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MP3 Audio CD. The lectures of the well-known veteran of the Civil War and lawyer, colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, serve as pretext for the author to express his agnostic conceptions. Held on different occasions, such as public conferences, meetings on various themes or even funerals, the lectures were grouped and published in 12 volumes, together with other works of the author. This one is the first of the series, the subjects discussed in them being, among others, hell, gods, ghosts and individuality. Also, the volume contains the eulogistic speech of the author at the grave of his brother and the discourse held at the grave of a child whose name is not revealed. Although the words are of consolation, the tone has accusative accents when even the smallest matter associated with religion comes in discussion. Regarding colonel Ingersoll's belief in agnosticism, many of his opponents ironically observed that his solid knowledge of the Bible could make him an exceptional clergyman. Indeed, most… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The lectures of the well-known veteran of the Civil War and lawyer, colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, serve as pretext for the author to express his agnostic conceptions. Held on different occasions, such as public conferences, meetings on various themes or even funerals, the lectures were grouped and published in 12 volumes, together with other works of the author. This one is the first of the series, the subjects discussed in them being, among others, hell, gods, ghosts and individuality. Also, the volume contains the eulogistic speech of the author at the grave of his brother and the discourse held at the grave of a child whose name is not revealed. Although the words are of consolation, the tone has accusative accents when even the smallest matter associated with religion comes in discussion. Regarding colonel Ingersoll's belief in agnosticism, many of his opponents ironically observed that his solid knowledge of the Bible could make him an exceptional clergyman. Indeed, most… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Mistakes of Moses I. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES HE WHO ENDEAVORS TO CONTROL THE MIND BY FORCE IS A TYRANT, AND HE WHO SUBMITS IS A SLAVE. I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls. Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Mistakes of Moses I. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES HE WHO ENDEAVORS TO CONTROL THE MIND BY FORCE IS A TYRANT, AND HE WHO SUBMITS IS A SLAVE. I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls. Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to… Read More

293 letters, 573 pp, (76 retained mailing envelopes), dated 4 May 1848 to 27 December 1954; bulk of letters date from 1910s to 1950s; with 3 manuscript journals (1904; 1909-1911; and 1943), a newspaper clipping scrapbook, an estate ledger, and a pedigree register; plus 44 photographs and approximately 130 pieces of related printed and manuscript ephemera. Interesting collection of letters, many from the turbulent economic times of the 1930s.
The Family of Eliot Tuckerman, Esq. (1872-1959)
Eliot Tuckerman was born in New York City on March 12, 1872, the son of Gustavus Tuckerman, Jr. (1824-1897) and Emily Goddard Lamb (1829-1894), eldest daughter of Thomas Lamb (1796-1887) and Hannah Dawes Eliot (1809-1879). Gustavus Tuckerman, Jr. was a Boston, Massachusetts, merchant who was involved in the China India trade during the mid-19th century. Tuckerman was born on May 15, 1824 at his grandfather's house in Edgbaston, England, the second son of Gustavus Sr. and Jane Francis Tuckerman. As a boy, he was… Read More