With his Name left out the History of Liberty cannot be Written--Paine's Origin and Condition--His arrival in America with a Letter of Introduction by Franklin--Condition of the Colonies--"Common Sense"--A new Nation Born--Paine the Best of Political Writers--The "Crisis"--War not to the Interest of a trading Nation--Paine's Standing at the Close of the Revolution--Close of the Eighteenth Century in France-The "Rights of Man"--Paine Prosecuted in England--"The World is my Country"--Elected to the French Assembly--Votes against the Death of the King--Imprisoned--A look behind the Altar--The "Age of Reason"--His Argument against the Bible as a Revelation--Christianity of Paine's Day--A Blasphemy Law in Force in Maryland--The Scotch "Kirk"--Hanging of Thomas Aikenhead for Denying the Inspiration of the Scriptures--"Cathedrals and Domes, and Chimes and Chants"--Science--"He Died in the Land his Genius Defended," INDIVIDUALITY. (1873.) "His Soul was like a Star and Dwelt Apart"--Disobedience one of the Conditions of Progress.--Magellan--The Monarch and the Hermit-Why the Church hates a Thinker--The Argument from Grandeur and Prosperity-Travelers and Guide-boards--A Degrading Saying--Theological Education--Scotts, Henrys and McKnights--The Church the Great Robber--Corrupting the Reason of Children--Monotony of Acquiescence: For God's sake, say No--Protestant Intolerance: Luther and Calvin--Assertion of Individual Independence a Step toward Infidelity--Salute to Jupiter--The Atheistic Bug-Little Religious Liberty in America--God in the Constitution, Man Out--Decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois that an Unbeliever could not testify in any Court--Dissimulation--Nobody in this Bed--The Dignity of a Unit HERETICS AND HERESIES. (1874.) Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain--The Church, the Bible, and Persecution--Over the wild Waves of War rose and fell the Banner of Jesus Christ--Highest Type of the Orthodox Christian--Heretics' Tongues and why they should be Removed before Burning--The Inquisition Established--Forms of Torture--Act of Henry VIII for abolishing Diversity of Opinion--What a Good Christian was Obliged to Believe--The Church has Carried the Black Flag--For what Men and Women have been Burned--John Calvin's Advent into the World--His Infamous Acts--Michael Servetus--Castalio--Spread of Presbyterianism--Indictment of a Presbyterian Minister in Illinois for Heresy--Specifications--The Real Bible THE GHOSTS. (1877.)