The Freethinker
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Free thought |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Free thought |
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Author | : Kirsten Fischer |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812297822 |
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer tells the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech. When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world: the interconnected web of life that inspired compassion for all living things. Religions that deny these universal connections should be discarded, he insisted. For this, his Christian critics denounced him as a heretic whose ideas endangered the country. Although his publications and speaking tours made him one of the most infamous American freethinkers in his day, Elihu Palmer has been largely forgotten. No cache of his personal papers exists and his book has been long out of print. Yet his story merits telling, Kirsten Fischer argues, and not only for the dramatic account of a man who lost his eyesight before the age of thirty and still became a book author, newspaper editor, and itinerant public speaker. Even more intriguing is his encounter with a cosmology that envisioned the universe as interconnected, alive with sensation, and everywhere infused with a divine life force. Palmer's "heresy" tested the nation's recently proclaimed commitment to freedom of religion and of speech. In this he was not alone. Fischer reveals that Palmer engaged in person and in print with an array of freethinkers—some famous, others now obscure. The flourishing of diverse religious opinion struck some of his contemporaries as foundational to a healthy democracy while others believed that only a strong Christian faith could support democratic self-governance. This first comprehensive biography of Palmer draws on extensive archival research to tell the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the new nation's protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech—a debate that continues to resonate today.
Author | : Paul Carus |
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Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Dale McGowan |
Publisher | : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0814410960 |
Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. Covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development.
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Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Free thought |
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Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Agnosticism |
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Author | : Michael Cocks |
Publisher | : Michael Cocks |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001 |
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ISBN | : 0959799818 |
Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Administration Committee |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-05-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780215045225 |
Approximately 1 million people enter the parliamentary estate every year as visitors rather than as Members or staff of the two Houses of Parliament. The two Houses must balance the business needs of a fully working legislature and those of a visitor attraction. Parliament is first and foremost a working institution, and that implies clear principles for how access is organised. Democratic access to the work of Parliament must remain free and open, enabling any citizen, at least so far as physical space allows, open access to sittings in the two Chambers, in the Committee Rooms and in Westminster Hall, or to meet their Member of Parliament. Considerable work needs to be done on how the visitor attraction part of Parliament is best operated, not least in persuading some reluctant Members and staff of both Houses and an often instinctively negative media to recognise the difference between democratic access to the work of the place and interest in its heritage and tourism aspects. The central idea that has emerged in this inquiry is that two conceptions of Parliament are required: the working institution and the visitor attraction. The two should be complementary, not in conflict, and some of the tensions that presently arise from, for example, queues outside the building and the consequent delay of business meetings for Members and others would be resolved if the two concepts were more rigorously held apart.
Author | : Dan Stober |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Espionage, Chinese |
ISBN | : 0743223780 |
The untold story of the badly bungled nuclear espionage case against Wen Ho Lee, uncovered in dramatic fashion by two reporters who followed the scandal from its inception. photos.