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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Short History of Freethought, Vol. 2 of 2: Ancient and Modern8. New literary developments. Lecky. Conway. Win wood Reade. Spencer. Arnold. Mill. Clifford. Stephen. Amberley. New apologetics.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Life Pilgrimage of Moncure Daniel Conway: Delivered at South Place Institute on March 27, 1914Churches was evolutionary, and therefore revolutionary. Essays and. Reviews appeared in 1860, Colenso on the Penlateuc/z in 1862 Ecce Homo in 1865, and some of us, no longer at ease in Zion, began to find what truth lay in the epigram that Unitarianism was a soft-bed for falling Christians.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes ...

Excerpt from New Essays Towards a Critical MethodIn any case, each essay says in its own way something that had seemed to me to need saying, and to which I am disposed to stand and therefore it is that they are here reprinted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-t...

Excerpt from Pioneer HumanistsWhat seems to be the only copy in the British Museum was acquired in 1895. 3 In 1550 appears the Geneva edition of the complete works.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservin...

Excerpt from CriticismsThe following papers are all reprints, more or less inexact. I am naturally the last person to lay any invidious stress on the fact that the periodicals in which they originally appeared are now without exception defunct, but the acknow ledgment seems fair, as well as expedient by way of explaining the absence of the usual acknow ledgments For the act of reprinting there are several excuses, of which perhaps the best is ...

Excerpt from Letters on ReasoningErrors of logical oversight - Case of transformation of terms - Sample from Professor Jevons: disregard of a posited definition - The probable explanation: defect of verbal faculty - Jevons's verbal miscarriages - Transition from verbal error to real fallacy - Trans formation of terms under stress Of prejudice - Sample from Professor Robertson Smith - The temptations of the platform The snare of temper - Profes...

Excerpt from The Historical Jesus: A Survey of PositionsIt has been justly remarked that serious risk Of error is set up even by the long-current claim Of naturalist critics to treat the Bible like any other book. Even in their meaning the phrase should have run like any other Sacred Book of antiquity inasmuch as critical tests and methods are called for in the scrutiny Of such books which do not apply in the case of others. But inasmuch, furt...

Excerpt from The Fallacy of Saving: A Study in EconomicsThe following essay is an expansion of one written several years ago, and recently read to the Political Economy Circle of the National Liberal Club. The character of the criticism it then met with from some of the most competent members removed any hesita tion I might formerly have felt as to the chance of my being right in an argument which will strike most readers at first sight as a s...

Excerpt from Essays Towards PeaceAs this little volume of Essays Towards Peace is the first ever put before the public for the purpose of expressing definitely and explicitly the Ration alist point of view, it is desirable to preface it with some account of the position of Rationalists on this great problem of the proper and effective method of settling international disputes. This is indeed not merely desirable, but necessary, because until t...

Freethinkers and secularists may believe that theirs is a relatively modern philosophy. But as A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 2 explains, freethought has a long and dignified history and has survived many previous attempts by government and churches to stifle reason and logic. Volume 1 traces the philosophies that were prevalent in the ancient world and Volume 2 describes freethought during the 17th, 18th and 19t...

Excerpt from Christianity and MythologyOther avocations have made difficult the due revision of this book in the light of the manifold hierological discussion of the past ten years. Since, however, I have seen no reason to give up any of its main contentions, and the growing interest in the central problem is expressed by the demand for a new edition, I have made Shift to improve and expand it at the many points that had obtruded them selves f...

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