Title: reason against unreason
abstract: print shows the "light of reason", containing bust portraits of "johannes kepler, i. Kant, th. Paine, jefferson, b. De spinoza, franklin, voltaire, e. H. Haeckel, tyndall, huxley, [and] darwin", beaming against a large umbrella labeled "bigotry, supernaturalism, [and] fanaticism" behind which are hiding various members of the clergy, including the pope, henry ward beecher, and thomas de witt talmage. In the upper left, a vignette shows three female figures around an infant in a crib, with caption "god made man and endowed him with free will, memory, and understanding"; in the lower right is another vignette showing the pope and other members of the clergy torturing a man, filling him with "superstition", with caption "but it took a deal of altering in the man before he could be made a 'good citizen'". Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: copyright 1882 by keppler & schwarzmann.;j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 11, no. 261, (1882 march 8), centerfold.;title from item. Date: 1882.
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