The Cellar-House of Pervyse;
by Geraldine Edith Mitton, Mairi Chisholm
ISBN-10: 1117128946
ISBN-13: 9781117128948
$36.99
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
BiblioLife
Published on
Nov 1, 2009
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
7.00x0.75x10.00 Inches
Weight
1.67 Pounds
About the Book
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century 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)