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The Ghosts, and Other Lectures

A work by Robert G. Ingersoll

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Men and women should have equal rights, and marriage should be a perfect partnership, Someone threatened with punishment for their conclusions cannot weigh evidence impartially, Humanity civilized religion rather than religion civilizing humanity …

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    Robert G. Ingersoll

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What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Men and women should have equal rights, and marriage should be a perfect partnership (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Someone threatened with punishment for their conclusions cannot weigh evidence impartially (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Humanity civilized religion rather than religion civilizing humanity (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Religion has been the only enemy of medical science (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Happiness is the one good and selfishness the one sin, and law should serve the first (opens korrents.com)1

  6. A theory that is afraid of investigation does not deserve a place in the mind (opens korrents.com)1

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  • Robert G. Ingersoll

Sources

  1. The Ghosts, and Other Lectures (1876-1878) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)

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