Produced by David Widger THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL By Robert G. Ingersoll "EVERY BRAIN IS A FIELD WHERE NATURE SOWS THE SEEDS OF THOUGHT, AND THE CROP DEPENDS UPON THE SOIL." In Twelve Volumes, Volume VII. DISCUSSIONS Dresden Edition 1900 CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII. MY REVIEWERS REVIEWED. (1877.) Answer to San Francisco Clergymen--Definition of Liberty, Physical and Mental--The Right to Compel Belief--Woman the Equal of Man--The Ghosts--Immortality--Slavery--Witchcraft--Aristocracy of the Air--Unfairness of Clerical Critics--Force and Matter--Doctrine of Negation--Confident Deaths of Murderers--Childhood Scenes returned to by the Dying--Death-bed of Voltaire--Thomas Paine--The First Sectarians Were Heretics--Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard--Slaughter of the Canaanites--Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson--Protestant Persecutions--Toleration--Infidelity and Progress--The Occident--Calvinism--Religious Editors--Reply to the Rev. Mr. Ijams--Does the Bible teach Man to Enslave his Brothers?--Reply to California _Christian Advocate_--Self-Government of French People at and Since the Revolution--On the Site of the Bastile--French Peasant's Cheers for Jesus Christ--Was the World created in Six Days--Geology--What is the Astronomy of the Bible?--The Earth the Centre of the Universe--Joshua's Miracle--Change of Motion into Heat--Geography and Astronomy of Cosmas--Does the Bible teach the Existence of that Impossible Crime called Witchcraft?--Saul and the Woman of Endor--Familiar Spirits--Demonology of the New Testament--Temptation of Jesus--Possession by Devils--Gadarene Swine Story--Test of Belief--Bible Idea of the Rights of Children--Punishment of the Rebellious Son--Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice--Persecution of Job--The Gallantry of God--Bible Idea of the Rights of Women--Paul's Instructions to Wives--Permission given to Steal Wives--Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy and Concubinage?--Does the Bible Uphold and Justify Political Tyranny?--Powers that be Ordained of God--Religious Liberty of God--Sun-Worship punishable with Death--Unbelievers to be damned--Does the Bible describe a God of Mercy?--Massacre Commanded--Eternal Punishment Taught in the New Testament--The Plan of Salvation--Fall and Atonement Moral Bankruptcy--Other Religions--Parsee Sect--Brahmins--Confucians--Heretics and Orthodox. MY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS. (1879.) Rev. Robert Collyer--Inspiration of the Scriptures--Rev. Dr. Thomas--Formation of the Old Testament--Rev. Dr. Kohler--Rev. Mr. Herford--Prof. Swing--Rev. Dr. Ryder. TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY. (1882.)