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In appreciation, therefore, of his great service to the cause of Freethought, I dedicate this volume to

RALPH WASHBURN CHAINEY

—Marilla M. Ricker.

Dover, New Hampshire December, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen

As man advances, as his intellect enlarges, as his knowledge increases, as his ideals become nobler, the Bibles and creeds will lose their authority, the miraculous will be classed with the impossible, and the idea of special providence will be discarded. Thousands of religions have perished, innumerable gods have died, and why should the religion of our time be exempt from the common fate?

—Robert Ingersoll.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of woman as the Bible.—Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

That God had to come to earth to find a mother for his son reveals the poverty of Heaven.

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Any system of religion that shocks the mind of a child can not be a true system.—Thomas Paine.

Hell is a place invented by priests and parsons for the sake of being supported.