id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 30208 Ingersoll, Robert Green The Ghosts, and Other Lectures .txt text/plain 47503 2767 82 For thousands of years it was believed that ghosts, good and bad, Take from the mind of man the idea of the supernatural, and religion The idea of right and wrong is born of man's capacity to enjoy and Men found that the real was the useful; that what a man knows is better The free man, working for wife and child, gets his head and hands in equal of man; that men existed before books; that religion is one of the Our fathers in the good old times--and the best thing I can say about This world has not been fit for a man to live in fifty years. world has never produced a man or woman of great genius. They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, that in America every man should have a right to life, liberty, and the ./cache/30208.txt ./txt/30208.txt