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    <title>Lectures and essays (a selection)</title>
    <partNumber>[1st-3rd series]</partNumber>
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    <title>Essays. Selections</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ingersoll, Robert Green</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1833-1899</namePart>
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  <genre authority="fast">Controversial literature.</genre>
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    <publisher>Watts</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1918</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>3 volumes in 1 ; 22 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1st series. The Truth -- The gods -- About the Holy Bible -- What must we do to be saved? -- The liberty of man, woman, and child -- A Thanksgiving sermon -- The ghosts -- How to reform mankind -- Art and morality -- 2nd series. Some mistakes of Moses -- Shakespeare -- Why am I an Agnostic? -- Orthodoxy -- Superstition -- Advice to parents -- George Jacob Holyoake -- 3rd series. Which way? -- Some reasons why -- Progress -- What is religion? -- Myth and miracle -- A lay sermon -- The foundations of faith -- The Christian religion -- Voltaire -- Vindication of Thomas Paine -- Life -- If death ends all.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by R.G. Ingersoll.</note>
  <note>Preface to the 1st series by Charles T. Gorham.</note>
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    <topic>Free thought</topic>
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    <topic>Christianity</topic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Libre pens�ee</topic>
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  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Christianisme</topic>
    <topic>Ouvrages de controverse</topic>
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