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{{Style P-Title|Introduction.}}

{{Style P-No indent|1=<span style="float:left; font-size:2.2em; line-height:0.9; margin:0.05em 0.08em 0 0;">O</span>{{Style S-Small capitals|n}} looking over these pages the Reader will find that this is purely a Free-thought publication, and it is perhaps unnecessary to state at length the object of its aim. A few words will therefore suffice for our Introduction.}}

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<center>''(From Boston Investigator.)''</center>

{{Style P-Title|A Tilt with Talmage.}}

{{Style P-Subtitle|Col. Ingersoll Uses His Lasso on the Brooklyn Bible Expounder.}}

<p style="margin:0 2em; padding-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; font-size:90%; font-style:italic;">Talmage’s Intellectual Toadyism—Wherein the Preacher and the Agnostic Differ in Their Views as to the Origin of Things—Did God Create the World from Nothing?—Mr. Talmage Seems to think that the Flood Wasn’t Much of a Deluge After All—Just a Little Wet for that Part of Country—His Tendency to Belittle the Miracles of the Bible.</p>

Col. Ingersoll is continually besought by ministers throughout the country to engage in a controversy with them upon the subject of religion. Col. Ingersoll has never refused to enter into a controversy where the person desiring to so engage is of sufficient importance to make him worth answering. Recently Mr., {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-8}}

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