(b) The good and great men of many ages believed in hell--that is, for somebody else. Practically hell is now in the lower case, if not entirely closed up for repairs. (c) Millions of good and wise men for many centuries believed that this earth was flat, and that the sun went daily round it. And these good and wise people burned all those who did not agree with them. (d) Millions of the best of earth at one time believed that it was right and proper to hang a man for stealing a sheep. (e) At one time almost every body believed that it was well-pleasing to God, for Christians to torture and murder heretics. (f) Millions of the wisest and best men have at different times believed that the world was speedily coming to an end. (g) The great men of the past professed to believe in Christianity because they were compelled to do so through fear of persecution, torture, and death. Millions of prominent men in society to-day, have to pretend to believe in the doctrines of the church in order to be respectable. (h) In every country under the sun people believe in their own religion.--The good and great Mohammedans, believe in Islamism. The good and great Buddhists believe in Buddhism, and the good and great Brahmins, believe in Brahminism. (i) The wise men of to-day in Europe and America do not believe in Christianity. The men of science do not attempt to prove the claims of Christianity. It is claimed that Infidelity is demoralizing in its tendency. (a) With such lives before us as those of Paine, Ingersoll, Palmer, Bennett, Wright, Seaver, and many others this charge proves to be groundless. (b) Liberal principles are not degrading. Truth, liberty, and justice cannot demoralize, but blind faith does. "Infidels always repent on their death bed." (a) Paine did not. Bennett did not. Dr. T. Brown did not. Courtlandt Palmer, Horace Seaver, Elizur Wright, did not--and millions of other good men have died tranquilly without any belief whatever in another world. "Can Infidelity save the world?" One thing is certain, namely, that Christianity cannot do it, as it has been trying to do so for eighteen centuries. There is no such thing as salvation possible. The world can be improved most rapidly by allowing everyone to mind his own business--by giving man his natural and equal rights, by inspiring him with liberty, for nothing so fully prepares people for liberty as liberty itself. "What has Freethought done for the world?" (a) What has Christianity done for the world? Why it has built schools, churches, and charitable institutions. (b) It is true that Christianity instituted schools, colleges, and universities; but not for the purpose of educating the people in truth, but in only such knowledge as would not conflict with its own superstitions. Christian schools have been for ages at war with science and liberty.