Complete Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersol.

Published for the Trade, nd.(c.1900).. Contents: Mistakes of Moses; Skulls; Ghosts; Hell; Liberty of Man, Woman & Child; Gods; Intellectual Development; Human Rights; Hereafter; Religious Intolerance; Heretics and Heresies; Thomas Paine's Vindication; Plea for Individuality and Arraignment of the Church; The Religion of the Day; Personal Deism Denied; The Philosophy of Reason - Humboldt; The Declaration of Independence; Nominating Blaine for President of Cincinnati; Life and Deeds of Thomas Paine; Farming; Speech at the Soldiers' Reunion at Indianapolis, 1876; What Shall We Do to be Saved? (First Lecture); Past and Present Gods, How Gods Grow; The Chinese God; Modern Thinkers; Great Republican Speech in Maine, 1880; What Must We Do in Order to be Saved? (Second Lecture); Free Speech and an Honest Ballot; Speech to the Business Men in New York, 1880; Views on the Religious Outlook; Some Reasons Why; The Great Infidels; Review of His Reviewers; Oration at a Child's Grave; Answer to Talmage (4 Lectures); What Must We Do to be Saved (Third Lecture); Decoration Day Oration; Orthodoxy; Which Way? Blasphemy. Lectures bound together, printed in double columns. Portrait frontispiece illustration. Endpapers and closed page edges tanned, armorial library bookplate (International University Society) to inside front board, cracking to inner front and rear hinges but holding. Black blind-stamped cloth, spine dulled, library number label to base of spine. Scarce. Good. ** "Robert Green Ingersoll (1833�1899) was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...Ingersoll died from congestive heart failure at the age of 65. Soon after his death, his brother-in-law, Clinton P. Farrell, collected copies of Ingersoll's speeches for publication." (wiki).