These men are the enemies of science-of intellectual progress. They ridicule and calumniate the great thinkers. They deny everything that conflicts with the "sacred Scriptures.”. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

These men are the enemies of science-of intellectual progress. They ridicule and calumniate the great thinkers. They deny everything that conflicts with the "sacred Scriptures.”.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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