The Great Agnostic (24 page)

Ingersoll, Ruth (sister),
35
,
36

Ingersoll Birthplace Museum (Dresden, NY),
28
–29,
97
n,
191

inoculation,
78
,
80

intelligent design,
37
–38,
86

Irish Catholics,
66
–67

Italian immigrants,
113

Jackson, Andrew,
150

Jefferson, Thomas,
20
,
40
,
138
,
146
,
195
,
196

Jesuits,
183

Jesus,
114
,
122
–23,
195

Jewish immigrants,
113
,
114
,
116
,
139
,
154
,
177
; as freethinkers,
28
,
70

Jim Crow,
110
–12

Johnson, Andrew,
64

Johnson, Samuel,
43

Judaism,
16
,
55
,
70
,
90
,
176
,
177
; anti-Semitism and,
114
; as bar to state office holding,
137
,
138
.
See also
Jewish immigrants

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854),
49
–50

Keats, John,
46
,
123

Kennedy, John F.,
4
n

Kennedy, Joseph P.,
185
n

King James Bible,
13
,
37

Kittredge, Herman,
88

Kneeland, Abner,
133

Koch, Robert,
79

“Kreutzer Sonata, The” (Tolstoy),
164
–66

labor movement,
11
; Ingersoll's support for,
104
–5,
125
,
158
–59; Republican opponents of,
103
; violence and,
73
,
162
–63; women's conditions and,
124

LaFollette, Robert M.,
10
,
11
,
72

Lake Seneca,
33

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman),
152
–53

Lefevre, Jean-François, Chevalier de la Barre,
129
–30

liberal principles,
97
,
108
,
189

liberal Protestantism,
62
,
86
,
108
,
148
,
158
; Ingersoll's dialogue with,
16
–17,
181
–82; science acceptance and,
16
,
90
,
91
–94,
95

libertarianism,
98
,
108

“Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child, The” (Ingersoll lecture),
40
–41,
71
,
123

Lincoln, Abraham,
50
,
112
,
160
n; “Christian nation” proposed constitutional amendment and,
98
–99,
139
; Ingersoll parallels with,
7
,
36
,
44
–45,
48
,
149
; religious neutrality of,
62
–64,
98
–99,
150
; Second Inaugural Address,
62
n,
112
,
150

Lincoln, Sarah Bush,
44

Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858),
50
n

Lincoln Hall (Washington, DC),
111

Lister, Joseph,
79

literary works,
42
–48,
62
,
74
,
123
,
160
,
161
,
164
–66.
See also
poetry

Livingston, Robert B.,
30
n

Louis XVI, king of France, execution of,
20
,
40
,
144
,
145
,
147

Louisiana Purchase (1803),
31

Madison, James,
64
,
138
,
154
,
195

Manning, Henry F., Cardinal,
185

Marion (IL),
49
–50

Marion County (IL),
149

marriage, women's rights and,
120
–21,
124
,
171
–72,
200

Mason, Rev. John M.,
137
–38

Mason-Dixon line,
49

Massachusetts,
137
,
138

McKinley, William,
95
,
98
,
178

medical advances,
78
–79,
86

Mencken, H. L.,
10

Menlo Park (NJ) Laboratory,
28
,
97

meritocracy,
107

Methodists,
36
,
38
,
132

Middlebury College,
37

Middle West, Ingersoll's impact in,
2
,
25
,
27
,
57
–58

Mill, John Stuart,
98

Milton, John,
36
–37

miracles,
122
–23

Missouri,
49
–50

Monahan, Michael,
188
–89

monarchy,
144
–45

Monroe, James,
147
–48

Moon, Truman,
Biology for Beginners
,
187

morality,
124
–25,
152
–53,
163
–66,
200

Mormons,
32
,
140

Morris, Gouverneur,
147

Morristown (NJ),
131
,
132

Mott, Lucretia,
29
,
113

music,
160
,
161
,
165
–66,
175

National Woman Suffrage Association,
114

National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY),
29

natural rights,
127

natural selection.
See
evolution theory; social Darwinism

Nazism,
169

“new atheists” (contemporary),
90
–92,
94
,
192
–202; diverging currents of,
108
; Ingersoll's differences with,
16
–17; Ingersoll's obscurity among,
193
–202; theologians' debates with,
159

New Jersey, blasphemy law,
129
,
131
–36,
138
,
142

New York City,
34
–35,
81
,
103
; Comstock anti-vice crusade in,
99
; Ingersoll homes in,
21
,
91
–92,
160
; Irish Catholic political strength in,
66
–67; public schools in,
155

New York Herald
,
92
n,
155

New York Philharmonic,
42

New York State,
29
,
30
–34,
35
; Blaine's presidential bid and,
66
; divorce grounds in,
121
; Ingersoll's birthplace in,
22
,
28
,
30
,
32
; religion-based law in,
137
; religious/political dissidents from,
31
–32; slavery in,
33
,
35

New York Sun
,
67

New York Times
,
13
,
27
,
71
,
81
,
82
,
108
,
135
; Ingersoll obituary in,
174
,
178
–79,
180

New York World
,
120
,
173

Obama, Barack,
4
n

objectivism,
24
,
107
,
109

obscenity (Comstock) laws,
99
–100,
152
–53,
186

observation, scientific,
77

Occidental Literary Club (Terra Haute, IN),
109

Oglesby, Richard,
163

111 Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry,
51

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
15
,
83
,
96

optimism,
84
–85,
127
,
167
–69

organized religion: blasphemy laws and,
129
–36; cremation and,
176
; cultural challenges to,
6
–7; current politics and,
4
,
9
,
26
–27,
55
–56; decline in adherents to,
25
,
30
; dissident movements and,
31
–32; emotional arguments for,
157
–58; evolution theory and,
80
–82,
85
,
87
,
91
,
94
,
96
,
181
–83,
186
–87; on freethinker skepticism,
156
–57; Ingersoll's oratorical appeal and,
1
,
11
,
12
–14,
182
,
187
; Ingersoll's specific targets and,
16
,
58
,
114
,
185
; liberal currents in (
see
liberal Protestants); moral behavior and,
163
–64; “new atheists” debates with,
159
; patriotism linked with,
183
–84; pluralism of,
139
,
141
; political aspirations and,
11
,
27
,
54
,
64
,
138
,
139
,
150
–52; as political tyranny justification,
143
–44,
145
; primary secular argument against,
77
; scientific advances and,
16
,
79
–80,
85
–86,
90
–91,
93
,
95
,
141
,
148
,
167
–68,
183
,
197
; secular government and (
see
church-state separation); secular influences on,
9
,
148
; secularism vs.,
125
–26; slavery issue and,
32
–33,
52
–53,
63
,
140
,
163
–64,
199
; social injustices and,
199
–200; supernatural causes and,
58
,
85
–86,
163
,
167
,
173
; tax policies and,
64
–65,
67
,
70
,
99
; women's status and,
118
–23,
124
,
200
; workers' conditions and,
105
.
See also
Bible; biblical literalism; God;
specific religions and denominations

original sin,
14
,
87
–88,
195

Paine, Thomas,
18
–21,
73
,
74
,
113
,
131
,
142
–48,
173
,
190
,
192
,
196
,
199
; Conway biography of,
146
–47; death penalty opposition by,
20
,
40
,
144
,
145
,
147
; French imprisonment of,
20
,
40
,
146
,
147
–48; humanism and,
24
,
98
,
107
,
108
; Ingersoll as philosophical descendant of,
189
,
193
; Ingersoll's standard lecture on,
18
; religious belief of,
20
,
182
; reputation revival of,
1
,
18
,
58
,
142
–48,
150
; vilification of,
18
–19,
20
,
69
,
146
,
147
,
148
,
184
; works of:
The Age of Reason
,
19
,
20
,
40
,
62
,
145
; “Common Sense,”
142
;
The Crisis Papers
,
142
–43,
147
;
The Rights of Man
,
143

painkillers,
78
,
80

Paley, William,
37
–38,
86
;
Evidences
,
36
,
37
;
Moral and Political Philosophy
,
36

pantheism,
133

papal infallibility,
66
,
140
,
184
–85

Parker, Theodore,
172

Parker family,
172

Parks, Rosa,
111

parochial schools,
4
n,
64
–66,
67
,
70
,
100
–101,
141
,
153
,
154
,
183
,
185

passion.
See
emotion

Pasteur, Louis,
79
,
80

patriotism,
183
–84,
200

Paul, Ron and Rand,
108
n

Paul, Saint,
91
,
164
,
183

Peabody, Philip G., Ingersoll anti-vivisection letter to,
203
–5

Peck, Harry Thurston,
68
–69,
70
–71

Phillips, Wendell,
52

Pinker, Steven,
The Better Angels of Our Nature
,
170
n

Players' Club, The (NYC),
160

Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896),
110

“Plumed Knight” (Ingersoll speech),
59
–60,
60
n,
89
,
101
,
177

poetry,
36
–37,
45
–46,
52
–53,
62
,
73
,
94
,
152
–53,
161
; Ingersoll
eulogy for Whitman,
75
,
206
–11