Go Back
Home
/
Vivekananda Timeline
/
Robert ingersol
Robert ingersol
Total Records Found: 7
Oct 1893
S
in Chicago Swami first met the famous agnostic and orator Robert Ingersoll and more than once discussed religious and philosophical matters with him. (LSV 1.448)
Oct 1893
S
Swamiji met and conversed with the famous agnostic Robert Green Ingersoll. (ND 1. 158)
Oct 1893
S
"Mr. Ingersoll gets five to six hundred dollars a lecture Swamiji wrote to Alasinga on November 2, 1893. "He is the most celebrated lecturer in this country. (ND 1. 158)
Oct 1893
S
Swamiji and Ingersoll, each in his own way, cared for truth alone. Whatever Ingersoll's views about religion may have been, they were honest, and for that in itself Swamiji would have admired him. "It is better to be an outspoken atheist," he was to say later on, "than a hypocrite. (ND 1. 158)
Oct 1893
I
Later in London Swamiji spoke of a conversation he had had with Ingersoll: (ND 1. 158)
Oct 1893
S
Mr. Ingersoll would have perceived that this approach would, like his own, quickly undermine the dogmatic supports of religion. He must have recognized that Swamiji was as revolutionary as he was himself "Fifty years ago," he said to him on one occasion, "you would have been hanged in this country if you had come to preach. You would have been burnt alive or you would have been stoned out of the villages. (ND 1.159)
Oct 1893
S
Even in 1893 Swamiji was not welcome in orthodox Christian circles, but he went everywhere else in complete freedom, observing, learning, asking "a thousand questions," as well as spreading his own influence. (ND 1.159)
Suggest a correction