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The Dresden Edition is the canonical posthumous collection of Ingersoll's writings — twelve octavo volumes published in New York between 1900 and 1902 by C. P. Farrell, his son-in-law and longtime publisher. It takes its name from Dresden, New York, the village on Seneca Lake where Ingersoll was born in 1833.
The edition gathers everything Ingersoll wrote, dictated, or delivered that survived him: early lectures recovered from local newspapers, his celebrated stump speeches, the religious debates with Gladstone and Manning, courtroom arguments transcribed by stenographers, more than a hundred newspaper interviews, and the funeral orations.
Volumes I–IV collect the lectures. V holds the long discussions; VI, the formal debates; VII, the replies to clergy and critics; VIII, the interviews. IX is the political career in twenty speeches. X is the courtroom. XI and XII are the miscellany — essays, tributes, fragments, after-dinner remarks, the unfinished work.
Every word here is in the public domain. I've reproduced all twelve volumes from the Project Gutenberg e-text and am working through the corpus to confirm each work against the printed Dresden source. Read, copy, quote, and redistribute freely.
For Farrell's own words, see the Publisher's Preface from Volume I; for a modern note on what the canon includes and what it leaves out, see my Editor's Introduction.
Where you start changes what you find. Pick the entry point that fits.
Two short, direct statements of his agnosticism, the clearest entry into his thought.
The orations that made him a national figure and the soldier's reflections that grounded them.
Ingersoll moved easily among the poets and treated literature as the natural ally of liberty.
Ingersoll was one of the great trial lawyers of the Gilded Age. These are his published summations.
His funeral orations are widely regarded as the finest in the American canon.
His magazine debates with Gladstone, Manning, and Field shaped the public conversation about religion.
Farrell's order is editorial, not chronological — he grouped works by form. Each volume is its own door into the canon.
Nine early lectures (1869–1880). The Gods, Humboldt, Thomas Paine, Heretics and Heresies, The Ghosts, Individuality, The Liberty of Man…
Four lectures on religion (1879–1885). Some Mistakes of Moses, Some Reasons Why, Orthodoxy, Myth and Miracle.
Eight lectures and tributes (1872–1894). Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Abraham Lincoln, Voltaire, Liberty in Literature (Whitman), The Great…
Ten later lectures and essays (1860–1899). Why I Am an Agnostic, The Truth, How to Reform Mankind, The Foundations of Faith, Superstition…
Three major discussions. Six Interviews on Talmage, The Talmagian Catechism, A Vindication of Thomas Paine.
Seven set-piece debates with Jeremiah S. Black, Henry M. Field, William E. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, Bishop Spalding, Lyman Abbott, and…
Thirteen replies to critics. My Reviewers Reviewed, My Chicago Bible Class, The Brooklyn Divines, The Limitations of Toleration, A…
Over one hundred newspaper interviews (1878–1899) on religion, politics, literature, the courts, labor, and the day's events.
Twenty political speeches (1866–1896). The Plumed Knight, Centennial Oration, Hard Times and the Way Out, Decoration Day addresses, the…
Six legal arguments. The Munn Trial, both Star Route trials, the Davis Will case, and the Russell case, Ingersoll's last public appearance.
Forty-four essays and shorter pieces. Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, God in the Constitution, Crimes Against Criminals, The Jews…
Fifty-five miscellany pieces: Modern Thinkers, after-dinner speeches, Sabbath Superstition, the unfinished Jesus Christ, Life, and memorial…
The searchable index sits below; the surfaces above let you read the canon by theme, decade, form, length, or at random.
A curated entry path. Five short lectures and tributes, in order, designed to be read across one weekend. The fastest way to meet the man.
Open the OnrampThe lectures and essays the editors return to most often, with a short note on why each one matters. Begin here if the canon's size is daunting.
See the SpotlightSix syllabi through the canon: religion, liberty, women and family, tributes, politics, science. Ten works each, sequenced from gentle to demanding.
Choose a PlanEvery work, sorted alphabetically with leading articles ignored. Letter nav, instant filter, and links straight to each text. The fastest way to find a specific piece by name.
Open the A–Z IndexThree to five hierarchical concept terms for every work, Religion: Bible, Liberty: Free Speech, Science & Reason: Reason. Browse the canon by what each piece is about, the way you'd browse the index of an encyclopedia.
Open the Concept IndexA full bar chart from 1860 to 1899 showing how Ingersoll's output rose decade after decade, peaking in the 1890s, the years of his greatest fame. Filter by decade with a single click.
Open the ChartEvery work grouped by the decade it was delivered, the 1860s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Useful for following a single phase of his life rather than the whole arc.
Browse by DecadeThe canon by genre. Ingersoll wrote across more than a dozen forms; this view collects every lecture, every essay, every reply, and every after-dinner address into its own list.
Browse by FormHis most sustained writing: book-length essays, multi-evening lectures, the major debates. Ranked from longest down. The right place to start when you've got a free afternoon.
See the LongestAfter-dinner remarks, brief tributes, small jewels you can read in a single sitting. Ranked by word count, shortest first. A good place to begin if you've got five minutes and curiosity.
See the ShortestA daily-prompt button. Roll the dice on the canon and take whatever lands. Useful when you've stalled on the index and want serendipity to choose for you.
Roll a Random WorkIngersoll wrote in many registers — public lecture, magazine reply, courtroom summation, after-dinner remark — and each has its own conventions. Filter the index below by category to read one form at a time.
His themes recurred across forms and decades. Each topic page collects every work where the theme is central — a way to read horizontally across the volumes.
The full canon, organized by volume and filterable by category, decade, or keyword. Every entry links to the work itself.
Nine early lectures (1869–1880). The Gods, Humboldt, Thomas Paine, Heretics and Heresies, The Ghosts, Individuality, The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child, About Farming in Illinois, What Must We Do To Be Saved?
Open Volume I| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| About Farming in Illinois To Plow is to Pray — to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfills. | Lecture | 1877 |
| Heretics and Heresies Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain | Lecture | 1874 |
| Humboldt The Universe is Governed by Law | Lecture | 1869 |
| Individuality "His Soul was like a Star and dwelt apart." | Lecture | 1873 |
| The Ghosts Let them cover their eyeless sockets with their fleshless hands and fade forever from the imagination of men. | Lecture | 1877 |
| The Gods An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man | Lecture | 1872 |
| The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child Liberty sustains the same Relation to Mind that Space does to Matter. | Lecture | 1877 |
| Thomas Paine With His Name Left Out, the History of Liberty Cannot be Written | Lecture | 1870 |
| What Must We Do To Be Saved? A close reading of the four gospels. | Lecture | 1880 |
Four lectures on religion (1879–1885). Some Mistakes of Moses, Some Reasons Why, Orthodoxy, Myth and Miracle.
Open Volume II| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Myth and Miracle Happiness is the true end and aim of life. | Lecture | 1885 |
| Orthodoxy A lecture. | Lecture | 1884 |
| Some Mistakes of Moses He who endeavors to control the mind by force is a tyrant, and he who submits is a slave. | Lecture | 1879 |
| Some Reasons Why Why religion makes enemies, why inspiration is a fiction, and why the morality of the heathen exceeded that of the prophets. | Lecture | 1881 |
Eight lectures and tributes (1872–1894). Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Abraham Lincoln, Voltaire, Liberty in Literature (Whitman), The Great Infidels, Which Way?, About the Holy Bible.
Open Volume III| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| About the Holy Bible Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible. | Essay | 1894 |
| Abraham Lincoln The grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. | Tribute | 1894 |
| Liberty in Literature A Testimonial to Walt Whitman. | Tribute | 1890 |
| Robert Burns The peasant poet of Scotland. | Tribute | 1878 |
| Shakespeare The greatest genius of our world. | Tribute | 1891 |
| The Great Infidels The Infidels of one age have been the aureoled saints of the next. | Lecture | 1881 |
| Voltaire The infidels of one age have often been the aureoled saints of the next. | Tribute | 1894 |
| Which Way? The natural and the supernatural. | Lecture | 1884 |
Ten later lectures and essays (1860–1899). Why I Am an Agnostic, The Truth, How to Reform Mankind, The Foundations of Faith, Superstition, The Devil, Progress, What Is Religion?
Open Volume IV| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Lay Sermon Delivered before the American Secular Union. | Address | 1885 |
| A Thanksgiving Sermon Many ages ago our fathers were living in dens and caves. | Address | 1897 |
| How to Reform Mankind There is no darkness but ignorance. | Address | 1896 |
| Progress Ingersoll's earliest surviving lecture (1860). | Lecture | 1860 |
| Superstition To believe in spite of evidence or without evidence. | Lecture | 1898 |
| The Devil If the Devil should die would God make another? | Lecture | 1899 |
| The Foundations of Faith A systematic examination of the creed. | Essay | 1895 |
| The Truth Through millions of ages man slowly developed his brain. | Lecture | 1897 |
| What Is Religion? Ingersoll's last public address. | Address | 1899 |
| Why I Am an Agnostic For the most part we inherit our opinions. | Lecture | 1896 |
Three major discussions. Six Interviews on Talmage, The Talmagian Catechism, A Vindication of Thomas Paine.
Open Volume V| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Vindication of Thomas Paine Reply to the New York Observer. | Discussion | 1877 |
| Six Interviews on Talmage A reply to the Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage of Brooklyn. | Discussion | 1882 |
| The Talmagian Catechism A shorter catechism, drawn from the sermons of Mr. Talmage. | Discussion | 1882 |
Seven set-piece debates with Jeremiah S. Black, Henry M. Field, William E. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, Bishop Spalding, Lyman Abbott, and Archdeacon Farrar.
Open Volume VI| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Divorce Replies to Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Potter, and others. | Discussion | 1889 |
| Reply to Archdeacon Farrar "A Few Words on Col. Ingersoll" answered. | Discussion | 1890 |
| Reply to Dr. Lyman Abbott An answer to "Flaws in Ingersollism." | Discussion | 1890 |
| Rome or Reason A reply to Cardinal Manning. | Discussion | 1888 |
| The Christian Religion A discussion with Jeremiah S. Black. | Discussion | 1881 |
| The Field–Ingersoll Discussion Faith or Agnosticism. | Discussion | 1887 |
| The Ingersoll–Gladstone Controversy Colonel Ingersoll on Christianity. | Discussion | 1888 |
Thirteen replies to critics. My Reviewers Reviewed, My Chicago Bible Class, The Brooklyn Divines, The Limitations of Toleration, A Christmas Sermon, and more.
Open Volume VII| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Christmas Sermon Published in the Evening Telegram, December 19, 1891. | Essay | 1891 |
| A Reply to Rev. Drs. Thomas and Lorimer McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, Nov. 26, 1882. | Reply | 1882 |
| A Reply to Rev. John Hall and Warner Van Norden On hungry cloakmakers and the Christianity of capital. | Reply | 1894 |
| A Reply to the Cincinnati Gazette and Catholic Telegraph An interview in the Cincinnati Gazette, 1878. | Reply | 1878 |
| A Reply to the New York Clergy on Superstition New York Journal, 1898. | Reply | 1898 |
| A Reply to the Rev. Dr. Plumb Boston, 1898. | Reply | 1898 |
| Interview on Chief Justice Comegys On the Delaware blasphemy indictment. | Reply | 1881 |
| My Chicago Bible Class A reply published in the Chicago Times, 1879. | Reply | 1879 |
| My Reviewers Reviewed A reply to the clergymen of San Francisco. | Reply | 1877 |
| Suicide of Judge Normile Reply to the Western Watchman. | Reply | 1892 |
| The Brooklyn Divines Replies to clergy interviewed by the Brooklyn Union. | Reply | 1883 |
| The Limitations of Toleration Debate before the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 1888. | Discussion | 1888 |
| To the Indianapolis Clergy Answers to the ministers of Indianapolis. | Reply | 1883 |
Over one hundred newspaper interviews (1878–1899) on religion, politics, literature, the courts, labor, and the day's events.
Open Volume VIII| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Interviews More than one hundred newspaper interviews, 1878–1899. | Interviews | 1899 |
Twenty political speeches (1866–1896). The Plumed Knight, Centennial Oration, Hard Times and the Way Out, Decoration Day addresses, the Chicago and New York Gold Speech.
Open Volume IX| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Address to the 86th Illinois Regiment Peoria, Illinois, 1866. | Political | 1866 |
| An Address to the Colored People Galesburg, Illinois, 1867. | Political | 1867 |
| Bangor Speech Bangor, Maine, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Brooklyn Speech Brooklyn Academy of Music, introduced by Henry Ward Beecher. | Political | 1880 |
| Centennial Oration Peoria, Illinois, July 4, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Chicago Speech Exposition Building, Chicago, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Cooper Union Speech Cooper Union, New York, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Decoration Day Address Metropolitan Opera House, New York. | Political | 1888 |
| Decoration Day Oration Academy of Music, New York — GAR Memorial Celebration. | Political | 1882 |
| Eight to Seven Address On the Electoral Commission, Tremont Temple, Boston. | Political | 1877 |
| Hard Times and the Way Out Boston, October 20, 1878. | Political | 1878 |
| Indianapolis Speech (1876) The Journal, Indianapolis, September 21, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Ratification Speech Harrison and Morton — Metropolitan Opera House, June 29, 1888. | Political | 1888 |
| Reunion Address Elmwood Reunion of Six Regiments. | Political | 1887 |
| Speech at Cincinnati The Republican National Convention, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Speech at Indianapolis (1868) Attorney-General of Illinois, Rink, Indianapolis. | Political | 1868 |
| Suffrage Address Washington, D.C., January 24, 1880. | Political | 1880 |
| The Chicago and New York Gold Speech On the monetary question, 1896. | Political | 1896 |
| The Plumed Knight Speech nominating James G. Blaine, June 15, 1876. | Political | 1876 |
| Wall Street Speech Sub-Treasury steps, Wall Street, New York. | Political | 1880 |
Six legal arguments. The Munn Trial, both Star Route trials, the Davis Will case, and the Russell case, Ingersoll's last public appearance.
Open Volume X| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Address to the Jury in the Davis Will Case New York, 1883. | Legal | 1883 |
| Address to the Jury in the Munn Trial The United States vs. Daniel W. Munn — Chicago whiskey conspiracy, 1876. | Legal | 1876 |
| Argument Before the Vice-Chancellor in the Russell Case Russell vs. Russell, Camden, N.J., June 21, 1899. | Legal | 1899 |
| Closing Address — First Star Route Trial Washington, D.C., 1882. | Legal | 1882 |
| Closing Address — Second Star Route Trial Washington, D.C., 1883. | Legal | 1883 |
| Opening Address — Second Star Route Trial Washington, D.C., December 21, 1882. | Legal | 1882 |
Forty-four essays and shorter pieces. Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, God in the Constitution, Crimes Against Criminals, The Jews, Crumbling Creeds, Huxley and Agnosticism.
Open Volume XI| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Few Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible Essay. | Essay | 1891 |
| A Look Backward and a Prophecy Ingersoll's last essay. | Essay | 1899 |
| A Reply to Bishop Spalding On God in the Constitution. | Essay | 1890 |
| A Wooden God On the deification of the Bible. | Essay | 1879 |
| A Word About Education Essay. | Essay | 1891 |
| A Young Man's Chances To-Day Essay. | Essay | 1896 |
| Address on the Civil Rights Act Lincoln Hall, Washington, October 22, 1883. | Address | 1883 |
| An Essay on Christmas Essay. | Essay | 1892 |
| Art and Morality Essay. | Essay | 1888 |
| Crimes Against Criminals State Bar Association, Albany, N.Y., January 1, 1890. | Essay | 1890 |
| Cruelty in the Elmira Reformatory On the treatment of prisoners. | Essay | 1894 |
| Crumbling Creeds On the quiet collapse of orthodoxy. | Essay | 1893 |
| Eight Hours Must Come On the eight-hour working day. | Essay | 1890 |
| Ernest Renan A tribute on the death of the historian of the life of Jesus. | Tribute | 1892 |
| Fool Friends On the well-meaning enemies of the cause. | Essay | 1887 |
| God in the Constitution Against the proposed "Christian nation" amendment. | Essay | 1890 |
| Governor Rollins' Fast-Day Proclamation Reply to the Governor of New Hampshire. | Reply | 1898 |
| How to Edit a Liberal Paper Essay. | Essay | 1884 |
| Huxley and Agnosticism On Thomas Henry Huxley and the coinage of the word. | Essay | 1889 |
| Inspiration Essay. | Essay | 1887 |
| Law's Delay On the slowness of American justice. | Essay | 1897 |
| Our Schools On the public school system. | Essay | 1893 |
| Political Morality Essay. | Essay | 1899 |
| Rev. Dr. Newton's Sermon on a New Religion Reply to a sermon. | Reply | 1886 |
| Science and Sentiment Including "Sowing and Reaping." | Essay | 1895 |
| Secularism Essay. | Essay | 1887 |
| Some Interrogation Points Questions for the clergy. | Essay | 1885 |
| Spirituality What the word really means. | Essay | 1889 |
| Sumter's Gun On the Civil War and its consequences. | Essay | 1893 |
| The Agnostic Christmas On keeping Christmas without the supernatural. | Essay | 1892 |
| The Bigotry of Colleges On sectarianism in higher education. | Essay | 1897 |
| The Census Enumerator's Official Catechism Satire. | Essay | 1890 |
| The Divided Household of Faith Essay. | Essay | 1888 |
| The Improved Man Essay. | Essay | 1890 |
| The Jews Against anti-Semitism. | Essay | 1890 |
| The Libel Laws Essay. | Essay | 1887 |
| The Three Philanthropists Three sketches of the good man. | Essay | 1890 |
| The Truth of History Including "Conversion of the Arch Atheist." | Essay | 1887 |
| Thomas Paine (Magazine Article) A magazine article. | Tribute | 1892 |
| Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy Address to the Jury, Morristown, New Jersey, 1887. | Legal | 1887 |
| Vivisection Against cruelty to animals in the name of science. | Essay | 1893 |
| What I Want for Christmas A Christmas essay. | Essay | 1891 |
| What Infidels Have Done On the infidels' share in the world's progress. | Essay | 1892 |
Fifty-five miscellany pieces: Modern Thinkers, after-dinner speeches, Sabbath Superstition, the unfinished Jesus Christ, Life, and memorial tributes to Ebon, Whitman, Conkling, Beecher, and more.
Open Volume XII| Work | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Few Fragments on Expansion On American territorial expansion. | Essay | 1898 |
| A Tribute to Anton Seidl Memorial tribute to the conductor. | Tribute | 1898 |
| A Tribute to Courtlandt Palmer Memorial tribute to the founder of the Nineteenth Century Club. | Tribute | 1888 |
| A Tribute to Dr. Thomas Seton Robertson Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1898 |
| A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll Washington, D.C., May 31, 1879. | Tribute | 1879 |
| A Tribute to Elizur Wright Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1885 |
| A Tribute to George Jacob Holyoake English freethinker and coiner of the word "secularism." | Tribute | 1884 |
| A Tribute to Henry Ward Beecher Memorial tribute to the great American preacher. | Tribute | 1887 |
| A Tribute to Horace Seaver Memorial tribute to the editor of the Boston Investigator. | Tribute | 1889 |
| A Tribute to Isaac H. Bailey Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1898 |
| A Tribute to John G. Mills Grave-side tribute. | Tribute | 1884 |
| A Tribute to Lawrence Barrett Memorial tribute to the actor. | Tribute | 1891 |
| A Tribute to Mrs. Ida Whiting Knowles Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1886 |
| A Tribute to Mrs. Mary H. Fiske Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1888 |
| A Tribute to Philo D. Beckwith Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1892 |
| A Tribute to Richard H. Whiting Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1888 |
| A Tribute to Roscoe Conkling Memorial address to the New York legislature, May 9, 1888. | Tribute | 1888 |
| A Tribute to the Rev. Alexander Clark Grave-side tribute. | Tribute | 1879 |
| A Tribute to Thomas Corwin Memorial tribute. | Tribute | 1897 |
| A Tribute to Walt Whitman Grave-side address at Whitman's burial, Camden, N.J., March 30, 1892. | Tribute | 1892 |
| Address to the Actors' Fund of America New York, June 5, 1888. | Address | 1888 |
| Address to the Press Club New Orleans, February 1, 1898. | Address | 1898 |
| At a Child's Grave Washington, D.C., January 8, 1882. | Tribute | 1882 |
| At the Grave of Benjamin W. Parker Grave-side tribute. | Tribute | 1895 |
| Convention of the American Secular Union Albany, N.Y., September 13, 1885 — presidential address. | Address | 1885 |
| Convention of the National Liberal League Cincinnati, September 14, 1878. | Address | 1878 |
| Death of the Aged Letter of condolence. | Tribute | 1892 |
| Effect of the World's Fair on the Human Race On the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition. | Essay | 1893 |
| Fragments Short letters, fragments, and occasional pieces. | Essay | 1895 |
| General Grant's Birthday Dinner Tribute to Ulysses S. Grant. | After-Dinner | 1890 |
| Jesus Christ An unfinished lecture, begun a few days before Ingersoll's death. | Lecture | 1899 |
| Life New York Dramatic Mirror, December 18, 1886. | Essay | 1886 |
| Lotos Club Dinner — Twentieth Anniversary New York literary and theatrical club. | After-Dinner | 1890 |
| Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Anton Seidl After-dinner tribute to the conductor. | After-Dinner | 1893 |
| Lotos Club Dinner in Honor of Rear Admiral Schley After-dinner tribute to the hero of Santiago. | After-Dinner | 1898 |
| Manhattan Athletic Club Dinner After-dinner speech. | After-Dinner | 1890 |
| Organized Charities Essay. | Essay | 1897 |
| Our New Possessions On Cuba, the Philippines, and the territorial gains of 1898. | Essay | 1898 |
| Prof. Van Buren Denslow's "Modern Thinkers" Introduction to Denslow's biographical study of Swedenborg, Adam Smith, Bentham, Paine, Fourier, Comte, Haeckel, and Spencer. | Essay | 1880 |
| Professor Briggs On the Presbyterian heresy trial of Charles A. Briggs. | Essay | 1893 |
| Robson and Crane Dinner In honor of the actors Stuart Robson and William H. Crane. | After-Dinner | 1889 |
| Sabbath Superstition On the Sunday laws. | Essay | 1894 |
| Spain and the Spaniards On the Spanish-American War. | Essay | 1898 |
| The Children of the Stage On the stage and its people. | Address | 1888 |
| The Circulation of Obscene Literature Defense in the Bennett-Comstock prosecution. | Address | 1879 |
| The Frank B. Carpenter Dinner Tribute to the painter Frank B. Carpenter. | After-Dinner | 1892 |
| The Grant Banquet Twelfth toast, Chicago, November 13, 1879. | After-Dinner | 1879 |
| The Liederkranz Club Seidl-Stanton Banquet In honor of Anton Seidl and Theodore Stanton. | After-Dinner | 1891 |
| The Police Captains' Dinner After-dinner speech. | After-Dinner | 1890 |
| The Religious Belief of Abraham Lincoln Letter to Mr. Seip, New York, May 28, 1896. | Essay | 1896 |
| Thirteen Club Dinner On the superstitions of public men. | After-Dinner | 1887 |
| Unitarian Club Dinner After-dinner address. | After-Dinner | 1891 |
| Western Society of the Army of the Potomac Banquet Civil War veterans reunion. | After-Dinner | 1892 |
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The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, ed. Clinton P. Farrell, 12 vols. (New York: C. P. Farrell, 1900–1902). Octavo. Bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering. The 1902 reissue is the standard reference.
Original page images and unedited transcriptions are available at the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.
Cite the original Dresden Edition as the primary source for Ingersoll's writings. This site may be used as a convenient digital edition. A specimen citation in MLA form:
Ingersoll, Robert G. Why I Am an Agnostic. 1896. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, edited by Clinton P. Farrell, vol. 4, C. P. Farrell, 1900, pp. 5–67. The Great Agnostic, thegreatagnostic.com/works/why-i-am-an-agnostic/.
Spelling, capitalization, and Ingersoll's idiosyncratic punctuation are preserved as printed. Obvious typesetting errors are corrected silently. Editorial interpolations are bracketed. Footnotes are retained in numbered form. Page-break artifacts (running heads, signature marks) are removed.
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