Ingersoll on THE GREAT INFIDELS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lectures

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Robert G. Ingersoll In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Ingersoll on THE GREAT INFIDELS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lectures

I. Introduction
II. The Origin of God and Heaven, Of The Devil and Hell
III. The Appeal to the Cemetery
IV. Sacred Books
V. Fear
VI. The Death Test
VII. Julian
VIII. Bruno
IX. The Church in the Time of Voltaire
X. Voltaire
XI. Diderot, "Doubt is the First Step Toward Truth"
XII. David Hume
XIII. Benedict Spinosa
XIV. Our Infidels (Paine, Franklin, Jefferson)
XV. Thomas Paine
XVI. Conclusion

Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the unmeaning waste and shattered spoil of thoughtless Chance." One of the most famous orators of his day, a contemporary and personal friend of Mark Twain and General Grant, Ingersoll's lectures on famous people in this series include: SHAKESPEARE, ROBERT BURNS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOLTAIRE, WALT WHITMAN; followed by an inspiring talk on THE GREAT INFIDELS; WHICH WAY? (science or superstition); and ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE. Each lecture in Volume 3, plus 2 lectures on HUMBOLDT and THOMAS PAINE from Volume 1 (of the 12 volume Dresden Edition), will be presented on Librivox as a separate audiobook in the series called Ingersoll Lectures, Famous People. ( Michele Fry)