Ingersoll The Magnificent

In 1957, Joseph Lewis, editor of the Atheist magazine The Age of Reason, dedicated to research all of the writings of Robert Ingersoll to cull out his principal statements, especially in respect to religion and assemble them into a single volume.

This book is Lewis' selection divided into twenty-four chapters. Each concerns a special subject that Ingersoll treated, including "The Holy Bible," "Christianity," and "The Great Infidels."

Ingersoll's was the most famous name on the lecture ciruit when this was an art known as ecolution. And he battered religion. His favored method of assault was to strip the Bible down to its most absurd premises and the ministers to their illogical positions. He did all of this with the utmost grace and elegance, politely cutting the Falwells and Robertsons of his day to the quick.

Ingersoll lectured that the United States was a country founded upon the rights of man, not the rights of god; that our Constitution was framed not to declare the deity of Christ, but the "sacredness" of humankind.

Joseph Lewis-- an Atheist scholar and historical figure in his own right--has done an excellent job in assembling these important writings. This is Ingersoll at his best, in a convenient, excerpted form. Introduction by Jon G. Murray.

Paperback. 342 pp.