The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1605208930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of American culture and public life. Legendary as a speaker-he memorized his speeches and could talk for hours without notes-and as a proponent of freethought, Ingersoll is an American original whose words still ring with truth and power today. His most important works are gathered in this 12-volume collected edition, first published posthumously in 1901. Volume IX features Ingersoll's political speeches, including: [ "An Address to the Colored People" [ "Centennial Oration" [ "Hard Times and the Way Out" [ "Suffrage Address" [ and more
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 1901-01-01
Total Pages: 4737
ISBN-13: 146552133X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger E. Greeley
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009-09-25
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1615921559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Ingersoll was America''s finest orator and foremost leader of freethinkers. Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V. Debs, and Elizabeth Cady used to gather to hear the speeches of "the great agnostic."Roger E. Greeley has selected the best from speeches and essays of this iconoclastic orator who labored to destroy the superstition and hypocrisy of fundamentalism in America and who answered the Moral Majority in the last century.One hundred years after he advanced into the national spotlight, Ingersoll''s commentaries still retain their fresh, penetrating, and witty character. His pleas for civil rights, the rights of women and children, responsible and responsive government, and individual freedom of conscience and religious belief have placed him in the vanguard of enlightened thinkers.Today the legacy of Robert Ingersoll, prophet and pioneer, merits the attention of anyone who espouses humane, liberal, rational, or agnostic opinions.
Author: Robert Ingersoll
Publisher: Steerforth
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1586421972
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Ingersoll (1833—1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and tireless advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth century with his lectures on “freethought.” His admirers included Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison, who said Ingersoll had “all the attributes of a perfect man” and went so far as to make an early recording of Ingersoll’s voice. The publication of What’s God Got to Do with It? will return Robert Ingersoll and his ideas to American political discourse. Edited and with a biographical introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Page, this new popular collection of Ingersoll’s thought – distilled from the twelve-volume set of his works, his copious letters, and various newspaper interviews – promises to put Ingersoll back where he belongs, in the forefront of independent American thought.
Author: Frank Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was a complex figure - a brilliant lawyer and orator who courageously advanced the concept of freethought; a magnetic extrovert whose public esteem, eagerly sought, never earned him the private favors he so generously bestowed on others. Ingersoll was a staunch republican in the great tradition of Abraham Lincoln, and he vigorously championed such progressive causes as equal rights for blacks, women, and children; liberal divorce laws; and better wages and conditions for workers. Perhaps Ingersoll's greatest legacy derives from his daring rejection of religious superstition (during an era which saw a tremendous revival of spiritualism and religious fundamentalism) and his ardent belief in humanity: "When I became convinced that the Universe is natural - that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave." Ingersoll is considered one of the most prominent figures of the 19th century. From about 1880 to his death in 1899, he probably spoke to more Americans in person than anyone before or since; he had daily audiences of as many as three thousand people while he was on tour, several months a year for many years. Despite this, Ingersoll's career has not yet received the attention it clearly merits. In this comprehensive work, Frank Smith explores the life and thought of this charismatic figure, using newspaper accounts of the time and extensive quotations from Ingersoll's correspondence. Ingersoll's words provide a vivid portrait of 19th-century America from the stormy antebellum period to the beginnings of modern industrialism. His life reflects the great current of his age and speaks forcefully to the problems of our own.
Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0300137257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 542
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Green 1833-1899 Ingersoll
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020501012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Ingersoll's book, 'About the Holy Bible', offers a wide-reaching critique of the Christian Bible from a secular, humanistic perspective. From questions about the authors and origins of the text to critiques of its moral and ethical teachings, Ingersoll presents a thorough and provocative argument that challenges conventional interpretations and assumptions surrounding the Bible. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in philosophy, theology, and religious studies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.