A combative freethought work of the 1870s. Graves describes twenty-seven sacred books of the world, from Egyptian, Persian and Chinese scriptures to the Christian Bible, then sets out what he counts as two thousand errors in its science, history and morals, examines the characters of its principal figures, and spars with preachers such as Dwight Moody.
A document of Victorian American free thought; its comparative scholarship is unreliable and should be read as polemic, not fact. Download the free EPUB.