It is said by the Church that the man who lives for his family and brings all that he can win of what is fair and bright and glad to those he loves, may be a good man, but he is not a Christian, and therefore has no religion. Give me then the man who is not a Christian, and who has no religion, for if the man who loves his wife and children, who gives to them the strength of his arm, the thought of his brain, the warmth of his heart, has not religion, the world is better off without it, for these are the highest and holiest things which man can do. [Illustration] There is only one thing worth praying for: to be in the line of evolution.--_Elbert Hubbard._ Jesus as Savior of the world is a theological creation, and not a historical character. SO HERE THEN ENDETH THAT GREAT AND GOOD BOOK "I DON'T KNOW--DO YOU?" WRITTEN BY MARILLA M. RICKER, AND PRINTED AND BOUND FOR HER BY THE ROYCROFTERS AT THEIR SHOP, WHICH IS IN EAST AURORA, ERIE COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW YORK, MCMXVI. THOMAS PAINE Born Jan 29, 1737. Friend and adviser of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Monroe, etc., etc. Author of _Common Sense_, _The Crisis_, _Rights of Man_, and _The Age of Reason_; Editor of _Pennsylvania Magazine_; Enlisted in Continental Army; appointed Aide-de-Camp to General Nathaniel Greene; Secretary of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congress and Pennsylvania Assembly; By his writings did more for the American cause in the Revolution than any other one person; First proposed American Independence; First suggested the Federal Union of States; First proposed the abolition of Negro slavery; First suggested protection for dumb animals; First proposed arbitration and international peace; First suggested justice to women; First pointed out the reality of human brotherhood; First pointed out the folly of hereditary succession and monarchical government; First proposed old-age pensions; First suggested international copyright; First proposed the education of the children of the poor at public expense; First suggested a great republic of all the nations of the world; First proposed "the land for the people"; First suggested "the religion of humanity"; First proposed and first wrote the words, "United States of America"; Founder of the first Ethical Society; Proposed the purchase of the Louisiana Territory; Inventor of the iron bridge, the hollow candle--principle of the modern central-draft burner, etc., etc. Died June 9, 1809. =_This is history. But this great and good man was called "a filthy little atheist" by a hyphenated Dutch-American._=