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Sirs: I question if either cocksureness or ignorance is properly a substitute for ordinary honesty in a review. TIME'S sense of fairness is evidently not wide enough to care that Robert Ingersoll was an agnostic and Thomas Paine a deist, neither of them an atheist. The usual decencies of intelligent controversy do not necessitate that a man be mealymouthed, either in the statement of his own views, or in his attack upon the views of his adversary, but they do at least prohibit misstatements of fact. It may be, to be sure, that TIME quoted Mr. Cameron Rogers...
Episodes: Candidate for Governor of Illinois, Atheist Ingersoll is asked to state his allegiance to the Christian Church. "Man to man, Bob!" "What?" "What about it?" "Why, damn it, just this. My beliefs are my own and I wouldn't sacrifice one of them to be president of the whole rolling earth. Going? Well, take another cigar...
...Significance. After contemplating Walt Whitman, styled by him The Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies...
...favor in Cambridge; for whatever one's personal opinions--which at Harvard remain personal--it is not an occasion for pride to be quoted as an ally of those who sponsor the present campaign. The ghosts of Paine and Ingersoll and all other gods of the village atheist revolve rapidly in their graves...
...ATHEIST" ALTMAN...