the distinction of good and evil do not exist for general facts, how should it exist for particular facts?
18168	If we had arrived at the highest degree of virtue, what should we have done?
18168	If you look for the meaning common to all these manifestations of man''s heart, what do you find?
18168	In respect for the convictions of others?
18168	In the claims of God?
18168	In the name of what rule?
18168	In your examination of the universe will you leave out of view Jesus Christ and His work?
18168	Is God an object of experience?
18168	Is Switzerland a land of indifference?
18168	Is it also formed little by little in process of time?
18168	Is it desired to employ them to prove the existence of God?
18168	Is it in drawing- rooms with closed doors?
18168	Is it love which we must thus regard as our first father?
18168	Is it not, it will be said, the literary representatives of the spirit of doubt who have demanded and founded toleration?
18168	Is it possible that the science of nature, rightly considered, should lead to atheism?
18168	Is it that religious convictions are weaker in England than in Sweden?
18168	Is it the case that the true cause of the intolerance of the Spanish people is a more lively and more general faith than that of the French?
18168	Is it the cause of God which is at stake?
18168	Is it true, in fact, that modern naturalists are generally irreligious?
18168	Is it within the walls of Universities, or in scientific publications which are out of the reach of the masses?
18168	Is it yours?
18168	Is not this a thing to be said sadly, as the saddest thing in the world?
18168	Is our feeling for beauty awakened?
18168	Is science formed by pure reason?
18168	Is the object in question to deny God''s existence?
18168	Is there, or is there not, intelligence in the universe?
18168	It is in vain that you give to material agents an unlimited time; what has time to do here?
18168	Leaving ourselves to the guidance of the laws of our reason, let us ask what object we shall be able to attribute to the Creator in His work?
18168	Matter is perfected and organized in process of time-- but whence comes matter itself?
18168	May not conscience be a prejudice, the result of education and of habit?
18168	Might not everything in the world be illusion?
18168	Must I hope in God?
18168	Must I reject all faith and all hope?
18168	Need I tell you that the knowledge of God is a light of which the brightest ray is love to men?
18168	Now what are these laws?
18168	Now what is it that goes on in the minds of these savants?
18168	Now what is our answer?
18168	On what account?
18168	On what ground do you rest this denial?
18168	Or will creation be a duty?
18168	Ought there not to arise a louder outcry around a theory which arrives by a fatal necessity at this consequence:"Evil is good"?
18168	Our conscience speaks: have we come in a certain degree to realize what is right and good?
18168	Our thought sets out on its course: have we solved one question?
18168	Place men so disposed in positions of power; let them be the masters of society; what will follow?
18168	Pourquoi, dans ton oeuvre cà © leste, Tant d''à © là © ments si peu d''accord?
18168	Science does not proceed therefore either from pure experience or from pure reason; whence does it really come?
18168	Science, then, has birth only from a meeting of experience with reason; how is this meeting effected?
18168	Shall it be a she- goat-- Upstretched on fragrant cytisus to browse?
18168	Shall we forget the joys of pure love?
18168	Shall we sacrifice it to pure reason, to reason disengaged from all prejudice?
18168	Take away from human society God as mediator, and the hopes founded in God as a source of consolation, and what would you have remaining?
18168	That monkey, what shall we say of it?
18168	The error is apparently a gross one; is it not likely that the argument has been misunderstood?
18168	The incline is slippery, and what shall hold back the sceptic who is descending it?
18168	The objection would have to be answered-- Why has good appeared in the world?
18168	The optician makes our spectacles; who made the eye of the eagle, by directing the slow transformations which at length produced it?
18168	The question is, what opinion we must form of his doctrine on principles of experimental science?
18168	The questions which arise are such as these:--"This voice of duty-- whence comes it?
18168	The sun rises every day; who is still surprised at its rising?
18168	These pretended believers-- may they not be hypocrites?"
18168	They have disturbed men''s minds, but what is their legitimate import?
18168	This common, universal, eternal reason,--where and how does it exist?
18168	This liberty-- whence does it come?
18168	This petition rises to God: and when does it so rise?
18168	Those we love-- in a month, in a week, where will they be?
18168	To what then shall be directed that vague look, equally attracted to all points for want of any fixed rule?
18168	To whom is all this addressed?
18168	To whom shall we give our confidence?
18168	Under what form does a discovery present itself to the mind of its author?
18168	Was it a sceptic that taught the inhabitants of the New World to respect religious convictions?
18168	Was not the comparative firmness of its citizens''convictions remarked during the conflicts of the last century?
18168	We must admit-- what?
18168	Well, sirs, when an artist is satisfied with the work of his hands, do you not know at once what to think of him?
18168	What are the laws which govern the universe?
18168	What are these conquests?
18168	What are they doing-- these men without God, who wish to preserve a faith for the use of the people?
18168	What are we about when we take up a Christian idea in order to defend it by reasoning?
18168	What assures us that our axioms are good, and that our reasonings have any value?
18168	What can still be wanting to our hearts?
18168	What does experience teach us when quite alone?
18168	What does it need more?
18168	What happens if we compare the results of our activity with the results of the power manifested in the world?
18168	What has taken place in the interval?
18168	What have you to reply?"
18168	What in their mind was the order of these two thoughts, the thought of greatness and that of goodness?
18168	What is deism?
18168	What is it to pray?
18168	What is it which, in the universe regarded as a whole, will become the direct object of worship?
18168	What is its historical origin?
18168	What is pantheism, in the ordinary meaning of the word?
18168	What is the cause of the universe?
18168	What is the cause?
18168	What is the cause?
18168	What is the design of the creation?
18168	What is the error of deism?
18168	What is the intention which presided at the production of the phenomenon?
18168	What is the most beautiful jewel( if we may venture to use such language) in the immortal crown of this King of glory?
18168	What is the real effective power which produces the phenomenon?
18168	What is the relation between these two currents?
18168	What is the relation existing between these systematic views and the question of the Creator?
18168	What is this humanity to which man owes himself?
18168	What is this hypothesis which bears the names of Moses and Jesus Christ?
18168	What is truth, beauty, good?
18168	What measure shall we be able to apply to its thoughts?
18168	What shall be our method?
18168	What then is my inference?
18168	What then is our reason, of which truth is the object?
18168	What then passed in his mind?
18168	What then shall be the infinite goodness?
18168	What thoughts are these?
18168	What was there at the beginning of things?
18168	What will be wanting to a life regulated by duty, enlightened by truth, ennobled by art?
18168	What will be wanting to such a life?
18168	What will happen when man, sensible of the law of his nature, and conscious of this struggle, proceeds to encounter humanity?
18168	What will remain eventually in their science of the system under discussion?
18168	What will there be in the end?
18168	What will these words mean, from the time there is no longer any rule of right?
18168	What will those consequences be for the people themselves?
18168	What would happen?
18168	What, in like case, will happen to the conscience?
18168	When a man of practical mind says with a smile,"Do you happen to believe in God?"
18168	When our thoughts rise above nature and humanity to that invisible Being whom we speak of as God, what is it which passes in our souls?
18168	Whence came the day?
18168	Whence come then the negations of naturalists?
18168	Whence comes it then?
18168	Whence comes liberty?
18168	Whence comes this aristocracy of nature?
18168	Whence does science proceed?
18168	Whence is it that we derive a large part of what knowledge we have of the ancient civilizations of India and Egypt?
18168	Whence proceeds the dignity of that fragment of matter which calls itself man?
18168	Whence proceeds the mind which is in ourselves?
18168	Whence proceeds this illusion?
18168	Where do we meet with the clear idea of the Creator?
18168	Where is it that they say it, and print it?
18168	Where shall we find the elements of its confirmation?
18168	Which of them carried the day, Gentlemen?
18168	Which then is the party accused?
18168	Whither does it fall?
18168	Whither then are we bound, under the guidance of modern science?
18168	Who finally is the accuser?
18168	Who has lifted the veil?
18168	Who is He that, opening his creative hand, let fly the first swallow into the air?
18168	Who is the advocate?
18168	Who is the author of this brilliant mechanism?
18168	Who was the conqueror and who the conquered at Waterloo?
18168	Why do the many parts agree So scantly in thy work sublime?
18168	Why does he say_ absolve_?
18168	Why then are the apostles of matter nearly always assuming the loftiest tone, and uttering shouts of triumph?
18168	Why?
18168	Why?
18168	Will God henceforward be a superfluous hypothesis?
18168	Will contradiction no longer be the sign of error?
18168	Will creation be the effect of a necessity?
18168	Will creation, then, be the carrying out of a design of which the motive is interest?
18168	Will not the spirit of doubt offer them such pretexts?
18168	Will you, Sir, authorize me to make use of your name?"
18168	With what assurance they seem to glide along the viewless path which they follow.--Shall I confess it?
18168	Would we go further back than these monuments of stone?
18168	Would you have a further proof of this?
18168	[ 173] Pourquoi donc, O Maà ® tre suprême, As- tu crà © à © le mal si grand Que la raison, la vertu même S''à © pouvantent en le voyant?
18168	[ 181] He is entering upon this question: What can have been the motive of the creation?
18168	[ 182] We ask: What can have been the object of creation?
18168	[ 37] Dors- tu content, Voltaire, et ton hideux sourire Voltige- t- il encor sur tes os dà © charnà © s?
18168	[ 58]_ Qu''est- ce la religion?_ page 586 of the translation of Ewerbeck.
18168	and myself--?
18168	and what would it have?
18168	and would you preserve it?
18168	country?
18168	friendship?
18168	how could I help seeing it?
18168	in order to prevent man from being wicked, must he needs be confined to instinct and made a mere brute?
18168	is it a physical result of caloric or of electricity?
18168	one may reply to him, smiling in turn,"Have I said that God is a real Being?"
18168	pourquoi la mort?
18168	since there is no rule: in the name of what law?
18168	the domestic hearth?
18168	to those theologians who, not content with despising Aristotle and Plato, think themselves obliged to vilify Socrates and calumniate Regulus?
18168	what is the mode of its existence?
19566	And after that?
19566	And after that?
19566	And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God? 19566 Can thunder from the thirty- two azimuths, repeated daily for centuries, make God''s laws more godlike to me?
19566	Has not the French Academy pronounced against the use of quinine and vaccination, against lightning rods and steam engines? 19566 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct you?"
19566	I ask, Whence came these properties? 19566 In the year of Christ-- what new Olympiad may be that?"
19566	The United States of course means the States of the Achæn League, but on what shore of the Euxine may Mexico and California be found?
19566	Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? 19566 What right,"says the Pantheist, the Fourierist, the Spiritualist, the Atheist,"what right have you to command me?
19566	What, into a prayer- meeting? 19566 Where is the way where light dwelleth, And as for darkness, what is the place thereof?
19566	Who is this that covereth up like a_ flood_, whose waters are moved like the rivers? 19566 Why should men throw away their common sense, and swallow everything as inspired?"
19566	[ 120] But what do the toiling millions of earth care about beautiful poetic descriptions of a heaven and a hell that have no reality? 19566 [ 125] Now I demand to know whether this testimony of our Lord is not to be believed?
19566	[ 349] The nature of light is however still as great a mystery as when Job demanded,Where is the way where light dwelleth?"
19566	_ Do we then make void the law through faith? 19566 ''Well,''says I,''do you see me?'' 19566 ***** Reader, is this glorious heaven your inheritance? 19566 466 Must Faith Fade Before Science? 19566 A Christian? 19566 A blasphemer and liar an exemplar of every virtue? 19566 Again, then, whence this idea, and what is it? 19566 Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacles? 19566 And from the inner Adyta-- the invisible shrine of what alone is and endures-- a voice is heard:Hast thou an arm like God?
19566	And how did he know that the"I"thought?
19566	And if a revelation comes from God, why have we not such evidence for it as mathematical demonstration?"
19566	And if a snail, or a worm, can contrive to live now in an unimproved condition, why should its improving cousin die off?
19566	And if he could, how many of my most important affairs can I submit to the multiplication table, or lay off in squares and triangles?
19566	And if he will never return to inquire whether men obey or disobey his law, who will regard it?
19566	And in a few days myself also cease to be?
19566	And now[ 1864] who would venture to predict the time of the close of that sad war?
19566	And thy own god- created soul, dost thou not call that a revelation?
19566	And what is the fuel which feeds these unquenchable fires?
19566	And whence are these?
19566	And whether he does not directly claim to work miracles by the immediate power of God?
19566	And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he saith unto them, Have ye here any meat?
19566	And whither shall I flee from thy presence?
19566	And why?
19566	And your labor for that which satisfieth not?
19566	Are Saturn''s rings solid, or liquid?
19566	Are the atmospheres of the planets like ours?
19566	Are the light and heat of the sun begotten of combustion?
19566	Are they all eternal in their present combinations?
19566	Are they built of the same material as our planet?
19566	Are you looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God?
19566	Are you perfectly satisfied of the truth of the New Testament, and willing to venture your eternal salvation upon the words of Christ contained in it?
19566	Are you washed from your sins?
19566	Are your likes and dislikes, your sentiments and sympathies, your understanding and your will, all brought into subjection to Christ?
19566	Aye, and as much more as God is greater than man?
19566	Because a gymnast can leap over two horses, can his son leap over three?
19566	But do you ever hear any of them use such phrases as"earth rising,"and"earth setting?"
19566	But how did man get this extraordinary development of brain, far beyond his necessities?
19566	But how does our Infidel geologist set about his work of proving that the earth is any given age, say six thousand millions of years?
19566	But how many volumes of this stone book have you perused personally?
19566	But how much of it is experimental science_ to you_?
19566	But if six generations could thus be born in Syria, or India, in a century, why not in Egypt?
19566	But if so, what becomes of the rings of the nebular theory?
19566	But it is worth while to inquire, Is science really so positive, and religion so uncertain, as these persons allege?
19566	But then comes the great question, What is below the granite?
19566	But then it is asked, Is God the Author of an imperfect law?
19566	But we demand to know what standard of morals our objectors adopt?
19566	But what, it has been asked, is a brief period of 3,000 years, when compared with the geologic ages?
19566	But, however fully the atheist may know that matter is eternal, we do not know any such thing, and must be allowed to ask, How do_ you_ know?
19566	But, my good sir, how am I to know what kind will suit me?
19566	But_ the_ question-- which we marvel beyond measure that the bishop overlooks-- always was, Where did Cain get his wife?
19566	By what process of philosophical induction is religion alone put beyond the sphere of faith and hope?
19566	CAN WE BELIEVE CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES?
19566	CHAPTER V. WHO WROTE THE NEW TESTAMENT?
19566	CHAPTER V. Who Wrote the New Testament?
19566	Can We Believe Christ and His Apostles?
19566	Can intelligences be compounded, or like bricks and mortar, piled upon each other?
19566	Can you heartily love and adore a sin- hating, sin- avenging God?
19566	Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
19566	Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loosen the bands of Orion?
19566	Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his seasons?
19566	Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his seasons?
19566	Canst thou guide Arcturus and his sons?
19566	Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
19566	Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go And say unto thee,''Here we are?''"
19566	Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
19566	Canst thou thunder with a voice like Him?
19566	Canst_ thou_ set the dominion thereof in the earth?
19566	Could God give a defective code of morals?
19566	Could I prosecute the toils of study alone, without companion or friend to share my labors?
19566	Could the New Testament be Corrupted?
19566	Could you, or could any man, have permission to alter the original copy of Washington''s Farewell Address?
19566	DID THE WORLD MAKE ITSELF?
19566	Did a mass of iron, becoming discontented with its gravity, suddenly metamorphose itself into a cloud of gas, or into a pail of water?
19566	Did he know what he was about in making it?
19566	Did it contain within itself all the principles of things, all the forces now found in the worlds which grew out of it?
19566	Did it go to the sun, or to the moon, or to the pole star, or to this earth?
19566	Did it kindle of its own accord?
19566	Did its improvement kill it?
19566	Did the Council of Nice Make the Bible?
19566	Did the World Make Itself?
19566	Did the loaves and fishes miraculously multiply in numbers, or increase in size?
19566	Did the mist make itself?
19566	Did the small potatoes beget the big ones?
19566	Did these men tell the truth when they told the world that they did eat and drink with Jesus after he rose from the dead, or did they lie?
19566	Did these secure them against the moral government of God?
19566	Did this gospel of Christ actually produce any such reformation of their lives?
19566	Did you ever study the employment of the saints there?
19566	Do they not unanimously denounce geologists and astronomers as heretics, for asserting the vast antiquity of the earth?"
19566	Do you ever hear astronomers, in common discourse, use any other language?
19566	Do you know any science which has been prosecuted by one- hundredth part of this number of inquirers?
19566	Do you know any?
19566	Do you mean to say that these are not essential elements of the Old Testament religion?"
19566	Do you suppose the world will be turned upside down, and reformed, by a little good advice?
19566	Do you think anybody could forge a letter as from me, and impose it on them?
19566	Does anybody go to Macaulay to look for the history of the Westminster Assembly, or to Bancroft for an account of the Great Revival in New England?
19566	Does he care whether it answers any purpose or not?
19566	Does he know what is going on in it?
19566	Does it mean just twenty- four hours there?
19566	Does not every one know that nothing marvelous ever happened, or, if it did, would any historian trouble himself to record a prodigy?
19566	Does the gradation show that the little ones begot the big ones?
19566	Does the grave hide forever all that I loved?
19566	Every Other Book Inspired?
19566	Fill it as full of electricity, magnetism and odyle as you please; do these afford any_ reason_ for its very extraordinary conduct?
19566	For still the questions arise, Where did this almighty matter come from?
19566	For the effecting of a creation out of nothing?
19566	For what cause is the fortune of these countries so strikingly changed?
19566	For who can better direct me when I hesitate, or instruct me when I am ignorant?
19566	For, if not, of what use is it for you to trouble yourself about the Old Testament?
19566	HAVE WE ANY NEED OF THE BIBLE?
19566	Had Seth a wife?
19566	Had he any object in view in forming it?
19566	Had it a mind, and a will, and a perception of propriety?
19566	Has he forgotten the straws carried over all Ireland in one night, and the Chupatties of the Indian Mutiny?
19566	Has he given me the principle of curiosity, without which such an endowment were useless?
19566	Has not Reaumer suppressed Peysonnel''s''Essay on Corals,''because he thought it was madness to maintain their animal nature?
19566	Has the Creator of the world common sense?
19566	Has the moon an atmosphere?
19566	Have We Any Need of the Bible?
19566	Have they ceased to be?
19566	Have we any testimony on the subject?
19566	Have we fifty- seven eternal beings?
19566	Have you not willingly remained in ignorance of the contents of the Bible, because you dislike its commands?
19566	Have you, in fact, ever seen one in a thousand of these minerals and fossils_ in situ_?
19566	He looked at it a moment, and then inquired:"H- h- how do you know it''s A?"
19566	He puts forth his energy for what?
19566	He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he be not correct?
19566	He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
19566	He that formed the eye, shall he not see?_ It does not say, he has an eye or an ear, but that he has the knowledge we acquire by those organs.
19566	He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
19566	He that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?
19566	Hear him._"What saith Christ, then, respecting the Old Testament?
19566	How came the world to be under law without a lawgiver?
19566	How can any one imagine a being composed of the sum of all the intelligences of the universe?
19566	How can such contradictions be true?
19566	How can we accept their code of morals if we refuse to believe them when they speak of matters of fact?
19566	How could Noah and his three sons build a ship larger than the Great Eastern?
19566	How could an eternal red heat cool down?
19566	How could the chemical actions of dead matter infuse vitality into the first germ, or bud of a plant?
19566	How did he know that there was an"I"to think?
19566	How did he stumble over it without record of his misadventure?
19566	How did they all get religion?
19566	How did they come to do so?
19566	How did they come to receive them in this manner?
19566	How did they get it so suddenly?
19566	How did they get so much of it?
19566	How does he prove that mud was deposited at just the same rate then as now?
19566	How does it happen that this singular people is dispersed over all the earth, and yet distinct and unamalgamated with any other?
19566	How does the Infidel account for it?
19566	How happens it then that the human race has of a sudden waked up to such a strange sense of the folly of idolatry and the value of religion?
19566	How many of the nine hundred and forty- two substances treated of in Turner''s Chemistry have you analyzed?
19566	How much of this fourth part have geologists been able to examine?
19566	How now, from this word being used by Moses, could this learned bishop conclude that he necessarily meant to describe the globe?
19566	How should they?--treating of different countries, and for the most part of different periods, and writing civil and not church history?
19566	How would you like to have a fish for your forefather?
19566	How, then, can philosophers ever learn the process of building worlds like our own in which many other powers are at work?
19566	How, then, is the nerve to be protected, and yet the sight not obstructed?
19566	I ask her whence I came?
19566	I inquire what I am?
19566	I says to him,''Look here, stranger, do you see that tavern there?''
19566	IS GOD EVERYBODY, AND EVERYBODY GOD?
19566	IS THE GOSPEL FACT OR FABLE?
19566	If I am able, by my own reason, to construct a perfect standard of morals to judge the Bible by, what need have I for the Bible revelation?
19566	If he possessed no divine authority, what right has he to control your inclination or mine?
19566	If it had not, where did it get them?
19566	If it is any one of them, where did the others come from?
19566	If its top reaches not to heaven, can it make a ladder long enough to carry us there?
19566	If man is the highest intelligence in the universe, to whom should he render an account of his conduct?
19566	If not, how did attraction, and repulsion, vegetable life, animal life, intellect, and free will, work themselves into that cloud of homogeneous gas?
19566	If so, how came they there?
19566	If the soul of man is the highest intelligence in the universe, did the soul of man create, or does the soul of man govern it?
19566	If they could, did these finite intelligences create themselves?
19566	If they were not, where did they come from?
19566	If they were, how did they escape being burnt to ashes?
19566	If_ create_, and_ make_, and_ form_, have all the same meaning, why use them all in the same verse?
19566	In short, how are we to make the chemical materials live?
19566	In short, is it a genuine book, or merely a collection of myths with the apostles''names appended to them by some lying monks?
19566	In the division of the property,_ what became of the mind_?
19566	Is God Everybody, and Everybody God?
19566	Is Jesus the Christ the Son of the Living God, or a deceiver?"
19566	Is Jesus the Messiah of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write?
19566	Is a peach- tree just like a horse- chestnut, or a scrub- oak, or a honey- locust?
19566	Is it a fact, or a forgery?
19566	Is it a true history or a lying romance?
19566	Is it because you perceive they lead to results which you dislike?
19566	Is it credible that an impostor would direct his forgery to be publicly read?
19566	Is it credible that they would allow them to be altered and corrupted?
19566	Is it iron, or sulphur, or clay, or oxygen?
19566	Is it possible he could make such a beast of himself in such a short time?"
19566	Is it possible then that these converted heathens did really even approach this standard of morality?
19566	Is it uniform, or like our atmosphere, ever varying?
19566	Is it your daily prayer, Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly?
19566	Is not the abundance of quack doctors conclusive proof of the existence of disease, and of the need of physicians?
19566	Is that the Infidel''s notion of virtue?
19566	Is the Gospel Fact or Fable?
19566	Is the fire that heated it burning still, or is it exhausted for want of fuel?
19566	Is the religious appetite the only one for which God has provided no supply?
19566	Is this Book genuine or a forgery?
19566	Is this unchangeable Jehovah your God?
19566	Is your ignorance the measure of God''s wisdom?
19566	Is your mind purified from your carnal notions?
19566	It can not deviate from its fated course of proceeding; therefore, says the Pantheist, why should I pray?
19566	It gives no answer to the questions, How did it get to be so hot, while all the space around it was so cold?
19566	It is high, I can not attain unto it; Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
19566	It is not, Did Christ reveal more than Moses?
19566	Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
19566	Let the unbeliever, then, be asked, Is there no truth in prophecy?--no reality in religion?"
19566	Mankind, it seems, will have a Church and a Bible of some sort; why not go to work and make a Church and a Bible of their own?
19566	Matthew Poole says:"Where was the need of overwhelming those regions of the earth in which there were no human beings?
19566	May not the life of the nation be as liable to accidents and diseases as that of the individual?
19566	Nay, is there a letter in your own, or in any other alphabet, that was not originally a picture of something?
19566	Now if man can thus control and use the laws of nature for human purposes, why can not the God who made him so cunning do as much?
19566	Now that is certainly a remarkable fact, and all the more remarkable if we inquire, How came it so?
19566	Now what are the facts given to solve the problem of the earth''s age?
19566	Now what is the cause of this remarkable conversion of prince, priests, and people?
19566	Now, I demand to know whether they are aware that the earth''s rotation on its axis is the cause of day and night?
19566	Now, if so, why winnow such chaff?
19566	Now, if this was a falsehood, what motive had they to tell it?
19566	Now, we are tempted to ask, Who are these wonderful prodigies, so incapable of receiving instruction from anybody?
19566	Of what possible use would the Christian code of morals be without the authority of Christ, the lawgiver?
19566	Of what, then, do they consist?
19566	One- half?
19566	One- tenth?
19566	Or are they all eternal?
19566	Or canst thou guide Arcturus, with his sons?
19566	Or do they signify the orderly and regular sequence of cause and effect, which is so manifest in the course of all events?
19566	Or do you shrink back in terror or dislike from God''s denunciations of wrath against the wicked?
19566	Or how could any such argument be founded on a basis so little extended?
19566	Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
19566	Or is the veracity of Baillie, or Edwards suspected, because political history does not concern itself much about religion?
19566	Or shall my soul exist under God''s frowns, or perish under his just sentence, even as my body perishes?
19566	Or what does it signify to you or me, reader, that the Bible raises its head far above the other cedars of earthly literature?
19566	Or who would have any right to call him to account?
19566	Or, if some wiseacre did prepare such a book, would it be very useful to children?
19566	Or, if variable, is the variation caused by the original difference of the projectile force of the different suns, stars, comets, etc.?
19566	Our text ascribes for him perception and intelligence:_ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
19566	Perhaps some one is ready to ask, What is the use of so many lenses in the eye?
19566	Reason asks herself, Will God be always thus angry with me?
19566	SCIENCE, OR FAITH?
19566	Science or Faith?
19566	Shall I always feel these pangs of remorse for my sins?
19566	Shall we adore his soul?
19566	Shall we ever meet again?
19566	Shall we then adore the souls of Kepler and Newton?
19566	So that the question is not, Did God give as full and expanded instructions to the Church in her infancy as he has given in her maturity?
19566	State the Question Sharply-- Why?
19566	Strange questions you will say; yet we need to ask a stranger question: Had the world a Creator, or did it make itself?
19566	Suppose we ask, Could God speak Hebrew-- a language so defective in philosophical terms?
19566	Take away the moral sanction of law, and the sacredness of oaths, and what basis have you left for any government, save the point of the bayonet?
19566	Take away the persons, and of what value are the things?
19566	That of the ancient oriental world in which Israel lived?
19566	The boy eyed the A for a moment and then asked:"H- h- how do you know but he l- l- lied?"
19566	The grand question is: How does the protoplasm become alive?
19566	The inner nature of the cannibal and of the Rationalist is the same-- whence comes the difference of character and conduct?
19566	The other prophecy referred to by Von Hammer is as follows:"Have you heard of a city of which one side is land, the two others sea?
19566	The question is whether reason can accept the fact, though science can not even imagine the process?
19566	The question is, Can we believe them?
19566	The question then is simply this, Was Jesus really the Divine Person he claimed to be, or was he a blasphemous impostor?
19566	Then I demand of you,"What more could either God or man do to convince you of their truthfulness?"
19566	Then how came they to get together at all, and particularly how did they put themselves in their present shapes?
19566	Then why is it any cooler now?
19566	These arguments from ignorance need no other answer than the questions, Do you know how the sun shines at all?
19566	This is the book about which we make our present inquiry, Who wrote it?
19566	Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?"
19566	Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
19566	Unbeliever, are you prepared to meet him there, and prove him a perjured impostor?
19566	Unpopular, pure, and penniless, if the gospel story were not true, how could it have had preachers?
19566	Very well, what time was that?
19566	W.?"
19566	WAS YOUR MOTHER A MONKEY?
19566	Was Your Mother a Monkey?
19566	Was it red hot enough from all eternity to melt granite?
19566	Was it so from eternity?
19566	We are not in search of the literary beauty or poetic inspiration of the Bible; but we inquire by what right does it command our obedience?
19566	We can not avoid asking with as much gravity as we can command, Where did the mist come from?
19566	We say to our would- be philosophers, When you tell us that matter is eternal, how does that account for the formation of this world?
19566	We sell our property for bank- bills, but who dare say they will ever be paid in specie?
19566	We want to know why they think so?
19566	Well, how did they lose their hair?
19566	Well, then, what science have we gained of the mysteries of our origin?
19566	Well, then, your grandmother?
19566	Were the germs of all the plants and animals in it while it was blazing at a white heat?
19566	Were the order of nature such as Lamarck describes, how could any man logically infer the birth descent of each of its classes from the next below?
19566	Were the peasantry of Europe improved by the wars of the French Revolution?
19566	Were the survivors of the Irish famine of 1847, or those of the Persian, or Bengali famines improved by their struggle for life?
19566	Were you ever within a thousand miles of the proper positions for making such observations?
19566	What are these?
19566	What conclusions are we to draw as to the comfort or habitability of a system depending for its supply of light and heat on such an uncertain source?
19566	What concord hath Christ with Belial?
19566	What could that be?
19566	What has become of so many productions of the hand of man?
19566	What has become of those ages of abundance and of life?
19566	What information could Aristotle gather from the record that,"In 1857, the Transatlantic Telegraph was in operation?"
19566	What is its nature, density, power of refraction and reflection of light, and resistance to motion?
19566	What is its temperature?
19566	What is the power by which they are started in directions which are not determined by their primitive nature?
19566	What is the use of the aqueous humor and the vitreous humor?
19566	What is this matter you speak of?
19566	What melted it down into a fluid state, fit to be splashed about?
19566	What origin can we ascribe to these sudden flashes and relapses?
19566	What this attribute with which I endow material laws, and raise them into_ forces_?
19566	What, then, does this philosophic inspector of entrails, and adorer of idols, call an excessive superstition and culpable obstinacy?
19566	What, then, is this multiform universe?
19566	What, then, must the lives of the vulgar have been?
19566	What, then, must the state of the people of the vanquished countries have been?
19566	When they give us their oracles as if they were known truths, we are compelled to ask, How do you know?
19566	Where are the Christians of Sardis?
19566	Where are they now?
19566	Where did the angel get the flour to bake the cake for Elijah?
19566	Where did the comet come from?
19566	Where did the fire come from?
19566	Where is there the least allusion here to any controlling influence of the stars?
19566	Where will it go last of all?
19566	Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
19566	Wherefore this difference?
19566	Which has been confirmed by one- thousandth part of this number of experimenters?
19566	Who can tell that ignorance, and wickedness, and wretchedness are not as tightly tied together in the world to come, as we see them here?
19566	Who endowed it with these wonderful potencies?
19566	Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility?
19566	Who put the fire and mist together?
19566	Who was his doctor?
19566	Who was his nurse?
19566	Who were his most constant visitors and sympathizers?
19566	Why are so many cities destroyed?_ Why is not that ancient population reproduced and perpetuated?
19566	Why are so many cities destroyed?_ Why is not that ancient population reproduced and perpetuated?
19566	Why do ye not understand my speech?
19566	Why may not men be as selfish, and filthy, and grasping, and murderous in the other world, as they are in this?
19566	Why may not the course of nature be as fatal to the sinner''s prosperity there as it is here?
19566	Why should religious predictions be attributed to a different power?
19566	Why so?
19566	Why, then, you ask, did they not all become Christians?
19566	Will misery follow me forever, as I see and feel that it does here?
19566	Would I study eternally with no object, and for no use; none to be benefited, none to be gratified by my discoveries?
19566	Would not any school- boy laugh at the absurdity of attempting such a problem?
19566	Would not the man who should attempt such sacrilege be torn in a thousand pieces?
19566	Would such appeals have been suffered to pass uncontradicted had the statements of the apostles been false?
19566	Would you profess yourself competent to take even the preliminary observation for fixing the instruments for such a reckoning?
19566	Would your benevolence lead you to deal alike with the righteous and the wicked; and to abhor the thought of destroying them that destroy the earth?
19566	You simply ask if this be a true copy of the laws passed by the legislature and signed by the governor?
19566	[ 127] Does any one believe that the vegetable fiber and maple twigs have kept their shape one hundred thousand years?
19566	[ 12] Cited by Hodge in"What is Darwinism?"
19566	[ 2] Now, which of these is the eterna- matter you speak of?
19566	[ 328] Who knows how many ships were run ashore by that error?
19566	[ 343] Now what feeds these enormous fires?
19566	[ 350] Is the velocity of light uniform?
19566	_ Did the World Make Itself?_[ 226] Genesis, chap.
19566	_ Understand, ye brutish among the people; And, ye fools, when will ye be wise?
19566	an impostor a model man?
19566	and can we in time breed a man who will leap to the moon?
19566	and his son over five?
19566	and his son over four?
19566	and how small seems to be the area of stratification which they have explored?
19566	and to the teeth of the very men who put him to death?
19566	but, Did Christ contradict Moses?
19566	but, Did he give instructions of a different character?
19566	can we not believe our Lord''s testimony, that he cast out devils, and raised the dead, by the direct intervention of God?
19566	from whence proceed such melancholy revolutions?
19566	her grandmother?
19566	in the temple, the most public place of resort of the Jews who saw him crucified?
19566	or by the different media through which it passes?
19566	or does it seem less offensive, or more likely to you to go back some thousands of years, and say your forefathers were apes?
19566	or is it only the single elements that are eternal?
19566	tell me,"cried the dying man,"where will it go last of all?"
7319	Are we not free, when we deliberate?
7319	But, supposing I consent to lose the wager?
7319	But,it will be said,"is not the dogma of the immortality of the soul comforting to beings, who are often very unhappy here below?
7319	Can an Atheist have a Conscience? 7319 Can he, who fears not the gods, fear any thing?"
7319	I exist,say you; but is this existence always a good?
7319	If I lay a wager, that I shall do, or not do a thing, am I not free? 7319 If every thing be necessary, the errors, opinions, and ideas of men are fatal; and, if so, how or why should we attempt to reform them?"
7319	If the actions of men are necessary, if men are not free, by what right does society punish criminals? 7319 If you remove the fear of an invisible power, what restraint will you impose upon the passions of sovereigns?"
7319	Is not God master of his favours? 7319 What?"
7319	According to you, he is self- sufficient; if so, why does he make men?
7319	All nations speak of a God; but do they agree upon this God?
7319	Are desires, begotten by the imagination, the measure of reality?
7319	Are his enjoyments durable?
7319	Are many persons satisfied with their fate?
7319	Are not his pleasures mixed with pains?
7319	Are not princes, of all men, the most ready to swear, and the most ready to violate their oaths?
7319	Are not the motives of the Atheist sufficiently powerful to counteract his passions?
7319	Are not theologians strange reasoners?
7319	Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?
7319	Are princes truly interested in being tyrants?
7319	Are such long trials then likely to inspire us with very great confidence in the secret views of the Deity?
7319	Are the nations, who believe this fiction, remarkable for purity of morals?
7319	Are the oracles, which the Divinity has revealed by his different messengers, remarkable for clearness?
7319	Are the precepts of morality, announced by the Deity, really divine, or superior to those which every reasonable man might imagine?
7319	Are then the bugbears of infancy made for riper age?
7319	Are there among men, so often enslaved and oppressed, societies as well constituted as those of the ants, bees, or beavers?
7319	Are there animals in the world more detestable than tyrants?
7319	Are these bulwarks effectual?
7319	Are they themselves remarkable for uncommon modesty or profound humility?
7319	Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
7319	Are they thus agreed when they speak of God?
7319	Are they, like thee, tormented by the past, alarmed at the future?
7319	Are we free, when we can not exist and be preserved without God, and when we cease to exist at the pleasure of his supreme will?
7319	Are we not assured that_ a true repentance_ is enough to appease the Deity?
7319	Are you more prudent and wise, than this God, whose rights you would avenge?
7319	Ask a Christian, what is the origin of the world?
7319	Ask a savage, what works your watch?
7319	Ask any man, whether he believes in a God?
7319	Ask him, what he understands by a spirit?
7319	Ask the divines, what moves the universe?
7319	Ask them, whether the sovereign can show indulgence to those who are in error?
7319	Ask them, whether we must love or do good to our neighbour, if he be an impious man, a heretic, or an infidel, that is, if he do not think like them?
7319	Ask them, whether we must tolerate opinions contrary to those of the religion, they profess?
7319	At what age must they begin to believe in God?
7319	Besides, can a God, who, after having been infinitely good, becomes infinitely bad, be regarded as an immutable being?
7319	Besides, must not he, who has power to pardon crimes, have a right to encourage the commission of crimes?
7319	Besides, who has informed you, that their opinions displease your God?
7319	But I ask again, what is a spirit?
7319	But I would ask, what has let loose these passions?
7319	But are all these mysteries more contradictory to reason than a God, the avenger and rewarder of the actions of men?
7319	But at what time should this age commence?
7319	But do they not see, that patience is incompatible with a just, immutable, and omnipotent being?
7319	But do you not say, that human wisdom is a gift of heaven?
7319	But do you not say, that your God is full of goodness?
7319	But do you not see that every thing in this world contradicts the good qualities, which you ascribe to your God?
7319	But dost thou know what a soul is?
7319	But has God passions as we have?
7319	But how does their conduct affect their opinions?
7319	But how many are there in the world who have the time, capacity, or disposition, necessary to contemplate Nature and meditate her progress?
7319	But is it true, that this dogma makes men wiser and more virtuous?
7319	But is not such sublime morality calculated to render virtue odious?
7319	But is not this existence continually troubled with fears, and maladies, often cruel and little deserved?
7319	But is not this firm assurance itself a presumption punishable in the eyes of a severe God?
7319	But of what service to morals is all this?
7319	But pray, who or what is that God, who has a will, and what can be the subject of his divine will?
7319	But was it not more simple for him to appear in person, to explain his nature and will?
7319	But what is a miracle?
7319	But what motives can we have to sacrifice our reason to a being, who makes us only useless presents, which he does not intend us to use?
7319	But when we reject reason as a judge of faith, do we not confess, that reason is incompatible with faith?
7319	But when?
7319	But who, according to you, made those laws?
7319	But why are men guilty?
7319	But why is heaven enraged?
7319	But would it not be more humane and charitable to prevent the source of misery and poverty?
7319	But, according to these suppositions, has not God evidently missed his object?
7319	But, are not passions essential to man?
7319	But, are we masters of knowing or not knowing, of being in doubt or certainty?
7319	But, are you yourselves, in defending Religion and its chimeras, truly exempt from passions and interests?
7319	But, before we know that we must adore a God, must we not know certainly, that he exists?
7319	But, can an error be changed into truth by the belief of all men?
7319	But, do not these scourges fall indiscriminately upon the good and bad, upon the impious and devout, upon the innocent and guilty?
7319	But, do they not act, feel, and think, in a manner very similar to man?
7319	But, if the fairest of God''s works is imperfect, how can we judge of the divine perfections?
7319	But, in a world made purposely for him, and governed by an omnipotent God, is man in reality very happy?
7319	But, in reality, does not all religion give us the same ideas of God?
7319	But, is it indeed a fact, that religion is a restraint upon the vulgar?
7319	But, is modern theology superior to that of the savages?
7319	But, shall we put confidence in a malignant Providence, who laughs at, and sports with mankind?
7319	But, weak sovereign of the world; art thou sure, one moment, of the continuance of thy reign?
7319	But, what does this Religion in reality explain?
7319	But, what is God?
7319	But, who assures you, that your priests are not themselves deceived or wish to deceive you?
7319	But, who made man?
7319	But, why did God make this devil, destined to pervert mankind?
7319	But, why do you paint your God in colours so shocking, that he becomes insupportable?
7319	But, you will ask, why does not truth produce this effect upon many disordered minds?
7319	By calling mortals to life, what a cruel and dangerous part has not the Deity forced them to act?
7319	By what fatality then are there so many different religions upon earth?
7319	By what fatality then, have the first founders of all sects given to their gods ferocious characters, at which nature revolts?
7319	By what interests can they be animated?
7319	By what right do you deprive beasts of a soul, which you attribute to man, though you know nothing at all about it?
7319	By what right then would God be angry with beings, who were naturally incapable of knowing the divine essence?
7319	By what right would a machine despise a machine, whose springs facilitate its action?
7319	By what strange fatality have we never been able to elucidate the science of God?
7319	By what strange logic can we dare affirm, that a thing can not fail to happen, because we ardently desire it?
7319	By whom were these books written?
7319	Can God then permit injustice, even for an instant?
7319	Can a God have any of these motives?
7319	Can a being, who has called us into existence merely to make us miserable, be a generous, equitable, and tender father?
7319	Can a being, who is sometimes provoked, and sometimes appeased, be constantly the same?
7319	Can a good God amuse himself by perplexing his creatures?
7319	Can a work, with which the author himself is so little pleased, induce us to admire the ability of its Maker?
7319	Can an atheistical prince do more harm to the world, than a Louis XI., a Philip II., a Richelieu, who all united Religion with crime?
7319	Can an idea without an archetype be anything, but a chimera?
7319	Can he not give them?
7319	Can he not take them away?
7319	Can not then an immoral man be a good physician, architect, geometrician, logician, or metaphysician?
7319	Can such answers be satisfactory?
7319	Can the divine nature, of which we have no conception, enable us to conceive the nature of man?
7319	Can there be a better world than_ the best world possible_?
7319	Can we discern the shadow of clemency or goodness, in a God filled with implacable fury?
7319	Can we refrain from desiring the absence or destruction of a master, the idea of whom destroys our happiness?
7319	Can we, and ought we, to love God?
7319	Can we, and ought we, to love God?
7319	Could not God have created only angels of the good kind?
7319	Could not God, at least, have communicated to all men that kind of perfection, of which their nature is susceptible?
7319	Did the first man spring, ready formed, from the dust of the earth?
7319	Do not his reason and wisdom depend upon the opinions he has formed, or upon the conformation of his machine?
7319	Do not the prayers, continually addressed to heaven, shew, that men are by no means satisfied with the divine dispensations?
7319	Do not the smallest atoms of matter, which thou despisest, suffice to tear thee from thy throne, and deprive thee of life?
7319	Do not theologians reason very strangely?
7319	Do such numerous and constant evils give a very exalted idea of the future state, his goodness is preparing for us?
7319	Do the commands, revealed by any God, astonish us by their sublime reason or wisdom?
7319	Do they evidently tend to promote the happiness of the people, to whom the Divinity discloses them?
7319	Do they not suppose man continually dependent on his God?
7319	Do they reason in the same manner concerning the brutes?
7319	Do we ever see ferocious beasts of the same species mangle and destroy one another without profit?
7319	Do we ever see religious wars among them?
7319	Do we find greater probability for believing the existence of a spiritual being, than the existence of a stick without two ends?
7319	Do we not see, in many religions, that angels, have even attempted to dethrone him?
7319	Do we not still see human victims offered to the divinity?
7319	Do we see then, that Providence so very sensibly manifests herself in the preservation of those admirable works, which we attribute to her?
7319	Do we see, that this religion preserves them from intemperance, drunkenness, brutality, violence, fraud, and every kind of excess?
7319	Do you not discern, in this hideous character, the God, on whom you lavish your incense?
7319	Do you not often say, that_ the number of the elect is very small, and that of the reprobate very large_?
7319	Do you not say, that a_ narrow_ way leads to the happy regions, and a_ broad_ way to the regions of misery?
7319	Do you not see, that man is no more master of his religious opinions, his belief or unbelief, than of the language, which he learns from infancy?
7319	Do you see these treasures?
7319	Does it depend upon man to be born of such or such parents?
7319	Does it depend upon man to imbibe or not to imbibe the opinions of his parents or instructors?
7319	Does it not depend upon me to do it or not?"
7319	Does it not suffice to annihilate religious prejudice, to shew, that what is inconceivable to man, can not be good for him?
7319	Does not a single chagrin often suffice suddenly to poison the most peaceable and fortunate life?
7319	Does not all reform suppose, that, in his first effort, God could not give his religion the solidity and perfection required?
7319	Does not such morality give us a wonderful idea of the author of nature?
7319	Does not the soldier, through fear of disgrace, daily expose his life in battle, even at the risk of incurring eternal damnation?
7319	Does not this instinct, of which thou speakest with contempt, often serve them better than thy wonderful faculties?
7319	Does not tyranny deprive them of true power, of the love of the people, and of all safety?
7319	Does she not every moment destroy, by thousands, the very men, to whose preservation and welfare we suppose her continually attentive?
7319	Does the arrangement of his decrees alter the fate of the unhappy?
7319	Does the revealed conduct of God answer the magnificent ideas which theologians would give us of his wisdom, goodness, justice, and omnipotence?
7319	Does the same man always agree with himself in the notions he forms of his God?
7319	Does this God, who died to appease the implacable fury of his father, furnish us an example which men ought to follow?
7319	Does what he says of this plan correspond with the effects, which we see?
7319	Dost thou not see, that this soul is only the assemblage of thy organs, from which results life?
7319	Dost thou not see, that thy God has killed them?
7319	Dost thou often make use of that reason, in which thou gloriest, and to which religion commands thee not to listen?
7319	Finally, does not the king of animals at last become the food of worms?
7319	Finally, have these beasts, like so many mortals, a troubled imagination, which makes them fear, not only death, but likewise eternal torments?
7319	For what?
7319	Has a God appeared?
7319	Has he clearly explained to them his intentions and plan?
7319	Has he himself promulgated his laws?
7319	Has he informed them where he resides?
7319	Has he proved evidently that he exists?
7319	Has he spoken to men with his own mouth?
7319	Has he taught them what he is, or in what his essence consists?
7319	Has not Science the modesty to acknowledge how difficult it is to discover truth?
7319	Has not the visible world ever the advantage over the invisible?
7319	Has the Jew more rational ideas of divine justice than the Christian?
7319	Have beasts souls?
7319	Have nurses then more true ideas of God than the children whom they teach to pray?
7319	Have priests then a right to accuse unbelievers of pride?
7319	Have they not more than once convinced temporal princes, that even the greatest power is compelled to yield to the spiritual power of opinion?
7319	Have they not reason to apprehend, that the gigantic idols, which they raised to the clouds, will one day crush them by their enormous weight?
7319	Have those destroyers of the human race, known by the name of conquerors, more estimable souls than bears, lions, or panthers?
7319	Have you penetrated his judgments, his ways, his designs?
7319	How can it move a body?
7319	How can the voice of reason be heard by them who make it a principle never to examine for themselves, but to submit blindly to the guidance of others?
7319	How can we avoid complete infidelity, upon viewing principles, about which those who teach them to others are never agreed?
7319	How can we be assured of the existence of a being, whom we could never examine, and of whom it is impossible to conceive any permanent idea?
7319	How can we form any idea of such a substance?
7319	How can we help doubting the existence of a God, of whom it is evident that even his ministers can only form very fluctuating ideas?
7319	How can we in short avoid totally rejecting a God, who is nothing but a shapeless heap of contradictions?
7319	How can we love a being, of whom all that is said tends to render him an object of utter detestation?
7319	How can we love a being, whose character is only fit to throw us into inquietude and trouble?
7319	How can we love what we do not know?
7319	How can we receive for our model a being, whose divine perfections are precisely the reverse of human?
7319	How can we, without being alarmed, look upon a God, who is reputed to be barbarous enough to damn us?
7319	How could he punish beings, whom it belonged to him alone to reform, and who, while they have not_ grace_, can not act otherwise than they do?
7319	How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?
7319	How has it been possible to persuade reasonable beings, that the thing, most impossible to comprehend, was most essential to them?
7319	How many animals shew more mildness, reflection, and reason, than the animal, who calls himself reasonable above all others?
7319	How shall we distinguish whether the wonders, we behold, come from God or devil?
7319	How then can men judge, right or wrong, of these views; reason upon these ideas; or admire this intelligence?
7319	How then can you expect to please him by acts of barbarity, which he must necessarily disapprove?
7319	How then, I would ask, do you pretend that human nature, notwithstanding the death of a God, is still depraved?
7319	How will one admire the unknown ways of a hidden wisdom, whose manner of acting is inexplicable?
7319	However short an entertainment, a conversation, or visit, does not each desire to act his part decently, and agreeably to himself and others?
7319	If God be infinitely happy, if he be self- sufficient, what need has he of the homage of his feeble creatures?
7319	If God did not preserve him in the moment of sin, how could man sin?
7319	If God foreknows the future, must he not have foreseen the fall of his creatures?
7319	If God has created angels, who have not sinned, could he not have created impeccable men, or men who should never abuse their liberty?
7319	If God has spoken, is it not strange that he should have spoken so differently to the different religious sects?
7319	If I am an unbeliever, is it possible for me to banish from my mind the reasons that have shaken my faith?
7319	If I had been born of idolatrous or Mahometan parents, would it have depended upon me to become a Christian?
7319	If he be both willing and able( which alone is consonant to the nature of God) whence comes evil, or why does he not prevent it?"
7319	If life has sweets, with how much bitterness is it not mixed?
7319	If man''s existence is not useful or necessary to God, why did God make man?
7319	If so, do you not perceive, that these truths are not adapted to reasonable beings?
7319	If the elect are incapable of sinning in heaven, could not God have made impeccable men upon earth?
7319	If there existed a good God, should we not be forced to admit, that in this life he strangely neglects the greater part of mankind?
7319	If these seas bring me spices, and useless commodities, do they not destroy numberless mortals, who are foolish enough to seek them?
7319	If this nature is corrupted, why has not God repaired it?
7319	If we love what God hates, do we not expose ourselves to his implacable hatred?
7319	If you can not understand them, why do you decide about a thing, of which you are unable to form the least idea?
7319	If your God gives men leave to be damned, what have you to meddle with?
7319	In having passions?
7319	In short, is the conduct of Christian ministers conformable to the austere morality of Christ, their God, and their model?
7319	In this case, by what signs shall we know whether God means to instruct or ensnare us?
7319	In what consists this pretended depravity?
7319	In what does he differ essentially from beasts?
7319	Indeed, is there any one, who can form real ideas of such a mass of absence of ideas?
7319	Indeed, is there any one, who can form the least idea of such a substance?
7319	Is God a generous, equitable, and tender father?
7319	Is a being of this type, kind to himself, or useful to others?
7319	Is a credulous assassin less to be feared, than an assassin who believes nothing?
7319	Is a miracle capable of annihilating the evidence of a demonstrated truth?
7319	Is a very devout tyrant less tyrannical than an undevout tyrant?
7319	Is any thing more rash and extravagant, than to reason concerning an object, known to be inconceivable?
7319	Is he blind enough to be unmindful of his true interest, which ought to restrain him?
7319	Is he not forced to fear and avoid what he judges disagreeable or fatal?
7319	Is he not obliged to seek, desire, and love what is, or what he thinks is, conducive to his happiness?
7319	Is it a satisfactory explanation of phenomena, to attribute them to unknown agents, to invisible powers, to immaterial causes?
7319	Is it easy to conceive, that God can give men the inconceivable power of creating causes out of nothing?
7319	Is it easy to find many prelates humble, generous, void of ambition, enemies of pomp and grandeur, and friends of poverty?
7319	Is it more absurd to doubt one''s own existence, than to hesitate upon the impossibility of a being, whose qualities reciprocally destroy one another?
7319	Is it not a blessing to man to believe, that he shall be able to enjoy hereafter a happiness, which is denied him upon earth?"
7319	Is it not evident, that the desire of domineering over men is essential to their trade?
7319	Is it not strange, that one can be the friend of your God, only by declaring one''s self the enemy of reason and good sense?
7319	Is it not to confound all ideas of just and unjust, to say, that what is equitable in God is iniquitous in his creatures?
7319	Is it not very unjust to chastise beings, who could not act otherwise than they have done?"
7319	Is it possible to doubt any thing evident?
7319	Is it then astonishing, that priests have often made kings feel the superiority of the Celestial Monarch?
7319	Is it then possible to believe what we can not conceive?
7319	Is man master of reasoning well or ill?
7319	Is man, according to you, free, or not free?
7319	Is not Grace, which your God grants but to a very few, necessary to salvation?
7319	Is not man continually the victim of physical and moral evils?
7319	Is not such a belief the opinions of others without having any of our own?
7319	Is not such an idea as impossible, as an effect without a cause?
7319	Is not the Bread- God the idol of many Christian nations, who, in this respect, are as irrational, as the most savage?
7319	Is not the human machine, which is represented as a master- piece of the Creator''s skill, liable to derangement in a thousand ways?
7319	Is not the idea of total annihilation infinitely preferable to the idea of an eternal existence, attended with anguish and_ gnashing of teeth_?
7319	Is not the theologian''s God, as well as that of the deist, a cause incompatible with the effects attributed to it?
7319	Is pleasure then, which man continually desires, only a snare, which God has maliciously laid to surprise his weakness?
7319	Is reason any thing but a knowledge of the useful and true?
7319	Is then the death of your God wholly fruitless?
7319	Is there a state, subject to more frequent and cruel revolutions, than that of this unknown monarch?
7319	Is there in nature a more detestable being, than a Tiberius, a Nero, or a Caligula?
7319	Is there then any advantage in exercising tyranny?
7319	Is there upon earth a power which has a right to put itself in competition with that of the Most High?
7319	Is this answer satisfactory?
7319	Is this more extravagant than to doubt the non- existence of an evidently impossible being?
7319	Is this pretension any more rational?
7319	Is this then what is called preserving the universe?
7319	Is this virtue?
7319	May not this existence, threatened on so many sides, be torn from us any moment?
7319	Must the blood of nations flow to enhance the conjectures of a few infatuated dreamers?
7319	Nothing, or something?
7319	Of what importance is his existence to God?
7319	Of what importance is the infinite power of a being, who will do but very little in my favour?
7319	Of what kind or nature then is this divine justice?
7319	Of what service is the favour of a being, who, is able to do an infinite good, does not do even a finite one?
7319	On the other hand, if God himself could not make human nature impeccable, by what right does he punish men for not being impeccable?
7319	On the score of morals and honesty, has not he who reflects and reasons, evidently an advantage over him, who makes it a principle never to reason?
7319	Ought not every reasonable prince to perceive, that the despot is a madman, and an enemy to himself?
7319	Ought not the greatest saints to be ignorant whether they are_ worthy of love or hatred?_ Ye Priests!
7319	Ought not the least reflection suffice to prove, that God can have none of the human qualities, all ties, virtues, or perfections?
7319	Ought not this memorable example to convince priests, that prejudices triumph but for a time, and that truth alone can insure solid happiness?
7319	Ought we look for consolation, from the author of our misery?
7319	Priests govern by faith; but do not priests themselves acknowledge that God is to them incomprehensible?
7319	Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, God is infinite?
7319	Shall we find in_ Jehovah_ a model for our conduct?
7319	Shall we imitate the_ beneficent, mighty Jupiter_ of heathen antiquity?
7319	Shall we then imitate the_ Jesus_ of the Christians?
7319	Should the bird then be very grateful to the fowler for taking him in his net and confining him in his cage for his diversion?
7319	Since a God was indispensably requisite to men, why did they not worship the Sun, that visible God, adored by so many nations?
7319	Since my eternal happiness is at stake, have I not a right to examine the conduct of God himself?
7319	That, which excludes all idea, can it be any thing but nothing?
7319	The God of the Deist?
7319	The dogma of the remission of sins was invented for the interest of priests 166. Who fear God?
7319	The remission of sins was invented for the interest of priests 166. Who fear God?
7319	The same priests?
7319	This being the case, ought they not to impute their sufferings to him, into whose arms they fly for comfort?
7319	Thou boastest of thy intellectual faculties; but do these faculties, of which thou art so proud, make thee happier than other animals?
7319	Though it should be an error, is it not pleasing?
7319	To admire these views, is it not to admire without knowing why?
7319	To adore the profound views of divine wisdom, is it not to adore that, of which we can not possibly judge?
7319	To be happy, must we have an_ infinite_ or_ divine_ happiness?
7319	To punish a man for his errors, is it not to punish him for having been educated differently from you?
7319	To say, that God is the author of the phenomena of nature, is it not to attribute them to an occult cause?
7319	To what advantage might we not turn a multitude of cenobites of both sexes, who, in many countries, are amply endowed for doing nothing?
7319	To whom does Religion procure power, influence, riches, and honours?
7319	Under an infinitely good and powerful God, is it possible to conceive that a single man should suffer?
7319	Upon what are these opinions grounded?
7319	Upon what does he found this flattering opinion?
7319	Was it more difficult for this God to do his work well, than badly?
7319	Was it then more difficult for him to create combinations of matter, from which thought might result, than spirits who could think?
7319	What an infinite distance is there between the genius of a Locke or a Newton, and that of a peasant, Hottentot, or Laplander?
7319	What are his motives to abstain from hidden vices and secret crimes of which other men are ignorant, and which are beyond the reach of laws?"
7319	What are the fruits of their meditations and arguments?
7319	What assistance has been derived from its labours?
7319	What can be more presumptuous, than to arm nations and deluge the world in blood, in order to establish or defend futile conjectures?
7319	What can there be contemptible in machines, or automatons, capable of producing effects so desirable?
7319	What conformity or resemblance do we find between some men?
7319	What has he taught men?
7319	What have I done to merit the favours, that I receive from thy bounty?
7319	What idea can I form of a justice, which so often resembles injustice?
7319	What interest then could he have in commanding his ministers to announce riddles and mysteries?
7319	What is God?
7319	What is God?
7319	What is God?
7319	What is God?
7319	What is Theology?
7319	What is Theology?
7319	What is Theology?
7319	What is a God that can not change any thing?
7319	What is a Saint in every religion?
7319	What is a mystery?
7319	What is a soul?
7319	What is a spirit?
7319	What is a spirit?
7319	What is an enlightened Sovereign?
7319	What is an enlightened Sovereign?
7319	What is his origin?
7319	What is it to create?
7319	What is merit in man?
7319	What is the Soul?
7319	What is the Soul?
7319	What is the cause of pestilence, famine, wars, droughts, inundations and earthquakes?
7319	What is the cause of this corruption?
7319	What is the hidden principle of the motions of the human body?
7319	What is the metaphysical God of modern Theology?
7319	What is the metaphysical God of modern Theology?
7319	What is the will of God?
7319	What is virtue according to theology?
7319	What is virtue?
7319	What need is there of terrors and fables to make man sensible how he ought to conduct himself?
7319	What other passion but ungovernable pride can make men so savage, revengeful, and void of indulgence and gentleness?
7319	What real advantages then do these organs of the Most High procure the people, for the immense profits extorted from their industry?
7319	What remedies can be applied to these calamities?
7319	What results from this combination of man with God?
7319	What shall we say of religions that prove their divinity by miracles?
7319	What then can represent to us the idea of God, which is evidently an idea without an object?
7319	What then is God?
7319	What then is a spirit, to speak in the language of modern theology, but the absence of an idea?
7319	What then is this mover?
7319	What then produces a continual instability in this world, which you make his empire?
7319	What then, can we imagine, can be the God of theology?
7319	What witnesses are appealed to in order to induce us to believe incredible miracles?
7319	Whence came the first stones, the first trees, the first lions, the first elephants, the first ants, the first acorns?
7319	Whence comes man?
7319	Whence then does it come?
7319	Where is the infinite goodness of a being, indifferent to happiness?
7319	Where is the man, who has not been deprived of a dear wife, beloved child, or consoling friend, whose loss every moment intrudes upon his thoughts?
7319	Where is the precise line of distinction between man and the animals whom he calls brutes?
7319	Where is the proof that God ever shewed himself to Men, or ever spoke to them?
7319	Where is the religion, that does not boast of the most admirable doctrine, and which does not produce numerous miracles for its support?
7319	Which is really right, among the great number of those, each of which exclusively pretends to be the true one?
7319	Who are the men who have transmitted them?
7319	Who are those, who have seen God?
7319	Who beguiled this woman into such folly?
7319	Who is awed by the idea of a God?
7319	Who is wrong or right?
7319	Who made the devil?
7319	Who profit by the ignorance and vain prejudices of men?
7319	Who reap advantages from this Religion, for which priests display so much zeal?
7319	Who wage war, in every country, against reason, science, truth, and philosophy, and render them odious to sovereigns and people?
7319	Why are men wicked?
7319	Why did God create_ satan_, an evil spirit, a tempter?
7319	Why did God permit him to be seduced, well knowing that he was too feeble to resist temptation?
7319	Why did God suffer him to sin, and his nature to be corrupted?
7319	Why do they not reduce them to practice?
7319	Why does so powerful a God permit men to be so corrupt?
7319	Why does the number of the wicked so much exceed the number of the good?
7319	Why is the Mahometan every where a slave?
7319	Why must man exist?
7319	Why must man suffer?
7319	Why then does he not do it?
7319	Why, for one friend, has God ten thousand enemies, in a world, which it depended entirely upon him to people with honest men?
7319	Will he, who is not fearful of lying, be less fearful of perjury?
7319	Will men never renounce their foolish pretensions?
7319	Will they never acknowledge that nature is not made for them?
7319	Will they never perceive that all organized beings are equally made to be born and die, enjoy and suffer?
7319	Will they never see that nature has placed equality among all beings she has produced?
7319	Will this ruler wish to have, about his person, honest, enlightened, and virtuous men?
7319	Will you never discern the folly and injustice of your intolerant disposition?
7319	Without culture, experience, or reason, is not man more contemptible and worthy of hatred, than the vilest insects or most ferocious beasts?
7319	Without the belief of a God, what will become of the sacredness of oaths?
7319	Would he preserve this life?
7319	Would it be more difficult to discern the clear principles of Morality, than the imaginary principles of a divine and theological Morality?
7319	Would not all the causes, that he should have made, necessarily act according to the properties, essences, and impulses given them?
7319	Would not all these animals reason as justly as our theologians, should they pretend that man was made for them?
7319	Would not society be dissolved, and man return to a savage state, if every one were fool enough to be a Saint?
7319	Would not their minds be better satisfied with discovering luminous truths, than in wandering through the thick darkness of error?
7319	Would the ants reason pertinently concerning the intentions, desires, and projects of the gardener?
7319	You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire?
7319	Your priests?
7319	_ We must do as others do._ But, among the numerous religions in the world, which should men choose?
7319	_ What!_ says the enraged Sultan,_ does no one offer to play?
7319	and what God ought we to imitate?
7319	do you presume to inquire into the impenetrable mysteries of a being, whom you consider inconceivable to the human mind?
7319	how many mortals are truly satisfied with their mode of existence?
7319	upon what canst thou found thy haughty pretensions?
7319	what becomes of this pretended charity, when we examine the conduct of the ministers of the Lord?
7319	you will say,"is intelligent man, is the universe, and all it contains, the effect of_ chance_?"
17607	But if I consent to lose the wager?
17607	Upon what shall we rely?
17607	--than to say,"Let everything exist?"
17607	A God filled with implacable fury, is He a God in whom we can find a shadow of charity or goodness?
17607	A God who enjoys a power which nothing in the world can resist, can He apprehend that His intentions could be thwarted?
17607	A warrior with the fear of dishonor, does he not hazard his life in battles every day, even at the risk of incurring eternal damnation?
17607	According to you, He is self- sufficient; in this case, why does He create men?
17607	After having suffered a great deal in this world, do we not believe ourselves in danger of suffering for eternity in another?
17607	All children are atheists-- they have no idea of God; are they, then, criminal on account of this ignorance?
17607	All nations speak of a God; but do they agree upon this God?
17607	An idea without a prototype, is it anything but a chimera?
17607	And what can be the subject of this divine will?
17607	And what kind of Gods are those which we preserve in boxes for fear of the mice?
17607	And why does Christ not explain clearly how He would live with them always, although He left them visibly to ascend to heaven?
17607	Are his enjoyments durable?
17607	Are not all these promises given in a general way, without restriction as to time, place, or persons?
17607	Are not his pleasures mingled with sufferings?
17607	Are not princes, of all mortals, the most prompt in taking oaths, and the most prompt in violating them?
17607	Are not the motives of the incredulous man strong enough to counterbalance his passions?
17607	Are not theologians strange reasoners?
17607	Are the ghost stories of childhood fit for mature age?
17607	Are the precepts of morality as announced by Divinity truly Divine, or superior to those which every rational man could imagine?
17607	Are the revealed wishes of a God capable of striking us by the sublime reason or the wisdom which they contain?
17607	Are there amongst men, who are so often enslaved and oppressed, societies as well organized as those of ants, bees, or beavers?
17607	Are there many people who are contented with their fate?
17607	Are there more detestable animals in this world than tyrants?
17607	Are these barriers sufficient?
17607	Are they not often infamous?
17607	Are they, like you, tormented by the past, alarmed for the future?
17607	Are we not assured that a true repentance is sufficient to appease Divinity?
17607	Are we not free when we deliberate?--but has one the power to know or not to know, to be uncertain or to be assured?
17607	Are you wiser and more prudent than this God whose rights you wish to avenge?
17607	Ask him what he means by a spirit?
17607	Ask if you must love your neighbor if he is impious, heretical, and incredulous, that is to say, if he does not think as they do?
17607	Ask them if the Lord can show indulgence to those who are in error?
17607	Ask them if you must tolerate opinions contrary to those which they profess?
17607	At what age do they begin to be obliged to believe in God?
17607	At what time does this age begin?
17607	Besides, He who has the power to pardon crimes, has He not the right to order them committed?
17607	Besides, a God who, after having been infinitely good, becomes infinitely wicked, can He be regarded as an immutable being?
17607	Besides, who told you that their opinions displease your God?
17607	But I rejoin, if you desire anything very much, is it sufficient to conclude that this desire will be fulfilled?
17607	But I will tell him, do you not see that everything in this world contradicts the good qualities which you attribute to your God?
17607	But according to you, when my eternal happiness is involved, have I not the right to examine God''s own conduct?
17607	But are not passions the very essence of man?
17607	But at what time?
17607	But by these intentions has not God visibly missed His end?
17607	But can the belief of all men change an error into truth?
17607	But do we not see them act, feel, and think in a manner which resembles that of men?
17607	But do you know what your soul is?
17607	But do you not claim that your God is full of kindness?
17607	But do you not pretend that human wisdom is a gift from Heaven?
17607	But do you not see, that patience can not be suited to a being just, immutable, and omnipotent?
17607	But does not all religion in reality give us these same ideas of God?
17607	But does not this sublime morality tend to render virtue despicable?
17607	But does the fear of a more powerful master than themselves make them attend to the welfare of the peoples that Providence has confided to their care?
17607	But does the oath place us under stronger obligations to the engagements which we make?
17607	But how can these pretended miracles be the evidences of truth?
17607	But how can we place confidence in a malicious Providence which laughs at and sports with mankind?
17607	But how should they be rather males than females, as they have neither body, form, nor face?
17607	But if the choicest work of Divinity is imperfect, by what are we to judge of the Divine perfections?
17607	But if this is true, how came your soul into existence?
17607	But if we must adore a God without knowing Him, should we not be assured that He exists?
17607	But in this case, how can men judge of these views-- whether good or evil-- reason about these ideas, or admire this intelligence?
17607	But is it true that this dogma renders men wiser and more virtuous?
17607	But this firm assurance, is it not a punishable presumption in the eyes of a severe God?
17607	But to challenge reason as a judge of faith, is it not acknowledging that reason can not agree with faith?
17607	But to whom do our God- Christ- worshipers attribute Divinity?
17607	But was it not much easier to show Himself, and to explain for Himself?
17607	But weak sovereign of this world, art thou sure one instant of the duration of thy reign?
17607	But what has their conduct to do with these opinions?
17607	But what is a miracle?
17607	But what is it that occasions the continual instability in this world, which you claim as His empire?
17607	But what is this God who has a will?
17607	But what people has not its own, and what wise men do not disdain these fables?
17607	But what will become of me?
17607	But who guarantees that your priests are not deceived themselves or that they do not wish to deceive you?
17607	But who has made men?
17607	But who is God?
17607	But why are men culpable?
17607	But why do you deprive the brutes of souls, which, without understanding it, you attribute to men?
17607	But why do you paint your God in such black colors?
17607	But why is Heaven angry?
17607	But would it not be more humane and more charitable to foresee the misery and to prevent the poor from increasing?
17607	But you will say, why does not truth produce this effect upon many of the sick heads?
17607	But, according to you, who has made these laws?
17607	But, among the many religions in the world, which one ought we to choose?
17607	But, at the bottom, what does this religion explain to us?
17607	But, in a world created expressly for him and governed by an all- mighty God, is man after all very happy?
17607	But, it will be said, is not the dogma of the immortality of the soul consoling for beings who often find themselves very unhappy here below?
17607	By metaphysics, God is made a pure spirit, but has modern theology advanced one step further than the theology of the barbarians?
17607	By what certain rule can we know that we should put faith in these rather than in the others?
17607	By what fatality are so many different religions found on the earth?
17607	By what fatality is it that the science of God has never been explained?
17607	By what right could this God become angry with beings whose own essence makes it impossible to have any idea of the divine essence?
17607	By what right do they deride the falseness of the Pagan Gods?
17607	By what right will a machine despise another machine, whose springs would facilitate its own play?
17607	By what strange logic do they decide that a thing can not fail to happen because they ardently desire it to happen?
17607	By whom were these books written?
17607	C.--WHAT IS THE SOUL?
17607	CLII.--WHAT IS AN ENLIGHTENED SOVEREIGN?
17607	CLXIX.--WHAT DOES THAT CHRISTIAN CHARITY AMOUNT TO, SUCH AS THEOLOGIANS TEACH AND PRACTICE?
17607	CLXXXIV.--CAN WE, OR SHOULD WE, LOVE OR NOT LOVE GOD?
17607	CXXV.--WHERE, THEN, IS THE PROOF THAT GOD DID EVER SHOW HIMSELF TO MEN OR SPEAK TO THEM?
17607	CXXXVII.--HOW PRETEND THAT MAN OUGHT TO BELIEVE VERBAL TESTIMONY ON WHAT IS CLAIMED TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR HIM?
17607	Can God tolerate injustice for an instant?
17607	Can He not take them back again?
17607	Can a God have any of these motives?
17607	Can a being who is sometimes irritated, and sometimes appeased, be constantly the same?
17607	Can a good God amuse Himself by the embarrassment of His creatures?
17607	Can a work with which the author himself is so little satisfied, cause us to admire his skill?
17607	Can an atheist have conscience?
17607	Can an atheistical king inflict more evil on the world than a Louis XI., a Philip II., a Richelieu, who have all allied religion with crime?
17607	Can any one form any real notions of such a multitude of deficiencies or absence of ideas?
17607	Can he who fears not the Gods, fear anything?
17607	Can men differently organized and modified by diverse circumstances, agree in regard to an imaginary being which exists but in their own brains?
17607	Can not an immoral man be a good physician, a good architect, a good geometer, a good logician, a good metaphysician?
17607	Can not the priests of the idols boast of having a similar ability?
17607	Can the Divine Nature, which we know nothing about, make us understand man''s nature, which we find so difficult to explain?
17607	Can there be a better world than the best possible of all worlds?
17607	Can this God, who died to appease the implacable fury of His Father, serve as an example which men ought to follow?
17607	Can we avoid wishing the absence or the destruction of a master, the idea of whom can but torment the mind?
17607	Can we realize how God can give to men the inconceivable power of creating causes out of nothing?
17607	Could not God have at least endowed men with that sort of perfection of which their nature is susceptible?
17607	Could not God have created only angels of the good kind?
17607	Did He Himself promulgate His laws?
17607	Did He speak to men with His own mouth?
17607	Did not a famous theologian recognize the absurdity of admitting the existence of a God and arresting His course?
17607	Did the Son of Man appear in a cloud?
17607	Do not a thousand examples prove that they ought to fear that these unchained lions, after having devoured nations, will in turn devour them?
17607	Do not his reason and his wisdom depend either upon opinions that he has formed, or upon his mental constitution?
17607	Do not such morals give us a wonderful idea of nature''s Author?
17607	Do such constant evils give us an exalted idea of the future fate which His kindness is preparing for us?
17607	Do they agree in the same way if they speak of God?
17607	Do they distinguish themselves by a rare modesty or profound humility?
17607	Do they not tell us every day to do what they preach, and not what they practice?
17607	Do they reason on this principle when animals are taken into consideration?
17607	Do they tend to the happiness of the people to whom Divinity has declared them?
17607	Do we ever see ferocious beasts of the same kind meet upon the plains to devour each other without profit?
17607	Do we find more probabilities for believing in a spiritual being than for believing in the existence of a stick without two ends?
17607	Do we not need, in order to be saved, such grace as your God grants to but few?
17607	Do we not see in many religions that angels and pure spirits revolted against their Master, and even attempted to expel Him from His throne?
17607	Do we not see many animals show more gentleness, more reflection and reason than the animal which calls itself reasonable par excellence?
17607	Do we not still see human victims offered to Divinity?
17607	Do we see a great multitude of humble, generous prelates devoid of ambition, enemies of pomp and grandeur, the friends of poverty?
17607	Do we see among them religious wars?
17607	Do we see that this religion prevents them from intemperance, drunkenness, brutality, violence, frauds, and all kinds of excesses?
17607	Do we see, then, that Divine Providence manifests itself in a sensible manner in the conservation of its admirable works, for which we honor it?
17607	Do you not admit, then, that these truths are not made for reasonable beings?
17607	Do you not constantly tell us that the number of the chosen ones is very small, and that of the damned is very large?
17607	Do you not say that one straight and narrow path leads to the happy regions, and that a broad road leads to the regions of the unhappy?
17607	Do you not see that this soul is but the assemblage of your organs, from which life results?
17607	Do you often make use of this reason which you glory in, and which religion commands you not to listen to?
17607	Do you see these treasures?
17607	Does He explain to them clearly His intentions and His plan?
17607	Does He prove to them evidently that He exists?
17607	Does He teach them what He is, or of what His essence consists?
17607	Does He tell them where He resides?
17607	Does he do evil?
17607	Does it depend upon man to accept or not to accept the opinions of his parents and of his teachers?
17607	Does it depend upon man whether or not he shall be born of such or such parents?
17607	Does it not depend upon me to do or not to do it?
17607	Does not every reform suppose that God did not know how at the start to give His religion the required solidity and perfection?
17607	Does not every special revelation announce an unjust, partial, and malicious God?
17607	Does not modest science impress us with the difficulty of unraveling truth?
17607	Does not tyranny deprive princes of true power, the love of the people, in which is safety?
17607	Does the arrangement of these decrees change the fate of the miserable?
17607	Does the earth revolve around the sun?
17607	Does the revealed conduct of God correspond with the magnificent ideas which are given to us of His wisdom, goodness, justice, of His omnipotence?
17607	Does the same man always agree with himself in his ideas of God?
17607	Finally, by what fatality, in all the religions of the world, has the evil principle such a marked advantage over the good principle or over Divinity?
17607	Finally, does not the king of animals terminate always by becoming food for the worms?
17607	Finally, how can we place confidence in the ministers of this God, who, in order to guide us more conveniently, command us to close our eyes?
17607	Finally, these animals, have they, like mortals, a troubled imagination which makes them fear not only death, but even eternal torments?
17607	From men?
17607	Has God a temperament like ours?
17607	Has He not the right to dispense His benefits?
17607	Has it come to pass?
17607	Has man the ability to reason correctly or incorrectly?
17607	Has the Jew any more rational ideas than the Christian of Divine justice?
17607	Have I not always proved to you that I took more pleasure in giving than in receiving?
17607	Have brutes souls?
17607	Have the nurses clearer notions of God than the children, whom they compel to pray to Him?
17607	Have the priests any right to accuse the unbelievers of pride?
17607	Have they not reason to fear that these gigantic idols, whom they have raised to the skies, will crush them also some day?
17607	Have we not shown their falsity?
17607	He allows you to judge of it; he knows nothing about it himself; for he adds:''What a learned doctor does not know, who can know?''"
17607	He has, according to you, all that is necessary to render man happy; why, then, does He not do it?
17607	How can I admire the unknown course of a hidden wisdom whose manner of acting is inexplicable to me?
17607	How can it move a body?
17607	How can we avoid doubting the existence of a God, the idea of whom varies in such a remarkable way in the mind of His ministers?
17607	How can we avoid rejecting totally a God who is full of contradictions?
17607	How can we be made to admire, in this proceeding, the justice and the goodness of a being, the idea of whom appears so consoling to the unfortunate?
17607	How can we be satisfied with these answers?
17607	How can we bind an atheist who can not seriously attest the Deity?
17607	How can we conceive of such a substance?
17607	How can we distinguish whether the wonders which we see, proceed from God or the Devil?
17607	How can we face without fear, a God whom we suppose sufficiently barbarous to wish to damn us forever?
17607	How can we help our incredulity, when we see principles about which those who teach them to others, never agree?
17607	How can we love a being of whom all that is told conspires to render him supremely hateful?
17607	How can we love a being, the idea of whom is but liable to keep us in anxiety and trouble?
17607	How can we love anything we do not know?
17607	How can we make those people understand reason who allow themselves to be guided without examining anything?
17607	How can we take as a model a being whose Divine perfections are precisely contrary to human perfections?
17607	How can you hope to please Him by such barbarous actions which He can not help disapproving of?
17607	How comes it then, that human nature, notwithstanding the death of a God, is still depraved?
17607	How could the human mind, filled with frightful phantoms and guided by men interested in perpetuating its ignorance and its fear, make progress?
17607	How could these insane impostors tell the future?
17607	How did God show Himself?
17607	How is it that Matthew does not mention this ascension?
17607	How would He punish beings whom He alone could correct, and who, as long as they had not received grace, can not act otherwise than they do?
17607	I ask how such a filthy statement would be received by the most stupid people of our provinces?
17607	I exist, you will say; but is this existence always a benefit?
17607	I would ask, however, what unchained these passions?
17607	II.--WHAT IS THEOLOGY?
17607	If God allows men the freedom to damn themselves, is it your business?
17607	If God by Himself is infinitely happy and is sufficient unto Himself, why does He need the homage of His feeble creatures?
17607	If God did not save him in the moment when he sins, how could man sin?
17607	If God had the foresight of the future, did He not foresee the fall of His creatures whom He had destined to happiness?
17607	If I am incredulous, is it possible for me to banish from my mind the reasons which have unsettled my faith?
17607	If I make the wager to do or not to do a thing, am I not free?
17607	If I were born of idolatrous or Mohammedan parents, would it have depended upon me to become a Christian?
17607	If everything is necessary, if errors, opinions, and ideas of men are fated, how or why can we pretend to reform them?
17607	If his existence is not useful or necessary to God, why did He not leave him in nothingness?
17607	If life has its sweets, how much of bitterness is mingled with it?
17607	If the actions of men are necessary, if men are not free, what right has society to punish the wicked who infest it?
17607	If the chosen ones are incapable of sinning in heaven, could not God have made sinless men upon the earth?
17607	If there existed a good God, would we not be forced to admit that He strangely neglects the majority of men in this life?
17607	If these seas bring me spices, riches, and useless things, do they not destroy a multitude of mortals who are dupes enough to go after them?
17607	If this is true, why is it that the First one is called Father rather than mother, or the Second called Son rather than daughter?
17607	If this nature became corrupted, why did not this God repair it?
17607	If this should be an illusion, is it not a sweet and agreeable one?
17607	If you do not understand anything about them, how can you positively affirm anything about them?
17607	If you take away from the sovereigns the fear of an invisible power, what restraint will you oppose to their misconduct?
17607	In all countries, who make war upon reason, science, truth, and philosophy and render them odious to the sovereigns and to the people?
17607	In believing thus, are we not adhering to the opinions of others without having one of our own?
17607	In good faith, is there any mortal who can form the least idea of such a substance?
17607	In order to be happy, do we need an Infinite or Divine happiness?
17607	In regard to morals, has not he who reflects and reasons the advantage over him who does not reason?
17607	In short, do we see the conduct of many Christian priests corresponding with the austere morality of Christ, their God and their model?
17607	In this case ought they not to blame Him for the evils for which they would find consolation in His arms?
17607	In what consists the saint of all religions?
17607	In what consists this pretended depravity?
17607	In what way did He save it?
17607	In what way does he essentially differ from the beasts?
17607	Is a being of this stamp of any use to himself or to others?
17607	Is a credulous murderer less to be feared than a murderer who does not believe anything?
17607	Is a miracle capable of destroying a demonstrated truth?
17607	Is a religious tyrant any less a tyrant than an irreligious one?
17607	Is any state subject to more frequent and cruel revolutions than that of this unknown monarch?
17607	Is he blind enough not to recognize the interests which should restrain him?
17607	Is he the result of the fortuitous meeting of atoms?
17607	Is it because he has passions?
17607	Is it less extravagant to have uncertainties about the non- existence of an evidently impossible being?
17607	Is it more absurd to doubt of one''s own existence, than to hesitate upon the impossibility of a being whose qualities destroy each other?
17607	Is it not a benefit for man to believe that he can live again and enjoy, sometime, the happiness which is refused to him on earth?
17607	Is it not because they are but the work of human hands, mute and insensible images?
17607	Is it not calumniating a just God, to say that He punishes men for their faults, even in the present life?
17607	Is it not confounding all our ideas of justice and of injustice, to tell us that what is equitable in God is iniquitous in His creatures?
17607	Is it not evident that the desire to domineer over men is the essence of their profession?
17607	Is it not strange that, in order to justify Divinity, they made of Him the most unjust of beings?
17607	Is it not very strange that we can not be the friend of your God but by declaring ourselves the enemy of reason and common sense?
17607	Is it not very unjust to chastise beings who could not act otherwise than they did?
17607	Is it possible firmly to believe what we can not conceive?
17607	Is it probable that a God needs the support of men?
17607	Is it the deist''s God?
17607	Is it true, then, that religion is a restraint for the people?
17607	Is it, then, a pure loss that your God died?
17607	Is it, then, astonishing that the priests have often made the kings feel the superiority of the Celestial Monarch?
17607	Is it, then, explaining things to attribute them to unknown agencies, to invisible powers, to immaterial causes?
17607	Is it, then, possible to doubt evidence?
17607	Is not God the master of His favors?
17607	Is not man supposed to be in a continual dependence upon God?
17607	Is not mankind the continual victim of physical and moral evils?
17607	Is not one bitter trouble sufficient to blight all of a sudden the most peaceful and happy life?
17607	Is not our age a striking proof of it?
17607	Is not such an idea as impossible as an effect without a cause?
17607	Is not the God- bread the fetish of many Christian nations, as little rational in this point as that of the most barbarous nations?
17607	Is not the idea of total annihilation infinitely preferable to the idea of an eternal existence accompanied with suffering and gnashing of teeth?
17607	Is not the theologians''manner of reasoning very singular?
17607	Is not the very thought of death sufficient to mar his greatest enjoyment?
17607	Is not the visible world always preferred to the invisible world?
17607	Is one free, when one could not have existed or can not live without God, and when one ceases to exist at the pleasure of His supreme will?
17607	Is reason anything else but the knowledge of the useful and the true?
17607	Is the pleasure which man constantly desires but a snare that God has maliciously laid in his path to entrap him?
17607	Is there a more detestable being in nature than a Tiberius, a Nero, a Caligula?
17607	Is there a power upon the earth which has the right to measure itself with that of the Most High?
17607	Is there any advantage in exercising tyranny?
17607	Is there any prophecy which is more false?
17607	Is there anything more audacious and more extravagant than to reason about an object which it is impossible to conceive of?
17607	Is this a language worthy of a God?
17607	Is this long catalogue of proofs of such a nature as to inspire us with great confidence in the hidden views of the Divinity?
17607	Is this pretension more sensible?
17607	Is this statement satisfactory?
17607	Is this virtue?
17607	Is this what you call preserving a universe?
17607	Man''s childish desires of the imagination, are they the measure of reality?
17607	Man, according to your views, is he free or not?
17607	Moreover, how be assured that He exists without having examined whether it is possible that the diverse qualities claimed for Him, meet in Him?
17607	Must he not fear and avoid that which he judges injurious or fatal to him?
17607	Must he not seek, desire, love that which is, or that which he believes to be, essential to his happiness?
17607	Must human blood flow in order to give value to the conjectures of a few obstinate visionists?
17607	Must we imitate the God of the Jews?
17607	Now who can assert that they are males and not females?
17607	Now, what appearance of Divinity is there in dreams so gross and illusions so vain?
17607	Of what kind, or of what nature is this Divine justice then?
17607	On the other hand, those who deceive men, do they not often take the trouble themselves of undeceiving them?
17607	On the other side, if God Himself was not able to render human nature sinless, what right had He to punish men for not being sinless?
17607	One of his friends expressing his surprise, Cleomenes said:"What are you astonished at?
17607	Or rather, why did God create evil spirits, whose victories and terrible influences upon the human race He must have foreseen?
17607	Or, at least, could He not have dispensed with creating beings whom He might be compelled to punish and to render unhappy by a subsequent decree?
17607	Religion unites man with God or puts them in communication; but do you say that God is infinite?
17607	Shall we imitate the good and great Jupiter of ancient Paganism?
17607	Shall we imitate, then, the Jesus of the Christians?
17607	Should not every rational prince perceive that the despot is but an insane man who injures himself?
17607	Since it was necessary for men to have a God, why did they not have the sun, the visible God, adored by so many nations?
17607	That which excludes all idea, can it be anything but nothingness?
17607	The desire to please the world, the current of custom, the fear of being ridiculed, and of"WHAT WILL THEY SAY?"
17607	The doctrine?
17607	The dogma of the immortality of the soul assumes that the soul is a simple substance, a spirit; but I will always ask, what is a spirit?
17607	The establishment of their religion?
17607	The fear of ceasing to exist, is it more afflicting than the thought of having not always been?
17607	The least atoms of matter which you despise, are they not sufficient to deprive you of your throne and life?
17607	The man without culture, experience, or reason, is he not more despicable and more abominable than the vilest insects, or the most ferocious beasts?
17607	The nations where this fiction is established, are they remarkable for the morality of their conduct?
17607	The oracles which the Deity has revealed to the nations through His different mediums, are they clear?
17607	The priests regulate the belief of the vulgar; but do not these priests themselves acknowledge that God is incomprehensible to them?
17607	The theologian''s God, as well as the God of the theist, is He not evidently a cause incompatible with the effects attributed to Him?
17607	Their miracles?
17607	Their morality?
17607	Their morals?
17607	Their prophecies?
17607	Then, who is this God who has been sacrificed, who died to save the world, and leaves so many nations damned?
17607	Therefore, what is God?
17607	These destroyers of the human race, known by the name of conquerors, have they better souls than those of bears, lions, and panthers?
17607	These judgments, these ways, and these designs, have you penetrated them?
17607	This existence, menaced on so many sides, can we not be deprived of it at any moment?
17607	This granted, how can we know whether God wants to instruct us or to lay a snare for us?
17607	This human machine, which is shown to us as the masterpiece of the Creator''s industry, has it not a thousand ways of deranging itself?
17607	This instinct, of which you speak with disdain, does it not often serve them much better than your wonderful faculties?
17607	To admire these same views, is it not admiring without knowing wry?
17607	To adore the profound views of divine wisdom, is it not to worship that of which it is impossible for us to judge?
17607	To love what God hates, would it not be exposing one''s self to His implacable hatred?
17607	To punish a man for his erroneous opinions, is it not punishing him for having been educated differently from yourself?
17607	To say that God is the author of the phenomena that we see, is it not attributing them to an occult cause?
17607	To tell men to think as you do, is it not asking a foreigner to express his thoughts in your language?
17607	To whom does religion procure power, credit, honors, wealth?
17607	Under an infinitely good and powerful God, is it possible to conceive that a single man could suffer?
17607	Upon what is this so flattering opinion based?
17607	WHAT IS A GOD WHO CAN CHANGE NOTHING?
17607	Was it more difficult for this God to do His work well than to do it so badly?
17607	Was the first man formed of the dust of the earth?
17607	We may be asked if atheism can suit the multitude?
17607	What He says of this plan, does it agree with the effects which we see?
17607	What aid has it lent it?
17607	What are his motives for abstaining from secret vices and crimes of which other men are ignorant, and which are beyond the reach of laws?
17607	What are these boasted resources of the Christ- worshipers?
17607	What can the idea of God represent to us when it is evidently an idea without an object?
17607	What can there be contemptible in automatic machines capable of producing such desirable effects?
17607	What can this innate sense or this ill- founded persuasion prove against the evidence which shows us that what implies contradiction can not exist?
17607	What conformity or resemblance do we find between some men?
17607	What did He teach men?
17607	What do I care for the infinite power of a being who can do but a very few things to please me?
17607	What enlightenment can teachers of this stamp give?
17607	What good to me is the favor of a being who, able to bestow upon me infinite good, does not even give me a finite one?
17607	What good to morality results from all this?
17607	What have been the fruits of their meditations and of their arguments?
17607	What idea can I form of a justice which so often resembles human injustice?
17607	What idea can we form of the original, if we judge it by its duplicates?
17607	What interest would He have in putting upon us enigmas and mysteries?
17607	What is God?
17607	What is God?
17607	What is a mystery?
17607	What is a soul?
17607	What is a spirit?
17607	What is a spirit?
17607	What is his origin?
17607	What is it to create?
17607	What is more presumptuous than to arm nations and cause rivers of blood, in order to establish or to defend futile conjectures?
17607	What is the cause of pestilences, famines, wars, sterility, inundations, earthquakes?
17607	What is the cause of this corruption?
17607	What is the exact line of demarcation between man and the other animals which he calls brutes?
17607	What is the hidden principle of the actions and of the motions of the human body?
17607	What is the opinion to- day about it?
17607	What is the result of this combination of man with God, or of this theanthropy?
17607	What is the will of God?
17607	What is virtue according to theology?
17607	What is virtue?
17607	What known advantage results for God''s friend to be bitten by a viper, stung by a gnat, devoured by vermin, torn into pieces by a tiger?
17607	What other passion than frenzied pride can render men so ferocious, so vindictive, so devoid of toleration and gentleness?
17607	What ravages would not these holy haranguers cause should they conspire to disturb a State, as they have so often done?
17607	What real advantages do these organs of the Most High procure for the people in exchange for the immense profits which they draw from them?
17607	What remedies can prevent these calamities?
17607	What should we say of religions that based their Divinity upon miracles which they themselves cause to appear suspicious?
17607	What use is there, then, in preaching atheism?
17607	What witnesses are referred to in order to make us believe incredible miracles?
17607	What would have become of men under the control of Paganism if they had imagined, according to Plato, that virtue consisted in imitating the gods?
17607	Whence comes man?
17607	Whence, then, does it come?
17607	Where is the infinite kindness of a being who is indifferent to my happiness?
17607	Where is the proof?
17607	Where, then, is their proof of all this?
17607	Which God should we imitate?
17607	Which is the true one amongst the great number of those of which each one pretends to be the right one, to the exclusion of all the others?
17607	Who are the men who have transmitted and perpetuated them?
17607	Who are those who have seen God?
17607	Who created the Devil?
17607	Who induced this woman to do such a folly?
17607	Who is wrong or right?
17607	Who profit by the ignorance of men and their vain prejudices?
17607	Who receive the fees of this religion, on whose behalf the priests are so zealous?
17607	Who would not laugh at such a ridiculous doctrine?
17607	Whoever dares to lie, will he not dare to perjure himself?
17607	Whom does the idea of God overawe?
17607	Why are men wicked?
17607	Why did God allow him to be seduced, knowing well that he would be too weak to resist the tempter?
17607	Why did God create a Satan, a malicious spirit, a tempter?
17607	Why did God create this Devil destined to pervert the human race?
17607	Why did God permit him to sin, and his nature to become corrupt?
17607	Why do they not practice them?
17607	Why do we need terrors and fables to teach any reasonable man how he ought to conduct himself upon earth?
17607	Why does the number of wicked exceed so greatly the number of good people?
17607	Why does this powerful God permit that such corrupt hearts should exist?
17607	Why is his gospel in so few hands?
17607	Why is the Mohammedan everywhere a slave?
17607	Why must man exist What is his existence to God?
17607	Why must man suffer?
17607	Why should there not be females as well as males?
17607	Why, for every friend, does God find ten thousand enemies in a world which depended upon Him alone to people with honest men?
17607	Why?
17607	Will men never renounce their foolish pretensions?
17607	Will not every enlightened prince beware of his flatterers, whose object is to put him to sleep at the edge of the precipice to which they lead him?
17607	Will they not recognize that nature was not made for them?
17607	Will they not see that all organized beings are equally made to be born and to die, to enjoy and to suffer?
17607	Will they not see that this nature has placed on equal footing all the beings which she produced?
17607	Will this master wish to have honest, enlightened, and virtuous men near him?
17607	Will we find a model for our conduct in Jehovah?
17607	Without belief in God, what becomes of the sacredness of the oath?
17607	Would it be any more difficult to unravel the principles of man''s morals, than the imaginary principles of Divine and theological morals?
17607	Would it be more difficult for Him to create combinations of matter from which results thought, than spirits which think?
17607	Would not all these animals reason as wisely as our theologians, if they should pretend that man was made for them?
17607	Would not society be dissolved, and would not men retrograde into barbarism, if each one should be fool enough to wish to be a saint?
17607	Would not their minds be better satisfied in discovering truth than in wandering in the labyrinths of darkness?
17607	XCI.--HOW CAN WE DISCOVER A TENDER, GENEROUS, AND EQUITABLE FATHER IN A BEING WHO HAS CREATED HIS CHILDREN BUT TO MAKE THEM UNHAPPY?
17607	XXIII.--WHAT IS THE METAPHYSICAL GOD OF MODERN THEOLOGY?
17607	XXVI.--WHAT IS GOD?
17607	You believe yourselves free because you do as you choose; but are you really free to will or not to will, to desire or not to desire?
17607	You boast of your intellectual faculties, but these faculties which render you so proud, do they make you any happier than other creatures?
17607	Your wills and your desires, are they not necessarily excited by objects or by qualities which do not depend upon you at all?
17607	are all these mysteries any more shocking to reason than a God who punishes and rewards men''s actions?
17607	but did not fanaticism begin, and has not intrigue visibly sustained this edifice?
17607	but is it not the height of absurdity?
17607	do you not perceive this frightful character of the God to whom you offer your incense?
17607	do you not see that your God has killed them?
17607	how did it grow?
17607	how did it strengthen?
17607	how many mortals are really satisfied with their mode of existence?
17607	how weaken itself, get out of order, and grow old with your body?
17607	in crying down reason, do you not see that you slander your God, who, as you assure us, has given us this reason?
17607	said the angry sultan,"no one wants to play?
17607	upon what can you establish your high pretensions?
17607	what becomes of this pretended charity as soon as we examine the actions of the Lord''s ministers?
17607	who is this motor?
17607	will you never feel the folly and injustice of your intolerant disposition?
17607	you leave, you say, your lover for your God?
17607	yourselves in defending this religion and its chimeras, are you, then, really exempt from passions and interests?