Key of Destiny

By Frank Homer Curtiss and Harriette Augusta Curtiss

Book Overview

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1103831526
• ISBN13: 9781103831524
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: BiblioLife
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Phenomenal Sequel!

If you don't already own Key to the Universe, then buy that book first to get the most out of this one. Frankly, you should just buy both of them at the same time because after you finish, Key to the Universe, you will be hungry for more and this sequel does not disappoint!