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Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than ? In what respect was he the superior of ? Was he gentler than , more universal than ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of ? Did he express grander truths than ? Was his mind subtler than 's? Was his brain equal to 's or 's? Was he grander in death - a sublimer martyr than ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of , the greatest of the human race?
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shakespeare
kindness
wisdom
bruno
epicurus
gautama-buddha
giordano-bruno
laozi
zeno
zeno-of-citium
zoroaster
cicero
baruch-spinoza
epictetus
spinoza
buddha
buddhism
socrates
stoicism
patience
isaac-newton
johannes-kepler
kepler
newton
william-shakespeare
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
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With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recommenced, and arrived at a temporary resting-place in the confessions of the various reformed Protestant sects in the sixteenth century; almost all of which, as soon as they were strong enough, began to persecute those who carried criticism beyond their own limit. But the movement was not arrested by these ecclesiastical barriers, as their constructors fondly imagined it would be; it was continued, tacitly or openly, by , by , by , and especially by , in the seventeenth century; by the English Freethinkers, by , by the , and by the German Rationalists, among whom stands out a head and shoulders taller than the rest, throughout the eighteenth century; by the historians, the philologers, the Biblical critics, the geologists, and the biologists in the nineteenth century, until it is obvious to all who can see that the moral sense and the really scientific method of seeking for truth are once more predominating over false science. Once more ethics and theology are parting company.
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criticism
science
baruch-spinoza
d-holbach
denis-diderot
diderot
gotthold-ephraim-lessing
gotthold-lessing
jean-jacque-rousseau
jean-meslier
lessing
meslier
paul-henri-d-holbach
thomas-hobbes
hobbes
rousseau
protestant
spinoza
science-vs-religion
civilization
geologists
europe
science-and-religion
persecution
descartes
galileo
galileo-galilei
rene-descartes
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