Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 18
[Back to Chapter 17] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 18 HIS FACULTIES OF ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL EXPRESSION He who would rise to the full scope of Ingersoll’s art, in its varied manifestations — oratory, poetry, prose — must be familiar with the elements of things. He must […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 17
[Back To Chapter 16] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 17 DID HE PRACTISE WHAT HE PREACHED? It is, or rather, it ought to be universally recognized, as a fundamental principle, that a precept or a doctrine is valuable solely for what it is in itself. Precepts and […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 16
[Back To Chapter 15] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 16 HIS DOMESTIC TEACHINGS (Cont.) Children — Their Rearing and Education Since the preceding presentation of Ingersoll as the liberator and champion of the wife and mother necessarily involves the logical correlative that he was also the liberator […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 15
[Back To Chapter 14] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 15 HIS DOMESTIC TEACHINGS Woman, Love, Marriage, Home It has been written, that upon the urn inclosing the ashes of our reformer should be the words, “Liberator of Men.” Without attributing to the author of the latter any […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 14
[Back To Chapter 13] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 14 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? (Cont.) Did He Endeavor To Destroy the Hope of Immortality? In dealing with the specific charges of iconoclasm that have been so insistently pressed by the theological indicters of Ingersoll, there yet […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 13
[Back To Chapter 12] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 13 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? (Cont.) WERE HIS TEACHINGS INIMICAL TO LAW AND MORALITY? One of the most serious features of the general charge of iconoclasm which has been preferred by the critics of Ingersoll is the […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 12
[Back To Chapter 11] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 12 WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? Did He ‘Tear Down without Building Up’? There is another criticism that is even more frequently made than the one to which the preceding chapter is devoted. It holds, season after season, […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 11
[Back To Chapter 10] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 11 DID HE ATTACK ‘THE THEOLOGY OF FIFTY YEARS AGO’? OR DID HE ATTACK THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE TIME? A Criticism very frequently heard from those who seem to have in view the double object of belittling Ingersoll’s […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 10
[Back To Chapter 9] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 10 THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION UPON WHICH HE STOOD Before attempting an estimate of those views the dissemination of which constituted the life-work of Ingersoll, let us carefully and candidly examine the foundation upon which he stood. Let us […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 09
[Back To Chapter 8] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 9 FROM EIGHTEEN NINETY-SEVEN TO EIGHTEEN NINETY-NINE Two lectures, The Truth and A Thanksgiving Sermon, were published in 1897. The orator’s attitude toward the subject of the first, and the objects and recipients of his gratitude and thankfulness […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 08
[Back To Chapter 7] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 8 FROM EIGHTEEN NINETY-THREE TO EIGHTEEN NINETY-SIX As already evident, Ingersoll was the pronouncer of many eulogies of the dead; but of all his contributions to what I shall venture to term elegiac prose-poetry, none, perhaps, is more […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 07
[Back To Chapter 6] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 7 FROM EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-NINE TO EIGHTEEN NINETY-TWO In 1889, the Rationalists of Europe and America having conjointly provided for the erection of a life-size statue of Bruno, in the Campo dei fiori at Rome, on the spot where […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 06
[Back To Chapter 5] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 6 FROM EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-SIX TO EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-EIGHT Ingersoll was now in his fifty-third year, when a large majority of geniuses have long since done the most and the best of their work. Astir almost at the dawn, arduously […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 05
[Back To Chapter 4] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 5 FROM EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-FIVE In 1878 Ingersoll wrote his Robert Burns, a lecture. It was published posthumously, the unrevised original “notes” of it being found among the orator’s papers. Robert Ingersoll adored Robert Burns; but […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 04
[Back To Chapter 3] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 4 FROM EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SEVEN TO EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN On February 28, 1867, Ingersoll became attorney-general of Illinois, serving as such until January 11, 1869. He was appointed by Governor Richard J. Oglesby, but undoubtedly would have succeeded himself when […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 03
[Back To Chapter 2] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 3 FROM EIGHTEEN FIFTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN SIXTY-SIX Ingersoll’s reputation for brilliancy having preceded him, success in Peoria was his from the start. His services were eagerly sought. But he did not on that account neglect the theoretical side […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 02
[Back To Chapter 1] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 2 FROM EIGHTEEN FORTY-ONE TO EIGHTEEN FIFTY-SEVEN Of his boyhood, Ingersoll seldom spoke: it was a subject too reminiscent of struggle and hardship, — of unutterable sorrow. But the story of a man necessarily involves, to some extent, […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll Chapter 01
A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 1 FROM EIGHTEEN THIRTY-THREE TO EIGHTEEN FORTY England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique, […]
Herman Kittredge Bio Ingersoll
A Biographical Appreciation of Robert G. Ingersoll (1911) By Herman E. Kittredge Chapter I : 1833 – 1840 Chapter II : 1841 – 1857 Chapter III : 1858 – 1866 Chapter IV : 1867 – 1877 Chapter V : 1878 – 1885 Chapter VI : 1876 – 1888 Chapter VII : 1889 – 1892 Chapter […]
Helen Gardener Men Women And Gods
Men, Women, And Gods And Other Lectures by Helen H. Gardener AUTHOR OF "A Thoughtless Yes;" "Is This Your Son, My Lord," A Radical Novel "Sex In Brain;" And Other Essays. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL 1885 THIRTEENTH EDITION. NEW YORK: THE TRUTH SEEKER COMPANY, 28 LAFAYETTE PLACE. THIS LITTLE VOLUME, is RESPECTFULLY […]
H J Blackham Agnostic
What Is Agnosticism? (1981) H. J. Blackham [This article was originally published in "Free Inquiry," Summer, 1981, pp. 31-33.] Winds of Doctrine As a definition of the limits of knowledge, "agnosticism" needs to be understood historically. Summarily and roughly, philosophy at the time of Plutarch (first century A.D.) offered six positions: on the one hand, […]
Graham Oppy Whynot
Why I Am Not a Christian (2006) Graham Oppy [A somewhat different version of this paper is forthcoming in Theism and Naturalism: New Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Paul Pistone and Quentin Smith, Oxford University Press.] In 1927, Bertrand Russell gave a public lecture with the title “Why I Am Not a Christian.” I regularly use […]
Graham Oppy Weisberger
Review of Weisberger, A. (1999) Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American Defence of Theism, Toronto Studies in Religion 23, New York: Peter Lang, pp.xvi+245 Perhaps almost all non-theists will agree that ‘the problem of evil’ has some role in their reasons for rejecting traditional Western theism. When they consult their intuitions, non-theists typically do […]
Tipler
Critical Notice: Frank J. Tipler (1995) The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead London: Macmillan pp.xxvi+528 Some people have wondered whether this book is an elaborate joke.[1] Others have suggested that it is merely a cynical attempt to cash in on the current craze for pop physics treatments of […]
Graham Oppy T Finite
Inverse Operations With Transfinite Numbers And The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1995) Graham Oppy [This article was originally published as “Inverse Operations With Transfinite Numbers And The Kalam Cosmological Argument” International Philosophical Quarterly, 35, 2, pp.219-221] In “Reply To Smith: On The Finitude Of The Past”[1], Professor William Craig writes: I reiterate that Smith […]
Graham Oppy Sproul
Review of R. C. Sproul (1994) Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, xiv+235 This truly dreadful book contains ten chapters, with the following titles: 1. The Soft Pillow. 2. The Mask of Ignorance. 3. A Quantum Leap. 4. The Voice of Reason. […]
Graham Oppy Smith2
Book Review: THEISM, ATHEISM, AND BIG BANG COSMOLOGY (1996) Graham Oppy Recent scientific research into the cosmological origins of the universe has prompted a flood of philosophical speculations about the consequences of that research for views which invoke supernatural causes for the existence of the universe. Much of this speculation has come from people […]
Graham Oppy Smith1
On Some Alleged Consequences Of ‘The Hartle-Hawking Cosmology’ (1997) Graham Oppy [This article was originally published as “Some Questions About ‘The Hartle-Hawking Cosmology'” Sophia, 36 (1997), 1, pp.84-95] In [3], Quentin Smith claims that `the Hartle-Hawking cosmology’ is inconsistent with classical theism in a way which redounds to the discredit of classical theism; and, […]
Graham Oppy Review S
Review of The Science of God (1998) Graham Oppy This article was originally published in Philo, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1998), pp. 68-77. In addition to some minor editorial changes, some material from the main text in Philo has been moved into endnotes here. Review: Gerald L. Schroeder. 1998. The Science of God: […]