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Marilla M. Ricker.


I DON'T KNOW, DO YOU?

BY

MARILLA M. RICKER

DONE INTO
A PRINTED BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS
AT THEIR SHOPS, WHICH ARE IN
EAST AURORA, NEW YORK
MCMXVI


Copyright, 1916
By
Marilla M. Ricker


[Pg 6]

You are what you think, and to believe ina Hell for other people is literally to goto Hell yourself.—Elbert Hubbard.

A religious man is a man scared.


[Pg 7]

FOREWORD

There is in the city of Boston a memorial buildingto Thomas Paine. This Paine Memorial was finishedand dedicated forty-two years ago. It is the finestmonument to Thomas Paine on the earth.

For twenty years Ralph Washburn Chainey has beenthe Manager of this building and the Treasurer ofthe Paine Memorial Corporation. Under his wiseand prudent management the building was freed fromdebt, and today it is a monument to the energy anddevotion of its Manager as much as to the geniusand labors of Thomas Paine.

Ralph Washburn Chainey is only forty-two, and asgreat an example of thrift as Ben Franklin was.Very early in life he acquired the habit of thrift—whichis the basis of all virtues. He learned earlythat time was money and he is always at work. Heis not only able to take care of himself, but he canand does take care of others. He is sufficient untohimself, and when one is right with himself he isright with all the world. I have known him intimatelyfor more than a quarter of a century, and if he hasfaults I have yet to learn what they are.

In appreciation, therefore, of his great service tothe cause of Freethought, I dedicate this volume to

RALPH WASHBURN CHAINEY

Marilla M. Ricker.

Dover, New Hampshire
December, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen


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As man advances, as his intellect enlarges,as his knowledge increases, as his idealsbecome nobler, the Bibles and creeds willlose their authority, the miraculous willbe classed with the impossible, and theidea of special providence will be discarded.Thousands of religions have perished,innumerable gods have died, andwhy should the religion of our time beexempt from the common fate?

Robert Ingersoll.


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