Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2

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Robert G. Ingersoll 1900
English
  • Guiteau and his Crime
  • Star Route and Politics
  • Politics and Prohibition
  • The Civil Rights Bill
  • Cuba - Zola and Theosophy
  • Capital Punishment and the Whipping Post
  • Expansion and Trusts
  • Politics and General Grant
  • Justice Harlan and the Civil Rights Bill
  • Ingersoll Catechised
  • The Labor Question
  • Henry George and Socialism
  • Ingersoll on McGlynn
  • Trial of the Chicago Anarchists
  • The Stage and the Pulpit
  • Protection and Free Trade
  • Labor, and Tariff Reform
  • James G. Blaine and Politics
  • Society and its Criminals
  • Woma's Right to Divorce
  • Music, Newspapers, Lynching and Arbitration
  • Prohibition
  • Working Girls
  • Protection For American Actors
  • Woman's Suffrage, Horse Racing, and Money
  • Missionaries
  • Word Painting and College Education
  • Tolstoy and Literature
  • The Church and the Stage
  • A Visit To Shaw's Garden
A controversial lecturer and famous orator of the mid 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of orthodox Christianity, tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s rights, abolition, home, family, children, and human liberty, whose creed was: “Happiness is the only good, Reason the only torch, Justice the only worship, Humanity the only religion, and Love the only priest.” He was often attacked from the pulpit and in the press. Here are 30 more published interviews (from among hundreds), in which Ingersoll spoke extemporaneously, bitingly, sometimes hilariously, on a wide range of topics, with newspaper reporters of the day. (Compiled from The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 8, Dresden Edition, Pub. 1900. Summary by Michele Fry

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