The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
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The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll in twelve volumes comprises philosophical, political religious, and other literary works by American writer and orator. Table of Contents: Volume 1: The Gods Humboldt Thomas Paine Individuality Heretics and Heresies The Ghost The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child Conclusion About Farming in Illinois What Must We do to be Saved? Volume 2: Some Mistakes of Moses Some Reasons Why Orthodoxy Myth and Miracle Volume 3: Shakespeare Robert Burns Abraham Lincoln Voltaire Liberty in Literature The Great Infidels Which Way? About the Holy Bible Volume 4: Why I am an Agnostic The Truth How to Reform Mankind A Thanksgiving Sermon A Lay Sermon The Foundations of Faith Superstition The Devil Progress What is Religion? Volume 5: Ingersoll's Interviews on Talmage The Talmagian Catechism A Vindication of Thomas Pain The Observer's Second Attack Ingersoll's Second Reply Volume 6: The Christian Religion Faith or Agnosticism The Field-Ingersoll Discussion A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll Letter to Dr. Field Controversy on Christianity Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladston Rome or Reason The Church Its Own Witness Is Divorce Wrong? Divorce Is Corporal Punishment Degrading? Volume 7: My Reviewers Reviewed My Chicago Bible Class To the Indianapolis Clergy The Brooklyn Divines The Limitations of Toleration A Christmas Sermon Suicide of Judge Normile Is Suicide a Sin? Is Avarice Triumphant? Replies and Interviews Volume 8: 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 Pitsburg Political and Religious… Volume 9: Speeches and Addresses Volume 10: Address to the Jury in Various Cases Volume 11: Address on the Civil Right Act Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy God in the Constitution A Reply to Bishop Spalding Crimes Against Criminals A Wooden God Some Interrogation Points Art and Morality The Divided Household of Faith Huxley and Agnosticism… Volume 12: Prefaces, Tributes, and Essays

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Robert Green Ingersoll. The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Table of Contents

THE GODS. An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man

HUMBOLDT. The Universe is Governed by Law

THOMAS PAINE. With His Name Left Out, the History of Liberty Cannot be Written

INDIVIDUALITY "His Soul was like a Star and dwelt apart."

HERETICS AND HERESIES. Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain

THE GHOSTS

PREFACE

THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD. Liberty sustains the same Relation to Mind that Space does to Matter

LIBERTY OF WOMAN

THE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN

CONCLUSION

ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?

PREFACE

I. WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE SAVED

II. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

III. THE GOSPEL OF MARK

IV. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

V. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

AND now we come to John, and that is where the trouble commences

VI. THE CATHOLICS

VII. THE EPISCOPALIANS

VIII. THE METHODISTS

IX. THE PRESBYTERIANS

X. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE

XI. WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE?

Volume 2

Table of Contents

PREFACE

SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES

I

II. FREE SCHOOLS

III. THE POLITICIANS

IV. MAN AND WOMAN

V. THE PENTATEUCH

VI. MONDAY

VII. TUESDAY

VIII. WEDNESDAY

IX. THURSDAY

X. "HE MADE THE STARS ALSO."

XI. FRIDAY

XII. SATURDAY

XIII. LET US MAKE MAN

XIV. SUNDAY

XV. THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY

XVI. THE GARDEN

XVII. THE FALL

XVIII. DAMPNESS

XIX. BACCHUS AND BABEL

XX. FAITH IN FILTH

XXI. THE HEBREWS

XXII. THE PLAGUES

XXIII. THE FLIGHT

XXIV. CONFESS AND AVOID

XXV. "INSPIRED" SLAVERY

XXXVI. "INSPIRED" MARRIAGE

XXVII. "INSPIRED" WAR

XXVIII. "INSPIRED" RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

XXIX. CONCLUSION

SOME REASONS WHY

I

II. DUTIES TO GOD

III. INSPIRATION

IV. GOD'S EXPERIMENT WITH THE JEWS

V. CIVILIZED COUNTRIES

VI. A COMPARISON OF BOOKS

VII

VIII. THE NEW TESTAMENT

XI. CHRIST'S MISSION

X. ETERNAL PAIN

ORTHODOXY

A LECTURE

Orthodox Religion Dying Out

Religious Deaths and Births

The Religion of Reciprocity

Mohammed

The Destruction of Art

The Discovery of America

Copernicus and Kepler

Special Providence

Charles Darwin

The Creeds

God as a Governor

The Love of God

The Fall of Man

The Second Birth

Inspiration

The Reign of Truth and Love

The Wars It Brought

The Resurrection

The Judgment-Day

Pious Evasions

"No Bible, No Civilization."

Miracles of the New Testament

More Miracles

The Resurrection

The Ascension

Casting out Devils

Necessity of Belief

Eternal Punishment

Another Objection

What I Believe

Immortality

MYTH AND MIRACLE

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

Volume 3

Table of Contents

SHAKESPEARE

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

IX

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

ROBERT BURNS.*

POET OF LOVE

POET OF HOME

FRIENDSHIP

SCOTCH DRINK

POETS BORN, NOT MADE

BURNS, THE ARTIST

A REAL DEMOCRAT

HIS THEOLOGY

FROM CRADLE TO COFFIN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

VOLTAIRE

I

II. THE DAYS OF YOUTH

III. THE MORN OF MANHOOD

IV. THE SCHEME OF NATURE

V. HIS HUMANITY

VI. THE RETURN

VII. THE DEATH-BED ARGUMENT

VIII. THE SECOND RETURN

LIBERTY IN LITERATURE (A TESTIMONIAL TO WALT WHITMAN.)

I. LET US PUT WREATHS ON THE BROWS OF THE LIVING

II. THE RELIGION OF THE BODY

III

IV

V. INDIVIDUALITY

VI. HUMANITY

VII

VIII. WHAT IS POETRY?

IX

X. PHILOSOPHY

XI. THE TWO POEMS

XII. OLD AGE

THE GREAT INFIDELS.*

THE APPEAL TO THE CEMETERY

FEAR

OUR INFIDELS

THOMAS PAINE

CONCLUSION

WHICH WAY?

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE

I. THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE

II

III. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

IV. WHAT IS IT ALL WORTH?

V. WAS JEHOVAH A GOD OF LOVE?

VI. JEHOVAH'S ADMINISTRATION

VII. THE NEW TESTAMENT

VIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHRIST

IX. IS CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE?

X. WHY SHOULD WE PLACE CHRIST AT THE TOP AND SUMMIT OF THE HUMAN RACE?

XI. INSPIRATION

XII. THE REAL BIBLE

Volume 4

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WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

THE TRUTH

I

II

III. "THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY."

CONCLUSION

HOW TO REFORM MANKIND

I

II. HOW CAN WE REFORM THE WORLD?

III. ANOTHER WASTE

IV. HOW CAN WE LESSEN CRIME?

V. HOMES FOR ALL

VI. THE LABOR QUESTION

VII. EDUCATE THE CHILDREN

VIII. WE MUST WORK AND WAIT

A THANKSGIVING SERMON

I

II

III

IV

A LAY SERMON

THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH

I. THE OLD TESTAMENT

II. THE NEW TESTAMENT

III. JEHOVAH

IV. THE TRINITY

V. THE THEOLOGICAL CHRIST

VI. THE "SCHEME"

VII. BELIEF

VIII. CONCLUSION

SUPERSTITION

I. WHAT IS SUPERSTITION?

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

THE DEVIL

I

II. THE ATLAS OF CHRISTIANITY IS THE DEVIL

III. TAKE THE DEVIL FROM THE DRAMA OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE PLOT IS GONE

IV. THE EVIDENCE OF THE CHURCH

V. PERSONIFICATIONS OF EVIL

VI

VII. THE MAN OF STRAW

VIII. KEEP THE DEVILS OUT OF CHILDREN

IX. CONCLUSION

PROGRESS

WITCHCRAFT

GEOGRAPHY

SLAVERY

LIBERTY TRIUMPHED

CONCLUSION

WHAT IS RELIGION?

I

II

III. THE POWER THAT WORKS FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS

IV

V. HOW CAN MANKIND BE REFORMED WITHOUT RELIGION?

VI

VII

VIII. Reform

IX

Volume 5

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE

FIRST INTERVIEW

SECOND INTERVIEW

THIRD INTERVIEW

FOURTH INTERVIEW

FIFTH INTERVIEW

SIXTH INTERVIEW

THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM

A SHORTER CATECHISM

A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE

THE OBSERVER'S SECOND ATTACK

INGERSOLL'S SECOND REPLY

Volume 6

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THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER

[Ingersoll-Black]

I

II

III

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY JEREMIAH S. BLACK

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

III

FAITH OR AGNOSTICISM

[Ingersoll-Field.]

THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION

An Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll

A REPLY TO THE REV. HENRY M. FIELD, D.D

A LAST WORD TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

My Dear Colonel Ingersoll:

LETTER TO DR. FIELD

My Dear Mr. Field:

CONTROVERSY ON CHRISTIANTY

[Ingersoll-Gladstone.]

COL. INGERSOLL TO MR. GLADSTONE

To The Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone, M. P.:

ROME OR REASON

Col. Ingersoll and Cardinal Manning

THE CHURCH ITS OWN WITNESS, By Cardinal Manning

ROME OR REASON: A REPLY TO CARDINAL MANNING

I

II

IS DIVORCE WRONG?

Introduction by the Rev. S. W. Dike, LL.D

DIVORCE

REPLY TO CARDINAL GIBBONS

REPLY TO BISHOP POTTER

JUSTICE BRADLEY

SENATOR DOLPH

THE ARGUMENT CONTINUED, IN COLLOQUIAL FORM

ANSWER TO LYMAN ABBOTT

ANSWER TO ARCHDEACON FARRAR

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

ORIGEN

ST. AUGUSTINE

DANTE

AQUINAS

IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?

Volume 7

Table of Contents

MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED

I

II. DOES THE BIBLE TEACH MAN TO ENSLAVE HIS BROTHER?

III. WAS THE WORLD CREATED IN SIX DAYS?

IV. WHAT IS THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE?

V. DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THE EXISTENCE OF THAT IMPOSSIBLE CRIME CALLED WITCHCRAFT?

VI. THE BIBLE IDEA OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN

VII. THE GALLANTRY OF GOD

VIII. DOES THE BIBLE SANCTION POLYGAMY AND CONCUBINAGE?

IX. DOES THE BIBLE UPHOLD AND JUSTIFY POLITICAL TYRANNY?

X. THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY OF GOD

XI. DOES THE BIBLE DESCRIBE A GOD OF MERCY?

XII. THE PLAN OF SALVATION

XIII. OTHER RELIGIONS

MY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS

TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY

THE BROOKLYN DIVINES

THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION

A CHRISTMAS SERMON

I

II

III

IV. INGERSOLL AGAIN ANSWERS HIS CRITICS

V. INGERSOLL CONTINUES THE BATTLE

SUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE

IS SUICIDE A SIN?

IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?

A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH

AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS

A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER

A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN

A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB

A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION

Volume 8

Table of Contents

INTERVIEWS

THE BIBLE AND A FUTURE LIFE

MRS. VAN COTT, THE REVIVALIST

EUROPEAN TRIP AND GREENBACK QUESTION

Question. What did you do on your European trip, Colonel?

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

Question. How do you regard the present political situation?

MIRACLES AND IMMORTALITY

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK

MR. BEECHER, MOSES AND THE NEGRO

Question. Mr. Beecher is here. Have you seen him?

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

Question. What do you think of newspaper interviewing?

POLITICS AND PROHIBITION

Question. What do you think of the result in Ohio?

THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO

THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL

JUSTICE HARLAN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL

POLITICS AND THEOLOGY

Question. What is your opinion of Brewster's administration?

MORALITY AND IMMORTALITY

POLITICS, MORMONISM AND MR. BEECHER

FREE TRADE AND CHRISTIANITY

Question. Who will be the Republican nominee for President?

THE OATH QUESTION

WENDELL PHILLIPS, FITZ JOHN PORTER AND BISMARCK

GENERAL SUBJECTS

Question. Do you enjoy lecturing?

REPLY TO KANSAS CITY CLERGY

Question. Will you take any notice of Mr. Magrath's challenge?

SWEARING AND AFFIRMING

REPLY TO A BUFFALO CRITIC

BLASPHEMY.*

POLITICS AND BRITISH COLUMBIA

INGERSOLL CATECHISED

Question. Does Christianity advance or retard civilization?

BLAINE'S DEFEAT

Question. How do you account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine?

PLAGIARISM AND POLITICS

RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE

CLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET

Question. What do you think of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet?

RELIGION, PROHIBITION, AND GEN. GRANT

HELL OR SHEOL AND OTHER SUBJECTS

Question. Colonel, have you read the revised Testament?

INTERVIEWING, POLITICS AND SPIRITUALISM

MY BELIEF

SOME LIVE TOPICS

Question. Shall you attend the Albany Freethought Convention?

THE PRESIDENT AND SENATE

ATHEISM AND CITIZENSHIP

THE LABOR QUESTION

RAILROADS AND POLITICS

PROHIBITION

HENRY GEORGE AND LABOR

LABOR QUESTION AND SOCIALISM

Question. What do you think of Henry George for mayor?

HENRY GEORGE AND SOCIALISM

Question. What is your opinion of the result of the election?

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

Question. What do you think of the Democratic nominations?

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

Question. What is the best philosophy of summer recreation?

PROHIBITION

ROBERT ELSMERE

WORKING GIRLS

PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN ACTORS

LIBERALS AND LIBERALISM

POPE LEO XIII

THE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH

Question. What do you think of 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

Question. What is your opinion of foreign missions?

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

Question. What is your opinion of Count Leo Tolstoy?

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

Question. Why are you so utterly opposed to vivisection?

DIVORCE

MUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, LYNCHING AND ARBITRATION

Question. How do you enjoy staying in Chicago?

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

Question. What do you think, Colonel, of the Cuban question?

HOW TO BECOME AN ORATOR

JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG AND EXPANSION

Question. You knew John Russell Young, Colonel?

PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE BIBLE.*

THIS CENTURY'S GLORIES

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WHIPPING-POST

EXPANSION AND TRUSTS.*

Volume 9

Table of Contents

AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE

SPEECH AT INDIANAPOLIS

CENTENNIAL ORATION

BANGOR SPEECH

COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK

INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH

CHICAGO SPEECH

EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS

(On the Electoral Commission.)

HARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT

SUFFRAGE ADDRESS

WALL STREET SPEECH

BROOKLYN SPEECH

ADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT

DECORATION DAY ORATION

DECORATION DAY ADDRESS

RATIFICATION SPEECH

REUNION ADDRESS

THE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH

Volume 10

Table of Contents

ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL

CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL

OPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL

CLOSING ADDRESS IN SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL

Closing Address to the Jury in the Second Star Route Trial

ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE

ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE

Volume 11

Table of Contents

ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

TRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY

Address to the Jury

GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION

A REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING

CRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS

A WOODEN GOD

To the Editor:

SOME INTERROGATION POINTS

ART AND MORALITY

THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH

WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?

I

II

HUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM

ERNEST RENAN

TOLSTOÏ AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."

THOMAS PAINE

A MAGAZINE ARTICLE

THE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS

I

II. HE WAS THE PROVIDENCE OF THE POOR

III. HE LIVED FOR OTHERS

SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?

A WORD ABOUT EDUCATION

WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

FOOL FRIENDS

NOTHING hurts a man, nothing hurts a party so terribly as fool friends

INSPIRATION

THE TRUTH OF HISTORY

HOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER

A LIBERAL paper should be edited by a Liberal man

SECULARISM

CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."

THE LIBEL LAWS

REV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION

AN ESSAY ON CHRISTMAS

HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?

THE IMPROVED MAN

EIGHT HOURS MUST COME

THE JEWS

CRUMBLING CREEDS

OUR SCHOOLS

VIVISECTION

THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM

THE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS

SPIRITUALITY

SUMTER'S GUN

WHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE

CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY

LAW'S DELAY

THE BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES

A YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY

SCIENCE AND SENTIMENT

SOWING AND REAPING

SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?

WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?

GOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION

A LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY

POLITICAL MORALITY

A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE

Volume 12

Table of Contents

PROF. VAN BUREN DENSLOW'S "MODERN THINKERS."

PREFACE TO DR. EDGAR C. BEALL'S "THE BRAIN AND THE BIBLE."

PREFACE TO "MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."

PREFACE TO "FOR HER DAILY BREAD."

PREFACE TO "AGNOSTICISM AND OTHER ESSAYS."

I

II. SCIENCE

III. MORALITY

IV. SPIRITUALITY

V. REVERENCE

VI. EXISTENCE OF GOD

PREFACE TO "FAITH OR FACT."

THE GRANT BANQUET

Chicago, November 13, 1879

THIRTEEN CLUB DINNER

ROBSON AND CRANE DINNER

New York, November 21, 1887

THE POLICE CAPTAINS' DINNER

New York, January 24, 1888

GENERAL GRANT'S BIRTHDAY DINNER

New York, April 27, 1888

LOTOS CLUB DINNER, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY

New York, March 22, 1890

MANHATTAN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER

New York, December 27, 1890

THE LIEDERKRANZ CLUB, SEIDL-STANTON BANQUET

New York, April 2, 1891

THE FRANK B. CARPENTER DINNER

New York, December 1, 1891

UNITARIAN CLUB DINNER

New York, January 15,1892

WESTERN SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BANQUET

Chicago, January 31, 1894

LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL

New York, February 2, 1895

LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY

New York, November 26, 1898

ADDRESS TO THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA

New York, June 5, 1888

THE CHILDREN OF THE STAGE

New York, March 23, 1899

ADDRESS TO THE PRESS CLUB

New Orleans, February 1, 1898

THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE

CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE

Cincinnati, O., September 14.1878

CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION

Albany, N. Y., September 13, 1885

THE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

New York, May 28, 1896

ORGANIZED CHARITIES

SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS

OUR NEW POSSESSIONS

A FEW FRAGMENTS ON EXPANSION

IS IT EVER RIGHT FOR HUSBAND OR WIFE TO KILL RIVAL?

PROFESSOR BRIGGS

FRAGMENTS

EFFECT OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ON THE HUMAN RACE

SABBATH SUPERSTITION

A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE

AT THE GRAVE OF BENJAMIN W. PARKER

A TRIBUTE TO EBON C. INGERSOLL

Washington, D. C., May 31, 1879

A TRIBUTE TO THE REV. ALEXANDER CLARK

Washington, D. C. July 13, 1879

AT A CHILD'S GRAVE

Washington, D. C., January 8, 1882

A TRIBUTE TO JOHN G. MILLS

Washington, D. C., April 15, 1883

A TRIBUTE TO ELIZUR WRIGHT

New York. December 19, 1885

A TRIBUTE TO MRS. IDA WHITING KNOWLES

New York, Dec, 16, 1887

A TRIBUTE TO HENRY WARD BEECHER

New York, June 26,1887

A TRIBUTE TO ROSCOE CONKLING

A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD H. WHITING

New York, May 24., 1888

A TRIBUTE TO COURTLANDT PALMER

New York, July 26, 1888

A TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY H. FISKE

At Scottish Rite Hall, New York, February 6, 1889

A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SEAVER

At Paine Hall, Boston, August 25, 1889

A TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE BARRETT

At the Broadway Theatre, New York, March 22, 1891

A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN

Camden, N. J., March 30, 1892

A TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH

Dowagiac, Mich., January 25, 1893

A TRIBUTE TO ANTON SEIDL

A TRIBUTE TO DR. THOMAS SETON ROBERTSON

New York September 8, 1898

A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS CORWIN

Lebanon, Ohio, March 5, 1899

A TRIBUTE TO ISAAC H. BAILEY

New York, March 27, 1899

JESUS CHRIST

LIFE

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Give him a harp!

Well, as I was saying, God made a woman from Adam's rib. Of course, I do not know exactly how this was done, but when he got the woman finished, he presented her to Adam. He liked her, and they commenced house-keeping in the celebrated Garden of Eden.

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