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 Charles Bradlaugh
Bradlaugh wrote a series of pamphlets on politics and religion and by the early 1860s was recognised as one of the leading freethinkers in Britain.
(3) Charles Bradlaugh, The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick (1880)
Bradlaugh was already speaking when I arrived, and I remember, as clearly as though it were only yesterday, the immediate and compelling impression made upon me by that extraordinary man. I have never been so influenced by a human personality as I was by Charles Bradlaugh.
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 CHARLES BRADLAUGH - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES BRADLAUGH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bradlaugh became notorious as a leading infidel, and was supported by the sympathy of those who were enthusiasts at that time for liberty of speech and thought.
The affair, however, had several side issues in the courts and led to much prejudice against the defendants, the distinction being ignored between a protest against the suppression of opinion and the championship of the particular opinions in.
Mrs Besants close alliance with Bradlaugh eventually terminated in 1886, when she drifted from secularism, first inth socialistic and labor agitation and then into theosophy as a pupil of Mme Blavatsky.
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 AllRefer.com - Charles Bradlaugh (Social Reformers) - Encyclopedia
Charles Bradlaugh[brad´lO] Pronunciation Key, 1833–91, British social reformer, a secularist.
Editor of the free-thinking weekly National Reformer from 1860 and later associated with Annie Besant, he was an early advocate of woman's suffrage, birth control, free speech, national education, trade unionism, and other controversial causes.
In 1880, Bradlaugh was elected to Parliament after several unsuccessful attempts.
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 Charles Bradlaugh -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The two activists were both tried in 1877, and (English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)) Charles Darwin refused to give evidence in their defence.
Bradlaugh was an advocate of (The system or principles and theory of labor unions) trade unionism, (The political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government) republicanism, and women's suffrage, but unlike Besant, he opposed socialism.
Bradlaugh's funeral was attended by 3,000 mourners, including (Click link for more info and facts about Mohandas Gandhi) Mohandas Gandhi.
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 Charles Bradlaugh
It was on this date, September 26, 1833, that Charles Bradlaugh was born in Hoxton, London.
Bradlaugh was elected to Parliament in 1880, but as he was not a Christian, he asked for permission to affirm rather swear the oath of office.
A new Speaker allowed Bradlaugh to affirm the oath of office in 1886, and he was finally seated in the House of Commons.
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 Charles Bradlaugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bradlaugh's funeral was attended by 3,000 mourners, including Mohandas Gandhi.
Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by his daughter.
Champion of Liberty: Charles Bradlaugh (Centenary Volume) (1933).
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 Positive Atheism's Big List of Charles Bradlaugh Quotations
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects.
So many people, from working men to MPs, wished to pay their respects that a special train was laid on from Waterloo to Brookwood (where he was buried with his family), and a young Indian student, Mohandas K. Gandhi, was among the mourners.
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 BRADLAUGH, CHARLES (1833-1891) - Online Information article about BRADLAUGH, CHARLES (1833-1891)
Bradlaugh became notorious as a leading " infidel," and was supported by the sympathy of those who were enthusiasts at that See also:
Act, and the rejection of this pretension, and the refusal to allow him to take the oath on his professing his willingness to do so, terminated in Bradlaugh's victory in 1886.
When the long struggle was over, the public had gradually got used to Bradlaugh, and his transparent honesty and courageous contempt for See also:
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 Bradlaugh, Charles
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