Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891) was a British political activist, writer, and one of the leading figures of the secularist movement in the 19th century. He co-founded the National Secular Society in 1866 and campaigned for freedom of thought, atheism, and social reform. Bradlaugh authored works like "The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick" and "Humanity's Gain from Unbelief," promoting rationalism and challenging religious orthodoxy. Despite facing legal challenges for his atheism, he was elected as a Member of Parliament and fought for the right to affirm rather than swear religious oaths in office.

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HUMANITY'S GAIN FROM UNBELIEF. As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been real gainer from scepticism, and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity—like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it—has in fact added, and will add, to man's happiness and well being. I maintain that in physics science is the outcome of scepticism, and that general progress... more...

THOMAS HOBBES. This distinguished Freethinker was born on the 5th of April, 1588, at Malmesbury; hence his cognomen of "the philosopher of Malmesbury." In connection with his birth, we are told that his mother, being a loyal Protestant, was so terrified at the rumored approach of the Spanish Armada, that the birth of her son was hastened in consequence. The subsequent timidity of Hobbes is... more...