Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5
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
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | I. Let Us Put Wreaths on the Brows of the Living | Michele Fry |
00:06:28 |
Play 02 | II. The Religion of the Body | KevinS |
00:08:12 |
Play 03 | III. The Creative Spirit | Tommy Hersant |
00:06:46 |
Play 04 | IV. Democracy | Ciufi Galeazzi |
00:04:45 |
Play 05 | V. Individuality | realisticspeakers |
00:04:01 |
Play 06 | VI. Humanity | realisticspeakers |
00:03:36 |
Play 07 | VII. The Poet (as Painter and Sculptor) | Tommy Hersant |
00:08:04 |
Play 08 | VIII. What is Poetry | Michele Fry |
00:11:19 |
Play 09 | IX. Religion | Brian Levine |
00:04:05 |
Play 10 | X. Philosophy | Ciufi Galeazzi |
00:07:25 |
Play 11 | XI. The Two Poems | Tommy Hersant |
00:10:38 |
Play 12 | XII. Old Age | William Allan Jones |
00:11:50 |