Benjamin Fish Austin vs. Robert G. Ingersoll
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Benjamin Fish Austin
1850 – 1933
Benjamin Fish Austin was a Canadian educator, author, Methodist minister, and spiritualist. He served as the principal of Alma College girls' school from 1881 to 1897 during which time that institution was regarded as one of the most prestigious centres of female education in Canada. Austin served the Methodist Church for many years as an educator and minister but was expelled from that organisation in 1899 for being a proponent of the Spiritualist movement.
"Christ has recognised and declared woman's equality with man"
Robert G. Ingersoll
1833 – 1899
Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.
"The priest said to the man who married: “Remember that you are caught for life. This door opens but once. Before this den of matrimony the tracks are all one wa…"
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