Ingersoll was a person who was really compelling when he spoke. He could have been a stand-up comic, so you write very beautifully about him. His fascination with rhetoric and persuasive speech came from the Renaissance humanists how to speak elegantly or powerfully. Ingersoll lost his job as a school teacher in one place because he said baptism was a good thing if done quickly.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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