Robert Ingersoll: Intellectual and Moral Atlas
By Tom Malone
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous—if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.” —Robert G. Ingersoll1
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) is perhaps the greatest lost figure of American history. Many historia…
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