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O: THOUGHTFUL MEN AND WOMEN,

WHO BELIEVE THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT BOUND" BY

ANY LIMITATIONS OF BOOK, OR RACE, OR TIME,

Five Buddhist Commandments, etc.,

Gathas or Hymns,

Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue, by Buddha.-Extracts,

A Modern Buddhist.-Views of Chao Phya Thipakon,

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Talmudical and Rabbinical Writings,

Philo Judaeus.--Of those who offer Sacrifice, etc.,

Modern Judaism.-Rabbis Wise, Lilienthal, etc.,

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Justin Martyr, St. Augustine, Basil, Arndt, Thomas A. Kempis,

Luther, Zschokke, Jean Paul, Goethe, Humboldt, etc.,

Renan.-- Jesus of Nazareth,

Swedenborg.---The Spiritual Man Real,

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Taliesin.-Questions,

Lord Bacon.—Of Adversity, etc.

John Milton — Plea for Free Thought,

Philip Sidney.--Arcadia,

William Penn.--No Cross, no Crown, etc.,

Robert Barclay.--Address to King Charles II,

Henry More, Adam Clarke, Addison, J. Wesley, Mary Fletcher,

Coleridge, Carlyle,

What Religious Teachers should do.--Frances Power Cobbe,

The Religion of the Heart.-Leigh Hunt,

Herbert Spencer, Sydney Smith, Ruskin, Spurgeon, Dickens, John

Robertson,

The Future that awaits us. Catharine Crowe,

Reign of Law.-Duke of Argyle,

Sayings and Foretellings, etc.-F. W. Newman,

The Study of Physics.—John Tyndall, .

Wm. Howitt, Max Muller, Buckle,

Human Interest in History.--Moral Elements.-Froude,

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The Divine Principle within.--Woolman,

Sayings and Opinions.—Thomas Paine,

The Light within, etc.—Elias Hicks,

Essentials in Religion.-W. E. Channing,

Man's Demands, God's Commands, etc.-H. C. Wright,

Creeds.-S. J. May,

Free Thought and Free Speech.-W. L. Garrison,

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The Reformer.-J. G. Whittier,

Forgiveness and Love.-Lydia M. Child,

Spiritual Christianity.-T. Starr King,

R. Collyer, J. M. Peebles, John Weiss,

Free Religion and a Free State.-S. Johnson,

Culture Demanded by Modern Life, etc.-E. L. Youmans,

Growth and Self-Sacrifice.-E. H. Chapin,

Spiritual Views.-R. D. Owen,

Ministration of Departed Spirits.-H. B. Stowe,

Future Life Near and Real.-H. W. Beecher,

How Ideas get Spoken, -Reformers.--H. Tuttle,

Sentiments of Progressive Friends, etc.,

Dogma versus Truth.- David Newport,

God's Command to Impart Truth.-B. Hallowell,

Lesson of Quakerism.-A. M. Powell,

Quietism and Work.–C. D. B. Mills,

Christ's Character, etc.-H. Bushnell, H. Bisbee,

Immortality in the Light of Science.--W. J. Potter,

Future of Earth and Man.- William Denton,

True Prayer--Fifty Affirmations.--F. E. Abbott,

Physical Condition of Humanity.-H. Seaver,

Teachings --A Prayer.--Theodore Parker,

Sayings.--A, B, Alcott,

Religion and Science.---Gerritt Smith,

Disappointment-A Teacher in God's School, etc.-T. L. Cuyler, .

The New Religion.-Theodore Tilton,

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