gersoll.
Ingersolia: Gems from R. G. Ingersoll.
Age of Reason--by Thos. Paine.
Ingersoll--44 Lectures.
Ingersoll's Famous Speeches."

In the April, 1912, edition of the "International Socialist Review" the
subsequent additions are made to the advertisements already mentioned:

"Voltaire.
Confessions of a Nun.
Merry Tales of the Monks.
Secrets of Black Nunnery."

Surely such books as these would not be extensively advertised in the
"Review" and in the Socialist papers, nor would money be spent in this
way by their publishers, unless the atheistic and anti-religious works
found many purchasers among those who inserted a plank in their party
platform stating that the Socialist movement was primarily an economic
one and was not concerned with matters of religious belief.

The following is part of an editorial taken from the "Comrade," New
York, January, 1904, on the death of Herbert Spencer:

"Dying at 84 years of age, Herbert Spencer leaves behind him an
enduring monument such as few men have been able to build for
themselves. He helped to rid the world of superstition and to
destroy priestcraft; he put the idea of a God-direction of the
world, and its counterpart, the eternal subjection and the
dependence of man, into the waste paper basket of history. He
cleared the way for the feet of the army of progress."

In the propagation of atheism, the German Socialist papers of the United
States are worthy imitators of those that are published in English. The
"New Yorker Volkszeitung," October 9, 1901, thus acknowledges the
atheistic and anti-religious attitude of the revolutionary movement:

"Socialism and belief in the Divinity as taught by Christianity and
its representatives do not agree, cannot agree, are diametrically
opposed to one another. Socialism is logical only when it denies
the existence of God, when it maintains that we do not need the
so-called assistance of God, since we are able to help ourselves.
Only he who has no faith begins to feel that he can accomplish
something. The laborer who places confidence in God, and who, with
Christian resignation, thinks that all is done by God is well
done--how can that laborer develop revolutionary forces for the
overthrow of authority and social order, both of which, according
to his faith, are instituted by God? As long as he clings to this