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Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899 |
| Title |
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12)
Dresden Edition—Interviews
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| Note |
Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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| Contents |
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 Pittsburg -- Political and religious -- Politics and Gen. Grant -- Politics, religion and Thomas Paine -- Reply to Chicago critics -- The Republican victory -- Ingersoll and Beecher -- Political -- Religion in politics -- Miracles and immortality -- The political outlook -- Mr. Beecher, Moses and the negro -- Hades, Delaware and Freethought -- A reply to the Rev. Mr. Lansing -- Beaconsfield, Lent and revivals -- Answering the New York ministers -- Guiteau and his crime -- District suffrage -- Funeral of John G. Mills and immortality -- Star route and politics -- The interviewer -- Politics and prohibition -- The Republican defeat in Ohio -- The civil rights bill -- Justice Harlan and the civil rights bill -- Politics and theology -- Morality and immortality -- Politics, Mormonism and Mr. Beecher -- Free trade and Christianity -- The oath question -- Wendell Phillips, Fitz John Porter and Bismarck -- General subjects -- Reply to Kansas City clergy -- Swearing and affirming -- Reply to a Buffalo critic -- Blasphemy -- Politics and British Columbia -- Ingersoll catechised -- Blaine's defeat -- Blaine's defeat -- Plagiarism and politics -- Religious prejudice -- Cleveland and his cabinet -- Religion, prohibition, and Gen. Grant -- Hell or sheol and other subjects -- Interviewing, politics and spiritualism -- My belief -- Some live topics -- The president and senate -- Atheism and citizenship -- The labor question -- Railroads and politics -- Prohibition -- Henry George and labor -- Labor question and socialism -- Henry George and socialism -- Reply to the Rev. B. F. Morse -- Ingersoll on McGlynn -- Trial of the Chicago anarchists -- The stage and the pulpit -- Roscoe Conkling -- The church and the stage -- Protection and free trade -- Labor, and tariff reform -- Cleveland and Thurman -- The Republican platform of 1888 -- James G. Blaine and politics -- The Mills Bill -- Society and its criminals -- Woman's right to divorce -- Secularism -- Summer recreation; Mr. Gladstone -- Prohibition -- Robert Elsmere -- Working girls -- Protection for American actors -- Liberals and Liberalism -- Pope Leo XIII -- The sacredness of the Sabbath -- The West and South -- The Westminster creed and other subjects -- Shakespeare and Bacon -- Growing old gracefully, and Presbyterianism -- Creeds -- The tendency of modern thought -- Woman suffrage, horse racing, and money -- Missionaries -- My belief and unbelief -- Must religion go? -- Word painting and college education -- Personal magnetism and the Sunday question -- Authors -- Inebriety -- Miracles, theosophy and spiritualism -- Tolstoy and literature -- Woman in politics -- Spiritualism -- Plays and players -- Woman -- Strikes, expansion and other subjects -- Sunday a day of pleasure -- The Parliament of Religions -- Cleveland's Hawaiian policy -- Orators and oratory -- Catholicism and protestantism. The Pope, the A. P. A., agnosticism -- Woman and her domain -- Professor Swing -- Senator Sherman and his book -- Reply to the Christian Endeavorers -- Spiritualism -- A little of everything -- Is life worth living; Christian science and politics -- Vivisection -- Divorce -- Music, newspapers, lynching and arbitration -- A visit to Shaw's Garden -- The Venezuelan boundary discussion and the whipping-post -- Colonel Shepard's stage horses -- A reply to the Rev. L. A. Banks -- Cuba; Zola and theosophy -- How to become an orator -- John Russell Young and expansion -- Psychical research and the Bible -- This century's glories -- Capital punishment and the whipping-post -- Expansion and trusts.
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| Credits |
Produced by David Widger
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| Summary |
"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12)" by Robert Green Ingersoll is a collection of interviews and discussions centered around theology, philosophy, and politics, written during the late 19th century. The volume primarily addresses religious beliefs, Ingersoll's critical views on religion, particularly Christianity, and contemporary social issues. Ingersoll's arguments champion reason, happiness, and intellectual freedom, positioning him as a notable figure in the freethought movement. The opening of this volume presents a series of interviews where Ingersoll expresses his skeptical views on the Bible and the concept of an afterlife, arguing that there is no solid evidence to support claims of divine authority or immortality. He emphasizes the importance of liberty of thought and opines that human effort is responsible for the progress of society rather than supernatural intervention. Ingersoll also discusses contemporary figures and events, providing a lens into political and religious debates of his time, reflecting upon the role of clergy and the challenges posed by the revivalist movement. His candid and often humorous rhetoric appeals to a sense of rationality and humanity, inviting readers to reflect critically on established doctrines. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
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| Subject |
Free thought
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
38808 |
| Release Date |
Feb 9, 2012 |
| Most Recently Updated |
Nov 16, 2012 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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