As a party they are professedly atheistic; therefore when the might of the German State compels them to take an oaththey take it with an inward Rückversicherung.

And had he added to his predictions of ruin, utterly inconceivable by the giddy, pleasure-seeking, atheistic people, the most scathing denunciations of the prevailing sins of that godless city, all the more powerful because they were true, addressed to all classes alike, positive, direct, bold, without favor and without fear,would they not have been stirred to violence, and subjected him to any chastisement in their power?

She belonged to that class who are called strong-minded; but she was perverted, as some noble minds are, by atheistic and spiritualistic views, and thought to raise women by lifting them out of the sphere which God has appointed.

How far the writings of rationalistic and atheistic philosophers affected her own views we cannot tell; but at this time her progressive and advanced opinions irritated and grieved her father, so that, as we are told, he treated her with intolerant harshness.

Berkeley's idealistic position was taken to crush atheistic materialism.

What sympathy could such a man as Burke have for atheistic theories, or a social progress which scorned the only conditions by which society can be kept together?

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that the Indians who are found in this region are naturally atheistic, as well as ignorant.

Rousseau was the conscience of France, which rebelled against the negations and the bald emptiness of the materialistic and atheistic doctrines.

Philosophy as a science from concepts must necessarily prove atheistic and fatalistic.

I will not dare to question a mother's love, so strange and inexplicable in power, and so mysterious in operation, gentle as the breathing of the memory, ungovernable as the whirlwind in its frenzy, tender as the angel of sympathy, yet stronger than the bands of Death, it is painful to witness such a cloud of sorrow resting on one so young as you, without an atheistic questioning, the all-wise purposes of our Father in heaven.

Then, as regards the changes in the teaching, it is no doubt to be ascribed to the influence of the laity that the atheistic Jaina system, as well as the Buddhist, has been endowed with a cult.

The churches were again opened, an atheistic ritual, and licentious homilies,* were substituted for the proscribed serviceand an absurd and ludicrous imitation of the Greek mythology was exhibited, under the title of the Religion of Reason.

The churches were again opened, an atheistic ritual, and licentious homilies,* were substituted for the proscribed serviceand an absurd and ludicrous imitation of the Greek mythology was exhibited, under the title of the Religion of Reason.

The character of a free-thinking exquisite is drawn from life without exaggeration, but with more than a touch of the bitter contempt Addison felt for the atheistic coxcomb, with whom he was too ready to confound the sincere questioner of orthodox opinion.

In later times, the first public act against slavery came from republican France, in the madness of atheistic enthusiasm; when she declared black and white men to be equally free, and liberated the negroes of St. Domingo.

To see a young woman, respectably dressed in crape, reading an Atheistic journal, had evidently upset his peace of mind, and he looked so hard at the paper that I was tempted to offer it to him, but repressed the mischievous inclination.

In order that I may not colour my past thinkings by my present thought, I take my statements from pamphlets written when I adopted the Atheistic philosophy and while I continued an adherent thereof.

This refusal to believe without evidence, and the declaration that anything "behind phenomena" is unknowable to man as at present constitutedthese are the two chief planks of the Atheistic platform, as Atheism was held by Charles Bradlaugh and myself.

"It is necessary to put briefly the Atheistic position, for no position is more continuously and more persistently misrepresented.

So I was fain to regard life as an attribute, and this again strengthened the Atheistic position.

" This poor sketch of the conception of the universe, to which I had conquered my way at the cost of so much pain, and which was the inner centre round which my life revolved for twelve years, may perhaps show that the Atheistic Philosophy is misjudged sorely when it is scouted as vile or condemned as intellectually degraded.

" The moral purity and elevation of Atheistic teaching were overlooked by many who heard only of my bitter attacks on Christian theology.

I left the Atheistic camp, and they were the faults of my personality, not of the Atheistic philosophy.

I left the Atheistic camp, and they were the faults of my personality, not of the Atheistic philosophy.

Another debatein this very quarrelsome spring of 1887was a written one in the National Reformer between the Rev. G.F. Handel Rowe and myself on the proposition, "Is Atheism logically tenable, and is there a satisfactory Atheistic System for the guidance of Human Conduct."