{
  "name": "A Year of Ingersoll",
  "home_page_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/",
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  "calendar_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/ingersoll.ics",
  "description": "One quotation a day from the works of Robert G. Ingersoll, keyed by month and day. Every text is verbatim from the Dresden Edition; `paragraph` is the numbered paragraph anchor on the work page. February 29 is intentionally absent.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/",
  "count": 365,
  "quotes": [
    {
      "day": "01-01",
      "text": "A man who slanders a pure woman or an honest man is a blasphemer. So, too, a man who does not give the honest transcript of his mind is a blasphemer.",
      "summary": "A man who slanders a pure woman or an honest man is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Christmas Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-christmas-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 7,
      "paragraph": 70,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/#p70",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-02",
      "text": "Great wealth is a great burden, and to have more than you can use, is to care for more than you want.",
      "summary": "Great wealth is a great burden, and to have more than you…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Word About Education",
      "work_slug": "a-word-about-education",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-03",
      "text": "Liberty is the blossom and fruit of justice—the perfume of mercy. Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy.",
      "summary": "Liberty is the blossom and fruit of justice—the perfume of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About the Holy Bible",
      "work_slug": "about-the-holy-bible",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-04",
      "text": "For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.",
      "summary": "For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Abraham Lincoln",
      "work_slug": "abraham-lincoln",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 193,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/#p193",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-05",
      "text": "Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.",
      "summary": "Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address on the Civil Rights Act",
      "work_slug": "address-on-the-civil-rights-act",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 301,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/#p301",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-06",
      "text": "I insist that happiness is the end—virtue the means—and anything that wipes a tear from the face of man is good.",
      "summary": "I insist that happiness is the end—virtue the means—and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Actors' Fund of America",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-actors-fund",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-07",
      "text": "Freedom is progress—slavery is desolation, cruelty and want.",
      "summary": "Freedom is progress—slavery is desolation, cruelty and want.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Address to the Colored People",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-colored-people",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/",
      "year": 1867,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 33,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/#p33",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-08",
      "text": "The prudent is not the poetic; it is the mathematical. Genius is the spirit of abandon; it is joyous, irresponsible.",
      "summary": "The prudent is not the poetic; it is the mathematical.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Art and Morality",
      "work_slug": "art-and-morality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 30,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/#p30",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-09",
      "text": "We cannot tell, we do not know, which is the greater blessing—life or death. We cannot say that death is not a good.",
      "summary": "We cannot tell, we do not know, which is the greater…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "At a Child's Grave",
      "work_slug": "at-a-childs-grave",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-10",
      "text": "The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and curse.",
      "summary": "The religion that has to be supported by law is without…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Centennial Oration",
      "work_slug": "centennial-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 29,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/#p29",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-11",
      "text": "The lash will neither develop the brain nor cultivate the heart.",
      "summary": "The lash will neither develop the brain nor cultivate the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Cruelty in the Elmira Reformatory",
      "work_slug": "cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-12",
      "text": "Every creed in which is the dogma of eternal pain is doomed.",
      "summary": "Every creed in which is the dogma of eternal pain is doomed.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crumbling Creeds",
      "work_slug": "crumbling-creeds",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 31,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/#p31",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-13",
      "text": "Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.",
      "summary": "Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Death of the Aged",
      "work_slug": "death-of-the-aged",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-14",
      "text": "The flag for which the heroes fought, for which they died, is the symbol of all we are, of all we hope to be.",
      "summary": "The flag for which the heroes fought, for which they died…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Decoration Day Oration",
      "work_slug": "decoration-day-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 42,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/#p42",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-15",
      "text": "The working people are reasoners—their hands and heads are in partnership. They know a great deal more than the capitalists.",
      "summary": "The working people are reasoners—their hands and heads are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight Hours Must Come",
      "work_slug": "eight-hours-must-come",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-16",
      "text": "If the very fountain of power is poisoned by fraud, then the whole Government is impure.",
      "summary": "If the very fountain of power is poisoned by fraud, then…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight to Seven Address",
      "work_slug": "eight-to-seven-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 14,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/#p14",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-17",
      "text": "The coffin is good enough in its way, but the cradle is far better. With the bones of the fathers they beat out the brains of the children.",
      "summary": "The coffin is good enough in its way, but the cradle is far…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fragments",
      "work_slug": "fragments",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 58,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/#p58",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-18",
      "text": "Fear is barbarism—courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion—courage is science.",
      "summary": "Fear is barbarism—courage is civilization. Fear believes in…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Ghosts",
      "work_slug": "ghosts",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 29,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/#p29",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-19",
      "text": "There have been, and still are, too many men who own themselves—too much thought, too much knowledge for the church to grasp again the sword of power.",
      "summary": "There have been, and still are, too many men who own…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Heretics and Heresies",
      "work_slug": "heretics-and-heresies",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/",
      "year": 1874,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 107,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/#p107",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-20",
      "text": "Liberty is the breath of progress; it is the seed and soil, the heat and rain of love and joy.",
      "summary": "Liberty is the breath of progress; it is the seed and soil…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Reform Mankind",
      "work_slug": "how-to-reform-mankind",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 91,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/#p91",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-21",
      "text": "Abject faith is barbarism; reason is civilization. To obey is slavish; to act from a sense of obligation perceived by the reason, is noble.",
      "summary": "Abject faith is barbarism; reason is civilization. To obey…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Humboldt",
      "work_slug": "humboldt",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/",
      "year": 1869,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 73,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/#p73",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-22",
      "text": "No matter how small the taper is, how feeble the ray of light it casts, it is better than darkness, and no man should be rewarded for extinguishing the light he has.",
      "summary": "No matter how small the taper is, how feeble the ray of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Huxley and Agnosticism",
      "work_slug": "huxley-and-agnosticism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 47,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/#p47",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-23",
      "text": "The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men.",
      "summary": "The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Individuality",
      "work_slug": "individuality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/",
      "year": 1873,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 59,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/#p59",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-24",
      "text": "The more a man has thought, the more he has studied, the more he has traveled intellectually, the less certain he is.",
      "summary": "The more a man has thought, the more he has studied, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Liberty in Literature",
      "work_slug": "liberty-in-literature",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 137,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/#p137",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-25",
      "text": "Surely investigation is better than unthinking faith. Surely reason is a better guide than fear.",
      "summary": "Surely investigation is better than unthinking faith.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child",
      "work_slug": "liberty-of-man-woman-and-child",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 144,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/#p144",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-26",
      "text": "Death gets all its terror from Love, and Love gets its intensity, its radiance, its glory and its rapture, from the darkness of Death.",
      "summary": "Death gets all its terror from Love, and Love gets its…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liederkranz Club Seidl-Stanton Banquet",
      "work_slug": "liederkranz-club-banquet",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-27",
      "text": "Life is not all sunshine, neither is it all storm, but man should be enabled to enjoy the one and to withstand the other.",
      "summary": "Life is not all sunshine, neither is it all storm, but man…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Manhattan Athletic Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "manhattan-athletic-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 45,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/#p45",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-28",
      "text": "In nearly every department of science man is allowed to investigate, and the discovery of a new fact is welcomed, unless it threatens some creed.",
      "summary": "In nearly every department of science man is allowed to…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Prof. Van Buren Denslow's \"Modern Thinkers\"",
      "work_slug": "modern-thinkers",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 140,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/#p140",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-29",
      "text": "Science insists that the present is the child of all the past,—that no power can change the past, and that nature is forever the same.",
      "summary": "Science insists that the present is the child of all the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Myth and Miracle",
      "work_slug": "myth-and-miracle",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 87,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/#p87",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-30",
      "text": "Every fact is an enemy of the church. Every fact is a heretic. Every demonstration is an infidel.",
      "summary": "Every fact is an enemy of the church. Every fact is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Orthodoxy",
      "work_slug": "orthodoxy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 37,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/#p37",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "01-31",
      "text": "The intelligent prefer death to slavery. Education is the most radical abolitionist in the world. To teach the alphabet is to inaugurate revolution.",
      "summary": "The intelligent prefer death to slavery. Education is the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Progress",
      "work_slug": "progress",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/",
      "year": 1860,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 59,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/#p59",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/01-31/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-01",
      "text": "In a moment the seed is a plant, and the plant is in blossom, and the fruit is given to the world.",
      "summary": "In a moment the seed is a plant, and the plant is in…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Robert Burns",
      "work_slug": "robert-burns",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 55,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/#p55",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-02",
      "text": "Men when they commit crimes endeavor to get away from the public eye. They are in love with darkness. They do not carry torches in front of them.",
      "summary": "Men when they commit crimes endeavor to get away from the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Opening Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-opening",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-03",
      "text": "As a rule, the attention of man is drawn first, not to his own mistakes, not to his own faults, but to the mistakes and faults of his neighbors.",
      "summary": "As a rule, the attention of man is drawn first, not to his…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Secularism",
      "work_slug": "secularism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 33,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/#p33",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-04",
      "text": "Love is the many-colored flame that makes the fireside of the heart. It is the mingled spring and autumn—the perfect climate of the soul.",
      "summary": "Love is the many-colored flame that makes the fireside of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Shakespeare",
      "work_slug": "shakespeare",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 265,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/#p265",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-05",
      "text": "The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave.",
      "summary": "The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Some Mistakes of Moses",
      "work_slug": "some-mistakes-of-moses",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 32,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/#p32",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-06",
      "text": "The spiritually-minded man is a poet. If he does not write poetry, he lives it. He is an artist.",
      "summary": "The spiritually-minded man is a poet. If he does not write…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spirituality",
      "work_slug": "spirituality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-07",
      "text": "The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope.",
      "summary": "The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Superstition",
      "work_slug": "superstition",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 8,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/#p8",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-08",
      "text": "Better to be stolen from than to be a thief, and in the last analysis the oppressed, the slave, is less unfortunate than the oppressor, the master.",
      "summary": "Better to be stolen from than to be a thief, and in the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Children of the Stage",
      "work_slug": "the-children-of-the-stage",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 19,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/#p19",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-09",
      "text": "If the angels of the Bible are real angels, the devils are real devils.",
      "summary": "If the angels of the Bible are real angels, the devils are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Devil",
      "work_slug": "the-devil",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 203,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/#p203",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-10",
      "text": "Truth is more important than belief—far better than creeds, vastly more useful than superstitions.",
      "summary": "Truth is more important than belief—far better than creeds…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Divided Household of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-divided-household-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 69,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/#p69",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-11",
      "text": "If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them.",
      "summary": "If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Gods",
      "work_slug": "the-gods",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/",
      "year": 1872,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 94,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/#p94",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-12",
      "text": "Theology is not intended to be understood,—it is only to be believed. It is an act, not of reason, but of faith.",
      "summary": "Theology is not intended to be understood,—it is only to be…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Great Infidels",
      "work_slug": "the-great-infidels",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/",
      "year": 1881,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 168,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/#p168",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-13",
      "text": "The world must learn that credulity is not a virtue and that no question is settled until reason is fully satisfied.",
      "summary": "The world must learn that credulity is not a virtue and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth",
      "work_slug": "the-truth",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 47,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/#p47",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-14",
      "text": "The mendacity of superstition is almost enough to make a man believe in the supernatural.",
      "summary": "The mendacity of superstition is almost enough to make a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth of History",
      "work_slug": "the-truth-of-history",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-15",
      "text": "Superstition is a terrible serpent, reaching in frightful coils from heaven to earth and thrusting its poisoned fangs into the hearts of men.",
      "summary": "Superstition is a terrible serpent, reaching in frightful…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thirteen Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "thirteen-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-16",
      "text": "What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man.",
      "summary": "What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy",
      "work_slug": "trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 263,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/#p263",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-17",
      "text": "If there be another world in which sincerity is a virtue, in which fidelity is loved and courage honored, then all is well with the dear friend whom we have lost.",
      "summary": "If there be another world in which sincerity is a virtue…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Isaac H. Bailey",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-18",
      "text": "Immortality is a word that Hope through all the ages has been whispering to Love.",
      "summary": "Immortality is a word that Hope through all the ages has…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to John G. Mills",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-john-g-mills",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-19",
      "text": "Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling,—position by cringing.",
      "summary": "Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Roscoe Conkling",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-roscoe-conkling",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-20",
      "text": "The mind of man is many-sided. Truth must be and is willing to be tested in every way, tested by all the senses.",
      "summary": "The mind of man is many-sided. Truth must be and is willing…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Voltaire",
      "work_slug": "voltaire",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 103,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/#p103",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-21",
      "text": "To be vanquished by the truth is to be a victor. The man who follows is a slave. The man who thinks is free.",
      "summary": "To be vanquished by the truth is to be a victor. The man…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Which Way?",
      "work_slug": "which-way",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 123,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/#p123",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-22",
      "text": "The civilized man loves a woman not only for his own sake, but for her sake. He longs to make her happy—to fill her life with joy.",
      "summary": "The civilized man loves a woman not only for his own sake…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Few Fragments on Expansion",
      "work_slug": "a-few-fragments-on-expansion",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-fragments-on-expansion/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-fragments-on-expansion/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-23",
      "text": "There is only one good, and that is human happiness; and he only is a wise man who makes himself and others happy.",
      "summary": "There is only one good, and that is human happiness; and he…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Lay Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-lay-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-lay-sermon/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 10,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-lay-sermon/#p10",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-24",
      "text": "No Devil, no fall of man. No Devil, no atonement. No Devil, no hell.",
      "summary": "No Devil, no fall of man. No Devil, no atonement. No Devil…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Look Backward and a Prophecy",
      "work_slug": "a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 42,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy/#p42",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-25",
      "text": "I thank the poets of the dawn—the tellers of legends—the makers of myths—the singers of joy and grief, of hope and love.",
      "summary": "I thank the poets of the dawn—the tellers of legends—the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Thanksgiving Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-thanksgiving-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-thanksgiving-sermon/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 203,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-thanksgiving-sermon/#p203",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-26",
      "text": "The world advances by the assistance of all laborers; and all labor is under obligations to the inventions of genius.",
      "summary": "The world advances by the assistance of all laborers; and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About Farming in Illinois",
      "work_slug": "about-farming-in-illinois",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-farming-in-illinois/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 41,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-farming-in-illinois/#p41",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-27",
      "text": "No man is more certain than the man who knows nothing. The savage knows everything.",
      "summary": "No man is more certain than the man who knows nothing. The…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Press Club",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-press-club",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-press-club/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-press-club/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "02-28",
      "text": "The free man, into whose brain the serpent of superstition has not crept, knows that the dogma of eternal pain is an infinite falsehood.",
      "summary": "The free man, into whose brain the serpent of superstition…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Essay on Christmas",
      "work_slug": "an-essay-on-christmas",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/an-essay-on-christmas/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 15,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/an-essay-on-christmas/#p15",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/02-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-01",
      "text": "The honest man pays at the command of his honor and not at the demand of the creditor.",
      "summary": "The honest man pays at the command of his honor and not at…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Chicago Speech",
      "work_slug": "chicago-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-speech/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 25,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-speech/#p25",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-02",
      "text": "The whipping-post pollutes, not only the whipped, but the whipper, and not only the whipper, but the community at large.",
      "summary": "The whipping-post pollutes, not only the whipped, but the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crimes Against Criminals",
      "work_slug": "crimes-against-criminals",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crimes-against-criminals/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 39,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crimes-against-criminals/#p39",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-03",
      "text": "A fool friend is always full of a kind of stupid candor.",
      "summary": "A fool friend is always full of a kind of stupid candor.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fool Friends",
      "work_slug": "fool-friends",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fool-friends/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fool-friends/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-04",
      "text": "No human being has brain enough, or knowledge enough, or experience enough, to say whether there is, or is not, a God.",
      "summary": "No human being has brain enough, or knowledge enough, or…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "God in the Constitution",
      "work_slug": "god-in-the-constitution",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/god-in-the-constitution/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 34,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/god-in-the-constitution/#p34",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-05",
      "text": "In discussion there is no place for hatred, no opportunity for slander. A personality is always out of place.",
      "summary": "In discussion there is no place for hatred, no opportunity…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Edit a Liberal Paper",
      "work_slug": "how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-06",
      "text": "The brain is natural. Its food is natural. The result—thought—must be natural.",
      "summary": "The brain is natural. Its food is natural. The…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Inspiration",
      "work_slug": "inspiration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/inspiration/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/inspiration/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-07",
      "text": "There should be no delay except that which is caused by taking the time to find the truth.",
      "summary": "There should be no delay except that which is caused by…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Law's Delay",
      "work_slug": "laws-delay",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/laws-delay/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/laws-delay/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-08",
      "text": "There is only one way, in my judgment, to bring that about; and that is, first, not simply by the education of the head, but by the universal education of the heart.",
      "summary": "There is only one way, in my judgment, to bring that about…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Convention of the National Liberal League",
      "work_slug": "national-liberal-league-convention",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/national-liberal-league-convention/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/national-liberal-league-convention/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-09",
      "text": "I believe that the common school is the bread of life, and all should be commanded to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.",
      "summary": "I believe that the common school is the bread of life, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Our Schools",
      "work_slug": "our-schools",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/our-schools/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/our-schools/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-10",
      "text": "The cruelty of the flood is exceeded only by its stupidity.",
      "summary": "The cruelty of the flood is exceeded only by its stupidity.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Professor Briggs",
      "work_slug": "professor-briggs",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/professor-briggs/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/professor-briggs/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-11",
      "text": "In the orthodox heaven there is no mercy, no pity. In the orthodox hell there is no hope, no reform. God is an eternal jailer, an everlasting turnkey.",
      "summary": "In the orthodox heaven there is no mercy, no pity. In the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Science and Sentiment",
      "work_slug": "science-and-sentiment",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/science-and-sentiment/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 41,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/science-and-sentiment/#p41",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-12",
      "text": "Guilt is always conscious that it is guilty. Guilt is always suspecting detection. Guilt is infinitely suspicious.",
      "summary": "Guilt is always conscious that it is guilty. Guilt is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Closing Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-closing",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-closing/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 1109,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-closing/#p1109",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-13",
      "text": "The useful man is the good man, the useful man is the real saint.",
      "summary": "The useful man is the good man, the useful man is the real…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spain and the Spaniards",
      "work_slug": "spain-and-the-spaniards",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spain-and-the-spaniards/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spain-and-the-spaniards/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-14",
      "text": "The time is coming when no man will be called an honest man who is not willing to give to every other man, be he white or black, every right that he asks for himself.",
      "summary": "The time is coming when no man will be called an honest man…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Suffrage Address",
      "work_slug": "suffrage-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/suffrage-address/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/suffrage-address/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-15",
      "text": "All the meanness of which the heart of man is capable is in that one word—Hell.",
      "summary": "All the meanness of which the heart of man is capable is in…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Foundations of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-foundations-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-foundations-of-faith/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 269,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-foundations-of-faith/#p269",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-16",
      "text": "There are good people and bad people in all races, and the individual is not responsible for the crimes of the nation, or the nation responsible for the actions of the few.",
      "summary": "There are good people and bad people in all races, and the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Jews",
      "work_slug": "the-jews",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-jews/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-jews/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-17",
      "text": "In every direction the thinker and the investigator have ventured and explored, and even the pews have begun to ask questions of the pulpits.",
      "summary": "In every direction the thinker and the investigator have…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thomas Paine (Magazine Article)",
      "work_slug": "thomas-paine-magazine-article",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine-magazine-article/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 81,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine-magazine-article/#p81",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-18",
      "text": "The world is better for your life—The world is braver for your death.",
      "summary": "The world is better for your life—The world is braver for…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Courtlandt Palmer",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 34,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer/#p34",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-19",
      "text": "The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.",
      "summary": "The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-20",
      "text": "Sincerity is the true and perfect mirror of the mind. It reflects the honest thought. It is the foundation of character, and without it there is no moral grandeur.",
      "summary": "Sincerity is the true and perfect mirror of the mind. It…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Horace Seaver",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-horace-seaver",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-horace-seaver/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-horace-seaver/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-21",
      "text": "The babes that are then born will be welcome. They will be clasped with glad hands to happy breasts. They will fill homes with light and joy.",
      "summary": "The babes that are then born will be welcome. They will be…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Is Religion?",
      "work_slug": "what-is-religion",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-is-religion/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 137,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-is-religion/#p137",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-22",
      "text": "Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. Courage is liberty.",
      "summary": "Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Must We Do To Be Saved?",
      "work_slug": "what-must-we-do-to-be-saved",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-must-we-do-to-be-saved/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 15,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-must-we-do-to-be-saved/#p15",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-23",
      "text": "The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.",
      "summary": "The light still shines and will as long as man loves…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Why I Am an Agnostic",
      "work_slug": "why-i-am-an-agnostic",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 136,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/#p136",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-24",
      "text": "Nothing is more needed at the present time than an inspired translator.",
      "summary": "Nothing is more needed at the present time than an inspired…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Few Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible",
      "work_slug": "a-few-reasons-for-doubting-the-inspiration-of-the-bible",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-reasons-for-doubting-the-inspiration-of-the-bible/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 25,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-reasons-for-doubting-the-inspiration-of-the-bible/#p25",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-25",
      "text": "The individual is counting for less and less; the corporation, the trust, for more and more.",
      "summary": "The individual is counting for less and less; the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Young Man's Chances To-Day",
      "work_slug": "a-young-mans-chances-today",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-young-mans-chances-today/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 33,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-young-mans-chances-today/#p33",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-26",
      "text": "I am a believer in intellectual liberty, and wherever the torch of knowledge burns the whole horizon is filled with a glorious halo. I am a free man.",
      "summary": "I am a believer in intellectual liberty, and wherever the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Brooklyn Speech",
      "work_slug": "brooklyn-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/brooklyn-speech/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 20,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/brooklyn-speech/#p20",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-27",
      "text": "A rich spendthrift is a blessing. A rich miser is a curse. Extravagance is a splendid form of charity.",
      "summary": "A rich spendthrift is a blessing. A rich miser is a curse.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Chicago and New York Gold Speech",
      "work_slug": "chicago-and-new-york-gold-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-and-new-york-gold-speech/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 83,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-and-new-york-gold-speech/#p83",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-28",
      "text": "Leave religion with the church, with the family, and more than all, leave religion with each individual heart and man.",
      "summary": "Leave religion with the church, with the family, and more…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Cooper Union Speech",
      "work_slug": "cooper-union-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cooper-union-speech/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 45,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cooper-union-speech/#p45",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-29",
      "text": "There is something magnificent after all about the extravagance of youth, and there is something pitiful about the greed of old age.",
      "summary": "There is something magnificent after all about the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Jury in the Davis Will Case",
      "work_slug": "davis-will-case",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/davis-will-case/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 72,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/davis-will-case/#p72",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-30",
      "text": "Liberty is the condition of real progress. The free man works for wife and child—the slave toils from fear.",
      "summary": "Liberty is the condition of real progress. The free man…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Decoration Day Address",
      "work_slug": "decoration-day-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-address/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 47,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-address/#p47",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "03-31",
      "text": "At last, nations are becoming acquainted with each other, and they now know that people everywhere are substantially the same.",
      "summary": "At last, nations are becoming acquainted with each other…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Effect of the World's Fair on the Human Race",
      "work_slug": "effect-of-worlds-fair",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/effect-of-worlds-fair/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/effect-of-worlds-fair/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/03-31/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-01",
      "text": "The love of the beautiful is shared with man by most animals. The wings of the moth are painted by love, by desire.",
      "summary": "The love of the beautiful is shared with man by most…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Ernest Renan",
      "work_slug": "ernest-renan",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ernest-renan/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 69,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ernest-renan/#p69",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-02",
      "text": "The great picture should have, not only the technical part of art, which is neither moral nor immoral, but in addition some great thought, some great event.",
      "summary": "The great picture should have, not only the technical part…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Frank B. Carpenter Dinner",
      "work_slug": "frank-b-carpenter-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/frank-b-carpenter-dinner/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/frank-b-carpenter-dinner/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-03",
      "text": "There is something wrong when men are obliged to beg for leave to toil.",
      "summary": "There is something wrong when men are obliged to beg for…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Hard Times and the Way Out",
      "work_slug": "hard-times-and-the-way-out",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/hard-times-and-the-way-out/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 70,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/hard-times-and-the-way-out/#p70",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-04",
      "text": "Everything that is possible happens. That may not suit all the creeds, but it is true. And everything that is possible will continue to happen.",
      "summary": "Everything that is possible happens. That may not suit all…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Rear Admiral Schley",
      "work_slug": "lotos-club-admiral-schley",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/lotos-club-admiral-schley/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/lotos-club-admiral-schley/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-05",
      "text": "I tell you there is no more sacred, no more holy, and no purer thing than what you and I call sympathy; and the man who is unsympathetic is not a man.",
      "summary": "I tell you there is no more sacred, no more holy, and no…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Jury in the Munn Trial",
      "work_slug": "munn-trial",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/munn-trial/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/munn-trial/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-06",
      "text": "The Press presents the daily thoughts of men. It marks the progress of each hour, and renders a relapse into ignorance and barbarism impossible.",
      "summary": "The Press presents the daily thoughts of men. It marks the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Police Captains' Dinner",
      "work_slug": "police-captains-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/police-captains-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 33,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/police-captains-dinner/#p33",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-07",
      "text": "I want to keep the roof over the heads of children when the man himself is gone. I want that homestead to belong not only to the man, but to wife and children.",
      "summary": "I want to keep the roof over the heads of children when the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Reunion Address",
      "work_slug": "reunion-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/reunion-address/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 124,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/reunion-address/#p124",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-08",
      "text": "If there is anything of value, it is liberty—liberty of body, liberty of mind. The liberty of body is the reward of labor.",
      "summary": "If there is anything of value, it is liberty—liberty of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Some Reasons Why",
      "work_slug": "some-reasons-why",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-reasons-why/",
      "year": 1881,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 43,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-reasons-why/#p43",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-09",
      "text": "The gloomy caverns of superstition have been transformed into temples of thought, and the demons of the past are the angels of to-day.",
      "summary": "The gloomy caverns of superstition have been transformed…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thomas Paine",
      "work_slug": "thomas-paine",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine/",
      "year": 1870,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 115,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine/#p115",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-10",
      "text": "Loving words sow seeds of love in every gentle heart. Appreciation is the soil and climate of good and generous deeds.",
      "summary": "Loving words sow seeds of love in every gentle heart.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Philo D. Beckwith",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-philo-d-beckwith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-philo-d-beckwith/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 4,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-philo-d-beckwith/#p4",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-11",
      "text": "When the angel of pity is driven from the heart; when the fountain of tears is dry,—the soul becomes a serpent crawling in the dust of a desert.",
      "summary": "When the angel of pity is driven from the heart; when the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Vivisection",
      "work_slug": "vivisection",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/vivisection/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/vivisection/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-12",
      "text": "Nothing ennobles a man so much as fighting for the right.",
      "summary": "Nothing ennobles a man so much as fighting for the right.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Western Society of the Army of the Potomac Banquet",
      "work_slug": "western-society-army-of-the-potomac",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/western-society-army-of-the-potomac/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/western-society-army-of-the-potomac/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-13",
      "text": "I would like to see the whole world free—free from injustice—free from superstition.",
      "summary": "I would like to see the whole world free—free from…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What I Want for Christmas",
      "work_slug": "what-i-want-for-christmas",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-i-want-for-christmas/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-i-want-for-christmas/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-14",
      "text": "Infidelity stands by facts; it demonstrates by the conclusions of the reason. Infidelity does all it can to develop the brain and the heart of man.",
      "summary": "Infidelity stands by facts; it demonstrates by the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Infidels Have Done",
      "work_slug": "what-infidels-have-done",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-infidels-have-done/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-infidels-have-done/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-15",
      "text": "The English battered down the door in the names of opium and Christ.",
      "summary": "The English battered down the door in the names of opium…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Wooden God",
      "work_slug": "a-wooden-god",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-wooden-god/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 43,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-wooden-god/#p43",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-16",
      "text": "Peace without liberty could have been only a bloody delusion and a snare. Freedom is peace; Slavery is war.",
      "summary": "Peace without liberty could have been only a bloody…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the 86th Illinois Regiment",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-86th-illinois-regiment",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-86th-illinois-regiment/",
      "year": 1866,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-86th-illinois-regiment/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-17",
      "text": "We know that no man is thoroughly honest who does not tell his honest thought.",
      "summary": "We know that no man is thoroughly honest who does not tell…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Convention of the American Secular Union",
      "work_slug": "american-secular-union-convention",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/american-secular-union-convention/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/american-secular-union-convention/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-18",
      "text": "All greatness is merciful. All greatness longs to forgive. All true grandeur and nobility is capable of shedding the divine tear of pity.",
      "summary": "All greatness is merciful. All greatness longs to forgive.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "General Grant's Birthday Dinner",
      "work_slug": "general-grants-birthday-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/general-grants-birthday-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/general-grants-birthday-dinner/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-19",
      "text": "The man who thought, and expressed his thoughts, died in a dungeon—on the scaffold or in flames.",
      "summary": "The man who thought, and expressed his thoughts, died in a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Jesus Christ",
      "work_slug": "jesus-christ",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/jesus-christ/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/jesus-christ/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-20",
      "text": "By spiritual I mean a man that has an ideal, a great ideal, and who is splendid enough to live to that ideal; that is what I mean by spiritual.",
      "summary": "By spiritual I mean a man that has an ideal, a great ideal…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Anton Seidl",
      "work_slug": "lotos-club-anton-seidl",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/lotos-club-anton-seidl/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/lotos-club-anton-seidl/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-21",
      "text": "Ignorance is a poor doctor, even for the poor, and if we pretend to be charitable we ought to carry it out.",
      "summary": "Ignorance is a poor doctor, even for the poor, and if we…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Organized Charities",
      "work_slug": "organized-charities",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/organized-charities/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/organized-charities/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-22",
      "text": "If a man simply shouts for his side, or gets mad, he is a long way from any intellectual improvement.",
      "summary": "If a man simply shouts for his side, or gets mad, he is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Ratification Speech",
      "work_slug": "ratification-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ratification-speech/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 38,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ratification-speech/#p38",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-23",
      "text": "Every man who has caused real, true, honest mirth, has been a benefactor of the human race.",
      "summary": "Every man who has caused real, true, honest mirth, has been…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Robson and Crane Dinner",
      "work_slug": "robson-and-crane-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robson-and-crane-dinner/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robson-and-crane-dinner/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-24",
      "text": "The young, the growing, the enthusiastic, are on my side.",
      "summary": "The young, the growing, the enthusiastic, are on my side.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Bigotry of Colleges",
      "work_slug": "the-bigotry-of-colleges",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-bigotry-of-colleges/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 15,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-bigotry-of-colleges/#p15",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-25",
      "text": "The Improved Man will not give his life to the accumulation of wealth. He will find no happiness in exciting the envy of his neighbors.",
      "summary": "The Improved Man will not give his life to the accumulation…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Improved Man",
      "work_slug": "the-improved-man",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-improved-man/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 8,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-improved-man/#p8",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-26",
      "text": "In the presence of the Great Mystery, the great mystery that waits to enshroud us all, we feel the uselessness of words.",
      "summary": "In the presence of the Great Mystery, the great mystery…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Dr. Thomas Seton Robertson",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-dr-thomas-seton-robertson",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-dr-thomas-seton-robertson/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-dr-thomas-seton-robertson/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-27",
      "text": "A noble life is never lost. A virtuous action does not die.",
      "summary": "A noble life is never lost. A virtuous action does not die.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Elizur Wright",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-elizur-wright",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-elizur-wright/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 18,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-elizur-wright/#p18",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-28",
      "text": "To the average man the Christian hell and heaven are only words.",
      "summary": "To the average man the Christian hell and heaven are only…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Henry Ward Beecher",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-henry-ward-beecher",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-henry-ward-beecher/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-henry-ward-beecher/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-29",
      "text": "A braver, a more serene, a more chivalric spirit—clasping the loved and by them clasped—never passed from life to enrich the realm of death.",
      "summary": "A braver, a more serene, a more chivalric spirit—clasping…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Mrs. Ida Whiting Knowles",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-ida-whiting-knowles",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ida-whiting-knowles/",
      "year": 1886,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ida-whiting-knowles/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "04-30",
      "text": "In the drama of human life, all are actors, and no one knows his part.",
      "summary": "In the drama of human life, all are actors, and no one…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Lawrence Barrett",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-lawrence-barrett",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-lawrence-barrett/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-lawrence-barrett/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/04-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-01",
      "text": "No one could fall below her pity, no one could wander beyond the circumference of her sympathy.",
      "summary": "No one could fall below her pity, no one could wander…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Mrs. Mary H. Fiske",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-mrs-mary-h-fiske",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-mrs-mary-h-fiske/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 10,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-mrs-mary-h-fiske/#p10",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-02",
      "text": "New friends can never fill the places of the old.",
      "summary": "New friends can never fill the places of the old.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Richard H. Whiting",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-richard-h-whiting",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-richard-h-whiting/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-richard-h-whiting/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-03",
      "text": "The imagination of man has the horizon of experience; and beyond experience or nature man cannot go, even in imagination. Man is not a creator.",
      "summary": "The imagination of man has the horizon of experience; and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Unitarian Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "unitarian-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/unitarian-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/unitarian-club-dinner/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-04",
      "text": "A black man in favor of liberty is better than a white man in favor of slavery.",
      "summary": "A black man in favor of liberty is better than a white man…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Wall Street Speech",
      "work_slug": "wall-street-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/wall-street-speech/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 8,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/wall-street-speech/#p8",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-05",
      "text": "Men are beginning to express their honest thoughts. In the arena where speech is free, superstition is driven to the wall.",
      "summary": "Men are beginning to express their honest thoughts. In the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Christmas Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-christmas-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 7,
      "paragraph": 79,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/#p79",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-06",
      "text": "The man who is fitted to take care of himself, in the conditions he may be placed, is, in a very important sense, an educated man.",
      "summary": "The man who is fitted to take care of himself, in the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Word About Education",
      "work_slug": "a-word-about-education",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-07",
      "text": "There are verses that elevate, verses that degrade. There are prayers for forgiveness and revenge.",
      "summary": "There are verses that elevate, verses that degrade. There…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About the Holy Bible",
      "work_slug": "about-the-holy-bible",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 184,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/#p184",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-08",
      "text": "The present moment is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past.",
      "summary": "The present moment is the child, and the necessary child…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Abraham Lincoln",
      "work_slug": "abraham-lincoln",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 32,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/#p32",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-09",
      "text": "Superiority is born of honesty, of virtue, of charity, and above all, of the love of liberty. The superior man is the providence of the inferior.",
      "summary": "Superiority is born of honesty, of virtue, of charity, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address on the Civil Rights Act",
      "work_slug": "address-on-the-civil-rights-act",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 301,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/#p301",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-10",
      "text": "The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue.",
      "summary": "The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Actors' Fund of America",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-actors-fund",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 8,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/#p8",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-11",
      "text": "The grand people are marching forward, and they will not pause until the earth is without a chain, and without a throne.",
      "summary": "The grand people are marching forward, and they will not…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Address to the Colored People",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-colored-people",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/",
      "year": 1867,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 43,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/#p43",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-12",
      "text": "Every brain is a gallery of art, and every soul is, to a greater or less degree, an artist.",
      "summary": "Every brain is a gallery of art, and every soul is, to a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Art and Morality",
      "work_slug": "art-and-morality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 31,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/#p31",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-13",
      "text": "We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.",
      "summary": "We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "At a Child's Grave",
      "work_slug": "at-a-childs-grave",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-14",
      "text": "The history of civilization is the history of the slow and painful enfranchisement of the human race.",
      "summary": "The history of civilization is the history of the slow and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Centennial Oration",
      "work_slug": "centennial-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 55,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/#p55",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-15",
      "text": "Let us develop the brain by education, the heart by kindness.",
      "summary": "Let us develop the brain by education, the heart by kindness.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Cruelty in the Elmira Reformatory",
      "work_slug": "cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-16",
      "text": "The doctrine of hell is now only for the poor, the ragged, the ignorant.",
      "summary": "The doctrine of hell is now only for the poor, the ragged…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crumbling Creeds",
      "work_slug": "crumbling-creeds",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 31,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/#p31",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-17",
      "text": "The flare and flicker of youth are gone, and the soul is like the flame of a lamp where the air is at rest.",
      "summary": "The flare and flicker of youth are gone, and the soul is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Death of the Aged",
      "work_slug": "death-of-the-aged",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 124,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/#p124",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-18",
      "text": "There is no language to express the debt we owe, the love we bear, to all the dead who died for us. Words are but barren sounds.",
      "summary": "There is no language to express the debt we owe, the love…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Decoration Day Oration",
      "work_slug": "decoration-day-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 59,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/#p59",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-19",
      "text": "For a man to get up before daylight and work till after dark, life is of no particular importance.",
      "summary": "For a man to get up before daylight and work till after…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight Hours Must Come",
      "work_slug": "eight-hours-must-come",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-20",
      "text": "The flag that will not protect its protectors and defend its defenders is a rag that is not worth the air in which it waves.",
      "summary": "The flag that will not protect its protectors and defend…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight to Seven Address",
      "work_slug": "eight-to-seven-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 36,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/#p36",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-21",
      "text": "In language, words of joy are born of light—that which shines—words of grief of darkness and gloom.",
      "summary": "In language, words of joy are born of light—that which…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fragments",
      "work_slug": "fragments",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 32,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/#p32",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-22",
      "text": "The affections of the human heart are worth more than all the myths of all the religions.",
      "summary": "The affections of the human heart are worth more than all…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Ghosts",
      "work_slug": "ghosts",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 84,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/#p84",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-23",
      "text": "Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought.",
      "summary": "Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Heretics and Heresies",
      "work_slug": "heretics-and-heresies",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/",
      "year": 1874,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 109,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/#p109",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-24",
      "text": "All there is of value in the world is the product of labor. The laboring man pays all the expenses.",
      "summary": "All there is of value in the world is the product of labor.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Reform Mankind",
      "work_slug": "how-to-reform-mankind",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 77,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/#p77",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-25",
      "text": "The world is beginning to change because the people are beginning to think. To think is to advance.",
      "summary": "The world is beginning to change because the people are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Humboldt",
      "work_slug": "humboldt",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/",
      "year": 1869,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 77,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/#p77",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-26",
      "text": "Certainly the religion of humanity is better than the religion of the inhuman.",
      "summary": "Certainly the religion of humanity is better than the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Huxley and Agnosticism",
      "work_slug": "huxley-and-agnosticism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 68,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/#p68",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-27",
      "text": "There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought.",
      "summary": "There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Individuality",
      "work_slug": "individuality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/",
      "year": 1873,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 73,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/#p73",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-28",
      "text": "Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine.",
      "summary": "Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Liberty in Literature",
      "work_slug": "liberty-in-literature",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 66,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/#p66",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-29",
      "text": "The truth is, we are both good and bad. The worst are capable of some good deeds, and the best are capable of bad.",
      "summary": "The truth is, we are both good and bad. The worst are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child",
      "work_slug": "liberty-of-man-woman-and-child",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 65,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/#p65",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-30",
      "text": "The night, in the purple hum of the bass, wanders away like some enormous bee across wide fields of dead clover.",
      "summary": "The night, in the purple hum of the bass, wanders away like…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liederkranz Club Seidl-Stanton Banquet",
      "work_slug": "liederkranz-club-banquet",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 22,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/#p22",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "05-31",
      "text": "We need the open air—we need the experience of heat and cold. We need not only the rewards and caresses, but the discipline of our mother Nature.",
      "summary": "We need the open air—we need the experience of heat and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Manhattan Athletic Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "manhattan-athletic-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 45,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/#p45",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/05-31/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-01",
      "text": "If we are responsible for our thoughts, we ought not only to know how they are formed, but we ought to form them.",
      "summary": "If we are responsible for our thoughts, we ought not only…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Prof. Van Buren Denslow's \"Modern Thinkers\"",
      "work_slug": "modern-thinkers",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 73,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/#p73",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-02",
      "text": "There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood—between poetry and perjury.",
      "summary": "There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Myth and Miracle",
      "work_slug": "myth-and-miracle",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 64,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/#p64",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-03",
      "text": "The brain of the world is not yet developed. There are intellectual diseases as well as physical—there are pestilences and plagues of the mind.",
      "summary": "The brain of the world is not yet developed. There are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Orthodoxy",
      "work_slug": "orthodoxy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 8,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/#p8",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-04",
      "text": "Every library is an arsenal, and every truth is a monitor, iron-clad and steel-plated.",
      "summary": "Every library is an arsenal, and every truth is a monitor…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Progress",
      "work_slug": "progress",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/",
      "year": 1860,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 59,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/#p59",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-05",
      "text": "The pioneers—the home builders, the heroes of toil, are all poets, and their deeds are filled with the pathos and perfection of the highest art.",
      "summary": "The pioneers—the home builders, the heroes of toil, are all…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Robert Burns",
      "work_slug": "robert-burns",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 38,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/#p38",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-06",
      "text": "The worst lie in the world is a lie which is partly true.",
      "summary": "The worst lie in the world is a lie which is partly true.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Opening Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-opening",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 62,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/#p62",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-07",
      "text": "There is in the life of the individual, as in the life of the race, a period of credulity, when not only appearances are accepted without question, but the declarations of others.",
      "summary": "There is in the life of the individual, as in the life of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Secularism",
      "work_slug": "secularism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 32,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/#p32",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-08",
      "text": "Wit is a crystallization, humor an efflorescence. Wit comes from the brain, humor from the heart. Wit is the lightning of the soul.",
      "summary": "Wit is a crystallization, humor an efflorescence. Wit comes…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Shakespeare",
      "work_slug": "shakespeare",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 297,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/#p297",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-09",
      "text": "Love and Virtue are the same the whole world round, and Justice is the same in every star.",
      "summary": "Love and Virtue are the same the whole world round, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Some Mistakes of Moses",
      "work_slug": "some-mistakes-of-moses",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 520,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/#p520",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-10",
      "text": "Spirituality is the perfect health of the soul. It is noble, manly, generous, brave, free-spoken, natural, superb.",
      "summary": "Spirituality is the perfect health of the soul. It is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spirituality",
      "work_slug": "spirituality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 29,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/#p29",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-11",
      "text": "We know that good is not evil, and that evil is not good. We know that light is not darkness, and that darkness is not light.",
      "summary": "We know that good is not evil, and that evil is not good.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Superstition",
      "work_slug": "superstition",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 127,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/#p127",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-12",
      "text": "The citizens of the real world gain joy and comfort from the stage.",
      "summary": "The citizens of the real world gain joy and comfort from…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Children of the Stage",
      "work_slug": "the-children-of-the-stage",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 15,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/#p15",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-13",
      "text": "If devils do not exist the fall of man is a mistake and the atonement an absurdity. If devils do not exist hell becomes only a dream of revenge.",
      "summary": "If devils do not exist the fall of man is a mistake and the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Devil",
      "work_slug": "the-devil",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 182,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/#p182",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-14",
      "text": "In all the sacred books there are some truths, some rays of light, some words of love and hope.",
      "summary": "In all the sacred books there are some truths, some rays of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Divided Household of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-divided-household-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 123,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/#p123",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-15",
      "text": "The real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.",
      "summary": "The real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Gods",
      "work_slug": "the-gods",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/",
      "year": 1872,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 85,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/#p85",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-16",
      "text": "The great effort of the human mind is to ascertain the order of facts by which we are surrounded—the history of things.",
      "summary": "The great effort of the human mind is to ascertain the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Great Infidels",
      "work_slug": "the-great-infidels",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/",
      "year": 1881,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 210,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/#p210",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-17",
      "text": "A fact, inconsistent with the creed, is denounced as a lie, and the man who declares or announces the fact is a blasphemer.",
      "summary": "A fact, inconsistent with the creed, is denounced as a lie…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth",
      "work_slug": "the-truth",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 94,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/#p94",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-18",
      "text": "Truth is a cripple; lies have wings. It is almost impossible to overtake and kill and bury a lie.",
      "summary": "Truth is a cripple; lies have wings. It is almost…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth of History",
      "work_slug": "the-truth-of-history",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-19",
      "text": "A public man, to be successful, must not assert anything unless it is exceedingly popular.",
      "summary": "A public man, to be successful, must not assert anything…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thirteen Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "thirteen-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-20",
      "text": "No man can think as he desires. No man controls the action of his brain, any more than he controls the action of his heart.",
      "summary": "No man can think as he desires. No man controls the action…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy",
      "work_slug": "trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-21",
      "text": "There is no dread of loss when all is growth and gain. With reckless hands we spend and waste and chide the flying hours for loitering by the way.",
      "summary": "There is no dread of loss when all is growth and gain. With…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Isaac H. Bailey",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-22",
      "text": "The miracle of thought we cannot understand. The mystery of life and death we cannot comprehend.",
      "summary": "The miracle of thought we cannot understand. The mystery of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to John G. Mills",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-john-g-mills",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-23",
      "text": "In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.",
      "summary": "In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Roscoe Conkling",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-roscoe-conkling",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-24",
      "text": "The philosopher does not hide. Secrecy is not the friend of truth. No man should be reverent at the expense of his reason.",
      "summary": "The philosopher does not hide. Secrecy is not the friend of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Voltaire",
      "work_slug": "voltaire",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 99,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/#p99",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-25",
      "text": "God is a king whose will is law, and men are serfs and slaves.",
      "summary": "God is a king whose will is law, and men are serfs and slaves.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Which Way?",
      "work_slug": "which-way",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 85,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/#p85",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-26",
      "text": "The civilized husband places the happiness of his wife above his own. Her love is the wealth of his heart, and to guard her from evil is the business of his life.",
      "summary": "The civilized husband places the happiness of his wife…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Few Fragments on Expansion",
      "work_slug": "a-few-fragments-on-expansion",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-fragments-on-expansion/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-fragments-on-expansion/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-27",
      "text": "Most people imagine that the rich are in heaven, but, as a rule, it is only a gilded hell.",
      "summary": "Most people imagine that the rich are in heaven, but, as a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Lay Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-lay-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-lay-sermon/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 14,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-lay-sermon/#p14",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-28",
      "text": "We have lived to see the Bible tested by Science, and, what is more, we have lived to see reason the standard not only in religion, but in all the domain of science.",
      "summary": "We have lived to see the Bible tested by Science, and, what…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Look Backward and a Prophecy",
      "work_slug": "a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 64,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy/#p64",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-29",
      "text": "I thank all who have adorned, enriched and ennobled life—all who have created the great, the noble, the heroic and artistic ideals.",
      "summary": "I thank all who have adorned, enriched and ennobled…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Thanksgiving Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-thanksgiving-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-thanksgiving-sermon/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 211,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-thanksgiving-sermon/#p211",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "06-30",
      "text": "There is nothing in plowing the fields to make men cross, cruel and crabbed.",
      "summary": "There is nothing in plowing the fields to make men cross…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About Farming in Illinois",
      "work_slug": "about-farming-in-illinois",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-farming-in-illinois/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 72,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-farming-in-illinois/#p72",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/06-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-01",
      "text": "The moment man begins to be civilized he begins to appreciate how little he knows, how very circumscribed in its very nature human knowledge is.",
      "summary": "The moment man begins to be civilized he begins to…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Press Club",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-press-club",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-press-club/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-press-club/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-02",
      "text": "The Freethinker knows that the universe is natural—that there is no room, even in infinite space, for the miraculous, for the impossible.",
      "summary": "The Freethinker knows that the universe is natural—that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Essay on Christmas",
      "work_slug": "an-essay-on-christmas",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/an-essay-on-christmas/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 18,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/an-essay-on-christmas/#p18",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-03",
      "text": "The superior man is the man who loves his fellow-man.",
      "summary": "The superior man is the man who loves his fellow-man.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Chicago Speech",
      "work_slug": "chicago-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-speech/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 48,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-speech/#p48",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-04",
      "text": "Our Government is founded on the equality of human rights—on the idea, the sacred truth, that all are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.",
      "summary": "Our Government is founded on the equality of human…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Three Philanthropists",
      "work_slug": "the-three-philanthropists",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-three-philanthropists/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 69,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-three-philanthropists/#p69",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-05",
      "text": "The fear of punishment may deter some, the fear of exposure others; but there is no real reforming power in fear or punishment.",
      "summary": "The fear of punishment may deter some, the fear of exposure…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crimes Against Criminals",
      "work_slug": "crimes-against-criminals",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crimes-against-criminals/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 89,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crimes-against-criminals/#p89",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-06",
      "text": "A fool friend is the sewer of bad news, of slander and all base and unpleasant things.",
      "summary": "A fool friend is the sewer of bad news, of slander and all…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fool Friends",
      "work_slug": "fool-friends",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fool-friends/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fool-friends/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-07",
      "text": "The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race.",
      "summary": "The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "God in the Constitution",
      "work_slug": "god-in-the-constitution",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/god-in-the-constitution/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/god-in-the-constitution/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-08",
      "text": "An angry man can neither reason himself, nor perceive the reason of what another says.",
      "summary": "An angry man can neither reason himself, nor perceive the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Edit a Liberal Paper",
      "work_slug": "how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-09",
      "text": "A man looks at the sea, and the sea says something to him.",
      "summary": "A man looks at the sea, and the sea says something to him.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Inspiration",
      "work_slug": "inspiration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/inspiration/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/inspiration/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-10",
      "text": "The State in which a criminal cannot have an impartial trial is not civilized.",
      "summary": "The State in which a criminal cannot have an impartial…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Law's Delay",
      "work_slug": "laws-delay",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/laws-delay/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/laws-delay/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-11",
      "text": "I do not want the church or the state to come between the man and wife.",
      "summary": "I do not want the church or the state to come between the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Convention of the National Liberal League",
      "work_slug": "national-liberal-league-convention",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/national-liberal-league-convention/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/national-liberal-league-convention/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-12",
      "text": "If we wish to make the future of the Republic glorious we must educate the children of the present.",
      "summary": "If we wish to make the future of the Republic glorious we…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Our Schools",
      "work_slug": "our-schools",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/our-schools/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 1,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/our-schools/#p1",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-13",
      "text": "If a man should be honest with himself he should be honest with others.",
      "summary": "If a man should be honest with himself he should be honest…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Professor Briggs",
      "work_slug": "professor-briggs",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/professor-briggs/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 19,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/professor-briggs/#p19",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-14",
      "text": "The more we know, the more beauty, the more poetry we find. Ignorance is not the mother of the poetic or artistic.",
      "summary": "The more we know, the more beauty, the more poetry we find.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Science and Sentiment",
      "work_slug": "science-and-sentiment",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/science-and-sentiment/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 1,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/science-and-sentiment/#p1",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-15",
      "text": "Nothing is so profoundly mournful as a home that has been covered with shame—a wife that is worse than widowed—children worse than orphaned.",
      "summary": "Nothing is so profoundly mournful as a home that has been…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Closing Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-closing",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-closing/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 1291,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-closing/#p1291",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-16",
      "text": "The great principle underlying our system of government is that the people have the virtue and the patriotism to govern themselves.",
      "summary": "The great principle underlying our system of government is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Suffrage Address",
      "work_slug": "suffrage-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/suffrage-address/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/suffrage-address/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-17",
      "text": "The wanderers hope for home.—Hope builds the house and plants the flowers and fills the air with song.",
      "summary": "The wanderers hope for home.—Hope builds the house and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Foundations of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-foundations-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-foundations-of-faith/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 296,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-foundations-of-faith/#p296",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-18",
      "text": "There is no propriety in swapping superstitions—neither party can afford to give any boot.",
      "summary": "There is no propriety in swapping superstitions—neither…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Jews",
      "work_slug": "the-jews",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-jews/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-jews/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-19",
      "text": "A church founded on slavery—that is to say, on blind obedience, worshiping irresponsible and arbitrary power, must of necessity be the enemy of human freedom.",
      "summary": "A church founded on slavery—that is to say, on blind…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thomas Paine (Magazine Article)",
      "work_slug": "thomas-paine-magazine-article",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine-magazine-article/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 82,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine-magazine-article/#p82",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-20",
      "text": "A heart breaks, a man dies, a leaf falls in the far forest, a babe is born, and the great world sweeps on.",
      "summary": "A heart breaks, a man dies, a leaf falls in the far forest…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Courtlandt Palmer",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 31,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer/#p31",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-21",
      "text": "From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.",
      "summary": "From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 10,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll/#p10",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-22",
      "text": "We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry.",
      "summary": "We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 10,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-ebon-c-ingersoll/#p10",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-23",
      "text": "Over all wealth, above all station, above the noble, the robed and crowned, rises the sincere man.",
      "summary": "Over all wealth, above all station, above the noble, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Horace Seaver",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-horace-seaver",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-horace-seaver/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-horace-seaver/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-24",
      "text": "The hand is burned, and after that the child keeps its hand out of the fire.",
      "summary": "The hand is burned, and after that the child keeps its hand…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Is Religion?",
      "work_slug": "what-is-religion",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-is-religion/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 56,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-is-religion/#p56",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-25",
      "text": "Let me tell you to-day it is far more important to build a home than to erect a church.",
      "summary": "Let me tell you to-day it is far more important to build a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Must We Do To Be Saved?",
      "work_slug": "what-must-we-do-to-be-saved",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-must-we-do-to-be-saved/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 74,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-must-we-do-to-be-saved/#p74",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-26",
      "text": "In every way the clergy sought to evade the facts, to dodge the truth, to preserve the creed.",
      "summary": "In every way the clergy sought to evade the facts, to dodge…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Why I Am an Agnostic",
      "work_slug": "why-i-am-an-agnostic",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 102,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/#p102",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-27",
      "text": "The Christians are not agreed among themselves as to what books are inspired.",
      "summary": "The Christians are not agreed among themselves as to what…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Few Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible",
      "work_slug": "a-few-reasons-for-doubting-the-inspiration-of-the-bible",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-reasons-for-doubting-the-inspiration-of-the-bible/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 10,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-reasons-for-doubting-the-inspiration-of-the-bible/#p10",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-28",
      "text": "An orator must be a poet, a metaphysician, a logician—and above all, must have sympathy with all.",
      "summary": "An orator must be a poet, a metaphysician, a logician—and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Young Man's Chances To-Day",
      "work_slug": "a-young-mans-chances-today",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-young-mans-chances-today/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 42,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-young-mans-chances-today/#p42",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-29",
      "text": "The gem of the brain is the innocence of the soul.",
      "summary": "The gem of the brain is the innocence of the soul.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Brooklyn Speech",
      "work_slug": "brooklyn-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/brooklyn-speech/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/brooklyn-speech/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-30",
      "text": "Labor is the great oak, labor is the great column, and labor, with its deft and cunning hands, has created the countless things of art and beauty.",
      "summary": "Labor is the great oak, labor is the great column, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Chicago and New York Gold Speech",
      "work_slug": "chicago-and-new-york-gold-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-and-new-york-gold-speech/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 78,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-and-new-york-gold-speech/#p78",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "07-31",
      "text": "Let every man be his own bishop, let every man be his own pope, let every man do his own thinking, let every man have a brain of his own.",
      "summary": "Let every man be his own bishop, let every man be his own…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Cooper Union Speech",
      "work_slug": "cooper-union-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cooper-union-speech/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 46,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cooper-union-speech/#p46",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/07-31/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-01",
      "text": "No man should wish or endeavor to win a case that he knows is wrong.",
      "summary": "No man should wish or endeavor to win a case that he knows…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Jury in the Davis Will Case",
      "work_slug": "davis-will-case",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/davis-will-case/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 119,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/davis-will-case/#p119",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-02",
      "text": "If the foundation is not justice, the dome cannot be high enough, or splendid enough, to save the temple.",
      "summary": "If the foundation is not justice, the dome cannot be high…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Decoration Day Address",
      "work_slug": "decoration-day-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-address/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-address/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-03",
      "text": "Nothing else is so well calculated to make friends of all nations as really to become acquainted with the best that each has produced.",
      "summary": "Nothing else is so well calculated to make friends of all…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Effect of the World's Fair on the Human Race",
      "work_slug": "effect-of-worlds-fair",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/effect-of-worlds-fair/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/effect-of-worlds-fair/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-04",
      "text": "The institution of marriage is a failure to the extent, and only to the extent, that the human race is a failure.",
      "summary": "The institution of marriage is a failure to the extent, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Ernest Renan",
      "work_slug": "ernest-renan",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ernest-renan/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 109,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ernest-renan/#p109",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-05",
      "text": "All beauty is relative. Probably the most beautiful thing to a frog is the speckled belly of another frog, or to a snake the markings of another snake.",
      "summary": "All beauty is relative. Probably the most beautiful thing…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Frank B. Carpenter Dinner",
      "work_slug": "frank-b-carpenter-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/frank-b-carpenter-dinner/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/frank-b-carpenter-dinner/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-06",
      "text": "To help others help themselves is the only real charity. There is no use in boosting a man who is not climbing.",
      "summary": "To help others help themselves is the only real charity.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Hard Times and the Way Out",
      "work_slug": "hard-times-and-the-way-out",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/hard-times-and-the-way-out/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 57,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/hard-times-and-the-way-out/#p57",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-07",
      "text": "Nothing ever happened beneath the dome of heaven that could have been avoided.",
      "summary": "Nothing ever happened beneath the dome of heaven that could…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Rear Admiral Schley",
      "work_slug": "lotos-club-admiral-schley",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/lotos-club-admiral-schley/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/lotos-club-admiral-schley/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-08",
      "text": "A lie is unnatural. A lie, in the nature of things, is a monstrosity.",
      "summary": "A lie is unnatural. A lie, in the nature of things, is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Jury in the Munn Trial",
      "work_slug": "munn-trial",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/munn-trial/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/munn-trial/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-09",
      "text": "No catastrophe can be great enough, no ruin wide-spread enough, to engulf or blot out the wisdom of the world.",
      "summary": "No catastrophe can be great enough, no ruin wide-spread…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Police Captains' Dinner",
      "work_slug": "police-captains-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/police-captains-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 33,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/police-captains-dinner/#p33",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-10",
      "text": "Every schoolhouse is an arsenal, filled with weapons and ammunition to destroy the monsters of ignorance and fear.",
      "summary": "Every schoolhouse is an arsenal, filled with weapons and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Reunion Address",
      "work_slug": "reunion-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/reunion-address/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 99,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/reunion-address/#p99",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-11",
      "text": "The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.",
      "summary": "The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spain and the Spaniards",
      "work_slug": "spain-and-the-spaniards",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spain-and-the-spaniards/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spain-and-the-spaniards/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-12",
      "text": "Surely we do not need an inspired book to teach us that slavery is right, that polygamy is virtue, and that intellectual liberty is a crime.",
      "summary": "Surely we do not need an inspired book to teach us that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Some Reasons Why",
      "work_slug": "some-reasons-why",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-reasons-why/",
      "year": 1881,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 37,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-reasons-why/#p37",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-13",
      "text": "A great nation should be bound by the highest conception of justice and honor.",
      "summary": "A great nation should be bound by the highest conception of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Three Philanthropists",
      "work_slug": "the-three-philanthropists",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-three-philanthropists/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 68,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-three-philanthropists/#p68",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-14",
      "text": "The men of science have explored heaven and earth, and with infinite patience have furnished the facts. The brave thinkers have used them.",
      "summary": "The men of science have explored heaven and earth, and with…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thomas Paine",
      "work_slug": "thomas-paine",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine/",
      "year": 1870,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 115,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine/#p115",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-15",
      "text": "Praise for the noble dead is an inspiration for the noble living.",
      "summary": "Praise for the noble dead is an inspiration for the noble…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Philo D. Beckwith",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-philo-d-beckwith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-philo-d-beckwith/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-philo-d-beckwith/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-16",
      "text": "Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without brain.",
      "summary": "Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Vivisection",
      "work_slug": "vivisection",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/vivisection/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/vivisection/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-17",
      "text": "A country that guarantees liberty to all cannot be too large.",
      "summary": "A country that guarantees liberty to all cannot be too large.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Western Society of the Army of the Potomac Banquet",
      "work_slug": "western-society-army-of-the-potomac",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/western-society-army-of-the-potomac/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/western-society-army-of-the-potomac/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-18",
      "text": "I would like to see corporal punishment done away with in every home, in every school, in every asylum, reformatory, and prison.",
      "summary": "I would like to see corporal punishment done away with in…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What I Want for Christmas",
      "work_slug": "what-i-want-for-christmas",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-i-want-for-christmas/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-i-want-for-christmas/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-19",
      "text": "I stand by the religion of reason. I stand by the dogmas of demonstration.",
      "summary": "I stand by the religion of reason. I stand by the dogmas of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Infidels Have Done",
      "work_slug": "what-infidels-have-done",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-infidels-have-done/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-infidels-have-done/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-20",
      "text": "A man who deserts the truth because it is unpopular is a blasphemer.",
      "summary": "A man who deserts the truth because it is unpopular is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Christmas Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-christmas-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 7,
      "paragraph": 68,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/#p68",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-21",
      "text": "The savage who understands the habits of animals, who is a good hunter and fisher, is a man of education, taking into consideration his circumstances.",
      "summary": "The savage who understands the habits of animals, who is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Word About Education",
      "work_slug": "a-word-about-education",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-22",
      "text": "Liberty is my religion. Liberty of hand and brain—of thought and labor.",
      "summary": "Liberty is my religion. Liberty of hand and brain—of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About the Holy Bible",
      "work_slug": "about-the-holy-bible",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 4,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/#p4",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-23",
      "text": "Solemnity is a mask worn by ignorance and hypocrisy—it is the preface, prologue, and index to the cunning or the stupid.",
      "summary": "Solemnity is a mask worn by ignorance and hypocrisy—it is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Abraham Lincoln",
      "work_slug": "abraham-lincoln",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 198,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/#p198",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-24",
      "text": "The man who hates the black man because he is black, has the same spirit as he who hates the poor man because he is poor. It is the spirit of caste.",
      "summary": "The man who hates the black man because he is black, has…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address on the Civil Rights Act",
      "work_slug": "address-on-the-civil-rights-act",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 300,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/#p300",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-25",
      "text": "The drama is a crystallization of history, an epitome of the human heart.",
      "summary": "The drama is a crystallization of history, an epitome of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Actors' Fund of America",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-actors-fund",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-26",
      "text": "Freedom believes in education—the salvation of slavery is ignorance.",
      "summary": "Freedom believes in education—the salvation of slavery is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Address to the Colored People",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-colored-people",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/",
      "year": 1867,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 35,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/#p35",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-27",
      "text": "A great picture is the melody of form and color. A great statue does not suggest labor; it seems to have been created as a joy.",
      "summary": "A great picture is the melody of form and color. A great…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Art and Morality",
      "work_slug": "art-and-morality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 15,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/#p15",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-28",
      "text": "The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted by the heartless past.",
      "summary": "The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "At a Child's Grave",
      "work_slug": "at-a-childs-grave",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-29",
      "text": "The great body of the people make all the money; do all the work. They plow the land, cut down the forests; they produce everything that is produced.",
      "summary": "The great body of the people make all the money; do all the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Centennial Oration",
      "work_slug": "centennial-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 52,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/#p52",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-30",
      "text": "A civilized man does not believe in the methods of savagery.",
      "summary": "A civilized man does not believe in the methods of savagery.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Cruelty in the Elmira Reformatory",
      "work_slug": "cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "08-31",
      "text": "The great reason why the orthodox creeds have become unpopular is, that all teach the dogma of eternal pain.",
      "summary": "The great reason why the orthodox creeds have become…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crumbling Creeds",
      "work_slug": "crumbling-creeds",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 24,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/#p24",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/08-31/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-01",
      "text": "Every good man hates and despises the wretch who abuses wife and child—who rules by curses and blows and makes his home a kind of hell.",
      "summary": "Every good man hates and despises the wretch who abuses…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Death of the Aged",
      "work_slug": "death-of-the-aged",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 75,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/#p75",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-02",
      "text": "Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Patriotism without principle is the prejudice of birth, the animal attachment to place.",
      "summary": "Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Patriotism…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Decoration Day Oration",
      "work_slug": "decoration-day-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 34,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/#p34",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-03",
      "text": "Any man who wishes to force his brother to work—to toil—more than eight hours a day is not a civilized man.",
      "summary": "Any man who wishes to force his brother to work—to…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight Hours Must Come",
      "work_slug": "eight-hours-must-come",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 10,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/#p10",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-04",
      "text": "A Government that will not protect its citizens is a disgrace to humanity.",
      "summary": "A Government that will not protect its citizens is a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight to Seven Address",
      "work_slug": "eight-to-seven-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 35,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/#p35",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-05",
      "text": "The only way to make men temperate is to develop the brain.",
      "summary": "The only way to make men temperate is to develop the brain.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fragments",
      "work_slug": "fragments",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 71,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/#p71",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-06",
      "text": "The rights of man are more sacred than the dictates of any creed.",
      "summary": "The rights of man are more sacred than the dictates of any…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Ghosts",
      "work_slug": "ghosts",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 84,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/#p84",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-07",
      "text": "The heretics have not thought and suffered and died in vain. Every heretic has been, and is, a ray of light.",
      "summary": "The heretics have not thought and suffered and died in…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Heretics and Heresies",
      "work_slug": "heretics-and-heresies",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/",
      "year": 1874,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 108,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/#p108",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-08",
      "text": "Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.",
      "summary": "Every child should be taught that useful work is worship…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Reform Mankind",
      "work_slug": "how-to-reform-mankind",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 86,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/#p86",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-09",
      "text": "The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul—breaking the mental manacles—getting the brain out of bondage—giving courage to thought—filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.",
      "summary": "The glory of science is, that it is freeing the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Humboldt",
      "work_slug": "humboldt",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/",
      "year": 1869,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 69,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/#p69",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-10",
      "text": "We are satisfied that nothing more wonderful has happened than is now happening.",
      "summary": "We are satisfied that nothing more wonderful has happened…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Huxley and Agnosticism",
      "work_slug": "huxley-and-agnosticism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 51,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/#p51",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-11",
      "text": "The church has been the enemy of progress, for the reason that it has endeavored to prevent man thinking for himself.",
      "summary": "The church has been the enemy of progress, for the reason…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Individuality",
      "work_slug": "individuality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/",
      "year": 1873,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-12",
      "text": "The poets have always lived in an ideal world, and that ideal world has always been far better than the real world.",
      "summary": "The poets have always lived in an ideal world, and that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Liberty in Literature",
      "work_slug": "liberty-in-literature",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 45,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/#p45",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-13",
      "text": "The grave is not a throne, and a corpse is not a king. Man should not try to live on ashes.",
      "summary": "The grave is not a throne, and a corpse is not a king. Man…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child",
      "work_slug": "liberty-of-man-woman-and-child",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 144,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/#p144",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-14",
      "text": "Love is a flower that grows on the edge of the grave.",
      "summary": "Love is a flower that grows on the edge of the grave.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liederkranz Club Seidl-Stanton Banquet",
      "work_slug": "liederkranz-club-banquet",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-15",
      "text": "The nations in love with life, have games. To them existence is exultation. They are fond of nature.",
      "summary": "The nations in love with life, have games. To them…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Manhattan Athletic Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "manhattan-athletic-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 20,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/#p20",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-16",
      "text": "Woman is not the intellectual inferior of man. She has lacked, not mind, but opportunity.",
      "summary": "Woman is not the intellectual inferior of man. She has…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Prof. Van Buren Denslow's \"Modern Thinkers\"",
      "work_slug": "modern-thinkers",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 94,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/#p94",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-17",
      "text": "The individual lives the life of the race, and the child is charmed with what the race in its infancy produced.",
      "summary": "The individual lives the life of the race, and the child is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Myth and Miracle",
      "work_slug": "myth-and-miracle",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 176,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/#p176",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-18",
      "text": "The star that shines above that dawn, the herald of that day, is Science, not superstition,—Reason, not religion.",
      "summary": "The star that shines above that dawn, the herald of that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Orthodoxy",
      "work_slug": "orthodoxy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 116,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/#p116",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-19",
      "text": "When people read, they reason, when they reason they progress.",
      "summary": "When people read, they reason, when they reason they progress.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Progress",
      "work_slug": "progress",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/",
      "year": 1860,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 43,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/#p43",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-20",
      "text": "The great poet seems as unconscious as Nature, and the product of the highest art seems to have been felt instead of thought.",
      "summary": "The great poet seems as unconscious as Nature, and the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Robert Burns",
      "work_slug": "robert-burns",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-21",
      "text": "Suspicion is the soil in which prejudice grows, and prejudice is the upas tree in whose shade reason fails and justice dies.",
      "summary": "Suspicion is the soil in which prejudice grows, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Opening Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-opening",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-22",
      "text": "As the child grows, facts take the place of the old beliefs, and the same is true of the race.",
      "summary": "As the child grows, facts take the place of the old…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Secularism",
      "work_slug": "secularism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 32,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/#p32",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-23",
      "text": "When men are prosperous, they are in love with life.",
      "summary": "When men are prosperous, they are in love with life.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Shakespeare",
      "work_slug": "shakespeare",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 38,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/#p38",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-24",
      "text": "After all, the real question is not whether the Bible is inspired, but whether it is true.",
      "summary": "After all, the real question is not whether the Bible is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Some Mistakes of Moses",
      "work_slug": "some-mistakes-of-moses",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 79,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/#p79",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-25",
      "text": "There is no possible connection between superstition and the spiritual, or between theology and the spiritual.",
      "summary": "There is no possible connection between superstition and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spirituality",
      "work_slug": "spirituality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 26,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/#p26",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-26",
      "text": "Superstition is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.",
      "summary": "Superstition is the child of ignorance and the mother of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Superstition",
      "work_slug": "superstition",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-27",
      "text": "The stage has ever been the altar, the pulpit, the cathedral of the heart.",
      "summary": "The stage has ever been the altar, the pulpit, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Children of the Stage",
      "work_slug": "the-children-of-the-stage",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 18,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/#p18",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-28",
      "text": "Every little brain becomes a menagerie, filled with wild beasts from hell. The imagination is polluted with the deformed, the monstrous and malicious.",
      "summary": "Every little brain becomes a menagerie, filled with wild…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Devil",
      "work_slug": "the-devil",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 250,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/#p250",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-29",
      "text": "If the Bible is true, the science known as geology is false and every fossil is a petrified perjurer.",
      "summary": "If the Bible is true, the science known as geology is false…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Divided Household of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-divided-household-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 89,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/#p89",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "09-30",
      "text": "A poem is produced by the forces of nature, and is as necessarily and naturally produced as mountains and seas.",
      "summary": "A poem is produced by the forces of nature, and is as…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Gods",
      "work_slug": "the-gods",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/",
      "year": 1872,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 84,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/#p84",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/09-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-01",
      "text": "There is in the intellectual world, as in the material, decay and growth, and ever by the grave of buried age stand youth and joy.",
      "summary": "There is in the intellectual world, as in the material…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Great Infidels",
      "work_slug": "the-great-infidels",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/",
      "year": 1881,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-02",
      "text": "Ignorance is the mother of mystery and misery, of superstition and sorrow, of waste and want.",
      "summary": "Ignorance is the mother of mystery and misery, of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth",
      "work_slug": "the-truth",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 175,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/#p175",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-03",
      "text": "Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, religious lie.",
      "summary": "Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth of History",
      "work_slug": "the-truth-of-history",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-04",
      "text": "To-day the need of our civilization is public men who have the courage to speak as they think.",
      "summary": "To-day the need of our civilization is public men who have…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thirteen Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "thirteen-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-05",
      "text": "Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.",
      "summary": "Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy",
      "work_slug": "trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 265,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/#p265",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-06",
      "text": "In youth we front the sun; we live in light without a fear, without a thought of dusk or night.",
      "summary": "In youth we front the sun; we live in light without a fear…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Isaac H. Bailey",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-07",
      "text": "All paths, whether filled with thorns or flowers, end here. Here success and failure are the same.",
      "summary": "All paths, whether filled with thorns or flowers, end here.…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to John G. Mills",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-john-g-mills",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-08",
      "text": "Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State.",
      "summary": "Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Roscoe Conkling",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-roscoe-conkling",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-09",
      "text": "If God be the keeper of an eternal penitentiary, he should not imprison there the men who broke the chains of slavery here.",
      "summary": "If God be the keeper of an eternal penitentiary, he should…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Voltaire",
      "work_slug": "voltaire",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 251,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/#p251",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-10",
      "text": "Let us develop the brain and civilize the heart. Let us ascertain the conditions of happiness and live in accordance with them.",
      "summary": "Let us develop the brain and civilize the heart. Let us…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Which Way?",
      "work_slug": "which-way",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 137,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/#p137",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-11",
      "text": "Man should think; he should use all his senses; he should examine; he should reason.",
      "summary": "Man should think; he should use all his senses; he should…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Few Fragments on Expansion",
      "work_slug": "a-few-fragments-on-expansion",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-fragments-on-expansion/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-few-fragments-on-expansion/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-12",
      "text": "The press is untrammeled. And that is all that the right should ever ask—a free press, free speech, and the protection of person. That is enough.",
      "summary": "The press is untrammeled. And that is all that the right…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Lay Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-lay-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-lay-sermon/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 39,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-lay-sermon/#p39",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-13",
      "text": "Every religion is a natural product—the result of conditions.",
      "summary": "Every religion is a natural product—the result of conditions.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Look Backward and a Prophecy",
      "work_slug": "a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 37,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-look-backward-and-a-prophecy/#p37",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-14",
      "text": "The scientists never persecuted, never imprisoned their fellow-men.",
      "summary": "The scientists never persecuted, never imprisoned their…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Thanksgiving Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-thanksgiving-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-thanksgiving-sermon/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 214,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-thanksgiving-sermon/#p214",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-15",
      "text": "Happiness is wealth. We can be happy without being rich—without holding office—without being famous.",
      "summary": "Happiness is wealth. We can be happy without being…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About Farming in Illinois",
      "work_slug": "about-farming-in-illinois",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-farming-in-illinois/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-farming-in-illinois/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-16",
      "text": "I hate to see brain the slave of the material god. I hate to see money own genius.",
      "summary": "I hate to see brain the slave of the material god. I hate…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Press Club",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-press-club",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-press-club/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-press-club/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-17",
      "text": "As long as men believe in tyranny in heaven they will practice tyranny on earth.",
      "summary": "As long as men believe in tyranny in heaven they will…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Essay on Christmas",
      "work_slug": "an-essay-on-christmas",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/an-essay-on-christmas/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/an-essay-on-christmas/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-18",
      "text": "Every convenience, everything of use, everything of beauty in the world, we owe to free labor and to free thought.",
      "summary": "Every convenience, everything of use, everything of beauty…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Chicago Speech",
      "work_slug": "chicago-speech",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-speech/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 43,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/chicago-speech/#p43",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-19",
      "text": "How perilous, after all, is the state of man. It is the work of a life to build a great and splendid character.",
      "summary": "How perilous, after all, is the state of man. It is the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crimes Against Criminals",
      "work_slug": "crimes-against-criminals",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crimes-against-criminals/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 48,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crimes-against-criminals/#p48",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-20",
      "text": "The fool friend regards your reputation as common prey for all the vultures, hyenas and jackals.",
      "summary": "The fool friend regards your reputation as common prey for…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fool Friends",
      "work_slug": "fool-friends",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fool-friends/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 19,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fool-friends/#p19",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-21",
      "text": "When man is unprejudiced, and his passions subject to reason, it is well he should define the limits of power, so that the waves driven by the storm of passion shall not overbear the shore.",
      "summary": "When man is unprejudiced, and his passions subject to…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "God in the Constitution",
      "work_slug": "god-in-the-constitution",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/god-in-the-constitution/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/god-in-the-constitution/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-22",
      "text": "No science should be neglected; no fact should be overlooked. Inventions should be described and understood.",
      "summary": "No science should be neglected; no fact should be…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Edit a Liberal Paper",
      "work_slug": "how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-edit-a-liberal-paper/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-23",
      "text": "The supernatural can be constructed with no material except the natural.",
      "summary": "The supernatural can be constructed with no material except…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Inspiration",
      "work_slug": "inspiration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/inspiration/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/inspiration/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-24",
      "text": "We must remember that revenge is always in haste, and that justice can always afford to wait until the evidence is actually heard.",
      "summary": "We must remember that revenge is always in haste, and that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Law's Delay",
      "work_slug": "laws-delay",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/laws-delay/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/laws-delay/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-25",
      "text": "The time will come when it will be utterly impossible for a man to go down to death, grasping millions in the clutch of avarice.",
      "summary": "The time will come when it will be utterly impossible for a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Convention of the National Liberal League",
      "work_slug": "national-liberal-league-convention",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/national-liberal-league-convention/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/national-liberal-league-convention/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-26",
      "text": "I believe in the schools for manual training, and that every child should be taught not only to think, but to do, and that the hand should be educated with the brain.",
      "summary": "I believe in the schools for manual training, and that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Our Schools",
      "work_slug": "our-schools",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/our-schools/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/our-schools/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-27",
      "text": "A God cannot annihilate or create matter. Annihilation and creation are both impossible—unthinkable.",
      "summary": "A God cannot annihilate or create matter. Annihilation and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Professor Briggs",
      "work_slug": "professor-briggs",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/professor-briggs/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 18,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/professor-briggs/#p18",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-28",
      "text": "In the orthodox Sunday schools, children are taught that it is a duty to believe—that evidence is not essential—that faith is independent of facts and that religion is superior to reason.",
      "summary": "In the orthodox Sunday schools, children are taught that it…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Science and Sentiment",
      "work_slug": "science-and-sentiment",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/science-and-sentiment/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 56,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/science-and-sentiment/#p56",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-29",
      "text": "There is no logic in abuse. There is no argument in epithet.",
      "summary": "There is no logic in abuse. There is no argument in epithet.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Closing Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-closing",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-closing/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 1202,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-closing/#p1202",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-30",
      "text": "I do believe that usefulness is the highest possible form of worship.",
      "summary": "I do believe that usefulness is the highest possible form…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spain and the Spaniards",
      "work_slug": "spain-and-the-spaniards",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spain-and-the-spaniards/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 12,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spain-and-the-spaniards/#p12",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "10-31",
      "text": "The man who doubts the right of the people to govern themselves casts a little doubt upon the question, simply because he is not man enough himself to believe in liberty.",
      "summary": "The man who doubts the right of the people to govern…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Suffrage Address",
      "work_slug": "suffrage-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/suffrage-address/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/suffrage-address/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/10-31/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-01",
      "text": "Let us hope, if there be a God that he is wise and good.",
      "summary": "Let us hope, if there be a God that he is wise and good.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Foundations of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-foundations-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-foundations-of-faith/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 302,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-foundations-of-faith/#p302",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-02",
      "text": "For the followers of one god to treat the followers of another god decently is a kind of treason.",
      "summary": "For the followers of one god to treat the followers of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Jews",
      "work_slug": "the-jews",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-jews/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 14,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-jews/#p14",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-03",
      "text": "No church asserting that belief is necessary to salvation ever was, or ever will be, the champion of true liberty.",
      "summary": "No church asserting that belief is necessary to salvation…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thomas Paine (Magazine Article)",
      "work_slug": "thomas-paine-magazine-article",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine-magazine-article/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 82,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thomas-paine-magazine-article/#p82",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-04",
      "text": "Let us believe that pure thoughts, brave words and generous deeds can never die.",
      "summary": "Let us believe that pure thoughts, brave words and generous…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Courtlandt Palmer",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 4,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-courtlandt-palmer/#p4",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-05",
      "text": "Happy is the man who neither paints nor patches, veils nor veneers. Blessed is he who wears no mask.",
      "summary": "Happy is the man who neither paints nor patches, veils nor…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Horace Seaver",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-horace-seaver",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-horace-seaver/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-horace-seaver/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-06",
      "text": "The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.",
      "summary": "The present is the necessary product of all the past, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Is Religion?",
      "work_slug": "what-is-religion",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-is-religion/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 114,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-is-religion/#p114",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-07",
      "text": "In liberty extravagance is economy. Let us be just. Let us be generous to each other.",
      "summary": "In liberty extravagance is economy. Let us be just. Let us…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "What Must We Do To Be Saved?",
      "work_slug": "what-must-we-do-to-be-saved",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-must-we-do-to-be-saved/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 160,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/what-must-we-do-to-be-saved/#p160",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-08",
      "text": "Everywhere pain, disease and death—death that does not wait for bent forms and gray hairs, but clutches babes and happy youths.",
      "summary": "Everywhere pain, disease and death—death that does not wait…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Why I Am an Agnostic",
      "work_slug": "why-i-am-an-agnostic",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 195,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/#p195",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-09",
      "text": "There is no very great difference of opinion among civilized people as to what is or is not moral.",
      "summary": "There is no very great difference of opinion among…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Christmas Sermon",
      "work_slug": "a-christmas-sermon",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 7,
      "paragraph": 166,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-christmas-sermon/#p166",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-10",
      "text": "There are mental misers—men who gather learning all their lives and keep it to themselves.",
      "summary": "There are mental misers—men who gather learning all their…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Word About Education",
      "work_slug": "a-word-about-education",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/a-word-about-education/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-11",
      "text": "The Bible is opposed to religious toleration—to religious liberty.",
      "summary": "The Bible is opposed to religious toleration—to religious…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "About the Holy Bible",
      "work_slug": "about-the-holy-bible",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 71,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/about-the-holy-bible/#p71",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-12",
      "text": "Every field is a picture, a landscape; every landscape a poem; every flower a tender thought, and every forest a fairy-land.",
      "summary": "Every field is a picture, a landscape; every landscape a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Abraham Lincoln",
      "work_slug": "abraham-lincoln",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 191,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/abraham-lincoln/#p191",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-13",
      "text": "Liberty is the soil and light and rain—it is the plant and bud and flower and fruit—and in that sacred word lie all the seeds of progress, love and joy.",
      "summary": "Liberty is the soil and light and rain—it is the plant and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address on the Civil Rights Act",
      "work_slug": "address-on-the-civil-rights-act",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/",
      "year": 1883,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 285,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-on-the-civil-rights-act/#p285",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-14",
      "text": "Everything that gives laughter to the world—laughter springing from good nature, that is the most wonderful music that has ever enriched the ears of man.",
      "summary": "Everything that gives laughter to the world—laughter…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Address to the Actors' Fund of America",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-actors-fund",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-actors-fund/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-15",
      "text": "The free man, working for wife and children, gets his head and his hands in partnership.",
      "summary": "The free man, working for wife and children, gets his head…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "An Address to the Colored People",
      "work_slug": "address-to-the-colored-people",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/",
      "year": 1867,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 34,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/address-to-the-colored-people/#p34",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-16",
      "text": "Morality is the harmony between act and circumstance. It is the melody of conduct. A wonderful statue is the melody of proportion.",
      "summary": "Morality is the harmony between act and circumstance. It is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Art and Morality",
      "work_slug": "art-and-morality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 15,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/art-and-morality/#p15",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-17",
      "text": "From the wondrous tree of life the buds and blossoms fall with ripened fruit, and in the common bed of earth, patriarchs and babes sleep side by side.",
      "summary": "From the wondrous tree of life the buds and blossoms fall…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "At a Child's Grave",
      "work_slug": "at-a-childs-grave",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/at-a-childs-grave/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-18",
      "text": "The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket, is hardly worth making.",
      "summary": "The religious argument that has to be supported by a…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Centennial Oration",
      "work_slug": "centennial-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/",
      "year": 1876,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 29,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/centennial-oration/#p29",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-19",
      "text": "Let us remember that criminals are produced by conditions, and let us do what we can to change the conditions and to reform the criminals.",
      "summary": "Let us remember that criminals are produced by conditions…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Cruelty in the Elmira Reformatory",
      "work_slug": "cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/cruelty-in-the-elmira-reformatory/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-20",
      "text": "All claims are put in the crucible of investigation—the object being to separate the true from the false.",
      "summary": "All claims are put in the crucible of investigation—the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Crumbling Creeds",
      "work_slug": "crumbling-creeds",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/",
      "year": 1893,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/crumbling-creeds/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-21",
      "text": "The dead leaves are all orthodox, while the new ones and the buds are all heretics.",
      "summary": "The dead leaves are all orthodox, while the new ones and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Death of the Aged",
      "work_slug": "death-of-the-aged",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 140,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/death-of-the-aged/#p140",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-22",
      "text": "A mighty Nation bends above its honored graves, and pays to noble dust the tribute of its love.",
      "summary": "A mighty Nation bends above its honored graves, and pays to…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Decoration Day Oration",
      "work_slug": "decoration-day-oration",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 9,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/decoration-day-oration/#p9",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-23",
      "text": "The working people should be protected by law; if they are not, the capitalists will require just as many hours as human nature can bear.",
      "summary": "The working people should be protected by law; if they are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight Hours Must Come",
      "work_slug": "eight-hours-must-come",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-hours-must-come/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-24",
      "text": "Party at best is only a means—the good of the country, the happiness of the people, the only end.",
      "summary": "Party at best is only a means—the good of the country, the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Eight to Seven Address",
      "work_slug": "eight-to-seven-address",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 9,
      "paragraph": 45,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/eight-to-seven-address/#p45",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-25",
      "text": "No civilized man wishes to live where the mob is supreme.",
      "summary": "No civilized man wishes to live where the mob is supreme.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Fragments",
      "work_slug": "fragments",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/",
      "year": 1895,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 48,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/fragments/#p48",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-26",
      "text": "The moment it is admitted that all phenomena are within the domain of the natural, the necessity for a priest has disappeared.",
      "summary": "The moment it is admitted that all phenomena are within the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Ghosts",
      "work_slug": "ghosts",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 73,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/ghosts/#p73",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-27",
      "text": "Every minister is heretical just to the extent that intellect is above the average.",
      "summary": "Every minister is heretical just to the extent that…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Heretics and Heresies",
      "work_slug": "heretics-and-heresies",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/",
      "year": 1874,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 63,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/heretics-and-heresies/#p63",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-28",
      "text": "The passion of the savage is uninfluenced by his thought, while the thought of the philosopher is uninfluenced by passion.",
      "summary": "The passion of the savage is uninfluenced by his thought…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "How to Reform Mankind",
      "work_slug": "how-to-reform-mankind",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/",
      "year": 1896,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/how-to-reform-mankind/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-29",
      "text": "Most of the intellectual giants of the world have been nursed at the sad and loving breast of poverty.",
      "summary": "Most of the intellectual giants of the world have been…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Humboldt",
      "work_slug": "humboldt",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/",
      "year": 1869,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 4,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/humboldt/#p4",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "11-30",
      "text": "In the presence of demonstration there is no opportunity for the exercise of faith.",
      "summary": "In the presence of demonstration there is no opportunity…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Huxley and Agnosticism",
      "work_slug": "huxley-and-agnosticism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 22,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/huxley-and-agnosticism/#p22",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/11-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-01",
      "text": "Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.",
      "summary": "Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Individuality",
      "work_slug": "individuality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/",
      "year": 1873,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 27,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/individuality/#p27",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-01/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-02",
      "text": "All arts are born of the same spirit, and express like thoughts in different ways—that is to say, they produce like states of mind and feeling.",
      "summary": "All arts are born of the same spirit, and express like…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Liberty in Literature",
      "work_slug": "liberty-in-literature",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 117,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-in-literature/#p117",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-02/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-03",
      "text": "The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.",
      "summary": "The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child",
      "work_slug": "liberty-of-man-woman-and-child",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/",
      "year": 1877,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 7,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liberty-of-man-woman-and-child/#p7",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-03/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-04",
      "text": "Music is the sunshine—the climate—of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.",
      "summary": "Music is the sunshine—the climate—of the soul, and it…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Liederkranz Club Seidl-Stanton Banquet",
      "work_slug": "liederkranz-club-banquet",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/liederkranz-club-banquet/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-04/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-05",
      "text": "I believe in heaven here and now—the heaven of health and good digestion—of strength and long life—of usefulness and joy.",
      "summary": "I believe in heaven here and now—the heaven of health and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Manhattan Athletic Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "manhattan-athletic-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1890,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 46,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/manhattan-athletic-club-dinner/#p46",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-05/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-06",
      "text": "Every industrious man adds to the wealth, not only of his nation, but to that of the world.",
      "summary": "Every industrious man adds to the wealth, not only of his…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Prof. Van Buren Denslow's \"Modern Thinkers\"",
      "work_slug": "modern-thinkers",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/",
      "year": 1880,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 31,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/modern-thinkers/#p31",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-06/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-07",
      "text": "Happiness is the result of all that is really right and sane.",
      "summary": "Happiness is the result of all that is really right and sane.",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Myth and Miracle",
      "work_slug": "myth-and-miracle",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/",
      "year": 1885,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/myth-and-miracle/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-07/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-08",
      "text": "We are done with the supernatural. We are through with the miraculous and the impossible.",
      "summary": "We are done with the supernatural. We are through with the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Orthodoxy",
      "work_slug": "orthodoxy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 6,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/orthodoxy/#p6",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-08/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-09",
      "text": "There is one truth, however, that you must not forget, and that is, that every evil tends to correct and abolish itself.",
      "summary": "There is one truth, however, that you must not forget, and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Progress",
      "work_slug": "progress",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/",
      "year": 1860,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 72,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/progress/#p72",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-09/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-10",
      "text": "Nothing can be more marvelous than the common and everyday facts of life.",
      "summary": "Nothing can be more marvelous than the common and everyday…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Robert Burns",
      "work_slug": "robert-burns",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/",
      "year": 1878,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 161,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/robert-burns/#p161",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-10/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-11",
      "text": "Some people are naturally suspicious. It is an infinitely mean trait in human nature. Suspicion is only another form of cowardice.",
      "summary": "Some people are naturally suspicious. It is an infinitely…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Opening Address — Second Star Route Trial",
      "work_slug": "second-star-route-trial-opening",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/",
      "year": 1882,
      "volume": 10,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/second-star-route-trial-opening/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-11/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-12",
      "text": "As man becomes civilized, educated, he finally has more confidence in his reason than in his eyes.",
      "summary": "As man becomes civilized, educated, he finally has more…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Secularism",
      "work_slug": "secularism",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 31,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/secularism/#p31",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-12/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-13",
      "text": "Hunger falls upon its knees, and heaven, looked for through tears, is the mirage of misery. But prosperity brings joy and wealth and leisure—and the beautiful is born.",
      "summary": "Hunger falls upon its knees, and heaven, looked for through…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Shakespeare",
      "work_slug": "shakespeare",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/",
      "year": 1891,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 40,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/shakespeare/#p40",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-13/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-14",
      "text": "A Christian will not admit that a passage in the Bible is uninspired, until he is satisfied that it is untrue.",
      "summary": "A Christian will not admit that a passage in the Bible is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Some Mistakes of Moses",
      "work_slug": "some-mistakes-of-moses",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/",
      "year": 1879,
      "volume": 2,
      "paragraph": 507,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/some-mistakes-of-moses/#p507",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-14/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-15",
      "text": "The spiritual man lives to his ideal. He endeavors to make others happy.",
      "summary": "The spiritual man lives to his ideal. He endeavors to make…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Spirituality",
      "work_slug": "spirituality",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/",
      "year": 1889,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 23,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/spirituality/#p23",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-15/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-16",
      "text": "Miracles are not simply impossible, but they are unthinkable by any man capable of thinking.",
      "summary": "Miracles are not simply impossible, but they are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Superstition",
      "work_slug": "superstition",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 52,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/superstition/#p52",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-16/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-17",
      "text": "The laughter that died away beneath the touch of death is heard again and lips that fell to ashes long ago are curved once more with mirth.",
      "summary": "The laughter that died away beneath the touch of death is…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Children of the Stage",
      "work_slug": "the-children-of-the-stage",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 14,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-children-of-the-stage/#p14",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-17/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-18",
      "text": "Many utterances attributed to Christ shock my brain and heart. They are absurd and cruel.",
      "summary": "Many utterances attributed to Christ shock my brain and…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Devil",
      "work_slug": "the-devil",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/",
      "year": 1899,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 254,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-devil/#p254",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-18/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-19",
      "text": "If the Bible is true, slavery is right, and the world should go back to the barbarism of the lash and chain.",
      "summary": "If the Bible is true, slavery is right, and the world…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Divided Household of Faith",
      "work_slug": "the-divided-household-of-faith",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 89,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-divided-household-of-faith/#p89",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-19/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-20",
      "text": "The people are beginning to think, to reason and to investigate. Slowly, painfully, but surely, the gods are being driven from the earth.",
      "summary": "The people are beginning to think, to reason and to…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Gods",
      "work_slug": "the-gods",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/",
      "year": 1872,
      "volume": 1,
      "paragraph": 58,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-gods/#p58",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-20/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-21",
      "text": "Every man is forced to admit that he does not agree with all the great men, living or dead.",
      "summary": "Every man is forced to admit that he does not agree with…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Great Infidels",
      "work_slug": "the-great-infidels",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/",
      "year": 1881,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 42,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-great-infidels/#p42",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-21/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-22",
      "text": "The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.",
      "summary": "The real searcher after truth will not receive the old…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth",
      "work_slug": "the-truth",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/",
      "year": 1897,
      "volume": 4,
      "paragraph": 26,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth/#p26",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-22/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-23",
      "text": "Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies.",
      "summary": "Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Truth of History",
      "work_slug": "the-truth-of-history",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 16,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-truth-of-history/#p16",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-23/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-24",
      "text": "As a matter of fact, public men,—that is to say, men in office,—reflect the average intelligence of the people, and no more.",
      "summary": "As a matter of fact, public men,—that is to say, men in…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Thirteen Club Dinner",
      "work_slug": "thirteen-club-dinner",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 3,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/thirteen-club-dinner/#p3",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-24/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-25",
      "text": "The sun is the god of benefits, of growth, of life, of warmth, of happiness, of joy. The sun is the all-seeing, the all-pitying, the all-loving.",
      "summary": "The sun is the god of benefits, of growth, of life, of…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "The Agnostic Christmas",
      "work_slug": "the-agnostic-christmas",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-agnostic-christmas/",
      "year": 1892,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 5,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/the-agnostic-christmas/#p5",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-25/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-26",
      "text": "There is no more perfect picture on the earth, or within the imagination of man, than a mother holding in her thrilled and happy arms a child, the fruit of love.",
      "summary": "There is no more perfect picture on the earth, or within…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy",
      "work_slug": "trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/",
      "year": 1887,
      "volume": 11,
      "paragraph": 157,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/trial-of-c-b-reynolds-for-blasphemy/#p157",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-26/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-27",
      "text": "In the gathering gloom the fires slowly die, while memory dreams of youth, and hope sometimes mistakes the glow of ashes for the coming of another morn.",
      "summary": "In the gathering gloom the fires slowly die, while memory…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Isaac H. Bailey",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/",
      "year": 1898,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 13,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-isaac-h-bailey/#p13",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-27/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-28",
      "text": "Out on the wide waste seas, there drifts no spar. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks.",
      "summary": "Out on the wide waste seas, there drifts no spar. Over the…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to John G. Mills",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-john-g-mills",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 2,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-john-g-mills/#p2",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-28/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-29",
      "text": "When the intelligent submit to the clamor of the many, anarchy begins and the Republic reaches the edge of chaos.",
      "summary": "When the intelligent submit to the clamor of the many…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "A Tribute to Roscoe Conkling",
      "work_slug": "tribute-to-roscoe-conkling",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/",
      "year": 1888,
      "volume": 12,
      "paragraph": 11,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/tribute-to-roscoe-conkling/#p11",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-29/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-30",
      "text": "A great man throws pearls before swine, and the swine are sometimes changed to men.",
      "summary": "A great man throws pearls before swine, and the swine are…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Voltaire",
      "work_slug": "voltaire",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/",
      "year": 1894,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 21,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/voltaire/#p21",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-30/"
    },
    {
      "day": "12-31",
      "text": "Right and wrong are not revelations from some supposed god, but have been discovered through the experience and intelligence of man.",
      "summary": "Right and wrong are not revelations from some supposed god…",
      "author": "Robert G. Ingersoll",
      "work_title": "Which Way?",
      "work_slug": "which-way",
      "work_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/",
      "year": 1884,
      "volume": 3,
      "paragraph": 88,
      "paragraph_url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/works/which-way/#p88",
      "url": "https://thegreatagnostic.com/daily/12-31/"
    }
  ]
}