My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East Quotes

“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with theIngersoll's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, --Emerson,Thoreau,Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people.Every variety of power was in this orator, -- logic and poetry, humor and imagination, simplicity and dramatic art, moral and boundless sympathy.The wonderful power which Washington's Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed toThomas Paineof insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed fromPaine's pen toIngersoll's tongue.The effect on the people was indescribable. The large theatre was crowded from pit to dome. The people were carried from plaudits of his argument to loud laughter at his humorous sentences, and his flexible voice carried the sympathies of the assembly with it, at times moving them to tears by his pathos.

{Conway's thoughts on the greatRobert Ingersoll}”
― Moncure Daniel Conway, My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East

“Heshrank from even the smallest things that inclined towards self indulgence. He would not remain alone with a lady.

{On Jain scholarVirchand Gandhi}”
― Moncure Daniel Conway, My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East