s has the genuine _Ingersoll ring_ upon the subject of "_Liberty of
Man, Woman and Child._" "When you have got rid of this belief in this
priest-begotten God, and when, moreover, you are convinced that your
existence, and that of the surrounding world, is due to the
_conglomeration of atoms_, in accordance with the law of gravity and
attraction, then, and then only, you will have accomplished the first
steps toward liberty, and will experience less difficulty in ridding your
minds of that second lie which tyranny has invented.

"The first lie is _God_. The second lie is _Right_. Might invented the
fiction of Right in order to insure and strengthen her reign; that Right
which she herself does not heed, and which only serves as a barrier
against any attacks which may be made by the trembling and stupid masses
of mankind.

"_Might_, my friends, forms the sole ground-work of society. Might makes
and unmakes laws, and that might should be in the hands of the majority.
It should be in the possession of those nine-tenths of the human race
whose immense power has been rendered subservient to the remaining tenth
by means of that lying fiction of _Right_, before which you are accustomed
to bow your heads and to drop your arms. Once penetrated with a clear
conviction of _your own might_, you will be able to destroy this _mere
notion of right_.

"And when you have freed your minds from the fear of a God, and from that
childish respect for _the fiction of Right_, then all the remaining chains
which bind you, and which are called _science, civilization, property,
marriage, morality and justice, will snap asunder like threads_.

"Let your own happiness be your only law. But in order to get this law
recognized, and to bring about the proper relations which should exist
between the majority and minority of mankind, you must destroy everything
which exists in the shape of state or social organization. So educate
yourselves and your children that, when the great moment for constituting
the new world arrives, your eyes may not be blinded and deceived by the
falsehoods of the tyrants of throne and altar.

"Our first work must be destruction and annihilation of everything as it
now exists. You must accustom yourselves to destroy everything, the good
with the bad; for if but an atom of this world remains the new will never
be created.

"According to the priests' fables, in days of old, a deluge destroyed all
mankind, but their God espec