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Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king with Haeckel, who towers an intellectual colossus above the crowned mediocrity. Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius.

The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart.

We have advanced. We have reaped the benefit of every sublime and heroic self-sacrifice, of every divine and brave act; and we should endeavor to hand the torch to the next generation, having added a little to the intensity and glory of the flame.


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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and be...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name i...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servan...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in p...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Basti...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of in...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the unive...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and ou...
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