Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5, credited to Robert G. Ingersoll, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5 by Robert G. Ingersoll. Read in English by Michele Fry; KevinS; Tommy Hersant; Ciufi Galeazzi; realisticspeakers; Brian Levine; William Allan Jones 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5
• Author credits: Robert G. Ingersoll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:27:09

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• lectures
• ingersoll
• whitman
• Walt Whitman
• robert ingersoll
• infidel
• agnostic

Track guide

1. 01 - I. Let Us Put Wreaths on the Brows of the Living — 6:28
2. 02 - II. The Religion of the Body — 8:12
3. 03 - III. The Creative Spirit — 6:46
4. 04 - IV. Democracy — 4:45
5. 05 - V. Individuality — 4:01
6. 06 - VI. Humanity — 3:36
7. 07 - VII. The Poet (as Painter and Sculptor) — 8:04
8. 08 - VIII. What is Poetry — 11:19
9. 09 - IX. Religion — 4:05
10. 10 - X. Philosophy — 7:25
11. 11 - XI. The Two Poems — 10:38
12. 12 - XII. Old Age — 11:50

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