The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“To plow is to pray; to plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfills.”
In Twelve Volumes, Volume XI · Miscellany · 1900
The Dresden Edition
The Dresden Edition · Volume XI · Miscellany · 1900
Essays & Miscellany
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.
| 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 |