Mark Twain's Views Of Religion--Reference Notes

Mark Twain's Views Of Religion, by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger

Reference Notes (edited for the audiobook by Richard Henzel)

1 "...statesmanship and assmanship are spelt different..." Mark Twain At Your Fingertips, p. 456
2 "Gods...out of wedlock..." Marginal note in Views Of Religion, unpublished
3 "...which he believes, and wishes he was certain." Mark Twain's Notebook, p. 153
4 "A cat's tail is only an encumberance..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
5 "...don't spell the Saviour's name with a little g..." A Tramp Abroad, I, p. 230
6 "What God lacks is convictions..." Notebook, p. 344
7 "God is a bigger thing than is contained in that book." Mark Twain, A Biography, II, p. 631
8 "...we are only the microscopic trichina..." Ibid, p. 776
9 "...stretching the narrow garment of belief..." Notebook, p. 108
10 "...you could digest what you haven't eaten and do other miracles..." Biograpy, III, p. 1313
11 "...the religious folly you are born in, you will die in..." Mark Twain-Howells Letters, II, p. 461
12 "...a trained Presbyterian conscience..." Mark Twain's Audobiography, I. p. 131
13 "..if I had a yaller dog that didn't know any more than a person's conscience..." Huckleberry Finn, p. 200
14 "...you could dissolve an anvil with acids..." A Connecticut Yankee, p. 146
15 "...good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful..." Mark Twain's Speeches, (1923), p. 83
16 "...the same on Sundays as he does on weekdays..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
17 "...name the chess men after Bible heroes..." Mark Twain, Family Man, p. 83
18 "God's lightning strikes more churches" Marginal note, Views of Religion
19 "Intolerance is everything for onesself..." Autobiography, II, p. 13
20 "I would rather see him and shake him by the tail..." "Concerning the Jews," Literary Essays, p. 251
21 "Religion is a jugfull..." Sam Clemens of Hannibal, p. 228
22 "believed the devil would come for him in person..." Ibid, p.231
23 "...all the distinguished citizens in the camp died..." Mark Twain's Travels with Mr. Brown, p. 146
24 "Temperate temperance is best..." Notebook, p. 310
25 "Three of our libraries have thrown Huck Finn out..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
26 "...Old Testament writers are hidden from view..."The Innocents Abroad, II, p. 245
26a "...a peace of mind quite above price..." Autobiography. II, p. 15
27 "...a plain case of adultery." Marginal note, Views of Religion
28 "...I don't believe in this Bible..." Biography, I, p. 411
29 "...hard to be a Christian in spirit..." Letter, Jan. 2, 1869, Mark Twain, Family Man, p. 58
30 "...if you are to be lost, I want to be with you..." My Mark Twain, p. 31
31 "I personally do not see how anyone lives a day without God..." Letter to Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, August 20, 1960, unpublished
32 "I can't, Youth, I haven't any..." Biography, II, p.165
33 "...if I felt toward God as I did toward my husband..." Love Letters of Mark Twain, p. 167 (Jan. 7, 1872)
34 "...of course my prayers were for you and myself..." Letter, Olivia Clemens to Samuel Clemens, Jan. 7, 1872, unpublished
35 "I took Livy's religion away from her..." Isabelle Lyon re Twain gospel. Berg collection, New York Public Library
36 "...almost the only crime of my life which causes me bitterness now..." Letter, May 20, 1905, Mark Twain, Family Man, p. 217
37 "Joe, I'm going to make a confession..." Biography, II, p. 631
38 "...His rebellion, too, was connected with many of his finest qualities..." Edward Wagenknecht, letter to Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, Aug. 2, 1960, unpublished
39 "...if you make figures to represent the earth and moon, and allow a space of one inch between them..." Biography, I, p. 412
40 "'...we do not pray to the Good Spirit to spare us, but to the other one...'"Marginal note, Views of Religion
41 "I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored..." Ibid
42 "Would it not be prudent to get our Civilization tools together..." Ibid
43 "The entire Christian religion...is quite sufficiently gross..." Ibid
44 "The Savior is nonetheless a sacred Personage..." Mark Twain's Letters, I, p. 323
44a "Four fifths of the human race know not God..." Mark Twain, the Man and His Work, p. 191
45 "...we all know that five-sixths of our population could not enter in at that narrow gate...'' Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 50
45a "Marginal note, Views of Religion
46 "O kind missionary, O compassionate missionary, leave China!..." Europe and Elsewhere, p. 249
47 "...there have been 225 billion savages born qne damned and 28,000 saved..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
48 "...more row made about saving these 60,000 people..." Notebook, p. 21
49 "...the multitudes who have gone to their graves in this beautiful island and never knew there was a hell." Roughing It, II, p.216
50 "...Heaven for climate; Hell for society." Mark Twain's Speeches, (1910) p.117
51 "...of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse..."Notebook, p.397
52 "...we borrowed the Golden Rule from Confucius, and copyrighted it without a blush..." Biography, III, p. 1354
53 "The Golden Rule was a million years old before Confucius was born..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
54 "...the Golden Rule was made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear..." More Maxims of Mark, p.8
55 "...the Golden Rule...is exhibit A in the Church's assets..." "Concerning the Jews," Literary Essays, p. 274
56 "In the Bible we went back to Babylon for the Deluge, and we are as proud of it...as if it had been worth the trouble..." Biography, III, p. 1355
57 "Might an elephant, enjoying improper relations with a microbe, do the immaculate conception stunt?" Unpublished notebook, June 20, 1906
58 "...virgins are not as fertile now as they used to be..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
59 "...22 billion microbes in each man..." Mark Twain At Your Fingertips, p. 492
60 "...it is a marvel He didn't think of providing pumps--and capital..." Sketches of Creation, p. 160, 162, unpublished notes
61 "Theology seems to be an ass." Ibid, inside cover, and p. 160, 162, unpublished notes
62 "...aeons of trivial fussing that we might have [Teddy] Roosevelt.." Ibid, p. 313
63 "...If man would only...keep his bowels open..." Ibid, p. 427
64 "The suns and planets...that go pouring...through the viewless arteries of space..." Marginal note, Views of Religion
65 "...if God is as vast as that, He is above blasphemy..." Biography, III, p. 1354
66 "...how glad and grateful I am that you are a convert to that rational and noble philosphy..." Love Letters, p.316 (Feb 7, 1896)
67 "...Many an ass is getting a deal of benefit out of Christian Science's exploitation of an age-old healing principle..." Mark Twain Letters, II, p. 690
68 "...Mother Eddy deserves a place in the Trinity..." Biography, III, p. 1271 (1906)
69 "...The very best part of the Christian Science philosophy...is driving one's mind from its own concerns and riveting it upon something else..." Mark Twain, Family Man, p. 232
69a "Won't you please try Mr. Paine's 'Christian Science'?..." Mark Twain's Letters to Mary, p. 107
70 "...Mrs. Eddy organized that force and is entitled to high credit for that..." The Portable Mark Twain, p. 786 (Aug. 7, 1909)
70a "I am very, very glad Jean is in a convent..." My Father, Mark Twain, p. 100
71 "...the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did..." Pudd'nhead Wilson, p. 38
72 "...When Providence washes one of his worms into the sea in a tempest..." Autobiography, I, p. 209
73 "...curious that Providence should destroy a entire city of 400,000 inhabitants to settle and account...between a mere discharged reporter and a newspaper..." Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 260
74 "I never count any prospective chickens when I know that Providence knows where the nest is." Mark Twain-Howells Letters, I, p. 445
75 "...the first circumstance that ever happened in this world was the parent of every circumstance that has happened in the world since..." Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 386
76 "...Adam and Eve...afflicted with temperaments made out of butter..." Biography, III, p. 1545
77 "...then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never has been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry..." Bible Teaching & Religious Practice," Europe and Elsewhere, p. 387
78 "If I were going to construct a God..." Notebook, p. 301
79 "...the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." The Washoe Giant in San Francisco, p. 62
80 "Prayer alone...cannot change the unalterable Truth..." Christian Science, p. 321
80a "...help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead..." Europe and Elsewhere, p. 397
81 (Lady Stanley)"...I would not now try to unsettle any person's religious faith..." Mark Twain In Eruption, p. 339
82 "Is there any word of God except geology, paleontology, and astronomy?" Marginal note, Views of Religion
83 "The Being who to me is the real God is the One who created this majestic universe and rules it..." Notebook, p. 360
84 "I believe in God Almighty. I do not believe He has ever sent a message to man..." Biography, III, p.1583
85 "...I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it..." Ibid, p. 1584
86 "...They also believed the world was flat." Notebook, p. 344
87 "...I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet..." Biography, III, p. 1431
88 "...now he was convinced that the soul did live after death..." My Mark Twain, p.32
89 "Let us believe in it! I will believe in it with you..." My Father, Mark Twain, p. 177

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