Highlights from the collected writings of Robert G. Ingersoll, 1860-1899.

~1890s

(unpublished, undated notes)
Theosophy and Spiritualism

Inebriety

1899

What Would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide

What Is Religion

Governor Rollins’ Fast Day Proclamation
Boston Investigator

Is It Ever Right for Husband or Wife to Kill Rival?

The Bigotry of Colleges
New York Journal

Capital Punishment and the Whipping-Post
Chicago Tribune

Psychical Research and the Bible
New York Mind

1898

A Look Backward and a Prophecy
New York Truth Seeker

Spain and the Spaniards

A Reply to the Rev. Dr. Plumb

Cuba, Zola and Theosophy
Louisville Courier-Journal

1897

What I Want For Christmas
The Boston Arena

The Truth of History
New York Truth Seeker

Divorce
New York Herald

1896

The Coronation of the Czar

1895

The Venezuelan Boundary Discussion and the Whipping-Post
New York Journal

1894

Woman and Her Domain

Catholicism and Protestantism, the Pope, the A.P.A., Agnosticism
New York Herald

1893

Spiritualism
St. Louis Globe-Democrat

Strikes, Expansion and Other Subjects

Woman In Politics
New York Advertiser

Cleveland’s Hawaiian Policy

The Parliament of Religions
New York Herald

1892

Tolstoy and Literature
Buffalo Evening Express

Personal Magnetism and the Sunday Question
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette

1891

Effect of the World’s Fair on the Human Race

Growing Old Gracefully, and Presbyterianism
Toledo Blade

Woman Suffrage, Horse Racing and Money
Chicago Inter-Ocean

The Tendency of Modern Thought
Chicago Tribune

1890

The Improved Man
New York World

Tolstoy and the Kreutzer Sonata
North American Review

Has Freethought a Constructive Side?
New York Truth Seeker

Pope Leo XIII
New York Herald

Is Corporal Punishment Degrading?

Eight Hours Must Come
Seattle Morning Journal

1888

Rev. Dr. Newton’s Sermon on a New Religion
New York Herald

Liberals and Liberalism
New York Star

Working Girls
New York World

Woman’s Right to Divorce
New York World

Prohibition
New York World

Decoration Day (Memorial Day)
Speech in New York

1886

Prohibition
Boston Evening Traveler

The Superstitions of Public Men
Thirteenth Club Dinner

1884

Religious Prejudice
New York Mail and Express

Politics, Mormonism and Mr. Beecher
Denver Daily News

Morality and Immortality
Detroit News

1881

Guiteau and His Crime

Hades, Delaware and Freethought
Brooklyn Eagle

Answering the New York Ministers
Chicago Times

Beaconsfield, Lent and Revivals
Brooklyn Eagle

1880

Suffrage Address

Miracles and Immortality
Pittsburgh Dispatch

Reply to Chicago Critics
Chicago Tribune

A Reply to the New York Clergy on ‘Superstition’

1879

My Chicago Bible Class

1878

Hard Times and the Way Out