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Robert green ingersoll 18331899, known in the last quarter of the 19th century as the great agnostic, once possessed real fame as one of the two most important champions of reason and secular government in american historythe other being thomas paine. Robert ingersoll and american freethought ingersoll, robert g. The nations most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since americas revolutionary generation. A history of american secularism, alger hiss and the battle for history, and the age of unreason. Robert ingersoll and american freethought, susan jacoby yale university press, 20 brings us a concise recountal of mr. This file, its printout, or copies of either are to be copied and given away, but not sold. She lives in new york city and is program director of the new york branch of the center for inquiry. Robert ingersoll and american freethought, the great agnostic, susan jacoby, yale university press. Jacoby has written books about troublemakers before, including ferethinkers. We peruse the unimpeachable altering of this ebook in txt, djvu, epub, pdf, dr. A history of american secularism, restores ingersoll to his rightful place in an american intellectual tradition extending. This lecture will be concerned with the golden age of american freethought, from about 1860 to 1900, and its most famous spokesperson, robert green ingersoll 18331899. During the gilded age, which saw the dawn of americas.
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