Audiobook

Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5

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 27 minutes 09 seconds(12 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Tommy Hersant, Michele Fry, Ciufi Galeazzi

#	Chapter Name
	I. Let Us Put Wreaths on the Brows of the Living Michele Fry	6:28
	II. The Religion of the Body KevinS	8:12
	III. The Creative Spirit Tommy Hersant	6:46
	IV. Democracy Ciufi Galeazzi	4:45
	V. Individuality realisticspeakers	4:01
	VI. Humanity realisticspeakers	3:36
	VII. The Poet (as Painter and Sculptor) Tommy Hersant	8:04
	VIII. What is Poetry Michele Fry	11:19
	IX. Religion Brian Levine	4:05
	X. Philosophy Ciufi Galeazzi	7:25
	XI. The Two Poems Tommy Hersant	10:38
	XII. Old Age William Allan Jones	11:50