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John Stuart Mill in his "Autobiography" declares with truth that "the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion." Many of these, as Mill points out, refrain from various motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will, I trust, do something to show how many of the world's worthiest men and women have been Freethinkers. My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who have rendered services to Freethought. To form such a compilation would rather. | A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler 1 A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations Author Joseph Mazzini Wheeler Release Date November 30 2010 EBook 34513 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FREETHINKERS Produced by Adam Buchbinder Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project. A Biographical Dictionary of FREETHINKERS of All Ages and Nations. A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler By J. M. WHEELER. 2 London Progressive Publishing Company 28 Stonecutter Street . 1889. PREFACE. John Stuart Mill in his Autobiography declares with truth that the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion. Many of these as Mill points out refrain from various motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will I trust do something to show how many of the world s worthiest men and women have been Freethinkers. My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who have rendered services to Freethought. To form such a compilation would rather be the task of an international society than of an individual. Moreover details concerning many worthy workers are now inaccessible. Freethought boasts its noble army of .

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