Produced by David Widger THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL "THE CLERGY KNOW, THAT I KNOW, THAT THEY KNOW, THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW." IN TWELVE VOLUMES, VOLUME II. LECTURES 1900 THE DRESDEN EDITION TO MRS. SUE. M. FARRELL, IN LAW MY SISTER, AND IN FACT MY FRIEND, THIS VOLUME, AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT AND LOVE, IS DEDICATED. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES. (1879.) Preface--I. He who endeavors to control the Mind by Force is a Tyrant, and he who submits is a Slave--All I Ask--When a Religion is Founded--Freedom for the Orthodox Clergy--Every Minister an Attorney--Submission to the Orthodox and the Dead--Bounden Duty of the Ministry--The Minister Factory at Andover--II. Free Schools--No Sectarian Sciences--Religion and the Schools--Scientific Hypocrites--III. The Politicians and the Churches--IV. Man and Woman the Highest Possible Titles--Belief Dependent on Surroundings--Worship of Ancestors--Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path--The Bible the Chain that Binds--A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired--V. The Pentateuch--Moses Not the Author--Belief out of which Grew Religious Ceremonies--Egypt the Source of the Information of Moses--VI. Monday--Nothing, in the Light of Raw Material--The Story of Creation Begun--The Same Story, substantially, Found in the Records of Babylon, Egypt, and India--Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth--Usefulness of Miracles to Fit Lies to Facts--Division of Darkness and Light--VII. Tuesday--The Firmament and Some Biblical Notions about it--Laws of Evaporation Unknown to the Inspired Writer--VIII. Wednesday--The Waters Gathered into Seas--Fruit and Nothing to Eat it--Five Epochs in the Organic History of the Earth--Balance between the Total Amounts of Animal and Vegetable Life--Vegetation Prior to the Appearance of the Sun--IX. Thursday--Sun and Moon Manufactured--Magnitude of the Solar Orb--Dimensions of Some of the Planets--Moses' Guess at the Size of Sun and Moon--Joshua's Control of the Heavenly Bodies--A Hypothesis Urged by Ministers--The Theory of "Refraction"--Rev. Henry Morey--Astronomical Knowledge of Chinese Savants--The Motion of the Earth Reversed by Jehovah for the Reassurance of Ahaz--"Errors" Renounced by Button--X. "He made the Stars Also"--Distance of the Nearest Star--XI. Friday--Whales and Other Living Creatures Produced--XII. Saturday--Reproduction Inaugurated--XIII. "Let Us Make Man"--Human Beings Created in the Physical Image and Likeness of God--Inquiry as to the Process Adopted--Development of Living Forms According to Evolution--How Were Adam and Eve Created?--The Rib Story--Age of Man Upon the Earth--A Statue Apparently Made before the World--XIV. Sunday--Sacredness of the Sabbath Destroyed by the Theory of Vast "Periods"--Reflections on the Sabbath--XV. The Necessity for a Good Memory--The Two Accounts of the Creation in Genesis I and II--Order of Creation in the First Account--Order of Creation in the Second