Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political

Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899· 2 chapters· 72,864 words

the words used to explain it, that can under such circumstances lead captive the hearts of men. During the entire campaign the cry of civil service reform was heard from one end of our land to the other. The sailor nailed those words to the mast. The miner repeated them betwee...

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1. did. Surely there must be something in the subject itself, apart from

the words used to explain it, that can under such circumstances lead captive the hearts of men. During the entire campaign the cry of civil service reform was heard from one end...

2. did. We want to do our own work, and we want to mingle our thought with

our labor. We are the most inventive of all the peoples. We sustain the same relation to invention that the ancient Greeks did to sculpture. We want to develop the brain; we wan...