Ingersollia Gems
Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs
作者：Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899; Handford, Thomas W. [Editor]
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共 549 题- Produced by David Widger
- INGERSOLLIA
- By Robert G. Ingersoll
- Edited By Elmo
- INGERSOLLIA
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ROMANCE OF FARM LIFE
- 1. Ingersoll as a Farmer
- 2. The Happy Life of the Farm
- 3. The Ambitious Farmer's Boy
- 4. Never Be Afraid of Work!
- 5. Happiness the Object of Life
- 6. The Sunset of the Farmer's Life
- 7. Farmers, Protect Yourselves!
- 8. Roast the Beef, Not the Cook.
- 9. Cultivated Farmers.
- 10. The Wages of Slovenly Farming.
- 11. The Farmer's Happy Winter
- 12. The Almighty Dollar
- 13. The Farmer in Debt
- 14. Own Your Own Home
- 15. What to do with the Idlers
- 16. Farm-Life Lonely
- 17. The Best Farming States
- 18. The Laborers, the Kings and Queens
- HOME AND CHILDREN
- 19. The Family the Only Heaven in this World
- 20. The Far-Seeing Eyes of Children.
- 21. Love and Freedom in a Cabin
- 22. The Turnpike Road of Happiness
- 23. Love Paying Ten Per Cent
- 24. A Word to the Cross-Grained
- 25. Oh! Daughters and Wives be Beautiful
- 26. A Wholesome Word to the Stingy
- 27. The Boss of the Family
- 28. Be Honor Bright!
- 29. The Opera at the Table
- 30. A Child's laugh sweeter than Apollo's lyre
- 31. Don't Wake the Children
- 32. How to Deal with Children
- 33. Give a Child a Chance
- 34. The Greatest Liars in Michigan
- 35. Forgive the Children!
- 36. A Solemn Satire on Whipping Children
- 37. The Whips and Gods are Gone!
- INDIVIDUALITY
- 38. Absolute Independence of the Individual
- 39. Saved by Disobedience
- 40. Intellectual Tyranny
- 41. Say What You Think
- 42. I Want to Put Out the Fires of Hell
- 43. The Puritans
- 44. A Star in the Sky of Despair
- 45. Do not Shock the Heathen!
- 46. I will Settle with God Myself
- 47. I Claim my Right to Guess
- 48. The Brain a Castle
- 49. I am Something
- 50. Every Man a Bight to Think
- 51. Too Early to Write a Creed
- 52. Every Mind True to Itself
- PROGRESS
- 53. The Torch of Progress.
- 54. Gold makes a Barren Landscape
- 55. A Grand Achievement
- 56. The Divorce of Church and State
- 57. Professors
- 58. Developement
- 59. Poet's Dream
- 60. The Temple of the Future
- 61. The final Goal
- 62. The Eighteenth Century
- POLITICAL QUESTIONS
- 63. Liberty--Fraternity--Equality!
- 64. Liberty!
- 65. Ingersoll Not a Politician
- 66. Civilization
- 67. Cornell University
- 68. Church and School Divorced
- 69. Laws That Want Repealing
- 70. Government Secular
- 72. Candidates Made Hypocrites
- 73. The Church and the Throne
- 74. The Old Idea
- 75. Liberty for Politicians
- 76. Tax all Church Property
- 77. The Source of Power
- 78. The Best Blood of the Old Word come to the New
- 79. No State Church
- 80. The Enthusiasts of 1776
- 81. The Church Must Have no Sword
- 83. Honesty Tells!
- 84. Working for Others.
- 85. State Sovereignty
- 86. The King of America
- 87. Years Without Seeing a Dollar!
- 88. The Wail of Dead Nations
- 89. What the Republican Party Did
- 90. Doings of Democrats
- 91. Photograph of a Democrat.
- 92. I am a Republican, I Tell You!
- 93. Recollect!
- 94. Give Every Man a Chance
- 95. Who Shall Rule the Country?
- 96. The Declaration of Independence
- 97. The World Grows Brighter.
- 98. The Column of July
- 99. A Nation of Rascals
- 100. We are a Great People
- 101. Mule Equality
- 102. Room for Every Wing.
- 103. The Republican Platform.
- 104. Our Government the best on Earth
- 105. Will the Second Century of America be as good as the First?
- SCIENCE
- 106. The Glory of Science.
- 107. The Tables Turned
- 108. Science Better than a Creed
- 109. The Religion of Science
- 110. Science not Sectarian
- 111. The Epitaph of all Religions
- 112. The Real Priest
- 113. Science is Power
- 114. Science Supreme
- 115. Science Opening the Gates of Thought
- 116. Stars and Grains of Sand
- 117. The Trinity of Science
- 119. The Triumphs of Science
- 120. What Science Found!
- 121. Science the only Lever
- SLAVERY
- 122. The Colonel Short of Words!!!
- 123. Slavery in the Name of Religion
- 124. The Patrons of Slavery
- 125. A Colored Man in Congress
- 126. The Zig-zag Strip
- 127. Black People have Suffered Enough
- 128. The History of Civilization
- 129. Does God Uphold Slavery?
- 130. Solemn Defiance
- THE WAR
- 131. The Soldiers of the Republic
- 132. Honor to the Brave!
- 133. What Were We Fighting For?
- 134. The Revolution Consummated
- 135. Fighting Done!--Work Begun!
- 136. Manhood worth more than Gold
- 137. Grander than Greek or Roman.
- 138. Let us Drink to the Living and the Dead
- 139. Will the Wounds of the War be Healed?
- 140. Saviours of the Nation
- 141. General Grant
- MONEY THAT IS MONEY
- 142. Paper is not Money
- 143. The Debt will be paid
- 144. 1873 to 1879!
- 145. A Voter because a Man
- 146. Keep the Flag in Heaven!
- 147. Prosperity and Resumption hand in hand
- 148. Every Poor Man should Stand by the Government
- 149. We Will Settle Pair!
- 150. A Government with a Long Arm
- 151. No Repudiation
- 152. The Great Crash!
- 153. Promises Don't Pay
- 154. Solid and Bright!
- 155. The South and the Tariff
- 156. I am for Protection
- 157. The Old Woman of Tewksbury
- 158. American Muscle, Coined into Gold
- 159. Inflation
- 160. Resources of Illinois.
- 161. Money!
- 162. Money by Work
- 163. Meat Twice a Year
- 164. America a Glorious Land
- 165. How to Spend a Dollar
- 166. Honesty is Best always and Everywhere
- 167. A Fountain of Greenbacks
- 168. What the Greenback says!
- 169. Honest Methods
- 170. Silver demonetized by Fraud!
- RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS
- 171. The Crime of Crimes!
- 172. Faith--A Mixture of Insanity and Ignorance
- 173. What the Saints Could Cure!
- 174. The Sleep of Persecutors
- 175. Crime Rampant and God Silent!
- 176. How Criminals Die Serenely!
- 177. The first Corpse and the first Cathedral
- 178. The Sixteenth Century
- 179. An Orthodox Gentleman
- 180. A Bold Assertion
- 181. History a Bloody Farce!
- 182. Weak ones Suffering--Heaven deaf
- 183. Heaven has no Ear, no Hand
- 184. Religion is Tyrannical
- 185. Religion and Facts
- 186. Religion not the End of Life
- 187. Creeds
- 188. The Worst Religion in the World
- 189. Religion Demanding Miracles
- 190. We Want One Fact
- 191. The Design Argument
- 192. Down, Forever Down
- 193. The Back
- 194. An Awful Admission
- CHURCHES AND PRIESTS
- 195. The Church Forbids Investigation
- 196. The Church Charges Falsely
- 197. The Church in the "Dark Ages"
- 198. The Few Say, "Think!"
- 199. The Church and the Tree of Knowledge
- 200. The Church Cries, "Believe!"
- 201. The Heretics Cried, "Halt!"
- 202. The World not so Awful Flat
- 203. From Whence Come Wars?
- 204. Another Day of Divine Work
- 205. The Donkey and the Lion
- 206. The Orthodox Christian
- 207. Alms-Dish and Sword
- 208. The Church the Great Robber
- 209. The Church Impotent
- 210. Toleration
- 211. Shakespeare's Plays v. Sermons
- 212. Why Should the Church be Merciful?
- 213. The Church and the Infidel.
- 214. Back to Chaos
- 215. Infinite Impudence of the Church
- 216. Wanted!--A New Method
- 217. The Kirk of Scotland
- 218. The Church Looks Back
- 219. Diogenes
- 220. The Church and War
- 221. The Call to Preach
- 222. Burning Servetus
- 223. Freedom for the Clergy
- 224. The Pulpit Weakening
- 225. Origin of the Priesthood
- 226. The Clergy on Heaven
- 227. The Parson, the Crane and the Fish
- 228. Banish Me from Eden--But!
- 229. The Pulpit's Cry of Fear
- 230. Restive Clergymen
- 231. The Parson Factory at Andover
- 232. A Charge to Presbyteries
- THE BIBLE
- 233. Nature the True Bible
- 234. Inspiration
- 335. The 109th Psalm!
- 236. I Don't Believe the Bible
- 237. The Bible the Real Persecutor
- 238. Immoralities of the Bible
- 239. The Bible Stands in the Way
- 240. The Bible False
- 241. The Man I Love
- 242. Whale, Jonah and All
- 243. Damned for Laughing at Samson
- 244. The Man, Not the Book, Inspired
- 245. The Bible a Chain
- 246. Absurd and Foolish Fables
- 247. The Bible the Work of Man
- 248. Something to Admire, not Laugh at
- 249. An Intellectual Deformity
- 250. The Bible a Poor Product
- 251. The Bible the Battle Ground of Sects
- 252. The Bible Childish
- 253. Where Moses got the Pentateuch
- 254. God's Letter to His Children
- 255. Examination a Crime
- 256. Read the Bible--and Then!
- 257. An Infallible Book Makes Slaves
- 258. Can a Sane Man Believe in Inspiration?
- 259. An Inspiration Test
- 260. The Real Bible
- 261. The Bad Passages in the Bible not Inspired
- 262. Too much Pictorial
- 263. One Plow worth a Million Sermons
- INFIDELS
- 264. The Infidels of 1776
- 265. The Legitimate Influence of Religion
- 266. Infidels the Flowers of the World
- 267. The Noblest Sons of, Earth
- 268. How Ingersoll became an Infidel
- 269. Why Should Infidels Die in Fear?
- 270. Infidelity is Liberty
- 271. The World in Debt to Infidels
- 272. Infidels the Pioneers of Progress
- 273. Infidels the Great Discoverers
- 274. The Altar of Reason
- GODS AND DEVILS
- 275. Every Nation has Created a God
- 276. Gods with Back-Hair
- 277. Creation the Decomposition of the Infinite
- 278. The Gods Are as the People Are
- 279. Gods Shouldn't Make Mistakes
- 280. Miracles
- 281. Plenty of Gods on Hand
- 282. The Devil Difficulty
- 283. Was the Devil an Idiot?
- 284. Industrious Deities
- 285. God in Idleness
- 286. Fancy a Devil Drowning a World
- 287. Some Gods Very Particular About Little Things
- 288 The Gods of To-day the Scorn of To-morrow
- 289. No Evidence of a God in Nature
- 290. Great Variety in Gods
- 291. God Grows Smaller
- 292. Give the Devil His Due
- 293. Casting out Devils
- 294. On the Horns of a Dilemma
- 295. The Devil and the Swine
- 296. How can I assist God?
- 297. Can God be Improved?
- 298. That Dreadful Apple!
- 299. The Devils better than the Gods
- 300. Is it Possible?
- 301. It is Impossible!
- HEAVEN AND HELL
- 302. Hope of a Future Life
- 303. I am Immortal
- 304. What if Death Does End All?
- 305. The Old World Ignorant of Destiny
- 306. Where the Doctrine of Hell was born
- 307. The Grand Companionships of Hell
- 308. Horror of Horrors!
- 309. The Drama of Damnation
- 310. Annihilation rather than be a God
- 311. "All that have Red Hair shall be Damned."
- 312. The Conscience of a Hyena
- 313. I Leave the Dead
- 314. Calvin in Hell!
- GOVERNING GREAT MEN
- 315. Jesus Christ
- 316. The Emperor Constantine.
- 317. Did Franklin and Jefferson Die in Fear?
- 318. Angels at Constantino's Dying Bed!
- 319. Diderot
- 320. Benedict Spinoza
- 321. Thomas Paine
- 322. The Greatest of all Political Writers
- 323. The Writings of Paine
- 324. The Last Words of Paine.
- 325. Paine Believed in God
- 326. The Intellectual Hera
- 327. Paine, Franklin, Jefferson
- 328. David Hume
- 329. Voltaire
- 330. John Calvin
- 331. Calvin's Five Fetters
- 332. Humboldt
- 333. Humbolt's Travels
- 334. Humboldt's Illustrious Companions
- 335. Humboldt the Apostle of Science
- 336. Ingersoll Muses by Napoleon's Tomb
- 337. Eulogy on J. G. Blaine
- 338. A Model Leader
- 339. Abraham Lincoln
- 340. Swedenborg
- 341. Jeremy Bentham
- 342. Charles Fourier
- 343. Auguste Comte
- 344. Herbert Spencer
- 345. Robert Collyer
- 346. John Milton
- 347. Ernst Haeckel
- 348. Professor Swing, a Dove amongst Vultures
- 349. Queen Victoria and George Eliot
- 350. Bough on Rabbi Bien
- 351. General Garfield
- 352. "Wealthy in Integrity; In Brain a Millionaire."
- 353. Garfield a Certificate of the Splendor of the American Constitution
- 354. Dr. W. Hiram Thomas
- MISCELLANEOUS
- 355. Heresy and Orthodoxy
- 356. The Aristocracy that will Survive.
- 357. Truth will Bear the Test
- 358. Paring Nails
- 359. There may be a God
- 360. The People are Beginning to Think
- 361. Unchained Thought
- 362. Man the Victor of the Future
- 363. The Sacred Sabbath
- 364. Make the Sabbath Merry
- 365. Away to the Hills and the Sea
- 366. Melancholy Sundays
- 367. Moses took Egyptian Law for his Model
- 368. A False Standard of Success
- 369. Toilers and Idlers
- 370. The Sad Wilderness History
- 371. Law Much Older than Sinai
- 372. Who is the Blasphemer?
- 373. Standing Tip for God
- 374. Matter and Force
- 375. Haeckel before Moses!
- 376. How was it Done?
- 377. General Joshua
- 378. Early Rising is Barbaric!
- 379. Sleep is Medicine!
- 380. Never Rise at Four O'Clock
- 381. The Hermit is Mad
- 382. Duke Orang-Outang
- 383. Self-Made Men
- 384. The One Window in the Ark
- 385. No Ante-Diluvian Camp-Meetings!
- 386. Hard Work in the Ark
- 387. What did Moses know about the Sun?
- 388. Something for Nothing
- 389. Polygamy
- 390. The Colonel in the Kitchen--How to Cook a Beefsteak
- 391. Fresh Air
- 392. Cooking a Fine Art
- 393. Scathing Impeachment of Intemperance
- 394. Liberty Defined
- 395. Free, Honest Thought
- 396. Ingersoll Prefers Shoemakers to Princes
- 397. Sham Dignity
- 398. A Good Time Coming!
- 399. Who is the True Nobleman?
- 400. Wanted!--More Manliness
- 401. Education of Nature
- 402. The Worker Wearing the Purple
- 403. Flowers
- 404. Be Happy--Here and Now!
- 405. The School House a Fort
- 406. We are Getting Free
- 407. The Solid Rock
- INGERSOLL'S FIVE GOSPELS
- 408. The Gospel of Cheerfulness
- 409. The Gospel of Liberty
- 410. The Gospel of 'Good Living
- 411. The Gospel of Intelligence
- 412. The Gospel of Justice
- GEMS FROM THE CONTROVERSIAL GASKET
- 413. The Origin of the Controversy
- 414. What is Christianity?
- 415. Summary of Evangelical Belief
- 416. A Profound Change in the World of Thought
- 417. The Believer in the Inspiration of the Bible has too Much to Believe
- 418. A Frank Admission
- 419. The Bible Should be Better than any other Book
- 420. A Serious Charge
- 421. If the Bible is Not Verbally Inspired, What Then?
- 422. A Hindu Example
- 423. A Test Fairly Applied
- 424. Suppose!
- 425. Proofs of Civilization
- 426. A Persian Gospel
- 427. Man the Author of all Books
- 428. God and Brahma
- 429. Matthew, Mark, and Luke
- 430. Christianity Takes no Step in Advance
- 431. Christianity a Mixture of Good and Evil
- 432. Jehovah, Epictetus and Cicero
- 433. The Atonement
- 434. Sin as a Debt
- 435. The Logic of the Coffin
- 436. Judas Iscariot
- 437. The Standard of Right
- 438. What is Conscience?
- 439. No Right to Think!
- 440. The Liberty of the Bible
- 441. Slavery in Heaven
- 442. Jehovah Breaking His Own Laws
- 443. Who Designed the Designer?
- 444. What we Know of the Infinite
- 445. The Universe Self-Existent
- 446. Jehovah's Promise Broken
- 447. Character Bather than Creed
- 448. Mohammed the Prophet of God
- 449. Wanted!--A Little More Legislation
- 450. Is all that Succeeds Inspired?
- 451. The Morality in Christianity
- 452. Miracle Mongers
- 453. The Honor Due to Christ
- 454. Christianity has no Monopoly in Morals
- 455. Old Age in Superstition's Lap
- 456. Ararat in Chicago
- 457. How Gods and Devils are Made
- 458. The Romance of Figures
- 459. God and Zeno
- 460. Why was Christ so Silent?
- 461. The Philosophy of Action
- 462. Infinite Punishment for Finite Crimes.
- 463. Whence Came the Gospels?
- 464. Mr. Black's Admission
- 465. The Stars Upon the Door of France
- A KIND WORD FOR JOHN CHINAMAN
- 466. The Select Committee Afraid
- 467. The Gods of the Joss-House and Patmos
- 468. A Little Too Late
- 469. Christianity has a Fair Show in San Francisco
- 470. An Arrow from the Quiver of Satire
- 471. We Have no Religious System
- 472. Congress Nothing to Do with Religion
- 473. Concessions of the Illustrious Four!
- 474. Do not Trample on John Chinaman
- 475. Be Honest with the Chinese
- 476. An Honest Merchant the Best Missionary
- 477. Good Words from Confucius
- 478. The Ancient Chinese
- 479. The Chinese and Civil Service Reform
- 480. Invading China in the Name of Opium and Christ
- 481. Don't be Dishonest in the Name of God
- CONCERNING CREEDS AND THE TYRANNY OF SECTS
- 482. Diversity of Opinion Abolished by Henry VIII
- 483. Spencer and Darwin Damned
- 484. The Dead do Not Persecute
- 485. The Atheist a Legal Outcast in Illinois
- 486. How the Owls Hoot
- 487. The Fate of Theological Students
- 488. Trials for Heresy
- 489. Presbyterianism Softening
- 490. The Methodist "Hoist with his own Petard."
- 491. The Precious Doctrine of Total Depravity
- 492. Guilty of Heresy
- 493. Dishonest Teachers.
- 494. Self-Reliance a Deadly Sin!
- 495. A Hundred and Fifty Years Ago
- 496. The Despotism of Faith
- 497. Believe, or Beware
- 498. Calvin's Petrified Heart
- 499. Logic Unconfined.
- 500. Politeness at Athens!
- 501. The Tail of a Lion
- 502. While the Preachers Talked the People Slept
- 503. Christianity no Friend to Progress
- 504. Where is the New Eden?
- 505. The Real Eden is Beyond
- 506. Party Names Belittle Men
- A FEW PLAIN QUESTIONS
- 507. Where Did the Serpent Come From?
- 509. Why Did Not God Kill the Serpent?
- 510. Questions About the Ark
- 511. Was Language Confounded at Babel.
- 512. Would God Kill a Man for Making Ointment?
- 513. How Did Water run up Hill?
- 514. Would a Real God Uphold Slavery?
- 515. Will There Be an Eternal Auto da Fe?
- 516. Why Hate an Atheist?
- ORIENT PEARLS AS RANDOM STRUNG
- I do not believe that Christians are as bad as their creeds.
- INGERSOLL'S ORATION AT HIS BROTHER'S GRAVE
- INGERSOLL'S DREAM OF THE WAR
- EPIGRAMS.
- DEFINITIONS.
- Chicago is a marvel of energy, a miracle of nerva
- Civilization is the Child of Forethought
- BELIEFS.