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	Freethinker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Freethinker (journal), the oldest surviving secularist publication in the world, first published in 1881.
		A freethinker is a proponent of the philosophical practice known as Freethinking, thus being a practitioner of Freethought.
		The Freethinker (movie), the English title of a movie which was called Fritänkaren in Swedish, directed in 1994 by Peter Watkins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freethinker (142 words)

	--[ Libertarian International. Network of liberty-minded individuals and organizations in Europe. ]--
		He is author of numerous academic and political essays and monographs, and has contributed to such academic and political journals as 'The Jewish Journal of Sociology', 'Il Politico', 'Economic Affairs', 'The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies', 'Wetrtfei', 'The Journal of Libertarian Studies', 'The Freethinker', 'Libertarian Forum', and 'Science and Public Policy'.
		The "Think Tank Room": Displays and sale of publications by major British think tanks and political journals: Adam Smith Institute; Institute of Economic Affairs; CIVITAS; FOREST; Social Affairs Unit; Independent Healthcare Association; Social Market Foundation; Spiked; Demos; The Fabian Society; The European Foundation; LIBERTY; Salisbury Review; Lobster and others.
		He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a member of the Editorial Board of a number of academic journals, Executive Co-Editor of 'Business Studies', and on the Advisory Council of the LA.
	www.libertarian.to /conventions/london01.htm (142 words)

	George William Foote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In May, 1881, Foote started a serial publication called The Freethinker which went on to be very successful and long-lasting.
		George William Foote (11 January, 1850 – 17 October, 1915) was a secularist and journal editor.
		As a result of contents of this journal, Foote was charged with blasphemy, and eventually imprisoned for one year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_William_Foote (438 words)

	Ethical Atheist - Links
		The Freethinker - "a British Secular Humanist journal"
		FreeThoughtRadio.com - THE #1 INTERNET RADIO STATION for Today's Atheist, Infidel, Secular Humanist, Skeptic, Agnostic and Freethinker.
		National Atheist's Ombuds - report defamation against nonbelievers
	www.ethicalatheist.com /docs/links.html (667 words)

	Thomas Edison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Edison was a freethinker, and was most likely a deist, claiming he did not believe in "the God of the theologians," but did not doubt that "there is a Supreme Intelligence." However, he rejected the idea of the supernatural, along with such ideas as the soul, immortality, and a personal God.
		In 1880 Edison founded the journal Science, which in 1900 became the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		Edison (or, reportedly, one of his employees) employed the tactics of misusing Tesla's patents to construct the first electric chair for the state of New York to promote the idea that AC was deadly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Edison (2959 words)

	discrim.htm
		George William Foote and W.J. Ramsey, editors of the Freethinker, an atheist journal that mixed satire and comic cartoons with more serious attacks on Judeo-Christianthought and the Bible, were brought to trial in 1883 under the common law of blasphemous libel.
		Smith, George H. Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies.
		Blasphemy was considered a serious crime with 88 people prosecuted and 61 of those people convicted ("Freedom of The Press and Unbelief" 241):
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/9959/discrim.htm (1866 words)

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		For that reason, the atheist might say he or she is a freethinker or a secular humanist or a rationalist, labels which say what the person is, positives rather than negatives.
		, journal of the International Humanist and Ethical Union for 87 Member Organizations in 30 Countries, 47 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8SP, UK ()
		Ditullio and Smith regularly report to Rob Tielman of the IHEU on Siloist activities which are considered to be harmful to the humanist movement.
	fanny.humanists.net (2768 words)

	NZARH Journal - Summer 2000/2001
		Less popular than the works of Paine, but influential in political circles were the writings of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the celebrated law reformer who was a freethinker, if not an atheist.
		The basic principle of world security is that no single state or alliance of states has the right to undermine the political and territorial integrity of other states by aggression: nor should any nation or group of nations be allowed to police the world or unilaterally bomb others without the concurrence of the Security Council.
		The distinction between these two levels of evolution was first recognised by Thomas Huxley: nature itself is guided primarily by necessity in the form of biologically inherited instincts and characteristics, while human society is guided increasingly by the emerging freedom of choice and social responsibility.
	www.nzarh.org.nz /journal/summer00.htm (2768 words)

	Dickinson and Higginson
		No less important, three years before, he had published in the same journal 'Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet,' a passionate defense of women's right to an education.
		A freethinker and activist in the cause of civil rights, Higginson had concluded this scathing attack on nineteenth-century chauvinistic attitudes with high praise for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson's favorite woman poet.
		For Prose - Mr Ruskin - Sir Thomas Browne - and the Revelations.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /fdw/volume1/belasco/dickinson-higginson.htm (1498 words)

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