On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?


The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures (ed. 1901)


On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the...

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the...

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the...

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the...