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Since most of the McCabe's books were sprinkled with typographical errors, Everly Books had decided to rewrite, reedit and reformat the writings of Joseph McCabe, now offered in newly rich editions for pretentious readers and collectors of most selective books. The additional Author's Biography has been added, as well as inclusive illustration(s.) This book had been first published in 1940 under the name of The Golden Ages of History; Second impression appeared in 1944; Third impression in 1944. Printed and Published in Great Britain by C. A. Watts 6c Co Limited. 5L 6J ohnson sC ourt, Fleet Street. London.

After reading this book three times, Mark Twain commented: "Everyone should read this book. IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT YOU SHOULD BUY IT... BORROW IT... OR BEG IT..." This edition includes new COPYRIGHTED material to original work (1906) CONTENTS: PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION, PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION THE SITUATION Chapter I. THE GRAVITY OF THE PRESENT SITUATION § 1. The Truth of the Matter § 2. The Attitude of the Laity § 3. Christianity and Science not Reconciled § 4. The Genesis and Character of the New Outburst § 5. Apologetics " Found Wanting." § 6. More Things, which Confuse the Issue. Chapter II. THE EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF APOLOGETICS WITH REGARD TO MIRACLES § 1. Preliminary Remarks. THE VIEW OF SCIENCE. WHY HAVE MIRACLES CEASED? BELIEF IN MIRACLES ESSENTIAL. § 2. Miracle Apologetics § 3. The Fundamental Miracles THE RESURRECTION. THE ASCENSION. THE INCARNATION. CONCLUDING REMARKS Chapter III. THE DESTRUCTIVE CHARACTER OF MODEEN BIBLE CRITICISM § 1. Clashing Views on Bible Criticism. § 2. A Summary of the Results of Bible Criticism. § 3. By Whom the " Higher Criticism " is Accepted. § 4. Admissions by Orthodox Apologists. § 5. Some Remaining Difficulties. WE MUST ACCEPT THE WHOLE OR REJECT THE WHOLE. SILENCE OF HISTORIANS THOUGHTS ON " TRADITION " AS GOD'S METHOD FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF TRUTH TO POSTERITY. THE ALLEGED SINLESSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST. THE IGNORANCE OF JESUS CHRIST. COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY Chapter IV. THE GRAVE SUSPICIONS AROUSED BY THE STUDY OF ANCIENT BELIEFS § 1. The Nee Theological Theory of a Progressive Revelation. § 2. Parallels in Ancient Religions, and Some Remarks Upon Them. KRISHNA AND BUDDHA. PARALLELS OTHER THAN KRISHNA AND BUDDHA. ARE THE KRISHNA AND BUDDHA LEGENDS BORROWED FROM CHRISTIANITY? § 3. Parallels' in the Beliefs of Primitive Man, and some Remarks Upon Them. THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA. VEGETATION GODS. WHY MEN EAT THEIR GOD. § 4. The Solar Myth. JONAH AND THE WHALE. THE CHRISTIAN THEORY IGNORED BY SCIENCE. THE SUN AS A SYMBOL. 91 § 5. Concluding Remarks on Christian and Anti-Christian Theories. ARGUMENT FEOM ESSENISM. ARGUMENT FROM MITHRAISM. Chapter V. IRRECONCILABLE DIFFICULTIES CONNECTED WITH EVOLUTION § 1. Preliminary Remarks. THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION. DARWINISM. THE AVERAGE PERSON'S IDEAS ON THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. THE ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH. § 2. " Nature Red in Tooth and Claw." § 3. The Bible Account of Creation Irreconcilable with Science in Each and Every Respect. § 4. Proofs of Our Animal Origin. THE EXTRAORDINARY AFFINITY OF BODILY STRUCTURE. THE REVELATIONS OF EMBRYOLOGY. THE TALE TOLD BY THE USELESS RUDIMENTARY ORGANS. § 5. The Overthrow of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE QUESTION. AN INSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER'S THEORY. THE ARCHDEACON OF MANCHESTER'S THEORY. THE RATIONALIST'S THEORY. CONCLUSIONS. THEISM Chapter VI. THE FAILURE OF THEISTIC ARGUMENTS § 1. Preliminary Remarks. THEISM, AND WHO ARE THEISTS. § 2. The Existence of a First Cause - An Uncaused Cause. § 3. The First Cause an Intelligence. DESIGN AND DIRECTIVITY. DIRECTIVITY. DESIGN. DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AMONG THEISTIC APOLOGISTS. § 4. The First Cause a Beneficent Intelligence. A PERSONAL GOD. DIVINE IMMANENCE IN NATURE. A FACT IN HISTORY. THE PAST AND PRESENT POSITION OF THE ETHICAL ARGUMENT EVIL FOR WHICH MAN IS NOT HELD RESPONSIBLE EVIL FOR WHICH MAN IS HELD RESPONSIBLE. CONSCIENCE. FREEWILL. § 5. Religious Experience. MYSTICISM AND CONVERSION. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PRAYER. THE RELIGIOUS (?) EXPERIENCES OF INTOXICATION. MUSIC AND THE EMOTIONS. SEXUAL LOVE. REVIVALISM. § 6. The Inevitable Conclusion. NOTE ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. POPULAR ARGUMENTS, etc....

Bible, falsely called the Word of God. Abominable falsehood! The Bible is the Word of Man, and the God therein is this creature deified. Into the lips of that Deity man has breathed his ignorant thoughts and selfish desires, chief of which was the possession of woman as a slave. How could this be enforced but by making her believe that she was the offspring of a male rib and the first to transgress the commands of God, wherefore the mere chip of the former, and justly subjected by the latter to the condition of a disinherited? Disinherited Woman! Through long ages your eyes have been bound, and the light has not shone therein. Tear off the bandages which keep them in darkness, and see the truth for your own salvation and for that of your children and descendants. While Bible precept is held to be divine, there is no raison d'être for the rights of woman, seeing that she is denied such thereby. But once it is plainly seen that Bible precept is man-made and not God-made, then the barrier, so long held up by Falsehood's props against woman's freedom, must go down with a crash, by reason of its own rotten and decayed structure. It is for men to give Woman freedom, even as it is her bounden duty to demand it as her right. Let Reason be her guide and Truth her beacon. Then men shall cease to be the sons of slaves, and through their free mothers inherit the glorious birthright of true liberty. Once the origin of humanity is realized by all, Superstition must die, for Knowledge will never submit to Ignorance and Falsehood, who are the parents of Superstition. -Florence Dixie

The Ages of Evolution is the new remastered and re-edited edition of the Story of Evolution written by Joseph McCabe in 1896 and published in 1912 by Watts & Co. Its release is in print as well as ebook in exemplary formats for today's pretentious reader. Highly recommended. Joseph Martin McCabe was born in Macclesfield, England on November 12, 1867 and lived until January 10, 1955. He grew up in Manchester. At the age of 15 he entered the Franciscan order. He apostatized from Christian faith leaving the Roman Catholic priesthood a self-decreed rationalist, atheist and materialist becoming a speaker of freethought, one of the most inexhaustible rationalist writers of the 20th century, his first pamphlet on his experiences appearing under the title From Rome to Rationalism, published in 1897, which has been lengthened into his first book volume Twelve years in a Monastery (1897.) Much of his works have been published by E. Haldeman-Julius, an American rationalist publisher who declared McCabe "the world's greatest scholar."