(1877.)
Answer to San Francisco Clergymen--Definition of Liberty, Physical
and Mental--The Right to Compel Belief--Woman the Equal of Man--The
Ghosts--Immortality--Slavery--Witchcraft--Aristocracy of the
Air--Unfairness of Clerical Critics--Force and Matter--Doctrine of
Negation--Confident Deaths of Murderers--Childhood Scenes returned to
by the Dying--Death-bed of Voltaire--Thomas Paine--The First
Sectarians Were Heretics--Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard--Slaughter of
the Canaanites--Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson--Protestant
Persecutions--Toleration--Infidelity and Progress--The
Occident--Calvinism--Religious Editors--Reply to the Rev. Mr.
Ijams--Does the Bible teach Man to Enslave his Brothers?--Reply to
California _Christian Advocate_--Self-Government of French People at
and Since the Revolution--On the Site of the Bastile--French
Peasant's Cheers for Jesus Christ--Was the World created in Six
Days--Geology--What is the Astronomy of the Bible?--The Earth the Centre
of the Universe--Joshua's Miracle--Change of Motion into Heat--Geography
and Astronomy of Cosmas--Does the Bible teach the Existence of
that Impossible Crime called Witchcraft?--Saul and the Woman of
Endor--Familiar Spirits--Demonology of the New Testament--Temptation of
Jesus--Possession by Devils--Gadarene Swine Story--Test of Belief--Bible
Idea of the Rights of Children--Punishment of the Rebellious
Son--Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice--Persecution of Job--The Gallantry
of God--Bible Idea of the Rights of Women--Paul's Instructions to
Wives--Permission given to Steal Wives--Does the Bible Sanction
Polygamy and Concubinage?--Does the Bible Uphold and Justify Political
Tyranny?--Powers that be Ordained of God--Religious Liberty of
God--Sun-Worship punishable with Death--Unbelievers to be damned--Does
the Bible describe a God of Mercy?--Massacre Commanded--Eternal
Punishment Taught in the New Testament--The Plan of Salvation--Fall
and Atonement Moral Bankruptcy--Other Religions--Parsee
Sect--Brahmins--Confucians--Heretics and Orthodox.