The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Lectures

by Robert G. Ingersoll

Overview

In this fourth volume of Ingersoll’s works, the reader comes across one of the political activist’s best-known lectures, “Why I Am an Agnostic;” also “The Truth,” in which Ingersoll calls the science of theology the only dishonest science; “How to Reform Mankind;” “Thanksgiving Sermon;” “A Lay Sermon;” “The Foundations of Faith;” “Superstition;” “The Devil;” “Progress;” and “What Is Religion?”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411461512
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	08/09/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	516
File size:	428 KB

About the Author

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), the son of a radical Presbyterian preacher, was born in New York City. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he raised a regiment that fought in the Battle of Shiloh. An active Republican, Ingersoll was Attorney General of Illinois. Known as a champion of freethinking and agnosticism, he became one of the most popular orators of his time.