Excerpt from Review of Colonel R. G. Ingersoll's Attacks Upon Christianity It never Injures the truth permanently; By Its intrinsic value the latter always rises eventually above perversion, misapprehension and slander, whether they proceed from hostility or are due to a want of familiarity with the truths in question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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Robert G. Ingersoll's works are a scathing analysis of Christianity and the Bible. Volume 1, Part 1 traces the long journey of humanity from superstitious supernatural religion to reason, science and progress. Part 2 points out, however, that the struggle is not finished. Today the Religious Right attacks schools for teaching Darwin. In the 19th-century people were arrested for pointing out that the Bible is not infallible. Ingersoll defends Mr. Reynolds who was charged with this blasphemy. The orator's address to the jury is given. "Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy.... The church persecutes the living and her God burns the dead." - Heretics and Heresies "I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of any State, to put a padlock on the lips - to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain." - The Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy