Part 1. Wanderings. The Devil moves in mysterious ways ; The boy learns of God ; The boy learns other things too ; What to do -- part 2. Peoria. "I think we are going to make lots of money" ; Robert enters politics ; Colonel Ingersol ; The eleventh Illinois goes into action ; "I hardly know what to think" ; "Colonel Ingersoll flaying Copperheadism" ; The deist emerges ; "Stand by principles, old boy" ; "...The bread and butter brigade..." ; He would like to be governor ; The infidel unfolds ; "The only deity I worship" ; "Impious Pope Bob" ; "The plumed knight speech" ; "Hayes is a coward..." ; "My reviewers reviewed" -- part 3. Washington. Washington ; "The world looks dark to me" ; Obscenity ; Hewer of wood and drawer of water ; Blasphemy! ; Ingersollism and assassination ; Theological polemics ; The star-route trails ; "The real temple is home" ; "Royal Bob" ; "A positive genius for losing money" ; "Afraid of frightening the preachers away" ; Lectures, home and abroad -- part 4. New York. "A splended bargain" ; "The law and the profits" ; The Haymarket affair ; "Think of it. 55" ; Walston and 400 Fifth Avenue ; "...I shall be 58" ; Lecturing -- "a bad business" ; Ingersoll converted! ; The campaign of '96 ; A hard way of taking it easy ; "I am better now" ; The posthumous man.
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