Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899· 2 chapters· 7,629 words

ON every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, an...

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1. Part 1

ON every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, a...

2. Part 2

At present, owing to the inroads that have been made by liberals and infidels, most of the churches pretend to be in favor of religious liberty. Of these churches, we will ask t...