Interviews
More than one hundred newspaper interviews, 1878–1899.
The complete Volume VIII of the Dresden Edition — newspaper interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll on religion, politics, divorce, labor, Spiritualism, literature, the Supreme Court, the Pope, Henry George, Tolstoy, Beecher, Blaine, and much else.
Throughout his public life Ingersoll sat for scores of newspaper interviews. Volume VIII of the Dresden Edition gathers them in chronological order, from his first conversation with The Post of Washington in 1878 to his last remarks before his death in 1899. Each is presented here as its own chapter for easier reading.
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- 1 Ingersoll Interviewed on Religion ¶
- 2 Mrs. Van Cott, the Revivalist ¶
- 3 R. G. Ingersoll ¶
- 4 European Trip and Greenback Question ¶
- 5 The Pre-millennial Conference ¶
- 6 The Solid South and Resumption ¶
- 7 Political and Religious ¶
- 8 Politics and Gen. Grant ¶
- 9 Politics, Religion and Thomas Paine ¶
- 10 Reply to Chicago Critics ¶
- 11 The Republican Victory ¶
- 12 Beecher on Ingersoll ¶
- 13 Political ¶
- 14 Religion in Politics ¶
- 15 Miracles and Immortality ¶
- 16 The Political Outlook ¶
- 17 Mr. Beecher, Moses and the Negro ¶
- 18 Hades, Delaware and Freethought ¶
- 19 Beaconsfield, Lent and Revivals ¶
- 20 District Suffrage ¶
- 21 The Interviewer ¶
- 22 Politics and Prohibition ¶
- 23 The Republican Defeat in Ohio ¶
- 24 The Civil Rights Bill ¶
- 25 Justice Harlan and the Civil Rights Bill ¶
- 26 Politics and Theology ¶
- 27 Morality and Immortality ¶
- 28 Politics, Mormonism and Mr. Beecher ¶
- 29 Free Trade and Christianity ¶
- 30 The Oath Question ¶
- 31 Wendell Phillips, Fitz John Porter and Bismarck ¶
- 32 General Subjects ¶
- 33 Reply to Kansas City Clergy ¶
- 34 Swearing and Affirming ¶
- 35 Reply to a Buffalo Critic ¶
- 36 Politics and British Columbia ¶
- 37 Ingersoll Catechised ¶
- 38 Blaine's Defeat ¶
- 39 Blaine's Defeat ¶
- 40 Plagiarism and Politics ¶
- 41 Religious Prejudice ¶
- 42 Cleveland and His Cabinet ¶
- 43 Religion, Prohibition, and Gen. Grant ¶
- 44 Hell or Sheol and Other Subjects ¶
- 45 Interviewing, Politics and Spiritualism ¶
- 46 My Belief ¶
- 47 Some Live Topics ¶
- 48 The President and Senate ¶
- 49 Atheism and Citizenship ¶
- 50 The Labor Question ¶
- 51 Railroads and Politics ¶
- 52 Prohibition ¶
- 53 Henry George and Labor ¶
- 54 Labor Question and Socialism ¶
- 55 Henry George and Socialism ¶
- 56 Trial of the Chicago Anarchists ¶
- 57 The Stage and the Pulpit ¶
- 58 Roscoe Conkling ¶
- 59 The Church and the Stage ¶
- 60 Protection and Free Trade ¶
- 61 Labor, and Tariff Reform ¶
- 62 Cleveland and Thurman ¶
- 63 James G. Blaine and Politics ¶
- 64 The Mills Bill ¶
- 65 Woman's Right to Divorce ¶
- 66 Secularism ¶
- 67 Prohibition ¶
- 68 Robert Elsmere ¶
- 69 Working Girls ¶
- 70 Protection for American Actors ¶
- 71 Liberals and Liberalism ¶
- 72 Pope Leo Xiii ¶
- 73 The Sacredness of the Sabbath ¶
- 74 The West and South ¶
- 75 The Westminster Creed and Other Subjects ¶
- 76 Shakespeare and Bacon ¶
- 77 Growing Old Gracefully, and Presbyterianism ¶
- 78 Creeds ¶
- 79 The Tendency of Modern Thought ¶
- 80 Woman Suffrage, Horse Racing, and Money ¶
- 81 Missionaries ¶
- 82 Must Religion Go ¶
- 83 Word Painting and College Education ¶
- 84 Personal Magnetism and the Sunday Question ¶
- 85 Authors ¶
- 86 Miracles, Theosophy and Spiritualism ¶
- 87 Tolstoy and Literature ¶
- 88 Woman in Politics ¶
- 89 Spiritualism ¶
- 90 Plays and Players ¶
- 91 Woman ¶
- 92 Strikes, Expansion and Other Subjects ¶
- 93 Sunday a Day of Pleasure ¶
- 94 The Parliament of Religions ¶
- 95 Cleveland's Hawaiian Policy ¶
- 96 Woman and Her Domain ¶
- 97 Professor Swing ¶
- 98 Reply to the Christian Endeavorers ¶
- 99 Spiritualism ¶
- 100 A Little of Everything ¶
- 101 Vivisection ¶
- 102 Divorce ¶
- 103 Music, Newspapers, Lynching and Arbitration ¶
- 104 A Visit to Shaw's Garden ¶
- 105 The Venezuelan Boundary Discussion and the Whipping-post ¶
- 106 A Reply to the Rev. L. A. Banks ¶
- 107 How to Become an Orator ¶
- 108 John Russell Young and Expansion ¶
- 109 This Century's Glories ¶
- 110 Capital Punishment and the Whipping-post ¶