About Ingersoll by Frank Smith Robert Ingersoll was a child of the century, a man of his times, the product and agent of its social forces. He earned his credentials as a colonel in the Union Army. In the Reconstruction period no man, not even the president, was more conspicuous and better known, more loved and more hated. He was the greatest freethinker of modern times. Paine the pamphleteer, the deist of the eighteenth century, leads to Ingersoll the orator, the agnostic of the nineteenth. His principal target in the old orthodoxy was the doctrine of damnation and hell. He did not convert the nation or a large part of it, but when his work was done the specter of fire and brimstone had vanished from many minds. RGI on woman In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected... woman has regained her liberty by the same means that man has regained his, - by wresting authority from the hands of the church... I am in favor of giving woman all the domain she conquers, and as the world becomes civilized the domain that she can conquer will steadily increase. Table of Contents | 1993 Issues | Subscribe Truth Seeker | Feedback | Freethought.com Webmaster Credit card Orders call: 800-321-9054 or fax: (619)676-0433 Or send check or money order to: Truth Seeker / 16935 W. Bernardo Drive, Suite 103 / San Diego, CA 92127 $20.00 annual U.S. subscription ($35.00 international). Individual issues—$10.00 + $2.50 postage and handling Or be a committed freethinker and send $35.00 for a two year subscription. Truth Seeker is published by Truth Seeker Co., Inc. (ISSN 0041-3712) © 1996