This Man Knew Ingersoll

Herman Kitteridge wrote a Biographical Appreciation of Ingersoll which you can read here.

Ingersoll was obviously a hero to him; but when his praises are taken together with those of others quoted in this section, they merely seem confirmatory.

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1833 – 1840
1841 – 1857
1858 – 1866
1867 – 1877
1878 – 1885
1886 – 1888
1889 – 1892
1893 – 1896
1897 – 1899
THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION UPON WHICH HE STOOD
DID HE ATTACK ‘THE THEOLOGY OF FIFTY YEARS AGO’? OR DID HE ATTACK THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE TIME?
WAS HE ‘A MERE ICONOCLAST’? Did He ‘Tear Down without Building Up’?
WERE HIS TEACHINGS INIMICAL TO LAW AND MORALITY?
DID HE ENDEAVOR TO DESTROY THE HOPE OF IMMORTALITY?
HIS DOMESTIC TEACHINGS
CHILDREN — THEIR REARING AND EDUCATION
DID HE PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHED?
HIS FACULTIES OF ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL EXPRESSION
UNIVERSAL REGRET AT HIS DEATH – HIS INFLUENCE ON RELIGIOUS THOUGHT