The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Freethought Speeches and Essays on Religion, Reason, Liberty, and Secular HumanismBy Robert Green Ingersoll
Length171h 23m
About this audiobook
The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll gathers the most representative speeches, essays, and polemics of America's celebrated "Great Agnostic," revealing a prose style at once forensic, lyrical, and devastatingly lucid. Ranging across religion, civil liberty, science, literature, and human rights, these works belong to the golden age of American public oratory, yet they also anticipate modern secular humanism. Ingersoll's rhetoric combines courtroom precision with Whitmanesque expansiveness, turning skepticism into an art of moral persuasion. Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) was a lawyer, Civil War veteran, political advocate, and one of the most electrifying lecturers of the nineteenth century. His opposition to dogma was shaped by legal training, republican ideals, and the reformist energies of postbellum America. Though he moved among politicians and public intellectuals, he remained most enduringly a defender of intellectual freedom, religious doubt, and humane ethics grounded not in revelation but in reason and compassion. This volume is recommended to readers interested in American intellectual history, freethought, rhetoric, and the secular tradition. It offers not merely historical documents, but enduring arguments for liberty of conscience, tolerance, and the dignity of human inquiry.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy
Length171 hrs 23 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26LIBERTY IN LITERATURE.
2Introduction
27THE GREAT INFIDELS.*
3Historical Context
28CONCLUSION.
4Synopsis (Selection)
29WHICH WAY?
5Volume 1
30ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.
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6THE GODS
31WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC.
7HUMBOLDT.
32THE TRUTH.
8THOMAS PAINE
33CONCLUSION.
9INDIVIDUALITY.
34HOW TO REFORM MANKIND.
10HERETICS AND HERESIES.
35A THANKSGIVING SERMON.
11THE GHOSTS. (pt. 1)
36A LAY SERMON.
12THE GHOSTS. (pt. 2)
37THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH.
13WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?
38SUPERSTITION.
14Volume 2
39THE DEVIL.
15PREFACE.
40PROGRESS.
16SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES. (pt. 1)
41CONCLUSION
17SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES. (pt. 2)
42WHAT IS RELIGION?
18SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES. (pt. 3)
43Volume 5
19SOME REASONS WHY
44PREFACE
20ORTHODOXY.
45INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE. (pt. 1)
21MYTH AND MIRACLE.
46INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE. (pt. 2)
22SHAKESPEARE
47INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE. (pt. 3)
23ROBERT BURNS.*
48INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE. (pt. 4)
24ABRAHAM LINCOLN
49THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.
25VOLTAIRE.
50A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.
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