Charles BradlaughWatts, 1920 - 122 pages |
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Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work, Volumes 1 à 2 Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Affichage du livre entier - 1908 |
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action Affirmation Bill afterwards appeal argued atheist avowed battle believed Besant Brad Carlist Charles Bradlaugh Christian Church Churchill Conservative course Court creed criticism death debate declared defendants deism Dilke dipsomania doctrine election England English fighting force fought freethinkers freethought G. J. Holyoake gave Gladstone Gladstone's Government hand held Holyoake honour hostility House of Commons indicted Irish journal judges jury Justice knew Labouchere Labour later lecture libel Liberal lived London Lord Randolph Churchill malice Malthusian matter meeting moral Morley motion moved National National Secular Society Neo-Malthusian never Newdegate Northampton Northcote oath once opinion orthodox Packer pamphlet pantheism Parliament parliamentary party philosophic police political proceeded prosecution published question Radical reform refused religion religious republicanism Richard Carlile Samuel Morley seat Socialism Speaker struggle Sunday Tarpeian Rock Thomson tion took Tory verdict Voltaire votes writ wrote youth
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Page 55 - I write this with much sadness, as 1870 to 1873 have dispelled some of my illusions held firmly during the fifteen years which preceded. I had believed in such men as Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin, Victor Hugo, as possible statesmen for France. I was mistaken. They were writers, talkers, and poets ; good men to ride on the stream, or to drown in honest protest, but lacking force to swim against, or turn back, the tide by the might of their will. I had believed too in a Republican France, which is yet...
Page 61 - We are unanimously of opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.
Page 84 - does not secure your admission to the House in some way or other, I can only wish they may be turned out of office. The name of ' Christian ' and the religion of ' Christ,' which I venerate, they make odious.
Page 32 - There is an impression in some quarters that atheism is advocated in a weak and unskilful manner by the chiefs of secularism It is an impression in which I do not share. Most of the writers who are striving to diffuse atheism in literary circles are not to be compared in intellectual strength with either Mr Holyoake or Mr Bradlaugh.
Page 64 - Unless the necessity of the preventive or positive checks to population be perceived ; unless it be clearly seen, that they must operate in one form, if not in another ; and that though individuals may escape them, the rate cannot; human society is a hopeless and insoluble riddle.
Page 114 - ... any other man in England." This may have been an over-statement ; but Dilke was even in his youth a keen and shrewd observer. Later he seems to have changed his tone. His biographers tell that Sir Charles never took part in any debate on the Bradlaugh struggle : " He supported Mr. Gladstone's views in favour of allowing affirmation ; but he did so without heartiness, disliking ' the trade of living on blatant atheism,' and finding in himself tendencies which led him to fear that he was clerically...
Page 106 - November. 18fi9, for 201., bearing my signature and Richard Jones', in favour of Mr. Brook." At the trial of an action against the defendant on the note, the judge ruled that this memorandum was a ratification, and directed the jury that the only question for them was whether the defendant signed it. It being admitted that he did. a verdict was entered for the. plaintiff:— Held (per Kelly. CB, Chaimell and Pigott, ВВ., Martin, В...
Page 61 - a more ill-advised and more injudicious proceeding in the way of a prosecution was probably never brought into a Court of Justice".
Page 42 - As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one ; flog .the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian Rock !
Page 55 - I write this with much sadness, as the years 1870 to 1873 have dispelled some of my illusions, held firmly during the fifteen years which preceded. I had believed in such men as Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin, Victor Hugo, as possible statesmen for France. I was mistaken. They were writers, talkers, and poets; good men to ride on the stream, or to drown in honest protest, but lacking force to swim against, or turn back, the tide by the might of their will. I had believed too in a...