The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12): Dresden Edition—Discussions

· 1899

"EVERY BRAIN IS A FIELD WHERE NATURE SOWS THE SEEDS OF THOUGHT, AND THE CROP DEPENDS UPON THE SOIL." Answer to San Francisco Clergymen--Definition of Liberty, Physical and Mental--The Right to Compel Belief--Woman the Equal of Man--The Ghosts--Immortality--Slavery--Witchcraft--Aristocracy of the Air--Unfairness of Clerical Critics--Force and Matter--Doctrine of Negation--Confident Deaths of Murderers--Childhood Scenes returned to by the Dying--Death-bed of Voltaire--Thomas Paine--The First Sectarians Were Heretics--Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard--Slaughter of the Canaanites--Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson--Protestant Persecutions--Toleration--Infidelity and Progress--The Occident--Calvinism--Religi…

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