An American freethinker of the 1840s defends the right of free inquiry and then works through the Old and New Testaments, from the Creation and the Flood to the Gospels, arguing that their history and morality cannot be divine revelation. He adds remarks on the morality of nature and on new sects such as the Mormons of Nauvoo.
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