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Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 4

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)

Year of Publication: 1900Genres: *Non-fiction

Running Time: 01 hour 38 minutes 32 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	I. Introduction Michele Fry	18:53
2	II. The Days of Youth realisticspeakers	10:39
3	III. The Morn of Manhood Kathryn Phipps	18:30
4	IV. The Scheme of Nature Kathryn Phipps	4:07
5	V. His Humanity: The Espenasse Case/The Sirven Family William Allan Jones	17:41
6	VI. The Return William Allan Jones	11:19
7	VII. The Death -Bed Argument William Allan Jones	10:17
8	VIII. The Second Return Brian Levine	7:06