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Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 33: January 12, 1907The following item appeared recently in the Canadian Municipal Jour nal: An appeal against the taxation of a priest's house has been made at Windsor, Ont., on the ground that it is exempt under the general law. If this succeeds, it will make a change all over Ontario.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 37: A Monthly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science, and Religion, January-August, 1911It may be true that war is never an unavoidable necessity that at best it is an extravagant price to pay for any peace secured by it and that a Court of Arbitration would give all the real advantages war could possibly secure, with few of its heart-burnings and none of its horrors and sufferings and its smoulde...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 31: A Fortnightly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science and Religion, January 14, 1905We remember once an unwished-for birth occurring at a Methodist Sunday-school picnic, in which case a lady's under-garment served for temporary swaddling clothes, and not long ago a similar event occurred in a railway carriage, when the resources of the lady passengers were similarly taxed. Here there was room f...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 32: A Fortnightly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science and Religion, Jan. 6, 1906In the religious world, France has finally severed her Concordat with Rome, and her State support of the clergy will cease in a few years. In Canada, there has been a distinct gain of power by the Catholic Church, especially in the establishment of the two new Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and, though as the...

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Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 30: A Fortnightly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science, and Religion, Feb. 6, 1904Hughes, our Public School system will ere long be placed upon a far more rational and effective basis than it has hitherto rested upon. The judicial inquiries now going on will no doubt result in putting an end to the ward system, which lends itself so easily to the schemes of the illiterate and corrupt ward politi...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 32: A Fortnightly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science and Religion, Jan. 6, 1906 This factor, too, must be the most effective one in putting an end to that almost chronic state of war, commercial and military, in which the world has hitherto been, and in promoting that condition of international friendship and co-operation to which so many of our friends are looking forward with confidence, as...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 33: January 12, 1907The following item appeared recently in the Canadian Municipal Jour nal: An appeal against the taxation of a priest's house has been made at Windsor, Ont., on the ground that it is exempt under the general law. If this succeeds, it will make a change all over Ontario.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 34: A Monthly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science, and Religion, January, 1908 Anyone who could read that passage, and then listen to chatter about Mill's dying a believer, is past praying for. We will now take the testimony of Professor Bain - Mill's old friend and collaborator, who wrote a book upon him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 31: A Fortnightly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science and Religion, January 14, 1905 No thinking man will say there are many energies. The days of polytheism are past There is only one energy. 'i'hat energy has always been working. It is an intelligent energy. No scientist can deny it. It was working before the time of Christ, even as it is now. For three years the clouds broke and the light ¿...

Excerpt from Secular Thought, Vol. 37: A Monthly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science, and Religion, January-August, 1911 It may be true that war is never an unavoidable necessity that at best it is an extravagant price to pay for any peace secured by it and that a Court of Arbitration would give all the real advantages war could possibly secure, with few of its heart-burnings and none of its horrors and sufferings and its smoul...

Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio, and died at Cliff Island, Maine. He served as editor of Public Opinion (a daily newspaper), Golden Days and Holiday (both children's magazines). He specialized in boys' stories, inspirational biography, and history for both children and adults. He was a major author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he wrote unde...