“s writings before speaking and quoted Ingersoll frequently. Ingersoll, to be sure, knew nothing of the class struggle. His chief concern was to free people”
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
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culture · American agnostic, lawyer, politician and orator (1833–1899) · lawyer · politician · writer · essayist · orator · lecturer · philosopher · jurist · also Robert Green Ingersoll, Robert G. Ingersoll, Robert Ingersoll, The Great Agnostic, Ingersoll
Born 11 August 1833 · Died 21 July 1899 · Q469882
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2005· 1 entry
A popular edition of Ingersoll's work was published by Steerforth Press
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1911· 1 entry
“The Secret of Efficient Expression”
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1899· 5 entries
Died 1899-07-21.
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“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
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“Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?”
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“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so. Wisdom is the science of happiness.”
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“Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.”
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1892· 1 entry
Ingersoll delivered the eulogy at the poet's funeral
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1889· 1 entry
And gave an address to their first public "gambol" at the Broadway Theatre on March 3, 1891; his address "brought many laughs"
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1880· 2 entries
Ingersoll was introduced as "the Great Agnostic" by Rev
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“What Must We Do To Be Saved?”
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1879· 2 entries
By Chicago publishers Rhodes and McClure)
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“A Tribe to Eban C. Ingersoll”
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1856· 2 entries
Ingersoll caught Hall in his arms when the son of a political opponent assassinated his employer in their office
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And Logan's relocation to Benton, Illinois, after his marriage that autumn, Ingersoll and his brother moved to Peoria, Illinois, where they finally settled in 1857
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1855· 1 entry
After Cunningham was named registrar for the federal land office in southeastern Illinois at Shawneetown, Illinois, Ingersoll followed him to the riverfront city along the Ohio River
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1853· 1 entry
The family settled in Marion, Illinois, where Robert and his brother Ebon Clarke Ingersoll were admitted to the bar in 1854
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1833· 1 entry
Born 1833-08-11.
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