Produced by David Widger THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL By Robert G. Ingersoll "The Hands That Help Are Better Far Than Lips That Pray." In Twelve Volumes, Volume IV. 1900 THE DRESDEN EDITION CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC. (1896.) I. Influence of Birth in determining Religious Belief--Scotch, Irish, English, and Americans Inherit their Faith--Religions of Nations not Suddenly Changed--People who Knew--What they were Certain About--Revivals--Character of Sermons Preached--Effect of Conversion--A Vermont Farmer for whom Perdition had no Terrors--The Man and his Dog--Backsliding and Re-birth--Ministers who were Sincere--A Free Will Baptist on the Rich Man and Lazarus--II. The Orthodox God--The Two Dispensations--The Infinite Horror--III. Religious Books--The Commentators--Paley's Watch Argument--Milton, Young, and Pollok--IV. Studying Astronomy--Geology--Denial and Evasion by the Clergy--V. The Poems of Robert Burns--Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Shakespeare--VI. Volney, Gibbon, and Thomas Paine--Voltaire's Services to Liberty--Pagans Compared with Patriarchs--VII. Other Gods and Other Religions--Dogmas, Myths, and Symbols of Christianity Older than our Era--VIII. The Men of Science, Humboldt, Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel--IX. Matter and Force Indestructible and Uncreatable--The Theory of Design--X. God an Impossible Being--The Panorama of the Past--XI. Free from Sanctified Mistakes and Holy Lies. THE TRUTH. (1897.) I. The Martyrdom of Man--How is Truth to be Found--Every Man should be Mentally Honest--He should be Intellectually Hospitable--Geologists, Chemists, Mechanics, and Professional Men are Seeking for the Truth--II. Those who say that Slavery is Better than Liberty--Promises are not Evidence--Horace Greeley and the Cold Stove--III. "The Science of Theology" the only Dishonest Science--Moses and Brigham Young--Minds Poisoned and Paralyzed in Youth--Sunday Schools and Theological Seminaries--Orthodox Slanderers of Scientists--Religion has nothing to do with Charity--Hospitals Built in Self-Defence--What Good has the Church Accomplished?--Of what use are the Orthodox Ministers, and What are they doing for the Good of Mankind--The Harm they are Doing--Delusions they Teach--Truths they Should Tell about the Bible--Conclusions--Our Christs and our Miracles. HOW TO REFORM MANKIND. (1896.)