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To: Solon who wrote (5238)	5/18/2010 12:10:17 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

His courage failed him in the face of death and he invoked angels with rustling wings and "hope for the dead": ..... Once when asked to deliver an address at a little boy’s grave, the infidel said: “We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.” What was the basis for such hope? In a eulogy delivered at the funeral of his beloved brother, Ingersoll poured out his soul in anguish. Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud—and the only murmur is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death, Hope sees a star, and listening Love can hear the rustle of a wing (Farrell, 12:391). When adversaries confronted him with the implications of this expression of “hope,” he rationalized by suggesting that his words were simply spontaneous eruptions of affection; literally speaking, he said, he was “agnostic” regarding the immortality of the soul. ..... From: Robert G. Ingersoll – Apostle of Infidelity, Robber of Hope By Wayne Jackson .... Sources/Footnotes Farrell, Clinton, ed. 1900. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll. New York, NY: C. P. Farrell.