MISTAKES of MOSES
By Robert G. Ingersoll.
The Destroyer Of Weeds, Thistles And Thorns, Is A Benefactor Whether He Soweth Grain Or Not.
1880.
MRS. SUE M. FARRELL
IN LAW MY SISTER;
AND IN FACT MY FRIEND,
THIS VOLUME,
AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT AND LOVE,
IS DEDICATED.
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
I. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES
II. FREE SCHOOLS
III. THE POLITICIANS
IV. MAN AND WOMAN
V. THE PENTATEUCH
VI. MONDAY
VII. TUESDAY
VIII. WEDNESDAY
IX. THURSDAY
X. "HE MADE THE STARS ALSO"
XI. FRIDAY
XII. SATURDAY
XIII. LET US MAKE MAN
XIV. SUNDAY
XV. THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY
XVI. THE GARDEN
XVII. THE FALL
XVIII. DAMPNESS
XIX. BACCHUS AND BABEL
XX. FAITH IN FILTH
XXI. THE HEBREWS
XXII. THE PLAGUES
XXIII. THE FLIGHT
XXIV. CONFESS AND AVOID
XXV. "INSPIRED" SLAVERY
XXVI. "INSPIRED" MARRIAGE
XXVII. "INSPIRED" WAR
XXVIII. "INSPIRED" RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
XXIX. CONCLUSION
PREFACE.
For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men; that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquest and extermination were right, and that there was a time when men could win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and