Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 1

LibriVox recording of The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Volume 3 – Shakespeare by Robert G. Ingersoll. Read in English by Michele Fry; KevinS; William Allan Jones; realisticspeakers; Kathryn Phipps Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and connection would fall from words of poetry and fiction, music would go back to common air, and all the forms of subtle and enchanting Art would lose prop