This e-book brings together important and influential works by philosophers and religious writers. This carefully selected collection contains:Boethius The Consolation of PhilosophyWilliam James The Varieties of Religious ExperienceThomas Paine The Age of ReasonPaul Henri Thiry Holbach The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical WorldAustin Holyoak Ludicrous Aspects Of ChristianityBaruch Spinoza On the Improvement of the UnderstandingHastings Rashdall Philosophy and ReligionEdward Caldwell Moore Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since KantFrances Power Cobbe The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and DiscussionsHerbert Spencer First Principles