Produced by An Anonymous volunteer Transcriber's note: Footnotes that describe the subject or circumstances of the interview are placed immediately after its title, or where they occur in the narrative. Other footnotes are at the end of the interview. The digraph "ae" has been spelled out for clarity. "Employe", used throughout with no accent, has been replaced by "employee". "Buechner" appeared with the umlaut in the original. Typographical and grammatical errors and misspellings have been corrected, but 19th-century variants have been retained. Question marks have been added where required. LoC call number: BL2720.A2 [Frontispiece: v8.jpg] "_With daughters' babes upon his knees, the white hair mingling with the gold_." EVA INGERSOLL-BROWN ROBERT G. INGERSOLL BROWN. Dresden Edition THE WORKS OF _Robert G. Ingersoll_ "HAPPINESS IS THE ONLY GOOD, REASON THE ONLY TORCH, JUSTICE THE ONLY WORSHIP, HUMANITY THE ONLY RELIGION, AND LOVE THE ONLY PRIEST." IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME VIII. INTERVIEWS NEW YORK THE DRESDEN PUBLISHING CO., C. P. FARRELL MCMXV COPYRIGHT, 1900 BY C. P. FARRELL COPYRIGHT, 1901 BY THE DRESDEN PUBLISHING CO. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. INTERVIEWS. THE BIBLE AND A FUTURE LIFE, Washington Post MRS. VAN COTT, THE REVIVALIST, Buffalo Express EUROPEAN TRIP AND GREENBACK QUESTION, Washington Post THE PRE-MILLENNIAL CONFERENCE, Buffalo Express THE SOLID SOUTH AND RESUMPTION, Cincinnati Commercial SUNDAY LAWS OF PITTSBURG, Pittsburg Leader POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS, Chicago Times POLITICS AND GEN. GRANT, Indianapolis Journal POLITICS, RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE, Chicago Times REPLY TO CHICAGO CRITICS, Chicago Tribune THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY, New York Herald INGERSOLL AND BEECHER, New York Herald POLITICAL, Washington Post RELIGION IN POLITICS, New York Evening Express MIRACLES AND IMMORTALITY, Pittsburg Dispatch THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK, Cincinnati Commercial MR. BEECHER, MOSES AND THE NEGRO, Brooklyn Eagle HADES, DELAWARE AND FREETHOUGHT, Brooklyn Eagle A REPLY TO THE REV. MR. LANSING, New Haven Sunday Union BEACONSFIELD, LENT AND REVIVALS, Brooklyn Eagle ANSWERING THE NEW YORK MINISTERS, Chicago Times GUITEAU AND HIS CRIME, Washington Sunday Gazette DISTRICT SUFFRAGE, Washington Capital FUNERAL OF JOHN G. MILLS AND IMMORTALITY, Washington Post STAR ROUTE AND POLITICS, New York Herald THE INTERVIEWER, New York Morning Journal POLITICS AND PROHIBITION, Chicago Times THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO, Dayton Democrat THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, Washington National Republican JUSTICE HARLAN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, Chicago Inter-Ocean POLITICS AND THEOLOGY, Denver Tribune MORALITY AND IMMORTALITY, Detroit News POLITICS, MORMONISM AND MR. BEECHER, Denver News FREE TRADE AND CHRISTIANITY, Denver Republican THE OATH QUESTION, London Secular Review WENDELL PHILLIPS, FITZ JOHN PORTER AND BISMARCK, Chicago Times GENERAL SUBJECTS, Kansas City Times