Common-Place Strictures on Col. Ingersoll's Lecture on "Intellectual Development" (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Guss, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0259817627 ISBN 13: 9780259817628

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Excerpt from Common-Place Strictures on Col. Ingersoll's Lecture on "Intellectual Development"

In concluding his criticism on the Old Testament, in his Age of reason, Tom Paine said: I have gone through the Bible as a man would go through a wood with an axe on his shoulders and fell trees; here they lie, and the priests, if they can, may replant them. They may perhaps stick them in the ground, but they will never grow. In a recent lecturé on Intellectual Development, a disciple of tom Paine gives utterance to his thoughts, at the close of the lecture in the following language: We are all travelers on the great plain we call life, and there is nobody quite sure what road to take - not quite dead sure, you know. There are lots of guide-boards on the plain, and you find thousands of people swearing to-day that their guide-board is the only board that shows the right direction. I go and talk to them, and they say, You go that way, or you will be damned. I go to another, and they say, You go thisway, or you will be damned. They are all fighting and quarreling, and beat ing each other, and then I say, Let us cut down all these guide-boards. What? They say, leave us without any guide-boards? I say, Yes, let every man take the road he thinks is right, and let everybody else wish him a happy journey. I have selected this sentence as the basis of some commonplace strictures on this lecture, because it is the final presentation of his views, and embodies substantially the points embraced in the lecture.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 0259817627
• ISBN 13: 9780259817628
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 28