America’s most famous freethinking orator in full flow, reported verbatim from the lecture halls. Ingersoll defends Thomas Paine’s memory, argues for the liberty of man, woman and child, attacks orthodoxy and the laws against blasphemy, spars with the preacher Talmage and recalls the Sunday-school sermons on hell he heard as a boy.
Witty, humane and still provocative, these speeches show why crowds paid to hear the Great Agnostic. Download the free EPUB.