The Gods and Other Lectures (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Robert G. Ingersoll

Overview

The author said he preferred “the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith.” The title essay in this 1892 collection of five lectures on skepticism and religion asserts, “An honest god is the noblest work of man.” Includes “Humboldt,” “Thomas Paine,” “Individuality,” and “Heretics and Heresies.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411461048
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	10/04/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	163 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.