The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) / Dresden Edition—Interviews
Question . Colonel, are your views of religion based upon the Bible?
Answer . I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.
Question . Have you found any other work, sacred or profane, which you regard as more reliable?
Answer . I know of no book less so, in my judgment.
Question . You have studied the Bible attentively, have you not?
Answer . I have read the Bible. I have heard it talked about a good deal, and am sufficiently well acquainted with it to justify my own mind in utterly rejecting all claims made for its divine origin.
Question . What do you base your views upon?
Answer . On reason, observation, experience, upon the discoveries in science, upon observed facts and the analogies properly growing out of such facts. I have no confidence in anything pretending to be outside, or independent of, or in any manner above nature.
Question . According to your views, what disposition is made of man after death?
Answer . Upon that subject I know nothing. It is no more wonderful that man should live again than he now lives; upon that question I know of no evidence. The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love, therefore we wish to live.
Question . Then you would not undertake to say what becomes of man after death?
Robert Green Ingersoll
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THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
INTERVIEWS
Contents
INTERVIEWS
THE BIBLE AND A FUTURE LIFE
MRS. VAN COTT, THE REVIVALIST
EUROPEAN TRIP AND GREENBACK QUESTION
THE PRE-MILLENNIAL CONFERENCE.
THE SOLID SOUTH AND RESUMPTION.
THE SUNDAY LAWS OF PITTSBURG.*
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS.
POLITICS AND GEN. GRANT
POLITICS, RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE.
REPLY TO CHICAGO CRITICS.
THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
INGERSOLL AND BEECHER.*
POLITICAL.
RELIGION IN POLITICS.
MIRACLES AND IMMORTALITY.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
MR. BEECHER, MOSES AND THE NEGRO.
HADES, DELAWARE AND FREETHOUGHT.
A REPLY TO THE REV. MR. LANSING.*
BEACONSFIELD, LENT AND REVIVALS.
ANSWERING THE NEW YORK MINISTERS.*
GUITEAU AND HIS CRIME.*
DISTRICT SUFFRAGE.
FUNERAL OF JOHN G. MILLS AND IMMORTALITY.*
STAR ROUTE AND POLITICS.*
THE INTERVIEWER.
POLITICS AND PROHIBITION.
THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
JUSTICE HARLAN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
POLITICS AND THEOLOGY.
MORALITY AND IMMORTALITY.
POLITICS, MORMONISM AND MR. BEECHER
FREE TRADE AND CHRISTIANITY.
THE OATH QUESTION.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, FITZ JOHN PORTER AND BISMARCK.
GENERAL SUBJECTS.
REPLY TO KANSAS CITY CLERGY.
SWEARING AND AFFIRMING.
REPLY TO A BUFFALO CRITIC.
BLASPHEMY.*
POLITICS AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
INGERSOLL CATECHISED.
BLAINE'S DEFEAT.
BLAINE'S DEFEAT.
PLAGIARISM AND POLITICS.
RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE.
CLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET.
RELIGION, PROHIBITION, AND GEN. GRANT.
HELL OR SHEOL AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
INTERVIEWING, POLITICS AND SPIRITUALISM.
MY BELIEF.
SOME LIVE TOPICS.
THE PRESIDENT AND SENATE.
ATHEISM AND CITIZENSHIP.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
RAILROADS AND POLITICS.
PROHIBITION.
HENRY GEORGE AND LABOR.
LABOR QUESTION AND SOCIALISM.
HENRY GEORGE AND SOCIALISM.
REPLY TO THE REV. B. F. MORSE.*
INGERSOLL ON McGLYNN.
TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
THE STAGE AND THE PULPIT.
ROSCOE CONKLING.
THE CHURCH AND THE STAGE.
PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE.
LABOR, AND TARIFF REFORM.
CLEVELAND AND THURMAN.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF 1888.
JAMES G. BLAINE AND POLITICS.
THE MILLS BILL.
SOCIETY AND ITS CRIMINALS*
WOMAN'S RIGHT TO DIVORCE.
SECULARISM.
SUMMER RECREATION—MR. GLADSTONE.
PROHIBITION.
ROBERT ELSMERE.
WORKING GIRLS.
PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN ACTORS.
LIBERALS AND LIBERALISM.
POPE LEO XIII.
THE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH.
THE WEST AND SOUTH.
THE WESTMINSTER CREED AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
SHAKESPEARE AND BACON.
GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY, AND PRESBYTERIANISM.
CREEDS.
THE TENDENCY OF MODERN THOUGHT.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE, HORSE RACING, AND MONEY.
MISSIONARIES.
MY BELIEF AND UNBELIEF.*
MUST RELIGION GO?
WORD PAINTING AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.
PERSONAL MAGNETISM AND THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
AUTHORS.
INEBRIETY.*
MIRACLES, THEOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALISM.
TOLSTOY AND LITERATURE.
WOMAN IN POLITICS.
SPIRITUALISM.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
WOMAN.
STRIKES, EXPANSION AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
SUNDAY A DAY OF PLEASURE.
THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS.
CLEVELAND'S HAWAIIAN POLICY.
ORATORS AND ORATORY.*
CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. THE POPE, THE A. P. A., AGNOSTICISM
WOMAN AND HER DOMAIN.
PROFESSOR SWING.
SENATOR SHERMAN AND HIS BOOK.*
REPLY TO THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
SPIRITUALISM.
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING—CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND POLITICS.
VIVISECTION.
DIVORCE.
MUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, LYNCHING AND ARBITRATION.
A VISIT TO SHAW'S GARDEN.
THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISCUSSION AND THE WHIPPING-POST.
COLONEL SHEPARD'S STAGE HORSES.*
A REPLY TO THE REV. L. A. BANKS.
CUBA—ZOLA AND THEOSOPHY.
HOW TO BECOME AN ORATOR.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG AND EXPANSION.
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE BIBLE.*
THIS CENTURY'S GLORIES.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WHIPPING-POST.
EXPANSION AND TRUSTS.*
