W. A. PRYKE. Christianity thrived on ignorance; and that to-day is its principal. food. More ignorance, more Jesus, and vice versa. MINNIE M. BROWN. Was ever a more untrue statement made or a baser lie printed than this: "Ask and it shall be given unto you." GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE. Looking unto providence for protection against famine and epidemics still leaves a good deal for physicians and for Poor Law Guardians to do. BUCKLE. A country which remains in its old ignorance will always remain. in its old religion. JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE. Society in its actual life has long been atheistic. ROBERT BUCHANAN. So far as our daily life and character are concerned, Christianity is an extinct creed. LOUIS LEVINE. How the Orthodox who avow they have the truth, fear science, the truth-teller. DUKE OF ARGYLE. Nothing, however wonderful, which happens according to natural. laws, would be considered by anyone as supernatural. J. SYMES. Damnation is a New-Testament doctrine. It has been held by all sects of Christianity. To repudiate it is to repudiate Christi ERNST HAECKEL. The enormous daily progress of natural science is irresistibly destroying the roots of all Church dogmas. CICERO. Time destroys the speculations of man, but confirms the judgments of nature. J. M. WHEELER. The rosary in one hand and the knife in the other is a good description of many of the most pious people in Southern Europe. KING SOLOMON. Man has no pre-eminence above a beast, as the one dieth so dieth the other. PROF. GEORGE GERLAND. Man has developed from the brute through the action of purely natural mechanical laws. J. E. HOSMER. Think of the energy that has been wasted trying to prove ancient lies to be divine truths. VICOMTE DE BONALD. Men have no need of masters to learn how to doubt. PROF. DANIEL G. BRINTON. No ghost has come from the grave, no God from on high, to help man in the struggle for life. ERNEST RENAN. The idea of supernatural gifts being conferred upon men is the common error of mankind. JUDGE PARISH B. LADD, LL. D. All religions, as a matter of fact, are but myths. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, M. D. The bigot is like the pupil of the eye-the more light you put upon it the more it will contract. JEAN MESLIER. We have every reason to believe that no religion has the advantage of being true. DR. LUCK. I have no fear, because I've got No faith nor hope in Juggernaut; Nor Jah, Pope, Lama, Boud, nor Zend, Nor Alcoran, nor Mormon's views, A base opinion hurts no man; Then prove it hurts a God who can. To others do, to others give As you'd have done, or would receive. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. The ideas of religion among the lower classes of men are intimately associated with the ideas of sleep and dreams. CHARLES BRADLAUGH, M. P. The Bible is the great cord with which the people are bound; cut this, and the mass will be able to appreciate facts instead of faith. HERBERT SPENCER. Your conception, O spiritualist, is far too gross for me. The idea of spirits was conceived by your ancestors, as it is still conceived by various existing savages. E. C. WALKER. The priest, as the mouthpiece of asserted divine wisdom, ever has been, is now and always will be, the enemy of mankind. ELIZA BURT GAMBLE. Christianity has had a trial of more than 1800 years, but criminals, paupers, maniacs and outcast women testify to its failure. REV. OCTAVIUS B. FROTHINGHAM. Christ is inaccessible to scientific research. A. BEYLE. God's excuse is, that he does not exist. HUXLEY. The only question which a wise man can ask himself is whether a doctrine is true or false. Consequences will take care of themselves. LORD BYRON. The menace of hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villians. ERNEST MENDUM. While poverty exists it is criminal to build churches. REV. M. BALLIET. The effort to apprehend religion intellectually results in dogmatic theology. MCCLINTOCK-Strong. In the conflict between Christianity and reason, puritan theology holds Christ to be the very center of the system. That all lies in the question whether such a person, historically, be necessary. LORD BYRON. It is unwise to tell me not to reason, but to believe. J. M. WHEELER. In Spain it is a crime to read books unauthorized by the priest, damnation to marry without his blessing and to bring up children without his baptism. J. SPENCER ELlis. Religion has ceased to have any moral effect and stands in the way of progress. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. One blade of grass rightly understood destroys the orthodox creed. ERNEST RENAN. I was brought up by women and priests and therein lies the whole explanation of my good qualities and of my defects. EMILE REICH. The Greek and Roman of Pre-Christian times was a citizen par excellence; the best part of his self was identified with his city-state. WILLIAM COBBETT. Next to the devil, professional religionists dread men of understanding. FERDINAND C. BAUR. The Epistles to the Colossians and to the Philippians, as well as the Acts of the Apostles, are spurious and were written by the Catholic school near the end of the second century. TAO-KWANG. All religions are nonsense; but the silly people have always believed in ghosts and in after life. |