Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, 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 Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 by Robert G. Ingersoll. Read in English by Ted Delorme; Claudia Salto; Edward Kirkby; Scott Danneker; Julia Niedermaier; Chris Chapman; Phil Chenevert; Herman Roskams A controversial lecturer, brilliant lawyer, and arguably the most famous orator of the mid to late 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of Christianity, particularly the horrific notion of "eternal damnation". He tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s rights, abolition, home, family, children, and human liberty. As a leader of the Freethought movement, his creed was: “Happiness is the only good, Reason the only torch, Justice the only worship, Humanity the only religion, and Love the only priest.” He was often attacked in the press. Here are 30 published interviews in which Ingersoll spoke extemporaneously, bitingly, sometimes hilariously, on a wide range of topics with newspaper reporters of the day. (Compiled from The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 8, Dresden Edition, Pub. 1900. Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1
• Author credits: Robert G. Ingersoll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:45:25

Catalogue topics

• humanism
• interviews
• athiest

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Orators and Oratory — 7:50
2. 02 - How To Become An Orator — 13:26
3. 03 - My Belief and Unbelief — 4:06
4. 04 - A Reply to the Rev. L. A. Banks — 10:08
5. 05 - Mrs. Van Cott, The Revivalist — 3:21
6. 06 - Reply To Chicago Critics — 13:46
7. 07 - Miracles and Immortality — 14:40
8. 08 - Psychical Research and the Bible — 16:43
9. 09 - Blasphemy — 6:53
10. 10 - This Century's Glories — 18:25
11. 11 - Divorce — 10:09
12. 12 - The Sunday Laws Of Pittsburg — 5:52
13. 13 - The Oath Question — 18:49
14. 14 - Ingersoll and Beecher — 6:54
15. 15 - District Suffrage — 9:47
16. 16 - Reply To The Christian Endeavorers — 5:45
17. 17 - Mr. Beecher, Moses and the Negro — 17:07
18. 18 - Sunday A Day Of Pleasure — 5:23
19. 19 - Hades, Delaware and Free Thought — 18:29
20. 20 - A Reply To The Rev. Mr. Lansing — 7:28
21. 21 - Free Trade and Christianity — 22:58
22. 22 - Beaconsville, Lent and Revivals — 7:37
23. 23 - My Belief — 7:04
24. 24 - Labor Question and Socialism — 14:32

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