Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll

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Cosimo, Inc., 2009 M01 1 - 454 pages
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life.Considered in their day some of the finest gems of oratory, these lectures by Ingersoll feature some of his most entertaining and most insightful yet lesser known talks, including: "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln" "Grand Future of America" "Best Portion of the Earth" "Getting Up Early in the Morning" "The Fashions and Handsome Women" "What the Railroads Have Done" "How a Man Should Treat His Wife and Children" "Ingersoll's Beautiful Dream" "War to Be a Failure" "Sufferings of the Slaves" "The Question of Superiority" "What Is a Capitalist?" "The Government a Pauper" "Beware of Bachelors" and many more.

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Contents

That the Railroads Have Done
86
gersoll on Cookery
92
INATING BLAINE
100
hy the Colonel is a Republican
108
gersolls Remarkable Vision
115
e Money Question
121
gersolls Beautiful Dream
129
ne American Republic
136
ne Way Out
244
ORATION AT A CHILDS GRAVE
253
OUR COUNTRY
265
INGERSOLL ON AMERICAN NATIONALITY
288
o Preserve Slavery
293
e Solid South
306
ate Sovereignty
327
THE NORTH AND SOUTH
341

braham Lincoln
142
ne Republican Platform
148
SPEECH TO VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
167
e Must Stand by the Party
209
A FOR HONEST MONEY
217
OR CAPITAL ETC
225
erchants and Drummers
232
Not Preaching a Gospel of Hate
382
FIAT MONEY
404
MONEY AND PROTECTION
411
onor Versus Fraud
428
ant Business Not Charity
434
usts and Syndicates
440
epublican Party for Labor
446

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