- 1Ingersollia
- 2Introduction
- 3The Romance of Farm Life
- 42 — The Happy Life of the Farm
- 53 — The Ambitious Farmer’s Boy
- 64 — Never Be Afraid of Work!
- 75 — Happiness the Object of Life
- 86 — The Sunset of the Farmer’s Life
- 97 — Farmers, Protect Yourselves!
- 108 — Roast the Beef, Not the Cook
- 119 — Cultivated Farmers
- 1210 — The Wages of Slovenly Farming
- 1311 — The Farmer’s Happy Winter
- 1412 — The Almighty Dollar
- 1513 — The Farmer in Debt
- 1614 — Own Your Own Home
- 1715 — What to Do With the Idlers
- 1816 — Farm-Life Lonely
- 1917 — The Best Farming States
- 2018 — The Laborers, the Kings and Queens
- 21Home and Children
- 2220 — The Far-Seeing Eyes of Children
- 2321 — Love and Freedom in a Cabin
- 2422 — The Turnpike Road of Happiness
- 2523 — Love Paying Ten per Cent
- 2624 — A Word to the Cross-Grained
- 2725 — Oh! Daughters and Wives Be Beautiful
- 2826 — A Wholesome Word to the Stingy
- 2927 — The Boss of the Family
- 3028 — Be Honor Bright!
- 3129 — The Opera at the Table
- 3230 — A Child’s Laugh Sweeter Than Apollo’s Lyre
- 3331 — Don’t Wake the Children
- 3432 — How to Deal With Children
- 3533 — Give a Child a Chance
- 3634 — The Greatest Liars in Michigan
- 3735 — Forgive the Children!
- 3836 — A Solemn Satire on Whipping Children
- 3937 — The Whips and Gods Are Gone!
- 40Individuality
- 4139 — Saved by Disobedience
- 4240 — Intellectual Tyranny
- 4341 — Say What You Think
- 4442 — I Want to Put Out the Fires of Hell
- 4543 — The Puritans
- 4644 — A Star in the Sky of Despair
- 4745 — Do Not Shock the Heathen!
- 4846 — I Will Settle With God Myself
- 4947 — I Claim My Right to Guess
- 5048 — The Brain a Castle
- 5149 — I Am Something
- 5250 — Every Man a Bight to Think
- 5351 — Too Early to Write a Creed
- 5452 — Every Mind True to Itself
- 55Progress
- 5654 — Gold Makes a Barren Landscape
- 5755 — A Grand Achievement
- 5856 — The Divorce of Church and State
- 5957 — Professors
- 6058 — Developement
- 6159 — Poet’s Dream
- 6260 — The Temple of the Future
- 6361 — The Final Goal
- 6462 — The Eighteenth Century
- 65Political Questions
- 6664 — Liberty!
- 6765 — Ingersoll Not a Politician
- 6866 — Civilization
- 6967 — Cornell University
- 7068 — Church and School Divorced
- 7169 — Laws That Want Repealing
- 7270 — Government Secular
- 7371. 1876! (1776?)
- 7472 — Candidates Made Hypocrites
- 7573 — The Church and the Throne
- 7674 — The Old Idea
- 7775 — Liberty for Politicians
- 7876 — Tax All Church Property
- 7977 — The Source of Power
- 8078 — The Best Blood of the Old Word Come to the New
- 8179 — No State Church
- 8280 — The Enthusiasts of 1776
- 8381 — The Church Must Have No Sword
- 8482 — We Are All of Us Kings! I Want the Power Where Some One Can Use
- 8583 — Honesty Tells!
- 8684 — Working for Others
- 8785 — State Sovereignty
- 8886 — The King of America
- 8987 — Years Without Seeing a Dollar!
- 9088 — The Wail of Dead Nations
- 9189 — What the Republican Party Did
- 9290 — Doings of Democrats
- 9391 — Photograph of a Democrat
- 9492 — I Am a Republican, I Tell You!
- 9593 — Recollect!
- 9694 — Give Every Man a Chance
- 9795 — Who Shall Rule the Country?
- 9896 — The Declaration of Independence
- 9997 — The World Grows Brighter
- 10098 — The Column of July
- 10199 — A Nation of Rascals
- 102100 — We Are a Great People
- 103101 — Mule Equality
- 104102 — Room for Every Wing
- 105103 — The Republican Platform
- 106104 — Our Government the Best on Earth
- 107105 — Will the Second Century of America Be as Good as the First?
- 108Science
- 109107 — The Tables Turned
- 110108 — Science Better Than a Creed
- 111109 — The Religion of Science
- 112110 — Science Not Sectarian
- 113111 — The Epitaph of All Religions — 112 — The Real Priest
- 114113 — Science Is Power
- 115114 — Science Supreme
- 116115 — Science Opening the Gates of Thought
- 117116 — Stars and Grains of Sand
- 118117 — The Trinity of Science
- 119118 — The Old and the New Old Ideas Perished in the Retort of the
- 120119 — The Triumphs of Science
- 121120 — What Science Found!
- 122121 — Science the Only Lever
- 123Slavery
- 124123 — Slavery in the Name of Religion
- 125124 — The Patrons of Slavery
- 126125 — A Colored Man in Congress
- 127126 — The Zig-zag Strip
- 128127 — Black People Have Suffered Enough
- 129128 — The History of Civilization
- 130129 — Does God Uphold Slavery?
- 131130 — Solemn Defiance
- 132The War
- 133132 — Honor to the Brave!
- 134133 — What Were We Fighting for?
- 135134 — The Revolution Consummated
- 136135 — Fighting Done! — Work Begun!
- 137136 — Manhood Worth More Than Gold
- 138137 — Grander Than Greek or Roman
- 139138 — Let Us Drink to the Living and the Dead
- 140139 — Will the Wounds of the War Be Healed?
- 141140 — Saviours of the Nation
- 142141 — General Grant
- 143Money That Is Money
- 144143 — The Debt Will Be Paid
- 145144 | 1873 to 1879!
- 146145 — A Voter Because a Man
- 147146 — Keep the Flag in Heaven!
- 148147 — Prosperity and Resumption Hand in Hand
- 149148 — Every Poor Man Should Stand by the Government
- 150149 — We Will Settle Pair!
- 151150 — A Government With a Long Arm
- 152151 — No Repudiation
- 153152 — The Great Crash!
- 154153 — Promises Don’t Pay
- 155154 — Solid and Bright!
- 156155 — The South and the Tariff
- 157156 — I Am for Protection
- 158157 — The Old Woman of Tewksbury
- 159158 — American Muscle, Coined Into Gold
- 160159 — Inflation
- 161160 — Resources of Illinois
- 162161 — Money!
- 163162 — Money by Work
- 164163 — Meat Twice a Year
- 165164 — America a Glorious Land
- 166165 — How to Spend a Dollar
- 167166 — Honesty Is Best Always and Everywhere
- 168167 — A Fountain of Greenbacks
- 169168 — What the Greenback Says!
- 170169 — Honest Methods
- 171170 — Silver Demonetized by Fraud!
- 172Religious Questions
- 173172 — Faith — A Mixture of Insanity and Ignorance
- 174173 — What the Saints Could Cure!
- 175174 — The Sleep of Persecutors
- 176175 — Crime Rampant and God Silent!
- 177176 — How Criminals die Serenely!
- 178177 — The First Corpse and the First Cathedral
- 179178 — The Sixteenth Century
- 180179 — An Orthodox Gentleman — 180 — A Bold Assertion
- 181181 — History a Bloody Farce!
- 182182 — Weak Ones Suffering — Heaven Deaf
- 183183 — Heaven Has No Ear, No Hand
- 184184 — Religion Is Tyrannical
- 185185 — Religion and Facts
- 186186 — Religion Not the End of Life
- 187187 — Creeds
- 188188 — The Worst Religion in the World
- 189189 — Religion Demanding Miracles
- 190190 — We Want One Fact
- 191191 — The Design Argument
- 192192 — Down, Forever Down
- 193193 — The Back
- 194194 — An Awful Admission
- 195Churches and Priests
- 196196 — The Church Charges Falsely
- 197197 — The Church in the “Dark Ages”
- 198198 — The Few Say, “Think!”
- 199199 — The Church and the Tree of Knowledge
- 200200 — The Church Cries, “Believe!”
- 201201 — The Heretics Cried, “Halt!”
- 202202 — The World Not So Awful Flat
- 203203 — From Whence Come Wars?
- 204204 — Another Day of Divine Work
- 205205 — The Donkey and the Lion
- 206206 — The Orthodox Christian
- 207207 — Alms-Dish and Sword
- 208208 — The Church the Great Robber
- 209209 — The Church Impotent
- 210210 — Toleration
- 211211 — Shakespeare’s Plays V. Sermons
- 212212 — Why Should the Church Be Merciful?
- 213213 — The Church and the Infidel
- 214214 — Back to Chaos
- 215215 — Infinite Impudence of the Church
- 216216 — Wanted! — A New Method
- 217217 — The Kirk of Scotland
- 218218 — The Church Looks Back
- 219219 — Diogenes
- 220220 — The Church and War
- 221221 — The Call to Preach
- 222222 — Burning Servetus
- 223223 — Freedom for the Clergy
- 224224 — The Pulpit Weakening
- 225225 — Origin of the Priesthood
- 226226 — The Clergy on Heaven
- 227227 — The Parson, the Crane and the Fish
- 228228 — Banish Me From Eden — But!
- 229229 — The Pulpit’s Cry of Fear
- 230230 — Restive Clergymen
- 231231 — The Parson Factory at Andover
- 232232 — A Charge to Presbyteries
- 233The Bible
- 234234 — Inspiration
- 235335 — The 109th Psalm!
- 236236 — I Don’t Believe the Bible
- 237237 — The Bible the Real Persecutor
- 238238 — Immoralities of the Bible
- 239239 — The Bible Stands in the Way
- 240240 — The Bible False
- 241241 — The Man I Love
- 242242 — Whale, Jonah and All
- 243243 — Damned for Laughing at Samson
- 244244 — The Man, Not the Book, Inspired
- 245245 — The Bible a Chain
- 246246 — Absurd and Foolish Fables
- 247247 — The Bible the Work of Man
- 248248 — Something to Admire, Not Laugh at
- 249249 — An Intellectual Deformity
- 250250 — The Bible a Poor Product
- 251251 — The Bible the Battle Ground of Sects
- 252252 — The Bible Childish
- 253253 — Where Moses Got the Pentateuch
- 254254 — God’s Letter to His Children
- 255255 — Examination a Crime
- 256256 — Read the Bible — And Then!
- 257257 — An Infallible Book Makes Slaves
- 258258 — Can a Sane Man Believe in Inspiration?
- 259259 — An Inspiration Test
- 260260 — The Real Bible
- 261261 — The Bad Passages in the Bible Not Inspired
- 262262 — Too Much Pictorial
- 263263 — One Plow Worth a Million Sermons
- 264Infidels
- 265265 — The Legitimate Influence of Religion
- 266266 — Infidels the Flowers of the World
- 267267 — The Noblest Sons of, Earth
- 268268 — How Ingersoll Became an Infidel
- 269269 — Why Should Infidels Die in Fear?
- 270270 — Infidelity Is Liberty
- 271271 — The World in Debt to Infidels
- 272272 — Infidels the Pioneers of Progress
- 273273 — Infidels the Great Discoverers
- 274274 — The Altar of Reason
- 275Gods and Devils
- 276276 — Gods With Back-Hair
- 277277 — Creation the Decomposition of the Infinite
- 278278 — The Gods Are as the People Are
- 279279 — Gods Shouldn’t Make Mistakes
- 280280 — Miracles
- 281281 — Plenty of Gods on Hand
- 282282 — The Devil Difficulty
- 283283 — Was the Devil an Idiot?
- 284284 — Industrious Deities
- 285285 — God in Idleness
- 286286 — Fancy a Devil Drowning a World
- 287287 — Some Gods Very Particular About Little Things
- 288288 | The Gods of To-day the Scorn of To-morrow
- 289289 — No Evidence of a God in Nature
- 290290 — Great Variety in Gods
- 291291 — God Grows Smaller
- 292292 — Give the Devil His Due
- 293293 — Casting Out Devils
- 294294 — On the Horns of a Dilemma
- 295295 — The Devil and the Swine
- 296296 — How Can I Assist God?
- 297297 — Can God Be Improved?
- 298298 — That Dreadful Apple!
- 299299 — The Devils Better Than the Gods
- 300300 — Is It Possible?
- 301301 — It Is Impossible!
- 302Heaven and Hell
- 303303 — I Am Immortal
- 304304 — What If Death Does End All?
- 305305 — The Old World Ignorant of Destiny
- 306306 — Where the Doctrine of Hell Was Born
- 307307 — The Grand Companionships of Hell
- 308308 — Horror of Horrors!
- 309309 — The Drama of Damnation
- 310310 — Annihilation Rather Than Be a God
- 311311 — “All That Have Red Hair Shall Be Damned”
- 312312 — The Conscience of a Hyena
- 313313 — I Leave the Dead
- 314314 — Calvin in Hell!
- 315Governing Great Men
- 316316 — The Emperor Constantine
- 317317 — Did Franklin and Jefferson Die in Fear?
- 318318 — Angels at Constantino’s Dying Bed!
- 319319 — Diderot
- 320320 — Benedict Spinoza
- 321321 — Thomas Paine
- 322322 — The Greatest of All Political Writers
- 323323 — The Writings of Paine
- 324324 — The Last Words of Paine
- 325325 — Paine Believed in God
- 326326 — The Intellectual Hera
- 327327 — Paine, Franklin, Jefferson
- 328328 — David Hume
- 329329 — Voltaire
- 330330 — John Calvin
- 331331 — Calvin’s Five Fetters
- 332332 — Humboldt
- 333333 — Humbolt’s Travels
- 334334 — Humboldt’s Illustrious Companions
- 335335 — Humboldt the Apostle of Science
- 336336 — Ingersoll Muses by Napoleon’s Tomb
- 337337 — Eulogy on J. G. Blaine
- 338338 — A Model Leader
- 339339 — Abraham Lincoln
- 340340 — Swedenborg
- 341341 — Jeremy Bentham
- 342342 — Charles Fourier
- 343343 — Auguste Comte
- 344344 — Herbert Spencer
- 345345 — Robert Collyer
- 346346 — John Milton
- 347347 — Ernst Haeckel
- 348348 — Professor Swing, a Dove Amongst Vultures
- 349349 — Queen Victoria and George Eliot
- 350350 — Bough on Rabbi Bien
- 351351 — General Garfield
- 352352 — “Wealthy in Integrity; in Brain a Millionaire”
- 353353 — Garfield a Certificate of the Splendor of the American Consti…
- 354354 — Dr. W. Hiram Thomas
- 355Miscellaneous
- 356356 — The Aristocracy That Will Survive
- 357357 — Truth Will Bear the Test
- 358358 — Paring Nails
- 359359 — There May Be a God
- 360360 — The People Are Beginning to Think
- 361361 — Unchained Thought
- 362362 — Man the Victor of the Future
- 363363 — The Sacred Sabbath
- 364364 — Make the Sabbath Merry
- 365365 — Away to the Hills and the Sea
- 366366 — Melancholy Sundays
- 367367 — Moses Took Egyptian Law for His Model
- 368368 — A False Standard of Success
- 369369 — Toilers and Idlers
- 370370 — The Sad Wilderness History
- 371371 — Law Much Older Than Sinai
- 372372 — Who Is the Blasphemer?
- 373373 — Standing Tip for God
- 374374 — Matter and Force
- 375375 — Haeckel Before Moses!
- 376376 — How Was It Done?
- 377377 — General Joshua
- 378378 — Early Rising Is Barbaric!
- 379379 — Sleep Is Medicine!
- 380380 — Never Rise at Four O’Clock
- 381381 — The Hermit Is Mad
- 382382 — Duke Orang-Outang
- 383383 — Self-Made Men
- 384384 — The One Window in the Ark
- 385385 — No Ante-Diluvian Camp-Meetings!
- 386386 — Hard Work in the Ark
- 387387 — What Did Moses Know About the Sun?
- 388388 — Something for Nothing
- 389389 — Polygamy
- 390390 — The Colonel in the Kitchen — How to Cook a Beefsteak
- 391391 — Fresh Air
- 392392 — Cooking a Fine Art
- 393393 — Scathing Impeachment of Intemperance
- 394394 — Liberty Defined
- 395395 — Free, Honest Thought
- 396396 — Ingersoll Prefers Shoemakers to Princes
- 397397 — Sham Dignity
- 398398 — A Good Time Coming!
- 399399 — Who Is the True Nobleman?
- 400400 — Wanted! — More Manliness
- 401401 — Education of Nature
- 402402 — The Worker Wearing the Purple
- 403403 — Flowers
- 404404 — Be Happy — Here and Now!
- 405405 — The School House a Fort
- 406406 — We Are Getting Free
- 407407 — The Solid Rock
- 408Ingersoll’s Five Gospels
- 409409 — The Gospel of Liberty
- 410410 — The Gospel of ‘Good Living
- 411411 — The Gospel of Intelligence
- 412412 — The Gospel of Justice
- 413Gems From the Controversial Gasket — 413 — The Origin of the Contro…
- 414414 — What Is Christianity?
- 415415 — Summary of Evangelical Belief
- 416416 — A Profound Change in the World of Thought
- 417417 — The Believer in the Inspiration of the Bible Has Too Much to…
- 418418 — A Frank Admission
- 419419 — The Bible Should Be Better Than Any Other Book
- 420420 — A Serious Charge
- 421421 — If the Bible Is Not Verbally Inspired, What Then?
- 422422 — A Hindu Example
- 423423 — A Test Fairly Applied
- 424424 — Suppose!
- 425425 — Proofs of Civilization
- 426426 — A Persian Gospel
- 427427 — Man the Author of All Books
- 428428 — God and Brahma
- 429429 — Matthew, Mark, and Luke
- 430430 — Christianity Takes No Step in Advance
- 431431 — Christianity a Mixture of Good and Evil
- 432432 — Jehovah, Epictetus and Cicero
- 433433 — The Atonement
- 434434 — Sin as a Debt
- 435435 — The Logic of the Coffin
- 436436 — Judas Iscariot
- 437437 — The Standard of Right
- 438438 — What Is Conscience?
- 439439 — No Right to Think!
- 440440 — The Liberty of the Bible
- 441441 — Slavery in Heaven
- 442442 — Jehovah Breaking His Own Laws
- 443443 — Who Designed the Designer?
- 444444 — What We Know of the Infinite
- 445445 — The Universe Self-Existent
- 446446 — Jehovah’s Promise Broken
- 447447 — Character Bather Than Creed
- 448448 — Mohammed the Prophet of God
- 449449 — Wanted! — A Little More Legislation
- 450450 — Is All That Succeeds Inspired?
- 451451 — The Morality in Christianity
- 452452 — Miracle Mongers
- 453453 — The Honor Due to Christ
- 454454 — Christianity Has No Monopoly in Morals
- 455455 — Old Age in Superstition’s Lap
- 456456 — Ararat in Chicago
- 457457 — How Gods and Devils Are Made
- 458458 — The Romance of Figures
- 459459 — God and Zeno
- 460460 — Why Was Christ So Silent?
- 461461 — The Philosophy of Action
- 462462 — Infinite Punishment for Finite Crimes
- 463463 — Whence Came the Gospels?
- 464464 — Mr. Black’s Admission
- 465465 — The Stars Upon the Door of France
- 466A Kind Word for John Chinaman
- 467466 — The Select Committee Afraid
- 468467 — The Gods of the Joss-House and Patmos
- 469468 — A Little Too Late
- 470469 — Christianity Has a Fair Show in San Francisco
- 471470 — An Arrow From the Quiver of Satire
- 472471 — We Have No Religious System
- 473472 — Congress Nothing to Do With Religion
- 474473 — Concessions of the Illustrious Four!
- 475474 — Do Not Trample on John Chinaman
- 476475 — Be Honest With the Chinese
- 477476 — An Honest Merchant the Best Missionary
- 478477 — Good Words From Confucius
- 479478 — The Ancient Chinese
- 480479 — The Chinese and Civil Service Reform
- 481480 — Invading China in the Name of Opium and Christ
- 482481 — Don’t Be Dishonest in the Name of God
- 483Concerning Creeds and the Tyranny of Sects
- 484483 — Spencer and Darwin Damned
- 485484 — The Dead Do Not Persecute
- 486485 — The Atheist a Legal Outcast in Illinois
- 487486 — How the Owls Hoot
- 488487 — The Fate of Theological Students
- 489488 — Trials for Heresy
- 490489 — Presbyterianism Softening
- 491490 — The Methodist “Hoist With His Own Petard”
- 492491 — The Precious Doctrine of Total Depravity
- 493492 — Guilty of Heresy
- 494493 — Dishonest Teachers
- 495494 — Self-Reliance a Deadly Sin!
- 496495 — A Hundred and Fifty Years Ago
- 497496 — The Despotism of Faith
- 498497 — Believe, or Beware
- 499498 — Calvin’s Petrified Heart
- 500499 — Logic Unconfined
- 501500 — Politeness at Athens!
- 502501 — The Tail of a Lion
- 503502 — While the Preachers Talked the People Slept
- 504503 — Christianity No Friend to Progress
- 505504 — Where Is the New Eden?
- 506505 — The Real Eden Is Beyond
- 507506 — Party Names Belittle Men
- 508A Few Plain Questions
- 509508 — Must We Believe Fables to Be Good and True? Must We, in Order…
- 510509 — Why Did Not God Kill the Serpent?
- 511510 — Questions About the Ark
- 512511 — Was Language Confounded at Babel
- 513512 — Would God Kill a Man for Making Ointment?
- 514513 — How Did Water Run Up Hill?
- 515514 — Would a Real God Uphold Slavery?
- 516515 — Will There Be an Eternal Auto da Fe?
- 517516 — Why Hate an Atheist?
- 518Orient Pearls as Random Strung
- 519Ingersoll’s Oration at His Brother’s Grave
- 520Ingersoll’s Dream of the War
- 521Epigrams
- 522Definitions
- 523Beliefs
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