Excerpt from Complete Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll Now' someone says, The religion of my father and mother is good enough for me. Suppose we all said that, where would be the progress of the world? We wouldhave the rudest and most barbaric religion, which no one could believe. I do not be lieve that it is showing real respect to our parents to believe something simply because they did. Every good father and every good mother wish their children to find out more than they knew: every good father wants his son to ...
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Excerpt from Complete Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll Now' someone says, The religion of my father and mother is good enough for me. Suppose we all said that, where would be the progress of the world? We wouldhave the rudest and most barbaric religion, which no one could believe. I do not be lieve that it is showing real respect to our parents to believe something simply because they did. Every good father and every good mother wish their children to find out more than they knew: every good father wants his son to overcome some obstacle that he could not grapple with; and if you wish to re ect credit on your father and mother, do it by accomplishing more than they did, because you live in a better time. Every nation has had what you call a sa cred record, and the older the more sacred, the more contradictory and the more in spired is the record. We, of course, are not an exception, and I propose to talk a little about what is called the Pentateuch, a book, or a collection of books, said to have been written by Moses. And right here in the commencement let me say that Moses neyer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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