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The Great Infidels

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1881) Robert Green Ingersoll I have sometimes thought that it will not make great and splendid character to rock children in the cradle of hypocrisy. I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there […]

Grant’s Birthday

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll GENERAL GRANT’S BIRTHDAY DINNER. New York, April 27, 1888. GEN. SHERMAN AND GENTLEMEN: I firmly believe that any nation great enough to produce and appreciate a great and splendid man is great enough to keep his memory green. No man admires more than […]

The Gods

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1872) Robert Green Ingersoll An honest God is the Noblest Work of Man. Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in […]

Robert Ingersoll God In Constitution

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. This file made available by the American Atheists and the Internet Infidels for The Secular Web. Reproduced from the "Masters of Atheism" department of the August 1988 issue of The American Atheist magazine. MASTERS OF ATHEISM INTRO: Atheism has a long, […]

The Ghosts

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1877) Robert Green Ingersoll Let them cover their Eyeless Sockets with their Fleshless Hands and fade forever from the imagination of Men. There are three theories by which men account for all phenomena, for everything that happens: First, the Supernatural; Second, the Supernatural and Natural; Third, the […]

Freethought Constructive

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1890) Robert Green Ingersoll HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE? THE object of the Freethinker is to ascertain the truth — the conditions of well-being — to the end that this life will be made of value. This is the affirmative, positive, and constructive side. Without liberty there […]

Fragments Of Ingersoll

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll A letter written to Col. Thomas Donaldson, of Philadelphia, declining an invitation to be a guest of the Clover Club of that city. Washington, D.C, January 16, 1883. CLOVER. — I regret that I cannot be “in clover with you on the 28th instant. […]

Robert Ingersoll Foundations Of Faith

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. The Foundations of Faith 1895 I THE OLD TESTAMENT. One of the foundation stones of our faith is the Old Testament. If that book is not true, if its authors were unaided men, if it contains blunders and falsehoods, then that stone crumbles to dust. The geologists […]

Robert Ingersoll Forward

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Forward to the Complete Works of Robert G. Ingersoll In presenting to the public this edition of the writings of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, it has been the aim to make it as handsome, durable and complete as possible worthy in every way of the valiant, generous, […]

Robert Ingersoll Foreward

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Foreword to the Complete Works of Robert G. Ingersoll In presenting to the public this edition of the writings of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, it has been the aim to make it as handsome, durable and complete as possible worthy in every way of the valiant, generous, […]

For Her Daily Bread

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll PREFACE TO LITERE’S “FOR HER DAILY BREAD.” I HAVE read this story, this fragment of a life mingled with fragments of other lives, and have been pleased, interested, and instructed. It is filled with the pathos of truth, and has in it the humor […]

Robert Ingersoll For Christmas

WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS Robert Green Ingersoll If I had the power to produce exactly what I want for next Christmas, I would have all the kings and emperors resign and allow the people to govern themselves. I would have all the nobility crop their titles and give their lands back to the people. […]

Fool Friends

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Expansion Fragments

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll A FEW FRAGMENTS ON EXPANSION. A NATION rises from infancy to manhood and sinks from dotage to death. I think that the great Republic is in the morning of her life — the sun just above the horizon — the grass still wet with […]

Elmira Reformatory

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll                         CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY. IN my judgment, no human being was ever made better, nobler, by being whipped or clubbed. Mr. Brockway, according to his own testimony, is simply a savage. He belongs to the Dark Ages — to the Inquisition, to […]

Eight to Seven Address

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1877) Robert Green Ingersoll EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS I HAVE sometimes wondered whether our country was to be forever governed by parties full of hatred, full of malice, full of slander. I have sometimes wondered whether or not in the future there would not be discovered such […]

Edit Liberal Paper

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1887) Robert Green Ingersoll               A LIBERAL paper should be edited by a Liberal man. And by the word Liberal I mean, not only free, not only one who thinks for himself, not only one who has escaped from the prisons of customs and creed, but one […]

Divided Faith

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The Devil

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Decoration Day 88

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. (1888) Robert Green Ingersoll          DECORATION DAY ORATION. 1888. THIS is a sacred day — a day for gratitude and love. To-day we commemorate more than independence, more than the birth of a nation, more than the fruits of the Revolution, more than physical progress, more than the […]

Decoration Day 82

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Robert Green Ingersoll        DECORATION DAY ORATION. 1882. THIS day is sacred to our heroes dead. Upon their tombs we have lovingly laid the wealth of Spring. This is a day for memory and tears. A mighty Nation bends above its honored graves, and pays to noble dust […]

Robert Ingersoll Debate V Field 4

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Robert Ingersoll Debate V Field 3

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Robert Ingersoll Debate V Field 2

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Robert Ingersoll Debate V Field 1

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. V Field 1 Robert Green Ingersoll 13 page printout. Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. **** **** This file, its printout, or copies of either are to be copied and given away, but NOT sold. Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 The Works of ROBERT […]

Robert Ingersoll Debate V Black Christianity 3b

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Robert Ingersoll Debate V Black Christianity 3

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. The Christian Religion The Ingersoll–Black Debate, Part II Robert G. Ingersoll, 1881 **** **** III “Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do, in order to become acceptable to God, is mere superstition and religious folly.” Kant. _______ Several months ago, The North […]

Robert Ingersoll Debate V Black Christianity 2b

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Robert Ingersoll Debate V Black Christianity 2

Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. The Christian Religion The Ingersoll–Black Debate, Part II Jeremiah S. Black, 1881 **** **** II “Gratiano speaks of an infinite deal of nothing, more than any in all Venice: his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all […]

Robert Ingersoll Debate V Black Christianity 1b

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