Ingersoll in Canada: A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others
If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, mankind would no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. — J. S. Mill, On Liberty .
Here's freedom to him that would read, Here's freedom to him that would write; Thert's nane ever feared that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth would indite. —Burns.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. — Philosopher .
PER CONTRA: Do not try to reason or you are lost. — Moody, the Evangelist .
Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may.
Fear first made Gods in the world. — Lucretius
Theology I define to be the art of teaching what nobody knows. — Lord Brougham
It matters not to me whether my neighbors believe in one God or twenty — Jefferson
The natural world is infinite and eternal. The universe was not called into being from non-entity. — Plato
To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues, on the part of the assertor, either gross ignorance or else wilful fraud. — Buckle
Nature is seen to do all things of herself without the meddling of the Gods. — Lucretius
Is there no 'inspiration,' then, but an ancient Jewish, Greekish, Roman one, with big revenues, loud liturgies, and red stockings? — Thos. Carlyle
Allen Pringle
INGERSOLL IN CANADA
A REPLY TO WENDLING, ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, BYSTANDER; AND OTHERS.
Contents
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
TO THE CLERGY AND COLLEGE STUDENTS OF ONTARIO.
INTRODUCTORY
REPLY TO WENDLING
REPLY TO LYNCH
A CRUSHING (?) EDICT FROM ST. MICHAEL'S PALACE.
REPLY TO "BYSTANDER."
REPLY TO "A RATIONALIST"
REPLY TO REV. A. J. BRAY
THE OATH QUESTION
(TO CANADIAN FREETHINKERS.)