The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”
In Twelve Volumes, Volume IV · Lectures · 1900
The Dresden Edition
The Dresden Edition · Volume IV · Lectures · 1900
Lectures — Later
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?
| 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 |