"The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future."
— Time

January 1, 1970

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Robert G. Ingersoll, in What Is Religion? (1899), his last public address, delivered before the American Free Religious association, Boston (2 June 1899), published in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Memorial Edition Volume IV, pages 477-508, edited by Cliff Walker