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"God in the Constitution" originally appeared in The Arena (Boston) in January 1890.

Ingersoll (1833-1899), an American lawyer and orator known as the "Great Agnostic." Joseph McCabe described him thus in A Rationalist Encyclopedia : "He began in 1860 to give Rationalist lectures, and during the next thirty years his vibrant oratory, warm sentiment, and impressive personality made him the most effective force for progress in the New World." The American Atheist devoted its August 1983 issue to Ingersoll. The American Atheist attempts to make some of that literature more available to modern Atheists by reprinting essays by yesterday’s "Masters of Atheism."

Unfortunately, however, much of that history is inaccessible to modern readers, surviving only in rare booklets, books, and pamphlets housed in scattered libraries and private collections. INTRO: Atheism has a long, proud history of publishing and speechmaking. Reproduced from the "Masters of Atheism" department of the August 1988 issue of The American Atheist magazine. This file made available by the American Atheists and the Internet Infidels Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Similarly, we do not reply to feedback regarding faulty scholarship on the part of dead authors, nor do we correct spelling errors and/or typographical errors (most of which result from the scanning and OCR process) in their articles. We will not reply to email addressed to dead authors, and therefore any email addressed to these authors will be ignored. Those looking for modern critiques of theism should go to the Modern Documents section of the Secular Web Library.Īll of the Historical Library authors are dead-and in many cases have been so for several decades. It is not intended to be-and should not be used as-a source of modern, up-to-date information regarding atheistic issues. This Historical Library is provided for those doing research into the history of nontheism.

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