![]() ![]() The alternative Ingersoll helped to keep alive is the secularist view of American history. Ingersoll was one of those indispensible people who keep an alternative version of history alive.” Yale University Press, 256 pages, $25.Įarly on in her profile of Robert Ingersoll, Susan Jacoby writes that “Intellectual history is a relay race, not a hundred-yard dash. The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby. One answer she proposes is that it was generally assumed that the reactionary expressions of religion Ingersoll contended against would simply fade away over time, to be replaced by education, broader culture, and scientific reason. ![]() Robert Ingersoll is all but unknown in our time. ![]()
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