Robert Green Ingersoll
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American lawyer, orator, and politician (1833-1899)
About Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll (; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
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- Known for
- Isaac Taylor, collector, Peoria county, et al., vs. James F. Secor, William Tracy, et al, In the case of Taylor, collector, &c., vs. Secor, Tracy, et al, Isaac Taylor, collector of Peoria county, et al., appellants, vs. James F. Secor and William Tracy, appellees
- Born
- 1833-08-11
- Died
- 1899-07-21
Official & social profiles
External & source links
Robert Green Ingersoll gallery
Books & published works
Isaac Taylor, collector, Peoria county, et al., vs. James F. Secor, William Tracy, et al
In the case of Taylor, collector, &c., vs. Secor, Tracy, et al
Isaac Taylor, collector of Peoria county, et al., appellants, vs. James F. Secor and William Tracy, appellees
Social salvation
Faith and fact
Abraham Lincoln, a lecture
Col. Ingersoll's speech to the business men of New York in Wall Street on November 1, 1880, and his reply to his Chicago critics
The Christian religion
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll's great lectures on gods, past and present gods, how gods grow, the chinese god
How to reform mankind
A Christmas sermon and the controversy it aroused
The works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Oration on Voltaire
Memorial oration on Roscoe Conkling...
Ghosts
The gods, and other lectures
What is it worth?
The Dying creed
Ingersoll to the clergy
Ṿos iz religyon
Ṿelkhen ṿeg?
A collection of pamphlets by this author
The Declaration of the free
What is religion?
Thomas Paine's vindication
Do I blaspheme?
Breaking the fetters
When a man's a man
Life and deeds of Thomas Paine
Paine the pioneer
Is divorce wrong?
Wisdom of Ingersoll
God in the constitution
John G. Farnsworth, receiver of the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Co., vs. the Western Union Telegraph Co
The Old and the new
וואס איז רעליגיאן
Crimes against criminals
An oration delivered at Peoria, Ill., at the unveiling of a statue of Humboldt, September 14th, 1869
The coming civilisation
The Christian religion
Preface by ... to a speech delivered by Philip G. Peabody at the annual meeting of the Victoria Street Anti-Vivisection Society, London, England, June 14, 1893
Complete works
A Look backward and a prophecy
The Stage and the pulpit
Bible idolatry
Issac Taylor, collector Peoria County, et al., vs. James F. Secor, William Tracy, et al
Di ṭoes̀n fun Moyshe Rabeynu
Lectures
Liberty of man, woman and child
Marriage and divorce
Trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy
Shakespeare
Prose-poems and selections from the writings and sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll
Memorial address on Roscoe Conkling
A lecture on Lincoln
At the graveside of Walt Whitman
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Some mistakes of Moses
Is suicide a sin?
Ingersoll's greatest lectures
The limitations of toleration
Tolstoy and "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll ... Complete
Orthodoxy
The works of Robert G. Ingersoll
A review of the sugar question
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll
Great speeches of Col. R.G. Ingersoll
An oration on the life and services of Thomas Paine, at Fairbury, Ill., on the evening of January 30th, 1871
Fifty great selections
Father Lambert on Colonel Ingersoll, How the pious Priest lays out the impious Pagan
The Gods
Japan's changing political economy, 1978
A ṿelṭ fun freyd
Ṿegen der Toyre haḳdoyshe
Nider miṭ di farbrekher
Di geṭer
Ṿos iz religyon
Andlegt sjálfstæði
Di ṭoes̀n fun Moyshe Rabeynu
Die Irrtümer Mosis
Complete lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll
Controversy on Christianity
The ghosts, and other lectures
Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll's memorial oration on Roscoe Conkling
Toward humanity
The stage and the pulpit
Ingersoll on McGlynn
Ingersoll catechised
Defence of freethought
Bible idolatry
Ingersoll's Memorial Day oration
Humanity's debt to Thomas Paine
Man and machine
The truth of history
Faith that surely wanes
Letter from Col. Robert G. Ingersoll to Philip G. Peabody
Eloquence and wit