Robert Ingersoll: 49 books

The complete collection of the Lectures and Essays (Vols. I-XII) of Robert Green “Bob” Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed “The Great Agnostic” — one of outstanding orators, humanists, agnostics and freethinkers of his time — whose radical views on religion, superstition,...

In the1880s, Ingersoll, the arch-agnostic and skeptic, carried on a theological feud—fought from the pulpit and lectern—with Presbyterian reformer Thomas De Witt Talmage. Volume five of Ingersoll’s collected works includes “Six Interviews on Talmage,” “The Talmagian Catechism,” and “A Vindication of Thomas Paine.”

Volume eight of Ingersoll’s collected works holds forth on religion, politics, and culture in this book of interviews. In Q&A format, Ingersoll answers all the questions readers would ever want to ask of him. Interviews take the titles “The Bible and a Future Life,” “Politics and [General] Grant,”...

This sixth of twelve volumes of Ingersoll’s collected works features discussions with Judge Jeremiah Black, the Reverend. Henry M. Field, William E. Gladstone, Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, and others. Includes “The Christian Religion,” “Colonel Ingersoll on Christianity,” “Rome or Reason?”, “Is Divorce Wrong?”, “Divorce,” and others.

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;”...

This second volume gathers more lectures by iconoclast Robert Ingersoll, these on religious issues and themes. In “Some Mistakes of Moses,” the author takes on the questions of science in the Bible; “Some Reasons Why” tackles monotheism and punishment; “Orthodoxy” considers the question of...

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...

Cited by Ambrose Bierce, P. G. Wodehouse, and Sinclair Lewis, Ingersoll was a celebrity pundit of the nineteenth century. This final volume contains tributes to the man along with such miscellaneous writings as “The Children of the Stage,” “Address to the Press Club,” “The Great Banquet,”...

The eleventh volume of collected works of Ingersoll contains a miscellany of focused, on-point essays. Here the reader can learn about the tumultuous path of the Civil Rights Act in “Civil Rights,” the complications of recognizing God in the United States Constitution in “God in the Constitution,”...

This ninth of twelve volumes of Ingersoll’s collected works showcases his writings on politics. Essays include “Speech Nominating Blaine;” “Centennial Oration;” “Hard Times and the Way Out;” “Suffrage Address;” “Wall Street Speech;” and “An Address to the Colored People,” about...

The tenth volume of the works of Ingersoll features his speeches and articles on legal matters. Includes “Address to the Jury in the Munn Trial,” a speech made in court concerning alcohol, and which, ultimately, proved his client innocent; as well as “Closing Address to the Jury in the First Star...

In this third of twelve volumes, the great nineteenth-century pundit and agnostic considers some influential careers in history and the arts, but touches on religion as well. Lectures includes “Shakespeare,” calling him the Great Genius of our World; “Robert Burns,” the story of his life as well...

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The author, the son of an abolitionist minister, takes on his contemporaries’ views on religion in volume seven of his collected works. Included here are the discussions “My Reviewers Reviewed,” which takes on the subjects of women’s equality to men, immortality, and slavery, among others; “My...