The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents / Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes
Robert Green Ingersoll
Essays
Book language: English
4165 pages
The Dresden Edition gathers Robert G. Ingersoll's lectures and essays in twelve volumes. A leading freethinker and orator, he examines religion, the Bible, churches, and secular government from a rationalist and humanist perspective. The collection is worth hearing for its forceful nineteenth-century prose and its window into debates over faith, reason, and liberty.
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Opening of the book
THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, COMPLETE By Robert G. Ingersoll Edited and Compiled by David Widger "The Destroyer Of Weeds, Thistles And Thorns Is A Benefactor, Whether He Soweth Grain Or Not." 1900 THE DRESDEN EDITION Titlepage (64K)
Birthplace (64K) Portrait (62K) Frontispiece (64K) VOLUME I. VOLUME II. VOLUME III. VOLUME IV. VOLUME V. VOLUME VI. VOLUME VII. VOLUME VIII. VOLUME IX. VOLUME X. VOLUME XI. VOLUME XII. VOLUME I.--LECTURES 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. (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
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