[275]. See The World To-Day, p. 956, Sept., 1905.
[276]. Italics mine. G. R. K.
[277]. See Chapters Nine and Eleven.
[278]. American Brigadier, November, 1907.
[279]. Frederic Harrison: National and Social Problems, pp. 237–40. Written in 1880.
[280]. Ernest Crosby: Swords and Ploughshares. Published by Funk and Wagnalls, New York.
[281]. See Prose-Poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll. Published by C. P. Farrell, New York.
[282]. See William Shakespeare, Part Third, Book III; M. B. Anderson’s Translation. Published by A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago; and An Oration on Voltaire, delivered in Paris, May 30, 1878. It is worthy of remark that the orator was repeatedly applauded while delivering the oration, and at the close the entire audience rose and wildly cheered. In the declamation, as here arranged in two parts (to be given together, if desired), the excerpt from the oration begins, “Whoever says today.”
[283]. Slightly abbreviated excerpt from an Oration at the Soldiers and Sailors’ Reunion, Indianapolis, September 21, 1876. Reprinted from Prose-Poems and Selections from Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll. Published by C. P. Farrell, New York.
[284]. Very slightly abbreviated excerpt from a Decoration Day Oration, delivered at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, May 30, 1888. Reprinted from Vol. IX., p. 453, Dresden Edition of Ingersoll’s Complete Works. Published by C. P. Farrell, New York.