Which will not Breed Together.
| The Gaps Between Air Breathers and Water Breathers, &c. |
| The Great Gulf Between the Brute and the Man. |
| Natural Selection Could not Have Deprived a Monkey of Hair. |
| Nor Have Given a Human Brain. |
| The Brain-Worker Contravenes Natural Selection at Every Step. |
| Civilization the Contradiction of Natural Selection. |
| Morality and Religion the Direct Contraries of Natural Selection. |
| Tendency Immoral, Degrading, and Atheistic. |
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| CHAPTER III. |
| Is God Everybody, and Everybody God? |
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| Pantheism Described. |
| An Antiquated Hindooism. |
| A Jesuitical Atheism. |
| Grossly Immoral. |
| A Practical Atheism. |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
| Have We Any Need of the Bible? |
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| Civilization and the Bible. |
| Revelation Not Impossible. |
| The Mythical Theory. |
| The Inner Light. |
| Many Ignorant of God. |
| Heathen Morality—Plato's. |
| Infidel Morality—Paine's. |
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| CHAPTER V. |
| Who Wrote the New Testament? |
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| The Bible Not Just Like Any Other Book. |
| Two Modes of Investigation. |
| Did the Council of Nice Make the Bible? |
| The Mythical Theory. |
| The Evidence of Celsus. |
| The Fragment Hypothesis. |
| The Bank Signature Book. |
| Could the New Testament be Corrupted? |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
| Is the Gospel Fact or Fable? |
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| The Nature of Historical Evidence; Letters; Monuments. |
| Contemporary Letters of Peter, Pliny and John. |
| Prove the Existence of Churches. |
| And Their Worship, Holiness, and Sufferings. |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
| Can We Believe Christ and His Apostles? |
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| The Gospel a Unit; Must Take or Refuse it All. |
| Apostles' Testimony Circumstantial. |
| Witnesses Numerous and Independent. |
| Confirm Their Testimony with Their Blood. |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
| Prophecy, |
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| Political—Napoleon's—Wrong. |
| Presidential Candidates. |
| Draper's Dogma of Youth and Decrepitude of Nations. |
| Statesmen Prophets. |
| General Claim for All Genius. |
| Instances of Secular Prediction: |
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Cayotte's of the French Revolution. |
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The Oracles of Apollo. |
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Vettius Valens' Twelve Vultures. |
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Spencer's of the Disruption of the American Union. |
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Saint Malachi's Prophecies. |
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Mohammed's Prophecies. |
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Seneca's of the Discovery of America. |
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Dante's of the Reformation. |
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Plato's of Shakespeare. |
| Symbolical Language of Prophecy. |
| Anybody may Predict Downfall of Nations. |
| An Awful Truth if it be True. |
| But Bible Predictions Circumstantial—Egypt; Babylon; Nineveh; Judea. |
| Predict Life and Resurrection. |
| The Arabs; Jews; Seven Churches; Messiah. |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
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