The Great Agnostic (21 page)

13
. In “Ingersoll Still Troubling the World,”
Current Literature
, December 1911 (article unsigned).

14
. George E. Webb,
The Evolution Controversy in America
(Lexington, KY), 1994, pp. 110–114.

15
. Michael Monahan, “In re Colonel Ingersoll,”
An Attic Dreamer
(New York, 1922), pp. 62–63.

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Avrich, Paul.
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Brigance, Willaim Norwood, ed.
A History and Criticism of American Public Address.
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Conway, Moncure Daniel.
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Cramer, C. H.
Royal Bob: The Life of Robert G. Ingersoll.
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Darrow, Clarence.
The Story of My Life.
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Darrow, Clarence, and Wallace Rice.
Infidels and Heretics.
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and
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
New York: Modern Library, 1948.

Fruchtman, Jack, Jr.
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Garland, Hamlin.
Roadside Meetings.
New York: Macmillan, 1930.

Greeley, Roger. E.
Ingersoll: Immortal Infidel.
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1977.

Hofstadter, Richard:
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
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———.
Social Darwinism in American Thought.
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Hubbard, Elbert.
Little Journey to the Home of Robert G. Ingersoll.
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902.

Ingersoll, Robert Green.
The Complete Works of Robert G. Ingersoll.
vols. 1–12. New York: Dresden, 1901.

———.
Letters.
With a biographical introduction by Eva Ingersoll Wakefield. New York: Philosophical Library, 1951.

Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Jacoby, Susan.
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism.
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Kazin, Michael.
A Godly Hero.
New York: Knopf, 2006.

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The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Larson, Orvin.
American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll.
New York: Citadel Press, 1962.

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,
vols. 5–7. Ed. Roy P. Basler, Marion Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd C. Dunlap. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955.

MacDonald, George E.
Fifty Years of Freethought,
vols. 1–2. New York: Truth Seeker Company, 1959.

Marty, Martin E.
Modern American Religion,
vols. 1–3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986–1996.

Monahan, Michael.
An Attic Dreamer.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1922.

Mott, James R.
The Post-Darwinian Controversies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Paine, Thomas.
The Thomas Paine Reader.
Ed. Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

———.
The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine.
Ed. Philip S. Foner. New York: Citadel Press, 1945.

Peck, Harry Thurston.
What Is Good English? And Other Essays.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899.

Plummer, Mark A.
Robert G. Ingersoll: Peoria's Pagan Politician.
Macomb, IL: Western Illinois Monograph Series, 1984.

Ritter, Lawrence S.
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It.
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics. 1962.

Rogers, Cameron.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1927.

Roosevelt, Theodore.
Gouverneur Morris.
Oyster Bay, NY: Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1975.

Tolstoy, Leo.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories.
Ed. Richard J. Gustafson. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and J. D. Duff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Truth Seeker.
Vols. 10–37. New York: Truth Seeker Company, 1883–1910.

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The Bible According to Mark Twain.
Ed. Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough. New York: Touchstone Books, 1996.

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Assassination Vacation.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Warren, Sidney.
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Webb, George E.
The Evolution Controversy in America.
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Whitman, Walt.
Leaves of Grass.
New York: Modern Library, 1921.

abolitionism,
29
n,
31
,
40
,
48
,
50
,
110
,
172
; religion and,
32
–35,
52
–53

Adams, John,
20
,
137
,
138

“Address to the Colored People” (Ingersoll),
52
–53

Adler, Felix,
90

adultery,
120
–21,
165

African Americans.
See
equal rights; racial inequality; slavery

afterlife,
41
,
94
,
105
,
157
–58,
164
,
201

Age of Reason, The
(Paine),
19
,
20
,
40
,
62
,
145

agnostics/atheists,
11
,
22
,
198
; afterlife concept and,
94
,
157
–58,
201
; alleged deathbed recantations of,
173
–74; enemies' characterization of,
156
–57; as identical,
17
–18,
193
–94; increased numbers of,
94
; Ingersoll's popularization of,
11
,
126
,
189
; origin of word “agnostic,”
24
; political barriers for,
56
,
178
–79,
200
–201; social Darwinists as,
107
.
See also
freethinkers; “new atheists”; secularism

Allen, Frederick Lewis,
Only Yesterday
,
25
–26

Altgeld, John Peter,
163

America
(Jesuit publication),
183

American Anti-Slavery Association,
29
n

American archetype,
7
–8

American Association for the Advancement of Science,
187

American Bible Society,
13

American Centennial (July 4, 1876),
5

American Federation of Musicians,
160

American founders.
See
founders

American Free Religious Association,
171

American politics.
See
politics and government

American Religious Identification Survey
,
30
n

American Revolution, Paine's writings and,
1
,
18
,
19
,
142
–43,
146
,
147

American Secular Union,
131
–32,
162
,
163

anesthesia,
78
,
79

animal experiments.
See
vivisection

Anthony, Susan B.,
73
,
157

anthrax,
80

anti-obscenity laws.
See
obscenity (Comstock) laws

anti-Semitism,
114

“Apostate's Creed” (anon.),
85

Arlington National Cemetery,
176

Arthur, Chester A.,
115

asceticism,
164
–66

asepsis,
79

Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe
,
27

atheists.
See
agnostics/atheists; “new atheists”

atonement,
88

autodidacts,
7
–8,
36
,
38
,
42
–43,
44

bacteria,
5
,
79
,
80

Baptists,
145

Barlow, Joel,
40

Barton, Clara,
10

Baxter, Richard,
The Saint's Everlasting Rest
,
37

Beckwith, Philo D.,
72
,
73
–74,
190

Beckworth Memorial Theater (Dowagiac, MI),
72
–76,
190

Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward,
16
,
54
,
90
,
91
–94,
96
; Ingersoll eulogy for,
92
–93; social beliefs of,
108

Beecher, Rev. Lyman,
92
,
93

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
73
,
161
,
190

Bennett, William D.,
99

Bentley, Rev. William,
181

Bible,
13
,
21
,
38
–39,
44
,
96
,
175
; creation account of,
9
,
14
,
16
,
80
–82,
86
–88,
104
,
149
; liberal Protestant view of,
182
; as literal (
see
biblical literalism); as literary/philosophical work,
153
; as metaphoric,
148
; officeholders' sworn oath on,
136
–37; as sanctioning corporal punishment,
39
; as sanctioning death penalty,
144
,
199
; as sanctioning slavery,
52
–53,
140
; as sanctioning women's inferiority,
122

Bible Institute of Los Angeles,
The Fundamentals
,
101
n

biblical literalism,
11
,
14
; blasphemy law and,
131
–36,
141
; evolution belief vs. (
see
evolution theory); liberal Protestant movement from,
86
,
91
; persistence of belief in,
94
–95,
101
n,
148
–49; scientific challenges to,
16
,
18
,
23
,
78
–79,
81
–82,
136
,
148
–49; turn of twentieth century decline in,
25

Bill of Rights,
65
,
134
,
144

biology,
23
,
148
.
See also
evolution theory

Biology for Beginners
(textbook),
187

birth control: Catholic opposition to,
186
; Comstock obscenity laws and,
100
,
152
; Ingersoll's support for,
118
–19,
127
,
171
,
186

Blaine, James G.,
59
–60,
64
–67

Blaine amendments (1875),
64
–66

blasphemy,
129
–36,
138
,
142

bloggers,
11

Bloomer, Amelia Jencks,
32

Boleyn, Anne,
13

Bolshevism,
70
,
183

Book of Mormon,
32

Booth, Edwin,
160

Booth, John Wilkes,
160
n

Booth's Theater (NYC),
71

border areas, North-South,
48
–49,
113

Brooklyn Academy of Music,
92
n

Brooks, Anna M.,
71

Brown, Walston,
172

Bruno, Giordano,
192

Bryan, William Jennings,
22
–23,
64
,
100
,
101
,
148
–50; biblical literalism and,
23
,
148
–49; “cross of gold” speech of,
89
,
149
; grave of,
176

Buchard, Rev. Samuel D.,
66

Bunyan, John,
Pilgrim's Progress
,
36

Burbank, Luther,
10

Burns, Robert,
45
–48,
62
,
94
,
123
; familiar songs of,
46
; “Holy Willie's Prayer,”
46
–48

business interests,
11
,
101
,
149
–50; Ingersoll's legal representation of,
58
,
101
–2; social Darwinist “selection” beliefs and,
106
–7

Byron, Lord,
46
,
123

Calvinism,
46
,
80
,
145
,
153

cancer,
86
–87

capitalism,
58
,
103
–7,
159

capital punishment.
See
death penalty

Carnegie, Andrew,
10
,
11