A history of freethought, ancient & modern
2 total works
A continuation of "A History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, to the Period of the French Revolution", this work centres on European and American freethought in the century that saw the greatest surge of religious doubt and scepticism. At the heart of this work lies the doctrine of evolution and the birth of "new" sciences like anthropology, psychology, sociology and the growth of ethics without religious dogma. Together, these works should be of interest to all students of the history of ideas whatever their core interest.
John Mackinnon Robertson (1856-1933), scholar and man of letters, was a Rationalist and humanist who wrote voluminously on a wide range of intellectual and literary projects. This work and the following grew out of the successful "A Short History of Freethought" (1915). This first work covers the period from early man's doubts about gods through to the end of the 18th century.