Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 4

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)

Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose proportion and become the unmeaning waste and shattered spoil of thoughtless Chance." One of the most famous orators of his day, a contemporary and personal friend of Mark Twain and General Grant, Ingersoll's lectures on famous people in this series include: SHAKESPEARE, ROBERT BURNS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOLTAIRE, WALT WHITMAN, HUMBOLDT AND THOMAS PAINE; followed by inspiring speeches on THE GREAT INFIDELS; WHICH WAY? (science or superstition); and ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.
Each lecture in Volume 3, plus 2 lectures from Volume 1 (of the 12 volume Dresden Edition), will be presented on Librivox as a separate audiobook in the series called Ingersoll Lectures, Famous People. (Michele Fry)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction

Language: English

Group: Ingersoll Lectures on Famous Freethinkers

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 I. Introduction Michele Fry
00:18:53
Play 02 II. The Days of Youth realisticspeakers
00:10:39
Play 03 III. The Morn of Manhood Kathryn Phipps
00:18:30
Play 04 IV. The Scheme of Nature Kathryn Phipps
00:04:07
Play 05 V. His Humanity: The Espenasse Case/The Sirven Family William Allan Jones
00:17:41
Play 06 VI. The Return William Allan Jones
00:11:19
Play 07 VII. The Death -Bed Argument William Allan Jones
00:10:17
Play 08 VIII. The Second Return Brian Levine
00:07:06