The Truth about the Bible Ought to be Told--I. The Origin of the Bible--Establishment of the Mosaic Code--Moses not the Author of the Pentateuch--Some Old Testament Books of Unknown Origin--II. Is the Old Testament Inspired?--What an Inspired Book Ought to Be--What the Bible Is--Admission of Orthodox Christians that it is not Inspired as to Science--The Enemy of Art--III. The Ten Commandments--Omissions and Redundancies--The Story of Achan--The Story of Elisha--The Story of Daniel--The Story of Joseph--IV. What is it all Worth?--Not True, and Contradictory--Its Myths Older than the Pentateuch--Other Accounts of the Creation, the Fall, etc.--Books of the Old Testament Named and Characterized--V. Was Jehovah a God of Love?--VI. Jehovah's Administration--VII. The New Testament--Many Other Gospels besides our Four--Disagreements--Belief in Devils--Raising of the Dead--Other Miracles--Would a real Miracle-worker have been Crucified?--VIII. The Philosophy of Christ--Love of Enemies--Improvidence--Self-Mutilation--The Earth as a Footstool--Justice--A Bringer of War--Division of Families--IX. Is Christ our Example?--X. Why should we place Christ at the Top and Summit of the Human Race?--How did he surpass Other Teachers?--What he left Unsaid, and Why--Inspiration--Rejected Books of the New Testament--The Bible and the Crimes it has Caused. SHAKESPEARE I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was the greatest genius of our world. He left to us the richest legacy of all the dead--the treasures of the rarest soul that ever lived and loved and wrought of words the statues, pictures, robes and gems of thought. It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked--meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the unmeaning waste and shattered spoil of thoughtless Chance. Shakespeare is too great a theme. I feel as though endeavoring to grasp a globe so large that the hand obtains no hold. He who would worthily speak of the great dramatist should be inspired by "a muse of fire that should ascend the brightest heaven of invention"--he should have "a kingdom for a stage, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene." More than three centuries ago, the most intellectual of the human race was born. He was not of supernatural origin. At his birth there were no celestial pyrotechnics. His father and mother were both English, and both had the cheerful habit of living in this world. The cradle in which he was rocked was canopied by neither myth nor miracle, and in his veins there was no drop of royal blood.