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Brief Thoughts about Jacoby's Freethinkers
There's a LOT of good material in this for freethinkers interested in our history. And, more important for a popular history, this is a pretty good…
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Fear of Nothing
Poor creatures! I wonder they durst go to bed,—for whenever a man sleeps without dreaming, he is as much annihilated as he will ever be. Here’s another…
Mar 26
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Authority or Thought
To say that one shall believe on authority, without questioning the title of that authority, is to say that one shall not reason, shall not think. One…
Mar 23
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Knowledge of Man
A knowledge of man, as an animal, ought to lie as a foundation on which all systems of morality, and all laws relating to the moral conduct of…
Mar 21
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Freethought and Class
Here then is the root of the evil: those who controlled their destinies were more informed than they. Superior information gave them superior power…
Mar 19
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A Rough, Self-Taught Infidel
I pray the opposing forces to continue their attacks, that by teaching me my weaknesses they may make me strong. Here’s a nice Charles Bradlaugh…
Mar 16
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Robert Dale Owen's Marriage Protest
We desire a tranquil life, in so far as it can be obtained without a sacrifice of principle. Since it was on the same page of the Boston Investigator as…
Mar 14
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Robert Dale Owen's Marriage Protest
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Infidelity in the US
I for one, can say I was once “a believer,” and I have not lost the knowledge—if knowledge it may be called—which made me such, but I have acquired…
Mar 12
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Dare to be honest
I’m going to begin posting excerpts from things written by freethinkers throughout history. In no specific order. I happened to find this one while…
Mar 9
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Lady of the Rotunda
Superstition, I shall define to be the invention of the human imagination, where demonstration is not to be had, and where a system of alleged causes…
Mar 7
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The Ranney Excommunication
Notes from the Archives
Feb 21
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The Ranney Excommunication
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Mason Grosvenor, D.D.
Background on a character in my Knowlton biography
Feb 20
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