Download or read book Col Robert G Ingersoll as He is written by Eugene Montague Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best of Robert Ingersoll written by Roger E. Greeley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Why I Am An Agnostic written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habitsand mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are moulded and fashioned by oursurroundings. Environment is a sculptor---a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, the most of us would have said: "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet." If our parentshad lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers ofSiva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, andtake great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enoughfor them. Most people love peace. They do not like to differ with their neighbors.They like company. They are social. They enjoy traveling on the highwaywith the multitude. They hate to walk alone. (...) Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children donot, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are notexactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almostimperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconsciousgrowth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old hasbeen almost abandoned, almost lost in the new. Men cannot remainstationary. The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, weshrink and shrivel. - Taken from "Why Am I An Agnostic" written by Robert Green Ingersoll
Download or read book What s God Got to Do With It written by Robert Ingersoll and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Superstition and Other Essays written by Robert G. Ingersoll and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War veteran, successful lawyer, persuasive spokesman for the Republican Party, spellbinding orator, and controversial iconoclast, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was one of the best-known intellectuals of the 19th century. He rose to national prominence through his gift for oratory, which he publicly displayed on numerous lecture circuit tours. For almost twenty years this dedicated popularizer of progressive thinking and staunch critic of superstition would regularly address huge audiences, opening their minds to ideas that often provoked guarded whispers in private. Ingersoll was a man far ahead of his time, who advocated agnosticism, birth control, voting rights for women, the advancement of science, and civil rights for all races. Though eloquent on a wide variety of topics, he became most famous, and notorious, for his provocative lectures questioning the traditional, Bible-based Christian worldview of the age. In this volume are collected his best-known lectures on religion, the Bible, and related subjects. Included are "Why I Am an Agnostic"; "The Truth"; "What Is Religion?"; "Superstition"; "What Infidels Have Done"; "What Should You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide?"; "Crumbling Creeds"; "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child"; and "Love." This outstanding collection is indispensable for freethinkers, humanists, and open-minded people of all persuasions. Note: This volume is available individually or as part of a two-volume set with On the Gods and Other Essays by Robert by Ingersoll: two-volume set (ISBN 1-59102-171-5): $50.
Download or read book The Christian Religion an Enquiry written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The works of Robert G Ingersoll written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1901-01-01 with total page 4737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is Suicide a Sin written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Works of Robert G Ingersoll written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 4104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll in twelve volumes comprises philosophical, political religious, and other literary works by American writer and orator. Table of Contents: Volume 1: The Gods Humboldt Thomas Paine Individuality Heretics and Heresies The Ghost The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child Conclusion About Farming in Illinois What Must We do to be Saved? Volume 2: Some Mistakes of Moses Some Reasons Why Orthodoxy Myth and Miracle Volume 3: Shakespeare Robert Burns Abraham Lincoln Voltaire Liberty in Literature The Great Infidels Which Way? About the Holy Bible Volume 4: Why I am an Agnostic The Truth How to Reform Mankind A Thanksgiving Sermon A Lay Sermon The Foundations of Faith Superstition The Devil Progress What is Religion? Volume 5: Ingersoll's Interviews on Talmage The Talmagian Catechism A Vindication of Thomas Pain The Observer's Second Attack Ingersoll's Second Reply Volume 6: The Christian Religion Faith or Agnosticism The Field-Ingersoll Discussion A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll Letter to Dr. Field Controversy on Christianity Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladston Rome or Reason The Church Its Own Witness Is Divorce Wrong? Divorce Is Corporal Punishment Degrading? Volume 7: My Reviewers Reviewed My Chicago Bible Class To the Indianapolis Clergy The Brooklyn Divines The Limitations of Toleration A Christmas Sermon Suicide of Judge Normile Is Suicide a Sin? Is Avarice Triumphant? Replies and Interviews Volume 8: The Bible and a Future Life Mrs. Van Cott, The Revivalist European Trip and Greenback Question The Pre-Millennial Conference The Solid South and Resumption The Sunday Laws of Pitsburg Political and Religious... Volume 9: Speeches and Addresses Volume 10: Address to the Jury in Various Cases Volume 11: Address on the Civil Right Act Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy God in the Constitution A Reply to Bishop Spalding Crimes Against Criminals A Wooden God Some Interrogation Points Art and Morality The Divided Household of Faith Huxley and Agnosticism... Volume 12: Prefaces, Tributes, and Essays
Download or read book Wit Wisdom and Eloquence written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Infidel written by Orvin Prentiss Larson and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Works of Robert G Ingersoll written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll
Download or read book The Works of Robert G Ingersoll written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Vision of War written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert G Ingersoll written by Robert G. Ingersoll and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 XI features a series of miscellaneous works: [ an address to the jury in a blasphemy trial [ "God in the Constitition" [ "Crimes Against Criminals" [ "A Wooden God" [ "Art and Morality" [ "Why Am I an Agnostic?" [ "How to Edit a Liberal Paper" [ thoughts on secularism, libel, freethought, science, and spirituality [ and much more
Download or read book Letters From The Earth written by Mark Twain and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before him rose the black night of Space, like a wall. His mighty bulk towered rugged and mountain-like into the zenith, and His divine head blazed there like a distant sun. At His feet stood three colossal figures, diminished to extinction, almost, by contrast -- archangels -- their heads level with His ankle-bone. When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!" He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe. At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed. They left the Presence impressed and thoughtful, and retired to a private place, where they might talk with freedom. None of the three seemed to want to begin, though all wanted somebody to do it.
Download or read book The Gods written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
