GODS AND OTHER LECTURES

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL 18331899 was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery they were bad in his opinion women39s suffrage a good idea he believed and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19thcentury American culture and public life As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism freedom from the pressures of conformity and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures The Gods 1872 Humboldt 1869 Thomas Paine 1870 Individuality 1873 Heretics and Heresies 1874