There is only one thing worth praying for: to be in the line of evolution.--_Elbert Hubbard._

Jesus as Savior of the world is a theological creation, and not a historical character.

I don't know, do you? — Part 55

SO HERE THEN ENDETH THAT GREAT AND GOOD BOOK "I DON'T KNOW--DO YOU?" WRITTEN BY MARILLA M. RICKER, AND PRINTED AND BOUND FOR HER BY THE ROYCROFTERS AT THEIR SHOP, WHICH IS IN EAST AURORA, ERIE COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW YORK, MCMXVI.

I don't know, do you? — Part 55

Friend and adviser of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Monroe, etc., etc.

I don't know, do you? — Part 55

Author of _Common Sense_, _The Crisis_, _Rights of Man_, and _The Age of Reason_;

Enlisted in Continental Army; appointed Aide-de-Camp to General Nathaniel Greene;

Secretary of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congress and Pennsylvania Assembly;

By his writings did more for the American cause in the Revolution than any other one person;

First suggested the Federal Union of States;

First proposed the abolition of Negro slavery;

First suggested protection for dumb animals;

First proposed arbitration and international peace;

First pointed out the reality of human brotherhood;

First pointed out the folly of hereditary succession and monarchical government;

First proposed the education of the children of the poor at public expense;

First suggested a great republic of all the nations of the world;

First proposed "the land for the people";

First suggested "the religion of humanity";

First proposed and first wrote the words, "United States of America";

Proposed the purchase of the Louisiana Territory;

Inventor of the iron bridge, the hollow candle--principle of the modern central-draft burner, etc., etc.

=_This is history. But this great and good man was called "a filthy little atheist" by a hyphenated Dutch-American._=