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The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll in twelve volumes comprises philosophical, political religious, and other literary works by American writer and orator.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1:
The Gods
Humboldt
Thomas Paine
Individuality
Heretics and Heresies
The Ghost
The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child
Conclusion
About Farming in Illinois
What Must We do to be Saved?
Volume 2:
Some Mistakes of Moses
Some Reasons Why
Orthodoxy
Myth and Miracle
Volume 3:
Shakespeare
Robert Burns
Abraham Lincoln
Voltaire
Liberty in Literature
The Great Infidels
Which Way?
About the Holy Bible
Volume 4:
Why I am an Agnostic
The Truth
How to Reform Mankind
A Thanksgiving Sermon
A Lay Sermon
The Foundations of Faith
Superstition
The Devil
Progress
What is Religion?
Volume 5:
Ingersoll's Interviews on Talmage
The Talmagian Catechism
A Vindication of Thomas Pain
The Observer's Second Attack
Ingersoll's Second Reply
Volume 6:
The Christian Religion
Faith or Agnosticism
The Field-Ingersoll Discussion
A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field
A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll
Letter to Dr. Field
Controversy on Christianity
Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladston
Rome or Reason
The Church Its Own Witness
Is Divorce Wrong?
Divorce
Is Corporal Punishment Degrading?
Volume 7:
My Reviewers Reviewed
My Chicago Bible Class
To the Indianapolis Clergy
The Brooklyn Divines
The Limitations of Toleration
A Christmas Sermon
Suicide of Judge Normile
Is Suicide a Sin?
Is Avarice Triumphant?
Replies and Interviews
Volume 8:
The Bible and a Future Life
Mrs. Van Cott, The Revivalist
European Trip and Greenback Question
The Pre-Millennial Conference
The Solid South and Resumption
The Sunday Laws of Pitsburg
Political and Religious…
Volume 9:
Speeches and Addresses
Volume 10:
Address to the Jury in Various Cases
Volume 11:
Address on the Civil Right Act
Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy
God in the Constitution
A Reply to Bishop Spalding
Crimes Against Criminals
A Wooden God
Some Interrogation Points
Art and Morality
The Divided Household of Faith
Huxley and Agnosticism…
Volume 12:
Prefaces, Tributes, and Essays

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Robert Green Ingersoll

The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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Table of Contents

Volume 1 Volume 1 Table of Contents

Volume 2 Volume 2 Table of Contents

Volume 3 Volume 3 Table of Contents

Volume 4 Volume 4 Table of Contents

Volume 5

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8

Volume 9

Volume 10

Volume 11

Volume 12

Volume 1

Table of Contents Table of Contents Volume 1 Volume 1 Table of Contents Volume 2 Volume 2 Table of Contents Volume 3 Volume 3 Table of Contents Volume 4 Volume 4 Table of Contents Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12

Table of Contents

THE GODS

HUMBOLDT

THOMAS PAINE

INDIVIDUALITY

HERETICS AND HERESIES.

THE GHOSTS.

PREFACE

THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.

LIBERTY OF WOMAN.

THE LIBERTY OF CHILDREN.

CONCLUSION.

ABOUT FARMING IN ILLINOIS

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?

PREFACE

I. WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE SAVED

II. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

III. THE GOSPEL OF MARK

IV. THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.

V. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

VI. THE CATHOLICS

VII. THE EPISCOPALIANS

VIII. THE METHODISTS

IX. THE PRESBYTERIANS

X. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.

XI. WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE?

THE GODS

An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man.

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EACH nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Each god was intensely patriotic, and detested all nations but his own. All these gods demanded praise, flattery, and worship. Most of them were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume. All these gods have insisted upon having a vast number of priests, and the priests have always insisted upon being supported by the people, and the principal business of these priests has been to boast about their god, and to insist that he could easily vanquish all the other gods put together.

These gods have been manufactured after numberless models, and according to the most grotesque fashions. Some have a thousand arms, some a hundred heads, some are adorned with necklaces of living snakes, some are armed with clubs, some with sword and shield, some with bucklers, and some have wings as a cherub; some were invisible, some would show themselves entire, and some would only show their backs; some were jealous, some were foolish, some turned themselves into men, some into swans, some into bulls, some into doves, and some into Holy Ghosts, and made love to the beautiful daughters of men. Some were married—all ought to have been—and some were considered as old bachelors from all eternity. Some had children, and the children were turned into gods and worshiped as their fathers had been. Most of these gods were revengeful, savage, lustful, and ignorant. As they generally depended upon their priests for information, their ignorance can hardly excite our astonishment.

These gods did not even know the shape of the worlds they had created, but supposed them perfectly flat Some thought the day could be lengthened by stopping the sun, that the blowing of horns could throw down the walls of a city, and all knew so little of the real nature of the people they had created, that they commanded the people to love them. Some were so ignorant as to suppose that man could believe just as he might desire, or as they might command, and that to be governed by observation, reason, and experience was a most foul and damning sin. None of these gods could give a true account of the creation of this little earth. All were wofully deficient in geology and astronomy. As a rule, they were most miserable legislators, and as executives, they were far inferior to the average of American presidents.

These deities have demanded the most abject and degrading obedience. In order to please them, man must lay his very face in the dust Of course, they have always been partial to the people who created them, and have generally shown their partiality by assisting those people to rob and destroy others, and to ravish their wives and daughters.

Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have some one deny their existence.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted, and heaven crammed with these phantoms. These gods not only attended to the skies, but were supposed to interfere in all the affairs of men. They presided over everybody and everything. They attended to every department. All was supposed to be under their immediate control. Nothing was too small—nothing too large; the falling of sparrows and the motions of the planets were alike attended to by these industrious and observing deities. From their starry thrones they frequently came to the earth for the purpose of imparting information to man. It is related of one that he came amid thunderings and lightnings in order to tell the people that they should not cook a kid in its mother's milk. Some left their shining abodes to tell women that they should, or should not, have children, to inform a priest how to cut and wear his apron, and to give directions as to the proper manner of cleaning the intestines of a bird.

When the people failed to worship one of these gods, or failed to feed and clothe his priests, (which was much the same thing,) he generally visited them with pestilence and famine. Sometimes he allowed some other nation to drag them into slavery—to sell their wives and children; but generally he glutted his vengeance by murdering their first-born. The priests always did their whole duty, not only in predicting these calamities, but in proving, when they did happen, that they were brought upon the people because they had not given quite enough to them.

These gods differed just as the nations differed; the greatest and most powerful had the most powerful gods, while the weaker ones were obliged to content themselves with the very off-scourings of the heavens. Each of these gods promised happiness here and hereafter to all his slaves, and threatened to eternally punish all who either disbelieved in his existence or suspected that some other god might be his superior; but to deny the existence of all gods was, and is, the crime of crimes. Redden your hands with human blood; blast by slander the fair fame of the innocent; strangle the smiling child upon its mother's knees; deceive, ruin and desert the beautiful girl who loves and trusts you, and your case is not hopeless. For all this, and for all these you may be forgiven. For all this, and for all these, that bankrupt court established by the gospel, will give you a discharge; but deny the existence of these divine ghosts, of these gods, and the sweet and tearful face of Mercy becomes livid with eternal hate. Heaven's golden gates are shut, and you, with an infinite curse ringing in your ears, with the brand of infamy upon your brow, commence your endless wanderings in the lurid gloom of hell—an immortal vagrant—an eternal outcast—a deathless convict.

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