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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

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##  VOLUME ONE

##  VOLUME TWO

##  VOLUME THREE

##  VOLUME FOUR

##  VOLUME FIVE

##  VOLUME SIX

##  VOLUME SEVEN

##  VOLUME EIGHT

##  VOLUME NINE

##  VOLUME TEN

##  VOLUME ELEVEN

##  VOLUME TWELVE

##  THE GHOSTS

Hell

##  ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE

Oration on Thomas Paine

The Christian Religion

Heretics And Heresies

Humboldt

Individuality

##  MISTAKES OF MOSES

Thomas Paine-A Lecture

Trial of C. B. Reynolds

Shakespeare

##  INGERSOLLIA

The Gods

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

INGERSOLL

VOLUME I.--LECTURES

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.

THE GODS

HUMBOLDT.

THOMAS PAINE

INDIVIDUALITY.

HERETICS AND HERESIES.

THE GHOSTS.

THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.

LIBERTY OF WOMAN.

THE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN.

CONCLUSION.

ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?

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

VI. THE CATHOLICS

VII. THE EPISCOPALIANS

VIII. THE METHODISTS

IX. THE PRESBYTERIANS

X. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.

XI. WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE?

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

THE GODS.
(1872.)

An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man—Resemblance of Gods to

their Creators—Manufacture and Characteristics of Deities—Their

Amours—Deficient in many Departments of Knowledge—Pleased with the

Butchery of Unbelievers—A Plentiful Supply—Visitations—One God's

Laws of War—The Book called the Bible—Heresy of Universalism—Faith

an unhappy mixture of Insanity and Ignorance—Fallen Gods, or

Devils—Directions concerning Human Slavery—The first Appearance of

the Devil—The Tree of Knowledge—Give me the Storm and Tempest of

Thought—Gods and Devils Natural Productions—Personal Appearance

of Deities—All Man's Ideas suggested by his Surroundings—Phenomena

Supposed to be Produced by Intelligent Powers—Insanity and Disease

attributed to Evil Spirits—Origin of the Priesthood—Temptation of

Christ—Innate Ideas—Divine Interference—Special Providence—The

Crane and the Fish—Cancer as a proof of Design—Matter and

Force—Miracle—Passing the Hat for just one Fact—Sir William Hamilton

on Cause and Effect—The Phenomena of Mind—Necessity and Free Will—The

Dark Ages—The Originality of Repetition—Of what Use have the Gods been

to Man?—Paley and Design—Make Good Health Contagious—Periodicity of

the Universe and the Commencement of Intellectual Freedom—Lesson of

the ineffectual attempt to rescue the Tomb of Christ from the

Mohammedans—The Cemetery of the Gods—Taking away Crutches—Imperial

Reason

HUMBOLDT.
(1869.)

The Universe is Governed by Law—The Self-made Man—Poverty generally

an Advantage—Humboldt's Birth-place—His desire for Travel—On what

Humboldt's Fame depends—His Companions and Friends—Investigations

in the New World—A Picture—Subjects of his Addresses—Victory of the

Church over Philosophy—Influence of the discovery that the World is

governed by Law—On the term Law—Copernicus—Astronomy—Aryabhatta—

Descartes—Condition of the World and Man when the morning of Science

Dawned—Reasons for Honoring Humboldt—The World his Monument

THOMAS PAINE.
(1870.)

With his Name left out the History of Liberty cannot be Written—Paine's

Origin and Condition—His arrival in America with a Letter of

Introduction by Franklin—Condition of the Colonies—"Common Sense"—A

new Nation Born—Paine the Best of Political Writers—The "Crisis"—War

not to the Interest of a trading Nation—Paine's Standing at the Close

of the Revolution—Close of the Eighteenth Century in France-The

"Rights of Man"—Paine Prosecuted in England—"The World is my

Country"—Elected to the French Assembly—Votes against the Death of

the King—Imprisoned—A look behind the Altar—The "Age of Reason"—His

Argument against the Bible as a Revelation—Christianity of Paine's

Day—A Blasphemy Law in Force in Maryland—The Scotch "Kirk"—Hanging

of Thomas Aikenhead for Denying the Inspiration of the

Scriptures—"Cathedrals and Domes, and Chimes and Chants"—Science—"He

Died in the Land his Genius Defended,"

INDIVIDUALITY.
(1873.)

"His Soul was like a Star and Dwelt Apart"—Disobedience one of the

Conditions of Progress.—Magellan—The Monarch and the Hermit-Why

the Church hates a Thinker—The Argument from Grandeur and

Prosperity-Travelers and Guide-boards—A Degrading Saying—Theological

Education—Scotts, Henrys and McKnights—The Church the Great

Robber—Corrupting the Reason of Children—Monotony of Acquiescence: For

God's sake, say No—Protestant Intolerance: Luther and Calvin—Assertion

of Individual Independence a Step toward Infidelity—Salute to

Jupiter—The Atheistic Bug-Little Religious Liberty in America—God in

the Constitution, Man Out—Decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois

that an Unbeliever could not testify in any Court—Dissimulation—Nobody

in this Bed—The Dignity of a Unit

HERETICS AND HERESIES.
(1874.)

Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain—The Church, the

Bible, and Persecution—Over the wild Waves of War rose and fell

the Banner of Jesus Christ—Highest Type of the Orthodox

Christian—Heretics' Tongues and why they should be Removed before

Burning—The Inquisition Established—Forms of Torture—Act of Henry

VIII for abolishing Diversity of Opinion—What a Good Christian was

Obliged to Believe—The Church has Carried the Black Flag—For what Men

and Women have been Burned—John Calvin's Advent into the

World—His Infamous Acts—Michael Servetus—Castalio—Spread of

Presbyterianism—Indictment of a Presbyterian Minister in Illinois for

Heresy—Specifications—The Real Bible

THE GHOSTS.
(1877.)

Dedication to Ebon C. Ingersoll—Preface—Mendacity of the Religious

Press—"Materialism"—Ways of Pleasing the Ghosts—The Idea of

Immortality not Born of any Book—Witchcraft and Demon-ology—Witch

Trial before Sir Matthew Hale—John Wesley a Firm Believer in

Ghosts—"Witch-spots"—Lycanthropy—Animals Tried and Convicted—The

Governor of Minnesota and the Grasshoppers—A Papal Bull against

Witchcraft—Victims of the Delusion—Sir William Blackstone's

Affirmation—Trials in Belgium—Incubi and Succubi—A Bishop

Personated by the Devil—The Doctrine that Diseases are caused by

Ghosts—Treatment—Timothy Dwight against Vaccination—Ghosts as

Historians—The Language of Eden—Leibnitz, Founder of the Science

of Language—Cosmas on Astronomy—Vagaries of Kepler and Tycho

Brahe—Discovery of Printing, Powder, and America—Thanks to the

Inventors—The Catholic Murderer and the Meat—Let the Ghosts Go

THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.
(1877.)

Liberty sustains the same Relation to Mind that Space does to

Matter—The History of Man a History of Slavery—The Infidel Our

Fathers in the good old Time—The iron Arguments that Christians

Used—Instruments of Torture—A Vision of the Inquisition—Models of

Man's Inventions—Weapons, Armor, Musical Instruments, Paintings,

Books, Skulls—The Gentleman in the Dug-out—Homage to Genius and

Intellect—Abraham Lincoln—What I mean by Liberty—The Man who cannot

afford to Speak his Thought is a Certificate of the Meanness of the

Community in which he Resides—Liberty of Woman—Marriage and the

Family—Ornaments the Souvenirs of Bondage-The Story of the Garden of

Eden—Adami and Heva—Equality of the Sexes-The word "Boss"—The Cross

Man-The Stingy Man—Wives who are Beggars—How to Spend Money—By

the Tomb of the Old Napoleon—The Woman you Love will never Grow

Old—Liberty of Children—When your Child tells a Lie—Disowning

Children—Beating your own Flesh and Blood—Make Home Pleasant—Sunday

when I was a Boy—The Laugh of a Child—The doctrine of Eternal

Punishment—Jonathan Edwards on the Happiness of Believing Husbands

whose Wives are in Hell—The Liberty of Eating and Sleeping—Water in

Fever—Soil and Climate necessary to the production of Genius—Against

Annexing Santo Domingo—Descent of Man—Conclusion

ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS.
(1877.)

To Plow is to Pray; to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and

Fulfills—The Old Way of Farming—Cooking an Unknown Art-Houses, Fuel,

and Crops—The Farmer's Boy—What a Farmer should Sell—Beautifying

the Home—Advantages of Illinois as a Farming State—Advantages of the

Farmer over the Mechanic—Farm Life too Lonely-On Early Rising—Sleep

the Best Doctor—Fashion—Patriotism and Boarding Houses—The Farmer and

the Railroads—Money and Confidence—Demonetization of Silver-Area of

Illinois—Mortgages and Interest—Kindness to Wives and Children—How

a Beefsteak should be Cooked—Decorations and Comfort—Let the Children

Sleep—Old Age

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?
(1880.)

Preface—The Synoptic Gospels—Only Mark Knew of the Necessity of

Belief—Three Christs Described—The Jewish Gentleman and the Piece of

Bacon—Who Wrote the New Testament?—Why Christ and the Apostles wrote

Nothing—Infinite Respect for the Man Christ—Different Feeling for

the Theological Christ—Saved from What?—Chapter on the Gospel of

Matthew—What this Gospel says we must do to be Saved—Jesus and the

Children—John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards conceived of as Dimpled

Darlings—Christ and the Man who inquired what Good Thing he should

do that he might have Eternal Life—Nothing said about Belief—An

Interpolation—Chapter on the Gospel of Mark—The Believe or be Damned

Passage, and why it was written—The last Conversation of Christ with

his Disciples—The Signs that Follow them that Believe—Chapter on

the Gospel of Luke—Substantial Agreement with Matthew and Mark—How

Zaccheus achieved Salvation—The two Thieves on the Cross—Chapter

on the Gospel of John—The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the New

Birth—Shall we Love our Enemies while God Damns His?—Chapter on the

Catholics—Communication with Heaven through Decayed Saints—Nuns and

Nunneries—Penitentiaries of God should be Investigated—The

Athanasian Creed expounded—The Trinity and its Members—Chapter on the

Episcopalians—Origin of the Episcopal Church—Apostolic Succession

an Imported Article—Episcopal Creed like the Catholic, with a

few Additional Absurdities—Chapter on the Methodists—Wesley and

Whitfield—Their Quarrel about Predestination—Much Preaching for Little

Money—Adapted to New Countries—Chapter on the Presbyterians—John

Calvin, Murderer—Meeting between Calvin and Knox—The Infamy of

Calvinism—Division in the Church—The Young Presbyterian's Resignation

to the Fate of his Mother—A Frightful, Hideous, and Hellish

Creed—Chapter on the Evangelical Alliance—Jeremy Taylor's Opinion of

Baptists—Orthodoxy not Dead—Creed of the Alliance—Total Depravity,

Eternal Damnation—What do You Propose?—The Gospel of Good-fellowship,

Cheerfulness, Health, Good Living, Justice—No Forgiveness—God's

Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to Smith—Gospel of Liberty, of

Intelligence, of Humanity—One World at a Time—"Upon that Rock I

Stand"

VOLUME II.--LECTURES

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

PREFACE.

SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.

SOME REASONS WHY

ORTHODOXY.

MYTH AND MIRACLE.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.
(1879.)

Preface—I. He who endeavors to control the Mind by Force is a

Tyrant, and he who submits is a Slave—All I Ask—When a Religion

is Founded—Freedom for the Orthodox Clergy—Every Minister an

Attorney—Submission to the Orthodox and the Dead—Bounden Duty of

the Ministry—The Minister Factory at Andover—II. Free Schools—No

Sectarian Sciences—Religion and the Schools—Scientific

Hypocrites—III. The Politicians and the Churches—IV. Man and Woman the

Highest Possible Titles—Belief Dependent on Surroundings—Worship of

Ancestors—Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path—The Bible the

Chain that Binds—A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired—V.

The Pentateuch—Moses Not the Author—Belief out of which Grew

Religious Ceremonies—Egypt the Source of the Information of Moses—VI.

Monday—Nothing, in the Light of Raw Material—The Story of Creation

Begun—The Same Story, substantially, Found in the Records of Babylon,

Egypt, and India—Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth—Usefulness of

Miracles to Fit Lies to Facts—Division of Darkness and Light—VII.

Tuesday—The Firmament and Some Biblical Notions about it—Laws of

Evaporation Unknown to the Inspired Writer—VIII. Wednesday—The Waters

Gathered into Seas—Fruit and Nothing to Eat it—Five Epochs in the

Organic History of the Earth—Balance between the Total Amounts of

Animal and Vegetable Life—Vegetation Prior to the Appearance of the

Sun—IX. Thursday—Sun and Moon Manufactured—Magnitude of the Solar

Orb—Dimensions of Some of the Planets—Moses' Guess at the Size of Sun

and Moon—Joshua's Control of the Heavenly Bodies—A Hypothesis Urged

by Ministers—The Theory of "Refraction"—Rev. Henry Morey—Astronomical

Knowledge of Chinese Savants—The Motion of the Earth Reversed by

Jehovah for the Reassurance of Ahaz—"Errors" Renounced by Button—X.

"He made the Stars Also"—Distance of the Nearest Star—XI.

Friday—Whales and Other Living Creatures Produced—XII.

Saturday—Reproduction Inaugurated—XIII. "Let Us Make Man"—Human

Beings Created in the Physical Image and Likeness of God—Inquiry as

to the Process Adopted—Development of Living Forms According to

Evolution—How Were Adam and Eve Created?—The Rib Story—Age of

Man Upon the Earth—A Statue Apparently Made before the World—XIV.

Sunday—Sacredness of the Sabbath Destroyed by the Theory of Vast

"Periods"—Reflections on the Sabbath—XV. The Necessity for a Good

Memory—The Two Accounts of the Creation in Genesis I and II—Order

of Creation in the First Account—Order of Creation in the Second

Account—Fastidiousness of Adam in the Choice of a Helpmeet—Dr.

Adam Clark's Commentary—Dr. Scott's Guess—Dr. Matthew Henry's

Admission—The Blonde and Brunette Problem—The Result of Unbelief and

the Reward of Faith—"Give Him a Harp"—XVI. The Garden—Location of

Eden—The Four Rivers—The Tree of Knowledge—Andover Appealed

To—XVII. The Fall—The Serpent—Dr. Adam Clark Gives a Zoological

Explanation—Dr. Henry Dissents—Whence This Serpent?—XVIII.

Dampness—A Race of Giants—Wickedness of Mankind—An Ark Constructed—A

Universal Flood Indicated—Animals Probably Admitted to the Ark—How Did

They Get There?—Problem of Food and Service—A Shoreless Sea Covered

with Innumerable Dead—Drs. Clark and Henry on the Situation—The Ark

Takes Ground—New Difficulties—Noah's Sacrifice—The Rainbow as a

Memorandum—Babylonian, Egyptian, and Indian Legends of a Flood—XIX.

Bacchus and Babel—Interest Attaching to Noah—Where Did Our First

Parents and the Serpent Acquire a Common Language?—Babel and the

Confusion of Tongues—XX. Faith in Filth—Immodesty of Biblical

Diction—XXI. The Hebrews—God's Promises to Abraham—The Sojourning

of Israel in Egypt—Marvelous Increase—Moses and Aaron—XXII.

The Plagues—Competitive Miracle Working—Defeat of the Local

Magicians—XXIII. The Flight Out of Egypt—Three Million People in a

Desert—Destruction of Pharaoh ana His Host—Manna—A Superfluity of

Quails—Rev. Alexander Cruden's Commentary—Hornets as Allies of the

Israelites—Durability of the Clothing of the Jewish People—An Ointment

Monopoly—Consecration of Priests—The Crime of Becoming a Mother—The

Ten Commandments—Medical Ideas of Jehovah—Character of the God of

the Pentateuch—XXIV. Confess and Avoid—XXV. "Inspired" Slavery—XXVI.

"Inspired" Marriage-XXVII. "Inspired" War-XXVIII. "Inspired" Religious

Liberty—XXIX. Conclusion.

SOME REASONS WHY.
(1881.)

I—Religion makes Enemies—Hatred in the Name of Universal

Benevolence—No Respect for the Rights of Barbarians—Literal

Fulfillment of a New Testament Prophecy—II. Duties to God—Can we

Assist God?—An Infinite Personality an Infinite Impossibility-Ill.

Inspiration—What it Really Is—Indication of Clams—Multitudinous

Laughter of the Sea—Horace Greeley and the Mammoth Trees—A Landscape

Compared to a Table-cloth—The Supernatural is the Deformed—Inspiration

in the Man as well as in the Book—Our Inspired Bible—IV. God's

Experiment with the Jews—Miracles of One Religion never astonish the

Priests of Another—"I am a Liar Myself"—V. Civilized Countries—Crimes

once regarded as Divine Institutions—What the Believer in the

Inspiration of the Bible is Compelled to Say—Passages apparently

written by the Devil—VI. A Comparison of Books—Advancing a Cannibal

from Missionary to Mutton—Contrast between the Utterances of Jehovah

and those of Reputable Heathen—Epictetus, Cicero, Zeno,

Seneca—the Hindu, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius—The Avesta—VII.

Monotheism—Egyptians before Moses taught there was but One God

and Married but One Wife—Persians and Hindoos had a Single Supreme

Deity—Rights of Roman Women—Marvels of Art achieved without the

Assistance of Heaven—Probable Action of the Jewish Jehovah incarnated

as Man—VIII. The New Testament—Doctrine of Eternal Pain brought to

Light—Discrepancies—Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of

Divine Wisdom—Why there are Four Gospels according to Irenæus—The

Atonement—Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation—Christians

say, "Charge it"—God's Forgiveness does not Repair an Injury—Suffering

of Innocence for the Guilty—Salvation made Possible by Jehovah's

Failure to Civilize the Jews—Necessity of Belief not taught in the

Synoptic Gospels—Non-resistance the Offspring of Weakness—IX. Christ's

Mission—All the Virtues had been Taught before his Advent—Perfect and

Beautiful Thoughts of his Pagan Predecessors—St. Paul Contrasted

with Heathen Writers—"The Quality of Mercy"—X. Eternal Pain—An

Illustration of Eternal Punishment—Captain Kreuger of the Barque

Tiger—XI. Civilizing Influence of the Bible—Its Effects on the

Jews—If Christ was God, Did he not, in his Crucifixion, Reap what

he had Sown?—Nothing can add to the Misery of a Nation whose King is

Jehovah

ORTHODOXY.
(1884.)

Orthodox Religion Dying Out—Religious Deaths and Births—The Religion

of Reciprocity—Every Language has a Cemetery—Orthodox Institutions

Survive through the Money invested in them—"Let us tell our Real

Names"—The Blows that have Shattered the Shield and Shivered the Lance

of Superstition—Mohammed's Successful Defence of the Sepulchre of

Christ—The Destruction of Art—The Discovery of America—Although

he made it himself, the Holy Ghost was Ignorant of the Form of this

Earth—Copernicus and Kepler—Special Providence—The Man and the Ship

he did not Take—A Thanksgiving Proclamation Contradicted—Charles

Darwin—Henry Ward Beecher—The Creeds—The Latest Creed—God as

a Governor—The Love of God—The Fall of Man—We are Bound

by Representatives without a Chance to Vote against Them—The

Atonement—The Doctrine of Depravity a Libel on the Human Race—The

Second Birth—A Unitarian Universalist—Inspiration of the

Scriptures—God a Victim of his own Tyranny—In the New Testament

Trouble Commences at Death—The Reign of Truth and Love—The Old

Spaniard who Died without an Enemy—The Wars it Brought—Consolation

should be Denied to Murderers—At the Rate at which Heathen are being

Converted, how long will it take to Establish Christ's Kingdom on

Earth?—The Resurrection—The Judgment Day—Pious Evasions—"We shall

not Die, but we shall all be Hanged"—"No Bible, no Civilization"

Miracles of the New Testament—Nothing Written by Christ or his

Contemporaries—Genealogy of Jesus—More Miracles—A Master of

Death—Improbable that he would be Crucified—The Loaves and Fishes—How

did it happen that the Miracles Convinced so Few?—The Resurrection—The

Ascension—Was the Body Spiritual—Parting from the Disciples—Casting

out Devils—Necessity of Belief—God should be consistent in the

Matter of forgiving Enemies—Eternal Punishment—Some Good Men who are

Damned—Another Objection—Love the only Bow on Life's dark Cloud—"Now

is the accepted Time"—Rather than this Doctrine of Eternal Punishment

Should be True—I would rather that every Planet should in its Orbit

wheel a barren Star—What I Believe—Immortality—It existed long before

Moses—Consolation—The Promises are so Far Away, and the Dead are so

Near—Death a Wall or a Door—A Fable—Orpheus and Eurydice.

MYTH AND MIRACLE.
(1885.)

I. Happiness the true End and Aim of Life—Spiritual People and

their Literature—Shakespeare's Clowns superior to Inspired

Writers—Beethoven's Sixth Symphony Preferred to the Five Books of

Moses—Venus of Milo more Pleasing than the Presbyterian Creed—II.

Religions Naturally Produced—Poets the Myth-makers—The Sleeping

Beauty—Orpheus and Eurydice—Red Riding Hood—The Golden Age—Elysian

Fields—The Flood Myth—Myths of the Seasons—III. The Sun-god—Jonah,

Buddha, Chrisnna, Horus, Zoroaster—December 25th as a Birthday of

Gods—Christ a Sun-God—The Cross a Symbol of the Life to Come—When

Nature rocked the Cradle of the Infant World—IV. Difference between

a Myth and a Miracle—Raising the Dead, Past and Present—Miracles

of Jehovah—Miracles of Christ—Everything Told except the Truth—The

Mistake of the World—V. Beginning of Investigation—The Stars as

Witnesses against Superstition—Martyrdom of Bruno—Geology—Steam and

Electricity—Nature forever the Same—Persistence of Force—Cathedral,

Mosque, and Joss House have the same Foundation—Science the

Providence of Man—VI. To Soften the Heart of God—Martyrs—The God was

Silent—Credulity a Vice—Develop the Imagination—"The Skylark" and

"The Daisy"—VII. How are we to Civilize the World?—Put Theology out

of Religion—Divorce of Church and State—Secular Education—Godless

Schools—VIII. The New Jerusalem—Knowledge of the Supernatural

possessed by Savages—Beliefs of Primitive Peoples—Science is

Modest—Theology Arrogant—Torque-mada and Bruno on the Day of

Judgment—IX. Poison of Superstition in the Mother's Milk—Ability

of Mistakes to take Care of Themselves—Longevity of Religious

Lies—Mother's religion pleaded by the Cannibal—The Religion of

Freedom—O Liberty, thou art the God of my Idolatry

VOLUME III--LECTURES

Contents

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

SHAKESPEARE

ROBERT BURNS.*

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

VOLTAIRE.

LIBERTY IN LITERATURE.

THE GREAT INFIDELS.*

CONCLUSION.

WHICH WAY?

ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

SHAKESPEARE
(1891.)

I. The Greatest Genius of our World—Not of Supernatural Origin or

of Royal Blood—Illiteracy of his Parents—Education—His Father—His

Mother a Great Woman—Stratford Unconscious of the Immortal

Child—Social Position of Shakespeare—Of his Personal

Peculiarities—Birth, Marriage, and Death—What we Know of Him—No Line

written by him to be Found—The Absurd Epitaph—II. Contemporaries

by whom he was Mentioned—III. No direct Mention of any of his

Contemporaries in the Plays—Events and Personages of his Time—IV.

Position of the Actor in Shakespeare's Time—Fortunately he was Not

Educated at Oxford—An Idealist—His Indifference to Stage-carpentry

and Plot—He belonged to All Lands—Knew the Brain and Heart of Man—An

Intellectual Spendthrift—V. The Baconian Theory—VI. Dramatists before

and during the Time of Shakespeare—Dramatic Incidents Illustrated in

Passages from "Macbeth" and "Julius Cæsar"—VII. His Use of the Work of

Others—The Pontic Sea—A Passage from "Lear"—VIII. Extravagance that

touches the Infinite—The Greatest Compliment—"Let me not live after

my flame lacks oil"—Where Pathos almost Touches the Grotesque—IX.

An Innovator and Iconoclast—Disregard of the "Unities"—Nature

Forgets—Violation of the Classic Model—X. Types—The Secret of

Shakespeare—Characters who Act from Reason and Motive—What they Say

not the Opinion of Shakespeare—XI. The Procession that issued from

Shakespeare's Brain—His Great Women—Lovable Clowns—His Men—Talent

and Genius—XII. The Greatest of all Philosophers—Master of the

Human Heart—Love—XIII. In the Realm of Comparison—XIV. Definitions:

Suicide, Drama, Death, Memory, the Body, Life, Echo, the

World, Rumor—The Confidant of Nature—XV. Humor and

Pathos—Illustrations—XVI. Not a Physician, Lawyer, or Botanist—He was

a Man of Imagination—He lived the Life of All—The Imagination had a

Stage in Shakespeare's Brain.

ROBERT BURNS.
(1878.)

Poetry and Poets—Milton, Dante, Petrarch—Old-time Poetry in

Scotland—Influence of Scenery on Literature—Lives that are

Poems—Birth of Burns—Early Life and Education—Scotland Emerging from

the Gloom of Calvinism—A Metaphysical Peasantry—Power of the Scotch

Preacher—Famous Scotch Names—John Barleycorn vs. Calvinism—Why Robert

Burns is Loved—His Reading—Made Goddesses of Women—Poet of Love: His

"Vision," "Bonnie Doon," "To Mary in Heaven"—Poet of Home:

"Cotter's Saturday Night," "John Anderson, My Jo"—Friendship: "Auld

Lang-Syne"—Scotch Drink: "Willie brew'd a peck o' maut"—Burns the

Artist: The "Brook," "Tam O'Shanter"—A Real Democrat: "A man's a man

for a' that"—His Theology: The Dogma of Eternal Pain, "Morality,"

"Hypocrisy," "Holy Willie's Prayer"—On the Bible—A Statement of his

Religion—Contrasted with Tennyson—From Cradle to Coffin—His Last

words—Lines on the Birth-place of Burns.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
(1894.)

I. Simultaneous Birth of Lincoln and Darwin—Heroes of Every

Generation—Slavery—Principle Sacrificed to Success—Lincoln's

Childhood—His first Speech—A Candidate for the Senate against

Douglass—II. A Crisis in the Affairs of the Republic—The South Not

Alone Responsible for Slavery—Lincoln's Prophetic Words—Nominated for

President and Elected in Spite of his Fitness—III. Secession and

Civil War—The Thought uppermost in his Mind—IV. A Crisis in the

North—Proposition to Purchase the Slaves—V. The Proclamation of

Emancipation—His Letter to Horace Greeley—Waited on by Clergymen—VI.

Surrounded by Enemies—Hostile Attitude of Gladstone, Salisbury,

Louis Napoleon, and the Vatican—VII. Slavery the Perpetual

Stumbling-block—Confiscation—VIII. His Letter to a Republican

Meeting in Illinois—Its Effect—IX. The Power of His Personality—The

Embodiment of Mercy—Use of the Pardoning Power—X. The Vallandigham

Affair—The Horace Greeley Incident—Triumphs of Humor—XI. Promotion of

General Hooker—A Prophecy and its Fulfillment—XII.—States Rights vs.

Territorial Integrity—XIII. His Military Genius—The Foremost Man in

all the World: and then the Horror Came—XIV. Strange Mingling of Mirth

and Tears—Deformation of Great Historic Characters—Washington now

only a Steel Engraving—Lincoln not a Type—Virtues Necessary in a

New Country—Laws of Cultivated Society—In the Country is the Idea

of Home—Lincoln always a Pupil—A Great Lawyer—Many-sided—Wit and

Humor—As an Orator—His Speech at Gettysburg contrasted with the

Oration of Edward Everett—Apologetic in his Kindness—No Official

Robes—The gentlest Memory of our World.

VOLTAIRE.
(1894.)

I. Changes wrought by Time—Throne and Altar Twin Vultures—The King and

the Priest—What is Greatness?—Effect of Voltaire's Name on Clergyman

and Priest—Born and Baptized—State of France in 1694—The Church

at the Head—Efficacy of Prayers and Dead Saints—Bells and Holy

Water—Prevalence of Belief in Witches, Devils, and Fiends—Seeds of

the Revolution Scattered by Noble and Priest—Condition in England—The

Inquisition in full Control in Spain—Portugal and Germany burning

Women—Italy Prostrate beneath the Priests, the Puritans in America

persecuting Quakers, and stealing Children—II. The Days of Youth—His

Education—Chooses Literature as a Profession and becomes a Diplomat—In

Love and Disinherited—Unsuccessful Poem Competition—Jansenists

and Molinists—The Bull Unigenitus—Exiled to Tulle—Sent to the

Bastile—Exiled to England—Acquaintances made there—III. The Morn

of Manhood—His Attention turned to the History of the Church—The

"Triumphant Beast" Attacked—Europe Filled with the Product of his

Brain—What he Mocked—The Weapon of Ridicule—His Theology—His

"Retractions"—What Goethe said of Voltaire—IV. The Scheme of

Nature—His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon

Earthquake—V. His Humanity—Case of Jean Calas—The Sirven Family—The

Espenasse Case—Case of Chevalier de la Barre and D'Etallonde—Voltaire

Abandons France—A Friend of Education—An Abolitionist—Not

a Saint—VI. The Return—His Reception—His Death—Burial at

Romilli-on-the-Seine—VII. The Death-bed Argument—Serene Demise of

the Infamous—God has no Time to defend the Good and protect the

Pure—Eloquence of the Clergy on the Death-bed Subject—The

Second Return—Throned upon the Bastile—The Grave Desecrated by

Priests—Voltaire.

A Testimonial to Walt Whitman—Let us put Wreaths on the Brows of the

Living—Literary Ideals of the American People in 1855—"Leaves of

Grass"—Its reception by the Provincial Prudes—The Religion of the

Body—Appeal to Manhood and Womanhood—Books written for the

Market—The Index Expurgatorius—Whitman a believer in

Democracy—Individuality—Humanity—An Old-time Sea-fight—What is

Poetry?—Rhyme a Hindrance to Expression—Rhythm the Comrade of

the Poetic—Whitman's Attitude toward Religion—Philosophy—The Two

Poems—"A Word Out of the Sea"—"When Lilacs Last in the Door"—"A Chant

for Death"—

The History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives of

Infidels—The King and the Priest—The Origin of God and Heaven, of

the Devil and Hell—The Idea of Hell born of Ignorance, Brutality,

Cowardice, and Revenge—The Limitations of our Ancestors—The Devil

and God—Egotism of Barbarians—The Doctrine of Hell not an Exclusive

Possession of Christianity—The Appeal to the Cemetery—Religion and

Wealth, Christ and Poverty—The "Great" not on the Side of Christ and

his Disciples—Epitaphs as Battle-cries—Some Great Men in favor of

almost every Sect—Mistakes and Superstitions of Eminent Men—Sacred

Books—The Claim that all Moral Laws came from God through

the Jews—Fear—Martyrdom—God's Ways toward Men—The Emperor

Constantine—The Death Test—Theological Comity between Protestants and

Catholics—Julian—A childish Fable still Believed—Bruno—His Crime,

his Imprisonment and

LIBERTY IN LITERATURE.
(1890.)

"Old Age"—"Leaves of Grass"

THE GREAT INFIDELS.
(1881.)

Martyrdom—The First to die for Truth without Expectation of Reward—The

Church in the Time of Voltaire—Voltaire—Diderot—David Hume—Benedict

Spinoza—Our Infidels—Thomas Paine—Conclusion.

WHICH WAY?
(1884.)

I. The Natural and the Supernatural—Living for the Benefit of

your Fellow-Man and Living for Ghosts—The Beginning of Doubt—Two

Philosophies of Life—Two Theories of Government—II. Is our God

superior to the Gods of the Heathen?—What our God has done—III. Two

Theories about the Cause and Cure of Disease—The First Physician—The

Bones of St. Anne Exhibited in New York—Archbishop Corrigan and

Cardinal Gibbons Countenance a Theological Fraud—A Japanese Story—The

Monk and the Miraculous Cures performed by the Bones of a Donkey

represented as those of a Saint—IV.—Two Ways of accounting for Sacred

Books and Religions—V-Two Theories about Morals—Nothing Miraculous

about Morality—The Test of all Actions—VI. Search for the

Impossible—Alchemy—"Perpetual Motion"—Astrology—Fountain of Perpetual

Youth—VII. "Great Men" and the Superstitions in which they have

Believed—VIII. Follies and Imbecilities of Great Men—We do not know

what they Thought, only what they Said—Names of Great Unbelievers—Most

Men Controlled by their Surroundings—IX. Living for God in Switzerland,

Scotland, New England—In the Dark Ages—Let us Live for Man—X. The

Narrow Road of Superstition—The Wide and Ample Way—Let us Squeeze the

Orange Dry—This Was, This Is, This Shall Be.

ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.
(1894.)

The Truth about the Bible Ought to be Told—I. The Origin of the

Bible—Establishment of the Mosaic Code—Moses not the Author of the

Pentateuch—Some Old Testament Books of Unknown Origin—II. Is the Old

Testament Inspired?—What an Inspired Book Ought to Be—What the Bible

Is—Admission of Orthodox Christians that it is not Inspired as to

Science—The Enemy of Art—III. The Ten Commandments—Omissions and

Redundancies—The Story of Achan—The Story of Elisha—The Story of

Daniel—The Story of Joseph—IV. What is it all Worth?—Not True, and

Contradictory—Its Myths Older than the Pentateuch—Other Accounts

of the Creation, the Fall, etc.—Books of the Old Testament Named

and Characterized—V. Was Jehovah a God of Love?—VI. Jehovah's

Administration—VII. The New Testament—Many Other Gospels besides

our Four—Disagreements—Belief in Devils—Raising of the Dead—Other

Miracles—Would a real Miracle-worker have been Crucified?—VIII.

The Philosophy of Christ—Love of

Enemies—Improvidence—Self-Mutilation—The Earth as a

Footstool—Justice—A Bringer of War—Division of Families—IX. Is Christ

our Example?—X. Why should we place Christ at the Top and Summit of the

Human Race?—How did he surpass Other Teachers?—What he left Unsaid,

and Why—Inspiration—Rejected Books of the New Testament—The Bible and

the Crimes it has Caused.

VOLUME IV.--LECTURES

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

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?

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC.
(1896.)

I. Influence of Birth in determining Religious Belief—Scotch, Irish,

English, and Americans Inherit their Faith—Religions of Nations

not Suddenly Changed—People who Knew—What they were Certain

About—Revivals—Character of Sermons Preached—Effect of Conversion—A

Vermont Farmer for whom Perdition had no Terrors—The Man and his

Dog—Backsliding and Re-birth—Ministers who were Sincere—A Free Will

Baptist on the Rich Man and Lazarus—II. The Orthodox God—The

Two Dispensations—The Infinite Horror—III. Religious Books—The

Commentators—Paley's Watch Argument—Milton, Young, and Pollok—IV.

Studying Astronomy—Geology—Denial and Evasion by the Clergy—V. The

Poems of Robert Burns—Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Shakespeare—VI.

Volney, Gibbon, and Thomas Paine—Voltaire's Services to Liberty—Pagans

Compared with Patriarchs—VII. Other Gods and Other Religions—Dogmas,

Myths, and Symbols of Christianity Older than our Era—VIII. The Men

of Science, Humboldt, Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel—IX. Matter and

Force Indestructible and Uncreatable—The Theory of Design—X. God an

Impossible Being—The Panorama of the Past—XI. Free from Sanctified

Mistakes and Holy Lies.

THE TRUTH.
(1897.)

I. The Martyrdom of Man—How is Truth to be Found—Every Man should be

Mentally Honest—He should be Intellectually Hospitable—Geologists,

Chemists, Mechanics, and Professional Men are Seeking for the Truth—II.

Those who say that Slavery is Better than Liberty—Promises are not

Evidence—Horace Greeley and the Cold Stove—III. "The Science of

Theology" the only Dishonest Science—Moses and Brigham Young—Minds

Poisoned and Paralyzed in Youth—Sunday Schools and Theological

Seminaries—Orthodox Slanderers of Scientists—Religion has nothing

to do with Charity—Hospitals Built in Self-Defence—What Good has the

Church Accomplished?—Of what use are the Orthodox Ministers, and

What are they doing for the Good of Mankind—The Harm they are

Doing—Delusions they Teach—Truths they Should Tell about the

Bible—Conclusions—Our Christs and our Miracles.

HOW TO REFORM MANKIND.
(1896.)

I. "There is no Darkness but Ignorance"—False Notions Concerning

All Departments of Life—Changed Ideas about Science, Government and

Morals—II. How can we Reform the World?—Intellectual Light the First

Necessity—Avoid Waste of Wealth in War—III. Another Waste—Vast Amount

of Money Spent on the Church—IV. Plow can we Lessen Crime?—Frightful

Laws for the Punishment of Minor Crimes—A Penitentiary should be a

School—Professional Criminals should not be Allowed to Populate the

Earth—V. Homes for All-Make a Nation of Householders—Marriage

and Divorce-VI. The Labor Question—Employers cannot Govern

Prices—Railroads should Pay Pensions—What has been Accomplished

for the Improvement of the Condition of Labor—VII. Educate the

Children—Useless Knowledge—Liberty cannot be Sacrificed for the Sake

of Anything—False worship of Wealth—VIII. We must Work and Wait.

A THANKSGIVING SERMON.
(1897.)

I. Our fathers Ages Ago—From Savagery to Civilization—For the

Blessings we enjoy, Whom should we Thank?—What Good has the Church

Done?-Did Christ add to the Sum of Useful Knowledge—The Saints—What

have the Councils and Synods Done?—What they Gave us, and What they

did Not—Shall we Thank them for the Hell Here and for the Hell of

the Future?—II. What Does God Do?—The Infinite Juggler and his

Puppets—What the Puppets have Done—Shall we Thank these

Gods?—Shall we Thank Nature?—III. Men who deserve our Thanks—The

Infidels, Philanthropists and Scientists—The Discoverers and

Inventors—Magellan—Copernicus—Bruno—Galileo—Kepler, Herschel,

Newton, and LaPlace—Lyell—What the Worldly have Done—Origin and

Vicissitudes of the Bible—The Septuagint—Investigating the Phenomena

of Nature—IV. We thank the Good Men and Good Women of the Past—The

Poets, Dramatists, and Artists—The Statesmen—Paine, Jefferson,

Ericsson, Lincoln. Grant—Voltaire, Humboldt, Darwin.

A LAY SERMON.
(1886.)

Prayer of King Lear—When Honesty wears a Rag and Rascality a Robe-The

Nonsense of "Free Moral Agency "—Doing Right is not Self-denial-Wealth

often a Gilded Hell—The Log House—Insanity of Getting

More—Great Wealth the Mother of Crime—Separation of Rich and

Poor—Emulation—Invention of Machines to Save Labor—Production and

Destitution—The Remedy a Division of the Land—Evils of Tenement

Houses—Ownership and Use—The Great Weapon is the Ballot—Sewing

Women—Strikes and Boycotts of No Avail—Anarchy, Communism, and

Socialism—The Children of the Rich a Punishment for Wealth—Workingmen

Not a Danger—The Criminals a Necessary Product—Society's Right

to Punish—The Efficacy of Kindness—Labor is Honorable—Mental

Independence.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH.
(1895.)

I. The Old Testament—Story of the Creation—Age of the Earth and

of Man—Astronomical Calculations of the Egyptians—The Flood—The

Firmament a Fiction—Israelites who went into Egypt—Battles of the

Jews—Area of Palestine—Gold Collected by David for the Temple—II. The

New Testament—Discrepancies about the Birth of Christ—Herod and

the Wise Men—The Murder of the Babes of Bethlehem—When was Christ

born—Cyrenius and the Census of the World—Genealogy of Christ

according to Matthew and Luke—The Slaying of Zacharias—Appearance of

the Saints at the Crucifixion—The Death of Judas Iscariot—Did

Christ wish to be Convicted?—III. Jehovah—IV. The Trinity—The

Incarnation—Was Christ God?—The Trinity Expounded—"Let us pray"—V.

The Theological Christ—Sayings of a Contradictory Character—Christ a

Devout Jew—An ascetic—His Philosophy—The Ascension—The Best that Can

be Said about Christ—The Part that is beautiful and Glorious—The Other

Side—VI. The Scheme of Redemption—VII. Belief—Eternal Pain—No Hope

in Hell, Pity in Heaven, or Mercy in the Heart of God—VIII. Conclusion.

SUPERSTITION.
(1898.)

I. What is Superstition?—Popular Beliefs about the Significance

of Signs, Lucky and Unlucky Numbers, Days, Accidents, Jewels,

etc.—Eclipses, Earthquakes, and Cyclones as Omens—Signs and Wonders

of the Heavens—Efficacy of Bones and Rags of Saints—Diseases and

Devils—II. Witchcraft—Necromancers—What is a Miracle?—The Uniformity

of Nature—III. Belief in the Existence of Good Spirits or Angels—God

and the Devil—When Everything was done by the Supernatural—IV. All

these Beliefs now Rejected by Men of Intelligence—The Devil's Success

Made the Coming of Christ a Necessity—"Thou shalt not Suffer a Witch

to Live"—Some Biblical Angels—Vanished Visions—V. Where are Heaven

and Hell?—Prayers Never Answered—The Doctrine of Design—Why Worship

our Ignorance?—Would God Lead us into Temptation?—President McKinley's

Thanks giving for the Santiago Victory—VI. What Harm Does Superstition

Do?—The Heart Hardens and the Brain Softens—What Superstition has Done

and Taught—Fate of Spain—Of Portugal, Austria, Germany—VII. Inspired

Books—Mysteries added to by the Explanations of Theologians—The

Inspired Bible the Greatest Curse of Christendom—VIII. Modifications

of Jehovah—Changing the Bible—IX. Centuries of Darkness—The Church

Triumphant—When Men began to Think—X. Possibly these Superstitions are

True, but We have no Evidence—We Believe in the Natural—Science is the

Real Redeemer.

THE DEVIL.
(1899.)

I. If the Devil should Die, would God Make Another?—How was the Idea

of a Devil Produced—Other Devils than Ours—Natural Origin of these

Monsters—II. The Atlas of Christianity is The Devil—The Devil of the

Old Testament—The Serpent in Eden—"Personifications" of Evil—Satan

and Job—Satan and David—III. Take the Devil from the Drama

of Christianity and the Plot is Gone—Jesus Tempted by the Evil

One—Demoniac Possession—Mary Magdalene—Satan and Judas—Incubi

and Succubi—The Apostles believed in Miracles and Magic—The Pool of

Bethesda—IV. The Evidence of the Church—The Devil was forced to

Father the Failures of God—Belief of the Fathers of the Church

in Devils—Exorcism at the Baptism of an Infant in the Sixteenth

Century—Belief in Devils made the Universe a Madhouse presided over by

an Insane God—V. Personifications of the Devil—The Orthodox Ostrich

Thrusts his Head into the Sand—If Devils are Personifications so are

all the Other Characters of the Bible—VI. Some Queries about the

Devil, his Place of Residence, his Manner of Living, and his Object in

Life—Interrogatories to the Clergy—VII. The Man of Straw the Master

of the Orthodox Ministers—His recent Accomplishments—VIII. Keep the

Devils out of Children—IX. Conclusion.—Declaration of the Free.

PROGRESS.
(1860-64.)

The Prosperity of the World depends upon its Workers—Veneration for the

Ancient—Credulity and Faith of the Middle Ages—Penalty for Reading

the Scripture in the Mother Tongue—Unjust, Bloody, and Cruel Laws—The

Reformers too were Persecutors—Bigotry of Luther and Knox—Persecution

of Castalio—Montaigne against Torture in France—"Witchcraft" (chapter

on)—Confessed Wizards—A Case before Sir Matthew Hale—Belief

in Lycanthropy—Animals Tried and Executed—Animals received

as Witnesses—The Corsned or Morsel of Execution—Kepler an

Astrologer—Luther's Encounter with the Devil—Mathematician

Stoefflers, Astronomical Prediction of a Flood—Histories Filled with

Falsehood—Legend about the Daughter of Pharaoh invading Scotland and

giving the Country her name—A Story about Mohammed—A History of the

Britains written by Archdeacons—Ingenuous Remark of Eusebius—Progress

in the Mechanic Arts—England at the beginning of the Eighteenth

Century—Barbarous Punishments—Queen Elizabeth's Order Concerning

Clergymen and Servant Girls—Inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and

Others—Solomon's Deprivations—Language (chapter on)—Belief that the

Hebrew was< the original Tongue—Speculations about the Language

of Paradise—Geography (chapter on)—The Works of Cosmas—Printing

Invented—Church's Opposition to Books—The Inquisition—The

Reformation—"Slavery" (chapter on)—Voltaire's Remark on Slavery as

a Contract—White Slaves in Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, and

France—Free minds make Free Bodies—Causes of the Abolition of White

Slavery in Europe—The French Revolution—The African Slave Trade,

its Beginning and End—Liberty Triumphed (chapter head)—Abolition of

Chattel Slavery—Conclusion.

WHAT IS RELIGION?
(1899.)

I. Belief in God and Sacrifice—Did an Infinite God Create the Children

of Men and is he the Governor of the Universe?—II. If this God Exists,

how do we Know he is Good?—Should both the Inferior and the Superior

thank God for their Condition?—III. The Power that Works for

Righteousness—What is this Power?—The Accumulated Experience of the

World is a Power Working for Good?—Love the Commencement of the Higher

Virtues—IV. What has our Religion Done?—Would Christians have been

Worse had they Adopted another Faith?—V. How Can Mankind be Reformed

Without Religion?—VI. The Four Corner-stones of my Theory—VII. Matter

and Force Eternal—Links in the Chain of Evolution—VIII. Reform—The

Gutter as a Nursery—Can we Prevent the Unfit from Filling the World

with their Children?—Science must make Woman the Owner and Mistress

of Herself—Morality Born of Intelligence—IX. Real Religion and Real

Worship.

VOLUME V.--DISCUSSIONS

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

PREFACE.

INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.

FIRST INTERVIEW.

SECOND INTERVIEW.

THIRD INTERVIEW.

FOURTH INTERVIEW.

FIFTH INTERVIEW,

SIXTH INTERVIEW.

THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.

A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.

CONCLUSION.

THE OBSERVER'S SECOND ATTACK

INGERSOLL'S SECOND REPLY.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

INGERSOLL'S SIX INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.
(1882.)

Preface—First Interview: Great Men as Witnesses

to the Truth of the Gospel—No man should quote

the Words of Another unless he is willing to

Accept all the Opinions of that Man—Reasons of

more Weight than Reputations—Would a general

Acceptance of Unbelief fill the Penitentiaries?—

My Creed—Most Criminals Orthodox—Relig-ion and

Morality not Necessarily Associates—On the

Creation of the Universe out of Omnipotence—Mr.

Talmage's Theory about the Pro-duction of Light

prior to the Creation of the Sun—The Deluge and

the Ark—Mr. Talmage's tendency to Belittle the

Bible Miracles—His Chemical, Geological, and

Agricultural Views—His Disregard of Good Manners-

-Second Interview: An Insulting Text—God's Design

in Creating Guiteau to be the Assassin of

Garfield—Mr. Talmage brings the Charge of

Blasphemy—Some Real Blasphemers—The Tabernacle

Pastor tells the exact Opposite of the Truth about

Col. Ingersoll's Attitude toward the Circulation

of Immoral Books—"Assassinating" God—Mr.

Talmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern

Times Mentioned in the Bible—The Reverend

Gentleman corrects the Translators of the Bible in

the Matter of the Rib Story—Denies that Polygamy

is permitted by the Old Testament—His De-fence of

Queen Victoria and Violation of the Grave of

George Eliot—Exhibits a Christian Spirit—Third

Interview: Mr. Talmage's Partiality in the

Bestowal of his Love—Denies the Right of Laymen

to Examine the Scriptures—Thinks the Infidels

Victims of Bibliophobia —He explains the Stopping

of the Sun and Moon at the Command of Joshua—

Instances a Dark Day in the Early Part of the

Century—Charges that Holy Things are Made Light

of—Reaffirms his Confidence in the Whale and

Jonah Story—The Commandment which Forbids the

making of Graven Images—Affirmation that the

Bible is the Friend of Woman—The Present

Condition of Woman—Fourth Interview: Colonel

Ingersoll Compared by Mr. Talmage tojehoiakim, who

Consigned Writings of Jeremiah to the Flames—An

Intimation that Infidels wish to have all copies

of the Bible Destroyed by Fire—Laughter

Deprecated—Col. Ingersoll Accused of Denouncing

his Father—Mr. Talmage holds that a Man may be

Perfectly Happy in Heaven with His Mother in Hell-

-Challenges the Infidel to Read a Chapter from St.

John—On the "Chief Solace of the World"—Dis-

covers an Attempt is being made to Put Out the

Light-houses of the Farther Shore—Affirms our

Debt to Christianity for Schools, Hospitals,

etc.—Denies that Infidels have ever Done any

Good—

Fifth Interview: Inquiries if Men gather Grapes of

Thorns, or Figs of Thistles, and is Answered in

the Negative—Resents the Charge that the Bible is

a Cruel Book—Demands to Know where the Cruelty of

the Bible Crops out in the Lives of Christians—

Col. Ingersoll Accused of saying that the Bible

is a Collection of Polluted Writings—Mr. Talmage

Asserts the Orchestral Harmony of the Scriptures

from Genesis to Revelation, and Repudiates the

Theory of Contradictions—His View of Mankind

Indicated in Quotations from his Confession of

Faith—He Insists that the Bible is Scientific—

Traces the New Testament to its Source with St.

John—Pledges his Word that no Man ever Died for a

Lie Cheerfully and Triumphantly—As to Prophecies

and Predictions—Alleged "Prophetic" Fate of the

Jewish People—Sixth Interview: Dr. Talmage takes

the Ground that the Unrivalled Circulation of the

Bible Proves that it is Inspired—Forgets' that a

Scientific Fact does not depend on the Vote of

Numbers—Names some Christian Millions—His

Arguments Characterized as the Poor-est, Weakest,

and Best Possible in Support of the Doctrine of

Inspira-tion—Will God, in Judging a Man, take

into Consideration the Cir-cumstances of that

Man's Life?—Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believ-

ing that the Bible is inspired.

THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.
THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.

The Pith and Marrow of what Mr. Talmage has been

Pleased to Say, set forth in the form of a Shorter

Catechism.

A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.
(1877.)

Letter to the New York Observer—An Offer to Pay

One Thousand Dollars in Gold for Proof that Thomas

Paine or Voltaire Died in Terror because of any

Religious Opinions Either had Expressed—

Proposition to Create a Tribunal to Hear the

Evidence—The Ob-server, after having Called upon

Col. Ingersoll to Deposit the Money, and

Characterized his Talk as "Infidel 'Buncombe,'"

Denies its Own Words, but attempts to Prove them—

Its Memory Refreshed by Col. Ingersoll and the

Slander Refuted—Proof that Paine did Not Recant -

-Testimony of Thomas Nixon, Daniel Pelton, Mr.

Jarvis, B. F. Has-kin, Dr. Manley, Amasa

Woodsworth, Gilbert Vale, Philip Graves, M. D.,

Willet Hicks, A. C. Hankinson, John Hogeboom, W.

J. Hilton, Tames Cheetham, Revs. Milledollar and

Cunningham, Mrs. Hedden, Andrew A. Dean, William

Carver,—The Statements of Mary Roscoe and Mary

Hindsdale Examined—William Cobbett's Account of a

Call upon Mary Hinsdale—Did Thomas Paine live the

Life of a Drunken Beast, and did he Die a Drunken,

Cowardly, and Beastly Death?—Grant Thorbum's

Charges Examined—Statement of the Rev. J. D.

Wickham, D.D., shown to be Utterly False—False

Witness of the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D.—W. H.

Ladd, James Cheetham, and Mary Hinsdale—Paine's

Note to Cheetham—Mr-Staple, Mr. Purdy, Col. John

Fellows, James Wilburn, Walter Morton, Clio

Rickman, Judge Herttell, H. Margary, Elihu Palmer,

Mr.

XV

Lovett, all these Testified that Paine was a

Temperate Man—Washington's Letter to Paine—

Thomas Jefferson's—Adams and Washing-ton on

"Common Sense"—-James Monroe's Tribute—

Quotations from Paine—Paine's Estate and His

Will—The Observer's Second Attack (p. 492):

Statements of Elkana Watson, William Carver, Rev.

E. F. Hatfield, D.D., James Cheetham, Dr. J. W.

Francis, Dr. Manley, Bishop Fenwick—Ingersoll's

Second Reply (p. 516): Testimony Garbled by the

Editor of the Observer—Mary Roscoeand Mary Hins-

dale the Same Person—Her Reputation for Veracity-

-Letter from Rev. A. W. Cornell—Grant Thorburn

Exposed by James Parton—The Observer's Admission

that Paine did not Recant—Affidavit of

William B. Barnes.

VOLUME VI.--DISCUSSIONS

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY JEREMIAH S. BLACK.

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.

FAITH OR AGNOSTICISM.

THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.

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

A LAST WORD TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

LETTER TO DR. FIELD.

CONTROVERSY ON CHRISTIANTY

COL. INGERSOLL TO MR. GLADSTONE.

ROME OR REASON.

THE CHURCH ITS OWN WITNESS, By Cardinal Manning.

ROME OR REASON: A REPLY TO CARDINAL MANNING.

IS DIVORCE WRONG?

DIVORCE.

IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER
(1881.)

I. Col. Ingersoll's Opening Paper—Statement of the Fundamental Truths

of Christianity—Reasons for Thinking that Portions of the Old Testament

are the Product of a Barbarous People—Passages upholding

Slavery, Polygamy, War, and Religious Persecution not Evidences of

Inspiration—If the Words are not Inspired, What Is?—Commands of

Jehovah compared with the Precepts of Pagans and Stoics—Epictetus,

Cicero, Zeno, Seneca, Brahma—II. The New Testament—Why were

Four Gospels Necessary?—Salvation by Belief—The Doctrine of

the Atonement—The Jewish System Culminating in the Sacrifice of

Christ—Except for the Crucifixion of her Son, the Virgin Mary would be

among the Lost—What Christ must have Known would Follow the Acceptance

of His Teachings—The Wars of Sects, the Inquisition, the Fields of

Death—Why did he not Forbid it All?—The Little that he Revealed—The

Dogma of Eternal Punishment—Upon Love's Breast the Church has Placed

the Eternal Asp—III. The "Inspired" Writers—Why did not God furnish

Every Nation with a Bible?

II. Judge Black's Reply—His Duty that of a Policeman—The Church not

in Danger—Classes who Break out into Articulate Blasphemy—The

Sciolist—Personal Remarks about Col. Ingersoll—Chief-Justice Gibson of

Pennsylvania Quoted—We have no Jurisdiction or Capacity to Rejudge the

Justice of God—The Moral Code of the Bible—Civil Government of the

Jews—No Standard of Justice without Belief in a God—Punishments for

Blasphemy and Idolatry Defended—Wars of Conquest—Allusion to Col.

Ingersoll's War Record—Slavery among the Jews—Polygamy Discouraged by

the Mosaic Constitution—Jesus of Nazareth and the Establishment of

his Religion—Acceptance of Christianity and Adjudication upon its

Divinity—The Evangelists and their Depositions—The Fundamental Truths

of Christianity—Persecution and Triumph of the Church—Ingersoll's

Propositions Compressed and the Compressions Answered—Salvation as a

Reward of Belief—Punishment of Unbelief—The Second Birth, Atonement,

Redemption, Non-resistance, Excessive Punishment of Sinners, Christ and

Persecution, Christianity and Freedom of Thought, Sufficiency of the

Gospel, Miracles, Moral Effect of Christianity.

III. Col. Ingersoll's Rejoinder—How this Discussion Came About—Natural

Law—The Design Argument—The Right to Rejudge the Justice even of a

God—Violation of the Commandments by Jehovah—Religious Intolerance

of the Old Testament—Judge Black's Justification of Wars of

Extermination—His Defence of Slavery—Polygamy not "Discouraged" by the

Old Testament—Position of Woman under the Jewish System and under that

of the Ancients—a "Policeman's" View of God—Slavery under Jehovah

and in Egypt—The Admission that Jehovah gave no Commandment against

Polygamy—The Learned and Wise Crawl back in Cribs—Alleged Harmony of

Old and New Testaments—On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity

Proves the Supernatural Origin of the Gospel—The Argument applicable to

All Religions—Communications from Angels ana Gods—Authenticity of

the Statements of the Evangelists—Three Important Manuscripts—Rise

of Mormonism—Ascension of Christ—The Great Public Events alleged

as Fundamental Truths of Christianity—Judge Black's System

of "Compression"—"A Metaphysical Question"—Right and

Wrong—Justice—Christianity and Freedom of Thought—Heaven and

Hell—Production of God and the Devil—Inspiration of the Bible

dependent on the Credulity of the Reader—Doubt of Miracles—The

World before Christ's Advent—Respect for the Man Christ—The Dark

Ages—Institutions of Mercy—Civil Law.

THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.
(1887.)

An Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll—Superstitions—Basis of

Religion—Napoleon's Question about the Stars—The Idea of God—Crushing

out Hope—Atonement, Regeneration, and Future Retribution—Socrates and

Jesus—The Language of Col. Ingersoll characterized as too Sweeping—The

Sabbath—But a Step from Sneering at Religion to Sneering at Morality.

A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D.—Honest Differences of

Opinion—Charles Darwin—Dr. Field's Distinction between Superstition

and Religion—The Presbyterian God an Infinite Torquemada—Napoleon's

Sensitiveness to the Divine Influence—The Preference of Agassiz—The

Mysterious as an Explanation—The Certainty that God is not what he

is Thought to Be—Self-preservation the Fibre of Society—Did

the Assassination of Lincoln Illustrate the Justice of God's

Judgments?—Immortality—Hope and the Presbyterian Creed—To a Mother

at the Grave of Her Son—Theological Teaching of Forgiveness—On

Eternal Retribution—Jesus and Mohammed—Attacking the Religion of

Others—Ananias and Sapphira—The Pilgrims and Freedom to Worship—The

Orthodox Sabbath—Natural Restraints on Conduct—Religion and

Morality—The Efficacy of Prayer—Respect for Belief of Father and

Mother—The "Power behind Nature"—Survival of the Fittest—The Saddest

Fact—"Sober Second Thought."

A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll, by Dr. Field—God not a

Presbyterian—Why Col. Ingersoll's Attacks on Religion are Resented—God

is more Merciful than Man—Theories about the Future Life—Retribution

a Necessary Part of the Divine Law—The Case of Robinson

Crusoe—Irresistible Proof of Design—Col. Ingersoll's View of

Immortality—An Almighty Friend.

Letter to Dr. Field—The Presbyterian God—What the Presbyterians

Claim—The "Incurably Bad"—Responsibility for not seeing Things

Clearly—Good Deeds should Follow even Atheists—No Credit in

Belief—Design Argument that Devours Itself—Belief as a Foundation

of Social Order—No Consolation in Orthodox Religion—The "Almighty

Friend" and the Slave Mother—a Hindu Prayer—Calvinism—Christ not the

Supreme Benefactor of the Race.

COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY.

(1888.)

Some Remarks on his Reply to Dr. Field by the Hon. Wm. E.

Gladstone—External Triumph and Prosperity of the Church—A Truth Half

Stated—Col. Ingersoll's Tumultuous Method and lack of Reverential

Calm—Jephthah's Sacrifice—Hebrews xii Expounded—The Case of

Abraham—Darwinism and the Scriptures—Why God demands Sacrifices of

Man—Problems admitted to be Insoluble—Relation of human Genius

to Human Greatness—Shakespeare and Others—Christ and the Family

Relation—Inaccuracy of Reference in the Reply—Ananias and

Sapphira—The Idea of Immortality—Immunity of Error in Belief from

Moral Responsibility—On Dishonesty in the Formation of Opinion—A

Plausibility of the Shallowest kind—The System of Thuggism—Persecution

for Opinion's Sake—Riding an Unbroken Horse.

Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladstone—On the "Impaired" State of the human

Constitution—Unbelief not Due to Degeneracy—Objections to the

Scheme of Redemption—Does Man Deserve only Punishment?—"Reverential

Calm"—The Deity of the Ancient Jews—Jephthah and Abraham—Relation

between Darwinism and the Inspiration of the Scriptures—Sacrifices to

the Infinite—What is Common Sense?—An Argument that will Defend every

Superstition—The Greatness of Shakespeare—The Absolute Indissolubility

of Marriage—Is the Religion of Christ for this Age?—As to Ananias and

Sapphira—Immortality and People of Low Intellectual Development—Can

we Control our Thought?—Dishonest Opinions Cannot be Formed—Some

Compensations for Riding an "Unbroken Horse."

ROME OR REASON.
(1888.)

"The Church Its Own Witness," by Cardinal Manning—Evidence

that Christianity is of Divine Origin—The Universality of the

Church—Natural Causes not Sufficient to Account for the Catholic

Church—-The World in which Christianity Arose—Birth of Christ—From

St Peter to Leo XIII.—The First Effect of Christianity—Domestic

Life's Second Visible Effect—Redemption of Woman from traditional

Degradation—Change Wrought by Christianity upon the Social, Political

and International Relations of the World—Proof that Christianity is of

Divine Origin and Presence—St. John and the Christian Fathers—Sanctity

of the Church not Affected by Human Sins.

A Reply to Cardinal Manning—I. Success not a Demonstration of either

Divine Origin or Supernatural Aid—Cardinal Manning's Argument

More Forcible in the Mouth of a Mohammedan—Why Churches Rise and

Flourish—Mormonism—Alleged Universality of the Catholic Church—Its

"inexhaustible Fruitfulness" in Good Things—The Inquisition and

Persecution—Not Invincible—Its Sword used by Spain—Its Unity not

Unbroken—The State of the World when Christianity was Established—The

Vicar of Christ—A Selection from Draper's "History of the Intellectual

Development of Europe"—Some infamous Popes—Part II. How the Pope

Speaks—Religions Older than Catholicism and having the Same Rites

and Sacraments—Is Intellectual Stagnation a Demonstration of Divine

Origin?—Integration and Disintegration—The Condition of the World 300

Years Ago—The Creed of Catholicism—The "One true God" with a Knowledge

of whom Catholicism has "filled the World"—Did the Catholic Church

overthrow Idolatry?—Marriage—Celibacy—Human Passions—The Cardinal's

Explanation of Jehovah's abandonment of the Children of Men for

four thousand Years—Catholicism tested by Paganism—Canon Law

and Convictions had Under It—Rival Popes—Importance of a Greek

"Inflection"—The Cardinal Witnesses.

IS DIVORCE WRONG?
(1889.)

Preface by the Editor of the North American Review—Introduction, by the

Rev. S. W. Dike, LL. D.—A Catholic View by Cardinal Gibbons—Divorce

as Regarded by the Episcopal Church, by Bishop, Henry C. Potter—Four

Questions Answered, by Robert G. Ingersoll.

DIVORCE.
Reply to Cardinal Gibbons—Indissolubility of Marriage a Reaction

from Polygamy—Biblical Marriage—Polygamy Simultaneous and

Successive—Marriage and Divorce in the Light of Experience—Reply

to Bishop Potter—Reply to Mr. Gladstone—Justice Bradley—Senator

Dolph—The argument Continued in Colloquial Form—Dialogue between

Cardinal Gibbons and a Maltreated Wife—She Asks the Advice of Mr.

Gladstone—The Priest who Violated his Vow—Absurdity of the Divorce

laws of Some States.

REPLY TO DR. LYMAN ABBOTT.

(1890)

Dr. Abbott's Equivocations—Crimes Punishable by Death under Mosaic

and English Law—Severity of Moses Accounted for by Dr. Abbott—The

Necessity for the Acceptance of Christianity—Christians should be

Glad to Know that the Bible is only the Work of Man and that the New

Testament Life of Christ is Untrue—All the Good Commandments, Known

to the World thousands of Years before Moses—Human Happiness of

More Consequence than the Truth about God—The Appeal to Great

Names—Gladstone not the Greatest Statesman—What the Agnostic Says—The

Magnificent Mistakes of Genesis—The Story of Joseph—Abraham as a

"self-Exile for Conscience's Sake."

REPLY TO ARCHDEACON FARRAR.

(1890.)

Revelation as an Appeal to Man's "Spirit"—What is Spirit and what is

"Spiritual Intuition"?—The Archdeacon in Conflict with St. Paul—II.

The Obligation to Believe without Evidence—III. Ignorant Credulity—IV.

A Definition of Orthodoxy—V. Fear not necessarily Cowardice—Prejudice

is Honest—The Ola has the Advantage in an Argument—St.

Augustine—Jerome—the Appeal to Charlemagne—Roger Bacon—Lord Bacon

a Defender of the Copernican System—The Difficulty of finding out

what Great Men Believed—Names Irrelevantly Cited—Bancroft on the

Hessians—Original Manuscripts of the Bible—VI. An Infinite Personality

a Contradiction in Terms—VII. A Beginningless Being—VIII. The

Cruelties of Nature not to be Harmonized with the Goodness of a

Deity—Sayings from the Indian—Origen, St. Augustine, Dante, Aquinas.

IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
(1890.)

A Reply to the Dean of St. Paul—Growing Confidence in the Power of

Kindness—Crimes against Soldiers and Sailors—Misfortunes Punished

as Crimes—The Dean's Voice Raised in Favor of the Brutalities of the

Past—Beating of Children—Of Wives—Dictum of Solomon.

VOLUME VII.--DISCUSSIONS

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

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?

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.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED.
(1877.)

Answer to San Francisco Clergymen—Definition of Liberty, Physical

and Mental—The Right to Compel Belief—Woman the Equal of Man—The

Ghosts—Immortality—Slavery—Witchcraft—Aristocracy of the

Air—Unfairness of Clerical Critics—Force and Matter—Doctrine of

Negation—Confident Deaths of Murderers—Childhood Scenes returned to

by the Dying—Death-bed of Voltaire—Thomas Paine—The First

Sectarians Were Heretics—Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard—Slaughter of

the Canaanites—Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson—Protestant

Persecutions—Toleration—Infidelity and Progress—The

Occident—Calvinism—Religious Editors—Reply to the Rev. Mr.

Ijams—Does the Bible teach Man to Enslave his Brothers?—Reply to

California Christian Advocate—Self-Government of French People at

and Since the Revolution—On the Site of the Bastile—French

Peasant's Cheers for Jesus Christ—Was the World created in Six

Days—Geology—What is the Astronomy of the Bible?—The Earth the Centre

of the Universe—Joshua's Miracle—Change of Motion into Heat—Geography

and Astronomy of Cosmas—Does the Bible teach the Existence of

that Impossible Crime called Witchcraft?—Saul and the Woman of

Endor—Familiar Spirits—Demonology of the New Testament—Temptation of

Jesus—Possession by Devils—Gadarene Swine Story—Test of Belief—Bible

Idea of the Rights of Children—Punishment of the Rebellious

Son—Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice—Persecution of Job—The Gallantry

of God—Bible Idea of the Rights of Women—Paul's Instructions to

Wives—Permission given to Steal Wives—Does the Bible Sanction

Polygamy and Concubinage?—Does the Bible Uphold and Justify Political

Tyranny?—Powers that be Ordained of God—Religious Liberty of

God—Sun-Worship punishable with Death—Unbelievers to be damned—Does

the Bible describe a God of Mercy?—Massacre Commanded—Eternal

Punishment Taught in the New Testament—The Plan of Salvation—Fall

and Atonement Moral Bankruptcy—Other Religions—Parsee

Sect—Brahmins—Confucians—Heretics and Orthodox.

MY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS.
(1879.)

Rev. Robert Collyer—Inspiration of the Scriptures—Rev. Dr.

Thomas—Formation of the Old Testament—Rev. Dr. Kohler—Rev. Mr.

Herford—Prof. Swing—Rev. Dr. Ryder.

TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.
TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.

(1882.)

Rev. David Walk—Character of Jesus—Two or Three Christs Described

in the Gospels—Christ's Change of Opinions—Gospels Later than the

Epistles—Divine Parentage of Christ a Late Belief—The Man Christ

probably a Historical Character—Jesus Belittled by his Worshipers—He

never Claimed to be Divine—Christ's Omissions—Difference between

Christian and other Modern Civilizations—Civilization not Promoted

by Religion—Inventors—French and American Civilization: How

Produced—Intemperance and Slavery in Christian Nations—Advance due to

Inventions and Discoveries—Missionaries—Christian Nations Preserved by

Bayonet and Ball—Dr. T. B. Taylor—Origin of Life on this Planet—Sir

William Thomson—Origin of Things Undiscoverable—Existence after

Death—Spiritualists—If the Dead Return—Our Calendar—Christ and

Christmas-The Existence of Pain—Plato's Theory of Evil—Will God do

Better in Another World than he does in this?—Consolation—Life Not a

Probationary Stage—Rev. D.O'Donaghue—The Case of Archibald Armstrong

and Jonathan Newgate—Inequalities of Life—Can Criminals live a

Contented Life?—Justice of the Orthodox God Illustrated.

THE BROOKLYN DIVINES.
(1883.)

Are the Books of Atheistic or Infidel Writers Extensively

Read?—Increase in the Number of Infidels—Spread of Scientific

Literature—Rev. Dr. Eddy—Rev. Dr. Hawkins—Rev. Dr. Haynes—Rev.

Mr. Pullman—Rev. Mr. Foote—Rev. Mr. Wells—Rev. Dr. Van Dyke—Rev.

Carpenter—Rev. Mr. Reed—Rev. Dr. McClelland—Ministers Opposed to

Discussion—Whipping Children—Worldliness as a Foe of the Church—The

Drama—Human Love—Fires, Cyclones, and Other Afflictions as Promoters

of Spirituality—Class Distinctions—Rich and Poor—Aristocracies—The

Right to Choose One's Associates—Churches Social Affairs—Progress

of the Roman Catholic Church—Substitutes for the Churches—Henry

Ward Beecher—How far Education is Favored by the Sects—Rivals of the

Pulpit—Christianity Now and One Hundred Years Ago—French Revolution

produced by the Priests—Why the Revolution was a Failure—Infidelity

of One Hundred Years Ago—Ministers not more Intellectual than a Century

Ago—Great Preachers of the Past—New Readings of Old Texts—Clerical

Answerers of Infidelity—Rev. Dr. Baker—Father Fransiola—Faith and

Reason—Democracy of Kindness—Moral Instruction—Morality Born of Human

Needs—The Conditions of Happiness—The Chief End of Man.

THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.
(1888.)

Discussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert,

and ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of

New York—Propositions—Toleration not a Disclaimer but a Waiver of the

Right to Persecute—Remarks of Courtlandt Palmer—No Responsibility for

Thought—Intellectual Hospitality—Right of Free Speech—Origin of the

term "Toleration"—Slander and False Witness—Nobody can Control his own

Mind: Anecdote—Remarks of Mr. Coudert—Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and

Ingersoll—General Woodford's Speech—Reply by Colonel Ingersoll—A

Catholic Compelled to Pay a Compliment to Voltaire—Responsibility for

Thoughts—The Mexican Unbeliever and his Reception in the Other Country.

A CHRISTMAS SERMON.
(1891.)

Christianity's Message of Grief—Christmas a Pagan Festival—Reply

to Dr. Buckley—Charges by the Editor of the Christian Advocate—The

Tidings of Christianity—In what the Message of Grief Consists—Fear

and Flame—An Everlasting Siberia—Dr. Buckley's Proposal to Boycott the

Telegram—Reply to Rev. J. M. King and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Cana Day

be Blasphemed?—Hurting Christian feelings—For Revenue only What is

Blasphemy?—Balaam's Ass wiser than the Prophet—The Universalists—Can

God do Nothing for this World?—The Universe a Blunder if Christianity

is true—The Duty of a Newspaper—Facts Not Sectarian—The Rev.

Mr. Peters—What Infidelity Has Done—Public School System not

Christian—Orthodox Universities—Bruno on Oxford—As to Public

Morals—No Rewards or Punishments in the Universe—The Atonement

Immoral—As to Sciences and Art—Bruno, Humboldt, Darwin—Scientific

Writers Opposed by the Church—As to the Liberation of Slaves—As to

the Reclamation of Inebriates—Rum and Religion—The Humanity

of Infidelity—What Infidelity says to the Dying—The Battle

Continued—Morality not Assailed by an Attack on Christianity—The

Inquisition and Religious Persecution—Human Nature Derided by

Christianity—Dr. DaCosta—"Human Brotherhood" as exemplified by

the History of the Church—The Church and Science, Art and

Learning——Astronomy's Revenge—Galileo and Kepler—Mrs. Browning:

Science Thrust into the Brain of Europe—Our Numerals—Christianity and

Literature—Institution's of Learning—Stephen Girard—James Lick—Our

Chronology—Historians—Natural Philosophy—Philology—Metaphysical

Research—Intelligence, Hindoo, Egyptian—Inventions—John

Ericsson—Emancipators—Rev. Mr. Ballou—The Right of Goa to

Punish—Rev. Dr. Hillier—Rev. Mr. Haldeman—George A. Locey—The "Great

Physician"—Rev. Mr. Talmage—Rev. J. Benson Hamilton—How Voltaire

Died—The Death-bed of Thomas Paine—Rev. Mr. Holloway—Original

Sin—Rev. Dr. Tyler—The Good Samaritan a Heathen—Hospitals and

Asylums—Christian Treatment of the Insane—Rev. Dr. Buckley—The

North American Review Discussion—Judge Black, Dr. Field,

Mr. Gladstone—Circulation of Obscene Literature—Eulogy of

Whiskey—Eulogy of Tobacco—Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods—Rev.

Charles Deems—Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil—The Man Christ.

SUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE.
(1892.)

Reply to the Western Watchman—Henry D'Arcy—Peter's

Prevarication-Some Excellent Pagans-Heartlessness of a

Catholic—Wishes do not Affect the Judgment—Devout Robbers—Penitent

Murderers—Reverential Drunkards—Luther's Distich—Judge

Normile—Self-destruction.

IS SUICIDE A SIN?
(1894.)

Col. Ingersoll's First Letter in The New York World—Under what

Circumstances a Man has the Right to take his Own Life—Medicine and the

Decrees of God—Case of the Betrayed Girl—Suicides not Cowards—Suicide

under Roman Law—Many Suicides Insane—Insanity Caused by Religion—The

Law against Suicide Cruel and Idiotic—Natural and Sufficient Cause for

Self-destruction—Christ's Death a Suicide—Col. Ingersoll's Reply to his

Critics—Is Suffering the Work of God?—It is not Man's Duty to

Endure Hopeless Suffering—When Suicide is Justifiable—The

Inquisition—Alleged Cowardice of Suicides—Propositions

Demonstrated—Suicide the Foundation of the Christian

Religion—Redemption and Atonement—The Clergy on Infidelity

and Suicide—Morality and Unbelief—Better injure yourself than

Another—Misquotation by Opponents—Cheerful View the Best—The

Wonder is that Men endure—Suicide a Sin (Interview in The New

York Journal)—Causes of Suicide—Col. Ingersoll Does Not Advise

Suicide—Suicides with Tracts or Bibles in their Pockets—Suicide a Sin

(Interview in The New York Herald)—Comments on Rev. Alerle St. Croix

Wright's Sermon—Suicide and Sanity (Interview in The York World)—As to

the Cowardice of Suicide—Germany and the Prevalence of Suicide—Killing

of Idiots and Defective Infants—Virtue, Morality, and Religion.

IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
(1891.)

Reply to General Rush Hawkins' Article, "Brutality and Avarice

Triumphant"—Croakers and Prophets of Evil—Medical Treatment

for Believers in Universal Evil—Alleged Fraud in Army

Contracts—Congressional Extravagance—Railroad "Wreckers"—How

Stockholders in Some Roads Lost Their Money—The Star-Route

Trials—Timber and Public Lands—Watering Stock—The Formation

of Trusts—Unsafe Hotels: European Game and Singing Birds—Seal

Fisheries—Cruelty to Animals—Our Indians—Sensible and Manly

Patriotism—Days of Brutality—Defence of Slavery by the Websters,

Bentons, and Clays—Thirty Years' Accomplishment—Ennobling Influence of

War for the Right—The Lady ana the Brakeman—American Esteem of Honesty

in Business—Republics do not Tend to Official Corruption—This the Best

Country in the World.

A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
(1878.)

Defence of the Lecture on Moses—How Biblical Miracles are sought to

be Proved—Some Non Sequiturs—A Grammatical Criticism—Christianity

Destructive of Manners—Cuvier and Agassiz on Mosaic Cosmogony—Clerical

Advance agents—Christian Threats and Warnings—Catholicism the Upas

Tree—Hebrew Scholarship as a Qualification for Deciding Probababilities

—Contradictions and Mistranslations of the Bible—Number of Errors in

the Scriptures—The Sunday Question.

AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.
(1881.)

Charged with Blasphemy in the State of Delaware—Can a Conditionless

Deity be Injured?—Injustice the only Blasphemy—The Lecture

in Delaware—Laws of that State—All Sects in turn Charged with

Blasphemy—Heresy Consists in making God Better than he is Thought

to Be—A Fatal Biblical Passage—Judge Comegys—Wilmington

Preachers—States with Laws against Blasphemy—No Danger of Infidel

Mobs—No Attack on the State of Delaware Contemplated—Comegys a

Resurrection—Grand Jury's Refusal to Indict—Advice about the Cutting

out of Heretics' Tongues—Objections to the Whipping-post—Mr. Bergh's

Bill—One Remedy for Wife-beating.

A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.
(1882.)

Solemnity—Charged with Being Insincere—Irreverence—Old Testament

Better than the New—"Why Hurt our Feelings?"—Involuntary Action of

the Brain—Source of our Conceptions of Space—Good and Bad—Right and

Wrong—The Minister, the Horse and the Lord's Prayer—Men Responsible

for their Actions—The "Gradual" Theory Not Applicable to

the Omniscient—Prayer Powerless to Alter Results—Religious

Persecution—Orthodox Ministers Made Ashamed of their

Creed—Purgatory—Infidelity and Baptism Contrasted—Modern Conception

of the Universe—The Golden Bridge of Life—"The Only Salutation"—The

Test for Admission to Heaven—"Scurrility."

A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.
(1892.)

Dr. Hall has no Time to Discuss the subject of Starving

Workers—Cloakmakers' Strike—Warner Van Norden of the Church Extension

Society—The Uncharitableness of Organized Charity—Defence of the

Cloakmakers—Life of the Underpaid—On the Assertion that Assistance

encourages Idleness and Crime—The Man without Pity an Intellectual

Beast—Tendency of Prosperity to Breed Selfishness—Thousands Idle

without Fault—Egotism of Riches—Van Norden's Idea of Happiness—The

Worthy Poor.

A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.
(1898.)

Interview in a Boston Paper—Why should a Minister call this a "Poor"

World?—Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?—Gospel

Gossip—Christ's Sayings Repetitions—The Philosophy of Confucius—Rev.

Mr. Mills—The Charge of "Robbery"—The Divine Plan.

A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.
(1898.)

Interview in the New York Journal—Rev. Roberts. MacArthur—A

Personal Devil—Devils who held Conversations with Christ not simply

personifications of Evil—The Temptation—The "Man of Straw"—Christ's

Mission authenticated by the Casting Out of Devils—Spain—God

Responsible for the Actions of Man—Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Parks—Rev. Dr. E.

F. Moldehnke—Patience amidst the Misfortunes of Others—Yellow Fever

as a Divine Agent—The Doctrine that All is for the Best—Rev. Mr.

Hamlin—Why Did God Create a Successful Rival?—A Compliment by the

Rev. Mr. Belcher—Rev. W. C. Buchanan—No Argument Old until it is

Answered—Why should God Create sentient Beings to be Damned?—Rev. J.

W. Campbell—Rev. Henry Frank—Rev. E. C.J. Kraeling on Christ and the

Devil—Would he make a World like This?

VOLUME VIII.--INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

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.

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.

PROHIBITION.

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.

SPIRITUALISM.

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.*

VOLUME IX.--POLITICAL

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.

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.

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.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.

AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
(1867.)

Slavery and its Justification by Law and Religion—Its Destructive

Influence upon Nations—Inauguration of the Modern Slave Trade by the

Portuguese Gonzales—Planted upon American Soil—The Abolitionists,

Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Others—The Struggle in England—Pioneers

in San Domingo, Oge and Chevannes—Early Op-posers of Slavery in

America—William Lloyd Garrison—Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John

Brown—The Fugitive Slave Law—The Emancipation Proclamation—Dread of

Education in the South—Advice to the Colored People.

INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.
(1868.)

Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus—Precedent Established by the

Revolutionary Fathers—Committees of Safety appointed by the

Continental Congress—Arrest of Disaffected Persons in Pennsylvania

and Delaware—Interference with Elections—Resolution of Continental

Congress with respect to Citizens who Opposed the sending of Deputies

to the Convention of New York—Penalty for refusing to take Continental

Money or Pray for the American Cause—Habeas Corpus Suspended during the

Revolution—Interference with Freedom of the Press—Negroes Freed and

allowed to Fight in the Continental Army—Crispus Attacks—An Abolition

Document issued by Andrew Jackson—Majority rule—Slavery and the

Rebellion—Tribute to General Grant.

SPEECH NOMINATING BLAINE.

(1876.)

Note descriptive of the Occasion—Demand of the Republicans of the

United States—Resumption—The Plumed Knight.

CENTENNIAL ORATION.
(1876.)

One Hundred Years ago, our Fathers retired the Gods from Politics—The

Declaration of Independence—Meaning of the Declaration—The Old Idea

of the Source of Political Power—Our Fathers Educated by their

Surroundings—The Puritans—Universal Religious Toleration declared by

the Catholics of Maryland—Roger Williams—Not All of our Fathers in

favor of Independence—Fortunate Difference in Religious Views—Secular

Government—Authority derived from the People—The Declaration and

the Beginning of the War—What they Fought For—Slavery—Results of

a Hundred Years of Freedom—The Declaration Carried out in Letter and

Spirit.

BANGOR SPEECH.
(1876.)

The Hayes Campaign—Reasons for Voting the Republican Ticket—Abolition

of Slavery—Preservation of the Union—Reasons for Not Trusting the

Democratic Party—Record of the Republican Party—Democrats Assisted

the South—Paper Money—Enfranchisement of the Negroes—Samuel J.

Tilden—His Essay on Finance.

COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.
COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.

(1876.)

All Citizens Stockholders in the United States of America—The

Democratic Party a Hungry Organization—Political Parties

Contrasted—The Fugitive Slave Law a Disgrace to Hell in its Palmiest

Days—Feelings of the Democracy Hurt on the Subject of Religion—Defence

of Slavery in a Resolution of the Presbyterians, South—State of the

Union at the Time the Republican Party was Born—Jacob Thompson—The

National Debt—Protection of Citizens Abroad—Tammany Hall: Its Relation

to the Penitentiary—The Democratic Party of New York City—"What

Hands!"—Free Schools.

INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH.
(1876.)

Address to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion—Objections to

the Democratic Party—The Men who have been Democrats—Why I am a

Republican—Free Labor and Free Thought—A Vision of War—Democratic

Slander of the Greenback—Shall the People who Saved the Country Rule

It?—On Finance—Government Cannot Create Money—The Greenback Dollar

a Mortgage upon the Country—Guarantees that the Debt will be Paid-'The

Thoroughbred and the Mule—The Column of July, Paris—The Misleading

Guide Board, the Dismantled Mill, and the Place where there had been a

Hotel,

CHICAGO SPEECH.
(1876.)

The Plea of "Let Bygones be Bygones"—Passport of the Democratic

Party—Right of the General Government to send Troops into Southern

States for the Protection of Colored People—Abram S. Hewitt's

Congratulatory Letter to the Negroes—The Demand for Inflation of the

Currency—Record of Rutherford B. Hayes—Contrasted with Samuel J.

Tilden—Merits of the Republican Party—Negro and Southern White—The

Superior Man—"No Nation founded upon Injustice can Permanently Stand."

EIGHT TO SEVEN ADDRESS.
(1877.)

On the Electoral Commission—Reminiscences of the Hayes-Tilden Camp—

Constitution of the Electoral College—Characteristics of the Members—

Frauds at the Ballot Box Poisoning the Fountain of Power—Reforms

Suggested—Elections too Frequent—The Professional Office-seeker—A

Letter on Civil Service Reform—Young Men Advised against Government

Clerkships—Too Many Legislators and too Much Legislation—Defect in the

Constitution as to the Mode of Electing a President—Protection of

Citizens by State and General Governments—The Dual Government in South

Carolina—Ex-Rebel Key in the President's Cabinet—Implacables and

Bourbons South and North—"I extend to you each and all the Olive Branch

of Peace."

HARD TIMES AND THE WAY OUT.
(1878.)

Capital and Labor—What is a Capitalist?—The Idle and the Industrious

Artisans—No Conflict between Capital and Labor—A Period of Inflation

and Speculation—Life and Fire Insurance Agents—Business done on

Credit—The Crash, Failure, and Bankruptcy—Fall in the Price of Real

Estate a Form of Resumption—Coming back to Reality—Definitions of

Money Examined—Not Gold and Silver but Intelligent Labor the Measure

of Value—Government cannot by Law Create Wealth—A Bill of Fare not

a Dinner—Fiat Money—American Honor Pledged to the Maintenance of the

Greenbacks—The Cry against Holders of Bonds—Criminals and Vagabonds to

be supported—Duty of Government to Facilitate Enterprise—More Men must

Cultivate the Soil—Government Aid for the Overcoming of Obstacles too

Great for Individual Enterprise—The Palace Builders the Friends of

Labor—Extravagance the best Form of Charity—Useless to Boost a Man

who is not Climbing—The Reasonable Price for Labor—The Vagrant and his

strange and winding Path—What to tell the Working Men.

SUFFRAGE ADDRESS.
(1880.)

The Right to Vote—All Women who desire the Suffrage should have

It—Shall the People of the District of Columbia Manage their Own

Affairs—Their Right to a Representative in Congress and an Electoral

Vote—Anomalous State of Affairs at the Capital of the Republic—Not the

Wealthy and Educated alone should Govern—The Poor as Trustworthy as the

Rich—Strict Registration Laws Needed.

WALL STREET SPEECH.
(1880.)

Obligation of New York to Protect the Best Interests of the

Country—Treason and Forgery of the Democratic Party in its Appeal to

Sword and Pen—The One Republican in the Penitentiary of Maine—The

Doctrine of State Sovereignty—Protection for American Brain and

Muscle—Hancock on the Tariff—A Forgery (the Morey letter) Committed

and upheld—The Character of James A. Garfield.

BROOKLYN SPEECH.
(1880.)

Introduced by Henry Ward Beecher (note)—Some Patriotic

Democrats—Freedom of Speech North and South—An Honest Ballot—

ADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.

DECORATION DAY ORATION.

DECORATION DAY ADDRESS.

RATIFICATION SPEECH.

REUNION ADDRESS.

THE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.

VOLUME X.--LEGAL

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.

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

ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.

ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.

ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.
Demoralization caused by Alcohol—Note from the Chicago

Times—Prejudice—Review of the Testimony of Jacob Rehm—Perjury

Characterized—The Defendant and the Offence Charged (p. 21)—Testimony

of Golsen Reviewed—Rehm's Testimony before the Grand Jury—Good

Character (p. 29)—Suspicion not Evidence.

CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.

Note from the Washington Capital—The Assertion Denied that we are

a Demoralized Country and that our Country is Distinguished among

the Nations only for Corruption—Duties of Jurors and Duties of

Lawyers—Section under which the Indictment is Found—Cases cited to

Show that Overt Acts charged and also the Crime itself must be Proved

as Described—Routes upon which Indictments are Based and Overt Acts

Charged (pp. 54-76)—Routes on which the Making of False Claims is

Alleged—Authorities on Proofs of Conspiracy (pp. 91-94)—Examination

of the Evidence against Stephen W. and John W. Dorsey (pp. 96-117)—The

Corpus Delicti in a Case of Conspiracy and the Acts Necessary to be Done

in Order to Establish Conspiracy (pp. 120-123)—Testimony of Walsh

and the Confession of Rerdell—Extravagance in Mail Carrying (p.

128)—Productiveness of Mail Routes (p. 131)—Hypothesis of Guilt and

Law of Evidence—Dangerous Influence of Suspicion—Terrorizing the

Jury—The Woman at Her Husband's Side.

OPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
Juries the Bulwark of Civil Liberty—Suspicion Not Evidence—Brief

Statement of the Case—John M. Peck, John W. Dorsey, Stephen W. Dorsey,

John R. Miner, Mr. (A. E. ) Boone (p.p. 150-156)—The Clendenning

Bonds—Miner's, Peck's, and Dorsey's Bids—Why they Bid on Cheap

Routes—Number of Routes upon which there are Indictments—The

Arrangement between Stephen W. Dorsey and John R. Miner—Appearance

of Mr. Vaile in the Contracts—Partnership Formed—The Routes

Divided—Senator Dorsey's Course after Getting the Routes—His Routes

turned over to James W. Bosler—Profits of the Business (p. 181)—The

Petitions for More Mails—Productive and Unproductive Post-offices—Men

who Add to the Wealth of the World—Where the Idea of the Productiveness

of Post routes was Hatched—Cost of Letters to Recipients in 1843—The

Overland Mail (p. 190)—Loss in Distributing the Mail in the District

of Columbia and Other Territories—Post-office the only Evidence

of National Beneficence—Profit and Loss of Mail Carrying—Orders

Antedated, and Why—Routes Increased and Expedited—Additional Bonds for

Additional Trips—The Charge that Pay was Received when the Mail was

not Carried—Fining on Shares—Subcontracts for Less than the Original

Contracts—Pay on Discontinued Routes—Alleged False Affidavits—Right

of Petition—Reviewing the Ground.

CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.

Scheme of the Indictment—Story of the Case—What Constitutes Fraudulent

Bidding—How a Conspiracy Must be Proved—The Hypothesis of Guilt and

Law of Evidence—Conversation Unsatisfactory Evidence—Fallibility of

Memory—Proposition to Produce Mr. Dorsey's Books—Interruption of the

Court to Decide that Primary Evidence, having Once been Refused, can not

afterwards be Introduced to Contradict Secondary Evidence—A Defendant

may not be Presumed into the Penitentiary—A Decision by Justice

Field—The Right of Petition—Was there a Conspiracy?—Dorsey's

Benevolence (p. 250)—The Chico Springs Letter—Evidence of Moore

Reviewed—Mr. Ker's Defective Memory—The Informer System—Testimony

of Rerdell Reviewed—His Letter to Dorsey (p. 304)—The Affidavit of

Rerdell and Dorsey—Petitions for Faster Time—Uncertainty Regarding

Handwriting—Government Should be Incapable of Deceit—Rerdell's

withdrawal of the Plea of Not Guilty (p. 362)—Informers, their Immunity

and Evidence—Nailing Down the Lid of Rerdell's Coffin—Mistakes of

Messrs. Ker and Merrick and the Court—Letter of H. M. Vaile to the

Sixth Auditor—Miner's Letter to Carey—Miner, Peck & Co. to Frank A.

Tuttle—Answering Points Raised by Mr. Bliss (396 et seq.)—Evidence

regarding the Payment of Money by Dorsey to Brady—A. E. Boone's

Testimony Reviewed—Secrecy of Contractors Regarding the Amount of their

Bids—Boone's Partnership Agreement with Dorsey—Explanation of Bids

in Different Names—Omission of Instructions from Proposals (p.

450)—Accusation that Senator Mitchell was the Paid Agent of

the Defendants—Alleged Sneers at Things held Sacred—What is a

Conspiracy?—The Theory that there was a Conspiracy—Dorsey's Alleged

Interest—The Two Affidavits in Evidence—Inquiry of General Miles—Why

the Defendant's Books were not Produced—Tames W. Bosler's Testimony

Read (p. 500)—The Court shown to be Mistaken Regarding a Decision

Previously Made (pp. 496-502)—No Logic in Abuse—Charges against John

W. Miner—Testimony of A. W. Moore Reviewed-The Verdict Predicted—The

Defendants in the Case—What is left for the Jury to Say—Remarks of

Messrs. Henkle and Davidge—The Verdict.

ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.
Note from the Anaconda Standard—Senator Sander's Warning to the Jury

Not to be Enticed by Sinners—Evidence, based on Quality of Handwriting,

that Davis did not Write the Will—Evidence of the Spelling—Assertion

that the Will was Forged—Peculiarities of Eddy's Handwriting—Holes

in Sconce's Signature and Reputation—His Memory—Business Sagacity

of Davis—His Alleged Children—Date of his Death—Testimony of Mr.

Knight—Ink used in Writing the Will—Expert Evidence—Speechlessness

of John A. Davis—Eddy's Failure to take the Stand—Testimony of

Carruthers—Relatives of Sconce—Mary Ann Davis's Connections—The

Family Tree—The Signature of the Will—What the Evidence Shows—Duty

and Opportunity of the Jury.

ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.
Antenuptial Waiving of Dower by Women—A Case from Illinois—At What

Age Men and Women Cease to Feel the Tender Flame—Russell's Bargain with

Mrs. Russell—Antenuptial Contract and Parole Agreement—Definition

of "Liberal Provision "—The Woman not Bound by a Contract Made in

Ignorance of the Facts—Contract Destroyed by Deception.

VOLUME XI.--MISCELLANY

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.

ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS 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.

WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?

HUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM.

ERNEST RENAN.

TOLSTOÏ AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."

THOMAS PAINE.

THE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS.

SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?

A WORD ABOUT EDUCATION.

WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.

FOOL FRIENDS.

INSPIRATION

THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.

HOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER.

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.

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.

ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
Introduction by Frederick Douglass("Abou Ben Adhem")—Decision of

the United States Supreme Court pronouncing the Civil Rights Act

Unconstitutional—Limitations of Judges—Illusion Destroyed by the

Decision in the Dred Scott Case—Mistake of Our Fathers in adopting

the Common Law of England—The 13th Amendment to the Constitution

Quoted—The Clause of the Constitution upholding Slavery—Effect of

this Clause—Definitions of a State by Justice Wilson and Chief Justice

Chase—Effect of the Thirteenth Amendment—Justice Field on Involuntary

Servitude—Civil Rights Act Quoted—Definition of the Word Servitude by

the Supreme Court—Obvious Purpose of the Amendment—Justice Miller

on the 14th Amendment—Citizens Created by this Amendment—Opinion

of Justice Field—Rights and Immunities guaranteed by the

Constitution—Opinion delivered by Chief-Justice Waite—Further Opinions

of Courts on the question of Citizenship—Effect of the 13th, 14th and

15th Amendments—"Corrective" Legislation by Congress—Denial of equal

"Social" Privileges—Is a State responsible for the Action of its Agent

when acting contrary to Law?—The Word "State" must include the People

of the State as well as the Officers of the State—The Louisiana Civil

Rights Law, and a Case tried under it—Uniformity of Duties essential to

the Carrier—Congress left Powerless to protect Rights conferred by the

Constitution—Definition of "Appropriate Legislation"—Propositions laid

down regarding the Sovereignty of the State, the powers of the General

Government, etc.—A Tribute to Justice Harlan—A Denial that Property

exists by Virtue of Law—Civil Rights not a Question of Social

Equality—Considerations upon which Social Equality depends—Liberty not

a Question of Social Equality—The Superior Man—Inconsistencies of the

Past—No Reason why we should Hate the Colored People—The Issues that

are upon Us.

TRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.
ADDRESS TO THE JURY.

Report of the Case from the New York Times (note)—The Right to express

Opinions—Attempts to Rule the Minds of Men by Force—Liberty the

Greatest Good—Intellectual Hospitality Defined—When the Catholic

Church had Power—Advent of the Protestants—The Puritans, Quakers.

Unitarians, Universalists—What is Blasphemy?—Why this Trial should not

have Taken Place—Argument cannot be put in Jail—The Constitution of

New Jersey—A higher Law than Men can Make—The Blasphemy Statute

Quoted and Discussed—Is the Statute Constitutional?—The Harm done

by Blasphemy Laws—The Meaning of this Persecution—Religions are

Ephemeral—Let us judge each other by our Actions—Men who have braved

Public Opinion should be Honored—The Blasphemy Law if enforced would

rob the World of the Results of Scientific Research—It declares the

Great Men of to-day to be Criminals—The Indictment Read and Commented

upon—Laws that go to Sleep—Obsolete Dogmas the Denial of which was

once punished by Death—Blasphemy Characterized—On the Argument

that Blasphemy Endangers the Public Peace—A Definition of real

Blasphemy—Trials for Blasphemy in England—The case of Abner

Kneeland—True Worship, Prayer, and Religion—What is Holy and

Sacred—What is Claimed in this Case—For the Honor of the State—The

word Liberty—Result of the Trial (note).

GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION.
The Feudal System—Office and Purpose of our Constitution—Which God

shall we Select?—The Existence of any God a Matter of Opinion—What is

entailed by a Recognition of a God in the Constitution—Can the Infinite

be Flattered with a Constitutional Amendment?—This government is

Secular—The Government of God a Failure—The Difference between the

Theological and the Secular Spirit—A Nation neither Christian nor

Infidel—The Priest no longer a Necessity—Progress of Science and the

Development of the Mind.

A REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING.
On God in the Constitution—Why the Constitutional Convention ignored

the Question of Religion—The Fathers Misrepresented—Reasons why the

Attributes of God should not form an Organic Part of the Law of the

Land—The Effect of a Clause Recognizing God.

CRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS.
The Three Pests of a Community—I. Forms of Punishment and Torture—More

Crimes Committed than Prevented by Governments—II. Are not Vices

transmitted by Nature?—111. Is it Possible for all People to be

Honest?—Children of Vice as the natural Product of Society—Statistics:

the Relation between Insanity, Pauperism, and Crime—IV. The Martyrs of

Vice—Franklin's Interest in the Treatment of Prisoners—V. Kindness

as a Remedy—Condition of the Discharged Prisoner—VI. Compensation

for Convicts—VII. Professional Criminals—Shall the Nation take

Life?—Influence of Public Executions on the Spectators—Lynchers

for the Most Part Criminals at Heart—VIII. The Poverty of the Many a

perpetual Menace—Limitations of Land-holding.—IX. Defective Education

by our Schools—Hands should be educated as well as Head—Conduct

improved by a clearer Perception of Consequences—X. The Discipline of

the average Prison Hardening and Degrading—While Society cringes before

Great Thieves there will be Little Ones to fill the Jails—XI. Our

Ignorance Should make us Hesitate.

A WOODEN GOD.
On Christian and Chinese worship—Report of the Select Committee

on Chinese Immigration—The only true God as contrasted with

Joss—Sacrifices to the "Living God"—Messrs. Wright, Dickey, O'Connor

and Murch on the "Religious System" of the American Union—How to prove

that Christians are better than Heathens—Injustice in the Name of

God—An honest Merchant the best Missionary—A Few Extracts from

Confucius—The Report proves that the Wise Men of China who predicted

that Christians could not be Trusted were not only Philosophers but

Prophets.

SOME INTERROGATION POINTS.
A New Party and its Purpose—The Classes that Exist in every

Country—Effect of Education on the Common People—Wants Increased by

Intelligence—The Dream of 1776—The Monopolist and the Competitor—The

War between the Gould and Mackay Cables—Competition between

Monopolies—All Advance in Legislation made by Repealing Laws—Wages

and Values not to be fixed by Law—Men and Machines—The Specific of

the Capitalist: Economy—The poor Man and Woman devoured by

their Fellow-men—Socialism one of the Worst Possible forms of

Slavery—Liberty not to be exchanged for Comfort—Will the Workers

always give their Earnings for the Useless?—Priests, Successful Frauds,

and Robed Impostors.

ART AND MORALITY.
The Origin of Man's Thoughts—The imaginative Man—"Medicinal View" of

Poetry—Rhyme and Religion—The theological Poets and their Purpose in

Writing—Moral Poets and their "Unwelcome Truths"—The really Passionate

are the Virtuous—Difference between the Nude and the Naked—Morality

the Melody of Conduct—The inculcation of Moral Lessons not contemplated

by Artists or great Novelists—Mistaken Reformers—Art not a

Sermon—Language a Multitude of Pictures—Great Pictures and Great

Statues painted and chiseled with Words—Mediocrity moral from a

Necessity which it calls Virtue—Why Art Civilizes—The Nude—The Venus

de Milo—This is Art.

THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.
The Way in which Theological Seminaries were Endowed—Religious

Guide-boards—Vast Interests interwoven with Creeds—Pretensions of

Christianity—Kepler's Discovery of his Three Great Laws—Equivocations

and Evasions of the Church—Nature's Testimony against the

Bible—The Age of Man on the Earth—"Inspired" Morality of the

Bible—Miracles—Christian Dogmas—What the church has been Compelled to

Abandon—The Appeal to Epithets, Hatred and Punishment—"Spirituality"

the last Resource of the Orthodox—What is it to be Spiritual?—Two

Questions for the Defenders of Orthodox Creeds.

WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
Part I. Inharmony of Nature and the Lot of Man with the Goodness and

Wisdom of a supposed Deity—Why a Creator is Imagined—Difficulty of the

Act of Creation—Belief in Supernatural Beings—Belief and Worship among

Savages—Questions of Origin and Destiny—Progress impossible without

Change of Belief—Circumstances Determining Belief—How may the

True Religion be Ascertained?—Prosperity of Nations nor Virtue

of Individuals Dependent on Religions or Gods—Uninspired Books

Superior—Part II. The Christian Religion—Credulity—Miracles cannot

be Established—Effect of Testimony—Miraculous Qualities of all

Religions—Theists and Naturalists—The Miracle of Inspiration—How

can the alleged Fact of Inspiration be Established?—God's work and

Man's—Rewards for Falsehood offered by the Church.

HUXLEY AND AGNOSTICISM.
Statement by the Principal of King's College—On the Irrelevancy of a

Lack of Scientific Knowledge—Difference between the Agnostic and

the Christian not in Knowledge but in Credulity—The real name of

an Agnostic said to be "Infidel"—What an Infidel is—"Unpleasant"

significance of the Word—Belief in Christ—"Our Lord and his Apostles"

possibly Honest Men—Their Character not Invoked—Possession by evil

spirits—Professor Huxley's Candor and Clearness—The splendid Dream

of Auguste Comte—Statement of the Positive Philosophy—Huxley and

Harrison.

ERNEST RENAN.
His Rearing and his Anticipated Biography—The complex Character of the

Christ of the Gospels—Regarded as a Man by Renan—The Sin against the

Holy Ghost—Renan on the Gospels—No Evidence that they were written

by the Men whose Names they Bear—Written long after the Events they

Describe—Metaphysics of the Church found in the Gospel of John—Not

Apparent why Four Gospels should have been Written—Regarded as

legendary Biographies—In "flagrant contradiction one with another"—The

Divine Origin of Christ an After-growth—Improbable that he intended to

form a Church—Renan's Limitations—Hebrew Scholarship—His "People of

Israel"—His Banter and Blasphemy.

TOLSTOY AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."

Tolstoy's Belief and Philosophy—His Asceticism—His View of Human

Love—Purpose of "The Kreutzer Sonata"—Profound Difference between the

Love of Men and that of Women—Tolstoy cannot now found a Religion, but

may create the Necessity for another Asylum—The Emotions—The Curious

Opinion Dried Apples have of Fruit upon the Tree—Impracticability of

selling All and giving to the Poor—Love and Obedience—Unhappiness in

the Marriage Relation not the fault of Marriage.

THOMAS PAINE.
Life by Moncure D. Conway—Early Advocacy of Reforms against Dueling

and Cruelty to Animals—The First to write "The United States of

America"—Washington's Sentiment against Separation from Great

Britain—Paine's Thoughts in the Declaration of Independence—Author of

the first Proclamation of Emancipation in America—Establishment of a

Fund for the Relief of the Army—H's "Farewell Address"—The "Rights of

Man"—Elected to the French Convention—Efforts to save the Life of the

King—His Thoughts on Religion—Arrested—The "Age of Reason" and the

Weapons it has furnished "Advanced Theologians"—Neglect by Gouverneur

Morris and Washington—James Monroe's letter to Paine and to the

Committee of General Safety—The vaunted Religious Liberty of

Colonial Maryland—Orthodox Christianity at the Beginning of the 19th

Century—New Definitions of God—The Funeral of Paine.

THE THREE PHILANTHROPISTS.
I. Mr. A., the Professional Philanthropist, who established a Colony

for the Enslavement of the Poor who could not take care of themselves,

amassed a large Fortune thereby, built several churches, and earned

the Epitaph, "He was the Providence of the Poor"—II. Mr. B.,

the Manufacturer, who enriched himself by taking advantage of the

Necessities of the Poor, paid the lowest Rate of Wages, considered

himself one of God's Stewards, endowed the "B Asylum" and the "B

College," never lost a Dollar, and of whom it was recorded, "He Lived

for Others." III. Mr. C., who divided his Profits with the People who had

earned it, established no Public Institutions, suppressed Nobody; and

those who have worked for him said, "He allowed Others to live for

Themselves."

SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?

Trampling on the Rights of Inferiors—Rise of the Irish and Germans

to Power—The Burlingame Treaty—Character of Chinese Laborers—Their

Enemies in the Pacific States—Violation of Treaties—The Geary Law—The

Chinese Hated for their Virtues—More Piety than Principle among the

People's Representatives—Shall we go back to Barbarism?

A WORD ABOUT EDUCATION.
What the Educated Man Knows—Necessity of finding out the Facts

of Nature—"Scholars" not always Educated Men; from necessaries to

luxuries; who may be called educated; mental misers; the first duty of

man; university education not necessary to usefulness, no advantage in

learning useless facts.

WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.
Would have the Kings and Emperors resign, the Nobility drop their

Titles, the Professors agree to teach only What they Know, the

Politicians changed to Statesmen, the Editors print only the

Truth—Would like to see Drunkenness and Prohibition abolished,

Corporal Punishment done away with, and the whole World free.

FOOL FRIENDS.
The Fool Friend believes every Story against you, never denies a Lie

unless it is in your Favor, regards your Reputation as Common Prey,

forgets his Principles to gratify your Enemies, and is so friendly that

you cannot Kick him.

INSPIRATION.
Nature tells a different Story to all Eyes and Ears—Horace Greeley and

the Big Trees—The Man who "always did like rolling land"—What the

Snow looked like to the German—Shakespeare's different Story for each

Reader—As with Nature so with the Bible.

THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.
People who live by Lying—A Case in point—H. Hodson Rugg's Account of

the Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers—The "Identity of

Lost Israel with the British Nation"—Old Falsehoods about Infidels—The

New York Observer and Thomas Paine—A Rascally English Editor—The

Charge that Ingersoll's Son had been Converted—The Fecundity of

Falsehood.

HOW TO EDIT A LIBERAL PAPER.
The Editor should not narrow his Horizon so that he can see only

One Thing—To know the Defects of the Bible is but the Beginning of

Wisdom—The Liberal Paper should not discuss Theological Questions

Alone—A Column for Children—Candor and Kindness—Nothing should be

Asserted that is not Known—Above All, teach the Absolute Freedom of the

Mind.

SECULARISM.
The religion of Humanity; what it Embraces and what it Advocates—A

Protest against Ecclesiastical Tyranny—Believes in Building a Home

here—Means Food and Fireside—The Right to express your Thought—Its

advice to every Human Being—A Religion without Mysteries, Miracles, or

Persecutions.

CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."
Religion unsoftened by Infidelity—The Orthodox Minister whose Wife has

a Heart—Honesty of Opinion not a Mitigating Circumstance—Repulsiveness

of an Orthodox Life—John Ward an Object of Pity—Lyndall of the

"African Farm"—The Story of the Hunter—Death of Waldo—Women the

Caryatides of the Church—Attitude of Christianity toward other

Religions—Egotism of the ancient Jews.

THE LIBEL LAWS.
All Articles appearing in a newspaper should be Signed by the

Writer—The Law if changed should throw greater Safeguards around the

Reputation of the Citizen—Pains should be taken to give Prominence to

Retractions—The Libel Laws like a Bayonet in War.

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

Mr. Newton not Regarded as a Sceptic—New Meanings given to Old

Words—The vanishing Picture of Hell—The Atonement—Confidence being

Lost in the Morality of the Gospel—Exclusiveness of the Churches—The

Hope of Immortality and Belief in God have Nothing to do with Real

Religion—Special Providence a Mistake.

AN ESSAY ON CHRISTMAS.
The Day regarded as a Holiday—A Festival far older

than Christianity—Relics of Sun-worship in Christian

Ceremonies—Christianity furnished new Steam for an old Engine—Pagan

Festivals correspond to Ours—Why Holidays are Popular—They must be for

the Benefit of the People.

HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
The Object of Freethought—what the Religionist calls "Affirmative

and Positive"—The Positive Side of Freethought—Constructive Work of

Christianity.

THE IMPROVED MAN.
He will be in Favor of universal Liberty, neither Master nor Slave; of

Equality and Education; will develop in the Direction of the Beautiful;

will believe only in the Religion of this World—His Motto—Will not

endeavor to change the Mind of the "Infinite"—Will have no Bells or

Censers—Will be satisfied that the Supernatural does not exist—Will be

Self-poised, Independent, Candid and Free.

EIGHT HOURS MUST COME.
The Working People should be protected by Law—Life of no particular

Importance to the Man who gets up before Daylight and works till

after Dark—A Revolution probable in the Relations between Labor and

Capital—Working People becoming Educated and more Independent—The

Government can Aid by means of Good Laws—Women the worst Paid—There

should be no Resort to Force by either Labor or Capital.

THE JEWS.
Much like People of other Religions—Teaching given Christian Children

about those who die in the Faith of Abraham—Dr. John Hall on

the Persecution of the Jews in Russia as the Fulfillment of

Prophecy—Hostility of Orthodox early Christians excited by Jewish

Witnesses against the Faith—An infamous Chapter of History—Good

and bad Men of every Faith—Jews should outgrow their own

Superstitions—What the intelligent Jew Knows.

CRUMBLING CREEDS.
CRUMBLING CREEDS.

The Common People called upon to Decide as between the Universities and

the Synods—Modern Medicine, Law, Literature and Pictures as against the

Old—Creeds agree with the Sciences of their Day—Apology the Prelude

to Retreat—The Presbyterian Creed Infamous, but no worse than

the Catholic—Progress begins when Expression of Opinion is

Allowed—Examining the Religions of other Countries—The Pulpit's

Position Lost—The Dogma of Eternal Pain the Cause of the orthodox

Creeds losing Popularity—Every Church teaching this Infinite Lie must

Fall.

OUR SCHOOLS.
OUR SCHOOLS.

Education the only Lever capable of raising Mankind—The

School-house more Important than the Church—Criticism of New York's

School-Buildings—The Kindergarten System Recommended—Poor Pay of

Teachers—The great Danger to the Republic is Ignorance.

VIVISECTION.
The Hell of Science—Brutal Curiosity of Vivisectors—The Pretence that

they are working for the Good of Man—Have these scientific Assassins

added to useful Knowledge?—No Good to the Race to be Accomplished by

Torture—The Tendency to produce a Race of intelligent Wild Beasts.

THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.
Right of the Government to ask Questions and of the Citizen to refuse

to answer them—Matters which the Government has no Right to pry

into—Exposing the Debtor's financial Condition—A Man might decline to

tell whether he has a Chronic Disease or not.

THE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS.
Natural Phenomena and Myths celebrated—The great Day of the first

Religion, Sun-worship—A God that Knew no Hatred nor Sought Revenge—The

Festival of Light.

SPIRITUALITY.
A much-abused Word—The Early Christians too Spiritual to be

Civilized—Calvin and Knox—Paine, Voltaire and Humboldt not

Spiritual—Darwin also Lacking—What it is to be really Spiritual—No

connection with Superstition.

SUMTER'S GUN.
What were thereby blown into Rags and Ravelings—The Birth of a

new Epoch announced—Lincoln made the most commanding Figure of the

Century—Story of its Echoes.

WHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE.
What might have been Asked of a Christian 100 years after

Christ—Hospitals and Asylums not all built for Charity—Girard

College—Lick Observatory—Carnegie not an Orthodox Christian—Christian

Colleges—Give us Time.

CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.
Brockway a Savage—The Lash will neither develop the Brain nor cultivate

the Heart—Brutality a Failure—Bishop Potter's apostolical Remark.

LAW'S DELAY.
The Object of a Trial—Justice can afford to Wait—The right of

Appeal—Case of Mrs. Maybrick—Life Imprisonment for Murderers—American

Courts better than the English.

BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES.

Universities naturally Conservative—Kansas State University's

Objection to Ingersoll as a commencement Orator—Comment by Mr. Depew

(note)—Action of Cornell and the University of Missouri.

A YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY.
The Chances a few Years ago—Capital now Required—Increasing

competition in Civilized Life—Independence the first Object—If he has

something to say, there will be plenty to listen.

SCIENCE AND SENTIMENT.
Science goes hand in hand with Imagination—Artistic and Ethical

Development—Science destroys Superstition, not true Religion—Education

preferable to Legislation—Our Obligation to our Children.

"SOWING AND REAPING."

Moody's Belief accounted for—A dishonest and corrupting Doctrine—A

want of Philosophy and Sense—Have Souls in Heaven no Regrets?—Mr.

Moody should read some useful Books.

SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
Teachings of orthodox Sunday Schools—The ferocious God of the

Bible—Miracles—A Christian in Constantinople would not send his

Child to a Mosque—Advice to all Agnostics—Strangle the Serpent of

Superstition.

WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
Character of the Bible—Men and Women not virtuous because of any

Book—The Commandments both Good and Bad—Books that do not help

Morality—Jehovah not a moral God—What is Morality?—Intelligence the

only moral guide.

GOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.
Decline of the Christian Religion in New Hampshire—Outgrown

Beliefs—Present-day Views of Christ and the Holy Ghost—Abandoned

Notions about the Atonement—Salvation for Credulity—The Miracles

of the New Testament—The Bible "not true but inspired"—The "Higher

Critics" riding two Horses—Infidelity in the Pulpit—The "restraining

Influences of Religion" as illustrated by Spain and Portugal—Thinking,

Working and Praying—The kind of Faith that has Departed.

A LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.
The Truth Seeker congratulated on its Twenty-fifth Birthday—Teachings

of Twenty-five Years ago—Dodging and evading—The Clerical Assault

on Darwin—Draper, Buckle, Hegel, Spencer, Emerson—Comparison

of Prejudices—Vanished Belief in the Devil—Matter and

Force—Contradictions Dwelling in Unity—Substitutes for Jehovah—A

Prophecy.

POLITICAL MORALITY.
Argument in the contested Election Case of Strobach against Herbert—The

Importance of Honest Elections—Poisoning the Source of Justice—The

Fraudulent Voter a Traitor to his Sovereign, the Will of the

People—Political Morality Imperative.

A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.
Date and Manner of Composing the Old Testament—Other Books not now in

Existence, and Disagreements about the Canon—Composite Character of

certain Books—Various Versions—Why was God's message given to the Jews

alone?—The Story of the Creation, of the Flood, of the Tower, and

of Lot's wife—Moses and Aaron and the Plagues of Egypt—Laws of

Slavery—Instructions by Jehovah Calculated to excite Astonishment and

Mirth—Sacrifices and the Scapegoat—Passages showing that the Laws of

Moses were made after the Jews had left the Desert—Jehovah's dealings

with his People—The Sabbath Law—Prodigies—Joshua's Miracle—Damned

Ignorance and Infamy—Jephthah's Sacrifice—Incredible Stories—The

Woman of Endor and the Temptation of David—Elijah and Elisha—Loss of

the Pentateuch from Moses to Josiah—The Jews before and after being

Abandoned by Jehovah—Wealth of Solomon and other Marvels.

VOLUME XII.--MISCELLANY

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."

PREFACE TO "FAITH OR FACT."

THE GRANT BANQUET.

THIRTEEN CLUB DINNER.

ROBSON AND CRANE DINNER.

THE POLICE CAPTAINS' DINNER.

GENERAL GRANT'S BIRTHDAY DINNER

LOTOS CLUB DINNER, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.

MANHATTAN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.

THE LIEDERKRANZ CLUB, SEIDL-STANTON BANQUET.

THE FRANK B. CARPENTER DINNER.

UNITARIAN CLUB DINNER.

WESTERN SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BANQUET.

LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL.

LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY.

ADDRESS TO THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA.

THE CHILDREN OF THE STAGE.

ADDRESS TO THE PRESS CLUB.

THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE.

CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE.

CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION.

THE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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

A TRIBUTE TO THE REV. ALEXANDER CLARK.

AT A CHILD'S GRAVE.

A TRIBUTE TO JOHN G. MILLS.

A TRIBUTE TO ELIZUR WRIGHT.

A TRIBUTE TO MRS. IDA WHITING KNOWLES.

A TRIBUTE TO HENRY WARD BEECHER.

A TRIBUTE TO ROSCOE CONKLING.

A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD H. WHITING.

A TRIBUTE TO COURTLANDT PALMER.

A TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY H. FISKE.

A TRIBUTE TO HORACE SEAVER.

A TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE BARRETT.

A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN.

A TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH.

A TRIBUTE TO ANTON SEIDL.

A TRIBUTE TO DR. THOMAS SETON ROBERTSON.

A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS CORWIN.

A TRIBUTE TO ISAAC H. BAILEY.

JESUS CHRIST.

LIFE.

THE GHOSTS

AND OTHER LECTURES.

By Robert G. Ingersoll.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

THE GHOSTS.

THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD

LIBERTY OF WOMAN.

THE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN.

CONCLUSION.

1776. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS.

SPEECH AT CINCINNATI

"THE PAST RISES BEFORE ME LIKE A DREAM."

THE GRANT BANQUET

A TRIBUTE TO THE Rev. ALEXANDER CLARK.

A TRIBUTE TO EBON C. INGERSOLL,

ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE

A Lecture

By Robert GIngersoll

"In the nature of things there can be no evidence to establish the claim of Inspiration."

1894.

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.

I

THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE

II

IS THE OLD TESTAMENT INSPIRED?

III

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

THE STORY OF ACHAN

THE STORY OF ELISHA

THE STORY OF DANIEL

THE STORY OF JOSEPH

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

MISTAKES of MOSES

By Robert G. Ingersoll.

1880.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

I.

SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES

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

XXVI.

"INSPIRED" MARRIAGE

XXVII.

"INSPIRED" WAR

XXVIII.

"INSPIRED" RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

XXIX.

CONCLUSION

INGERSOLLIA

By Robert G. Ingersoll

Gems Of Thought From The Lectures, Speeches, And Conversations Of Col Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative Of His Opinions And Beliefs

1882.

CONTENTS

INGERSOLLIA

INTRODUCTION

THE ROMANCE OF FARM LIFE

1. Ingersoll as a Farmer

2. The Happy Life of the Farm

3. The Ambitious Farmer's Boy

4. Never Be Afraid of Work!

5. Happiness the Object of Life

6. The Sunset of the Farmer's Life

7. Farmers, Protect Yourselves!

8. Roast the Beef, Not the Cook.

9. Cultivated Farmers.

10. The Wages of Slovenly Farming.

11. The Farmer's Happy Winter

12. The Almighty Dollar

13. The Farmer in Debt

14. Own Your Own Home

15. What to do with the Idlers

16. Farm-Life Lonely

17. The Best Farming States

18. The Laborers, the Kings and Queens

HOME AND CHILDREN

19. The Family the Only Heaven in this World

20. The Far-Seeing Eyes of Children.

21. Love and Freedom in a Cabin

22. The Turnpike Road of Happiness

23. Love Paying Ten Per Cent

24. A Word to the Cross-Grained

25. Oh! Daughters and Wives be Beautiful

26. A Wholesome Word to the Stingy

27. The Boss of the Family

28. Be Honor Bright!

29. The Opera at the Table

30. A Child's laugh sweeter than Apollo's lyre

31. Don't Wake the Children

32. How to Deal with Children

33. Give a Child a Chance

34. The Greatest Liars in Michigan

35. Forgive the Children!

36. A Solemn Satire on Whipping Children

37. The Whips and Gods are Gone!

INDIVIDUALITY

38. Absolute Independence of the Individual

39. Saved by Disobedience

40. Intellectual Tyranny

41. Say What You Think

42. I Want to Put Out the Fires of Hell

43. The Puritans

44. A Star in the Sky of Despair

45. Do not Shock the Heathen!

46. I will Settle with God Myself

47. I Claim my Right to Guess

48. The Brain a Castle

49. I am Something

50. Every Man a Bight to Think

51. Too Early to Write a Creed

52. Every Mind True to Itself

PROGRESS

53. The Torch of Progress.

54. Gold makes a Barren Landscape

55. A Grand Achievement

56. The Divorce of Church and State

57. Professors

58. Developement

59. Poet's Dream

60. The Temple of the Future

61. The final Goal

62. The Eighteenth Century

POLITICAL QUESTIONS

63. Liberty—Fraternity—Equality!

64. Liberty!

65. Ingersoll Not a Politician

66. Civilization

67. Cornell University

68. Church and School Divorced

69. Laws That Want Repealing

70. Government Secular

71. 1876! (1776?)

72. Candidates Made Hypocrites

73. The Church and the Throne

74. The Old Idea

75. Liberty for Politicians

76. Tax all Church Property

77. The Source of Power

78. The Best Blood of the Old Word come to the New

79. No State Church

80. The Enthusiasts of 1776

81. The Church Must Have no Sword

82. We are All of Us Kings! I want the power where some one can use

83. Honesty Tells!

84. Working for Others.

85. State Sovereignty

86. The King of America

87. Years Without Seeing a Dollar!

88. The Wail of Dead Nations

89. What the Republican Party Did

90. Doings of Democrats

91. Photograph of a Democrat.

92. I am a Republican, I Tell You!

93. Recollect!

94. Give Every Man a Chance

95. Who Shall Rule the Country?

96. The Declaration of Independence

97. The World Grows Brighter.

98. The Column of July

99. A Nation of Rascals

100. We are a Great People

101. Mule Equality

102. Room for Every Wing.

103. The Republican Platform.

104. Our Government the best on Earth

105. Will the Second Century of America be as good as the First?

SCIENCE

106. The Glory of Science.

107. The Tables Turned

108. Science Better than a Creed

109. The Religion of Science

110. Science not Sectarian

111. The Epitaph of all Religions

112. The Real Priest

113. Science is Power

114. Science Supreme

115. Science Opening the Gates of Thought

116. Stars and Grains of Sand

117. The Trinity of Science

118. The Old and the New Old ideas perished in the retort of the

119. The Triumphs of Science

120. What Science Found!

121. Science the only Lever

SLAVERY

122. The Colonel Short of Words!!!

123. Slavery in the Name of Religion

124. The Patrons of Slavery

125. A Colored Man in Congress

126. The Zig-zag Strip

127. Black People have Suffered Enough

128. The History of Civilization

129. Does God Uphold Slavery?

130. Solemn Defiance

THE WAR

131. The Soldiers of the Republic

132. Honor to the Brave!

133. What Were We Fighting For?

134. The Revolution Consummated

135. Fighting Done!—Work Begun!

136. Manhood worth more than Gold

137. Grander than Greek or Roman.

138. Let us Drink to the Living and the Dead

139. Will the Wounds of the War be Healed?

140. Saviours of the Nation

141. General Grant

MONEY THAT IS MONEY

142. Paper is not Money

143. The Debt will be paid

144. 1873 to 1879!

145. A Voter because a Man

146. Keep the Flag in Heaven!

147. Prosperity and Resumption hand in hand

148. Every Poor Man should Stand by the Government

149. We Will Settle Pair!

150. A Government with a Long Arm

151. No Repudiation

152. The Great Crash!

153. Promises Don't Pay

154. Solid and Bright!

155. The South and the Tariff

156. I am for Protection

157. The Old Woman of Tewksbury

158. American Muscle, Coined into Gold

159. Inflation

160. Resources of Illinois.

161. Money!

162. Money by Work

163. Meat Twice a Year

164. America a Glorious Land

165. How to Spend a Dollar

166. Honesty is Best always and Everywhere

167. A Fountain of Greenbacks

168. What the Greenback says!

169. Honest Methods

170. Silver demonetized by Fraud!

RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS

171. The Crime of Crimes!

172. Faith—A Mixture of Insanity and Ignorance

173. What the Saints Could Cure!

174. The Sleep of Persecutors

175. Crime Rampant and God Silent!

176. How Criminals Die Serenely!

177. The first Corpse and the first Cathedral

178. The Sixteenth Century

179. An Orthodox Gentleman

180. A Bold Assertion

181. History a Bloody Farce!

182. Weak ones Suffering—Heaven deaf

183. Heaven has no Ear, no Hand

184. Religion is Tyrannical

185. Religion and Facts

186. Religion not the End of Life

187. Creeds

188. The Worst Religion in the World

189. Religion Demanding Miracles

190. We Want One Fact

191. The Design Argument

192. Down, Forever Down

193. The Back

194. An Awful Admission

CHURCHES AND PRIESTS

195. The Church Forbids Investigation

196. The Church Charges Falsely

197. The Church in the "Dark Ages"

198. The Few Say, "Think!"

199. The Church and the Tree of Knowledge

200. The Church Cries, "Believe!"

201. The Heretics Cried, "Halt!"

202. The World not so Awful Flat

203. From Whence Come Wars?

204. Another Day of Divine Work

205. The Donkey and the Lion

206. The Orthodox Christian

207. Alms-Dish and Sword

208. The Church the Great Robber

209. The Church Impotent

210. Toleration

211. Shakespeare's Plays v. Sermons

212. Why Should the Church be Merciful?

213. The Church and the Infidel.

214. Back to Chaos

215. Infinite Impudence of the Church

216. Wanted!—A New Method

217. The Kirk of Scotland

218. The Church Looks Back

219. Diogenes

220. The Church and War

221. The Call to Preach

222. Burning Servetus

223. Freedom for the Clergy

224. The Pulpit Weakening

225. Origin of the Priesthood

226. The Clergy on Heaven

227. The Parson, the Crane and the Fish

228. Banish Me from Eden—But!

229. The Pulpit's Cry of Fear

230. Restive Clergymen

231. The Parson Factory at Andover

232. A Charge to Presbyteries

THE BIBLE

233. Nature the True Bible

234. Inspiration

335. The 109th Psalm!

236. I Don't Believe the Bible

237. The Bible the Real Persecutor

238. Immoralities of the Bible

239. The Bible Stands in the Way

240. The Bible False

241. The Man I Love

242. Whale, Jonah and All

243. Damned for Laughing at Samson

244. The Man, Not the Book, Inspired

245. The Bible a Chain

246. Absurd and Foolish Fables

247. The Bible the Work of Man

248. Something to Admire, not Laugh at

249. An Intellectual Deformity

250. The Bible a Poor Product

251. The Bible the Battle Ground of Sects

252. The Bible Childish

253. Where Moses got the Pentateuch

254. God's Letter to His Children

255. Examination a Crime

256. Read the Bible—and Then!

257. An Infallible Book Makes Slaves

258. Can a Sane Man Believe in Inspiration?

259. An Inspiration Test

260. The Real Bible

261. The Bad Passages in the Bible not Inspired

262. Too much Pictorial

263. One Plow worth a Million Sermons

INFIDELS

264. The Infidels of 1776

265. The Legitimate Influence of Religion

266. Infidels the Flowers of the World

267. The Noblest Sons of, Earth

268. How Ingersoll became an Infidel

269. Why Should Infidels Die in Fear?

270. Infidelity is Liberty

271. The World in Debt to Infidels

272. Infidels the Pioneers of Progress

273. Infidels the Great Discoverers

274. The Altar of Reason

GODS AND DEVILS

275. Every Nation has Created a God

276. Gods with Back-Hair

277. Creation the Decomposition of the Infinite

278. The Gods Are as the People Are

279. Gods Shouldn't Make Mistakes

280. Miracles

281. Plenty of Gods on Hand

282. The Devil Difficulty

283. Was the Devil an Idiot?

284. Industrious Deities

285. God in Idleness

286. Fancy a Devil Drowning a World

287. Some Gods Very Particular About Little Things

288 The Gods of To-day the Scorn of To-morrow

289. No Evidence of a God in Nature

290. Great Variety in Gods

291. God Grows Smaller

292. Give the Devil His Due

293. Casting out Devils

294. On the Horns of a Dilemma

295. The Devil and the Swine

296. How can I assist God?

297. Can God be Improved?

298. That Dreadful Apple!

299. The Devils better than the Gods

300. Is it Possible?

301. It is Impossible!

HEAVEN AND HELL

302. Hope of a Future Life

303. I am Immortal

304. What if Death Does End All?

305. The Old World Ignorant of Destiny

306. Where the Doctrine of Hell was born

307. The Grand Companionships of Hell

308. Horror of Horrors!

309. The Drama of Damnation

310. Annihilation rather than be a God

311. "All that have Red Hair shall be Damned."

312. The Conscience of a Hyena

313. I Leave the Dead

314. Calvin in Hell!

GOVERNING GREAT MEN

315. Jesus Christ

316. The Emperor Constantine.

317. Did Franklin and Jefferson Die in Fear?

318. Angels at Constantino's Dying Bed!

319. Diderot

320. Benedict Spinoza

321. Thomas Paine

322. The Greatest of all Political Writers

323. The Writings of Paine

324. The Last Words of Paine.

325. Paine Believed in God

326. The Intellectual Hera

327. Paine, Franklin, Jefferson

328. David Hume

329. Voltaire

330. John Calvin

331. Calvin's Five Fetters

332. Humboldt

333. Humbolt's Travels

334. Humboldt's Illustrious Companions

335. Humboldt the Apostle of Science

336. Ingersoll Muses by Napoleon's Tomb

337. Eulogy on J. G. Blaine

338. A Model Leader

339. Abraham Lincoln

340. Swedenborg

341. Jeremy Bentham

342. Charles Fourier

343. Auguste Comte

344. Herbert Spencer

345. Robert Collyer

346. John Milton

347. Ernst Haeckel

348. Professor Swing, a Dove amongst Vultures

349. Queen Victoria and George Eliot

350. Bough on Rabbi Bien

351. General Garfield

352. "Wealthy in Integrity; In Brain a Millionaire."

353. Garfield a Certificate of the Splendor of the American Constitution

354. Dr. W. Hiram Thomas

MISCELLANEOUS

355. Heresy and Orthodoxy

356. The Aristocracy that will Survive.

357. Truth will Bear the Test

358. Paring Nails

359. There may be a God

360. The People are Beginning to Think

361. Unchained Thought

362. Man the Victor of the Future

363. The Sacred Sabbath

364. Make the Sabbath Merry

365. Away to the Hills and the Sea

366. Melancholy Sundays

367. Moses took Egyptian Law for his Model

368. A False Standard of Success

369. Toilers and Idlers

370. The Sad Wilderness History

371. Law Much Older than Sinai

372. Who is the Blasphemer?

373. Standing Tip for God

374. Matter and Force

375. Haeckel before Moses!

376. How was it Done?

377. General Joshua

378. Early Rising is Barbaric!

379. Sleep is Medicine!

380. Never Rise at Four O'Clock

381. The Hermit is Mad

382. Duke Orang-Outang

383. Self-Made Men

384. The One Window in the Ark

385. No Ante-Diluvian Camp-Meetings!

386. Hard Work in the Ark

387. What did Moses know about the Sun?

388. Something for Nothing

389. Polygamy

390. The Colonel in the Kitchen—How to Cook a Beefsteak

391. Fresh Air

392. Cooking a Fine Art

393. Scathing Impeachment of Intemperance

394. Liberty Defined

395. Free, Honest Thought

396. Ingersoll Prefers Shoemakers to Princes

397. Sham Dignity

398. A Good Time Coming!

399. Who is the True Nobleman?

400. Wanted!—More Manliness

401. Education of Nature

402. The Worker Wearing the Purple

403. Flowers

404. Be Happy—Here and Now!

405. The School House a Fort

406. We are Getting Free

407. The Solid Rock

INGERSOLL'S FIVE GOSPELS

408. The Gospel of Cheerfulness

409. The Gospel of Liberty

410. The Gospel of 'Good Living

411. The Gospel of Intelligence

412. The Gospel of Justice

GEMS FROM THE CONTROVERSIAL GASKET

413. The Origin of the Controversy

414. What is Christianity?

415. Summary of Evangelical Belief

416. A Profound Change in the World of Thought

417. The Believer in the Inspiration of the Bible has too Much to Believe

418. A Frank Admission

419. The Bible Should be Better than any other Book

420. A Serious Charge

421. If the Bible is Not Verbally Inspired, What Then?

422. A Hindu Example

423. A Test Fairly Applied

424. Suppose!

425. Proofs of Civilization

426. A Persian Gospel

427. Man the Author of all Books

428. God and Brahma

429. Matthew, Mark, and Luke

430. Christianity Takes no Step in Advance

431. Christianity a Mixture of Good and Evil

432. Jehovah, Epictetus and Cicero

433. The Atonement

434. Sin as a Debt

435. The Logic of the Coffin

436. Judas Iscariot

437. The Standard of Right

438. What is Conscience?

439. No Right to Think!

440. The Liberty of the Bible

441. Slavery in Heaven

442. Jehovah Breaking His Own Laws

443. Who Designed the Designer?

444. What we Know of the Infinite

445. The Universe Self-Existent

446. Jehovah's Promise Broken

447. Character Bather than Creed

448. Mohammed the Prophet of God

449. Wanted!—A Little More Legislation

450. Is all that Succeeds Inspired?

451. The Morality in Christianity

452. Miracle Mongers

453. The Honor Due to Christ

454. Christianity has no Monopoly in Morals

455. Old Age in Superstition's Lap

456. Ararat in Chicago

457. How Gods and Devils are Made

458. The Romance of Figures

459. God and Zeno

460. Why was Christ so Silent?

461. The Philosophy of Action

462. Infinite Punishment for Finite Crimes.

463. Whence Came the Gospels?

464. Mr. Black's Admission

465. The Stars Upon the Door of France

A KIND WORD FOR JOHN CHINAMAN

466. The Select Committee Afraid

467. The Gods of the Joss-House and Patmos

468. A Little Too Late

469. Christianity has a Fair Show in San Francisco

470. An Arrow from the Quiver of Satire

471. We Have no Religious System

472. Congress Nothing to Do with Religion

473. Concessions of the Illustrious Four!

474. Do not Trample on John Chinaman

475. Be Honest with the Chinese

476. An Honest Merchant the Best Missionary

477. Good Words from Confucius

478. The Ancient Chinese

479. The Chinese and Civil Service Reform

480. Invading China in the Name of Opium and Christ

481. Don't be Dishonest in the Name of God

CONCERNING CREEDS AND THE TYRANNY OF SECTS

482. Diversity of Opinion Abolished by Henry VIII

483. Spencer and Darwin Damned

484. The Dead do Not Persecute

485. The Atheist a Legal Outcast in Illinois

486. How the Owls Hoot

487. The Fate of Theological Students

488. Trials for Heresy

489. Presbyterianism Softening

490. The Methodist "Hoist with his own Petard."

491. The Precious Doctrine of Total Depravity

492. Guilty of Heresy

493. Dishonest Teachers.

494. Self-Reliance a Deadly Sin!

495. A Hundred and Fifty Years Ago

496. The Despotism of Faith

497. Believe, or Beware

498. Calvin's Petrified Heart

499. Logic Unconfined.

500. Politeness at Athens!

501. The Tail of a Lion

502. While the Preachers Talked the People Slept

503. Christianity no Friend to Progress

504. Where is the New Eden?

505. The Real Eden is Beyond

506. Party Names Belittle Men

A FEW PLAIN QUESTIONS

507. Where Did the Serpent Come From?

508. Must We Believe Fables to be Good and True? Must we, in order to be

509. Why Did Not God Kill the Serpent?

510. Questions About the Ark

511. Was Language Confounded at Babel.

512. Would God Kill a Man for Making Ointment?

513. How Did Water run up Hill?

514. Would a Real God Uphold Slavery?

515. Will There Be an Eternal Auto da Fe?

516. Why Hate an Atheist?

ORIENT PEARLS AS RANDOM STRUNG

INGERSOLL'S ORATION AT HIS BROTHER'S GRAVE

INGERSOLL'S DREAM OF THE WAR

EPIGRAMS.

DEFINITIONS.

BELIEFS.

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

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TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

INGERSOLL

VOLUME I.--LECTURES

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

VOLUME II.--LECTURES

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

VOLUME III--LECTURES

Contents

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

VOLUME IV.--LECTURES

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

VOLUME V.--DISCUSSIONS

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

VOLUME VI.--DISCUSSIONS

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

VOLUME VII.--DISCUSSIONS

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

VOLUME VIII.--INTERVIEWS

VOLUME IX.--POLITICAL

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.

VOLUME X.--LEGAL

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.

VOLUME XI.--MISCELLANY

DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.

VOLUME XII.--MISCELLANY

THE GHOSTS

AND OTHER LECTURES. By Robert G. Ingersoll.

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE

A Lecture By Robert GIngersoll

1894.

CONTENTS ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.

MISTAKES of MOSES

1880.

CONTENTS

INGERSOLLIA

Gems Of Thought From The Lectures, Speeches, And Conversations Of Col Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative Of His Opinions And Beliefs

CONTENTS

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