The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) : Dresden Edition-Interviews

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

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.)

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

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

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

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.

Credits:

Produced by David Widger

Notes:

Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2012-02-09