The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-15
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e. k~ D.. ta >An Fszac<<cAn-f 1 EGixsr Sss Evsssvsnss: The sa. no0ncemens n your last issue of "A Re. ply tc snSerscai inspsrcd the hope oi ca ipseliectuAi Fsloindes but pot evea aa oat~nsk cf Ais impregnAbae position AAs been assailed.
 Take one of his ssssr0oaa. to-wis: II~ Christianity is and has been insmicai so Auman veifAre.s Ds. Nchte does nos meet this issue. lngerscll aifacks cae thsng-cuhcdcx cAnsfianisy-wAsie Dr. Nosle tsSends someshing elss. Dr Nehas claims shAt civihs Assoa is due . cAris- tianisy; Colonel lngersoll assssts shas human progress is inde6sed to iakd&sssy. He ma,ntains that the race has psoeysssed h kno~iedse, in the arts aad scseacea in all that ameliosates aad elevases tAe coz diuoa of mankind, not aided hy bat n spite cf the bug ghtins e6ect of ossAodox christianity.
 Dr. Noble and other ostho,ica divines clam for christianity the whole progress in cis,lsrauoa- lnsersoll ca the other hand, has dsA~n h.il of. indictment in which he charges esshodoxy with the as- xasnnasion of liberty; with impiacAhle hostility 10 ssiennhc inquiry and free thought He points to Bruno, Calico and Servetns. and to the million martyrs ot its vindiefise fury to the civilizations higher than is osn. that il has w,pcd ou, cf eA,stesoe; to the peoples it has de stroyed in its blind and blsody biz otry. CaribbeA. Peru. Mexico-whese are they Whole races ruthlessly destroyed ,a the name of it's gosy symbol, the Cross, lngersoil de6es the orthodox to prove the exis,-nce of their Jehovah: and to this challenge they are as helpless tn ar gumeos as ~ere the priesss of BaAl. One orthodox v reters to another osshc- doA," insisting upon the ve-y authorities which tngerscll challenges; and then. in their smposency. they resor to abuse. as though calling names would assaN them Oi course, he is an ,n6del He says he is. He nJosces tn inhdelity to what he de. no0nees as unfoanded superstition They assert the potency and power ot Christianity. and ycz 6nd no D lsid to do oAst.e vish this Gol,Ah of Agnos,icism He makes spec,hc chasges which the. do not meet. Only ene of theis champ ioos has agreed to meet the issne to wit, Jze Black. who defended and lusti- 6ed shaver. and po'ygamy, hscause ,hey were justified in the Bsble: thus admit ting the sesy points which lagessoll makes against its divine chasarter. Nos. if some prudent adversa Y were to enter the lisss, and. AbAndon,ng such unienable ground. would fall back upon the logic of the grand old heashen sage. sho struck the key-note when he ez- claimed, God Geometrizes. they might perchAnoe succeed in piercing the agnos- t,c aImor m vulnerable posnt tn which they will never succeed while handi- capped with apesui~n, ehangeable Jewish Jehovah.
 God Ceomefrises" And il may be lad do~n as a mAthem aticai proposition that the perception of mathematical truth evinoes mind of lofty order and tor this reason. by universal exclamation of mankind, Plato. fythagoras and Archim- edes, kepier, Newton, Herschel and Ia Place, stand foremost amoog the nobless of their kind. Hence tt lolloss, as a self evident cosollav, that to evolve mAihem atical mosious evinces .. I'd of ssill loftier order and as all the motions and combinations oi the material uni. verse. in all its vondess. varieay and unity, are ssnctly mathematical, the cosrelas,ve intelligence rests bes~eeu the visible a,- ter and the invisible Mind. There n no other alternative escape from this coocluxaon. Either those shining masses are gong their ovn gait or they are con- trolled by Mind-by something tha, thinks. @Jehovah, love. os Lord" call is what you plesss. Behold, there is . thinker ai the helm!
 When kepler, the grand old man, an- aounced to the world his immortal lays he estsblixhed scientifically the existence of Deity-A revelation not alone to oae poor prophet, psiest, os seer. tn some ob- scure corner of the earth, but to all the
 intelligence theseof-so every mind with tho capacity of mathematical thought. And how vas this great reveiaiion re- ceived by the orshodax vosld! With curses and ccosemps Had they lad hands on him thcy voold have burnt him like Bruno ssd Servesus, og tortured him like Calico but q they could not lay haads oo him, they placed his book in the Iadex Expurgaaosius," where ii re- mained vusil Is34
 Thus Chriseiansty encouraged (vide Dr Noble, q als ) scsenee, civilisat,on and homas progress.
 But so the Agnostie would say Study kepl9's 6ni great iaw-that the plaaesary ossiss os regular eciipses. sith the sun in oee of he foci--and tell me whence the intelligence to trace mashe- masicsi lines wifh uneuing decision for countless oensnries5 AgzlD The times occupied by plAna in dsscnbing any given arc of its orbit are as the areas of its sectoss- Iu radu sseep equal areas in equal times. Have the ptanets evolved this beautiful lav ior themselves And sgain: To mainf ain h2rmony among themselves these sensieat masses have resolved thas the squases of the pe- riods Of theiS revelations shali be alwsys e the cpbes q theis distances from the suni
 "I have triamphed!" he cred. @lI have found the golden secrss of the uni-
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