![]() The speech was brought to an end by our arrival at the Indianapolis Central Station nearly two hours after its commencement. He surpassed himself, and that is saying a great deal. His manner of putting things was marvelous and …, I sat spellbound, listening to a medley of argument, eloquence, wit, satire, audacity, irreverence, poetry, brilliant antitheses, and pungent excoriation of believers in God, Christ, and Heaven, the like of which I had never heard. ![]() …He was in prime mood and beginning, his ideas turned to speech, slowing like a heated river. General Wallace describes the effect of the next two hours as he listened to Ingersoll: While on a train to Indianapolis in 1876, Civil War general, Lew Wallace, began a conversation with Colonel Robert Ingersoll about spiritual matters. With the recent release of at least the fifth film version of Ben-Hur, I decided I didn’t know enough about Lew Wallace, or his book. ![]() ![]() I was aware that the author of the book which inspired the movie was General Lew Wallace and that he wrote his story as he researched the life of Christ. I have long loved the 1959 film, Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston. ![]()
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