The Gods and Other Lectures

The author said he preferred "the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith." The title essay in this 1892 collection of five lectures on skepticism and religion asserts, "An honest god is the noblest work of man." Includes "Humboldt, " "Thomas Paine, " "Individuality, " and "Heretics and Heresies."