Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures
Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures

Author: Helen H. Gardener

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13:

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'Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures' is a collection of lectures by Helen H. Gardener. She was an American author, rationalist public intellectual, political activist, and government functionary. Gardener produced many lectures, articles, and books during the 1880s and 1890s and is remembered today for her role in the freethought and women's suffrage movements and for her place as a pioneering woman in the top echelon of the American civil service.

The Gods and Other Lectures
The Gods and Other Lectures

Author: Robert G. Ingersoll

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1605209015

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)