(1888.)
Discussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert,
and ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of
New York--Propositions--Toleration not a Disclaimer but a Waiver of the
Right to Persecute--Remarks of Courtlandt Palmer--No Responsibility for
Thought--Intellectual Hospitality--Right of Free Speech--Origin of the
term "Toleration"--Slander and False Witness--Nobody can Control his own
Mind: Anecdote--Remarks of Mr. Coudert--Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and
Ingersoll--General Woodford's Speech--Reply by Colonel Ingersoll--A
Catholic Compelled to Pay a Compliment to Voltaire--Responsibility for
Thoughts--The Mexican Unbeliever and his Reception in the Other Country.