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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.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.”
In Twelve Volumes, Volume XII · Miscellany · 1900
The Dresden Edition
| 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 |