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Robert Green Ingersoll Collection 1909

[Discusses English and Scotch ancestry and gives brief family description; reports on Ingersoll's military career and his rise in the Republican party; discusses his law practice and his career as a noted and highly paid lecturer who spoke against popular religious beliefs; lists the honors received by Ingersoll and his donations to charities; recalls his notoriety as an orator and provides excerpts from his lectures, his opinion of Bible translations, and on immorality, including critics' comments; gives the text of his creed ("My Religion"), his funeral oration for his brother Ebon C. Ingersoll, and the text of his poem "The Declaration of the Free." These last three pieces were read at Robert Green Ingersoll's own funeral.]

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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