The works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 4737 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1901-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146552133X
Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 4737 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1901-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146552133X
Author : Roger E. Greeley
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1615921559
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 Green Ingersoll
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Robert Ingersoll
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1586421972
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 : Robert G. Ingersoll
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1615924353
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.
Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300137257
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
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465513418
Author :
Publisher : Reprint Services Corporation
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 0781223547
Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Agnosticism
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Author : Joseph Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Free thought
ISBN :