Excerpt from Ingersoll on Orthodoxy: A Reply Thomas Paine said:, I have gone through the Bible as a man would go through a wood with an axe on his shoulder and fell trees; here they lie, and the priests, if they can, may replant them. -they may, perhaps, stick them in the ground, but they. Will never grow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.