Superstition And Other Essays

Author : Robert G. Ingersoll
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615924353
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superstition and Other Essays written by Robert G. Ingersoll and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War veteran, successful lawyer, persuasive spokesman for the Republican Party, spellbinding orator, and controversial iconoclast, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was one of the best-known intellectuals of the 19th century. He rose to national prominence through his gift for oratory, which he publicly displayed on numerous lecture circuit tours. For almost twenty years this dedicated popularizer of progressive thinking and staunch critic of superstition would regularly address huge audiences, opening their minds to ideas that often provoked guarded whispers in private. Ingersoll was a man far ahead of his time, who advocated agnosticism, birth control, voting rights for women, the advancement of science, and civil rights for all races. Though eloquent on a wide variety of topics, he became most famous, and notorious, for his provocative lectures questioning the traditional, Bible-based Christian worldview of the age. In this volume are collected his best-known lectures on religion, the Bible, and related subjects. Included are "Why I Am an Agnostic"; "The Truth"; "What Is Religion?"; "Superstition"; "What Infidels Have Done"; "What Should You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide?"; "Crumbling Creeds"; "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child"; and "Love." This outstanding collection is indispensable for freethinkers, humanists, and open-minded people of all persuasions. Note: This volume is available individually or as part of a two-volume set with On the Gods and Other Essays by Robert by Ingersoll: two-volume set (ISBN 1-59102-171-5): $50.

Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superstition and Other Essays written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume are collected his best-known lectures on religion, the Bible, morality, and related subjects. This collection is indispensable for freethinkers, humanists, and open-minded people of all persuasions."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Belief. [By William K. Clifford. A Paper Read Before the Metaphysical Society.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781429996761
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why People Believe Weird Things written by Michael Shermer and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.

Author : William Newnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essay on Superstition written by William Newnham and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toleration and Other Essays written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Newnham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332046105
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essay on Superstition written by W. Newnham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essay on Superstition: Being an Inquiry Into the Effects of Physical Influence on the Mind, in the Production of Dreams, Visions, Ghosts, and Other Supernatural Appearances The idea thus suggested to the Author was acted upon, and from this arose a seriesof communications to the Christian Observer, during the course Of the past year. These Essays are now collected into one volume, and are presented to the Public, with various cor rections, and additional illustrations, in the hope that they may prove acceptable to a larger class of readers; and that they may be useful in undermining the wall of prejudice, which has been just alluded to: their Author most sincerely and'fervently prays, that they may prove the means of widening the agency of real religion, by contracting the limits of the prejudices against its influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439281
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Is a Miracle written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much–celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today.” —The Washington Post “I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism.”—The Christian Science Monitor In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.

Author : Thomas Wright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joanne O'Sullivan
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607345129
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Superstitious Stuff written by Joanne O'Sullivan and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the curse of the lottery winners to the good feng shui of a local restaurant, this quirky, wacky, weird, and wonderful collection of superstitions uncovers the truth about some of our most familiar beliefs, as well as others that are much stranger. It turns out that everywhere in the world, people still put their trust in luck, magic, and mystery. By the end of this look at the bizarre world of illogic it’s clear: superstition is alive and well...and really spellbinding!