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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Compiled by David Widger

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THE
GHOSTS

Hell

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THE HOLY BIBLE

Oration on Thomas Paine

The
Christian Religion

Heretics
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Humboldt

Individuality

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OF MOSES

Thomas
Paine-A Lecture

Trial of C. B. Reynolds

Shakespeare

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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

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