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                                   A
                        Biographical Dictionary
                                  of
                              FREETHINKERS
                                  of
                         All Ages and Nations.


                                   By
                             J. M. WHEELER.


                                London:
                    Progressive Publishing Company,
                      28 Stonecutter Street, E.C.

                                 1889.






PREFACE.


John Stuart Mill in his "Autobiography" declares with truth that
"the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion
of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in
popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in
religion." Many of these, as Mill points out, refrain from various
motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will, I trust,
do something to show how many of the world's worthiest men and women
have been Freethinkers.

My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who
have rendered services to Freethought. To form such a compilation
would rather be the task of an international society than of an
individual. Moreover details concerning many worthy workers are now
inaccessible. Freethought boasts its noble army of martyrs of whom
the world was not worthy, and who paid the penalty of their freedom
in prison or at the stake. Some of the names of these are only known
by the vituperation of their adversaries. I have done my best to
preserve some trustworthy record of as many as possible.

The only complete work with a similar design of which I have any
knowledge, is the Dictionnaire des Athees anciens et modernes,
by Sylvain Marechal with its supplements by Jerome de Lalande the
Astronomer, An. VIII. (1800)-1805. That work, which is now extremely
rare, gave scarcely any biographical details, and unfortunately
followed previous orthodox atheographers, such as Buddeus, Reimmann,
Hardouin, Garasse, Mersenne, in classing as Atheists those to whom
the title was inapplicable. I have taken no names from these sources
without examining the evidence.

A work was issued by Richard Carlile in 1826, entitled A Dictionary of
Modern Anti-Superstionists; or, "an account, arranged alphabetically,
of those who, whether called Atheists, Sceptics, Latitudinarians,
Religious Reformers, or etc., have during the last ten centuries
contributed towards the diminution of superstition. Compiled by
a searcher after Truth." The compiler, as I have reason to know,
was Julian Hibbert, who brought to his task adequate scholarship
and leisure. It was, however, conceived on too extensive a scale,
and in 128 pages, all that was issued, it only reached to the name of
Annet. Julian Hibbert also compiled chronological tables of English
Freethinkers, which were published in the Reasoner for 1855.

Of the Anti-Trinitarian Biography of the Rev. Robert Wallace, or of
the previous compilations of Saudius and Bock, I have made but little
use. To include the names of all who reject some of the Christian
dogmas was quite beside my purpose, though I have included those of
early Unitarians and Universalists who, I conceive, exhibited the true
spirit of free inquiry in the face of persecution. To the Freydenker
Lexikon of J. A. Trinius (1759) my obligations are slight, but should
be acknowledged. To Bayle's Dictionary, Hoefer's Nouvelle Biographie
Generale, Meyer's Konversations Lexikon, Franck's Dictionnaire des
Sciences Philosophiques, and to Larousse's Grand Dictionnaire Universel
I must also express my indebtedness. In the case of disputed dates
I have usually found Haydn's Dictionary of Biography (1886) most
trustworthy, but I have also consulted Oettinger's valuable Moniteur
des Dates.

The particulars have in all cases been drawn from the best available
sources. I have not attempted to give a full view of any of the lives
dealt with, but merely sought to give some idea of their services and
relation to Freethought. Nor have I enumerated the whole of the works
of authors who have often dealt with a variety of subjects. As full
a list as is feasible has, however, been given of their distinctive
Freethought works; and the book will, I hope, be useful to anyone
wishing information as to the bibliography of Freethought. The only
work of a bibliographical kind is the Guide du Libre Penseur, by
M. Alfred Verliere, but his list is very far from complete even of
the French authors, with whom it is almost entirely occupied. I should
also mention La Lorgnette Philosophique, by M. Paquet, as giving lively
sketches, though not biographies, of some modern French Freethinkers.

In the compilation of my list of names I have received assistance
from my friends, Mr. G. W. Foote (to whom I am also indebted for
the opportunity of publication), Mr. W. J. Birch, Mr. E. Truelove and
Mr. F. Malibran. For particulars in regard to some English Freethinkers
I am indebted to Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, Mr. George Jacob Holyoake and
Mr. E. T. Craig, while Professor Dalla Volta, of Florence, has kindly
assisted me with some of the Italian names. I must also express my
indebtedness to A. de Gubernatis, whose Dizionario Biografico degli
Scrittori Contemporanei I have found of considerable service. My thanks
are also due to G. K. Fortescue, Esq., for permission to examine the
titles of all Freethought works in the British Museum.

Some readers may think my list contains names better omitted, while
omitting others well deserving a place. I have, for instance, omitted
many foreign Liberal Protestants while including Bishop Colenso, who,
ostensibly, did not go so far. But my justification, if any, must be
found in my purpose, which is to record the names of those who have
contributed in their generation to the advance of Freethought. No one
can be more conscious of the imperfections of my work than myself,
but I console myself with the reflection of Plato, that "though it
be the merit of a good huntsman to find game in a wide wood, it is
no discredit if he do not find it all"; and the hope that what I have
attempted some other will complete.

The most onerous part of my task has been the examination of the
claims of some thousand names, mostly foreign, which find no place in
this dictionary. But the work throughout has been a labor of love. I
designed it as my humble contribution to the cause of Freethought, and
leave it with the hope that it will contribute towards the history of
"the good old cause"; a history which has yet to be written, and for
which, perhaps, the time is not yet ripe.

Should this volume be received with an encouraging share of favor,
I hope to follow it with a History of Freethought in England, for
which I have long been collecting materials.






A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FREETHINKERS.


Abaelardus (Petrus), b. 1079. A teacher of philosophy at Paris, renowned
for being loved by the celebrated Eloise. He was accused of teaching
erroneous opinions, chiefly about the Creation and the Trinity, and was
condemned by a council at Soissons in 1121 and by that of Sens 1140,
at the instigation of St. Bernard. He was hunted about, but spent
his last days as a monk at Cluni. He died 21 April, 1142. "Abelard,"
observes Hallam, "was almost the first who awakened mankind, in the
age of darkness, to a sympathy with intellectual excellence."

Abano (Petrus de). See Petrus, de Abano.

Abauzit (Firmin), a French writer, descended from an Arabian family
which settled in the South of France early in the ninth century,
b. Uzes, 11 Nov. 1679. He travelled in Holland and became acquainted
with Bayle, attained a reputation for philosophy, and was consulted by
Voltaire and Rousseau. Among his works are, Reflections on the Gospels,
and an essay on the Apocalypse, in which he questions the authority
of that work. Died at Geneva 20 March, 1767. His Miscellanies were
translated in English by E. Harwood, 1774.

Abbot (Francis Ellingwood). American Freethinker, b. Boston, 6
Nov. 1836. He graduated at Harvard University 1859, began life as a
Unitarian minister, but becoming too broad for that Church, resigned
in 1869. He started the Index, a journal of free religious inquiry
and anti-supernaturalism, at Toledo, but since 1874 at Boston. This he
edited 1870-80. In 1872 appeared his Impeachment of Christianity. In
addition to his work on the Index, Mr. Abbot has lectured a great
deal, and has contributed to the North American Review and other
periodicals. He was the first president of the American National
Liberal League. Mr. Abbot is an evolutionist and Theist, and defends
his views in Scientific Theism, 1886.

Ablaing van Giessenburg (R.C.) See Giessenburg.

Abu Bakr Ibn Al-Tufail (Abu J'afar) Al Isbili. Spanish Arabian
philosopher, b. at Guadys, wrote a philosophical romance of pantheistic
tendency Hai Ibn Yakdan, translated into Latin by Pocock, Oxford 1671,
and into English by S. Ockley, 1711, under the title of The Improvement
of Human Reason. Died at Morocco 1185.

Abu-Fazil (Abu al Fadhl ibn Mubarak, called Al Hindi), vizier to
the great Emperor Akbar from 1572. Although by birth a Muhammadan,
his investigations into the religions of India made him see equal
worth in all, and, like his master, Akbar, he was tolerant of all
sects. His chief work is the Ayin Akbary, a statistical account of
the Indian Empire. It was translated by F. Gladwin, 1777. He was
assassinated 1604.

Abul-Abbas-Abdallah III. (Al Mamoun), the seventh Abbasside, caliph,
son of Haroun al Rashid, was b. at Bagdad 16 Sept. 786. He was a patron
of science and literature, collected Greek and Hebrew manuscripts,
and invited the scholars of all nations to his capital. He wrote
several treatises and poems. Died in war near Tarsus, 9 Aug. 833.

Abul-Ola (Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sulaiman), celebrated Arabian poet,
b. at Maari, in Syria, Dec., 973. His free opinions gave much scandal
to devout Moslems. He was blind through small-pox from the age of
four years, but his poems exhibit much knowledge. He called himself
"the doubly imprisoned captive," in allusion to his seclusion and
loss of sight. He took no pains to conceal that he believed in no
revealed religion. Died May, 1057, and ordered the following verse
to be written on his tomb:--"I owe this to the fault of my father:
none owe the like to mine."

Abu Tahir (al Karmatti), the chief of a freethinking sect at Bahrein,
on the Persian Gulf, who with a comparatively small number of followers
captured Mecca (930), and took away the black stone. He suddenly
attacked, defeated, and took prisoner Abissaj whom, at the head of
thirty thousand men, the caliph had sent against him. Died in 943.

Achillini (Alessandro), Italian physician and philosopher b. Bologna 29
Oct. 1463. He expounded the doctrines of Averroes, and wrote largely
upon anatomy. Died 2 Aug. 1512. His collected works were published
at Venice, 1545.

Ackermann (Louise-Victorine, nee Choquet), French poetess, b. Paris 30
Nov. 1813. She travelled to Germany and there married (1853) a young
theologian, Paul Ackerman, who in preparing for the ministry lost his
Christian faith, and who, after becoming teacher to Prince Frederick
William (afterwards Frederick III.), died at the age of thirty-four
(1846). Both were friends of Proudhon. Madame Ackermann's poems
(Paris 1863-74 and 85) exhibit her as a philosophic pessimist and
Atheist. "God is dethroned," says M. Caro of her poems (Revue des
Deux Mondes, 15 May, 1874). She professes hatred of Christianity
and its interested professors. She has also published Thoughts of a
Solitary. Sainte Beuve calls her "the learned solitary of Nice."

Acollas (Pierre Antoine Rene Paul Emile), French jurisconsult and
political writer, b. La Chatre 25 June, 1826, studied law at Paris. For
participating in the Geneva congress of the International Society
in 1867 he was condemned to one year's imprisonment. In 1871 he was
appointed head of the law faculty by the Commune. He has published
several manuals popularising the legal rights of the people, and has
written on Marriage its Past, Present, and Future, 1880. Mrs. Besant
has translated his monograph on The Idea of God in the Revolution,
published in the Droits de l'Homme.

Acontius (Jacobus--Italian, Giacomo Aconzio). Born at Trent early
in sixteenth century. After receiving ordination in the Church of
Rome he relinquished that faith and fled to Switzerland in 1557. He
subsequently came to England and served Queen Elizabeth as a military
engineer. To her he dedicated his Strategems of Satan, published at
Basle 1565. This was one of the earliest latitudinarian works, and
was placed upon the Index. It was also bitterly assailed by Protestant
divines, both in England and on the Continent. An English translation
appeared in 1648. Some proceedings were taken against Acontius before
Bishop Grindall, of the result of which no account is given. Some
passages of Milton's Areopagitica may be traced to Acontius, who,
Cheynell informs us, lived till 1623. Stephen's Dictionary of National
Biography says he is believed to have died shortly after 1566.

Acosta (Uriel). Born at Oporto 1597, the son of a Christianised Jew;
he was brought up as a Christian, but on reaching maturity, rejected
that faith. He went to Holland, where he published a work equally
criticising Moses and Jesus. For this he was excommunicated by the
Synagogue, fined and put in prison by the Amsterdam authorities,
and his work suppressed. After suffering many indignities from both
Jews and Christians, he committed suicide 1647.

Adams (George), of Bristol, sentenced in 1842 to one month's
imprisonment for selling the Oracle of Reason.

Adams (Robert C.), Canadian Freethought writer and lecturer. Author
of Travels in Faith from Tradition to Reason (New York, 1884), also
Evolution, a Summary of Evidence.

Adler (Felix) Ph. D. American Freethinker, the son of a Jewish rabbi,
was b. in Alzey, Germany, 13 Aug. 1851. He graduated at Columbia
College, 1870, was professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature
at Cornell University from '74 to May '76, when he established in
New York the Society of Ethical Culture, to which he discourses on
Sundays. In 1877 he published a volume entitled Creed and Deed, in
which he rejects supernatural religion. Dr. Adler has also contributed
many papers to the Radical literature of America.

AEnesidemus. A Cretan sceptical philosopher of the first century. He
adopted the principle of Heraclitus, that all things were in course
of change, and argued against our knowledge of ultimate causes.

Airy (Sir George Biddell). English Astronomer Royal, b. Alnwick
27 July, 1801. Educated at Cambridge, where he became senior
wrangler 1823. During a long life Professor Airy did much to advance
astronomical science. His Notes on the Earlier Hebrew Scriptures 1876,
proves him to have been a thorough-going Freethinker.

Aitkenhead (Thomas), an Edinburgh student aged eighteen, who was
indicted for blasphemy, by order of the Privy Council, for having
called the Old Testament "Ezra's Fables," and having maintained
that God and nature were the same. He was found guilty 24 Dec. 1696,
and hanged for blasphemy, 8 Jan. 1697.

Aitzema (Lieuwe van), a nobleman of Friesland, b. at Dorckum 19
Nov. 1600, author of a suppressed History of the Netherlands, between
1621-68. Is classed by Reimmann as an Atheist. Died at the Hague 23
Feb. 1669.

Akbar (Jalal-ed-din Muhammad), the greatest of the emperors of
Hindostan, b. 15 Oct. 1542, was famous for his wide administration and
improvement of the empire. Akbar showed toleration alike to Christians,
Muhammadans, and to all forms of the Hindu faith. He had the Christian
gospels and several Brahmanical treatises translated into Persian. The
result of his many conferences on religion between learned men of
all sects, are collected in the Dabistan. Akbar was brought up as a
Muhammadan, but became a Theist, acknowledging one God, but rejecting
all other dogmas. Died Sept. 1605.

Alberger (John). American author of Monks, Popes, and their Political
Intrigues (Baltimore, 1871) and Antiquity of Christianity (New York,
1874).

Albini (Giuseppe). Italian physiologist, b. Milan. In 1845 he
studied medicine in Paris. He has written on embryology and many
other physiological subjects.

Alchindus. Yakub ibn Is'hak ibn Subbah (Abu Yusuf) called Al Kindi,
Arab physician and philosopher, the great grandson of one of the
companions of Muhammad, the prophet, flourished from 814 to about
840. He was a rationalist in religion, and for his scientific studies
he was set down as a magician.

Alciati (Giovanni Paolo). A Milanese of noble family. At first
a Romanist, he resigned that faith for Calvinism, but gradually
advanced to Anti-trinitarianism, which he defends in two letters
to Gregorio Pauli, dated Austerlitz 1564 and 1565. Beza says that
Alciati deserted the Christian faith and became a Muhammadan, but
Bayle takes pains to disprove this. Died at Dantzic about 1570.

Aleardi (Gaetano). Italian poet, known as Aleardo Aleardi, b. Verona, 4
Nov. 1812. He was engaged in a life-long struggle against the Austrian
dominion, and his patriotic poems were much admired. In 1859 he was
elected deputy to Parliament for Brescia. Died Verona, 16 July, 1878.

Alembert (Jean le Rond d'), mathematician and philosopher, b. at
Paris 16 Nov. 1717. He was an illegitimate son of Canon Destouches
and Mme. Tencin, and received his Christian name from a church
near which he was exposed as a foundling. He afterwards resided
for forty years with his nurse, nor would he leave her for the most
tempting offers. In 1741, he was admitted a member of the Academy of
Sciences. In 1749, he obtained the prize medal from the Academy of
Berlin, for a discourse on the theory of winds. In 1749, he solved the
problem of the procession of the equinoxes and explained the mutation
of the earth's axis. He next engaged with Diderot, with whose opinions
he was in complete accord, in compiling the famous Encyclopedie, for
which he wrote the preliminary discourse. In addition to this great
work he published many historical, philosophical and scientific essays,
and largely corresponded with Voltaire. His work on the Destruction
of the Jesuits is a caustic and far-reaching production. In a letter
to Frederick the Great, he says: "As for the existence of a supreme
intelligence, I think that those who deny it advance more than they
can prove, and scepticism is the only reasonable course." He goes on
to say, however, that experience invincibly proves the materiality of
the "soul." Died 29 Oct. 1783. In 1799 two volumes of his posthumous
essays were printed in Paris. His works prove d'Alembert to have been
of broad spirit and of most extensive knowledge.

Alfieri (Vittorio), Count. Famous Italian poet and dramatist, b. Asti,
Piedmont, 17 Jan. 1749, of a noble family. His tragedies are justly
celebrated, and in his Essay on Tyranny he shows himself as favorable
to religious as to political liberty. Written in his youth, this work
was revised at a more advanced age, the author remarking that if he
had no longer the courage, or rather the fire, necessary to compose
it, he nevertheless retained intelligence, independence and judgment
enough to approve it, and to let it stand as the last of his literary
productions. His attack is chiefly directed against Catholicism,
but he does not spare Christianity. "Born among a people," he says,
"slavish, ignorant, and already entirely subjugated by priests, the
Christian religion knows only how to enjoin the blindest obedience,
and is unacquainted even with the name of liberty." Alfieri's tragedy
of Saul has been prohibited on the English stage. Died Florence,
8 Oct. 1803.

Alfonso X., surnamed the Wise, King of Castillo and of Leon; b. in
1223, crowned 1252. A patron of science and lover of astronomy. He
compiled a complete digest of Roman, feudal and canon law, and
had drawn up the astronomical tables called Alfonsine Tables. By
his liberality and example he gave a great impulse to Spanish
literature. For his intercourse with Jews and Arabians, his
independence towards the Pope and his free disposal of the clerical
revenues, he has been stigmatised as an Atheist. To him is attributed
the well-known remark that had he been present at the creation of the
world he would have proposed some improvements. Father Lenfant adds
the pious lie that "The king had scarcely pronounced this blasphemy
when a thunderbolt fell and reduced his wife and two children to
ashes." Alfonso X. died 4 April, 1284.

Algarotti (Francesco), Count. Italian writer and art critic, b. at
Venice, 11 Dec. 1712. A visit to England led him to write Newtonianism
for the Ladies. He afterwards visited Berlin and became the friend
both of Voltaire and of Frederick the Great, who appointed him his
Chamberlain. Died with philosophical composure at Pisa, 3 May, 1764.

Alger (William Rounseville), b. at Freetown, Massachusetts, 30
Dec. 1822, educated at Harvard, became a Unitarian preacher of the
advanced type. His Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future
Life, with a complete bibliography of the subject by Ezra Abbot,
is a standard work, written from the Universalist point of view.

Allen (Charles Grant Blairfindie), naturalist and author, b. in
Kingston, Canada, 24 Feb. 1848. He studied at Merton College, Oxford,
and graduated with honors 1871. In 1873 appointed Professor of Logic
in Queen's College, Spanish town, Jamaica; from 1874 to '77 he was
its principal. Since then he has resided in England, and become
known by his popular expositions of Darwinism. His published works
include Physiological AEsthetics (1877), The Evolutionist at Large
(1881), Nature Studies (1883), Charles Darwin (1885), and several
novels. Grant Allen has also edited the miscellaneous works of Buckle,
and has written on Force and Energy (1888).

Allen (Ethan) Col., American soldier, b. at Litchfield, Connecticut,
10 Jan. 1737. One of the most active of the revolutionary heroes,
he raised a company of volunteers known as the "Green Mountain Boys,"
and took by surprise the British fortress of Ticonderoga, capturing
100 guns, 10 May, 1775. He was declared an outlaw and L100 offered
for his arrest by Gov. Tryon of New York. Afterwards he was taken
prisoner and sent to England. At first treated with cruelty, he was
eventually exchanged for another officer, 6 May, 1778. He was a member
of the state legislature, and succeeded in obtaining the recognition
of Vermont as an independent state. He published in 1784 Reason
the only Oracle of Man, the first publication in the United States
openly directed against the Christian religion. It has been frequently
reprinted and is still popular in America. Died Burlington, Vermont,
13 Feb. 1789. A statue is erected to him at Montpelier, Vermont.

Allsop (Thomas). "The favorite disciple of Coleridge," b. 10 April,
1794, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, he lived till 1880. A friend
of Robert Owen and the Chartists. He was implicated in the attempt
of Orsini against Napoleon III. In his Letters, Conversations and
Recollections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he has imported many of
his Freethought views.

Alm (Richard von der). See Ghillany (F. W.)

Alpharabius (Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan) (Abu Nasr), called
Al Farabi, Turkish philosopher, termed by Ibn Khallikan the greatest
philosopher the Moslems ever had, travelled to Bagdad, mastered
the works of Aristotle, and became master of Avicenna. Al Farabi is
said to have taught the eternity of the world and to have denied the
permanent individuality of the soul. His principal work is a sort
of encyclopaedia. Renan says he expressly rejected all supernatural
revelation. Died at Damascus Dec. 950, aged upwards of eighty.

Amaury or Amalric de Chartres, a heretic of the thirteenth century,
was a native of Bene, near Chartres, and lived at Paris, where he gave
lessons in logic. In a work bearing the title of Physion, condemned
by a bull of Pope Innocent III. (1204), he is said to have taught a
kind of Pantheism, and that the reign of the Father and Son must give
place to that of the Holy Spirit. Ten of his disciples were burnt at
Paris 20 Dec. 1210, and the bones of Amaury were exhumed and placed
in the flames.

Amberley (John Russell) Viscount, eldest son of Earl Russell,
b. 1843. Educated at Harrow, Edinburgh and Trinity College,
Cambridge, where ill-health prevented him reading for honors. He
entered Parliament in 1866 as Radical member for Nottingham. Lord
Amberley contributed thoughtful articles to the North British,
the Fortnightly and Theological Reviews, and will be remembered by
his bold Analysis of Religious Belief (1876), in which he examines,
compares and criticises the various faiths of the world. Lord Amberley
left his son to be brought up by Mr. Spalding, a self-taught man of
great ability and force of character; but the will was set aside, on
appeal to the Court of Chancery, in consideration of Mr. Spalding's
heretical views. Died 8 Jan. 1876.

Amman (Hans Jacob), German surgeon and traveller, b. Lake Zurich
1586. In 1612 he went to Constantinople, Palestine and Egypt, and
afterwards published a curious book called Voyage in the Promised
Land. Died at Zurich, 1658.

Ammianus (Marcellinus). Roman soldier-historian of the fourth century,
b. at Antioch. He wrote the Roman history from the reign of Nerva to
the death of Valens in thirty-one books, of which the first thirteen
are lost. His history is esteemed impartial and trustworthy. He served
under Julian, and compares the rancor of the Christians of the period
to that of wild beasts. Gibbon calls him "an accurate and faithful
guide." Died about 395 A.D.

Ammonius, surnamed Saccas or the Porter, from his having been obliged
in the early part of his life to adopt that calling, was born of
Christian parents in Alexandria during the second century. He,
however, turned Pagan and opened a school of philosophy. Among his
pupils were Origen, Longinus and Plotinus. He undoubtedly originated
the Neo-Platonic movement, which formed the most serious opposition
to Christianity in its early career. Ammonius died A.D. 243, aged
over eighty years.

Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher of the Ionic school, b. about 499 B.C.,
lived at Athens and enjoyed the friendship of Pericles. In 450 B.C. he
was accused of Atheism for maintaining the eternity of matter and was
banished to Lampsacus, where he died in 428 B.C. It is related that,
being asked how he desired to be honored after death, he replied,
"Only let the day of my death be observed as a holiday by the boys
in the schools." He taught that generation and destruction are only
the union and separation of elements which can neither be created
nor annihilated.

Andre-Nuytz (Louis), author of Positivism for All, an elementary
exposition of Positive philosophy, to which Littre wrote a preface,
1868.

Andrews (Stephen Pearl). American Sociologist, b. Templeton, Mass.,
22 March, 1812. He was an ardent Abolitionist, an eloquent speaker,
and the inventor of a universal language called Alwato. His principle
work is entitled The Basic Outline of Universology (N. Y., 1872). He
also wrote The Church and Religion of the Future (1886). He was a
prominent member and vice-president of the Liberal Club of New York,
a contributor to the London Times, the New York Truthseeker, and many
other journals. Died at New York, 21 May, 1886.

Andrieux (Louis). French deputy, b. Trevoux 20 July, 1840. Was
called to the bar at Lyons, where he became famous for his political
pleading. He took part in the Freethought Congress at Naples in 1869,
and in June of the following year he was imprisoned for three months
for his attack on the Empire. On the establishment of the Republic he
was nominated procureur at Lyons. He was on the municipal council of
that city, which he has also represented in the Chamber of Deputies. In
1879 he became Prefect of Police at Paris, but retired in 1881 and was
elected deputy by his constituents at Lyons. He has written Souvenirs
of a Prefect of Police (1885).

Angelucci (Teodoro). Italian poet and philosopher, b. near Tolentino
1549. He advocated Aristotle against F. Patrizi, and was banished
from Rome. One of the first emancipators of modern thought in Italy,
he also made an excellent translation of the AEneid of Virgil. Died
Montagnana, 1600.

Angiulli (Andrea). Italian Positivist, b. Castellana 12 Feb. 1837,
author of a work on philosophy and Positive research, Naples 1868. He
became professor of Anthropology at Naples in 1876, and edits a
philosophical review published in that city since 1881.

Annet (Peter). One of the most forcible writers among the English
Deists, b. at Liverpool in 1693. He was at one time a schoolmaster
and invented a system of shorthand. Priestley learnt it at school
and corresponded with Annet. In 1739 he published a pamphlet on
Freethinking the Great Duty of Religion, by P. A., minister of
religion. This was followed by the Conception of Jesus as the
Foundation of the Christian Religion, in which he boldly attacks
the doctrine of the Incarnation as "a legend of the Romanists,"
and The Resurrection of Jesus Considered (1744) in answer to Bishop
Sherlock's Trial of the Witnesses. This controversy was continued in
The Resurrection Reconsidered and The Resurrection Defenders Stript
of all Defence. In An Examination of the History and Character of
St. Paul he attacks the sincerity of the apostle to the Gentiles and
even questions the authenticity of his epistles. In Supernaturals
Examined (1747) he argues that all miracles are incredible. In 1761
he issued nine numbers of the Free Inquirer, in which he attacked
the authenticity and credibility of the Pentateuch. For this he was
brought before the King's Bench and sentenced to suffer one month's
imprisonment in Newgate, to stand twice in the pillory, once at
Charing Cross and once at the Exchange, with a label "For Blasphemy,"
then to have a year's hard labor in Bridewell and to find sureties
for good behavior during the rest of his life. It is related that
a woman seeing Annet in the pillory said, "Gracious! pilloried for
blasphemy. Why, don't we blaspheme every day!" After his release Annet
set up a school at Lambeth. Being asked his views on a future life
he replied by this apologue: "One of my friends in Italy, seeing the
sign of an inn, asked if that was the Angel." "No," was the reply,
"do you not see it is the sign of a dragon." "Ah," said my friend,
"as I have never seen either angel or dragon, how can I tell whether
it is one or the other?" Died 18 Jan. 1769. The History of the Man
after God's Own Heart (1761) ascribed to Annet, was more probably
written by Archibald Campbell. The View of the Life of King David
(1765) by W. Skilton, Horologist, is also falsely attributed to Annet.

Anthero de Quental, Portuguese writer, b. San Miguel 1843. Educated
for the law at the University of Coimbra, he has published both poetry
and prose, showing him to be a student of Hartmann, Proudhon and Renan,
and one of the most advanced minds in Portugal.

Anthony (Susan Brownell). American reformer, b. of a Quaker family
at South Adams, Massachusetts, 15 Feb. 1820. She became a teacher,
a temperance reformer, an opponent of slavery, and an ardent advocate
of women's rights. Of the last movement she became secretary. In
conjunction with Mrs. E. C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury she conducted
The Revolutionist founded in New York in 1868, and with Mrs. Stanton
and Matilda Joslyn Gage she has edited the History of Woman's Suffrage,
1881. Miss Anthony is a declared Agnostic.

Antoine (Nicolas). Martyr. Denied the Messiahship and divinity of
Jesus, and was strangled and burnt at Geneva, 20 April, 1632.

Antonelle (Pierre Antoine) Marquis d', French political economist,
b. Arles 1747. He embraced the revolution with ardor, and his article
in the Journal des Hommes Libres occasioned his arrest with Baboeuf. He
was, however, acquitted. Died at Arles, 26 Nov. 1817.

Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius). See Aurelius.

Apelt (Ernst Friedrich), German philosopher, b. Reichenau 3 March,
1812. He criticised the philosophy of religion from the standpoint
of reason, and wrote many works on metaphysics. Died near Gorlitz,
27 Oct. 1859.

Aquila, a Jew of Pontus, who became a proselyte to Christianity, but
afterwards left that religion. He published a Greek version of the
Hebrew scriptures to show that the prophecies did not apply to Jesus
(A.D. 128). The work is lost. He has been identified by E. Deutsch
with the author of the Targum of Onkelos.

Arago (Dominique Francois Jean), French academician, politician,
physicist and astronomer, b. Estagel, 26 Feb. 1786. He was elected to
the French Academy of Sciences at the age of twenty-three. He made
several optical and electro-magnetic discoveries, and advocated
the undulatory theory of light. He was an ardent Republican and
Freethinker, and took part in the provisional Government of 1848. He
opposed the election of Louis Napoleon, and refused to take the
oath of allegiance after the coup d'etat of December, 1851. Died 2
Oct. 1853. Humboldt calls him a "zealous defender of the interests
of Reason."

Ardigo (Roberto), Italian philosopher, b. at Casteldidone (Cremona)
28 Jan. 1828, was intended for the Church, but took to philosophy. In
1869 he published a discourse on Peitro Pomponazzi, followed next year
by Psychology as a Positive Science. Signor Ardigo has also written on
the formation of the solar system and on the historical formation of
the ideas of God and the soul. An edition of his philosophical works
was commenced at Mantua in 1882. Ardigo is one of the leaders of the
Italian Positivists. His Positivist Morals appeared in Padua 1885.

Argens (Jean Baptiste de Boyer) Marquis d', French writer, b. at
Aix, in Provence, 24 June 1704. He adopted a military life and
served with distinction. On the accession of Frederick the Great
he invited d'Argens to his court at Berlin, and made him one of his
chamberlains. Here he resided twenty-five years and then returned to
Aix, where he resided till his death 11 June, 1771. His works were
published in 1768 in twenty-four volumes. Among them are Lettres
Juives, Lettres Chinoises and Lettres Cabalistiques, which were
joined to La Philosophie du bon sens. He also translated Julian's
discourse against Christianity and Ocellus Lucanus on the Eternity
of the World. Argens took Bayle as his model, but he was inferior to
that philosopher.

Argental (Charles Augustin de Ferriol) Count d', French diplomat,
b. Paris 20 Dec. 1700, was a nephew of Mme. de Tencin, the mother
of D'Alembert. He is known for his long and enthusiastic friendship
for Voltaire. He was said to be the author of Memoires du Comte de
Comminge and Anecdotes de la cour d'Edouard. Died 5 Jan. 1788.

Aristophanes, great Athenian comic poet, contemporary with Socrates,
Plato, and Euripides, b. about 444 B.C. Little is known of his life. He
wrote fifty-four plays, of which only eleven remain, and was crowned
in a public assembly for his attacks on the oligarchs. With the utmost
boldness he satirised not only the the political and social evils
of the age, but also the philosophers, the gods, and the theology
of the period. Plato is said to have died with Aristophanes' works
under his pillow. Died about 380 B.C.

Aristotle, the most illustrious of ancient philosophers, was born at
Stagyra, in Thrace, 384 B.C. He was employed by Philip of Macedon
to instruct his son Alexander. His inculcation of ethics as apart
from all theology, justifies his place in this list. After the death
of Alexander, he was accused of impiety and withdrew to Chalcis,
where he died B.C. 322. Grote says: "In the published writings of
Aristotle the accusers found various heretical doctrines suitable for
sustaining their indictment; as, for example, the declaration that
prayer and sacrifices to the gods were of no avail." His influence
was predominant upon philosophy for nearly two thousand years. Dante
speaks of him as "the master of those that know."

Arnold of Brescia, a pupil of Abelard. He preached against the papal
authority and the temporal power, and the vices of the clergy. He
was condemned for heresy by a Lateran Council in 1139, and retired
from Italy. He afterwards returned to Rome and renewed his exertions
against sacerdotal oppression, and was eventually seized and burnt at
Rome in 1155. Baronius calls him "the patriarch of political heretics."

Arnold (Matthew), LL.D. poet and critic, son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby,
b. at Laleham 24 Dec. 1822. Educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Oxford,
where he won the Newdigate prize. In 1848 he published the Strayed
Reveller, and other Poems, signed A. In 1851 he married and became
an inspector of schools. In 1853 appeared Empedocles on Etna, a poem
in which, under the guise of ancient teaching he gives much secular
philosophy. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In
1871 he published an essay entitled St. Paul and Protestantism; in 1873
Literature and Dogma, which, from its rejection of supernaturalism,
occasioned much stir and was followed by God and the Bible. In 1877
Mr. Arnold published Last Essays on Church and State. Mr. Arnold
has a lucid style and is abreast of the thought of his age, but he
curiously unites rejection of supernaturalism, including a personal
God, with a fond regard for the Church of England. He may be said
in his own words to wander "between two worlds, one dead, the other
powerless to be born." Died 15 April, 1888.

Arnould (Arthur), French writer, b. Dieuze 7 April, 1833. As
journalist he wrote on l'Opinion Nationale, the Rappel, Reforme and
other papers. In 1864 he published a work on Beranger, and in '69 a
History of the Inquisition. In Jan. 1870 he founded La Marseillaise
with H. Rochefort, and afterwards the Journal du Peuple with Jules
Valles. He was elected to the National Assembly and was member of
the Commune, of which he has written a history in three volumes. He
has also written many novels and dramas.

Arnould (Victor), Belgian Freethinker, b. Maestricht, 7 Nov. 1838,
advocate at the Court of Appeal, Brussels. Author of a History of the
Church 1874, and a little work on the Philosophy of Liberalism 1877.

Arouet (Francois Marie). See Voltaire.

Arpe (Peter Friedrich). Philosopher, b. Kiel, Holstein, 10 May,
1682. Wrote an apology for Vanini dated Cosmopolis (i.e., Rotterdam,
1712). A reply to La Monnoye's treatise on the book De Tribus
Impostoribus is attributed to him. Died, Hamburg, 4 Nov. 1740.

Arthur (John) is inserted in Marechal's Dictionnaire des Athees
as a mechanic from near Birmingham, who took a prize at Paris and
republished the Invocation to Nature in the last pages of the System
of Nature. Julian Hibbert inserted his name in his Chronological
Tables of Anti-Superstitionists, with the date of death 1792.

Asseline (Louis). French writer, b. at Versailles in 1829, became an
advocate in 1851. In 1866 he established La Libre Pensee, a weekly
journal of scientific materialism, and when that was suppressed
La Pensee Nouvelle. He was one of the founders of the Encyclopedie
Generale. He wrote Diderot and the Nineteenth Century, and contributed
to many journals. After the revolution of 4 Sept. 1870 he was elected
mayor of the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris, and was afterwards
one of the Municipal Council of that city. Died 6 April, 1878.

Assezat (Jules). French writer, b. at Paris 21 Jan. 1832 was a son
of a compositor on the Journal des Debats, on which Jules obtained a
position and worked his way to the editorial chair. He was secretary of
the Paris Society of Anthropology, contributed to La Pensee Nouvelle,
edited the Man Machine of Lamettrie, and edited the complete works
of Diderot in twenty volumes. Died 24 June, 1876.

Assollant (Jean, Baptiste Alfred). French novelist, b. 20 March,
1827. Larousse says he has all the scepticism of Voltaire.

Ast (Georg Anton Friedrich). German Platonist, b. Gotha 29
Dec. 1778. Was professor of classical literature at Landshut and
Munich. Wrote Elements of Philosophy, 1809, etc. Died Munich 31
Dec. 1841.

Atkinson (Henry George). Philosophic writer, b. in 1818. Was educated
at the Charterhouse, gave attention to mesmerism, and wrote in
the Zoist. In 1851 he issued Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature
and Development, in conjunction with Harriet Martineau, to whom he
served as philosophic guide. This work occasioned a considerable
outcry. Mr. Atkinson was a frequent contributor to the National
Reformer and other Secular journals. He died 28 Dec. 1884, at Boulogne,
where he had resided since 1870.

Aubert de Verse (Noel). A French advocate of the seventeenth century,
who wrote a history of the Papacy (1685) and was accused of blasphemy.

Audebert (Louise). French authoress of the Romance of a Freethinker
and of an able Reply of a Mother to the Bishop of Orleans, 1868.

Audifferent (Georges). Positivist and executor to Auguste Comte,
was born at Saint Pierre (Martinque) in 1823, settled at Marseilles,
and is the author of several medical and scientific works.

Aurelius (Marcus Antoninus). Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, b. at
Rome 26 April, 121. Was carefully educated, and lived a laborious,
abstemious life. On the death of his uncle Antoninus Pius, 161, the
Senate obliged him to take the government, but he associated with
himself L. Verus. On the death of Verus in 169 Antoninus possessed
sole authority, which he exercised with wise discretion and great
glory. Much of his time was employed in defending the northern
frontiers of the empire against Teutonic barbarians. He had no
high opinion of Christians, speaking of their obstinacy, and it is
pretended many were put to death in the reign of one of the best
emperors that ever ruled. If so we may be assured it was for their
crimes. Ecclesiastical historians have invented another pious miracle
in a victory gained through the prayers of the Christians. Antoninus
held that duty was indispensable even were there no gods. His
Meditations, written in the midst of a most active life, breathe a
lofty morality, and are a standing refutation of the view that pure
ethics depend upon Christian belief. Died 17 March, 180.

Austin (Charles), lawyer and disciple of Bentham, b. Suffolk 1799. At
Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1824 and M.A. in 1827, he won,
much to the amazement of his friends, who knew his heterodox opinions,
the Hulsean prize for an essay on Christian evidences. For this he
was sorry afterwards, and told Lord Stanley of Alderley "I could
have written a much better essay on the other side." He afterwards
wrote on the other side in the Westminster Review. Successful as a
lawyer, he retired in ill-health. J. S. Mill writes highly of his
influence. The Hon. L. A. Tollemache gives a full account of his
heretical opinions. He says "He inclined to Darwinism, because as he
said, it is so antecedently probable; but, long before this theory
broke the back of final causes, he himself had given them up." Died
21 Dec. 1874.

Austin (John), jurist, brother of above, was born 3 March, 1790. A
friend of James Mill, Grote and Bentham, whose opinions he shared,
he is chiefly known by his profound works on jurisprudence. Died 17
Dec. 1859.

Avempace, i.e., Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Bajjat (Abu Bekr), called
Ibn al-Saigh (the son of the goldsmith), Arabian philosopher and
poet, b. at Saragossa, practised medicine at Seville 1118, which he
quitted about 1120, and became vizier at the court of Fez, where he
died about 1138. An admirer of Aristotle, he was one of the teachers
of Averroes. Al-Fath Ibn Khakan represents him as an infidel and
Atheist, and says: "Faith disappeared from his heart and left not a
trace behind; his tongue forgot the Merciful, neither did [the holy]
name cross his lips." He is said to have suffered imprisonment for
his heterodoxy.

Avenel (Georges), French writer, b. at Chaumont 31 Dec. 1828. One of
the promoters of the Encyclopedie Generale. His vindication of Cloots
(1865) is a solid work of erudition. He became editor of la Republique
Francaise and edited the edition of Voltaire published by Le Siecle
(1867-70). Died at Bougival, near Paris, 1 July, 1876, and was,
by his express wish, buried without religious ceremony.

Averroes (Muhammad Ibn-Ahmad Ibn Rushd), Abu al Walid, Arabian
philosopher, b. at Cordova in 1126, and died at Morocco 10
Dec. 1198. He translated and commented upon the works of Aristotle,
and resolutely placed the claims of science above those of theology. He
was prosecuted for his heretical opinions by the Muhammadan doctors,
was spat upon by all who entered the mosque at the hour of prayer,
and afterwards banished. His philosophical opinions, which incline
towards materialism and pantheism, had the honor of being condemned
by the University of Paris in 1240. They were opposed by St. Thomas
Aquinas, and when profoundly influencing Europe at the Renaissance
through the Paduan school were again condemned by Pope Leo X. in 1513.

Avicenna (Husain Ibn Abdallah, called Ibn Sina), Arabian physician and
philosopher, b. Aug. 980 in the district of Bokhara. From his early
youth he was a wonderful student, and at his death 15 June, 1037,
he left behind him above a hundred treatises. He was the sovereign
authority in medical science until the days of Harvey. His philosophy
was pantheistic in tone, with an attempt at compromise with theology.

Aymon (Jean), French writer, b. Dauphine 1661. Brought up in the
Church, he abjured Catholicism at Geneva, and married at the Hague. He
published Metamorphoses of the Romish Religion, and is said to have
put forward a version of the Esprit de Spinoza under the famous title
Treatise of Three Impostors. Died about 1734.

Bagehot (Walter), economist and journalist, b. of Unitarian parents,
Langport, Somersetshire, 3 Feb. 1826; he died at the same place 24
March, 1877. He was educated at London University, of which he became
a fellow. For the last seventeen years of his life he edited the
Economist newspaper. His best-known works are The English Constitution,
Lombard Street and Literary Studies. In Physics and Politics (1872),
a series of essays on the Evolution of Society, he applies Darwinism
to politics. Bagehot was a bold, clear, and very original thinker,
who rejected historic Christianity.

Baggesen (Jens Immanuel), Danish poet, b. Koesor, Zealand. 15
Feb. 1764. In 1789 he visited Germany, France, and Switzerland; at
Berne he married the grand-daughter of Haller. He wrote popular poems
both in Danish and German, among others Adam and Eve, a humorous mock
epic (1826). He was an admirer of Voltaire. Died Hamburg, 3 Oct. 1826.

Bahnsen (Julius Friedrich August), pessimist, b. Tondern,
Schleswig-Holstein, 30 Mar. 1830. Studied philosophy at Keil,
1847. He fought against the Danes in '49, and afterwards studied at
Tuebingen. Bahnsen is an independent follower of Schopenhauer and
Hartmann, joining monism to the idealism of Hegel. He has written
several works, among which we mention The Philosophy of History,
Berlin, 1872, and The Contradiction between the Knowledge and the
Nature of the World (2 vols), Berlin 1880-82.

Bahrdt (Karl Friedrich), German deist, b. in Saxony, 25
Aug. 1741. Educated for the Church, in 1766 he was made professor
of biblical philology. He was condemned for heresy, and wandered
from place to place. He published a kind of expurgated Bible, called
New Revelations of God: A System of Moral Religion for Doubters and
Thinkers, Berlin, 1787, and a Catechism of Natural Religion, Halle,
1790. Died near Halle, 23 April, 1792.

Bailey (James Napier), Socialist, edited the Model Republic, 1843, the
Torch, and the Monthly Messenger. He published Gehenna: its Monarch
and Inhabitants; Sophistry Unmasked, and several other tracts in the
"Social Reformer's Cabinet Library," and some interesting Essays on
Miscellaneous Subjects, at Leeds, 1842.

Bailey (Samuel), philosophical writer, of Sheffield, b. in 1791. His
essay on the Formation and Publication of Opinions appeared in 1821. He
vigorously contends that man is not responsible for his opinions
because they are independent of his will, and that opinions should
not be the subject of punishment. Another anonymous Freethought work
was Letters from an Egyptian Kaffir on a Visit to England in Search
of Religion. This was at first issued privately 1839, but afterwards
printed as a Reasoner tract. He also wrote The Pursuit of Truth,
1829, and a Theory of Reasoning, 1851. He was acquainted with both
James and John Stuart Mill, and shared in most of the views of the
philosophical Radicals of the period. Died 18 Jan. 1870, leaving
L90,000 to his native town.

Bailey (William S.), editor of the Liberal, published in Nashville,
Tennessee, was an Atheist up till the day of death, March, 1886. In
a slave-holding State, he was the earnest advocate of abolition.

Baillie (George), of Garnet Hill, Glasgow. Had been a sheriff in one
of the Scotch counties. He was a liberal subscriber to the Glasgow
Eclectic Institute. In 1854 he offered a prize for the best essay on
Christianity and Infidelity, which was gained by Miss Sara Hennell. In
1857 another prize was restricted to the question whether Jesus
prophesied the coming of the end of the world in the life-time of his
followers. It was gained by Mr. E. P. Meredith, and is incorporated
in his Prophet of Nazareth. In 1863 Mr. Baillie divested himself
of his fortune (L18,000) which was to be applied to the erection
and endowment of an institution to aid the culture of the operative
classes by means of free libraries and unsectarian schools, retaining
only the interest for himself as curator. He only survived a few years.

Bailliere (Gustave-Germer), French scientific publisher, b. at Paris
26 Dec. 1837. Studied medicine, but devoted himself to bringing out
scientific publications such as the Library of Contemporary Philosophy,
and the International Scientific Series. He was elected 29 Nov. 1874 as
Republican and anti-clerical member of the Municipal Council of Paris.

Bain (Alexander) LL.D. Scotch philosopher, b. at Aberdeen in 1818. He
began life as a weaver but studied at Marischal College 1836-40, and
graduated M.A. in 1840. He then began to contribute to the Westminster
Review, and became acquainted with John Stuart Mill, whose Logic
he discussed in manuscript. In 1855 he published The Senses and
The Intellect, and in 1859 The Emotions and the Will, constituting
together a systematic exposition of the human mind. From 1860 to
1880 he occupied the Chair of Logic in the University of Aberdeen,
his accession being most obnoxious to the orthodox, and provoking
disorder among the students. In 1869 he received the degree of
LL.D. In addition to numerous educational works Dr. Bain published a
Compendium of Mental and Moral Science (1868), Mind and Body (1875),
and Education as a Science (1879), for the International Scientific
Series. In 1882 he published James Mill, a Biography, and John Stuart
Mill: a Criticism, with Personal Recollections. In 1881 he was elected
Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen, and this honor was renewed
in 1884, in which year he published Practical Essays.

Bainham (James), martyr. He married the widow of Simon Fish, author
of the Supplycacion of Beggars, an attack upon the clergy of the
period. In 1531 he was accused of heresy, having among other things
denied transubstantiation, the confessional, and "the power of the
keys." It was asserted that he had said that he would as lief pray
to his wife as to "our lady," and that Christ was but a man. This
he denied, but admitted holding the salvation of unbelievers. He was
burnt 30 April, 1532.

Baissac (Jules), French litterateur, b. Vans, 1827, author of several
studies in philology and mythology. In 1878 he published Les Origines
de la Religion in three volumes, which have the honor of being put
upon the Roman Index. This was followed by l'Age de Dieu, a study
of cosmical periods and the feast of Easter. In 1882 he began to
publish Histoire de la Diablerie Chretienne, the first part of which
is devoted to the person and "personnel" of the devil.

Bakunin (Mikhail Aleksandrovich), Russian Nihilist, b. Torshok
(Tver) 1814, of an ancient aristocratic family. He was educated at
St. Petersburg, and entered as an ensign in the artillery. Here he
became embued with revolutionary ideas. He went to Berlin in 1841,
studied the Hegelian philosophy, and published some philosophical
writings under the name of Jules Elisard. In '43 he visited Paris and
became a disciple of Proudhon. In '48 he was expelled from France
at the demand of Russia, whose government set the price of 10,000
silver roubles on his head, went to Dresden and became a member of the
insurrectionary government. He was arrested and condemned to death,
May '50, but his sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. He
escaped into Austria, was again captured and sentenced to death,
but was handed over to Russia and deported to Siberia. After several
years' penal servitude he escaped, travelled over a thousand miles
under extreme hardship, reached the sea and sailed to Japan. Thence he
sailed to California, thence to New York and London, where with Herzen
he published the Kolokol. He took part in the establishment of the
International Society, but being at issue with Karl Marx abandoned
that body in 1873. He died at Berne 1 July 1876, leaving behind a
work on God and the State, both being vigorously attacked. Laveleye
writes of him as "the apostle of universal destruction."

Ball (William Platt), b. at Birmingham 28 Nov. 1844. Educated at
Birkbeck School, London. Became schoolmaster but retired rather
than teach religious doctrines. Matriculated at London University
1866. Taught pyrotechny in the Sultan's service 1870-71. Received
the order of the Medjidieh after narrow escape from death by the
bursting of a mortar. Upon his return published Poems from Turkey
(1872). Mr. Ball has contributed to the National Reformer since 1878
and since 1884 has been on the staff of the Freethinker. He has
published pamphlets on Religion in Schools, the Ten Commandments
and Mrs Besant's Socialism, and has compiled with Mr. Foote the
Bible Handbook. Mr. Ball is a close thinker and a firm supporter of
Evolutional Malthusianism, which he has ably defended in the pages
of Progress. He has of late been engaged upon the question: Are the
Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?

Ballance (John), New Zealand statesman, b. Glenary, Antrim, Ireland,
March 1839. Going out to New Zealand he became a journalist and started
the Wanganui Herald. He entered Parliament in 1875 and became Colonial
Treasurer in '78. With Sir Robert Stout he has been a great support
to the Freethought cause in New Zealand.

Baltzer (Wilhelm Eduard). German rationalist, b. 24 Oct. 1814, at
Hohenleine in Saxony. He was educated as a Protestant minister, but
resigned and founded at Nordhausen in 1847 a free community. He took
part in the Parliament of Frankfort in '48; has translated the life
of Apollonius of Tyana, and is the author of a history of religion
and numerous other works. Died 24 June, 1887.

Bancel (Francois Desire). French politician, b. Le Mastre,
2 Feb. 1822. Became an advocate. In 1849, he was elected to the
Legislative Assembly. After the coup d'etat he retired to Brussels,
where he became Professor at the University. In 1869 he was elected
deputy at Paris in opposition to M. Ollivier. He translated the work
on Rationalism by Ausonio Franchi, and wrote on Mysteries, 1871,
besides many political works. Died 23 June, 1871.

Barbier (Edmond). French translator of the works of Darwin, Lubbock,
and Tylor. Died 1883.

Barbier d'Aucour (Jean). French critic and academician, b. Langres,
1642. Most of his writings are directed against the Jesuits. Died
Paris, 13 Sept. 1694.

Barlow (George). Poet, b. in London, 19 June, 1847. In his volumes,
Under the Dawn and Poems, Real and Ideal, he gives utterance to many
Freethought sentiments.

Barlow (Joel). American statesman, writer and poet, b. Reading,
Connecticut, 24 March, 1754. Served as a volunteer in the
revolutionary war, became a chaplain, but resigned that profession,
taking to literature. In England, in 1791, he published Advice to the
Privileged Orders. In France he translated Volney's Ruins of Empires,
and contributed to the political literature of the Revolution. Paine
entrusted him with the MS. of the first part of the Age of Reason. His
chief work is entitled the Columbiad, 1808. He was sent as minister
to France, 1811, and being involved in the misfortunes following the
retreat from Moscow, died near Cracow, Poland, 24 Dec. 1812.

Barni (Jules Romain). French philosophic writer, b. Lille, 1 June,
1818. He became secretary to Victor Cousin, and translated the works
of Kant into French. He contributed to La Liberte de Penser (1847-51)
and to l'Avenir (1855). During the Empire he lived in Switzerland
and published Martyrs de la Libre Pensee (1862), La Morale dans
la Democratie (1864), and a work on the French Moralists of the
Eighteenth Century (1873). He was elected to the National Assembly,
1872; and to the Chamber of Deputies, 1876. Died at Mers, 4 July,
1878. A statue is erected to him at Amiens.

Barnout (Hippolyte). French architect and writer, b. Paris 1816,
published a Rational Calendar 1859 and 1860. In May 1870 he established
a journal entitled L'Athee, the Atheist, which the clerical journals
declared drew God's vengeance upon France. He is also author of a
work on aerial navigation.

Barot (Francois Odysse). French writer, b. at Mirabeau 1830. He
has been a journalist on several Radical papers, was secretary to
Gustave Flourens, and has written on the Birth of Jesus (1864) and
Contemporary Literature in England (1874).

Barrett (Thomas Squire). Born 9 Sept. 1842, of Quaker parents, both
grandfathers being ministers of that body; educated at Queenwood
College, obtained diploma of Associate in Arts from Oxford with honors
in Natural Science and Mathematics, contributed to the National
Reformer between 1865 and 1870, published an acute examination of
Gillespie's argument, a priori, for the existence of God (1869),
which in 1871 reached a second edition. He also wrote A New View
of Causation (1871), and an Introduction to Logic and Metyphysics
(1877). Mr. Barrett has been hon. sec. of the London Dialectical
Society, and edited a short-lived publication, The Present Day, 1886.

Barrier (F. M.). French Fourierist, b. Saint Etienne 1815, became
professor of medicine at Lyons, wrote A Sketch of the Analogy of Man
and Humanity (Lyons 1846), and Principles of Sociology (Paris 1867),
and an abridgment of this entitled Catechism of Liberal and Rational
Socialism. Died Montfort-L'Amaury 1870.

Barrillot (Francois). French author, b. of poor parents at Lyons in
1818. An orphan at seven years of age, he learnt to read from shop
signs, and became a printer and journalist. Many of his songs and
satires acquired popularity. He has also wrote a letter to Pope Pius
IX. on the OEcumenical Council (1871), signed Jean Populus, and a
philosophical work entitled Love is God. Died at Paris, 11 Dec. 1874.

Barthez (Paul Joseph), French physician, b. Montpelier 11 Dec. 1734. A
friend of D'Alembert, he became associate editor of the Journal des
Savants and Encyclopedie Methodique. He was made consulting physician
to the king and a councillor of State. Shown by the Archbishop of
Sens a number of works relating to the rites of his see he said,
"These are the ceremonies of Sens, but can you show me the sense
[Sens] of ceremonies." His principal work is New Elements of the
Science of Man. Died 15 Oct. 1806.

Basedow (Johann Bernhard), German Rationalist and educational reformer,
b. at Hamburg 11 Sept. 1723. He studied theology at Leipsic, became
professor at the Academy of Sora, in Denmark, 1753-1761, and at
Altona, 1761-1768. While here he published Philalethea, the Grounds of
Religion, and other heterodox works, which excited so much prejudice
that he was in danger of being stoned. He devoted much attention to
improving methods of teaching. Died at Magdeburg 25 July, 1790.

Baskerville (John), famous printer, b. Sion Hill, Wolverley,
Worcestershire, 28 Jan. 1706. Lived at Birmingham. He was at
first a stone-mason, then made money as an artistic japanner, and
devoted it to perfecting the art of type-founding and printing. As
a printer-publisher he produced at his own risk beautiful editions
of Milton, Addison, Shaftesbury, Congreve, Virgil, Horace, Lucretius,
Terence, etc. He was made printer to Cambridge University 1758. Wilkes
once visited him and was "shocked at his infidelity" (!) He died
8 Jan. 1775, and was buried in a tomb in his own garden. He had
designed a monumental urn with this inscription: "Stranger, beneath
this cone in unconsecrated ground a friend to the liberties of
mankind directed his body to be inurned. May the example contribute
to emancipate thy mind from the idle fears of superstition and the
wicked arts of priesthood." His will expresses the utmost contempt
for Christianity. His type was appropriately purchased to produce a
complete edition of Voltaire.

Bassus (Aufidus). An Epicurean philosopher and friend of Seneca in
the time of Nero. Seneca praises his patience and courage in the
presence of death.

Bate (Frederick), Socialist, author of The Student 1842, a drama
in which the author's sceptical views are put forward. Mr. Bate
was one of the founders of the social experiment at New Harmony,
now Queenswood College, Hants, and engraved a view representing the
Owenite scheme of community.

Baudelaire (Charles Pierre), French poet, b. Paris, 9 April 1821,
the son of a distinguished friend of Cabanis and Condorcet. He
first became famous by the publication of Fleurs du Mal, 1857, in
which appeared Les Litanies de Satan. The work was prosecuted and
suppressed. Baudelaire translated some of the writings of E. A. Poe,
a poet whom he resembled much in life and character. The divine
beauty of his face has been celebrated by the French poet, Theodore
de Banville, and his genius in some magnificent stanzas by the English
poet, Algernon Swinburne. Died Paris 31 Aug. 1867.

Baudon (P. L.), French author of a work on the Christian Superstition,
published at Brussels in 1862 and dedicated to Bishop Dupanloup under
the pseudonym of "Aristide."

Bauer (Bruno), one of the boldest biblical critics of Germany,
b. Eisenberg, 6 Sept. 1809. Educated at the University of Berlin,
in 1834 he received a professorship of theology. He first attained
celebrity by a review of the Life of Jesus by Strauss (1835). This
was followed by his Journal of Speculative Theology and Critical
Exposition of the Religion of the Old Testament. He then proceeded
to a Review of the Gospel History, upon the publication of which
(1840) he was deprived of his professorship at Bonn. To this followed
Christianity Unveiled (1843), which was destroyed at Zurich before
its publication. This work continued his opposition to religion,
which was carried still further in ironical style in his Proclamation
of the Day of Judgement concerning Hegel the Atheist. Bauer's heresy
deepened with age, and in his Review of the Gospels and History of
their Origin (1850), to which Apostolical History is a supplement,
he attacked the historical truth of the New Testament narratives. In
his Review of the Epistles attributed to St. Paul (1852) he tries to
show that the first four epistles, which had hardly ever before been
questioned, were not written by Paul, but are the production of the
second century. In his Christ and the Caesars he shows the influence
of Seneca and Greco-Roman thought upon early Christianity. He died
near Berlin, 13 April, 1882.

Bauer (Edgar), b. Charlottenburg, 7 Oct. 1820, brother of the
preceding, collaborated in some of his works. His brochure entitled
Bruno Bauer and his Opponents (1842) was seized by the police. For
his next publication, The Strife of Criticism with Church and State
(1843), he was imprisoned for four years. He has also written on
English freedom, Capital, etc.

Baume-Desdossat (Jacques Francois, de la), b. 1705, a Canon of
Avignon who wrote La Christiade (1753), a satire on the gospels,
in which Jesus is tempted by Mary Magdalene. It was suppressed by
the French Parliament and the author fined. He died 30 April, 1756.

Baur (Ferdinand Christian von), distinguished theological critic, b. 21
June, 1792, near Stuttgart. His father was a clergyman. He was educated
at Tuebingen, where in 1826 he became professor of Church history. Baur
is the author of numerous works on dogmatic and historic theology, in
which he subverts all the fundamental positions of Christianity. He was
an Hegelian Pantheist. Among his more important works are Christianity
and the Church in the First Three Centuries and Paul: His Life and
Works. These are translated into English. He acknowledges only four
of the epistles of Paul and the Revelation as genuine products of
the apostolic age, and shows how very far from simplicity were the
times and doctrines of primitive Christianity. After a life of great
literary activity he died at Tuebingen, 2 Dec. 1860.

Bayle (Pierre), learned French writer, b. 18 Nov. 1647, at Carlat,
France, where his father was a Protestant minister. He was converted
to Romanism while studying at the Jesuit College, Toulouse, 1669. His
Romanism only lasted seventeen months. He abjured, and fled to
Switzerland, becoming a sceptic, as is evident from Thoughts on the
Comet, in which he compares the supposed mischiefs of Atheism with
those of fanaticism, and from many articles in his famous Dictionnaire
Critique, a work still of value for its curious learning and shrewd
observation. In his journal Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres
he advocates religious toleration on the ground of the difficulty of
distinguishing truth from error. His criticism of Maimbourg's History
of Calvinism was ordered to be burnt by the hangman. Jurieu persecuted
him, and he was ordered to be more careful in preparing the second
edition of his dictionary. He died at Rotterdam, 28 Dec. 1706. Bayle
has been called the father of free discussion in modern times.

Bayrhoffer (Karl Theodor), German philosopher, b. Marburg, 14 Oct.,
1812, wrote The Idea and History of Philosophy (1838), took part in
the revolution of '48, emigrated to America, and wrote many polemical
works. Died near Monroe, Wisconsin, 3 Feb. 1888.

Beauchamp (Philip). See Bentham and Grote.

Beausobre (Louis de), b. at Berlin, 22 Aug. 1730, was adopted by
Frederick the Great out of esteem for his father, Isaac Beausobre,
the author of the History of Manicheanism. He was educated first at
Frankfort-on-Oder, then at Paris. He wrote on the scepticism of the
wise (Pyrrhonisme du Sage, Berlin, 1754), a work condemned to be burnt
by the Parliament of Paris. He also wrote anonymously The Dreams of
Epicurus, and an essay on Happiness (Berlin, 1758), reprinted with
the Social System of Holbach in 1795. Died at Berlin, 3 Dec. 1783.

Bebel (Ferdinand August). German Socialist, b. Cologne, 22
Feb. 1840. Brought up as a turner in Leipsic. Since '63, he became
distinguished as an exponent of social democracy, and was elected to
the German Reichstag in '71. In the following year he was condemned (6
March) to two years' imprisonment for high treason. He was re-elected
in '74. His principal work is Woman in the Past, Present and Future
which is translated by H. B. A. Walther, 1885. He has also written on
the Mohammedan Culture Period (1884) and on Christianity and Socialism.

Beccaria (Bonesana Cesare), an Italian marquis and writer, b. at Milan,
15 March, 1738. A friend of Voltaire, who praised his treatise on
Crimes and Punishments (1769), a work which did much to improve the
criminal codes of Europe. Died Milan, 28 Nov. 1794.

Beesly (Edward Spencer), Positivist, b. Feckenham, Worcestershire,
1831. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he took B.A. in 1854,
and M.A. in '57. Appointed Professor of History, University College,
London, in 1860. He is one of the translators of Comte's System of
Positive Polity, and has published several pamphlets on political
and social questions.

Beethoven (Ludwig van), one of the greatest of musical composers,
b. Bonn 16 Dec. 1770. His genius early displayed itself, and at the
age of five he was set to study the works of Handel and Bach. His many
compositions are the glory of music. They include an opera "Fidelio,"
two masses, oratorios, symphonies, concertos, overtures and sonatas,
and are characterised by penetrating power, rich imagination, intense
passion, and tenderness. When about the age of forty he became totally
deaf, but continued to compose till his death at Vienna, 26 March,
1827. He regarded Goethe with much the same esteem as Wagner showed
for Schopenhauer, but he disliked his courtliness. His Republican
sentiments are well known, and Sir George Macfarren, in his life in
the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, speaks of him as a
"Freethinker," and says the remarkable mass in C. "might scarcely
have proceeded from an entirely orthodox thinker." Sir George Grove,
in his Dictionary of Music and Musicians, says: "Formal religion he
apparently had none," and "the Bible does not appear to have been one
of his favorite books." At the end of his arrangement of "Fidelio"
Moscheles had written, "Fine. With God's help." To this Beethoven
added, "O man, help thyself."

Bekker (Balthasar), Dutch Rationalist, b. Metslawier (Friesland)
20 March, 1634. He studied at Gronigen, became a doctor of divinity,
and lived at Francker, but was accused of Socinianism, and had to fly
to Amsterdam, where he raised another storm by his World Bewitched
(1691), a work in which witchcraft and the power of demons are
denied. His book, which contains much curious information, raised
a host of adversaries, and he was deposed from his place in the
Church. It appeared in English in 1695. Died, Amsterdam, 11 June,
1698. Bekker was remarkably ugly, and he is said to have "looked like
the devil, though he did not believe in him."

Belinsky (Vissarion Grigorevich), Russian critic, b. Pensa 1811,
educated at Pensa and Moscow, adopted the Pantheistic philosophy of
Hegel and Schelling. Died St. Petersburg, 28 May, 1848. His works
were issued in 12 volumes, 1857-61.

Bell (Thomas Evans), Major in Madras Army, which he entered in 1842. He
was employed in the suppression of Thugee. He wrote the Task of To-Day,
1852, and assisted the Reasoner, both with pen and purse, writing over
the signature "Undecimus." He contemplated selling his commission to
devote himself to Freethought propaganda, but by the advice of his
friends was deterred. He returned to India at the Mutiny. In January,
1861, he became Deputy-Commissioner of Police at Madras. He retired
in July, 1865, and has written many works on Indian affairs. Died 12
Sept. 1887.

Bell (William S.), b. in Allegheny city, Pennsylvania, 10
Feb. 1832. Brought up as a Methodist minister, was denounced for
mixing politics with religion, and for his anti-slavery views. In
1873 he preached in the Universalist Church of New Bedford, but in
Dec. '74, renounced Christianity and has since been a Freethought
lecturer. He has published a little book on the French Revolution,
and some pamphlets.

<DW12> (Wilhelm), German Rationalist, professor of theology at Bonn,
b. 15 Jan. 1845, who created a sensation at the Luther centenary,
1883, by declaring that the work of the Reformation was incompleted
and must be carried on by the Rationalists.

Bennett (De Robigne Mortimer), founder and editor of the New York
Truthseeker, b. of poor parents, Springfield (N.Y.), 23 Dec. 1818. At
the age of fifteen he joined the Shaker Society in New Lebanon. Here
he stayed thirteen years and then married. Having lost faith in the
Shaker creed, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he started a
drug store. The perusal of Paine, Volney, and similar works made him
a Freethinker. In 1873, his letters to a local journal in answer to
some ministers having been refused, he resolved to start a paper of
his own. The result was the Truthseeker, which in January, 1876 became
a weekly, and has since become one of the principal Freethought organs
in America. In 1879 he was sentenced to thirteen months' imprisonment
for sending through the post a pamphlet by Ezra H. Heywood on the
marriage question. A tract, entitled An Open Letter to Jesus Christ,
was read in court to bias the jury. A petition bearing 200,000
names was presented to President Hayes asking his release, but was
not acceded to. Upon his release his admirers sent him for a voyage
round the world. He wrote A Truthseeker's Voyage Round the World,
Letters from Albany Penitentiary, Answers to Christian Questions and
Arguments, two large volumes on The Gods, another on the World's Sages,
Infidels and Thinkers, and published his discussions with Humphrey,
Mair, and Teed, and numerous tracts. He died 6 Dec. 1882.

Bentham (Jeremy), writer on ethics, jurisprudence, and political
economy, b. 15 Feb. 1748. A grand uncle named Woodward was the
publisher of Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation. Was educated
at Westminster and Oxford, where he graduated M.A. 1767. Bentham
is justly regarded as the father of the school of philosophical
Radicalism. In philosophy he is the great teacher of Utilitarianism;
as a jurist he did much to disclose the defects of and improve our
system of law. Macaulay says he "found jurisprudence a gibberish and
left it a science." His most pronounced Freethought work was that
written in conjunction with Grote, published as An Analysis of the
Influence of Natural Religion, by Philip Beauchamp, 1822. Among his
numerous other works we can only mention Deontology, or the Science
of Mortality, an exposition of utilitarianism; Church of Englandism
and its Catechism Examined; Not Paul, but Jesus, published under the
pseudonym of Gamaliel Smith. Died 6 June, 1832, leaving his body for
the purposes of science.

Beranger (Jean Pierre de), celebrated French lyrical poet,
b. Paris, 19 Aug. 1780. His satire on the Bourbons twice ensured
for him imprisonment. He was elected to the Constituant Assembly
1848. Beranger has been compared not inaptly to Burns. All his songs
breathe the spirit of liberty, and several have been characterised
as impious. He died 16 July, 1857.

Bergel (Joseph), Jewish Rationalist, author of Heaven and Its Wonders,
Leipsic, 1881, and Mythology of the Ancient Hebrews, 1882.

Berger (Moriz), author of a work on Materialism in Conflict with
Spiritualism and Idealism, Trieste, 1883.

Bergerac de (Savinien Cyrano). See Cyrano.

Bergk (Johann Adam), German philosopher, b. Hainechen, Zeitz, 27 June,
1769; became a private teacher at Leipsic and wrote many works, both
under his own name and pseudonyms. He published the Art of Thinking,
Leipsic, 1802, conducted the Asiatic Magazine, 1806, and wrote under
the name of Frey the True Religion, "recommended to rationalists
and destined for the Radical cure of supernaturalists, mystics,
etc." Died Leipsic, 27 Oct. 1834.

Bergk (Theodor), German humanist, son of the above, b. Leipsic,
22 May, 1812, author of a good History of Greek Literature, 1872.

Berigardus (Claudius), or Beauregard (Claude Guillermet), French
physician and philosopher, b. at Moulins about 1591. He became a
professor at Pisa from 1628 till 1640, and then went to Padua. His
Circulus Pisanus, published in 1643, was considered an Atheistic
work. In the form of a dialogue he exhibits the various hypotheses
of the formation of the world. The work was forbidden and is very
rare. His book entitled Dubitationes in Dialogum Galilaei, also brought
on him a charge of scepticism. Died in 1664.

Berkenhout (Dr. John), physician and miscellaneous writer, b. 1731,
the son of a Dutch merchant who settled at Leeds. In early life he
had been a captain both in the Prussian and English service, and
in 1765 took his M.D. degree at Leyden. He published many books on
medical science, a synopsis of the natural history of Great Britain
and Ireland, and several humorous pieces, anonymously. His principal
work is entitled Biographia Literaria, a biographical history of
English literature, 1777. Throughout the work he loses no opportunity
of displaying his hostility to the theologians, and is loud in his
praises of Voltaire. Died 3 April, 1791.

Berlioz (Louis Hector). The most original of French musical composers,
b. Isere, 11 Dec. 1803. He obtained fame by his dramatic symphony
of Romeo and Juliet (1839), and was made chevalier of the Legion
of Honor. Among his works is one on the Infancy of Christ. In his
Memoirs he relates how he scandalised Mendelssohn "by laughing at
the Bible." Died Paris, 9 March, 1869.

Bernard (Claude), French physiologist, b. Saint Julien 12 July,
1813. Went to Paris 1832, studied medicine, became member of the
Institute and professor at the Museum of Natural History, wrote
La Science Experimentale, and other works on physiology. Died 10
Feb. 1878, and was buried at the expense of the Republic. Paul Bert
calls him the introducer of determinism in the domain of physiology.

Bernier (Abbe). See Holbach.

Bernier (Francois), French physician and traveller, b. Angers about
1625. He was a pupil of Gassendi, whose works he abridged, and he
defended Descartes against the theologians. He is known as le joli
philsophe. In 1654 he went to Syria and Egypt, and from thence to
India, where he became physician to Aurungzebe. On his return he
published an account of his travels and of the Empire of the Great
Mogul, and died at Paris 22 Sept. 1688.

Bernstein (Aaron), a rationalist, b. of Jewish parents Dantzic
1812. His first work was a translation of the Song of Songs, published
under the pseudonym of A. Rebenstein (1834). He devoted himself
to natural science and published works on The Rotation of Planets,
Humboldt and the Spirit of the Time, etc. His essay on The Origin of
the Legends of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was translated by a German
lady and published by Thomas Scott of Ramsgate (1872). Died Berlin,
12 Feb. 1884.

Berquin (Louis de), French martyr, b. in Artois, 1489. Erasmus,
his friend, says his great crime was openly professing hatred of
the monks. In 1523 his works were ordered to be burnt, and he was
commanded to abjure his heresies. Sentence of perpetual banishment
was pronounced on him on April 16, 1529. He immediately appealed to
the Parliament. His appeal was heard and rejected on the morning of
the 17th. The Parliament reformed the judgment and condemned him to
be burnt alive, and the sentence was carried out on the same afternoon
at the Place de la Greve. He died with great constancy and resolution.

Bert (Paul), French scientist and statesman, b. at Auxerre, 17
Oct. 1833. In Paris he studied both law and medicine, and after
being Professor in the Faculty of Science at Bordeaux, he in 1869
obtained the chair of physiology in the Faculty of Science at Paris,
and distinguished himself by his scientific experiments. In '70 he
offered his services to the Government of National Defence, and in
'72 was elected to the National Assembly, where he signalised himself
by his Radical opinions. Gambetta recognised his worth and made him
Minister of Public Instruction, in which capacity he organised French
education on a Secular basis. His First Year of Scientific Instruction
is almost universally used in the French primary schools. It has been
translated into English by Josephine Clayton (Madame Paul Bert). His
strong anti-clerical views induced much opposition. He published
several scientific and educational works and attacked The Morality of
the Jesuits, '80. In '86 he was appointed French Resident Minister at
Tonquin, where he died 11 Nov. '86. His body was brought over to France
and given a State funeral, a pension being also accorded to his widow.

Bertani (Agostino), Italian patriot, b. 19 Oct. 1812, became a
physician at Genoa, took part with Garibaldi and Mazzini, organising
the ambulance services. A declared Freethinker, he was elected deputy
to the Italian Parliament. Died Rome 30 April, '86.

Berti (Antonio), Italian physician, b. Venice 20 June, 1816. Author
of many scientific works, member of the Venice Municipal Council and
of the Italian Senate. Died Venice 24 March, 1879.

Bertillon (Louis Adolphe), French Anthropologist and physician,
b. Paris 1 April, 1821. His principal work is a statistical study
of the French population, Paris '74. He edits in conjunction with
A. Hovelacque and others, the Dictionary of the Anthropological
Sciences ('83 etc.) His sons, Jacques (b. '51) and Alphonse (b. '53),
prosecute similar studies.

Bertrand de Saint-Germain (Guillaume Scipion), French physician,
b. Puy-en-Velay 25 Oct. 1810. Became M.D. 1840, wrote on The
Original Diversity of Human Races (1847), and a materialistic work
on Manifestation of Life and Intelligence through Organisation,
1848. Has also written on Descartes as a Physiologist, 1869.

Berwick (George J.) M.D., appointed surgeon to the East India Company
in 1828, retired in '52. Author of Awas-i-hind, or a Voice from the
Ganges; being a solution of the true source of Christianity. By an
Indian Officer; London, 1861. Also of a work on The Forces of the
Universe, '70. Died about 1872.

Besant (Annie) nee Wood. B. London, 1 Oct. 1847. Educated in
Evangelicalism by Miss Marryat, sister of novelist, but turned
to the High Church by reading Pusey and others. In "Holy Week"
of 1866 she resolved to write the story of the week from the
gospel. Their contradictions startled her but she regarded her doubts
as sin. In Dec. '67 she married the Rev. F. Besant, and read and
wrote extensively. The torment a child underwent in whooping-cough
caused doubts as to the goodness of God. A study of Greg's Creed
of Christendom and Arnold's Literature and Dogma increased her
scepticism. She became acquainted with the Rev. C. Voysey and Thomas
Scott, for whom she wrote an Essay on the Deity of Jesus of Nazareth,
"by the wife of a beneficed clergyman." This led to her husband
insisting on her taking communion or leaving. She chose the latter
course, taking by agreement her daughter with her. Thrown on her own
resources, she wrote further tracts for Mr. Scott, reprinted in My Path
to Atheism ('77). Joined the National Secular Society, and in '74 wrote
in the National Reformer over the signature of "Ajax." Next year she
took to the platform and being naturally eloquent soon won her way to
the front rank as a Freethought lecturess, and became joint editor
of the National Reformer. Some lectures on the French Revolution
were republished in book form. In April, '77, she was arrested
with Mr. Bradlaugh for publishing the Fruits of Philosophy. After a
brilliant defence, the jury exonerated the defendants from any corrupt
motives, and although they were sentenced the indictment was quashed
in Feb. '78, and the case was not renewed. In May, '78, a petition
in Chancery was presented to deprive Mrs. Besant of her child on the
ground of her Atheistic and Malthusian views. Sir G. Jessell granted
the petition. In '80 Mrs. Besant matriculated at the London University
and took 1st B.Sc. with honors in '82. She has debated much and issued
many pamphlets to be found in Theological Essays and Debates. She
wrote the second part of the Freethinkers' Text Book dealing with
Christian evidence; has written on the Sins of the Church, 1886, and
the Evolution of Society. She has translated Jules Soury's Religion
of Israel, and Jesus of the Gospels; Dr. L. Buechner on the Influence
of Heredity and Mind in Animals, and from the fifteenth edition of
Force and Matter. From '83 to '88 she edited Our Corner, and since
'85 has given much time to Socialist propaganda, and has written many
Socialist pamphlets. In Dec. '88, Mrs. Besant was elected a member
of the London School Board.

Beverland (Hadrianus), Dutch classical scholar and nephew of Isaac
Vossius, b. Middleburg 1654. He took the degree of doctor of law and
became an advocate, but devoted himself to literature. He was at the
university of Oxford in 1672. His treatise on Original Sin, Peccatum
Originale (Eleutheropoli, 1678), in which he contends that the sin
of Adam and Eve was sexual inclination, caused a great outcry. It
was burnt, Beverland was imprisoned and his name struck from the
rolls of Leyden University. He wrote some other curious works and
died about 1712.

Bevington (Louisa S.), afterwards Guggenberger; English poetess and
authoress of Key Notes, 1879; Poems, Lyrics and Sonnets, '82; wrote
"Modern Atheism and Mr. Mallock" in the Nineteenth Century (Oct. and
Dec. '79), and on "The Moral Demerits of Orthodoxy" in Progress,
Sept. '84.

Beyle (Marie Henri), French man of letters, famous under the
name of de Stendhal, b. Grenoble, 23 Jan. 1783. Painter, soldier,
merchant and consul, he travelled largely, a wandering life being
congenial to his broad and sceptical spirit. His book, De l'Amour
is his most notable work. He was an original and gifted critic and
romancer. Balzac esteemed him highly. He died at Paris, 23 March,
1842. Prosper Merimee has published his correspondence. One of his
sayings was "Ce qui excuse Dieu, c'est qu'il n'existe pas"--God's
excuse is that he does not exist.

Bianchi (Angelo), known as Bianchi-Giovini (Aurelio) Italian man
of letters, b. of poor parents at Como, 25 Nov. 1799. He conducted
several papers in various parts of Piedmont and Switzerland. His Life
of Father Paoli Sarpi, 1836, was put on the Index, and thenceforward
he was in constant strife with the Roman Church. For his attacks on
the clergy in Il Republicano, at Lugano, he was proscribed, and had to
seek refuge at Zurich, 1839. He went thence to Milan and there wrote
a History of the Hebrews, a monograph on Pope Joan, and an account
of the Revolution. His principal works are the History of the Popes
until the great schism of the West (Turin, 1850-64) and a Criticism
of the Gospels, 1853, which has gone through several editions. Died
16 May, 1862.

Biandrata or Blandrata (Giorgio), Italian anti-trinitarian reformer,
b. Saluzzo about 1515. Graduated in arts and medicine at Montpellier,
1533. He was thrown into the prison of the Inquisition at Pavia,
but contrived to escape to Geneva, where he become obnoxious to
Calvin. He left Geneva in 1558 and went to Poland where he became a
leader of the Socinian party. He was assassinated 1591.

Bichat (Marie Francois Xavier), a famous French anatomist and
physiologist, b. Thoirette (Jura), 11 Nov. 1771. His work on the
Physiology of Life and Death was translated into English. He died a
martyr to his zeal for science, 22 July, 1802.

Biddle or Bidle (John), called the father of English Unitarianism,
b. Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, 14 Jan. 1615. He took his
M.A. degree at Oxford, 1641, and became master of the Gloucester
Grammar School, but lost the situation for denying the Trinity. He
was also imprisoned there for some time, and afterwards cited at
Westminster. He appealed to the public in defence, and his pamphlet
was ordered to be burnt by the hangman, 6 Sept. 1647. He was detained
in prison till 1652, after which he published several pamphlets, and
was again imprisoned in 1654. In Oct. 1655, Cromwell banished him to
the Scilly Isles, making him an allowance. He returned to London 1658,
but after the publication of the Acts of Uniformity was again seized,
and died in prison 22 Sept. 1662.

Bierce (M. H.) see Grile (Dod).

Billaud-Varenne (Jean Nicolas), French conventionalist b. La Rochelle,
23 April, 1756. About 1785 became advocate to Parliament; denounced
the government and clergy 1789. Proposed abolition of the monarchy
1 July, 1791, and wrote Elements of Republicanism, 1793. Withdrew
from Robespierre after the feast of the Supreme Being, saying "Thou
beginnest to sicken me with thy Supreme Being." Was exiled 1 April,
1795, and died at St. Domingo, 3 June, 1819.

Bion, of Borysthenes, near the mouth of the Dneiper. A Scythian
philosopher who flourished about 250 B.C. He was sold as a slave
to a rhetorician, who afterwards gave him freedom and made him his
heir. Upon this he went to Athens and applied himself to the study
of philosophy. He had several teachers, but attached himself to
Theodorus the Atheist. He was famous for his knowledge of music,
poetry, and philosophy. Some shrewd sayings of his are preserved,
as that "only the votive tablets of the preserved are seen in the
temples, not those of the drowned" and "it is useless to tear our
hair when in grief since sorrow is not cured by baldness."

Birch (William John), English Freethinker, b. London 4
Jan. 1811. Educated at Baliol College, Oxford, graduated M.A. at
New Inn Hall. Author of An Inquiry into the Philosophy and Religion
of Shakespeare, 1848; An Inquiry into the Philosophy and Religion
of the Bible, 1856; this work was translated into Dutch by "Rudolf
Charles;" Paul an Idea, not a Fact; and the Real and Ideal. In the
stormy time of '42 Mr. Birch did much to support the prosecuted
publications. He brought out the Library of Reason and supported
The Reasoner and Investigator with both pen and purse. Mr. Birch has
resided much in Italy and proved himself a friend to Italian unity
and Freedom. He is a member of the Italian Asiatic Society. Mr. Birch
has been a contributor to Notes and Queries and other journals,
and has devoted much attention to the early days of Christianity,
having many manuscripts upon the subject.

Bithell (Richard), Agnostic, b. Lewes, Sussex, 22 March 1821, of pious
parents. Became teacher of mathematics and chemistry. Is Ph.D. of
Gottingen and B.Sc. of London University. In '65 he entered the
service of the Rothschilds. Has written Creed of a Modern Agnostic,
1883; and Agnostic Problems, 1887.

Bjoernson (Bjoernstjerne), Norwegian writer, b. Quickne 8 Dec. 1832. His
father was a Lutheran clergyman. Has done much to create a national
literature for Norway. For his freethinking opinions he was obliged
to leave his country and reside in Paris. Many of his tales have been
translated into English. In 1882 Bjoernson published at Christiania,
with a short introduction, a resume of C. B. Waite's History of the
Christian Religion, under the title of Whence come the Miracles of the
New Testament? This was the first attack upon dogmatic Christianity
published in Norway, and created much discussion. The following year
he published a translation of Colonel Ingersoll's article in the North
American Review upon the "Christian Religion," with a long preface,
in which he attacks the State Church and Monarchy. The translation
was entitled Think for Yourself. The first edition rapidly sold out
and a second one appeared. He has since, both in speech and writing,
repeatedly avowed his Freethought, and has had several controversies
with the clergy.

Blagosvyetlov (Grigorevich E.), Russian author, b. in the Caucasus,
1826. Has written on Shelley, Buckle, and Mill, whose Subjection
of Women he translated into Russian. He edited a magazine Djelo
(Cause). Died about 1885.

Blanqui (Louis Auguste), French politician, b. near Nice, 7 Feb. 1805,
a younger brother of Jerome Adolphe Blanqui, the economist. Becoming
a Communist, his life was spent in conspiracy and imprisonment
under successive governments. In '39 he was condemned to death, but
his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life, and was subject to
brutal treatment till the revolution of '48 set him at liberty. He
was soon again imprisoned. In '65 he wrote some remarkable articles
on Monotheism in Le Candide. After the revolution of 4 Sept. '70,
Blanqui demanded the suppression of worship. He was again imprisoned,
but was liberated and elected member of the Commune, and arrested by
Thiers. In his last imprisonment he wrote a curious book, Eternity
and the Stars, in which he argues from the eternity and infinity of
matter. Died Paris, 31 Dec. 1880. Blanqui took as his motto "Ni Dieu
ni maitre"--Neither God nor master.

Blasche (Bernhard Heinrich), German Pantheist, b. Jena 9 April,
1776. His father was a professor of theology and philosophy. He wrote
Kritik des Modernen Geisterglaubens (Criticism of Modern Ghost Belief),
Philosophische Unsterblichkeitslehre (Teaching of Philosophical
Immortality), and other works. Died near Gotha 26 Nov. 1832.

Blignieres (Celestin de), French Positivist, of the Polytechnic
school. Has written a popular exposition of Positive philosophy and
religion, Paris 1857; The Positive Doctrine, 1867; Studies of Positive
Morality, 1868; and other works.

Blind (Karl), German Republican, b. Mannheim, 4 Sept. 1826. Studied
at Heidelberg and Bonn. In 1848 he became a revolutionary leader
among the students and populace, was wounded at Frankfort, and
proscribed. In Sept. '48 he led the second republican revolution in
the Black Forest. He was made prisoner and sentenced to eight year's
imprisonment. In the spring of '49 he was liberated by the people
breaking open his prison. Being sent on a mission to Louis Napoleon,
then president of the French Republic at Paris, he was arrested and
banished from France. He went to Brussels, but since '52 has lived
in in England, where he has written largely on politics, history,
and mythology. His daughter Mathilde, b. at Mannheim, opened her
literary career by publishing a volume of poems in 1867 under the
name of Claude Lake. She has since translated Straus's Old Faith and
the New, and written the volumes on George Eliot and Madame Roland
in the Eminent Women series.

Blount (Charles), English Deist of noble family, b. at Holloway 27
April, 1654. His father, Sir Henry Blount, probably shared in his
opinions, and helped him in his anti-religious work, Anima Mundi,
1678. This work Bishop Compton desired to see suppressed. In 1680 he
published Great is Diana of the Ephesians, or the Origin of Idolatry,
and the two first books of Apollonius Tyanius, with notes, in which
he attacks priestcraft and superstition. This work was condemned and
suppressed. Blount also published The Oracles of Reason, a number
of Freethought Essays. By his Vindication of Learning and Liberty
of the Press, and still more by his hoax on Bohun entitled William
and Mary Conquerors, he was largely instrumental in doing away with
the censorship of the press. He shot himself, it is said, because
he could not marry his deceased wife's sister (August, 1693). His
miscellaneous works were printed in one volume, 1695.

Blumenfeld (J. C.), wrote The New Ecce <DW25> or the Self Redemption of
Man, 1839. He is also credited with the authorship of The Existence of
Christ Disproved in a series of Letters by "A German Jew," London,
1841.

Boerne (Ludwig), German man of letters and politician, b. Frankfort
22 May, 1786. In 1818 he gave up the Jewish religion, in which he had
been bred, nominally for Protestantism, but really he had, like his
friend Heine, become a Freethinker. He wrote many works in favor of
political liberty and translated Lammenais' Paroles d'un Croyant. Died
12 Feb. 1837.

Bodin (Jean), French political writer, b. Angers 1530. He studied
at Toulouse and is said to have been a monk but turned to the law,
and became secretary to the Duc d'Alencon. His book De la Republique
is highly praised by Hallam, and is said to have contained the germ of
Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws." He wrote a work on demonomania, in
which he seems to have believed, but in his Colloquium Heptaplomeron
coloquies of seven persons: a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, a
Pagan, a Muhammadan, a Jew, and a Deist, which he left in manuscript,
he put some severe attacks on Christianity. Died of the plague at
Laon in 1596.

Boggis (John) is mentioned by Edwards in his Gangrena, 1645, as an
Atheist and disbeliever in the Bible.

Boichot (Jean Baptiste), b. Villier sur Suize 20 Aug. 1820, entered
the army. In '49 he was chosen representative of the people. After
the coup d'etat he came to England, returned to France in '54,
was arrested and imprisoned at Belle Isle. Since then he has lived
at Brussels, where he has written several works and is one of the
council of International Freethinkers.

Boindin (Nicolas) French litterateur, wit, playwright and academician,
b. Paris 29 May, 1676. He publicly professed Atheism, and resorted
with other Freethinkers to the famous cafe Procope. There, in order to
speak freely, they called the soul Margot, religion Javotte, liberty
Jeanneton, and God M. de l'Etre. One day a spy asked Boindin, "Who
is this M. de l'Etre with whom you seem so displeased?" "Monsieur,"
replied Boindin, "he is a police spy." Died 30 Nov. 1751. His corpse
was refused "Christian burial."

Boissiere (Jean Baptiste Prudence), French writer, b. Valognes
Dec. 1806, was for a time teacher in England. He compiled an analogical
dictionary of the French language. Under the name of Sierebois he
has published the Autopsy of the Soul and a work on the foundations
of morality, which he traces to interest. He has also written a book
entitled The Mechanism of Thought, '84.

Boissonade (J. A.), author of The Bible Unveiled, Paris, 1871.

Boito (Arrigo), Italian poet and musician, b. at Padua, whose opera
"Mefistofele," has created considerable sensation by its boldness.

Bolingbroke (Henry Saint John) Lord, English statesman and philosopher,
b. at Battersea, 1 Oct. 1672. His political life was a stormy
one. He was the friend of Swift and of Pope, who in his Essay on Man
avowedly puts forward the views of Saint John. He died at Battersea
12 Dec. 1751, leaving by will his MSS. to David Mallet, who in 1754
published his works, which included Essays Written to A. Pope, Esq.,
on Religion and Philosophy, in which he attacks Christianity with
both wit and eloquence. Bolingbroke was a Deist, believing in God
but scornfully rejecting revelation. He much influenced Voltaire,
who regarded him with esteem.

Bonavino (Francesco Cristoforo) see Franchi (Ausonio).

Boni (Filippo de), Italian man of letters, b. Feltre, 1820. Editor of
a standard Biography of Artists, published at Venice, 1840. He also
wrote on the Roman Church and Italy and on Reason and Dogma, Siena,
'66, and contributed to Stefanoni's Libero Pensiero. De Boni was
elected deputy to the Italian Parliament. He has written on "Italian
Unbelief in the Middle Ages" in the Annuario Filosofico del Libero
Pensiero, '68.

Boniface VIII., Pope (Benedetto Gaetano), elected head of Christendom,
24 Dec. 1294. During his quarrel with Philip the Fair of France charges
were sworn on oath against Pope Boniface that he neither believed in
the Trinity nor in the life to come, that he said the Virgin Mary
"was no more a virgin than my mother"; that he did not observe the
fasts of the Church, and that he spoke of the cardinals, monks,
and friars as hypocrites. It was in evidence that the Pope had said
"God may do the worst with me that he pleases in the future life; I
believe as every educated man does, the vulgar believe otherwise. We
have to speak as they do, but we must believe and think with the
few." Died 11 Oct. 1303.

Bonnycastle (John), mathematician, b. Whitchurch, Bucks, about
1750. He wrote several works on elementary mathematics and became
Professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
where he died 15 May, 1821. He was a friend of Fuseli, and private
information assures me he was a Freethinker.

Booms (Marinus Adriaansz), Dutch Spinozist, a shoemaker by trade,
who wrote early in the eighteenth century, and on 1 Jan. 1714,
was banished.

Bonnot de Condillac (Etienne) see Condillac.

Bonstetten (Karl Victor von), Swiss Deist, b. Berne, 3 Sept
1745. Acquainted with Voltaire and Rousseau he went to Leyden and
England to finish his education. Among his works are Researches on
the Nature and Laws of the Imagination, 1807; and Studies on Man,
1821. Died Geneva, 3 Feb. 1832.

Borde (Frederic), editor of La Philosophie de l'Avenir, Paris, 1875,
etc. Born La Rochelle 1841. Has written on Liberty of Instruction, etc.

Born (Ignaz von) baron, b. Carlsruhe, 26 Dec. 1742. Bred by the
Jesuits, he became an ardent scientist and a favorite of the
Empress Marie Theresa, under whose patronage he published works
on Mineralogy. He was active as a Freemason, and Illuminati, and
published with the name Joannes Physiophilus a stinging illustrated
satire entitled Monchalogia, or the natural history of monks.

Bosc (Louis Augustin Guillaume), French naturalist, b. Paris, 29
Jan. 1759; was tutor and friend to Madame Roland whose Memoirs he
published. He wrote many works on natural history. Died 10 July, 1828.

Boucher (E. Martin), French writer, b. Beaulieu, 1809; contributed to
the Rationalist of Geneva, where he died 1882. Author of a work on
Revelation and Rationalism, entitled Search for the Truth, Avignon,
1884.

Bougainville (Louis Antoine de) Count, the first French voyager
who made the tour around the world; b. Paris, 11 Nov. 1729. Died 31
Aug. 1811. He wrote an interesting account of his travels.

Bouillier (Francisque), French philosopher, b. Lyons 12 July 1813, has
written several works on psychology, and contributed to la Liberte de
Penser. His principal work is a History of the Cartesian Philosophy. He
is a member of the Institute and writes in the leading reviews.

Bouis (Casimir), French journalist, b. Toulon 1848, edited La Libre
Pensee and wrote a satire on the Jesuits entitled Calottes et Soutanes,
1870. Sent to New Caledonia for his participation in the Commune, he
has since his return published a volume of political verses entitled
Apres le Naufrage, After the Shipwreck, 1880.

Boulainvilliers (Henri de), Comte de St. Saire, French historian and
philosopher, b. 11 Oct. 1658. His principal historical work is an
account of the ancient French Parliaments. He also wrote a defence of
Spinozism under pretence of a refutation of Spinoza, an analysis of
Spinoza's Tractus Theologico-Politicus, printed at the end of Doubts
upon Religion, Londres, 1767. A Life of Muhammad, the first European
work doing justice to Islam, and a History of the Arabs also proceeded
from his pen, and he is one of those to whom is attributed the treatise
with the title of the Three Impostors, 1755. Died 23 Jan. 1722.

Boulanger (Nicolas-Antoine), French Deist, b. 11 Nov. 1722. Died
16 Sept. 1759. He was for some time in the army as engineer, and
afterwards became surveyor of public works. After his death his works
were published by D'Holbach who rewrote them. His principal works
are Antiquity Unveiled and Researches on the Origin of Oriental
Despotism. Christianity Unveiled, attributed to him and said by
Voltaire to have been by Damilavile, was probably written by D'Holbach,
perhaps with some assistance from Naigeon. It was burnt by order of
the French Parliament 18 Aug. 1770. A Critical Examination of the
Life and Works of St. Paul, attributed to Boulanger, was really made
up by d'Holbach from the work of Annet. Boulanger wrote dissertations
on Elisha, Enoch and St. Peter, and some articles for the Encyclopedie.

Bourdet (Dr.) Eugene, French Positivist, b. Paris, 1818. Author of
several works on medicine and Positivist philosophy and education.

Boureau-Deslands (A. F.) See Deslandes.

Bourget (Paul), French litterateur, b. at Amiens in 1852. Has made
himself famous by his novels, essays on contemporary psychology,
studies of M. Renan, etc. He belongs to the Naturalist School, but
his methods are less crude than those of some of his colleagues. His
insight is most subtle, and his style is exquisite.

Boutteville (Marc Lucien), French writer, professor at the Lycee
Bonaparte; has made translations from Lessing and published an
able work on the Morality of the Church and Natural Morality, 1866,
for which the clergy turned him out of a professorship he held at
Sainte-Barbe.

Bovio (Giovanni), Professor of Political Economy in the University
of Naples and deputy to the Italian parliament; is an ardent
Freethinker. Both in his writings and in parliament Prof. Bovio
opposes the power of the Vatican and the reconciliation between
Church and State. He has constantly advocated liberty of conscience
and has promoted the institution of a Dante chair in the University
of Rome. He has written a work on The History of Law, a copy of which
he presented to the International Congress of Freethinkers, 1887.

Bowring (Sir John, K.B., LL D.), politician, linguist and writer,
b. Exeter, 17 Oct., 1792. In early life a pupil of Dr. Lant
Carpenter and later a disciple of Jeremy Bentham, whose principles
he maintained in the Westminster Review, of which he was editor,
1825. Arrested in France in 1822, after a fortnight's imprisonment
he was released without trial. He published Bentham's Deontology
(1834), and nine years after edited a complete collection of the
works of Bentham. Returned to Parliament in '35, and afterwards was
employed in important government missions. In '55 he visited Siam,
and two years later published an account of The Kingdom and People
of Siam. He translated Goethe, Schiller, Heine, and the poems of
many countries; was an active member of the British Association and
of the Social Science Association, and did much to promote rational
views on the Sunday question. Died 23 Nov. 1872.

Boyle (Humphrey), one of the men who left Leeds for the purpose of
serving in R. Carlile's shop when the right of free publication was
attacked in 1821. Boyle gave no name, and was indicted and tried as
"a man with name unknown" for publishing a blasphemous and seditious
libel. In his defence he ably asserted his right to hold and publish
his opinions. He read portions of the Bible in court to prove he was
justified in calling it obscene. Upon being sentenced, 27 May, 1822,
to eighteen months' imprisonment and to find sureties for five years,
he remarked "I have a mind, my lord, that can bear such a sentence
with fortitude."

Bradlaugh (Charles). Born East London, 26 Sept. 1833. Educated
in Bethnal Green and Hackney. He was turned from his Sunday-school
teachership and from his first situation through the influence of the
Rev. J. G. Packer, and found refuge with the widow of R. Carlile. In
Dec. 1850 he entered the Dragoon Guards and proceeded to Dublin. Here
he met James Thomson, the poet, and contracted a friendship which
lasted for many years. He got his discharge, and in '53 returned to
London and became a solicitor's clerk. He began to write and lecture
under the nom de guerre of "Iconoclast," edited the Investigator, '59;
and had numerous debates with ministers and others. In 1860 he began
editing the National Reformer, which in '68-9 he successfully defended
against a prosecution of the Attorney General, who wished securities
against blasphemy. In '68 he began his efforts to enter Parliament,
and in 1880 was returned for Northampton. After a long struggle
with the House, which would not admit the Atheist, he at length took
his seat in 1885. He was four times re-elected, and the litigation
into which he was plunged will become as historic as that of John
Wilkes. Prosecuted in '76 for publishing The Fruits of Philosophy, he
succeeded in quashing the indictment. Mr. Bradlaugh has had numerous
debates, several of which are published. He has also written many
pamphlets, of which we mention New Lives of Abraham, David, and
other saints, Who was Jesus Christ? What did Jesus Teach? Has Man
a Soul, Is there a God? etc. His Plea for Atheism reached its 20th
thousand in 1880. Mr. Bradlaugh has also published When were our
Gospels Written?, 1867; Heresy, its Utility and Morality, 1870;
The Inspiration of the Bible, 1873; The Freethinker's Text Book,
part i., dealing with natural religion, 1876; The Laws Relating to
Blasphemy and Heresy, 1878; Supernatural and Rational Morality,
1886. In 1857 Mr. Bradlaugh commenced a commentary on the Bible,
entitled The Bible, What is it? In 1865 this appeared in enlarged form,
dealing only with the Pentateuch. In 1882 he published Genesis, Its
Authorship and Authenticity. In Parliament Mr. Bradlaugh has become
a conspicuous figure, and has introduced many important measures. In
1888 he succeeded in passing an Oaths Bill, making affirmations
permissible instead of oaths. His elder daughter, Alice, b. 30
April, 1856, has written on Mind Considered as a Bodily Function,
1884. Died 2 Dec. 1888. His second daughter, Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner,
b. 31 March, 1858, has written "Princess Vera" and other stories,
"Chemistry of Home," etc.

Braekstad (Hans Lien), b. Throndhjem, Norway, 7 Sept. 1845. Has made
English translations from Bjoernson, Asbjoernsen, Andersen, etc., and
has contributed to Harper's Magazine and other periodical literature.

Brandes (Georg Morris Cohen), Danish writer, by birth a Jew,
b. Copenhagen, 4 Feb. 1842. In 1869 he translated J. S. Mills'
Subjection of Women, and in the following year took a doctor's
degree for a philosophical treatise. His chief work is entitled the
Main Current of Literature in the Nineteenth Century. His brother,
Dr. Edvard Brandes, was elected to the Danish Parliament in 1881,
despite his declaration that he did not believe either in the God of
the Christians or of the Jews.

Bray (Charles), philosophic writer, b. Coventry, 31 Jan. 1811. He was
brought up as an Evangelical, but found his way to Freethought. Early
in life he took an active part in promoting unsectarian education. His
first work (1835) was on The Education of the Body. This was followed
by The Education of the Feelings, of which there were several
editions. In 1836 he married Miss Hennell, sister of C. C. Hennell,
and took the System of Nature and Volney's Ruins of Empires "to
enliven the honeymoon." Among his friends was Mary Ann Evans ("George
Eliot"), who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Bray to Italy. His works on
The Philosophy of Necessity (1841) and Cerebral Psychology (1875)
give the key to all his thought. He wrote a number of Thomas Scott's
series of tracts: Illusion and Delusion, The Reign of Law in Mind as
in Matter, Toleration with remarks on Professor Tyndall's "Address,"
and a little book, Christianity in the Light of our Present Knowledge
and Moral Sense (1876). He also wrote A Manual of Anthropology and
similar works. In a postscript to his last volume, Phases of Opinion
and Experience During a Long Life, dated 18 Sept. 1884, he stated
that he has no hope or expectation or belief even in the possibility
of continued individuality after death, and that as his opinions have
done to live by "they will do to die by." He died 5 Oct. 1884.

Bresson (Leopold), French Positivist, b. Lamarche, 1817. Educated at
the Polytechnic School, which he left in 1840 and served on public
works. For seventeen years was director of an Austrian Railway
Company. Wrote Idees Modernes, 1880.

Bridges (John Henry), M.D. English Positivist, b. 1833, graduated
B.A. at Oxford 1855, and B.M. 1859; has written on Religion and
Progress, contributed to the Fortnightly Review, and translated Comte's
General View of Positivism (1865) and System of Positive Polity (1873).

Bril (Jakob), Dutch mystical Pantheist, b. Leyden, 21 Jan. 1639. Died
1700. His works were published at Amsterdam, 1705.

Brissot (Jean Pierre) de Warville, active French revolutionist,
b. Chartres, 14 Jan. 1754. He was bred to the law, but took to
literature. He wrote for the Courier de l'Europe, a revolutionary
paper suppressed for its boldness, published a treatise on Truth,
and edited a Philosophical Law Library, 1782-85. He wrote against the
legal authority of Rome, and is credited with Philosophical Letters
upon St. Paul and the Christian Religion, Neufchatel, 1783. In 1784
he was imprisoned in the Bastille for his writings. To avoid a second
imprisonment he went to England and America, returning to France
at the outbreak of the Revolution. He wrote many political works,
became member of the Legislative Assembly, formed the Girondist party,
protested against the execution of Louis XVI., and upon the triumph
of the Mountain was executed with twenty-one of his colleagues,
31 Oct., 1793. Brissot was a voluminous writer, honest, unselfish,
and an earnest lover of freedom in every form.

Bristol (Augusta), nee Cooper, American educator, b. Croydon, New
Haven, 17 April, 1835. In 1850 became teacher and gained repute by
her Poems. In Sept. 1880, she represented American Freethinkers at
the International Conference at Brussels. She has written on Science
and its Relations to Human Character and other works.

Broca (Pierre Paul), French anthropologist, b. 28 June, 1824. A
hard-working scientist, he paid special attention to craniology. In
1875 he founded the School of Anthropology and had among his pupils
Gratiolet, Topinard, Hovelacque and Dr. Carter Blake, who translated
his treatise on Hybridity. He established The Review of Anthropology,
published numerous scientific works and was made a member of the
Legion of Honor. In philosophy he inclined to Positivism. Died Paris,
9 July, 1880.

Brooksbank (William), b. Nottingham 6 Dec. 1801. In 1824 he wrote
in Carlile's Lion, and has since contributed to the Reasoner, the
Pathfinder, and the National Reformer. He was an intimate friend
of James Watson. He wrote A Sketch of the Religions of the Earth,
Revelation Tested by Astronomy, Geography, Geology, etc., 1856, and
some other pamphlets. Mr. Brooksbank is still living in honored age
at Nottingham.

Brothier (Leon), author of a Popular History of Philosophy, 1861,
and other works in the Bibliotheque Utile. He contributed to the
Rationalist of Geneva.

Broussais (Francois Joseph Victor), French physician and philosopher,
b. Saint Malo, 17 Dec. 1772. Educated at Dinan, in 1792 he served
as volunteer in the army of the Republic. He studied medicine at
St. Malo and Brest, and became a naval surgeon. A disciple of Bichat,
he did much to reform medical science by his Examination of Received
Medical Doctrines and to find a basis for mental and moral science in
physiology by his many scientific works. Despite his bold opinions, he
was made Commander of the Legion of Honor. He died poor at St. Malo 17
Nov. 1838, leaving behind a profession of faith, in which he declares
his disbelief in a creator and his being "without hope or fear of
another life."

Brown (George William), Dr., of Rockford, Illinois, b. in Essex Co.,
N.Y., Oct. 1820, of Baptist parents. At 17 years of age he was expelled
the church for repudiating the dogma of an endless hell. Dr. Brown
edited the Herald of Freedom, Kansas. In 1856 his office was destroyed
by a pro-slavery mob, his type thrown into the river, and himself
and others arrested but was released without trial. Dr. Brown has
contributed largely to the Ironclad Age and other American Freethought
papers, and is bringing out a work on the Origin of Christianity.

Brown (Titus L.), Dr., b. 16 Oct. 1823, at Hillside (N.Y.). Studied
at the Medical College of New York and graduated at the Homoeopathic
College, Philadelphia. He settled at Binghamton where he had a large
practice. He contributed to the Boston Investigator and in 1877 was
elected President of the Freethinkers Association. Died 17 Aug. 1887.

Browne (Sir Thomas), physician and writer, b. London, 19 Oct. 1605. He
studied medicine and travelled on the Continent, taking his doctor's
degree at Leyden (1633). He finally settled at Norwich, where he had
a good practice. His treatise Religio Medici, famous for its fine
style and curious mixture of faith and scepticism, was surreptitiously
published in 1642. It ran through several editions and was placed on
the Roman Index. His Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Enquiries into Vulgar
and Common Errors, appeared in 1646. While disputing many popular
superstitions he showed he partook of others. This curious work
was followed by Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial, in which he treats
of cremation among the ancients. To this was added The Garden of
Cyrus. He died 19 Oct. 1682.

Bruno (Giordano), Freethought martyr, b. at Nola, near Naples, about
1548. He was christened Filippo which he changed to Filoteo, taking
the name of Giordano when he entered the Dominican order. Religious
doubts and bold strictures on the monks obliged him to quit Italy,
probably in 1580. He went to Geneva but soon found it no safe abiding
place, and quitted it for Paris, where he taught, but refused to attend
mass. In 1583 he visited England, living with the French ambassador
Castelnau. Having formed a friendship with Sir Philip Sidney, he
dedicated to him his Spaccio della Bestia Triomfante, a satire on all
mythologies. In 1585 he took part in a logical tournament, sustaining
the Copernican theory against the doctors of Oxford. The following year
he returned to Paris, where he again attacked the Aristotelians. He
then travelled to various cities in Germany, everywhere preaching
the broadest heresy. He published several Pantheistic, scientific and
philosophical works. He was however induced to return to Italy, and
arrested as an heresiarch and apostate at Venice, Sept. 1592. After
being confined for seven years by the Inquisitors, he was tried,
and burnt at Rome 17 Feb. 1600. At his last moments a crucifix was
offered him, which he nobly rejected. Bruno was vastly before his age
in his conception of the universe and his rejection of theological
dogmas. A statue of this heroic apostle of liberty and light, executed
by one of the first sculptors of Italy, is to be erected on the spot
where he perished, the Municipal Council of Rome having granted the
site in face of the bitterest opposition of the Catholic party. The
list of subscribers to this memorial comprises the principal advanced
thinkers in Europe and America.

Brzesky (Casimir Liszynsky Podsedek). See Liszinski.

Bucali or Busali (Leonardo), a Calabrian abbot of Spanish descent,
who became a follower of Servetus in the sixteenth century, and had
to seek among the Turks the safety denied him in Christendom. He died
at Damascus.

Buchanan (George), Scotch historian and scholar, b. Killearn,
Feb. 1506. Evincing an early love of study, he was sent to
Paris at the age of fourteen. He returned to Scotland and became
distinguished for his learning. James V. appointed him tutor to his
natural son. He composed his Franciscanus et Fratres, a satire on the
monks, which hastened the Scottish reformation. This exposed him to
the vengeance of the clergy. Not content with calling him Atheist,
Archbishop Beaton had him arrested and confined in St. Andrew's
Castle, from whence he escaped and fled to England. Here he found,
as he said, Henry VIII. burning men of opposite opinions at the same
stake for religion. He returned to Paris, but was again subjected to
the persecution of Beaton, the Scottish Ambassador. On the death of
a patron at Bordeaux, in 1548, he was seized by the Inquisition and
immured for a year and a half in a monastery, where he translated
the Psalms into Latin. He eventually returned to Scotland, where he
espoused the party of Moray. After a most active life, he died 28
Sept. 1582, leaving a History of Scotland, besides numerous poems,
satires, and political writings, the most important of which is a
work of republican tendency, De Jure Regni, the Rights of Kings.

Buchanan (Robert), Socialist, b. Ayr, 1813. He was successively a
schoolmaster, a Socialist missionary and a journalist. He settled in
Manchester, where he published works on the Religion of The Past and
Present, 1839; the Origin and Nature of Ghosts, 1840. An Exposure
of Joseph Barker, and a Concise History of Modern Priestcraft also
bear the latter date. At this time the Socialists were prosecuted for
lecturing on Sunday, and Buchanan was fined for refusing to take the
oath of supremacy, etc. After the decline of Owenism, he wrote for
the Northern Star, and edited the Glasgow Sentinel. He died at the
home of his son, the poet, at Bexhill, Sussex, 4 March, 1866.

Buchanan (Joseph Rhodes), American physician, b. Frankfort, Kentucky,
11 Dec. 1814. He graduated M.D. at Louisville University, 1842, and
has been the teacher of physiology at several colleges. From 1849-56
he published Buchanan's Journal of Man, and has written several works
on Anthropology.

Buchner (Ludwig). See Buechner.

Buckle (Henry Thomas), philosophical historian, b. Lee, Kent, 24
Nov. 1821. In consequence of his delicate health he was educated at
home. His mother was a strict Calvinist, his father a strong Tory,
but a visit to the Continent made him a Freethinker and Radical. He
ever afterwards held travelling to be the best education. It was his
ambition to write a History of Civilisation in England, but so vast was
his design that his three notable volumes with that title form only
part of the introduction. The first appeared in 1858, and created a
great sensation by its boldness. In the following year he championed
the cause of Pooley, who was condemned for blasphemy, and dared the
prosecution of infidels of standing. In 1861 he visited the East,
in the hope of improving his health, but died at Damascus, 29 May,
1862. Much of the material collected for his History has been published
in his Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works, edited by Helen Taylor,
1872. An abridged edition, edited by Grant Allen, appeared in 1886.

Buechner (Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig), German materialist,
b. Darmstadt, 29 March, 1824. Studied medicine in Geissen, Strassburg
and Vienna. In '55 he startled the world with his bold work on
Force and Matter, which has gone through numerous editions and been
translated into nearly all the European languages. This work lost
him the place of professor which he held at Tuebingen, and he has
since practised in his native town. Buechner has developed his ideas
in many other works such as Nature and Spirit (1857), Physiological
Sketches, '61; Nature and Science, '62; Conferences on Darwinism,
'69; Man in the Past, Present and Future, '69; Materialism its History
and Influence on Society, '73; The Idea of God, '74; Mind in Animals,
'80; and Light and Life, '82. He also contributes to the Freidenker,
the Dageraad, and other journals.

Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc), Count de, French naturalist,
b. Montford, Burgundy, 7 Sept. 1707. An incessant worker. His Natural
History in 36 volumes bears witness to the fertility of his mind
and his capacity for making science attractive. Buffon lived much in
seclusion, and attached himself to no sect or religion. Some of his
sentences were attacked by the Sorbonne. Herault de Sechelles says
that Buffon said: "I have named the Creator, but it is only necessary
to take out the word and substitute the power of nature." Died at
Paris 16 April, 1788.

Buitendijk or Buytendyck (Gosuinus van), Dutch Spinozist, who wrote an
Apology at the beginning of the eighteenth century and was banished
1716.

Bufalini (Maurizio), Italian doctor, b. Cesena 2 June, 1787. In 1813 he
published an essay on the Doctrine of Life in opposition to vitalism,
and henceforward his life was a conflict with the upholders of that
doctrine. He was accused of materialism, but became a professor at
Florence and a member of the Italian Senate in 1860. Died at Florence
31 March, 1875.

Burdach (Karl Friedrich), German physiologist, b. Leipsic 12 June,
1776. He occupied a chair at the University of Breslau. His works on
physiology and anthropology did much to popularise those sciences,
and the former is placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum for its
materialistic tendency. He died at Konigsberg, 16 July, 1847.

Burdon (William), M.A., writer, b. Newcastle, 11 Sept. 1764. Graduated
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1788. He was intended for a clergyman,
but want of faith made him decline that profession. His principal work
is entitled Materials for Thinking. Colton largely availed himself of
this work in his Lacon. It went through five editions in his lifetime,
and portions were reprinted in the Library of Reason. He also addressed
Three Letters to the Bishop of Llandaff, wrote a Life and Character of
Bonaparte, translated an account of the Revolution in Spain, edited the
Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski, and wrote some objections to the annual
subscription to the Sons of the Clergy. Died in London, 30 May, 1818.

Burigny (Jean Levesque de), French writer, b. Rheims, 1692. He became
a member of the French Academy, wrote a treatise on the Authority
of the Pope, a History of Pagan Philosophy and other works, and
is credited with the Critical Examination of the Apologists of the
Christian Religion, published under the name of Freret by Naigeon,
1766. Levesque de Burigny wrote a letter in answer to Bergier's
Proofs of Christianity, which is published in Naigeon's Recueil
Philosophique. Died at Paris, 8 Oct. 1785.

Burmeister (Hermann), German naturalist, b. Stralsund, 15 Jan. 1807. In
1827 he became a doctor at Halle. In '48 he was elected to the National
Assembly. In 1850 he went to Brazil. His principal work is The History
of Creation, 1843.

Burmeister or Baurmeister (Johann Peter Theodor) a German Rationalist
and colleague of Ronge. Born at Flensburg, 1805. He resided in
Hamburg, and wrote in the middle of the present century under the
name of J. P. Lyser.

Burnet (Thomas), b. about 1635 at Croft, Yorkshire. Through the
interest of a pupil, the Duke of Ormonde, he obtained the mastership
of the Charterhouse, 1685. In 1681 the first part of his Telluris
Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth, appeared in Latin, and
was translated and modified in 1684. In 1692 Burnet published, both
in English and in Latin, his Archaeologiae Philosophicae, or the Ancient
Doctrine of the Origin of Things. He professes in this to reconcile
his theory with Genesis, which receives a figurative interpretation;
and a ludicrous dialogue between Eve and the serpent gave great
offence. In a popular ballad Burnet is represented as saying--


                That all the books of Moses
                Were nothing but supposes.


He had to resign a position at court. In later life he wrote De Fide
et Officiis Christianorum (on Christian Faith and Duties), in which
he regards historical religions as based on the religion of nature,
and rejects original sin and the "magical" theory of sacraments;
and De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium, on the State of the Dead and
Resurrected, in which he opposed the doctrine of eternal punishment
and shadowed forth a scheme of Deism. These books he kept to himself
to avoid a prosecution for heresy, but had a few copies printed for
private friends. He died in the Charterhouse 27 Sept. 1715. A tract
entitled Hell Torments not Eternal was published in 1739.

Burnett (James), Lord Monboddo, a learned Scotch writer and judge,
was b. Monboddo, Oct. 1714. He adopted the law as his profession,
became a celebrated advocate, and was made a judge in 1767. His
work on the Origin and Progress of Language (published anonymously
1773-92), excited much derision by his studying man as one of the
animals and collecting facts about savage tribes to throw light on
civilisation. He first maintained that the orang-outang was allied
to the human species. He also wrote on Ancient Metaphysics. He was
a keen debater and discussed with Hume, Adam Smith, Robertson, and
Lord Kames. Died in Edinburgh, 26 May, 1799.

Burnouf (Emile Louis), French writer, b. Valonges, 25 Aug. 1821. He
became professor of ancient literature to the faculty of Nancy. Author
of many works, including a translation of selections from the Novum
Organum of Bacon, the Bhagvat-Gita, an Introduction to the Vedas,
a history of Greek Literature, Studies in Japanese, and articles
in the Revue des deux Mondes. His heresy is pronounced in his work
on the Science of Religions, 1878, in his Contemporary Catholicism,
and Life and Thought, 1886.

Burnouf (Eugene), French Orientalist, cousin of the preceding;
b. Paris, 12 Aug. 1801. He opened up to the Western world the Pali
language, and with it the treasures of Buddhism, whose essentially
Atheistic character he maintained. To him also we are largely indebted
for a knowledge of Zend and of the Avesta of the Zoroastrians. He
translated numerous Oriental works and wrote a valuable Introduction
to the History of Indian Buddhism. Died at Paris, 28 May, 1852.

Burns (Robert), Scotland's greatest poet, b. near Ayr, 25
Jan. 1759. His father was a small farmer, of enlightened views. The
life and works of Burns are known throughout the world. His
Freethought is evident from such productions as the "Holy Fair,"
"The Kirk's Alarm," and "Holy Willie's Prayer," and many passages in
private letters to his most familiar male friends. Died at Dumfries,
21 July, 1796.

Burr (William Henry), American author, b. 1819, Gloversville, N.Y.,
graduated at Union College, Schenectady, became a shorthand reporter
to the Senate. In 1869 he retired and devoted himself to literary
research. He is the anonymous author of Revelations of Antichrist, a
learned book which exposes the obscurity of the origin of Christianity,
and seeks to show that the historical Jesus lived almost a century
before the Christian era. He has also written several pamphlets:
Thomas Paine was Junius, 1880: Self Contradictions of the Bible;
Is the Bible a Lying Humbug? A Roman Catholic Canard, etc. He has
also frequently contributed to the Boston Investigator, the New York
Truthseeker, and the Ironclad Age of Indianapolis.

Burton (Sir Richard Francis), traveller, linguist, and author,
b. Barham House, Herts, 19 March, 1821. Intended for the Church,
he matriculated at Oxford, but in 1842 entered the East India
Company's service, served on the staff of Sir C. Napier, and soon
acquired reputation as an intrepid explorer. In '51 he returned to
England and started for Mecca and Medina, visiting those shrines
unsuspected, as a Moslem pilgrim. He was chief of the staff of the
Osmanli cavalry in the Crimean war, and has made many remarkable and
dangerous expeditions in unknown lands; he discovered and opened
the lake regions in Central Africa and explored the highlands of
Brazil. He has been consul at Fernando Po, Santos, Damascus, and
since 1872 at Trieste, and speaks over thirty languages. His latest
work is a new translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night in 10
vols. Being threatened with a prosecution, he intended justifying
"literal naturalism" from the Bible. Burton's knowledge of Arabic is
so perfect that when he used to read the tales to Arabs, they would
roll on the ground in fits of laughter.

Butler (Samuel), poet, b. in Strensham, Worcestershire, Feb. 1612. In
early life he came under the influence of Selden. He studied painting,
and is said to have painted a head of Cromwell from life. He became
clerk to Sir Samuel Luke, one of Cromwell's Generals, whom he has
satirised as Hudibras. This celebrated burlesque poem appeared in 1663
and became famous, but, although the king and court were charmed with
its wit, the author was allowed to remain in poverty and obscurity
till he died at Covent Garden, London, 25 Sept. 1680. Butler expressed
the opinion that


        "Religion is the interest of churches
        That sell in other worlds in this to purchase."


Buttmann (Philipp Karl), German philologist, b. Frankfort, 5
Dec. 1764. Became librarian of the Royal Library at Berlin. He edited
many of the Greek Classics, wrote on the Myth of the Deluge, 1819,
and a learned work on Mythology, 1828. Died Berlin, 21 June, 1829.

Buzot (Francois Leonard Nicolas), French Girondin, distinguished as
an ardent Republican and a friend and lover of Madame Roland. Born
at Evreux, 1 March, 1760; he died from starvation when hiding after
the suppression of his party June, 1793.

Byelinsky (Vissarion G.) See Belinsky.

Byron (George Gordon Noel) Lord, b. London, 22 Jan. 1788. He succeeded
his grand-uncle William in 1798; was sent to Harrow and Cambridge. In
1807 he published his Hours of Idleness, and awoke one morning to find
himself famous. His power was, however, first shown in his English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which he satirised his critics, 1809. He
then travelled on the Continent, the result of which was seen in his
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and other works. He married 2 Jan. 1815,
but a separation took place in the following year. Lord Byron then
resided in Italy, where he made the acquaintance of Shelley. In 1823
he devoted his name and fortune to the cause of the Greek revolution,
but was seized with fever and died at Missolonghi, 19 April, 1824. His
drama of Cain: a Mystery, 1822, is his most serious utterance,
and it shows a profound contempt for religious dogma. This feeling
is also exhibited in his magnificent burlesque poem, The Vision
of Judgment, which places him at the head of English satirists. In
his letters to the Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811, he distinctly says:
"I do not believe in any revealed religion.... I will have nothing
to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life,
without the absurdity of speculating upon another.... The basis of
your religion is injustice; the Son of God, the pure, the immaculate,
the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty," etc.

Cabanis (Pierre Jean George), called by Lange "the father of the
materialistic physiology," b. Conac, 5 June, 1757. Became pupil
of Condillac and friend of Mirabeau, whom he attended in his last
illness, of which he published an account 1791. He was also intimate
with Turgot, Condorcet, Holbach, Diderot, and other distinguished
Freethinkers, and was elected member of the Institute and of the
Council of Five Hundred in the Revolution. His works are mostly
medical, the chief being Des Rapports du Physique et du Morale de
l'Homme, in which he contends that thoughts are a secretion of the
brain. Died Rueil, near Paris, 5 May, 1808.

Caesalpinus (Andreas), Italian philosopher of the Renaissance,
b. Arezzo, Tuscany, 1519. He became Professor of Botany at Pisa, and
Linnaeus admits his obligations to his work, De Plantis, 1583. He also
wrote works on metals and medicine, and showed acquaintance with the
circulation of the blood. In a work entitled Demonum Investigatio,
he contends that "possession" by devils is amenable to medical
treatment. His Quaestionum Peripateticarum, in five books, Geneva,
1568, was condemned as teaching a Pantheistic doctrine similar to
that of Spinoza. Bishop Parker denounced him. Died 23 Feb. 1603.

Caesar (Caius Julius), the "foremost man of all this world," equally
renowned as soldier, statesman, orator, and writer, b. 12 July,
100 B.C., of noble family. His life, the particulars of which are
well known, was an extraordinary display of versatility, energy,
courage, and magnanimity. He justified the well-known line of Pope,
"Caesar the world's great master and his own." His military talents
elevated him to the post of dictator, but this served to raise against
him a band of aristocratic conspirators, by whom he was assassinated,
15 March, 44 B.C. His Commentaries are a model of insight and clear
expression. Sallust relates that he questioned the existence of
a future state in the presence of the Roman senate. Froude says:
"His own writings contain nothing to indicate that he himself had any
religious belief at all. He saw no evidence that the gods practically
interfered in human affairs.... He held to the facts of this life and
to his own convictions; and as he found no reason for supposing that
there was a life beyond the grave he did not pretend to expect it."

Cahuac (John), bookseller, revised an edition of Palmer's Principles
of Nature, 1819. For this he was prosecuted at the instance of the
"Vice Society," but the matter was compromised. He was also prosecuted
for selling the Republican, 1820.

Calderino (Domizio), a learned writer of the Renaissance, b. in 1445,
in the territory of Verona, and lived at Rome, where he was professor
of literature, in 1477. He edited and commented upon many of the
Latin poets. Bayle says he was without religion. Died in 1478.

Calenzio (Eliseo), an Italian writer, b. in the kingdom of Naples about
1440. He was preceptor to Prince Frederic, the son of Ferdinand, the
King of Naples. He died in 1503, leaving behind a number of satires,
fables and epigrams, some of which are directed against the Church.

Call (Wathen Mark Wilks), English author, b. 7 June, 1817. Educated at
Cambridge, entered the ministry in 1843, but resigned his curacy about
1856 on account of his change of opinions, which he recounts in his
preface to Reverberations, 1876. Mr. Call is of the Positivist school,
and has contributed largely to the Fortnightly and Westminster Reviews.

Callet (Pierre Auguste), French politician, b. St. Etienne, 27
Oct. 1812; became editor of the Gazette of France till 1840. In 1848
he was nominated Republican representative. At the coup d'etat of 2
Dec. 1851, he took refuge in Belgium. He returned to France, but was
imprisoned for writing against the Empire. In 1871, Callet was again
elected representative for the department of the Loire. His chief
Freethought work is L'Enfer, an attack upon the Christian doctrine
of hell, 1861.

Camisani (Gregorio), Italian writer, b. at Venice, 1810. A Professor
of Languages in Milan. He has translated the Upas of Captain R. H. Dyas
and other works.

Campanella (Tommaso), Italian philosopher, b. Stilo, Calabria,
5 Sept. 1568. He entered the Dominican order, but was too much
attracted by the works of Telesio to please his superiors. In 1590
his Philosophia Sensibus Demonstratio was printed at Naples. Being
prosecuted, he fled to Rome, and thence to Florence, Venice,
and Padua. At Bologna some of his MS. fell into the hands of the
Inquisition, and he was arrested. He ably defended himself and was
acquitted. Returning to Calabria in 1599, he was arrested on charges
of heresy and conspiracy against the Spanish Government of Naples,
and having appealed to Rome, was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment
in the prison of the Holy Office. He was put to the torture seven
times, his torments on one occasion extending over forty hours, but
he refused to confess. He was dragged from one prison to another for
twenty-seven years, during which he wrote some sonnets, a history of
the Spanish monarchy, and several philosophical works. On 15 May,
1626, he was released by the intervention of Pope Urban VIII. He
was obliged to fly from Rome to France, where he met Gassendi. He
also visited Descartes in Holland. Julian Hibbert remarked that
his Atheismus Triumphatus--Atheism Subdued, 1631, would be better
entitled Atheismus Triumphans--Atheism Triumphant--as the author puts
his strongest arguments on the heterodox side. In his City of the Sun,
Campanella follows Plato and More in depicting an ideal republic and a
time when a new era of earthly felicity should begin. Hallam says "The
strength of Campanella's genius lay in his imagination." His "Sonnets"
have been translated by J. A. Symonds. Died Paris, 21 May, 1639.

Campbell (Alexander), Socialist of Glasgow, b. about the beginning
of the century. He early became a Socialist, and was manager at
the experiment at Orbiston under Abram Combe, of whom he wrote
a memoir. Upon the death of Combe, 1827, he became a Socialist
missionary in England. He took an active part in the co-operative
movement, and in the agitation for an unstamped press, for which he
was tried and imprisoned at Edinburgh, 1833-4. About 1849 he returned
to Glasgow and wrote on the Sentinel. In 1867 he was presented with
a testimonial and purse of 90 sovereigns by admirers of his exertions
in the cause of progress. Died about 1873.

Campion (William), a shoemaker, who became one of R. Carlile's
shopmen; tried 8 June, 1824, for selling Paine's Age of Reason. After
a spirited defence he was found guilty and sentenced to three years'
imprisonment. In prison he edited, in conjunction with J. Clarke,
E. Hassell, and T. R. Perry, the Newgate Monthly Magazine, to which
he contributed some thoughtful papers, from Sept. 1824, to Aug. 1826,
when he was removed to the Compter.

Canestrini (Giovanni), Italian naturalist, b. Rero, 1835. He studied
at Vienna, and in '60 was nominated Professor of Natural History at
Geneva. Signor Canestrini contributed to the Annuario Filosofico del
Libero Pensiero, and is known for his popularisation of the works
of Darwin, which he has translated into Italian. He has written
upon the Origin of Man, which has gone through two editions, Milan,
'66-'70, and on the Theory of Evolution, Turin, '77. He was appointed
Professor of Zoology, Anatomy and Comparative Physiology at Padua,
where he has published a Memoir of Charles Darwin, '82.

Cardano (Girolamo), better known as Jerome Cardan, Italian
mathematician, and physician, b. Pavia, 24 Sept. 1501. He studied
medicine, but was excluded from the Milan College of Physicians on
account of illegitimate birth. He and his young wife were at one time
compelled to take refuge in the workhouse. It is not strange that his
first work was an exposure of the fallacies of the faculty. A fortunate
cure brought him into notice and he journeyed to Scotland as the
medical adviser of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1551. In 1563 he was
arrested at Bologna for heresy, but was released, although deprived of
his professorship. He died at Rome, 20 Sept. 1576, having, it is said,
starved himself to verify his own prediction of his death. Despite
some superstition, Cardano did much to forward science, especially
by his work on Algebra, and in his works De Subtilitate Rerum and De
Varietate Rerum, amid much that is fanciful, perceived the universality
of natural law and the progressive evolution of life. Scaliger accused
him of Atheism. Puenjer says "Cardanus deserves to be named along with
Telesius as one of the principal founders of Natural Philosophy."

Carducci (Giosue), Italian poet and Professor of Italian Literature at
the University of Bologna, b. Pietrasantra, in the province of Lucca,
27 July, 1836. As early as '49 he cried, Abasso tutti i re! viva la
republica--Down with all kings! Long live the republic! Sprung into
fame by his Hymn to Satan, '69, by which he intended the spirit of
resistance. He has written many poems and satires in which he exhibits
himself an ardent Freethinker and Republican. At the end of '57 he
wrote his famous verse "Il secoletto vil che cristianeggia"--"This
vile christianising century." In '60 he became professor of Greek
in Bologna University, being suspended for a short while in '67 for
an address to Mazzini. In '76 he was elected as republican deputy to
the Italian Parliament for Lugo di Romagna.

Carlile (Eliza Sharples), second wife of Richard Carlile, came from
Lancashire during the imprisonment of Carlile and Taylor, 1831,
delivered discourses at the Rotunda, and started a journal, the Isis,
which lasted from 11 Feb. to 15 Dec. 1832. The Isis was dedicated
to the young women of England "until superstition is extinct,"
and contained Frances Wright's discourses, in addition to those
by Mrs. Carlile, who survived till '61. Mr. Bradlaugh lodged with
Mrs. Carlile at the Warner Place Institute, in 1849. She had three
children, Hypatia, Theophila and Julian, of whom the second is
still living.

Carlile (Jane), first wife of R. Carlile, who carried on his business
during his imprisonment, was proceeded against, and sentenced to two
years' imprisonment, 1821. She had three children, Richard, Alfred,
and Thomas Paine Carlile, the last of whom edited the Regenerator,
a Chartist paper published at Manchester, 1839.

Carlile (Richard), foremost among the brave upholders of an English
free press, b. Ashburton, Devon, 8 Dec. 1790. He was apprenticed to a
tin-plate worker, and followed that business till he was twenty-six,
when, having read the works of Paine, he began selling works like
Wooler's Black Dwarf, which Government endeavored to suppress. Sherwin
offered him the dangerous post of publisher of the Republican, which
he accepted. He then published Southey's Wat Tyler, reprinted the
political works of Paine and the parodies for which Hone was tried, but
which cost Carlile eighteen weeks' imprisonment. In 1818 he published
Paine's Theological Works. The prosecution instituted induced him to
go on printing similar works, such as Palmer's Principles of Nature,
Watson Refuted, Jehovah Unveiled, etc. By Oct. 1819, he had six
indictments to answer, on two of which he was tried from 12 to 16
October. He read the whole of the Age of Reason in his defence, in
order to have it in the report of the trial. He was found guilty and
sentenced (16 Nov.) to fifteen hundred pounds fine and three years'
imprisonment in Dorchester Gaol. During his imprisonment his business
was kept on by a succession of shopmen. Refusing to find securities
not to publish, he was kept in prison till 18 Nov. 1835, when he
was liberated unconditionally. During his imprisonment he edited
the Republican, which extended to fourteen volumes. He also edited
the Deist, the Moralist, the Lion (four volumes), the Prompter (for
No. 3 of which he again suffered thirty-two months' imprisonment),
and the Gauntlet. Amongst his writings are An Address to Men of
Science, The Gospel according to R. Carlile, What is God? Every
Woman's Book, etc. He published Doubts of Infidels, Janus on Sion,
Sepher Toldoth Jeshu, D'Holbach's Good Sense, Volney's Ruins, and
many other Freethought works. He died 10 Feb. 1843, bequeathing his
body to Dr. Lawrence for scientific purposes.

Carlyle (Thomas), one of the most gifted and original writers of the
century, b. 4 Dec. 1795, at Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, where his
father, a man of intellect and piety, held a small farm. Showing early
ability he was intended for the Kirk, and educated at the University
of Edinburgh. He, however, became a tutor, and occupied his leisure
in translating from the German. He married Jane Welsh 17 Oct. 1826,
and wrote in the London Magazine and Edinburgh Review many masterly
critical articles, notably on Voltaire, Diderot, Burns, and German
literature. In 1833-4 his Sartor Resartus appeared in Fraser's
Magazine. In '34 he removed to London and began writing the French
Revolution, the MS. of the first vol. of which he confided to Mill,
with whom it was accidentally burnt. He re-wrote the work without
complaint, and it was published in '37. He then delivered a course
of lectures on "German Literature" and on "Heroes, Hero-Worship, and
the Heroic in History," in which he treats Mahomet as the prophet
"we are freest to speak of." His Past and Present was published in
'43. In '45 appeared Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches. In
'50 he published Latter-Day Pamphlets, which contains his most
distinctive political and social doctrines, and in the following year
his Life of John Sterling, in which his heresy clearly appears. His
largest work is his History of the Life and Times of Frederick the
Great, in 10 vols. He was elected rector of Edinburgh University in
'65. Died 5 Feb. 1881. Mr. Froude, in his Biography of Carlyle, says,
"We have seen him confessing to Irving that he did not believe as his
friend did in the Christian religion." ... "the special miraculous
occurrences of sacred history were not credible to him."

Carneades, sceptical philosopher, b. Cyrene about B.C. 213. He went
early to Athens, and attended the lectures of the Stoics, learning
logic from Diogenes. In the year 155, he was chosen with other
deputies to go to Rome to deprecate a fine which had been placed on
the Athenians. During his stay at Rome he attracted great attention
by his philosophical orations. Carneades attacked the very idea of
a God at once infinite and an individual. He denied providence and
design. Many of his arguments are preserved in Cicero's Academics
and De Natura Deorum. Carneades left no written works; his views
seem to have been systematised by his follower Clitomachus. He died
B.C. 129. Carneades is described as a man of unwearied industry. His
ethics were of elevated character.

Carneri (Bartholomaeus von), German writer, b. Trieste, 3
Nov. 1821. Educated at Vienna. In 1870 he sat in the Austrian
Parliament with the Liberals. Author of an able work on Morality and
Darwinism, Vienna, 1871. Has also written Der Mensch als Selbstweck,
"Humanity as its own proper object," 1877; Grundlegung der Ethik,
Foundation of Morals, 1881; and Ethical Essays on Evolution and
Happiness, Stuttgart, 1886.

Carra (Jean Louis), French man of letters and Republican, b. 1743 at
Pont de Veyle. He travelled in Germany, Italy, Turkey, Russia, and
Moldavia, where he became secretary to the hospodar. On returning to
France he became employed in the King's library and wrote a History
of Moldavia and an Essay on Aerial Navigation. He warmly espoused
the revolution and was one of the most ardent orators of the Jacobin
club. In the National Assembly he voted for the death of Louis XVI.,
but was executed with the Girondins, 31 Oct. 1793. His Freethought
sentiments are evident from his System of Reason, 1773; his Spirit
of Morality and Philosophy, 1777; New Principles of Physic, 1782-3,
and other works.

Carrel (Jean Baptiste Nicolas Armand), called by Saint Beuve "the
Junius of the French press," b. Rouen, 8 May, 1800. He became a
soldier, but, being a Republican, fought on behalf of the Spanish
revolution. Being taken prisoner, he was condemned to death, but
escaped through some informality. He became secretary to Thierry,
edited the works of P. L. Courier, and established the Nation in
conjunction with Thiers and Mignet. J. S. Mill writes of him in terms
of high praise. The leading journalist of his time, his slashing
articles led to several duels, and in an encounter with Emile de
Girardin (22 July, 1836) he was fatally wounded. On his death-bed,
says M. Littre, he said "Point de pretres, point d'eglise"--no
priests nor church. Died 24 July, 1836. He wrote a History of the
Counter-Revolution in England, with an eye to events in his own
country.

Carus (Julius Viktor), German zoologist, b. Leipsic, 25 Aug. 1825. Has
been keeper of anatomical museum at Oxford, and has translated Darwin's
works and the philosophy of G. H. Lewes.

Carus (Karl Gustav), German physiologist and Pantheist, b. Leipsic,
3 Jan. 1789. He taught comparative anatomy at the university of that
town, and published a standard introduction to that subject. He also
wrote Psyche, a history of the development of the human soul, 1846,
and Nature and Idea, 1861. Died at Dresden, 28 July, 1869.

Castelar y Ripoll (Emilio), Spanish statesman, b. Cadiz,
8 Sept. 1832. He began as a journalist, and became known by his
novel Ernesto, 1855. As professor of history and philosophy, he
delivered lectures on "Civilisation during the first three centuries of
Christendom." La Formula del Progresso contains a sketch of democratic
principles. On the outbreak of the revolution of '68 he advocated
a Federal Republic in a magnificent oration. The Crown was however
offered to Amadeus of Savoy. "Glass, with care," was Castelar's verdict
on the new dynasty, and in Feb. '73 Castelar drew up a Republican
Constitution; and for a year was Dictator of Spain. Upon his retirement
to France he wrote a sketchy History of the Republican Movement in
Europe. In '76 he returned to Spain and took part in the Cortes,
where he has continued to advocate Republican views. His Old Rome and
New Italy, and Life of Lord Byron have been translated into English.

Castelli (David), Italian writer, b. Livorno, 30 Dec. 1836. Since
1873 he has held the chair of Hebrew in the Institute of Superior
Studies at Florence. He has translated the book of Ecclesiastes with
notes, and written rationalistic works on Talmudic Legends, 1869;
The Messiah According to the Hebrews, '74; the Bible Prophets, '82;
and The History of the Israelites, 1887.

Castilhon (Jean Louis), French man of letters, b. at Toulouse in
1720. He wrote in numerous publications, and edited the Journal of
Jurisprudence. His history of dogmas and philosophical opinions had
some celebrity, and he shows himself a Freethinker in his Essay
on Ancient and Modern Errors and Superstitions, Amsterdam, 1765;
his Philosophical Almanack, 1767; and his History of Philosophical
Opinions, 1769. Died 1793.

Cattell (Christopher Charles), writer in English Secular journals,
author of Search for the First Man; Against Christianity; The Religion
of this Life, etc.

Caumont (Georges), French writer of genius, b. about 1845. Suffering
from consumption, he wrote Judgment of a Dying Man upon Life,
and humorous and familiar Conversations of a Sick Person with the
Divinity. Died at Madeira, 1875.

Cavalcante (Guido), noble Italian poet and philosopher, b. Florence,
1230. A friend of Dante, and a leader of the Ghibbelin party. He
married a daughter of Farinata delgi Uberti. Bayle says, "it is said
his speculation has as their aim to prove there is no God. Dante places
his father in the hell of Epicureans, who denied the immortality of
the soul." Guido died in 1300. An edition of his poems was published
in 1813.

Cavallotti (Felice Carlo Emanuel), Italian poet and journalist,
b. Milan, 6 Nov. 1842, celebrated for his patriotic poems; is a
pronounced Atheist. He was elected member of the Italian parliament
in 1873.

Cayla (Jean Mamert), French man of letters and politician b. Vigan
(Lot) 1812. Became in '37 editor of the Emancipator of Toulouse,
a city of which he wrote the history. At Paris he wrote to the
Siecle, the Republique Francaise and other journals, and published
European Celebrities and numerous anti-clerical brochures, such as
The Clerical Conspiracy, '61; The Devil, his Grandeur and Decay,
'64; Hell Demolished, '65; Suppression of Religious Orders, '70;
and The History of the Mass,'74. He died 2 May, 1877.

Cazelles (Emile), French translator of Bentham's Influence of Natural
Religion, Paris, 1875. Has also translated Mill's Subjection of Women
and his Autobiography and Essays on Religion.

Cecco d'Ascoli, i.e., Stabili (Francesco degli), Italian poet,
b. Ascoli, 1257. He taught astrology and philosophy at Bologna. In
1324 he was arrested by the Inquisition for having spoken against the
faith, and was condemned to fine and penitence. He was again accused
at Florence, and was publicly burnt as an heretic 16 Sept. 1327. His
best known work is entitled Acerba, a sort of encyclopaedia in rhyme.

Cellarius (Martin), Anabaptist, who deserves mention as the first
avowed Protestant Anti-trinitarian. He studied Oriental languages
with Reuchlin and Melancthon, but having discussed with Anabaptists
acknowledged himself converted, 1522, and afterwards gave up the deity
of Christ. He was imprisoned, and on his release went to Switzerland,
where he died 11 Oct. 1564.

Celsus, a Pagan philosopher, who lived in the second century. He was
a friend of Lucian, who dedicated to him his treatise on the False
Prophet. He wrote an attack on Christianity, called The True Word. The
work was destroyed by the early Christians. The passages given by
his opponent, Origen, suffice to show that he was a man of high
attainments, well acquainted with the religion he attacked, and that
his power of logic and irony was most damaging to the Christian faith.

Cerutti (Giuseppe Antonio Gioachino), poet, converted Jesuit,
b. Turin, 13 June, 1738. He became a Jesuit, and wrote a defence of
the Society. He afterwards became a friend of Mirabeau, adopted the
principles of 1789, wrote in defence of the Revolution, and wrote
and published a Philosophical Breviary, or history of Judaism,
Christianity, and Deism, which he attributed to Frederick of
Prussia. His opinions may also be gathered from his poem, Les Jardins
de Betz, 1792. Died Paris, 3 Feb. 1792.

Chaho (J. Augustin), Basque man of letters, b. Tardets,
Basses-Pyrenees, 10 Oct. 1811. His principal works are a Philosophy of
Comparative Religion, and a Basque dictionary. At Bayonne he edited
the Ariel. In 1852 this was suppressed and he was exiled. Died 23
Oct. 1858.

Chaloner (Thomas), M.P., Regicide, b. Steeple Claydon, Bucks,
1595. Educated at Oxford, he became member for Richmond (Yorks),
1645. Was a witness against Archbishop Laud, and one of King Charles's
Judges. In 1651 he was made Councillor of State. Wood says he "was as
far from being a Puritan as the east is from the west," and that he
"was of the natural religion." He wrote a pretended True and Exact
Relation of the Finding of Moses His Tomb, 1657, being a satire
directed against the Presbyterians. Upon the Restoration he fled to
the Low Countries, and died at Middelburg, Zeeland, in 1661.

Chambers (Ephraim), originator of the Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences,
b. Kendal about 1680. The first edition of his work appeared in 1728,
and procured him admission to the Royal Society. A French translation
gave rise to Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedie. Chambers also
edited the Literary Magazine, 1836, etc. His infidel opinions were
well known, and the Cyclopaedia was placed upon the Index, but he was
buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. Died 15 May, 1740.

Chamfort (Sebastien Roch Nicolas), French man of letters, b. in
Auvergne, near Clermont, 1741. He knew no parent but his mother,
a peasant girl, to supply whose wants he often denied himself
necessaries. At Paris he gained a prize from the Academy for his
eulogy on Moliere. About 1776 he published a Dramatic Dictionary
and wrote several plays. In 1781 he obtained a seat in the Academy,
being patronised by Mme. Helvetius. He became a friend of Mirabeau,
who called him une tete electrique. In 1790 he commenced a work called
Pictures of the Revolution. In the following year he became secretary
of the Jacobin Club and National Librarian. Arrested by Robespierre,
he desperately, but vainly, endeavored to commit suicide. He died 13
April, 1794, leaving behind numerous works and a collection of Maxims,
Thoughts, Characters, and Anecdotes, which show profound genius and
knowledge of human nature.

Chapman (John), M.R.C.S., b. 1839. Has written largely in the
Westminster Review, of which he is proprietor.

Chappellsmith (Margaret), nee Reynolds, b. Aldgate, 22 Feb. 1806. Early
in life she read the writings of Cobbett. In '36 she began writing
political articles in the Dispatch, and afterwards became a Socialist
and Freethought lecturess. She married John Chappellsmith in '39,
and in '42 she began business as a bookseller. In '37 she expressed
a preference for the development theory before that of creation. In
'50 they emigrated to the United States, where Mrs. Chappellsmith
contributed many articles to the Boston Investigator.

Charles (Rudolf). See Giessenburg.

Charma (Antoine), French philosopher, b. 15 Jan. 1801. In '30 he was
nominated to the Chair of Philosophy at Caen. He was denounced for
his impiety by the Count de Montalembert in the Chamber of peers,
and an endeavor was made to unseat him. He wrote many philosophical
works, and an account of Didron's Histoire de Dieu. Died 5 Aug. 1869.

Charron (Pierre), French priest and sceptic, b. Paris, 1513. He was
an intimate friend of Montaigne. His principal work is a Treatise on
Wisdom, 1601, which was censured as irreligious by the Jesuits. Franck
says "the scepticism of Charron inclines visibly to 'sensualisme'
and even to materialism." Died Paris, 16 Nov. 1603.

Chasseboeuf de Volney (Constantin Francois). See Volney.

Chastelet du or Chatelet Lomont (Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de
Breteuil), Marquise, French savante, b. Paris, 17 Dec 1706. She was
learned in mathematics and other sciences, and in Latin, English
and Italian. In 1740 she published a work on physical philosophy
entitled Institutions de Physique. She afterwards made a good French
translation of Newton's Principia. She lived some years with Voltaire
at Cirey between 1735 and 1747, and addressed to him Doubts on Revealed
Religions, published in 1792. She also wrote a Treatise on Happiness,
which was praised by Condorcet.

Chastellux (Francois Jean de), Marquis. A soldier, traveller and
writer, b. Paris 1734. Wrote On Public Happiness (2 vols., Amst. 1776),
a work Voltaire esteemed highly. He contributed to the Encyclopedie;
one article on "Happiness," being suppressed by the censor because
it did not mention God. Died Paris, 28 Oct. 1788.

Chatterton (Thomas), the marvellous boy poet, b. Bristol, 20 Nov,
1752. His poems, which he pretended were written by one Thomas Rowley
in the fourteenth century and discovered by him in an old chest in
Redcliffe Church, attracted much attention. In 1769 he visited London
in hopes of rising by his talents, but after a bitter experience of
writing for the magazines, destroyed himself in a fit of despair 25
Aug. 1770. Several of his poems betray deistic opinions.

Chaucer (Geoffrey), the morning star of English poetry and first
English Humanist, b. London about 1340. In 1357 he was attached to
the household of Lionel, third son of Edward III. He accompanied the
expedition to France 1359-60, was captured by the French, and ransomed
by the king. He was patronised by John of Gaunt, and some foreign
missions were entrusted to him, one of them being to Italy, where he
met Petrarch. All his writings show the influence of the Renaissance,
and in his Canterbury Pilgrims he boldly attacks the vices of the
ecclesiastics. Died 25 Oct. 1400, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Chaumette (Pierre Gaspard), afterwards Anaxagoras, French
revolutionary, b. Nevers, 24 May, 1763. The son of a shoemaker, he was
in turn cabin boy, steersman, and attorney's clerk. In early youth he
received lessons in botany from Rousseau. He embraced the revolution
with ardor, was the first to assume the tri-color cockade, became
popular orator at the club of the Cordeliers, and was associated with
Proudhomme in the journal Les Revolutions de Paris. Nominated member
of the Commune 10 Aug. 1792, he took the name of Anaxagoras to show
his little regard for his baptismal saints. He was elected Procureur
Syndic, in which capacity he displayed great activity. He abolished
the rod in schools, suppressed lotteries, instituted workshops for
fallen women, established the first lying-in-hospital, had books
sent to the hospitals, separated the insane from the sick, founded
the Conservatory of Music, opened the public libraries every day
(under the ancien regime they were only open two hours per week),
replaced books of superstition by works of morality and reason, put
a graduated tax on the rich to provide for the burial of the poor,
and was the principal mover in the feasts of Reason and closing of
the churches. He was accused by Robespierre of conspiring with Cloots
"to efface all idea of the Deity," and was guillotined 13 April, 1794.

Chaussard (Pierre Jean Baptiste), French man of letters, b. Paris,
8 Oct. 1766. At the Revolution he took the name of Publicola, and
published patriotic odes, Esprit de Mirabeau, and other works. He was
preacher to the Theophilanthropists, and became professor of belles
lettres at Orleans. Died 9 Jan. 1823.

Chemin-Dupontes (Jean Baptiste), b. 1761. One of the founders of
French Theophilanthropy; published many writings, the best known of
which is entitled What is Theophilanthropy?

Chenier (Marie Andre de), French poet, b. Constantinople, 29
Oct. 1762. His mother, a Greek, inspired him with a love for ancient
Greek literature. Sent to college at Paris, he soon manifested his
genius by writing eclogues and elegies of antique simplicity and
sensibility. In 1787 he came to England as Secretary of Legation. He
took part in the legal defence of Louis XVI., eulogised Charlotte
Corday, and gave further offence by some letters in the Journal de
Paris. He was committed to prison, and here met his ideal in the
Comtesse de Coigny. Confined in the same prison, to her he addressed
the touching verses, The Young Captive (La jeune Captive). He was
executed 25 July, 1794, leaving behind, among other poems, an imitation
of Lucretius, entitled Hermes, which warrants the affirmation of de
Chenedolle, that "Andre Chenier etait athee avec delices."

Chenier (Marie Joseph de), French poet and miscellaneous writer,
brother of the preceding, b. Constantinople, 28 Aug. 1764. He served
two years in the army, and then applied himself to literature. His
first successful drama, "Charles IX.," was produced in 1789, and was
followed by others. He wrote many patriotic songs, and was made member
of the Convention. He was a Voltairean, and in his Nouveaux Saints
(1801) satirised those who returned to the old faith. He wrote many
poems and an account of French literature. Died Paris, 10 Jan. 1811.

Chernuishevsky or Tchernycheiosky (Nikolai Gerasimovich),
Russian Nihilist, b. Saratof, 1829. Educated at the University of
St. Petersburg, translated Mill's Political Economy, and wrote on
Superstition and the Principles of Logic, '59. His bold romance,
What is to be Done? was published '63. In the following year he was
sentenced to the Siberian mines, where, after heartrending cruelties,
he has become insane.

Chesneau Du Marsais (Cesar). See Dumarsais.

Chevalier (Joseph Philippe), French chemist, b. Saint Pol, 21 March,
1806, is the author of an able book on "The Soul from the standpoint
of Reason and Science," Paris, '61. He died at Amiens in 1865.

Chies y Gomez (Ramon), Spanish Freethinker, b. Medina de Pomar,
Burgos, 13 Oct. 1845. His father, a distinguished Republican,
educated him without religion. In '65 Chies went to Madrid, and
followed a course of law and philosophy at the University, and soon
after wrote for a Madrid paper La Discusion. He took an active part
in the Revolution of '65, and at the proclamation of the Republic,
'73, became civil governor of Valencia. In '81 he founded a newspaper
El Voto Nacional, and since '83 has edited Las Dominicales del Libre
Pensamiento, which he also founded. Ramon Chies is one of the foremost
Freethought champions in Spain and lectures as well as writes.

Child (Lydia Maria) nee Francis, American authoress, b. Medford, Mass.,
11 Feb. 1802. She early commenced writing, publishing Hobomok, a Tale
of Early Times, in '21. From '25 she kept a private school in Watertown
until '28, when she married David Lee Child, a Boston lawyer. She, with
him, edited the Anti-Slavery Standard, '41, etc., and by her numerous
writings did much to form the opinion which ultimately prevailed. She
was, however, long subjected to public odium, her heterodoxy being well
known. Her principal work is The Progress of Religious Ideas, 3 vols.;
'55. Died Wayland, Mass., 20 Oct. 1880. She was highly eulogised by
Wendell Phillips.

Chilton (William), of Bristol, was born in 1815. In early life he was
a bricklayer, but in '41 he was concerned with Charles Southwell in
starting the Oracle of Reason, which he set up in type, and of which
he became one of the editors. He contributed some thoughtful articles
on the Theory of Development to the Library of Reason, and wrote in
the Movement and the Reasoner. Died at Bristol, 28 May, 1855.

Chubb (Thomas), English Deist, b. East Harnham, near Salisbury, 29
Sept. 1679, was one of the first to show Rationalism among the common
people. Beginning by contending for the Supremacy of the Father, he
gradually relinquished supernatural religion, and considered that Jesus
Christ was of the religion of Thomas Chubb. Died 8 Feb. 1747, leaving
behind two vols. which he calls A Farewell to his Readers, from which
it appears that he rejected both revelation and special providence.

Church (Henry Tyrell), lecturer and writer, edited Tallis's
Shakespeare, wrote Woman and her Failings, 1858, and contributed to
the Investigator when edited by Mr. Bradlaugh. Died 19 July, 1859.

Clapiers (Luc de). See Vauvenargues.

Claretie (Jules Armand Arsene), French writer, b. Limoges, 3
Dec. 1840. A prolific writer, of whose works we only cite Free Speech,
'68; his biographies of contemporary celebrities; and his work Camille
Desmoulins, '75.

Clarke (John), brought up in the Methodist connection, changed his
opinion by studying the Bible, and became one of Carlile's shopmen. He
was tried 10 June, 1824, for selling a blasphemous libel in number 17,
vol. ix., of The Republican, and after a spirited defence, in which
he read many of the worst passages in the Bible, was sentenced to
three years' imprisonment, and to find securities for good behavior
during life. He wrote while in prison, A Critical Review of the Life,
Character, and Miracles of Jesus, a work showing with some bitterness
much bold criticism and Biblical knowledge. It first appeared in the
Newgate Magazine and was afterwards published in book form, 1825 and
'39.

Clarke (Marcus), Australian writer, b. Kensington, 1847. Went to
Victoria, '63; joined the staff of Melbourne Argus. In '76 was made
assistant librarian of the Public Library. He has compiled a history of
Australia, and written The Peripatetic Philosopher (a series of clever
sketches), His Natural Life (a powerful novel), and some poems. An able
Freethought paper, "Civilisation without Delusion," in the Victoria
Review, Nov. '79, was replied to by Bishop Moorhouse. The reply, with
Clarke's answer, which was suppressed, was published in '80. Died 1884.

Claude-Constant, author of a Freethinkers' Catechism published at
Paris in 1875.

Clavel (Adolphe), French Positivist and physician, b. Grenoble,
1815. He has written on the Principles of 1789, on those of the
nineteenth century, on Positive Morality, and some educational works.

Clavel (F. T. B.), French author of a Picturesque History of
Freemasonry, and also a Picturesque History of Religions, 1844,
in which Christianity takes a subordinate place.

Clayton (Robert), successively Bishop of Killala, Cork, and Clogher,
b. Dublin, 1695. By his benevolence attracted the friendship of
Samuel Clarke, and adopted Arianism, which he maintained in several
publications. In 1756 he proposed, in the Irish House of Lords, the
omission of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds from the Liturgy, and
stated that he then felt more relieved in his mind than for twenty
years before. A legal prosecution was instituted, but he died, it
is said, from nervous agitation (26 Feb. 1758) before the matter
was decided.

Cleave (John), bookseller, and one of the pioneers of a cheap
political press. Started the London Satirist, and Cleave's Penny
Gazette of Variety, Oct. 14, 1837, to Jan. 20, '44. He published
many Chartist and Socialistic works, and an abridgment of Howitt's
History of Priestcraft. In May, '40, he was sentenced to four months'
imprisonment for selling Haslam's Letters to the Clergy.

Clemenceau (Georges Benjamin Eugene), French politician,
b. Moulleron-en-Pareds, 28 Sept. 1841. Educated at Nantes and Paris,
he took his doctor's degree in '65. His activity as Republican
ensured him a taste of gaol. He visited the United States and acted
as correspondent on the Temps. He returned at the time of the war
and was elected deputy to the Assembly. In Jan. 1880 he founded La
Justice, having as collaborateurs M. C. Pelletan, Prof. Acollas and
Dr. C. Letourneau. As one of the chiefs of the Radical party he was
largely instrumental in getting M. Carnot elected President.

Clemetshaw (C.), French writer, using the name Cilwa. B. 14 Sept. 1864
of English parents; has contributed to many journals, was delegate to
the International Congress, London, of '87, and is editor of Le Danton.

Clemens (Samuel Langhorne), American humorist, better known as
"Mark Twain," b. Florida, Missouri, 30 Nov. 1835. In '55 he served
as Mississippi pilot, and takes his pen name from the phrase used
in sounding. In Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress,
'69, by which he made his name, there is much jesting with "sacred"
subjects. Mr. Clemens is an Agnostic.

Clifford (Martin), English Rationalist. Was Master of the Charterhouse,
1671, and published anonymously a treatise of Human Reason, London,
'74, which was reprinted in the following year with the author's
name. A short while after its publication Laney, Bishop of Ely, was
dining in Charterhouse and remarked, not knowing the author, "'twas no
matter if all the copies were burnt and the author with them, because
it made every man's private fancy judge of religion." Clifford died 10
Dec. 1677. In the Nouvelle Biographie Generale Clifford is amusingly
described as an "English theologian of the order des Chartreux," who,
it is added, was "prior of his order."

Clifford (William Kingdon), mathematician, philosopher, and moralist,
of rare originality and boldness, b. Exeter 4 May, 1845. At the age
of fifteen he was sent to King's College, London, where he showed an
early genius for mathematics, publishing the Analogues of Pascal's
Theorem at the age of eighteen. Entered Trinity College, Cambridge,
in '63. In '67 he was second wrangler. Elected fellow of his college,
he remained at Cambridge till 1870, when he accompanied the eclipse
expedition to the Mediterranean. The next year he was appointed
Professor of mathematics at London University, a post he held till
his death. He was chosen F.R.S. '74. Married Miss Lucy Lane in April,
'75. In the following year symptoms of consumption appeared, and he
visited Algeria and Spain. He resumed work, but in '79 took a voyage to
Madeira, where he died 3 March. Not long before his death appeared the
first volume of his great mathematical work, Elements of Dynamic. Since
his death have been published The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences,
and Lectures and Essays, in two volumes, edited by Leslie Stephen and
Mr. F. Pollock. These volumes include his most striking Freethought
lectures and contributions to the Fortnightly and other reviews. He
intended to form them into a volume on The Creed of Science. Clifford
was an outspoken Atheist, and he wrote of Christianity as a religion
which wrecked one civilisation and very nearly wrecked another.

Cloots or Clootz (Johann Baptist, afterwards Anacharsis) Baron du Val
de Grace, Prussian enthusiast, b. near Cleves, 24 June, 1755, was a
nephew of Cornelius de Pauw. In 1780 he published the The Certainty
of the Proofs of Mohammedanism, under the pseudonym of Ali-gier-ber,
an anagram of Bergier, whose Certainty of the Proofs of Christianity
he parodies. He travelled widely, but became a resident of Paris
and a warm partisan of the Revolution, to which he devoted his large
fortune. He wrote a reply to Burke, and continually wrote and spoke
in favor of a Universal Republic. On 19 June, 1790, he, at the head
of men of all countries, asked a place at the feast of Federation,
and henceforward was styled "orator of the human race." He was, with
Paine, Priestley, Washington and Klopstock, made a French citizen,
and in 1792 was elected to the Convention by two departments. He
debaptised himself, taking the name Anacharsis, was a prime mover
in the Anti-Catholic party, and induced Bishop Gobel to resign. He
declared there was no other God but Nature. Incurring the enmity of
Robespierre, he and Paine were arrested as foreigners. After two
and a half months' imprisonment at St. Lazare, he was brought to
the scaffold with the Hebertistes, 24 March, 1794. He died calmly,
uttering materialist sentiments to the last.

Clough (Arthur Hugh), poet, b. Liverpool, 1 Jan. 1819. He was
educated at Rugby, under Dr. Arnold, and at Oxford, where he showed
himself of the Broad School. Leslie Stephen says, "He never became
bitter against the Church of his childhood, but he came to regard its
dogmas as imperfect and untenable." In '48 he visited Paris, and the
same year produced his Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich: a Long-Vacation
Pastoral. Between '49 and '52 he was professor of English literature
in London University. In '52 he visited the United States, where
he gained the friendship of Emerson and Longfellow, and revised
the Dryden translation of Plutarch's Lives. Died at Florence, 13
Nov. 1861. His Remains are published in two volumes, and include
an essay on Religious Tradition and some notable poems. He is the
Thyrsis of Matthew Arnold's exquisite Monody.

Cnuzius (Matthias). See Knutzen.

Coke (Henry), author of Creeds of the Day, or collated opinions of
reputable thinkers, in 2 vols, London, 1883.

Cole (Peter), a tanner of Ipswich, was burnt for blasphemy in the
castle ditch, Norwich, 1587. A Dr. Beamond preached to him before the
mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen, "but he would not recant." See Hamont.

Colenso (John William), b. 24 Jan. 1814. Was educated at St. John's,
Cambridge, and became a master at Harrow. After acquiring fame by his
valuable Treatise on Algebra, '49, he became first Bishop of Natal,
'54. Besides other works, he published The Pentateuch and Book of
Joshua Critically Examined, 1862-79, which made a great stir, and
was condemned by both Houses of Convocation and its author declared
deposed. The Privy Council, March '65, declared this deposition
"null and void in law." Colenso pleaded the cause of the natives at
the time of the Zulu War. He died 20 June, 1883.

Colins (Jean Guillaume Cesar Alexandre Hippolyte) Baron de,
Belgian Socialist and founder of "Collectivism," b. Brussels, 24
Dec. 1783. Author of nineteen volumes on Social Science. He denied
alike Monotheism and Pantheism, but taught the natural immortality of
the soul. Died at Paris, 12 Nov. 1859. A number of disciples propagate
his opinions in the Philosophie de l'Avenir.

Collins (Anthony), English Deist, b. Heston, Middlesex, 21 June,
1676. He studied at Cambridge and afterwards at the Temple, and
became Justice of the Peace and Treasurer of the County of Essex. He
was an intimate friend of Locke, who highly esteemed him and made
him his executor. He wrote an Essay on Reason, 1707; Priestcraft
in Perfection, 1710; a Vindication of the Divine Attributes, and a
Discourse on Freethinking, 1713. This last occasioned a great outcry,
as it argued that all belief must be based on free inquiry, and
that the use of reason would involve the abandonment of supernatural
revelation. In 1719 he published An Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty,
a brief, pithy defence of necessitarianism, and in 1729 A Discourse
on Liberty and Necessity. In 1724 appeared his Discourse on the
Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, and this was followed
by The Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered, 1726. He was a skilful
disputant, and wrote with great ability. He is also credited with A
Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing. Died at London,
13 Dec. 1729. Collins, says Mr. Leslie Stephen, "appears to have been
an amiable and upright man, and to have made all readers welcome to
the use of a free library." Professor Fraser calls him "a remarkable
man," praises his "love of truth and moral courage," and allows that in
answering Dr. Samuel Clarke on the question of liberty and necessity
he "states the arguments against human freedom with a logical force
unsurpassed by any necessitarian." A similar testimony to Collins as
a thinker and dialectician is borne by Professor Huxley.

Colman (Lucy N.), American reformer, b. 26 July, 1817, has spent
most of her life advocating the abolition of slavery, women's rights,
and Freethought. She has lectured widely, written Reminisences in the
Life of a Reformer of Fifty Years, and contributed to the Truthseeker
and Boston Investigator.

Colotes, of Lampsacus, a hearer and disciple of Epicurus, with whom he
was a favorite. He wrote a work in favor of his master's teachings. He
held it was unworthy of a philosopher to use fables.

Combe (Abram), one of a noted Scotch family of seventeen, b. Edinburgh,
15 Jan. 1785. He traded as a tanner, but, becoming acquainted with
Robert Owen, founded a community at Orbiston upon the principle of
Owen's New Lanark, devoting nearly the whole of his large fortune
to the scheme. But his health gave way and he died 11 Aug. 1827. He
wrote Metaphysical Sketches of the Old and New Systems and other
works advocating Owenism.

Combe (Andrew), physician, brother of the above, b. Edinburgh,
27 Oct. 1797; studied there and in Paris; aided his brother George
in founding the Phrenological Society; wrote popular works on the
Principles of Physiology and the Management of Infancy. Died near
Edinburgh, 9 Aug. 1847.

Combe (George), phrenologist and educationalist, b. Edinburgh,
21 Oct. 1788. He was educated for the law. Became acquainted with
Spurzheim, and published Essays on Phrenology, 1819, and founded the
Phrenological Journal. In '28 he published the Constitution of Man,
which excited great controversy especially for removing the chimeras of
special providence and efficacy of prayer. In '33 he married a daughter
of Mrs. Siddons. He visited the United States and lectured on Moral
Philosophy and Secular Education. His last work was The Relations
between Science and Religion, '57, in which he continued to uphold
Secular Theism. He also published many lectures and essays. Among his
friends were Miss Evans (George Eliot), who spent a fortnight with him
in '52. He did more than any man of his time, save Robert Owen, for the
cause of Secular education. Died at Moor Park, Surrey, 14 Aug. 1858.

Combes (Paul), French writer, b. Paris, 13 June, 1856. Has written
on Darwinism, '83, and other works popularising science.

Commazzi (Gian-Battista), Count author of Politica e religione trovate
insieme nella persona di Giesu Cristo, Nicopoli [Vienna] 4 vols.,
1706-7, in which he makes Jesus to be a political impostor. It was
rigorously confiscated at Rome and Vienna.

Comparetti (Domenico), Italian philologist, b. Rome in 1835. Signor
Comparetti is Professor at the Institute of Superior Studies, Rome,
and has written many works on the classic writers, in which he evinces
his Pagan partialities.

Comte (Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier), French philosopher,
mathematician and reformer, b. at Montpelier, 12 Jan. 1798. Educated at
Paris in the Polytechnic School, where he distinguished himself by his
mathematical talent. In 1817 he made the acquaintance of St. Simon,
agreeing with him as to the necessity of a Social renovation based
upon a mental revolution. On the death of St. Simon ('25) Comte
devoted himself to the elaboration of an original system of scientific
thought, which, in the opinion of some able judges, entitles him to
be called the Bacon of the nineteenth century. Mill speaks of him as
the superior of Descartes and Leibniz. In '25 he married, but the
union proved unhappy. In the following year he lectured, but broke
down under an attack of brain fever, which occasioned his detention
in an asylum. He speedily recovered, and in '28 resumed his lectures,
which were attended by men like Humboldt, Ducrotay, Broussais, Carnot,
etc. In '30 he put forward the first volumes of his Course of Positive
Philosophy, which in '42 was completed by the publication of the sixth
volume. A condensed English version of this work was made by Harriet
Martineau, '53. In '45 Comte formed a passionate Platonic attachement
to Mme. Clotilde de Vaux, who died in the following year, having
profoundely influenced Comte's life. In consequence of his opinions,
he lost his professorship, and was supported by his disciples--Mill,
Molesworth and Grote, in England, assisting. Among other works, Comte
published A General View of Positivism, '48, translated by Dr. Bridges,
'65; A System of Positive Polity, '51, translated by Drs. Bridges,
Beesley, F. Harrison, etc., '75-79; and A Positive Catechism, '54,
translated by Dr. Congreve, '58. He also wrote on Positive Logic,
which he intended to follow with Positive Morality and Positive
Industrialism. Comte was a profound and suggestive thinker. He
resolutely sets aside all theology and metaphysics, coordinates
the sciences and substitutes the service of man for the worship of
God. Mr. J. Cotter Morison says "He belonged to that small class
of rare minds, whose errors are often more valuable and stimulating
than other men's truths." He died of cancer in the stomach at Paris,
5 Sept. 1857.

Condillac (Etienne Bonnot de), French philosopher, b. Grenoble,
about 1715. His life was very retired, but his works show much
acuteness. They are in 23 vols., the principal being A Treatise on the
Sensations, 1764; A Treatise on Animals, and An Essay on the Origin
of Human Knowledge. In the first-named he shows that all mental life
is gradually built up out of simple sensations. Died 3 Aug. 1780.

Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de),
French philosopher and politician, b. Ribemont, Picardy, 17
Sept. 1743. Dedicated to the Virgin by a pious mother, he was kept
in girl's clothes until the age of 11. Sent to a Jesuit's school,
he soon gave up religion. At sixteen he maintained a mathematical
thesis in the presence of Alembert. In the next year he dedicated
to Turgot a Profession of Faith. After some mathematical works, he
was made member of the Academy, of which he was appointed perpetual
secretary, 1773. In 1776 he published his atheistic Letters of a
Theologian. He also wrote biographies of Turgot and Voltaire, and
in favor of American independence and against <DW64> slavery. In
1791 he represented Paris in the National Assembly, of which he
became Secretary. It was on his motion that, in the following year,
all orders of nobility were abolished. Voting against the death of
the king and siding with the Gironde drew on him the vengeance of
the extreme party. He took shelter with Madame Vernet, but fearing to
bring into trouble her and his wife, at whose instigation he wrote his
fine Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind while in hiding, he left,
but, being arrested, died of exhaustion or by poison self-administered,
at Bourg la Reine, 27 March, 1794.

Condorcet (Sophie de Grouchy Caritat, Marquise de), wife of above,
and sister of General Grouchy and of Mme. Cabanis, b. 1765. She
married Condorcet 1786, and was considered one of the most beautiful
women of her time. She shared her husband's sentiments and opinions
and, while he was proscribed, supported herself by portrait
painting. She was arrested, and only came out of prison after the
fall of Robespierre. She translated Adam Smith's Theory of the Moral
Sentiments, which she accompanied with eight letters on Sympathy,
addressed to Cabanis. She died 8 Sept. 1822. Her only daughter married
Gen. Arthur O'Connor.

Confucius (Kung Kew) or Kung-foo-tsze, the philosopher Kung, a
Chinese sage, b. in the State of Loo, now part of Shantung, about
B.C. 551. He was distinguished by filial piety and learning. In his
nineteenth year he married, and three years after began as a teacher,
rejecting none who came to him. He travelled through many states. When
past middle age he was appointed chief minister of Loo, but finding
the Duke desired the renown of his name without adopting his counsel,
he retired, and devoted his old age to editing the sacred classics
of China. He died about B.C. 478. His teaching, chiefly found in the
Lun-Yu, or Confucian Analects, was of a practical moral character,
and did not include any religious dogmas.

Congreve (Richard), English Positivist, born in 1819. Educated at
Rugby under T. Arnold, and Oxford 1840, M.A. 1843; was fellow of
Wadham College 1844-54. In '55 he published his edition of Aristotle
Politics. He became a follower of Comte and influenced many to embrace
Positivism. Translated Comte's Catechism of Positive Philosophy, 1858,
and has written many brochures. Dr. Congreve is considered the head
of the strict or English Comtists, and has long conducted a small
"Church of Humanity."

Connor (Bernard), a physician, b. Co. Kerry, of Catholic family,
1666. He travelled widely, and was made court physician to John
Sobieski, King of Poland. He wrote a work entitled Evangelium Medici
(1697), in which he attempts to account for the Christian miracles
on natural principles. For this he was accused of Atheism. He died
in London 27 Oct. 1698.

Constant de Rebecque (Henri Benjamin), Swiss writer, b. Lausanne,
25 Oct. 1767, and educated at Oxford, Erlangen and Edinburgh. In
1795 he entered Paris as a protege of Mme. de Stael, and in 1799
became a member of the Tribunal. He opposed Buonaparte and wrote
on Roman Polytheism and an important work on Religion Considered in
its Source, its Forms and its Developments (6 vols.; 1824-32). Died
8 Dec. 1830. Constant professed Protestantism, but was at heart a
sceptic, and has been called a second Voltaire. A son was executor
to Auguste Comte.

Conta (Basil), Roumanian philosopher, b. Neamtza 27 Nov. 1845. Studied
in Italy and Belgium, and became professor in the University of Jassy,
Moldavia. In '77 he published in Brussels, in French, a theory of
fatalism, which created some stir by its boldness of thought.

Conway (Moncure Daniel), author, b. in Fredericksburg, Stafford
co. Virginia, 17 March, 1832. He entered the Methodist ministry '50,
but changing his convictions through the influence of Emerson and
Hicksite Quakers, entered the divinity school at Cambridge, where
he graduated in '54 and became pastor of a Unitarian church until
dismissed for his anti-slavery discourses. In '57 he preached in
Cincinnati and there published The Natural History of the Devil, and
other pamphlets. In '63 Mr. Conway came to England and was minister
of South Place from the close of '63 until his return to the States
in '84. Mr. Conway is a frequent contributor to the press. He has
also published The Earthward Pilgrimage, 1870, a theory reversing
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; collected a Sacred Anthology from the
various sacred books of the world 1873, which he used in his pulpit;
has written on Human Sacrifices, 1876, and Idols and Ideals, 1877. His
principal work is Demonology and Devil Lore, 1878, containing much
information on mythology. He also issued his sermons under the title of
Lessons for the Day, two vols., 1883, and has published a monograph on
the Wandering Jew, a biography of Emerson, and is at present engaged
on a life of Thomas Paine.

Cook (Kenningale Robert), LL.D., b. in Lancashire 26 Sept. 1845, son
of the vicar of Stallbridge. When a boy he used to puzzle his mother
by such questions as, "If God was omnipotent could he make what had
happened not have happened." He was intended for the Church, but
declined to subscribe the articles. Graduated at Dublin in '66, and
took LL.D. in '75. In '77 he became editor of the Dublin University
Magazine, in which appeared some studies of the lineage of Christian
doctrine and traditions afterwards published under the title of The
Fathers of Jesus. Dr. Cook wrote several volumes of choice poems. Died
July, 1886.

Cooper (Anthony Ashley), see Shaftesbury.

Cooper (Henry), barrister, b. Norwich about 1784. He was a schoolfellow
of Wm. Taylor of Norwich. He served as midshipman at the battle of the
Nile, but disliking the service became a barrister, and acquired some
fame by his spirited defence of Mary Ann Carlile, 21 July, 1821, for
which the report of the trial was dedicated to him by R. Carlile. He
was a friend of Lord Erskine, whose biography he commenced. Died 19
Sept. 1824.

Cooper (John Gilbert), poet, b. Thurgaton Priory, Notts, 1723. Educated
at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. An enthusiastic
disciple of Lord Shaftesbury. Under the name of "Philaretes" he
contributed to Dodsley's Museum. In 1749 he published a Life of
Socrates, for which he was coarsely attacked by Warburton. He wrote
some poems under the signature of Aristippus. Died Mayfair, London,
14 April, 1769.

Cooper (Peter), a benevolent manufacturer, b. N. York, 12 Feb. 1791. He
devoted over half a million dollars to the Cooper Institute, for
the secular instruction and elevation of the working classes. Died
4 April, 1883.

Cooper (Robert), Secularist writer and lecturer, b. 29 Dec. 1819,
at Barton-on-Irwell, near Manchester. He had the advantage of being
brought up in a Freethought family. At fourteen he became teacher
in the Co-operative Schools, Salford, lectured at fifteen, and
by seventeen became an acknowledged advocate of Owenism, holding a
public discussion with the Rev. J. Bromley. Some of his lectures were
published--one on Original Sin sold twelve thousand copies--when he was
scarcely eighteen. The Holy Scriptures Analysed (1832) was denounced
by the Bishop of Exeter in the House of Lords. Cooper was dismissed
from a situation he had held ten years, and in 1841 became a Socialist
missionary in the North of England and Scotland. At Edinburgh (1845)
he wrote Free Agency and Orthodoxy, and compiled the Infidel's Text
Book. About '50 he came to London, lecturing with success at John
Street Institution. In '54 he started the London Investigator, which
he edited for three years. In it appears his lectures on "Science
v. Theology," "Admissions of Distinguished Men," etc. Failing health
obliged him to retire leaving the Investigator to "Anthony Collins"
(W. H. Johnson), and afterwards to "Iconoclast" (C. Bradlaugh). At
his last lecture he fainted on the platform. In 1858 he remodelled
his Infidel Text-Book into a work on The Bible and Its Evidences. He
devoted himself to political reform until his death, 3 May, 1868.

Cooper (Thomas), M.D., LL.D., natural philosopher, politician,
jurist and author, b. London, 22 Oct. 1759. Educated at Oxford, he
afterwards studied law and medicine; was admitted to the bar and lived
at Manchester, where he wrote a number of tracts on "Materialism,"
"Whether Deity be a Free Agent," etc., 1789. Deputed with James
Watt, the inventor, by the Constitutional clubs to congratulate
the Democrats of France (April, 1792), he was attacked by Burke
and replied in a vigorous pamphlet. In '94 he published Information
Concerning America, and in the next year followed his friend Priestly
to Philadelphia, established himself as a lawyer and was made judge. He
also conducted the Emporium of Arts and Sciences in that city. He was
Professor of Medicine at Carlisle College, '12, and afterwards held
the chairs both of Chemistry and Political Economy in South Carolina
College, of which he became President, 1820-34. This position he was
forced to resign on account of his religious views. He translated
from Justinian and Broussais, and digested the Statutes of South
Carolina. In philosophy a Materialist, in religion a Freethinker,
in politics a Democrat, he urged his views in many pamphlets. One on
The Right of Free Discussion, and a little book on Geology and the
Pentateuch, in reply to Prof. Silliman, were republished in London
by James Watson. Died at Columbia, 11 May, 1840. [1]

[1] So varied was the activity of T. Cooper during his long life that
his works in the British Museum were catalogued as by six different
persons of the same name. I pointed this out, and the six single
gentlemen will be rolled into one.

Coornhert (Dirk Volkertszoon), Dutch humanist, poet and writer,
b. Amsterdam, 1522. He travelled in his youth through Spain
and Portugal. He set up as an engraver at Haarlem, and became
thereafter notary and secretary of the city of Haarlem. He had a
profound horror of intolerance, and defended liberty against Beza and
Calvin. The clergy vituperated him as a Judas and as instigated by
Satan, etc. Bayle, who writes of him as Theodore Koornhert, says he
communed neither with Protestants nor Catholics. The magistrates of
Delft drove him out of their city. He translated Cicero's De Officiis,
and other works. Died at Gouda, 20 Oct. 1590.

Cordonnier de Saint Hyacinthe. See Saint-Hyacinthe (Themiseuil de).

Corvin-Wiersbitski (Otto Julius Bernhard von), Prussian Pole of noble
family, who traced their descent from the Roman Corvinii, b. Gumbinnen,
12 Oct. 1812. He served in the Prussian army, where he met his friend
Friedrich von Sallet; retired into the Landwehr 1835, went to Leipsic
and entered upon a literary career, wrote the History of the Dutch
Revolution, 1841; the History of Christian Fanaticism, 1845, which
was suppressed in Austria. He took part with the democrats in '48;
was condemned to be shot 15 Sept. '49, but the sentence was commuted;
spent six years' solitary confinement in prison; came to London,
became correspondent to the Times; went through American Civil War,
and afterwards Franco-Prussian War, as a special correspondent. He
has written a History of the New Time, 1848-71. Died since 1886.

Cotta (Bernhard), German geologist, b. Little Zillbach, Thuringia,
24 Oct. 1808. He studied at the Academy of Mining, in Freiberg,
where he was appointed professor in '42. His first production, The
Dendroliths, '32, proved him a diligent investigator. It was followed
by many geological treatises. Cotta did much to support the nebular
hypothesis and the law of natural development without miraculous
agency. He also wrote on phrenology. Died at Freiburg, 13 Sept 1879.

Cotta (C. Aurelius), Roman philosopher, orator and statesman,
b. B.C. 124. In '75 he became Consul. On the expiration of his
office he obtained Gaul as a province. Cicero had a high opinion of
him and gives his sceptical arguments in the third book of his De
Natura Deorum.

Courier (Paul Louis), French writer, b. Paris, 4 Jan. 1772. He entered
the army and became an officer of artillery, serving with distinction
in the Army of the Republic. He wrote many pamphlets, directed against
the clerical restoration, which place him foremost among the literary
men of the generation. His writings are now classics, but they brought
him nothing but imprisonment, and he was apparently assassinated,
10 April, 1825. He had a presentiment that the bigots would kill him.

Coventry (Henry), a native of Cambridgeshire, b. about 1710, Fellow
of Magdalene College, author of Letters of Philemon to Hydaspus on
False Religion (1736). Died 29 Dec. 1752.

Coward (William), M.D., b. Winchester, 1656. Graduated at Wadham
College, Oxford, 1677. Settled first at Northampton, afterwards
at London. Published, besides some medical works, Second Thoughts
Concerning Human Soul, which excited much indignation by denying
natural immortality. The House of Commons (17 March, 1704) ordered
his work to be burnt. He died in 1725.

Cox (the Right Rev. Sir George William), b. 1827, was educated at
Rugby and Oxford, where he took B.C.L. in 1849. Entered the Church,
but has devoted himself to history and mythology. His most pretentious
work is Mythology of the Aryan Nations (1870). He has also written
an Introduction to Comparative Mythology and several historical
works. In 1886 he became Bishop of Bloemfontein. He is credited with
the authorship of the English Life of Jesus, published under the name
of Thomas Scott. At the Church Congress of 1888 he read an heretical
paper on Biblical Eschatology. His last production is a Life of Bishop
Colenso, 2 vols, 1888.

Coyteux (Fernand), French writer, b. Ruffec, 1800. Author of a
materialistic system of philosophy, Brussels, 1853 Studies on
physiology, Paris, 1875, etc.

Craig (Edward Thomas), social reformer, b. at Manchester 4
Aug. 1804. He was present at the Peterloo massacre '19; helped to form
the Salford Social Institute and became a pioneer of co-operation. In
'31 he became editor of the Lancashire Co-operator. In Nov. of the same
year he undertook the management of a co-operative farm at Rahaline,
co. Clare. Of this experiment he has written an history, '72. Mr. Craig
has edited several journals and contributed largely to Radical and
co-operative literature. He has published a memoir of Dr. Travis and
at the age of 84 he wrote on The Science of Prolonging Life.

Cramer (Johan Nicolai), Swedish writer, b. Wisby, Gottland, 18
Feb. 1812. He studied at Upsala and became Doctor of Philosophy
'36; ordained priest in '42; he resigned in '58. In religion he
denies revelation and insists on the separation of Church and
State. Among his works we mention Separation from the Church, a
Freethinker's annotations on the reading of the Bible, Stockholm,
1859. A Confession of Faith; Forward or Back? (1862). He has also
written on the Punishment of Death (1868), and other topics.

Cranbrook (Rev. James.) Born of strict Calvinistic parents about
1817. Mr. Cranbrook gradually emancipated himself from dogmas, became
a teacher, and for sixteen years was minister of an Independent Church
at Liscard, Cheshire. He also was professor at the Ladies' College,
Liverpool, some of his lectures there being published '57. In Jan. '65,
he went to Albany Church, Edinburgh, but his views being too broad
for that congregation, he left in Feb. '67 but continued to give
Sunday lectures until his death, 6 June, 1869. In '66 he published
Credibilia: an Inquiry into the grounds of Christian faith and two
years later The Founders of Christianity, discourses on the origin of
Christianity. Other lectures on Human Depravity, Positive Religion,
etc., were published by Thomas Scott.

Cranch (Christopher Pearse), American painter and poet, b. Alexandria,
Virginia, 8 March, 1813, graduated at divinity school, Cambridge,
Mass. '35, but left the ministry in '42. He shows his Freethought
sentiments in Satan, a Libretto, Boston, '74, and other works.

Craven (M. B.), American, author of a critical work on the Bible
entitled Triumph of Criticism, published at Philadelphia, 1869.

Cremonini (Cesare), Italian philosopher, b. Cento, Ferrara, 1550, was
professor of philosophy at Padua from 1591 to 1631, when he died. A
follower of Aristotle, he excited suspicion by his want of religion and
his teaching the mortality of the soul. He was frequently ordered by
the Jesuits and the Inquisition to refute the errors he gave currency
to, but he was protected by the Venetian State, and refused. Like most
of the philosophers of his time, he distinguished between religious
and philosophic truth. Bayle says. "Il a passe pour un esprit fort,
qui ne croyait point l'immortalite de l'ame." Larousse says, "On peut
dire qu'il n'etait pas chretien." Ladvocat says his works "contain
many things contrary to religion."

Cross (Mary Ann). See Eliot (George).

Crousse (Louis D.), French Pantheistic philosopher, author of
Principles, or First Philosophy, 1839, and Thoughts, 1845.

Curtis (S. E.), English Freethinker, author of Theology Displayed,
1842. He has been credited with The Protestant's Progress to
Infidelity. See Griffith (Rees). Died 1847.

Croly (David Goodman), American Positivist, b. New York, 3
Nov. 1829. He graduated at New York University in '54, and was
subsequently a reporter on the New York Herald. He became editor of
the New York World until '72. From '71 to '73 he edited The Modern
Thinker, an organ of the most advanced thought, and afterwards the
New York Graphic. Mr. Croly has written a Primer of Positivism, '76,
and has contributed many articles to periodicals. His wife, Jane
Cunningham, who calls herself "Jennie June," b. 1831, also wrote in
The Modern Thinker.

Cross (Mary Ann), see Eliot (George).

Crozier (John Beattie), English writer of Scottish border parentage,
b. Galt, Ontario, Canada, 23 April, 1849. In youth he won a scholarship
to the grammar school of the town, and thence won another scholarship
to the Toronto University, where he graduated '72, taking the
University and Starr medals. He then came to London determined to study
the great problems of religion and civilisation. He took his diploma
from the London College of Physicians in '73. In '77 he wrote his first
essay, "God or Force," which, being rejected by all the magazines, he
published as a pamphlet. Other essays on the Constitution of the World,
Carlyle, Emerson, and Spencer being also rejected, he published them in
a book entitled The Religion of the Future, '80, which fell flat. He
then started his work Civilisation and Progress, which appeared in
'85, and was also unsuccessful until republished with a few notices
in '87, when it received a chorus of applause, for its clear and
original thoughts. Mr. Crozier is now engaged on his Autobiography,
after which he proposes to deal with the Social question.

Cuffeler (Abraham Johann), a Dutch philosopher and doctor of law,
who was one of the first partizans of Spinoza. He lived at Utrecht
towards the end of the seventeenth century, and wrote a work on
logic in three parts entitled Specimen Artis Ratiocinandi, etc.,
published ostensibly at Hamburg, but really at Amsterdam or Utrecht,
1684. It was without name but with the author's portrait.

Cuper (Frans), Dutch writer, b. Rotterdam. Cuper is suspected to have
been one of those followers of Spinoza, who under pretence of refuting
him, set forth and sustained his arguments by feeble opposition. His
work entitled Arcana Atheismi Revelata, Rotterdam 1676, was denounced
as written in bad faith. Cuper maintained that the existence of God
could not be proved by the light of reason.

Cyrano de Bergerac (Savinien), French comic writer, b. Paris 6 March,
1619. After finishing his studies and serving in the army in his youth
he devoted himself to literature. His tragedy "Agrippine" is full of
what a bookseller called "belles impietes," and La Monnoye relates that
at its performance the pit shouted "Oh, the wretch! The Atheist! How
he mocks at holy things!" Cyrano knew personally Campanella, Gassendi,
Lamothe Le Vayer, Liniere, Rohault, etc. His other works consist of
a short fragment on Physic, a collection of Letters, and a Comic
History of the States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun. Cyrano
took the idea of this book from F. Godwin's Man in the Moon, 1583,
and it in turn gave rise to Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's
Micromegas. Died Paris, 1655.

Czolbe (Heinrich), German Materialist, b. near Dantzic, 30 Dec. 1819,
studied medicine at Berlin, writing an inaugural dissertation on
the Principles of Physiology, '44. In '55 he published his New
Exposition of Sensationalism, in which everything is resolved into
matter and motion, and in '65 a work on The Limits and Origin of Human
Knowledge. He was an intimate friend of Ueberweg. Died at Koenigsberg,
19 Feb. 1873. Lange says "his life was marked by a deep and genuine
morality."

D'Ablaing. See Giessenburg.

Dale (Antonius van), Dutch writer, b. Haarlem, 8 Nov. 1638. His work
on oracles was erudite but lumbersome, and to it Fontenelle gave the
charm of style. It was translated into English by Mrs. Aphra Behn,
under the title of The History of Oracles and the Cheats of Pagan
Priests, 1699. Van Dale, in another work on The Origin and Progress
of Idolatry and Superstition, applied the historical method to his
subject, and showed that the belief in demons was as old and as
extensive as the human race. He died at Haarlem, 28 Nov. 1708.

Damilaville (Etienne Noel), French writer, b. at Bordeaux, 1721. At
first a soldier, then a clerk, he did some service for Voltaire, who
became his friend. He also made the friendship Diderot, d'Alembert,
Grimm, and d'Holbach. He contributed to the Encyclopedie, and in
1767 published an attack on the theologians, entitled Theological
Honesty. The book entitled Christianity Unveiled [see Boulanger and
Holbach] was attributed by Voltaire, who called it Impiety Unveiled,
and by La Harpe and Lalande to Damilaville. Voltaire called him
"one of our most learned writers." Larousse says "he was an ardent
enemy of Christianity." He has also been credited with a share in
the System of Nature. Died 15 Dec. 1768.

Dandolo (Vincenzo) Count, Italian chemist, b. Venice, 26 Oct. 1758,
wrote Principles of Physical Chemistry, a work in French on The New
Men, in which he shows his antagonism to religion, and many useful
works on vine, timber, and silk culture. Died Varessa, 13 Dec. 1819.

Danton (Georges Jacques), French revolutionist, b. Arcis sur Aube, 28
Oct. 1759. An uncle wished him to enter into orders, but he preferred
to study law. During the Revolution his eloquence made him conspicuous
at the Club of Cordeliers, and in Feb. 1791, he became one of the
administrators of Paris. One of the first to see that after the flight
of Louis XVI. he could no longer be king, he demanded his suspension,
and became one of the chief organisers of the Republic. In the alarm
caused by the invasion he urged a bold and resolute policy. He was a
member of the Convention and of the Committee of Public Safety. At the
crisis of the struggle with Robespierre, Danton declined to strike
the first blow and disdained to fly. Arrested March, 1794, he said
when interrogated by the judge, "My name is Danton, my dwelling will
soon be in annihilation; but my name will live in the Pantheon of
history." He maintained his lofty bearing on the scaffold, where he
perished 5 April, 1794. For his known scepticism Danton was called
fils de Diderot. Carlyle calls him "a very Man."

Dapper (Olfert), Dutch physician, who occupied himself with history and
geography, on which he produced important works. He had no religion
and was suspected of Atheism. He travelled through Syria, Babylonia,
etc., in 1650. He translated Herodotus (1664) and the orations of
the late Prof. Caspar v. Baerli (1663), and wrote a History of the
City of Amsterdam, 1663. Died at Amsterdam 1690.

Darget (Etienne), b. Paris, 1712; went to Berlin in 1744 and became
reader and private secretary to Frederick the Great (1745-52), who
corresponded with him afterwards. Died 1778.

Darwin (Charles Robert), English naturalist, b. Shrewsbury,
12 Feb. 1809. Educated at Shrewsbury, Edinburgh University, and
Cambridge. He early evinced a taste for collecting and observing
natural objects. He was intended for a clergyman, but, incited by
Humboldt's Personal Narrative, resolved to travel. He accompanied
Captain Fitzroy in the "Beagle" on a voyage of exploration, '31-36,
which he narrated in his Voyage of a Naturalist Round the World, which
obtained great popularity. In '39 he married, and in '42 left London
and settled at Down, Kent. His studies, combined with the reading of
Lamarck and Malthus, led to his great work on The Origin of Species
by means of Natural Selection, '59, which made a great outcry and
marked an epoch. Darwin took no part in the controversy raised by the
theologians, but followed his work with The Fertilisation of Orchids,
'62; Cross and Self Fertilisation of Plants, '67; Variations of
Plants and Animals under Domestication, '65; and in '71 The Descent
of Man and Selection in relation to Sex, which caused yet greater
consternation in orthodox circles. The following year he issued The
Expression of the Emotions of Men and Animals. He also published
works on the Movements of Plants, Insectivorous Plants, the Forms of
Flowers, and Earthworms. He died 19 April, 1882, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey, despite his expressed unbelief in revelation. To
a German student he wrote, in '79, "Science has nothing to do with
Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes
a man cautious in admitting evidence. For myself I do not believe
that there ever has been any revelation." In his Life and Letters
he relates that between 1836 and 1842 he had come to see "that the
Old Testament was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the
Hindoos." He rejected design and said "I for one must be content to
remain an Agnostic."

Darwin (Erasmus), Dr., poet, physiologist and philosopher, grandfather
of the above, was born at Elston, near Newark, 12 Dec. 1731. Educated
at Chesterfield and Cambridge he became a physician, first at Lichfield
and afterwards at Derby. He was acquainted with Rousseau, Watt and
Wedgwood. His principal poem, The Botanic Garden was published in 1791,
and The Temple of Nature in 1803. His principal work is Zoomania,
or the laws of organic life (1794), for which he was accused of
Atheism. He was actually a Deist. He also wrote on female education
and some papers in the Philosophical Transactions. Died at Derby,
18 April, 1802.

Daubermesnil (Francois Antoine), French conventionalist. Elected
deputy of Tarn in 1792. Afterwards became a member of the Council of
Five Hundred. He was one of the founders of Theophilanthropy. Died
at Perpignan 1802.

Daudet (Alphonse), French novelist, b. at Nimes, 13 May 1840, author
of many popular romances, of which we mention L'Evangeliste, '82,
which has been translated into English under the title Port Salvation.

Daunou (Pierre Claude Francois), French politician and historian,
b. Boulogne, 18 Aug. 1761. His father entered him in the congregation
of the Fathers of the Oratory, which he left at the Revolution. The
department of Calais elected him with Carnot and Thomas Paine to
the Convention. After the Revolution he became librarian at the
Pantheon. He was a friend of Garat, Cabanis, Chenier, Destutt Tracy,
Ginguene and Benj. Constant. Wrote Historical Essay on the Temporal
Power of the Popes, 1810. Died at Paris, 20 June, 1840, noted for
his benevolence.

Davenport (Allen), social reformer, b. 1773. He contributed to
Carlile's Republican; wrote an account of the Life, Writings and
Principles of Thomas Spence, the reformer (1826); and published a
volume of verse, entitled The Muses' Wreath (1827). Died at Highbury,
London, 1846.

Davenport (John), Deist, b. London, 8 June, 1789, became a teacher. He
wrote An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran, 1869; Curiositates
Eroticoe Physiologae, or Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated, and several
educational works. Died in poverty 11 May, 1877.

David of Dinant, in Belgium, Pantheistic philosopher of the twelfth
century. He is said to have visited the Papal Court of Innocent
III. He shared in the heresies of Amalric of Chartres, and his work
Quaterini was condemned and burnt (1209). He only escaped the stake
by rapid flight. According to Albert the Great he was the author of
a philosophical work De Tomis, "Of Subdivisions," in which he taught
that all things were one. His system was similar to that of Spinoza.

David (Jacques Louis), French painter, born at Paris, 31 Aug. 1748,
was made painter to the king, but joined the Jacobin Club, became
a member of the Convention, voted for the king's death and for the
civic festivals, for which he made designs. On the restoration he
was banished. Died at Brussels, 29 Dec. 1825. David was an honest
enthusiast and a thorough Freethinker.

Davidis or David (Ferencz), a Transylvanian divine, b. about
1510. He was successively a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran and an
Antitrinitarian. He went further than F. Socinus and declared there
was "as much foundation for praying to the Virgin Mary and other
dead saints as to Jesus Christ." He was in consequence accused of
Judaising and thrown into prison at Deva, where he died 6 June, 1579.

Davies (John C.), of Stockport, an English Jacobin, who in 1797
published a list of contradictions of the Bible under the title of The
Scripturian's Creed, for which he was prosecuted and imprisoned. The
work was republished by Carlile, 1822, and also at Manchester, 1839.

Davidson (Thomas), bookseller and publisher, was prosecuted by the Vice
Society in Oct. 1820, for selling the Republican and a publication
of his own, called the Deist's Magazine. For observations made in
his defence he was summoned and fined L100, and he was sentenced to
two years' imprisonment in Oakham Gaol. He died 16 Dec. 1826.

Debierre (Charles), French writer, author of Man Before History, 1888.

De Dominicis. See Dominicis.

De Felice (Francesco), Italian writer, b. Catania, Sicily, 1821,
took part in the revolution of '43, and when Garibaldi landed in
Sicily was appointed president of the provisional council of war. Has
written on the reformation of elementary schools.

De Greef (Guillaume Joseph), advocate at Brussels Court of Appeal,
b. at Brussels, 9 Oct. 1842. Author of an important Introduction to
Sociology, 1886. Wrote in La Liberte, 1867-73, and now writes in La
Societe Nouvelle.

De Gubernatis (Angelo), Italian Orientalist and writer, b. Turin,
7 April, 1840; studied at Turin University and became doctor of
philosophy. He studied Sanskrit under Bopp and Weber at Berlin. Sig. de
Gubernatis has adorned Italian literature with many important
works, of which we mention his volumes on Zoological Mythology,
which has been translated into English, '72: and on the Mythology of
Plants. He has compiled and in large part written a Universal History
of Literature, 18 vols. '82-85; edited La Revista Europea and the
Revue Internationale, and contributed to many publications. He is a
brilliant writer and a versatile scholar.

De Harven (Emile Jean Alexandre), b. Antwerp, 23 Sept. 1837, the
anonymous author of a work on The Soul: its Origin and Destiny
(Antwerp, 1879).

Dekker (Eduard Douwes), the greatest Dutch writer and Freethinker of
this century, b. Amsterdam, 2 March, 1820. In '39 he accompanied his
father, a ship's captain, to the Malayan Archipelago. He became officer
under the Dutch government in Sumatra, Amboina, and Assistant-Resident
at Lebac, Java. He desired to free the Javanese from the oppression of
their princes, but the government would not help him and he resigned
and returned to Holland, '56. The next four years he spent, in poverty,
vainly seeking justice for the Javanese. In '60 he published under the
pen name of "Multatuli" Max Havelaar, a masterly indictment of the
Dutch rule in India, which has been translated into German, French
and English. Then follow his choice Minnebrieven (Love Letters),
'61; Vorstenschool (A School for Princes), and Millioenen Studien
(Studies on Millions). His Ideen, 7 vols. '62-79, are full of the
boldest heresy. In most of his works religion is attacked, but in the
Ideas faith is criticised with much more pungency and satire. He wrote
"Faith is the voluntary prison-cell of reason." He was an honorary
member of the Freethought Society, De Dageraad, and contributed to its
organ. During the latter years of his life he lived at Wiesbaden, where
he died 19 Feb. 1887. His corpse was burned in the crematory at Gotha.

De Lalande (see Lalande).

Delambre (Jean Baptiste Joseph), French astronomer, b. Amiens,
19 Sept. 1749, studied under Lalande and became, like his master,
an Atheist. His Tables of the Orbit of Uranus were crowned by the
Academy, 1790. In 1807 he succeeded Lalande as Professor of Astronomy
at the College de France. He is the author of a History of Astronomy
in five volumes, and of a number of astronomical tables and other
scientific works He was appointed perpetual secretary of the Academy of
Sciences. Died 19 Aug. 1822, and was buried at Pere la Chaise. Cuvier
pronouncing a discourse over his grave.

De la Ramee. See Ramee.

Delboeuf (Joseph Remi Leopold), Belgian writer, b. Liege, 30
Sept. 1831; is Professor at the University of Liege, and has
written Psychology as a Natural Science, its Present and its Future;
Application of the Experimental Method to the Phenomena of the Soul,
'73, and other works. In his Philosophical Prolegomena to Geometry
he suggests that even mathematical axioms may have an empirical origin.

Delbos (Leon), linguist, b. 20 Sept. 1849 of Spanish father and Scotch
mother. Educated in Paris, Lycee Charlemagne. Is an M.A. of Paris and
officier d'Academie. Speaks many languages, and is a good Arabic and
Sanskrit scholar. Has travelled widely and served in the Franco-German
War. Besides many educational works, M. Delbos has written L'Athee,
the Atheist, a Freethought romance '79, and in English The Faith in
Jesus not a New Faith, '85. He has contributed to the Agnostic Annual,
and is a decided Agnostic.

Delepierre (Joseph Octave), Belgian bibliophile, b. Bruges, 12 March,
1802. Was for thirty-five years secretary of Legation to England. His
daughter married N. Truebner, who published his work L'Enfer, 1876,
and many other bibliographical studies. Died London, 18 Aug. 1879.

Delescluze (Louis Charles), French journalist and revolutionary,
b. Dreux, 2 Oct. 1809, was arrested in '34 for sedition. Implicated in
a plot in '35, he took refuge in Belgium. In '48 he issued at Paris La
Revolution Democratique et Sociale, but was soon again in prison. He
was banished, came to England with Ledru Rollin, but returning to
France in '53 was arrested. In '68 he published the Reveil, for
which he was again fined and sentenced to prison for ten years. In
'59 he was amnestied and imprisoned. He became head of the Commune
Committee of Public Safety, and died at the barricade, 25 May, 1871.

Deleyre (Alexandre), French writer, b. Porbats, near Bordeaux, 6
Jan. 1726. Early in life he entered the order of Jesuits, but changed
his faith and became the friend of Rousseau and Diderot. He contributed
to the Encyclopedie, notably the article "Fanatisme," and published
an analysis of Bacon and works on the genius of Montesquieu and Saint
Evremond, and a History of Voyages. He embraced the Revolution with
ardor, was made deputy to the Convention, and in 1795 was made member
of the Institute. Died at Paris, 27 March, 1797.

Delisle de Sales. See Isoard Delisle (J. B. C.)

Dell (John Henry), artist and poet, b. 11 Aug. 1832. Contributed
to Progress, wrote Nature Pictures, '71, and The Dawning Grey, '85,
a volume of vigorous verse, imbued with the spirit of democracy and
freethought. Died 31 Jan. 1888.

Deluc (Adolphe), Professor of Chemistry at Brussels, b. Paris,
1 Sept. 1811. Collaborated on La Libre Recherche.

De Maillet. See Maillet (Benoit de).

Democritus, a wealthy Atheistic philosopher, b. Abdera, Thrace,
B.C. 460. He travelled to Egypt and over a great part of Asia,
and is also said to have visited India. He is supposed to have
been acquainted with Leucippus, and sixty works were ascribed to
him. Died B.C. 357. He taught that all existence consisted of atoms,
and made the discovery of causes the object of scientific inquiry. He
is said to have laughed at life in general, which Montaigne says
is better than to imitate Heraclitus and weep, since mankind are
not so unhappy as vain. Democritus was the forerunner of Epicurus,
who improved his system.

Demonax, a cynical philosopher who lived in the second century of
the Christian era and rejected all religion. An account of him was
written by Lucian.

Demora (Gianbattista), director of the Libero Pensatore of Milan,
and author of some dramatic works.

Denis (Hector), Belgian advocate and professor of political economy
and philosophy at Brussels University, b. Braine-le-Comte, 29 April,
1842. Has written largely on social questions and contributed to La
Liberte, la Philosophie Positive, etc. Is one of the Council of the
International Federation of Freethinkers.

Denslow (Van Buren), American writer, author of essays on Modern
Thinkers, 1880, to which Colonel Ingersoll wrote an introduction. He
contributed a paper on the value of irreligion to the Religio
Philosophic journal of America, Jan. '78, and has written in the
Truthseeker and other journals.

Denton (William F.), poet, geologist, and lecturer, b. Darlington,
Durham, 8 Jan. 1823. After attaining manhood he emigrated to the
United States, '48, and in '56 published Poems for Reformers. He was
a prolific writer, and constant lecturer on temperance, psychology,
geology, and Freethought. In '72 he published Radical Discourses
on Religious Subjects (Boston, '72), and Radical Rhymes, '79. He
travelled to Australasia, and died of a fever while conducting
scientific explorations in New Guinea 26 Aug. 1883.

De Paepe (Cesar) Dr., Belgian Socialist, b. Ostend, 12 July, 1842. He
was sent to the college of St. Michel, Brussels. He obtained the
Diploma of Candidate of Philosophy, but on the death of his father
became a printer with Desire Brismee (founder of Les Solidaires,
a Rationalist society). Proudhon confided to him the correction of
his works. He became a physician and is popular with the workmen's
societies. He was one of the foremost members of the International and
attended all its congresses, as well as those of the International
Federation of Freethinkers. He has written much on public hygiene,
political economy, and psychology, collaborating in a great number of
the most advanced journals. Dr. De Paepe is a short, fair, energetic
man, capable both as a speaker and writer.

Depasse (Hector), French writer, b. at Armentieres in 1843, is
editor of La Republique Francaise, and member of the Paris Municipal
Council. He has written a striking work on Clericalism, in which he
urges the separation of Church and State, 1877; and is author of many
little books on Contemporary Celebrities, among them are Gambetta,
Bert, Ranc, etc.

De Ponnat. See Ponnat (--de), Baron.

De Pontan. See Ponnat.

De Potter (Agathon Louis), Belgian economist, b. Brussels, 11
Nov. 1827. Has written many works on Social Science, and has
collaborated to La Ragione (Reason), '56, and La Philosophie de
l'Avenir.

De Potter (Louis Antoine Joseph), Belgian politician and writer,
father of the above, b. of noble family, Bruges, 26 April, 1786. In
1811 he went to Italy and lived ten years at Rome. In '21 he wrote the
Spirit of the Church, in 6 vols., which are put on the Roman Index. A
strong upholder of secular education in Belgium, he was arrested
more than once for his radicalism, being imprisoned for eighteen
months in '28. In Sept. '30 he became a member of the provisional
government. He was afterwards exiled and lived in Paris, where he wrote
a philosophical and anti-clerical History of Christianity, in 8 vols.,
1836-37. He also wrote a Rational Catechism, 1854, and a Rational
Dictionary, 1859, and numerous brochures. Died Bruges, 22 July, 1859.

Deraismes (Maria), French writer and lecturer, b. Paris, 15
Aug. 1835. She first made her name as a writer of comedies. She wrote
an appeal on behalf of her sex, Aux Femmes Riches, '65. The Masonic
Lodge of Le Pecq, near Paris, invited her to become a member, and she
was duly installed under the Grand Orient of France. The first female
Freemason, was president of the Paris Anti-clerical Congress of 1881,
and has written much in her journal, Le Republicain de Seine et Oise.

De Roberty (Eugene). See Roberty.

Desbarreaux (Jacques Vallee), Seigneur, French poet and sceptic,
b. Paris, 1602, great-nephew of Geoffrey Vallee, who was burnt in
1574. Many stories are related of his impiety, e.g. the well-known
one of his having a feast of eggs and bacon. It thundered, and Des
Barreaux, throwing the plate out of window, exclaimed, "What an amount
of noise over an omelette." It was said he recanted and wrote a poem
beginning, "Great God, how just are thy chastisements." Voltaire,
however, assigns this poem to the Abbe Levau. Died at Chalons,
9 May, 1673.

Descartes (Rene), French philosopher, b. at La Haye, 31 March,
1596. After leaving college he entered the army in '16, and fought
in the battle of Prague. He travelled in France and Italy, and in
'29 settled in Holland. In '37 he produced his famous Discourses upon
the Method of Reasoning Well, etc., and in '41 his Meditations upon
First Philosophy. This work gave such offence to the clergy that he
was forced to fly his country "parce qu'il y fait trop chaud pour
lui." He burnt his Traite du Monde (Treatise on the World) lest
he should incur the fate of Gallilei. Though a Theist, like Bacon,
he puts aside final causes. He was offered an asylum by Christina,
Queen of Sweden, and died at Stockholm 11 Feb. 1650.

Deschamps (Leger-Marie), known also as Dom Deschamps, a French
philosopher, b. Rennes, Poitiers, 10 Jan. 1716. He entered the Order
of Benedictines, but lost his faith by reading an abridgment of
the Old Testament. He became correspondent of Voltaire, Rousseau,
d'Alembert, Helvetius, and other philosophers. "Ce pretre athee,"
as Ad. Franck calls him, was the author of a treatise entitled La
Verite, ou le Vrai Systeme, in which he appears to have anticipated
all the leading ideas of Hegel. God, he says, as separated from
existing things, is pure nothingness. An analysis of his remarkable
work, which remained in manuscript for three-quarters of a century,
has been published by Professor Beaussire (Paris, 1855). Died at
Montreuil-Bellay, 19 April 1774.

Deslandes (Andre Francois Boureau), b. Pondichery, 1690. Became member
of the Berlin Academy and wrote numerous works, mostly under the veil
of anonymity, the principal being A Critical History of Philosophy,
3 vols(1737). His Pygmalion, a philosophical romance, was condemned by
the parliament of Dijon, 1742. His Reflexions sur les grands hommes
qui sont mort en Plaisantant (Amsterdam, 1732) was translated into
English and published in 1745 under the title, Dying Merrily. Another
work directed against religion was On the certainty of Human Knowledge,
a philosophical examination of the different prerogatives of reason
and faith (London, 1741). Died Paris, 11 April, 1757.

Des Maizeaux (Pierre), miscellaneous writer, b. Auvergne, 1673. He
studied at Berne and Geneva, and became known to Bayle who introduced
him to Lord Shaftesbury, with whom he came to London, 1699. He edited
the works of Bayle, Saint Evremond and Toland, whose lives he wrote,
as well as those of Hales and Chillingworth. Anthony Collins was his
friend, and at his death left him his manuscripts. These he transferred
to Collins's widow and they were burnt. He repented and returned the
money, 6 Jan. 1730, as the wages of iniquity. He became Secretary of
the Royal Society of London, where he died, 11 July, 1745.

Desmoulins (Lucie Simplice Camille Benoit), French revolutionary
writer, b. Guise, 2 March, 1760. He was a fellow-student of Robespierre
at Paris, and became an advocate and an enthusiastic reformer. In
July '89 he incited the people to the siege of the Bastille,
and thus began the Revolution. On 29 Dec. 1790 he married Lucile
Laridon-Duplessis. He edited Le Vieux Cordelier and the Revolutions
de France et de Brabant, in which he stated that Mohammedanism was
as credible as Christianity. He was a Deist, preferring Paganism to
Christianity. Both creeds were more or less unreasonable; but, folly
for folly, he said, I prefer Hercules slaying the Erymanthean boar
to Jesus of Nazareth drowning two thousand pigs. He was executed
with Danton, 5 April 1794. His amiable wife, Lucile, who was an
Atheist (b. 1770), in a few days shared his fate (April 13). Carlyle
calls Desmoulins a man of genius, "a fellow of infinite shrewdness,
wit--nay, humor."

Des Periers (Jean Bonaventure), French poet and sceptic,
b. Arnay le Duc, about 1510. He was brought up in a convent,
only to detest the vices of the monks. In 1535 he lived in Lyons
and assisted Dolet. He probably knew Rabelais, whom he mentions as
"Francoys Insigne." Attached to the court of Marguerite of Valois,
he defended Clement Marot when persecuted for making a French version
of the Psalms. He wrote the Cymbalum Mundi, a satire upon religion,
published under the name of Thomas de Clenier a Pierre Tryocan,
i.e., Thomas Incredule a Pierre Croyant, 1537. It was suppressed
and the printer, Jehan Morin, imprisoned. Des Periers fled and
died (probably by suicide, to escape persecution) 1544. An English
version of Cymbalum Mundi was published in 1712. P. G. Brunet, the
bibliographer, conjectures that Des Periers was the author of the
famous Atheistic treatise, The Three Impostors.

Destriveaux (Pierre Joseph), Belgian lawyer and politician, b. Liege,
13 March, 1780. Author of several works on public right. Died
Schaerbeck (Brussels), 3 Feb. 1853.

Destutt de Tracy (Antoine Louis de Claude) Count, French materialist
philosopher, b. 20 July, 1754. His family was of Scotch origin. At
first a soldier, he was one of the first noblemen at the Revolution
to despoil himself of his title. A friend of Lafayette, Condorcet,
and Cabanis, he was a complete sceptic in religion; made an analysis
of Dupuis' Origine de tous les Cultes (1804), edited Montesquieu and
Cabanis, was made a member of the French Academy (1808), and wrote
several philosophical works, of which the principal is Elements of
Ideology. He was a great admirer of Hobbes. Died Paris, 9 March, 1836.

Des Vignes (Pietro), secretary to Frederick II. (1245-49). Mazzuchelli
attributes to him the treatise De Tribus Impostoribus.

Detrosier (Rowland), social reformer and lecturer, b. 1796, the
illegitimate son of a Manchester man named Morris and a Frenchwoman. In
his early years he was "for whole days without food." Self-educated,
he established the first Mechanics' Institute in England at Hulme,
gave Sunday scientific lectures, and published several discourses
in favor of secular education. He became secretary of the National
Political Union. He was a Deist. Like Bentham, who became his friend,
he bequeathed his body for scientific purposes. Died in London,
23 Nov. 1834.

Deubler (Konrad). The son of poor parents, b. Goisern, near Ischl,
Upper Austria, 26 Nov. 1814. Self-taught amid difficulties,
he became the friend of Feuerbach and Strauss, and was known as
"the Peasant Philosopher." In 1854 he was indicted for blasphemy,
and was sentenced to two years' hard labor and imprisonment during
pleasure. He was incarcerated from 7 Dec. '54, till Nov. '56 at Bruenn,
and afterwards at Olmutz, where he was released 24 March, 1857. He
returned to his native place, and was visited by Feuerbach. In '70
he was made Burgomaster by his fellow-townsmen. Died 30 March, 1884.

Deurhoff (Willem), Dutch writer, b. Amsterdam, March 1650. Educated
for the Church, he gave himself to philosophy, translated the works of
Descartes, and was accused of being a follower of Spinoza. Forced to
leave his country, he took refuge in Brabant, but returned to Holland,
where he died 10 Oct. 1717. He left some followers.

De Wette. (See Wette M. L. de).

D'Holbach. See Holbach (P. H. D. von), Baron.

Diagoras, Greek poet, philosopher, and orator, known as "the Atheist,"
b. Melos. A pupil of Democritus, who is said to have freed him from
slavery. A doubtful tradition reports that he became an Atheist after
being the victim of an unpunished perjury. He was accused (B.C. 411)
of impiety, and had to fly from Athens to Corinth, where he died. A
price was put upon the Atheist's head. His works are not extant,
but several anecdotes are related of him, as that he threw a wooden
statue of Hercules into the fire to cook a dish of lentils, saying the
god had a thirteenth task to perform; and that, being on his flight
by sea overtaken by a storm, hearing his fellow-passengers say it
was because an Atheist was on board, he pointed to other vessels
struggling in the same storm without being laden with a Diagoras.

Di Cagno Politi (Niccola Annibale), Italian Positivist, b. Bari,
1857. Studied at Naples under Angiulli, has written on modern culture
and on experimental philosophy in Italy, and contributed articles on
Positivism to the Rivista Europea.

Diderot (Denis), French philosopher, b. Langres, 6 Oct. 1713. His
father, a cutler, intended him for the Church. Educated by Jesuits,
at the age of twelve he received the tonsure. He had a passion for
books, but, instead of becoming a Jesuit, went to Paris, where he
supported himself by teaching and translating. In 1746 he published
Philosophic Thoughts, which was condemned to be burnt. It did much
to advance freedom of opinion. Three years later his Letters on the
Blind occasioned his imprisonment at Vincennes for its materialistic
Atheism. Rousseau, who called him "a transcendent genius," visited
Diderot in prison, where he remained three years. Diderot projected the
famous Encyclopedie, which he edited with Alembert, and he contributed
some of the most important articles. With very inadequate recompense,
and amidst difficulties that would have appalled an ordinary editor,
Diderot superintended the undertaking for many years (1751-65). He also
contributed to other important works, such as Raynal's Philosophic
History, L'Esprit, by Helvetius, and The System of Nature and other
works of his friend D'Holbach. Diderot's fertile mind also produced
dramas, essays, sketches, and novels. Died 30 July, 1784. Comte calls
Diderot "the greatest thinker of the eighteenth century."

Diercks (Gustav), German author of able works on the History of the
Development of Human Spirit (Berlin, 1881-2) and on Arabian Culture
in Spain, 1887. Is a member of the German Freethinkers' Union.

Dilke (Ashton Wentworth), b. 1850. Educated at Cambridge, travelled
in Russia and Central Asia, and published a translation of Turgenev's
Virgin Soil. He purchased and edited the Weekly Dispatch; was returned
as M.P. for Newcastle in 1880, but, owing to ill health, resigned in
favor of John Morley, and died at Algiers 12 March, 1883.

Dinter (Gustav Friedrich), German educationalist, b. Borna, near
Leipsic, 29 Feb. 1760. His Bible for Schoolmasters is his best-known
work. It sought to give rational notes and explanations of the Jew
books, and excited much controversy. Died at Konigsberg, 29 May, 1831.

Dippel (Johann Konrad), German alchemist and physician, b. 10
Aug. 1672, at Frankenstein, near Darmstadt. His Papismus vapulans
Protestantium (1698) drew on him the wrath of the theologians of
Giessen, and he had to flee for his life. Attempting to find out the
philosopher's stone, he discovered Prussian blue. In 1705 he published
his satires against the Protestant Church, Hirt und eine Heerde,
under the name of Christianus Democritos. He denied the inspiration
of the Bible, and after an adventurous life in many countries died
25 April, 1734.

Dobrolyubov (Nikolai Aleksandrovich), Russian author, b. 1836, at
Nijni Novgorod, the son of a priest. Educated at St. Petersburg, he
became a radical journalist. His works were edited in four vols. by
Chernuishevsky. Died 17 Nov. 1861.

Dodel-Port (Prof. Arnold), Swiss scientist, b. Affeltrangen, Thurgau,
16 Oct. 1843. Educated at Kreuzlingen, he became in '63 teacher in
the Oberschule in Hauptweil; then studied from '64-'69 at Geneva,
Zuerich, and Munich, becoming privat docent in the University of
Zuerich, '70. In '75 he published The New History of Creation. In
'78 he issued his world-famous Botanical Atlas, and was in '80 made
Professor of Botany in the Zuerich University and Director of the
Botanical Laboratory. He has also written Biological Fragments (1885),
the Life and Letters of Konrad Deubler, "the peasant philosopher"
(1886), and has just published Moses or Darwin? a School Question,
1889. Dr. Dodel-Port is an hon. member of the London Royal Society
and Vice-President of the German Freethinkers' Union.

Dodwell (Henry), eldest son of the theologian of that name, was
b. Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, about the beginning of the eighteenth
century. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, when he proceeded B.A.,
9 Feb. 1726. In '42 he published a pamphlet entitled Christianity
not Founded on Argument, which in a tone of grave irony contends that
Christianity can only be accepted by faith. He was brought up to the
law and was a zealous friend of the Society for the Promotion of Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce. Died 1784.

Doebereiner (Johann Wolfgang), German chemist, b. Bavaria, 15
Dec. 1780. In 1810 he became Professor of Chemistry at Jena, where
he added much to science. Died 24 March, 1849. He was friend and
instructor to Goethe.

Dolet (Etienne), a learned French humanist, b. Orleans 3 Aug. 1509. He
studied in Paris, Padua and Venice. For his heresy he had to fly
from Toulouse and lived for some time at Lyons, where he established
a printing-press and published some of his works, for which he was
imprisoned. He was acquainted with Rabelais, Des Periers, and other
advanced men of the time. In 1543 the Parliament condemned his books
to be burnt, and in the next year he was arrested on a charge of
Atheism. After being kept two years in prison he was strangled and
burnt, 3 Aug. 1546. It is related that seeing the sorrow of the crowd,
he said: "Non dolet ipe Dolet, sed pia turba dolet."--Dolet grieves
not, but the generous crowd grieves. His goods being confiscated,
his widow and children were left to beggary. "The French language,"
says A. F. Didot, "owes him much for his treatises, translations,
and poesies." Dolet's biographer, M. Joseph Boulmier, calls him "le
Christ de la pensee libre." Philosophy has alone the right, says
Henri Martin, to claim Dolet on its side. His English biographer,
R. C. Christie, says he was "neither a Catholic nor a Protestant."

Dominicis (Saverio Fausto de), Italian Positivist philosopher,
b. Buonalbergo, 1846. Is Professor of Philosophy at Bari, and has
written on Education and Darwinism.

Dondorf (Dr. A.), See Anderson (Marie) in Supplement.

Doray de Longrais (Jean Paul), French man of letters. b. Manvieux,
1736. Author of a Freethought romance, Faustin, or the Philosophical
Age. Died at Paris, 1800.

Dorsch (Eduard), German American Freethinker, b. Warzburg 10
Jan. 1822. He studied at Munich and Vienna. In '49 he went to America
and settled in Monroe, Michigan, where he published a volume of poems,
some being translations from Swinburne. Died 10 Jan. 1887.

Dorsey (J. M.), author of the The True History of Moses, and others,
an attack on the Bible, published at Boston in 1855.

Draparnaud (Jacques Philippe Raymond), French doctor, b. 3 June, 1772,
at Montpelier, where he became Professor of Natural History. His
discourses on Life and Vital Functions, and on the Philosophy of
the Sciences and Christianity (1801), show his scepticism. Died 1
Feb. 1805.

Draper (John William), scientist and historian, b. St. Helens,
near Liverpool, 5 May 1811. The son of a Wesleyan minister, he was
educated at London University. In '32 he emigrated to America,
where he was Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in New
York University. He was one of the inventors of photography and the
first who applied it to astronomy. He wrote many scientific works,
notably on Human Physiology. His history of the American Civil War
is an important work, but he is chiefly known by his History of the
Intellectual Development of Europe and History of the Conflict of
Religion and Science, which last has gone through many editions and
been translated into all the principal languages. Died 4 Jan. 1882.

Dreyfus (Ferdinand Camille), author of an able work on the Evolution
of Worlds and Societies, 1888.

Droysen (Johann Gustav), German historian, b. Treptoir, 6 July,
1808. Studied at Berlin; wrote in the Hallische Jahrbuecher; was
Professor of History at Keil, 1840; Jena '51 and Berlin '59. Has edited
Frederick the Great's Correspondence, and written other important
works, some in conjunction with his friend Max Duncker. Died 15
June, 1882.

Drummond (Sir William), of Logie Almond, antiquary and author,
b. about 1770; entered Parliament as member for St. Mawes, Cornwall,
1795. In the following year he became envoy to the court of Naples,
and in 1801 ambassador to Constantinople. His principal work is
Origines, or Remarks on the Origin of several Empires, States,
and Cities (4 vols. 1824-29). He also printed privately The OEdipus
Judaicus, 1811. It calls in question, with much boldness and learning,
many legends of the Old Testament, to which it gave an astronomical
signification. It was reprinted in '66. Sir William Drummond also
wrote anonymously Philosophical Sketches of the Principles of Society,
1795. Died at Rome, 29 March, 1828.

Duboc (Julius) German writer and doctor of philosophy b. Hamburg, 10
Oct. 1829. Educated at Frankfurt and Giessen, is a clever journalist,
and has translated the History of the English Press. Has written
an Atheistic work, Das Leben Ohne Gott (Life without God), with the
motto from Feuerbach "No religion is my religion, no philosophy my
philosophy," 1875. He has also written on the Psychology of Love,
and other important works.

Dubois (Pierre), a French sceptic, who in 1835 published The True
Catechism of Believers--a work ordered by the Court of Assizes to
be suppressed, and for which the author (Sept. '35) was condemned to
six months' imprisonment and a fine of one thousand francs. He also
wrote The Believer Undeceived, or Evident Proofs of the Falsity and
Absurdity of Christianity; a work put on the Index in '36.

Du Bois-Reymond (Emil), biologist, of Swiss father and French
mother, b. Berlin, 7 Nov. 1818. He studied at Berlin and Bonn for
the Church, but left it to follow science, '37. Has become famous as
a physiologist, especially by his Researches in Animal Electricity,
'48-60. With Helmholtz he has done much to establish the new era
of positive science, wrongly called by opponents Materialism. Du
Bois-Reymond holds that thought is a function of the brain and nervous
system, and that "soul" has arisen as the gradual results of natural
combinations, but in his Limits of the Knowledge of Nature, '72, he
contends that we must always come to an ultimate incomprehensible. Du
Bois-Reymond has written on Voltaire and Natural Science, '68; La
Mettrie, '75; Darwin versus Galiani, '78; and Frederick II. and
Rousseau, '79. Since '67 he has been perpetual secretary of the
Academy of Sciences, Berlin.

Dubuisson (Paul Ulrich), French dramatist and revolutionary, b. Lauat,
1746. A friend of Cloots he suffered with him on the scaffold, 24
March, 1794.

Dubuisson (Paul), living French Positivist, author of Grand Types
of Humanity.

Du Chatelet Lomont. See Chastelet.

Duclos (Charles Pinot), witty French writer, b. Dinan, 12 Feb. 1704. He
was admitted into the French Academy, 1747 and became its secretary,
1755. A friend of Diderot and d'Alembert. His Considerations sur les
Moeurs is still a readable work. Died 27 March, 1772.

Ducos (Jean Francois), French Girondist, b. Bordeaux in 1765. Elected
to the Legislative Assembly, he, on the 26th Oct. 1791, demanded
the complete separation of the State from religion. He shared the
fate of the Girondins, 31 Oct. 1793, crying with his last breath,
"Vive la Republique!"

Du Deffand (Marie), Marchioness, witty literary Frenchwoman,
b. 1697. Chamfort relates that when young and in a convent she preached
irreligion to her young comrades. The abbess called in Massillon, to
whom the little sceptic gave her reasons. He went away saying "She
is charming." Her house in Paris was for fifty years the resort of
eminent authors and statesmen. She corresponded for many years with
Horace Walpole, D'Alembert and Voltaire. Many anecdotes are told of
her; thus, to the Cardinal de Polignac, who spoke of the miracle of
St. Denis walking when beheaded, she said "Il n'y a que le premier
pas qui coute." Died 24 Sept. 1780. To the cure of Saint Sulpice,
who came to her death-bed, she said "Ni questions, ni raisons, ni
sermons." Larousse calls her "Belle, instruite, spirituelle mais
sceptique et materialiste."

Dudgeon (William), a Berwickshire Deist, whose works were published
(privately printed at Edinburgh) in 1765.

Dudnevant (A. L. A. Dupin), Baroness. See Sand (Georges).

Duehring (Eugen Karl), German writer, b. Berlin, 12 Jan. 1833; studied
law. He has, though blind, written many works on science and political
economy, also a Critical History of Philosophy, '69-78, and Science
Revolutionized, '78. In Oct. 1879, his death was maliciously reported.

Dulaure (Jacques Antoine), French archaeologist and historian,
b. Clermont-Ferrand, 3 Dec. 1755. In 1788-90 he published six volumes
of a description of France. He wrote many pamphlets, including one
on the private lives of ecclesiastics. Elected to the Convention in
1792, he voted for the death of the King. Proscribed as a Girondist,
Sept. 1793, he fled to Switzerland. He was one of the Council of Five
Hundred, 1796-98. Dulaure wrote a learned Treatise on Superstitions,
but he is best known by his History of Paris, and his Short History
of Different Worships, 1825, in which he deals with ancient fetishism
and phallic worship. Died Paris, 9 Aug. 1835.

Dulaurens (Henri Joseph). French satirist, b. Douay, 27 March, 1719. He
was brought up in a convent, and made a priest 12 Nov. 1727. Published
a satire against the Jesuits, 1761, he was compelled to fly to
Holland, where he lived in poverty. He edited L'Evangile de la Raison,
a collection of anti-Christian tracts by Voltaire and others, and
wrote L'Antipapisme revele in 1767. He was in that year condemned
to perpetual imprisonment for heresy, and shut in the convent of
Mariabaum, where he died 1797. Dulaurens was caustic, cynical and
vivacious. He is also credited with the Portfolios of a Philosopher,
mostly taken from the Analysis of Bayle, Cologne, 1770.

Dulk (Albert Friedrich Benno), German poet and writer, b. Konigsberg,
17 June, 1819; he became a physician, but was expelled for aiding
in the Revolution of '48. He travelled in Italy and Egypt. In '65
he published Jesus der Christ, embodying rationalism in prose and
verse. He has also written Stimme der Menschheit, 2 vols., '76,
'80, and Der Irrgang des Lebens Jesu, '84, besides numerous plays
and pamphlets. Died 29 Oct. 1884.

Dumont (Leon), French writer, b. Valenciennes, 1837. Studied for
the bar, but took to philosophy and literature. He early embraced
Darwinism, and wrote on Haeckel and the Theory of Evolution, '73. He
wrote in La Revue Philosophique, and other journals. Died Valenciennes,
17 Jan. 1877.

Dumarsais (Cesar Chesneau), French grammarian and philosopher,
b. Marseilles, 17 July, 1676. When young he entered the congregation
of the oratory. This society he soon quitted, and went to Paris,
where he married. A friend of Boindin and Alembert, he wrote against
the pretensions of Rome and contributed to the Encyclopedie. He is
credited with An Analysis of the Christian Religion and with the
celebrated Essai sur les Prejuges, par Mr. D. M., but the latter was
probably written by Holbach, with notes by Naigeon. Le Philosophe,
published in L'Evangile de la Raison by Dulaurens, was written by
Voltaire. Died 11 June, 1756. Dumarsais was very simple in character,
and was styled by D'Alembert the La Fontaine of philosophers.

Dumont (Pierre Etienne Louis), Swiss writer, b. Geneva, 18 July,
1759. Was brought up as a minister, but went to France and became
secretary to Mirabeau. After the Revolution he came to England, where
he became acquainted with Bentham, whose works he translated. Died
Milan, 29 Sept. 1829.

Duncker (Maximilian Wolfgang), German historian, b. Berlin, 15
Oct. 1811. His chief work, the History of Antiquity, 1852-57,
thoroughly abolishes the old distinction of sacred and profane
history, and freely criticises the Jewish records. A translation in
six volumes has been made by E. Abbot. Duncker took an active part
in the events of '48 and '50, and was appointed Director-General of
the State Archives. Died 24 July, 1886.

Dupont (Jacob Louis), a French mathematician and member of the
National Convention, known as the Abbe Dupont, who, 14 Dec. 1792,
declared himself an Atheist from the tribune of the Convention. Died
at Paris in 1813.

Dupont de Nemours (Pierre Samuel), French economist, b. Paris, 14
Dec. 1739. He became President of the Constituent Assembly, and was
a Theophilantrophist. Died Delaware, U.S.A., 6 Aug. 1817.

Dupuis (Charles Francois), French astronomer and philosopher,
b. Trie-le-Chateau, 16 Oct. 1742. He was educated for the Church, which
he left, and married in 1775. He studied under Lalande, and wrote on
the origin of the constellations, 1781. In 1788 he became a member of
the Academy of Inscriptions. At the Revolution he was chosen a member
of the Convention. During the Reign of Terror he saved many lives at
his own risk. He was afterwards one of the Council of Five Hundred, and
president of the legislative body. His chief work is on the Origin of
Religions, 7 vols., 1795, in which he traces solar worship in various
faiths, including Christianity. This has been described as "a monument
of the erudition of unbelief." Dupuis died near Dijon, 29 Sept. 1809.

Dutrieux (Pierre Joseph), Belgian physician, b. Tournai, 19 July,
1848. Went to Cairo and became a Bey. Died 1 Jan. 1889.

Dutton (Thomas), M.A., theatrical critic, b. London, 1767. Educated
by the Moravians. In 1795 he published a Vindication of the Age of
Reason by Thomas Paine. He translated Kotzebue's Pizarro in Peru,
1799, and edited the Dramatic Censor, 1800, and the Monthly Theatrical
Reporter, 1815.

Duvernet (Theophile Imarigeon), French writer, b. at Ambert
1730. He was brought up a Jesuit, became an Abbe, but mocked at
religion. Duvernet became tutor to Saint Simon. For a political
pamphlet he was imprisoned in the Bastille. While here he wrote a
curious and rare romance, Les Devotions de Mme. de Bethzamooth. He
wrote on Religious Intolerance, 1780, and a History of the Sorbonne,
1790, but is best known by his Life of Voltaire (1787). In 1793
he wrote a letter to the Convention, in which he declares that
he renounces the religion "born in a stable between an ox and an
ass." Died in 1796.

Dyas (Richard H.), captain in the army. Author of The Upas. He resided
long in Italy and translated several of the works of C. Voysey.

Eaton (Daniel Isaac), bookseller, b. about 1752, was educated at the
Jesuits' College, St. Omer. Being advised to study the Bible, he did
so, with the result of discarding it as a revelation. In 1792 he was
prosecuted for publishing Paine's Rights of Man, but the prosecution
fell through. He afterwards published Politics for the People, which
was also prosecuted, 1793, as was his Political Dictionary, 1796. To
escape punishment, he fled to America, and lived there for three years
and a half. Upon returning to England, his person and property were
seized. Books to the value of L2,800 were burnt, and he was imprisoned
for fifteen months. He translated from Helvetius and sold at his
"Rationcinatory or Magazine for Truths and Good Sense," 8 Cornhill,
in 1810, The True Sense and Meaning of the System of Nature. The Law
of Nature had been previously translated by him. In '11 he issued
the first and second parts of Paine's Age of Reason, and on 6 March,
'12, was tried before Lord Ellenborough on a charge of blasphemy
for issuing the third and last part. He was sentenced to eighteen
months' imprisonment and to stand in the pillory. The sentence evoked
Shelley's spirited Letter to Lord Ellenborough. Eaton translated and
published Freret's Preservative against Religious Prejudices, 1812,
and shortly before his death, at Deptford, 22 Aug. 1814, he was again
prosecuted for publishing George Houston's Ecce <DW25>.

Eberhard (Johann August), German Deist, b. Halberstadt, 31 Aug. 1739,
was brought up in the church, but persecuted for heresy in his New
Apology for Socrates, 1772, was patronised by Frederick the Great,
and appointed Professor of Philosophy at Halle, where he opposed
the idealism of Kant and Fichte. He wrote a History of Philosophy,
1788. Died Halle, 7 Jan. 1809.

Eberty (Gustav), German Freethinker, b. 2 July, 1806. Author of some
controversial works. Died Berlin, 10 Feb. 1887.

Echtermeyer (Ernst Theodor), German critic, b. Liebenwerda, 1805. He
studied at Halle and Berlin, and founded, with A. Ruge, the Hallische
Jahrbuecher, which contained many Freethought articles, 1837-42. He
taught at Halle and Dresden, where he died, 6 May, 1844.

Edelmann (Johann Christian), German Deist, b. Weissenfels, Saxony,
9 July, 1698; studied theology in Jena, joined the Moravians,
but left them and every form of Christianity, becoming an adherent
of Spinozism. His principal works are his Unschuldige Wahrheiten,
1735 (Innocent Truths), in which he argues that no religion is of
importance, and Moses mit Aufgedecktem Angesicht (Moses Unmasked),
1740, an attack on the Old Testament, which, he believed, proceeded
from Ezra; Die Goettlichkeit der Vernunft (The Divinity of Reason),
1741, and Christ and Belial. His works excited much controversy, and
were publicly burnt at Frankfort, 9 May, 1750. Edelmann was chased
from Brunswick and Hamburg, but was protected by Frederick the Great,
and died at Berlin, 15 Feb. 1767. Mirabeau praised him, and Guizot
calls him a "fameux esprit fort."

Edison (Thomas Alva), American inventor, b. Milan, Ohio, 10
Feb. 1847. As a boy he sold fruit and papers at the trains. He read,
however, Gibbon, Hume and other important works before he was ten. He
afterwards set up a paper of his own, then became telegraph operator,
studied electricity, invented electric light, the electric pen,
the telephone, microphone, phonograph, etc. Edison is known to be an
Agnostic and to pay no attention to religion.

Eenens (Ferdinand), Belgian writer, b. Brussels, 7 Dec. 1811. Eenens
was an officer in the Belgian army, and wrote many political and
anti-clerical pamphlets. He also wrote La Verite, a work on the
Christian faith, 1859; Le Paradis Terrestre, '60, an examination of
the legend of Eden, and Du Dieu Thaumaturge, '76. He used the pen
names "Le Pere Nicaise," "Nicodeme Polycarpe" and "Timon III." Died
at Brussels in 1883.

Effen (Justus van), Dutch writer, b. Utrecht, 11 Feb. 1684. Edited the
Misanthrope, Amsterdam, 1712-16; translated Robinson Crusoe, Swift's
Tale of a Tub, and Mandeville's Thoughts on Religion, 1722; published
the Dutch Spectator, 1731-35. Died at Bois-le-Duc, 18 Sept. 1735.

Eichhorn (Johann Gottfried), German Orientalist and rationalist, b. 16
Oct. 1752, became Professor of Oriental Literature and afterwards
Professor of Theology at Gottingen. He published Introductions to
the Old and New Testaments and A Commentary on the Apocalypse, in
which his criticism tends to uproot belief in the Bible as a divine
revelation. He lectured every day for fifty-two years. Died 25 June,
1827.

"Elborch (Conrad von)," the pseudonym of a living learned Dutch writer,
whose position does not permit him to reveal his true name. Born
14 Jan. 1865, he has contributed to De Dageraad (The Daybreak),
under various pen-names, as "Fra Diavolo," "Denis Bontemps," "J. Van
den Ende," etc. He has given, in '88, a translation of the rare and
famous Latin treatise, De Tribus Impostoribus (On Three Impostors)
[Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad], with an important bibliographic and
historical introduction.

"Eliot (George)," the pen-name of Mary Ann Lewes (nee Evans) one of
the greatest novelists of the century, b. at Arbury Farm, near Griff,
Warwickshire, 22 Nov. 1819. In '41 the family removed to Foleshill,
near Coventry. Here she made the friendship of the household of
Charles Bray, and changed her views from Evangelical Christianity
to philosophical scepticism. Influenced by The Inquiry into the
Origin of Christianity, by C. C. Hennell (Bray's brother-in-law),
she made an analysis of that work. Her first literary venture was
translating Strauss' Leben Jesu, published in 1846. After the death
of her father ('49) she travelled with the Brays upon the Continent,
and upon her return assisted Dr. Chapman in the editorship of the
Westminster Review, to which she contributed several articles. She
translated Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity, '54, the only work
published with her real name, and also translated from Spinoza's
Ethics. Introduced by Herbert Spencer to George Henry Lewes, she
linked her life with his in defiance of the conventions of society,
July, '54. Both were poor, but by his advice she turned to fiction,
in which she soon achieved success. Her Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam
Bede, Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch,
Daniel Deronda, and Theophrastus Such have become classics. As a poet,
"George Eliot" does not rank so high, but her little piece, "Oh,
may I join the choir invisible," well expresses the emotion of the
Religion of Humanity, and her Spanish Gipsy she allowed was "a mass
of Positivism." Lewes died in 1878, and within two years she married
his friend, J. W. Cross. Her new happiness was short-lived. She died
22 Dec. 1880, and is buried with Lewes at Highgate.

Ellero (Pietro) Italian jurisconsult, b. Pordenone, 8 Oct. 1833,
Counsellor of the High Court of Rome, has been Professor of Criminal
Law in the University of Bologna. Author of many works on legal and
social questions. His Scritti Minori, Scritti Politici and La Question
Sociale have the honor of a place on the Roman Index.

Elliotson (John, M.D., F.R.S.), an eminent medical man, b. London,
1791. He became physician at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1822, and made
many contributions to medical science. By new prescriptions of quinine,
creasote, etc., he excited much hostility in the profession. He was
the first in this country to advocate the use of the stethoscope. He
was also the first physician to discard knee-breeches and silk
stockings, and to wear a beard. In '31 he was chosen Professor at
University College, but, becoming an advocate of curative mesmerism,
he resigned his appointments, '38. He was founder and President of the
London Phrenological Society, and, in addition to many medical works,
edited the Zoist (thirteen vols.), translated Blumenbach's Physiology,
and wrote an introduction to Engledue's Cerebral Physiology, defending
materialism. Thackeray dedicated Pendennis to him, '50, and he received
a tribute of praise from Dickens. Died at London, 29 July, 1868.

Eichthal (Gustave d'), French writer, b. of Jewish family, Nancy,
22 March, 1804. He became a follower of Saint Simon, was one of the
founders of the Societe d'Ethnologie, and published Les Evangiles, a
critical analysis of the gospels, 2 vols, Paris, '63. This he followed
by The Three Great Mediterranean Nations and Christianity and Socrates
and our Time, '84. He died at Paris, April, 1886, and his son published
his Melanges de Critique Biblique (Miscellanies of Biblical Criticism),
in which there is an able study on the name and character of "Jahveh."

Emerson (Ralph Waldo), American essayist, poet, and philosopher,
b. Boston 25 May, 1803. He came of a line of ministers, and was
brought up like his father, educated at Harvard College, and ordained
as a Unitarian minister, 1829. Becoming too broad for the Church,
he resigned in '32. In the next year he came to Europe, visiting
Carlyle. On his return he settled at Concord, giving occasional
lectures, most of which have been published. He wrote to the Dial, a
transcendentalist paper. Tending to idealistic pantheism, but without
systematic philosophy, all his writings are most suggestive, and he
is always the champion of mental freedom, self-reliance, and the free
pursuit of science. Died at Concord, 27 April, 1882. Matthew Arnold
has pronounced his essays "the most important work done in prose"
in this century.

Emerson (William), English mathematician, b. Hurworth, near Darlington,
14 May, 1701. He conducted a school and wrote numerous works on
Mathematics. His vigorous, if eccentric, individuality attracted
Carlyle, who said to Mrs. Gilchrist, "Emerson was a Freethinker who
looked on his neighbor, the parson, as a humbug. He seems to have
defended himself in silence the best way he could against the noisy
clamor and unreal stuff going on around him." Died 21 May, 1782. He
compiled a list of Bible contradictions.

Emmet (Robert), Irish revolutionist, b. in Dublin 1778, was educated
as a barrister. Expelled from Dublin University for his sympathy with
the National Cause in 1798; he went to the Continent, but returned in
1802 to plan an ill-starred insurrection, for which he was executed 20
Sept. 1803. Emmet made a thrilling speech before receiving sentence,
and on the scaffold refused the services of a priest. It is well
known that his desire to see once more his sweetheart, the daughter
of Curran, was the cause of his capture and execution.

Engledue (William Collins), M.D., b. Portsea 1813. After taking his
degree at Edinburgh, he became assistant to Dr. Lizars and was elected
President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. He returned
to Portsmouth in 1835; originated the Royal Portsmouth Hospital and
established public baths and washhouses. He contributed to the Zoist
and published an exposition of materialism under the title of Cerebral
Physiology, 1842, republished by J. Watson, 1857. Died Jan. 1859.

English (George Bethune), American writer and linguist, b. Cambridge,
Mass., 7 March, 1787. He studied law and divinity, and graduated
at Harvard, 1807, but becoming sceptical published Grounds of
Christianity Examined, 1813. The work excited some controversy,
and has been reprinted at Toronto, 1839. He joined the Egyptian
service and became General of Artillery. He had a variable genius
and a gift of languages. At Marseilles he passed for a Turk with
a Turkish ambassador; and at Washington he surprised a delegation
of Cherokees by disputing with them in their own tongue. He wrote a
reply to his critics, entitled Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook,
and two letters to Channing on his sermons against infidelity. Died
at Washington, 20 Sept. 1828.

Ense (Varnhagen von). See Varnhagen.

Ensor (George), an Irish writer, b. Loughgall, 1769. Educated at
Trinity College; he became B.A. 1790. He travelled largely, and was
a friend of liberty in every country. Besides other political works
he published, The Independent Man, 1806; On National Government,
1810; A Review of the Miracles, Prophecies and Mysteries of the
Old and New Testaments, first printed as Janus on Sion, 1816, and
republished 1835; and Natural Theology Examined, 1836, the last being
republished in The Library of Reason. Bentham described him as clever
but impracticable. Died Ardress, Co. Armagh, 3 Dec. 1843.

Epicurus, Greek philosopher, b. Samos, B.C. 342. He repaired to
Athens, B.C. 323. Influenced by the works of Demokritos, he occupied
himself with philosophy. He purchased a garden in Athens, in which he
established his school. Although much calumniated, he is now admitted
to have been a man of blameless life. According to Cicero, he had no
belief in the gods, but did not attack their existence, in order not
to offend the prejudices of the Athenians. In physics he adopted the
atomic theory, and denied immortality. He taught that pleasure is the
sovereign good; but by pleasure he meant no transient sensation, but
permanent tranquility of mind. He wrote largely, but his works are
lost. His principles are expounded in the great poem of Lucretius,
De Rerum Natura. Died B.C. 270, leaving many followers.

"Erdan (Alexandre)," the pen-name of Alexandre Andre Jacob, a French
writer, b. Angles 1826. He was the natural son of a distinguished
prelate. Educated at Saint Sulpice for the Church, he read Proudhon,
and refused to take holy orders. He became a journalist and an advocate
of phonography. His work, La France Mystique (1855), in which he
gives an account of French religious eccentricities, was condemned
for its scepticism which appears on every page. Sentenced to a year's
imprisonment and a fine of three thousand francs, he took refuge in
Italy. Died at Frascati, near Rome, 24 Sept. 1878.

Ernesti (Johann August), German critic, b. Tennstadt, 4
Aug. 1707. Studied at Wittenberg and Leipsic, where he was appointed
professor of classical literature. Renowned as a philologist, he
insisted that the Bible must be interpreted like any other book. Died
Leipsic, 11 Sept. 1781.

Escherny (Francois Louis d') Count, Swiss litterateur, b. Neufchatel,
24 Nov. 1733. He spent much of his life in travel. At Paris he became
the associate of Helvetius, Diderot, and particularly Rousseau, whom he
much admired. He wrote Lacunes de la Philosophie (Amsterdam, 1783) and
a work on Equality (1795), in which he displays his Freethought. Died
at Paris, 15 July, 1815.

Espinas (Alfred), French philosopher, b. Saint-Florentin, 1844. Has
translated, with Th. Ribot, H. Spencer's Principles of Psychology,
and has written studies on Experimental Philosophy in Italy, and on
Animal Societies (1877).

Espronceda (Jose), popular Spanish poet, b. Almendralejo (Estremadura)
in 1810. After the War of Independence he went to Madrid and studied
under Alberto Lista, the poet and mathematician. He became so obnoxious
to the government by his radical principles that he was imprisoned
about the age of fifteen, and banished a few years later. He passed
several years in London and Paris, and was brought under the influence
of Byron and Hugo. He fought with the people in the Paris Revolution
of July, 1830. On the death of the Spanish King in '33 he returned
to Madrid, but was again banished for too free expression of his
opinions. He returned and took part in the revolutionary contest of
'35-36. He was elected to the Cortes in '41, and appointed secretary
of embassy to The Hague. Died 23 May, 1842. Among his works are
lyrical poems, which often remind us of Heine; an unfinished epic,
El Pelayo; and El Diablo-Mundo (the Devil-World), a fine poem, due
to the inspiration of Faust and Don Juan. Espronceda was a thorough
sceptic. In his Song of the Pirate he asks, "Who is my God?--Liberty";
and in his concluding lines to a star he says:


                I unheedingly follow my path,
                At the mercy of winds and of waves.
                Wrapt thus within the arms of Fate,
                What care I if lost or saved.


Estienne (Henri), the ablest of a family of learned French printers,
known in England as Stephens; b. Paris, 1528. At the age of
eighteen he assisted his father in collating the MSS. of Dionysius
of Halicarnassus. In 1557 he established a printing office of his
own, and issued many Greek authors; and in 1572 the Thesaurus Linguae
Graecae. His Apologie pour Herodote (Englished as a World of Wonders)
is designed as a satire on Christian legends, and directed against
priests and priestcraft. He was driven from place to place. Sir
Philip Sidney highly esteemed him, and "kindly entertained him in
his travaile." Died 1598. Garasse classes him with Atheists.

Esteve (Pierre), French writer, b. Montpelier at the beginning of the
eighteenth century. He wrote a History of Astronomy and an anonymous
work on the Origin of the Universe explained from a Principle of
Matter; Berlin, 1748.

Ettel (Konrad), Austrian Freethinker, b. 17 Jan. 1847, at Neuhof,
Sternberg. Studied at the Gymnasium Kremsier, and at the wish of his
parents at the Theological Seminary Olmuetz, which he left to study
philosophy at Vienna. He has written many poems and dramas. His
Grundzuge der Natuerlichen Weltanschauung (Sketch of a Natural View
of the World), a Freethinker's catechism, 1886, has reached a fourth
edition.

Evans (George Henry), b. at Bromyard, Herefordshire, 25 March,
1803. While a child, his parents emigrated to New York. He set up
as a printer, and published the Correspondent, the first American
Freethought paper. He also published the Working Man's Advocate, Man,
Young America, and the Radical. He labored for the transportation
of mails on Sundays, the limitation of the right to hold lands,
the abolition of slavery, and other reforms. His brother became one
of the chief elders of the Shakers. Died in Granville, New Jersey,
2 Feb. 1855.

Evans (William), b. Swansea, 1816, became a follower of Robert
Owen. He established The Potter's Examiner and Workman's Advocate,
'43, and wrote in the Co-operative journals under the anagram of
"Millway Vanes." Died 14 March, 1887.

Evanson (Edward), theological critic, b. Warrington, Lancashire,
21 April, 1731. He graduated at Cambridge, became vicar of South
Mimms, and afterwards rector of Tewkesbury. Entertaining doubts
on the Trinity, he submitted them to the Archbishop of Canterbury
without obtaining satisfaction. He made some changes in reading the
Litany, and for expressing heretical opinions in a sermon in 1771,
he was prosecuted, but escaped in consequence of some irregularity
in the proceedings. In 1772 he published an anonymous tract on the
Trinity. In 1797 he addressed a letter to the Bishop of Lichfield
on the Prophecies of the New Testament, in which he tried to show
that either Christianity was false or the orthodox churches. In the
following year he resigned both his livings and took pupils. In
1792 he published his principal work, The Dissonance of the Four
Generally-Received Evangelists, in which he rejected all the gospels,
except Luke, as unauthentic. This work involved him in a controversy
with Dr. Priestley, and brought a considerable share of obloquy and
persecution from the orthodox. Died 25 Sept. 1805.

Eve'merus or Euhemerus, a Sicilian author of the time of Alexander
the Great, who sought to rationalise religion, and treated the gods
as dead heroes. He is usually represented as an Atheist.

Eudes (Emile Francois Desire), French Communist, b. Roncey, 1844. He
became a chemist, and was condemned, with Regnard, to three months'
imprisonment for writing in La Libre Pensee, '67, of which he was
director. He joined the ranks of the Commune and became a general. When
the Versailles troops entered Paris he escaped to Switzerland. On
his return after the Amnesty, he wrote with Blanqui. Died at a public
meeting in Paris, 5 Aug. 1888.

Ewerbeck (August Hermann), Dr., b. Dantzic. After the events of 1848,
he lived at Paris. He translated into German Cabet's Voyage en Icarie,
and in an important work entitled Qu'est ce que La Religion? (What
is Religion), '50, translated into French Feuerbach's "Essence of
Religion," "Essence of Christianity," and "Death and Immortality." In
a succeeding volume What is the Bible? he translated from Daumer,
Ghillany, Luetzelberger and B. Bauer. Ewerbeck also wrote in French
an historical work on Germany and the Germans; Paris, 1851.

Fabre D'Eglantine (Philippe Francois Nazaire), French revolutionist and
playwriter, b. Carcassonne, 28 Dec. 1755. After some success as a poet
and playwright he was chosen as deputy to the National Convention. He
voted for the death of Louis XVI., and proposed the substitution of
the republican for the Christian calendar, Sept. 1793. He was executed
with his friend Danton, 5 April, 1794.

Fabricatore (Bruto), Italian writer, b. Sarno, Naples, 1824. His father
Antonio had the honor of having a political work placed on the Index,
1821. He took part in the anti-papal Freethought Council of 1869,
and has written works on Dante, etc.

Farinata. See Uberti (Farinata degli).

Fauche (Hippolyte), French Orientalist, b. Auxerre, 22 May,
1797. Translations of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the plays
of Kalidasa, attest his industry and erudition. He contributed to La
Liberte de Penser. Died at Juilly, 28 Feb. 1869.

Fausto (Sebastiano), Da Longiano, Italian of the beginning of the 16th
century, who is said to have projected a work The Temple of Truth,
with the intention of overturning all religions. He translated the
Meditations of Antoninus, also wrote observations on Cicero, 1566.

Feer (Henri Leon), French Orientalist, b. Rouen, 27 Nov. 1830, is
chiefly known by his Buddhistic Studies, 1871-75.

Fellens (Jean Baptiste), Professor of History, b. Bar-sur-Aube,
1794. Author of a work on Pantheism, Paris, 1873.

Fellowes (Robert), LL.D., b. Norfolk 1771, educated at Oxford. He
took orders in 1795, and wrote many books, but gradually quitted the
doctrines of the Church and adopted the Deistic opinions maintained in
his work entitled The Religion of the Universe (1836). Dr. Fellowes
was proprietor of the Examiner and a great supporter of the London
University. Died 5 Feb. 1847.

Fenzi (Sebastiano), Italian writer, b. Florence, 22 Oct. 1822. Educated
by the Jesuits in Vienna, England and Paris. Founded in '49 the Revista
Britannica, writer on the journal L'Italiano, and has written a credo
which is a non-credo.

Feringa (Frederik), Dutch writer, b. Groningen, 16 April, 1840. Studied
mathematics. A contributor to De Dageraad (The Daybreak) over the
signature, "Muricatus"; he has written important studies, entitled
Democratie en Wetenschap (Democracy and Science), 1871, also wrote
in De Vrije Gedachte (Freethought).

Fernau (Rudolf), Dr., German author of Christianity and Practical
Life, Leipsic, 1868; The Alpha and Omega of Reason, Leipsic, 1870;
Zoologica Humoristica, 1882; and a recent work on Religion as Ghost
and God Worship.

Feron (Emile), Belgian advocate, b. Brussels, 11 July, 1841. Councillor
of the International Freethought Federation.

Ferrari (Giuseppe), Italian philosopher, b. Milan 7 March, 1811. A
disciple of Romagnosi, a study of whose philosophical writings he
published '35. He also published the works of Vico, and in '39 a work
entitled Vico and Italy, and in the following year another on the
Religious Opinions of Campanella. Attacked by the Catholic party,
he was exiled, living in Paris, where he became a collaborator with
Proudhon and a contributor to the Revue de Deux Mondes. In '42 he
was made Professor of Philosophy at Strasbourg, but appointment was
soon cancelled on account of his opinions. He wrote a History of the
Revolution of Italy, '55, and a work on China and Europe. His history
of the Reason of the State, '60, is his most pronounced work. In '59,
he was elected to the Italian Parliament, where he remained one of
the most radical members until his death at Rome 1 July, 1876.

Ferri (Enrico), Member of the Italian Parliament, formerly professor
of criminal law at the University of Siena, studied at Mantua under
Professor Ardigo. Has written a large work on the Non-Existence of
Free Will, and is with Professor Lombroso, leader of the new Italian
school of criminal law reform.

Ferri (Luigi), Italian philosopher, b. Bologna, 15 June 1826. Studied
in Paris and became licentiate of letters in 1850. Author of History
of Philosophy in Italy, Paris 1868; The Psychology of Pomponazzi, etc.

Ferriere (Emile), French writer and licentiate of letters, b. Paris,
1830; author of Literature and Philosophy, 1865; Darwinism, 1872,
which has gone through several editions; The Apostles, a work
challenging early Christian Morality, 1879; The Soul the Function
of the Brain, a scientific work of popular character in two vols.,
1883; and Paganism of the Hebrews until the Babylonian Captivity,
1884. All these are works of pronounced Freethought. M. Ferriere has
also announced a work Jesus bar Joseph.

Feuerbach (Friedrich Heinrich), son of a famous German jurist, was
b. at Ansbach 29 Sept. 1806. He studied philology, but set himself to
preach what his brother Ludwig taught. He wrote Theanthropos, a series
of Aphorisms (Zurich, '38), and an able work on the Religion of the
Future, '43-47; and Thoughts and Facts, Hamburg, '62. Died Nurenberg,
24 Jan. 1880.

Feuerbach (Ludwig Andreas), brother of the preceding, b. Landshut,
Bavaria, 28 July 1804. He studied theology with a view to the Church,
but under the influence of Hegel abandoned it for philosophy. In '28
he was made professor at Erlangen, but was dismissed in consequence
of his first published work, Thoughts upon Death and Immortality,
'30, in which he limited immortality to personal influence on the
human race. After a wandering life he married in '37, and settled
near Anspach. He published there a history of modern philosophy from
Bacon to Spinoza. This was followed by a work on Peter Bayle. In '38
he wrote on philosophy and Christianity, and in '41 his work called
the The Essence of Christianity, in which he resolves theology
into anthropology. This book was translated by Mary Ann Evans,
'53. He also wrote Principles of the Philosophy of the Future. After
the revolution of '48 he was invited to lecture by the students of
Heidelberg, and gave his course on The Essence of Religion, published
in '51. In '57 he published Theogony from the Sources of Classical,
Hebrew, and Christian Antiquity, and in '66 Theism, Freedom, and
Immortality from the Standpoint of Anthropology. Died at Rechenberg,
near Nurenberg, 13 Sept. 1872. His complete works were published at
Leipsic in 1876. He was a deep thinker and lucid writer.

Fichte (Johann Gottlieb), one of the greatest German thinkers,
b. 19 May, 1762. He studied at the Universities of Jena, Leipsic,
and Wittenberg, embraced "determinism," became acquainted with Kant,
and published anonymously, A Criticism of all Revelation. He obtained
a chair of philosophy at Jena, where he developed his doctrines
of science, asserting that the problem of philosophy is to seek
on what foundations knowledge rests. He gave moral discourses in
the lecture-room on Sunday, and was accused of holding atheistical
opinions. He was in consequence banished from Saxony, 1799. He appears
to have held that God was not a personal being, but a system of
intellectual, moral, and spiritual laws. Fichte took deep interest in
the cause of German independence, and did much to rouse his countrymen
against the domination of the French during the conquest which led to
the fall of Napoleon. Besides many publications, in which he expounds
his philosophy, he wrote eloquent treatises on The Vocation of Man,
The Nature and Vocation of the Scholar, The Way Towards the Blessed
Life, etc. Died Berlin 27 Jan. 1814.

"Figaro." See Larra (Mariano Jose de).

Figuiera (Guillem), Provencal troubadour and precursor of the
Renaissance, b. Toulouse about 1190. His poems were directed against
the priests and Court of Rome.

Filangieri (Gaetano), an Italian writer on legislation, b. Naples,
18 Aug. 1752. He was professor at that city. His principal work is
La Scienza della Legislazione, 1780. In the fifth volume he deals
with pre-Christian religions. The work was put on the Index. Died 21
July, 1788.

Fiorentino (Francesco), Italian philosopher, b. Sambiasa, Nicastro,
1 May, 1834. In 1860 he became Professor of Philosophy at Spoletto,
in '62 at Bologna, and in '71 at Naples. He was elected deputy
to Parliament, Nov. '70. A disciple of Felice Tocco, he paid
special attention to the early Italian Freethinkers, writing upon
The Pantheism of Giordano Bruno, Naples, '61; Pietro Pomponazzi,
Florence, '68; Bernardius Telesio, Florence, 2 vols., '72-74. He
has also written on Strauss and Spinoza. In the Nuova Antologia he
wrote on J. C. Vanini, and on Caesalpinus, Campanella, and Bruno. A
friend of Bertrando Spaventa, he succeeded to his chair at Naples in
'83. Died 22 Dec. 1884.

Fischart (Johann), German satirist called Mentzer, b. Strasbourg about
1545. His satires in prose and verse remind one of Rabelais, whom he
in part translated, and are often directed against the Church. Died
at Forbach in 1614.

Fischer (J. C.), German materialist, author of a work on the freedom of
the will 1858, a criticism of Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious,
'72; Das Bewusstsein, '74. Died 1888.

Fischer (Kuno), German philosopher, b. 23 July, 1824, at Sandewald,
Silesia. Educated at Leipsic and Halle, in 1856 he was appointed
Professor of Philosophy at Jena. His chief works are History of Modern
Philosophy, '52-72; Life and Character of Spinoza; Francis Bacon,
'56; and Lessing, '81.

Fiske (John), American author, b. Hartford, Connecticut, 30 March,
1842. Graduated at Harvard, '63. In '69-71 was Lecturer on Philosophy
at that University, and from '72-9 Librarian. Mr. Fiske has lectured
largely, and has written Myths and Mythmakers, '72; Outlines of
Cosmic Philosophy, 2 vols. '74; Darwinism, and other essays, '79;
Excursions of an Evolutionist, '83; The Idea of God as Affected by
Modern Knowledge, '85.

Flaubert (Gustave), French novelist, b. Rouen, 12 Dec. 1821. The son
of a distinguished surgeon, he abandoned his father's profession for
literature. His masterpiece, Madame Bovary, published in '56 in the
Revue de Paris, drew a prosecution upon that journal which ended
in a triumph for the author. For his next great work, Salammbo,
'62, an epic of Carthage, he prepared himself by long antiquarian
studies. His intellectual tendencies are displayed in The Temptation
of Saint Anthony. He stands eminent among the naturalist school for
his artistic fidelity. He was a friend of Theophile Gautier, Ivan
Turgenev, Emile Zola and "George Sand." His correspondence with the
last of these has been published. He distinctly states therein that
on subjects like immortality men cheat themselves with words. Died
at Rouen, 9 May, 1880.

Flourens (Marie Jean Pierre), French scientist, b. near Beziers, 15
April, 1794. In 1828 he was admitted into the Academy of Sciences,
after having published a work on the nervous system of vertebrates;
he became perpetual secretary in '33. A work on Human Longevity and
the Quantity of Life on the Globe was very popular. Died near Paris,
6 Dec. 1867.

Flourens (Gustave), eldest son of the preceding, b. Paris,
4 Aug. 1838. In '63 he took his father's chair at the College of
France, and his course on "Ethnography" attracted much attention. In
the following year he published his work on The Science of Man. His
bold heresy lost him his chair, and he collaborated on Larousse's
Grand Dictionnaire. In '65 he left France for Crete, where for three
years he fought in the mountains against the Turkish troops. Upon
his return he was arrested for presiding at a political meeting. He
showed himself an ardent Revolutionist, and was killed in a skirmish
near Nanterre, 3 April, 1871.

Fonblanque (Albany William), English journalist, b. London, 1793;
the son of an eminent lawyer. In 1820 he was on the staff of the
Times, and contributed to the Westminster Review. In '30 he became
editor of the Examiner, and retained his post until '47. His caustic
wit and literary attainments did much to forward advanced liberal
views. A selection of his editorials was published under the title,
England under Seven Administrations. Died 13 Oct. 1872.

Fontanier (Jean), French writer, who was burnt at the Place
de Greve, 1621, for blasphemies in a book entitled Le Tresor
Inestimable. Garasse, with little reason, calls him an Atheist.

Fontenelle (Bernard le Bovier de), nephew of Corneille, called
by Voltaire the most universal genius of the reign of Louis XIV.,
b. Rouen, 11 Feb. 1657. Dedicated to the Virgin and St. Bernard,
he was educated at the Jesuits' College. He went to Paris in 1674;
wrote some plays and Dialogues of the Dead, 1683. In 1686 appeared
his Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, and in the following
year his History of Oracles, based on the work of Van Dale, for which
he was warmly attacked by the Jesuit Baltus, as impugning the Church
Fathers. He was made secretary to the Academy of Sciences in 1699,
a post he held forty-two years. He wrote Doubts on the Physical
System of Occasional Causes, and is also credited with a letter
on the Resurrection of the Body, a piece on The Infinite, and a
Treatise on Liberty; "but," says l'Abbe Ladvocat, "as these books
contain many things contrary to religion, it is to be hoped they are
not his." Fontenelle nearly reached the age of one hundred. A short
time before he died (9 Jan. 1757), being asked if he felt any pain,
"I only feel," he replied, "a difficulty of existing."

Foote (George William), writer and orator, b. Plymouth, 11
Jan. 1850. Was "converted" in youth, but became a Freethinker by
reading and independent thought. Came to London in 1868, and was soon a
leading member of the Young Men's Secular Association. He taught in the
Hall of Science Sunday School, and became secretary of the Republican
League. Devoting his time to propagating his principles, he wrote
in the Secular Chronicle and National Reformer, and in '76 started
the Secularist in conjunction with Mr. G. J. Holyoake, and after
the ninth number conducting it alone. This afterwards merged in the
Secular Review. In '79 Mr. Foote edited the Liberal, and in Sept. '81,
started the Freethinker, which he still edits. In the following year
a prosecution was commenced by the Public Prosecutor, who attempted
to connect Mr. Bradlaugh with it. Undaunted, Mr. Foote issued a
Christmas number with an illustrated "Comic Life of Christ." For
this a prosecution was started by the City authorities against him
and his publisher and printer, and the trial came on first in March,
'83. The jury disagreed, but Judge North refused to discharge the
prisoners, and they were tried again on the 5th March; Judge North
directing that a verdict of guilty must be returned, and sentencing
Mr. Foote to one year's imprisonment as an ordinary criminal subject
to the same "discipline" as burglars. "I thank you, my lord; your
sentence is worthy of your creed," he remarked. On 24 April, '83,
Mr. Foote was brought from prison before Lord Coleridge and a special
jury on the first charge, and after a splendid defence, upon which
he was highly complimented by the judge, the jury disagreed. He has
debated with Dr. McCann, Rev. A. J. Harrison, the Rev. W. Howard,
the Rev. H. Chapman, and others. Mr. Foote has written much,
and lectures continually. Among his works we mention Heroes and
Martyrs of Freethought (1876); God, the Soul, and a Future State;
Secularism the True Philosophy of Life (1879); Atheism and Morality;
The Futility of Prayer; Bible Romances; Death's Test, afterwards
enlarged into Infidel Death-Beds; The God Christians Swear by; Was
Jesus Insane? Blasphemy No Crime; Arrows of Freethought; Prisoner
for Blasphemy (1884); Letters to Jesus Christ; What Was Christ? Bible
Heroes; and has edited The Bible Hand-book with Mr. W. P. Ball, and
the Jewish Life of Christ with the present writer, in conjunction
with whom he has written The Crimes of Christianity. From 1883-87
he edited Progress, in which appeared many important articles from
his pen. Mr. Foote is President of the London Secular Federation,
and a Vice-President of the National Secular Society.

Fouillee (Alfred), French philosopher, b. La Poueze, near Angers,
18 Oct. 1838. Has been teacher at several lyceums, notably at
Bordeaux. He was crowned by the Academy of Moral Sciences for two
works on the Philosophy of Plato and Socrates. Elected Professor
of Philosophy at the Superior Normal School, Paris, he sustained
a thesis at the Sorbonne on Liberty and Determinism, which was
violently attacked by the Catholics. This work has gone through
several editions. M. Fonillee has also written an able History of
Philosophy, 1875, Contemporary Social Science, and an important
Critique of Contemporary Moral Systems (1883). He has written much
in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and is considered, with Taine, Ribot,
and Renan, the principal representative of French philosophy. His
system is known as that of idees-forces, as he holds that ideas are
themselves forces. His latest work expounds the views of M. Guyau.

Forberg (Friedrich Karl), German philosopher, b. Meuselwitz, 30
Aug. 1770, studied theology at Leipsic, and became private docent
at Jena. Becoming attached to Fichte's philosophy, he wrote with
Fichte in Niethammer's Philosophical Journal on "The Development
of Religious Ideas," and an article on "The Ground of our Faith in
Divine Providence," which brought on them a charge of Atheism, and
the journal was confiscated by the Electorate of Saxony. Forberg held
religion to consist in devotion to morality, and wrote An Apology
for Alleged Atheism, 1799. In 1807 he became librarian at Coburg,
and devoted himself to the classics, issuing a Manuel d'Erotologie
Classique. Died Hildburghausen 1 Jan. 1848.

Forder (Robert), b. Yarmouth, 14 Oct. 1844. Coming to to Woolwich,
he became known as a political and Freethought lecturer. He took part
in the movement to save Plumstead Common from the enclosers, and was
sent to trial for riotous proceedings, but was acquitted. In '77 he
was appointed paid secretary to the National Secular Society, a post
he has ever since occupied. During the imprisonment of Messrs. Foote,
Ramsey, and Kemp, in '83, Mr. Forder undertook charge of the publishing
business. He has lectured largely, and written some pamphlets.

Forlong (James George Roche). Major General, H.B.A., b. Lanarkshire,
Scotland, Nov. 1824. Educated as an engineer, joined the Indian
army '43, fought in the S. Mahrata campaign '45-6, and in the second
Burmese war. On the annexation of Barma he became head of the Survey,
Roads and canal branches. In '58-9 he travelled extensively through
Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. From '61-71 was
a superintending engineer of Calcutta, and in Upper Bengal, North-west
Provinces, and Rajputana, and '72-76 was Secretary and Chief Engineer
to the Government of Oudh. He retired in '77 after an active service of
33 years, during which he frequently received the thanks of the Indian
and Home Governments. In his youth he was an active Evangelical,
preaching to the natives in their own tongues. He has, however,
given his testimony that during his long experience he has known no
one converted solely by force of reasoning or "Christian evidences." A
great student of Eastern religions, archaeology, and languages, he has
written in various periodicals of the East and West, and has embodied
the result of many years researches in two illustrated quarto volumes
called Rivers of Life, setting forth the evolution of all religions
from their radical objective basis to their present spiritualised
developments. In an elaborate chart he shows by streams of color the
movements of thought from 10,000 B.C. to the present time.

Fourier (Francois Marie Charles), French socialist, b. Besancon, 7
April, 1772. He passed some of the early years of his life as a common
soldier. His numerous works amid much that is visionary have valuable
criticisms upon society, and suggestions for its amelioration. He
believed in the transmigration of souls. Died at Paris, 8 Oct. 1837.

Fox (William Johnson), orator and political writer, b. near Wrentham,
Suffolk, 1786. Intended for the Congregational Ministry, he became
a Unitarian, and for many years preached at South Place, Finsbury,
where he introduced the plan of taking texts from other books
besides the Bible. One of his first published sermons was on behalf of
toleration for Deists at the time of the Carlile prosecutions 1819. He
gradually advanced from the acceptance of miracles to their complete
rejection. During the Anti-Corn Law agitation he was a frequent
and able speaker. In 1847 he became M.P. for Oldham, and retained
his seat until his retirement in '61. He was a prominent worker for
Radicalism, contributing to the Westminster Review, Weekly Dispatch,
and Daily News. For some years he edited the Monthly Repository. His
works, which include spirited Lectures to the Working Classes, and a
philosophical statement of Religions Ideas, were published in twelve
volumes, '65-68. Died 3 June, 1864.

"Franchi (Ausonio)," the pen name of Francesco Cristoforo Bonavino,
Italian ex-priest, b. Pegli, 24 Feb. 1821. Brought up in the Church
and ordained priest in '44, the practice of the confessional made
him sceptical and he quitted it for philosophy, having ceased to
believe in its dogmas, '49. In '52 he published his principal work,
entitled The Philosophy of the Italian Schools. The following year
he published The Religion of the Nineteenth Century. He established
La Razione (Reason) and Il Libero Pensiero at Turin, '54-57; wrote
on the Rationalism of the People, Geneva, '56, and became an active
organiser of anti-clerical societies. In '66 he published a criticism
of Positivism, and has since written Critical and Polemical Essays,
3 vols. Milan, '70-72. In '68 was appointed Professor of Philosophy
in the Academy of Milan by Terenzio Mamiani.

Francis (Samuel), M.D., author of Watson Refuted, published by
Carlile, 1819.

Francois de Neufchateau (Nicolas Louis), Count, French statesman,
poet, and academician, b. Lorraine, 17 April, 1750. In his youth he
became secretary to Voltaire, who regarded him as his successor. He
favored the Revolution, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly
in '91. As Member of the Directory, '97, he circulated d'Holbach's
Contagion Sacree. He became President of the Senate, '14-16. He wrote
numerous pieces. Died at Paris 10 Jan. 1828.

Franklin (Benjamin), American patriot and philosopher, b. Boston 17
Jan. 1706. He was apprenticed to his uncle as a printer, came to
England and worked at his trade '24-26; returned to Philadelphia,
where he published a paper and became known by his Poor Richard's
Almanack. He founded the public library at Philadelphia, and
made the discovery of the identity of lightning with the electric
fluid. He became member of the Provincial Assembly and was sent to
England as agent. When examined before the House of Commons he spoke
boldly against the Stamp Act. He was active during the war with this
country, and was elected member of Congress. Became envoy to France,
and effected the treaty of alliance with that country, 6 Feb. '78,
which secured the independence of the American colonies. Turgot summed
up his services in the fine line Eripuit caelo fulmen, sceptrumque
tyrannis. "He wrested the thunderbolt from heaven and the sceptre
from kings." Died at Philadelphia, 17 April, 1790.

Fransham (John), a native of Norwich, b. 1730, became a teacher of
mathematics, renounced the Christian religion, and professed Paganism,
writing several treatises in favor of disbelief. Died 1810.

Frauenstaedt (Christian Martin Julius), Dr., philosopher and disciple
of Schopenhauer, b. 17 April, 1813, at Bojanowo, Posen. He studied
philosophy and theology at Berlin, but meeting Schopenhauer at
Frankfort in '47 he adopted the views of the pessimist, who made
him his literary executor. Among Frauenstaedt's works are Letters on
Natural Religion, '58, The Liberty of Men and the Personality of God,
'38; Letters on the Philosophy of Schopenhauer, '54, etc. Died at
Berlin, 13 Jan. 1879.

Frederick II. (Emperor of Germany), the greatest man of the thirteenth
century and founder of the Renaissance, b. 26 Dec. 1194. Was elected
to the throne in 1210. He promoted learning, science, and art, founded
the Universities of Vienna and Naples, had the works of Aristotle
and Averroes translated, and was the patron of all the able men of
his time. For his resistance to the tyranny of the Church he was
twice excommunicated. He answered by a letter attacking the Pope
(Gregory IX.), whom he expelled from Rome in '28. He made a treaty
with the Sultan of Egypt, by which he became master of Jerusalem. For
some heretical words in his letter, in which he associates the names
of Christ, Moses, and Mohammed, he was reported author of the famous
work De Tribus Impostoribus. He addressed a series of philosophical
questions to Ibn Sabin, a Moslem doctor. He is said to have called
the Eucharist truffa ista, and is credited also with the saying
"Ignorance is the mother of devotion." Died at Florence, 13 Dec. 1250.

Frederick the Great (King of Prussia), b. 24 Jan. 1712, was educated in
a very rigid fashion by his father, Frederick William I. He ascended
the throne and soon displayed his political and military ability. By
a war with Austria he acquired Silesia. He wrote several deistical
pieces, and tolerated all religions and no religion saying "every man
must get to heaven his own way." He attracted to his court men like
Lamettrie, D'Argens, Maupertuis, and Voltaire, who, says Carlyle,
continued all his days Friedrich's chief thinker. In 1756 France,
Austria, Sweden, and Russia united against him, but he held his own
against "a world in arms." After a most active life Frederick died
at Potsdam, 17 Aug. 1786. The Philosophical Breviary attributed to
him was really written by Cerutti.

Fredin (Nils Edvard), Swedish writer, b. 1857. Has published
translation of modern poets, and also of Col. Ingersoll's writings. In
'80 he was awarded first prize by the Swedish Academy for an original
poem.

Freeke (William), b. about 1663, wrote A Brief but Clear Confutation
of the Trinity, which being brought before the notice of the House of
Lords it was on 3 Jan. 1693 ordered to be burnt by the common hangman,
and the author being prosecuted by the Attorney General was fined L500.

Freiligrath (Ferdinand) German poet, b. Detmold 17 June, 1810. In
'35 he acquired notice by some poems. In '44 he published his
profession of faith Mein Glaubensbekenntniss, and was forced to
fly the country. In '48 he returned and joined Karl Marx on the
Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Again prosecuted he took refuge in London,
devoting his leisure to poetry and translation. Freiligrath holds a
high place among the poets of his time. Died Kannstadt, near Stuttgart,
18 March 1876.

Freret (Nicolas), French historical critic, b. 15 Feb. 1688. He was a
pupil of Rollin, and was patronised by Boulainvilliers. Distinguished
by his attainments in ancient history, philosophy and chronology,
he became member of the Academy of Inscriptions 1714. For a Discourse
on the "Origin of the Franks," he was incarcerated for four months in
the Bastille. While here he read Bayle so often that he could repeat
much from memory. He was an unbeliever, and the author of the atheistic
Letters from Thrasybulus to Leucippe on Natural and Revealed Religion,
and perhaps of La Moisade, a criticism of the Pentateuch, translated
by D. I. Eaton, as A Preservative against Religious Prejudices. The
Letters to Eugenie, attributed to Freret, were written by D'Holbach,
and the Critical Examination of the Apologists of the Christian
Religion by J. Levesque de Burigny. A Critical Examination of the New
Testament, 1777 which long circulated in MS. has also been wrongly
attributed to Freret. Died at Paris, 8 March, 1749.

Frey (William), the adopted name of a Russian Positivist
and philanthropist, b. of noble family, the son of a general,
1839. Educated at the higher military school, St. Petersburg, he
became teacher in a Government High School, and disgusted with the
oppression and degradation of his country he went to New York in
1866 where he established co-operative communities and also Russian
colonies in Kansas and Oregon. In 1884 he came to London in order to
influence his countrymen. In '87 he revisited Russia. Died 6 Nov. 1888.

Fries (Jacob Friedrich), German philosopher, b. Barby, 23
Aug. 1773. Brought up as a Moravian, he became a Deist. Fries is of
the Neo-Kantian rationalistic school. Among his writings are a System
of Metaphysics, 1824; a Manual of the Philosophy of Religion and
Philosophical AEsthetics, Heidelberg '32; in which he resolves religion
into poetry. He criticised Kant's proofs of God and immortality,
and wrote a History of Philosophy. Died Jena, 10 Aug. 1843.

Frothingham (Octavius Brooks), American author, b. Boston, 26
Nov. 1822. Graduated at Harvard, '43, and became Unitarian minister. In
'60 he became pastor of the most radical Unitarian congregation in
New York. In '67 he became first president of the Free Religious
Association, but, becoming too advanced, resigned in '79 and came
to Europe. Since his return to Boston, '81, he has devoted himself
to literature. He has published The Religion of Humanity, N.Y.,
'73; Life of Theodore Parker, '74; The Cradle of the Christ, '77;
Life of Gerrit Smith, 78; and numerous sermons.

Froude (James Anthony), man of letters and historian, the son of an
Archdeacon of Totnes, was b. Dartington, Devon, 23 April, 1818, and
educated at Westminster and Oxford, where he took his degree in '40,
was elected fellow of Exeter College and received deacon's orders. At
first, under the influence of the Romanising movement, he became
a rationalist and abandoned his fellowship and clerical life. His
Nemesis of Faith, '48, showed the nature of his objections. Mr. Froude
devoted his abilities to a literary career, and fell under the
influence of Carlyle. For many years he edited Fraser's Magazine,
in which he wrote largely. His essays are collected under the title
of Short Studies on Great Subjects, '71-83. His largest work is the
History of England, from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada, '56-76. His Life of Carlyle, '82, and publication
of Carlyle's Reminiscenses provoked much controversy. His magical
translation of Lucian's most characteristic Dialogue of the Gods
is done with too much verve to allow of the supposition that the
translator is not in sympathy with his author.

Fry (John), a colonel in the Parliamentary army. In 1640 he was
elected one of the burgesses of Shaftesbury, but his return was
declared void. After serving with distinction in the army, he was
called to the House of Commons by the Independents in 1648. He voted
for Charles I. being put on trial; and sat in judgment when sentence
was passed on him. He was charged with blasphemy and wrote The Accuser
Shamed, 1649, which was ordered to be burnt for speaking against
"that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons in the Godhead." He
also wrote The Clergy in their Colors, 1650.

Fuller (Sarah Margaret), American authoress, b. Cambridgeport,
Massachusetts, 23 May, 1810. In '40-42 she edited the Dial. She
also published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, '44. Among friends
she counted Emerson, Hawthorne, Channing, and Mazzini. She visited
Europe and married at Rome the Marquis D'Ossoli. Returning she was
shipwrecked and drowned off the coast of New Jersey, 16 July, 1850.

Furnemont (Leon), Belgian advocate, b. Charleroi, 17 April,
1861. Entered the school of Mines Liege in '76, and founded the Circle
of Progressive Students. Became president of International Congress
of Students, '84, and represented Young Belgium at the funeral of
Victor Hugo. Radical candidate at the Brussels municipal elections,
he obtained 3,500 votes, but was not elected. He is a Councillor
of the International Federation of Freethinkers and director of a
monthly journal, La Raison, 1889.

Gabarro (Bartolome) Dr., Spanish writer, b. Ygualade, Barcelona,
27 Sept. 1846, was educated in a clerical college with a view to
taking the clerical habit, he refused and went to America. After
travelling much, he established a day school in Barcelona and founded
an Anti-clerical League of Freethinkers pledged to live without
priests. This induced much clerical wrath, especially when Dr. Gabarro
founded some 200 Anti-clerical groups and over 100 lay schools. For
denouncing the assassins of a Freethinker he was pursued for libel,
sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and forced to fly to Cerbere
on the frontier, where he continues his anti-clerical journal La
Tronada. He has written many anti-clerical brochures and an important
work on Pius IX. and History.

Gabelli (Aristide), Italian writer, b. Belluno, 22 March, 1830. Author
of The Religious Question in Italy, '64, Man and the Moral Sciences,
'69, in which he rejects all metaphysics and supernaturalism, and
Thoughts, 1886.

Gage (Matilda Joslyn), American reformer, b. Cicero, New
York, 24 March, 1826. Her father, Dr. H. Joslyn, was an active
abolitionist. Educated at De Peyster and Hamilton, N.Y., in '45 she
married Henry H. Gage. From '52 till '61 she wrote and spoke against
slavery. In '72 she was made President of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association. She is joint author of The History of Woman
Suffrage with Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, and with them considers
the Church the great obstacle to woman's progress.

Gagern (Carlos von), b. Rehdorf, Neumark, 12 Dec. 1826. Educated at
Berlin, travelled in '47 to Paris where he became acquainted with
Humboldt. He went to Spain and studied Basque life in the Pyrenees;
served in the Prussian army, became a friend of Wislicenus and the
free-religious movement. In '52 he went to Mexico; here he had an
appointment under General Miramon. In the French-Mexican expedition
he was taken prisoner in '63; released in '65 he went to New York. He
was afterwards military attache for Mexico at Berlin. His freethought
appears in his memoirs entitled Dead and Living, 1884, and in his
volume Sword and Trowel, 1888. Died Madrid 19 Dec. 1885.

Gall (Franz Joseph), founder of phrenology, b. Baden, 6 March, 1758. He
practised as a physician in Vienna, devoting much time to the study of
the brain, and began to lecture on craniology in that city. In 1802 he
was prohibited from lecturing. He joined Dr. Spurzheim and they taught
their system in various cities of Europe. Died at Paris, 22 Aug. 1828.

Galton (Francis), grandson of Erasmus Darwin, was born in
1822. Educated at Birmingham, he studied medicine at King's College,
London, and graduated at Cambridge, '24. In '48 and '50 he travelled in
Africa. He wrote a popular Art of Travel, and has distinguished himself
by many writings bearing on heredity, of which we name Hereditary
Genius, '69, English Men of Science, '70. In his Inquiries into Human
Faculty and Developement, '83, he gives statistical refutation of the
theory of prayer. Mr. Galton was Secretary of the British Association
from '63-68, President of the Geographical Section in '62 and '72,
and of the Anthropological Section in '77 and '85. He is President
of the Anthropological Institute.

Gambetta (Leon Michel), French orator and statesman, b. Cahors, 30
Oct. 1838. His uncle was a priest and his father wished him to become
one. Educated at a clerical seminary, he decided to study for the
law. In '59 he was enrolled at the bar. His defence of Delescluze
(14 Nov. 1868), in which he vigorously attacked the Empire, made
him famous. Elected to the Assembly by both Paris and Marseilles, he
became the life and leader of the Opposition. After Sedan he proclaimed
the Republic and organised the national defences, leaving Paris, then
invested by the Germans, in a balloon. From Tours he invigorated every
department, and was the inspiration of the few successes won by the
French. Gambetta preserved the Republic against all machinations,
and compelled MacMahon to accept the second of the alternatives,
"Se soumettre ou se demettre." He founded the Republique Francaise,
and became President of the Chamber. Gambetta was a professed
disciple of Voltaire, an admirer of Comte, and an open opponent of
clericalism. All the members of his Cabinet were Freethinkers. Died
31 Dec. 1882. His public secular funeral was one of the largest
gatherings ever witnessed.

Gambon (Ferdinand Charles), French Communist, b. Bourges, 19 March,
1820. In 1839 he became an Advocate, and he founded the Journal des
Ecoles. In '48 he was elected representative. The Empire drove him
into exile, he returned at amnesty of '59. In '69 he refused to pay
taxes. In '71 was elected deputy at Paris, and was one of the last
defenders of the Commune. Imprisoned, he was released in '82. Formed
a League for abolishing standing army. Died 17 Sept. 1887.

Garat (Dominique Joseph), Count, French revolutionist, orator and
writer, b. near Bayonne, 8 September, 1749. He became a friend of
d'Alembert, Diderot and Condercet, and in 1789 was elected to the
Assembly, where he spoke in favor of the abolition of religion. As
minister of justice he had to notify to Louis XVI his condemnation. He
afterwards taught at the Normal School, and became a senator, count,
and president of the Institute. Died at Urdains 9 December, 1833.

Garborg (Arne), b. Western Coast of Norway, 25 Jan. 1851. Brought
up as a teacher at the public schools, he entered the University of
Christiania in 1875. Founded a weekly paper Fedraheimen, written in
the dialect of the peasantry. Held an appointment for some years
in the Government Audit Office. In '81 he published a powerfully
written tale, A Freethinker, which created a deal of attention. Since
he has published Peasant Students, Tales and Legends, Youth, Men,
etc. He is one of the wittiest and cleverest controversialists on
the Norwegian press.

Garcia-Vao (Antonio Rodriguez), Spanish poet and miscellaneous
writer, b. Manzanares, 1862. Educated at the institute of Cardinal
Cisneros, where he made brilliant studies. He afterwards studied
at the Madrid University and became a lawyer. After editing several
papers, he attached himself to the staff of Las Dominicales del Libre
Pensiamento. Among his numerous works are a volume of poems, Echoes
of a Free Mind, Love and the Monks, a satire, a study of Greco-Roman
philosophy, etc. This promising student was stabbed in the back at
Madrid, 18 December, 1886.

Garde (Jehan de la), bookseller, burnt together with four little
blasphemous books at Paris in 1537.

Garibaldi (Guiseppe), Italian patriot and general, b. Nice, 4
July, 1807. His father, a small shipmaster, hoped he would become a
priest. Young Garibaldi objected, preferring a sailor's life. A trip to
Rome made him long to free his country. He joined Mazzini's movement,
"Young Italy," and being implicated in the Genoese revolt of '33,
he fled at risk of his life to Marseilles, where he learnt he was
sentenced to death. He went to South America and fought on behalf of
the republic of Uruguay. Here he met Anita Rivera, his beautiful and
brave wife, who accompanied him in numerous adventures. Returning to
Italy he fought against the Austrians in '48, and next year was the
soul of resistance to the French troops, who came to restore Papal
authority. Garibaldi had to retire; his wife died, and he escaped
with difficulty to Genoa, whence he went to New York, working for
an Italian soap and candlemaker at Staten Island. In '54 he returned
and bought a farm on the isle of Caprera. In '59 he again fought the
Austrians, and in May, '60, landed at Marsala, Sicily, took Palermo,
and drove Francis II. from Naples. Though a Republican he saluted
Victor Emanuel as King of Italy. Vexed by the cessation of Nice to
France, he marched to Rome, but was wounded by Victor Emanuel's
troops, and taken prisoner to Varignaro. Here he wrote his Rule
of the Monk, a work exhibiting his love of liberty and hatred of
the priesthood. In '64 he visited England, and was enthusiastically
received. In '67 he again took part in an attempt to free Rome from
the Papal government. In '71 he placed his sword at the service of
the French Republic, and the only standard taken from the Germans was
captured by his men. Elected Member of the Italian Parliament in his
later years he did much to improve the city of Rome. In one of his
laconic letters of '80, he says "Dear Friend,--Man has created God,
not God man,--Yours ever, Garibaldi." He died 2 June, '82, and directed
in his will that he should be cremated without any religious ceremony.

Garrison (H. D.), Dr. of Chicago. Author of an able pamphlet on The
Absence of Design in Nature, 1876.

Garth (Sir Samuel), English poet, wit, and physician, b. Yorkshire,
1672, and educated at Cambridge. He helped to establish dispensaries,
and lashed the opposition in his poem The Dispensary. He was made
physician to King George I. Died 18 June 1719.

Gaston (H.), French author of a brochure with the title Dieu, voila,
l'ennemi, God the enemy, 1882.

Gattina (F. P. della). See Petruccelli.

Gautama (called also Gotama, Buddha, and Sakyamuni), great Hindu
reformer and founder of Buddhism, b. Kapilavastu, 624 B.C. Many
legends are told of his birth and life. He is said to have been a
prince, who, pained with human misery, left his home to dedicate
himself to emancipation. His system was rather a moral discipline
than a religion. Though he did not deny the Hindu gods he asserted
that all beings were subject to "Karma," the result of previous
actions. He said, "If a man for a hundred years worship Agni in the
forest, and if he but for one moment pay homage to a man whose soul
is grounded in true knowledge, better is that homage than sacrifice
for a hundred years." According to Ceylonese writers Gautama Buddha
died at Kusinagara, B.C. 543.

Gautier (Theophile), exquisite French poet and prose writer, b. Tarbes,
31 Aug. 1811. He wrote no definite work against priestcraft or
superstition, but the whole tendency of his writings is Pagan. His
romanticism is not Christian, and he made merry with "sacred themes"
as well as conventional morality. Baudelaire called him an impeccable
master of French literature, and Balzac said that of the two men who
could write French, one was Theophile Gautier. Died 22 Oct. 1872.

Geijer (Erik Gustaf), eminent Swedish historian, poet, and critic,
b. Wermland, 12 Jan. 1783. At the age of 20 he was awarded the Swedish
Academy's first prize for a patriotical poem. At first a Conservative
in religious, philosophical, and political matters he became through
his historical researches an ardent adherent of the principles of the
French revolution. His historical work and indictment against "The
Protestant creed" was published in 1820 in a philosophical treatise,
Thorild, which was prosecuted. His acquittal by an enlightened jury
stayed religious prosecutions in Sweden for over sixty years. He
died 23 April 1847. A monument was erected to him last year at the
University of Upsala, where he was professor of history. His works
have been republished.

Geijerstam (Gustaf), Swedish novelist, b. 1858. Is one of the
Freethinking group of Young Sweden.

Geismar (Martin von), editor of a Library of German Rationalists of
the eighteenth century, in five parts, including some of the works
of Bahrdt, Eberhardt, Knoblauch, etc, 1846-7. He also added pamphlets
entitled Germany in the Eighteenth Century.

Gellion-Danglar (Eugene), French writer, b. Paris, 1829. Became
Professor of Languages at Cairo, wrote in La Pensee Nouvelle, was
made sous prefect of Compiegne, '71, wrote History of the Revolution
of 1830, and A Study of the Semites, '82.

Gemistos (Georgios), surnamed Plethon, a philosophic reviver of Pagan
learning, b. of noble parents at Byzantium about 1355. He early lost
his faith in Christianity, and was attracted to the Moslem court
at Brusa. He went to Italy in the train of John Palaelogus in 1438,
where he attracted much attention to the Platonic philosophy, by
which he sought to reform the religious, political and moral life of
the time. Gennadius, the patriarch of Constantinople, roundly accused
him of Paganism. Died 1450.

Genard (Francois), French satirist, b. Paris about 1722. He wrote
an irreligious work called A Parallel of the Portraits of the Age,
with the Pictures of the Holy Scriptures, for which he was placed in
the Bastille, where it is believed he finished his days.

Gendre (Barbe), Russian writer in French, b. Cronstadt, 15
Dec. 1842. She was well educated at Kief, where she obtained a
gold medal. By reading the works of Buechner, Buckle, and Darwin
she became a Freethinker. Settling in Paris, she contributed
to the Revue Internationale des Sciences, to La Justice and the
Nouvelle Revue, etc. Some of her pieces have been reprinted under
the title Etudes Sociales (Social Studies, Paris, 1886), edited by
Dr. C. Letourneau. Died Dec. 1884.

Gener (Pompeyo), Spanish philosopher, b. Barcelona, 1849, is a member
of the Society of Anthropology, and author of a study of the evolution
of ideas entitled Death and the Devil, Paris, '80. This able work is
dedicated to Renan and has a preface by Littre. The author has since
translated it into Spanish.

Genestet (Petrus Augustus de), Dutch poet and Agnostic, b. Amsterdam,
21 Nov. 1829. He studied theology, and for some years was a Protestant
minister. His verses show him to be a Freethinker. Died at Rozendaal,
2 July, 1861.

Genin (Francois), French philologist, b. Amiens, 16 Feb. 1803. He
became one of the editors of the National, of Paris, about '37, and
wrote for it spirited articles against the Jesuits. He published works
on The Jesuits and the Universities, The Church or the State, etc. In
'45 the French Academy awarded a prize to his Lexicon of the Language
of Moliere. He edited Diderot, '47, and is known for his researches
into the origin of the French language and literature. Died Paris,
20 Dec. 1856.

Genovesi (Antonio), Italian philosopher, b. Castiglione, 1
Nov. 1712. He read lectures in philosophy at Naples, but by his
substitution of doubt for traditional belief he drew upon himself
many attacks from the clergy. The book by which he is best known is
his Italian Morality. Died at Naples, 20 Sept. 1769.

Gensonne (Armand), French lawyer and one of the leaders of the
Girondists, b. Bordeaux, 10 Aug. 1758. He was elected to the
Legislative Assembly in 1791, and to the Convention in 1792. In the
struggle with the Jacobins, Gensonne was one of the most active and
eloquent champions of his party. He was executed with his colleagues
31 Oct. 1793.

Gentilis (Giovanni Valentino), Italian heretic, b. Consenza, Naples,
about 1520. He fled to avoid persecution to Geneva, where in 1558
he was thrown into prison at the instigation of Calvin. Fear of
sharing the fate of Servetus made him recant. He wandered to Poland,
where he joined Alciati and Biandrata, but he was banished for his
innovations. Upon the death of Calvin he returned to Switzerland,
where he was arrested for heresy, 11 June, 1566. After a long trial
he was condemned for attacking the Trinity, and beheaded at Berne,
26 (?) Sept. 1566. Ladvocat says "He died very impiously, saying he
thought himself honored in being martyred for the glory of the Father,
whereas the apostles and other martyrs only died for the glory of
the Son."

Geoffrin (Marie Therese, nee Rodet), a French lady distinguished as a
patroness of learning and the fine arts, b. Paris, 2 June, 1699. She
was a friend of Alembert, Voltaire, Marmontel, Montesquieu, Diderot,
and the encyclopaedists, and was noted for her benevolence. Died at
Paris, 6 Oct. 1777.

Gerhard (H.), Dutch socialist, b. Delft, 11 June, 1829. Educated at
an orphanage he became a tailor, travelled through France, Italy,
and Switzerland, and in '61 returned to Amsterdam. He wrote for De
Dageraad, and was correspondent of the Internationale. Died 5 July,
1886.

Gerhard (A. H.), son of foregoing, b. Lausanne, Switzerland, 7 April,
1858. Is headmaster of a public school, and one of the editors of
De Dageraad.

Germond (J. B. L.), editor of Marechal's Dictionnaire des Athees,
Brussels, 1833.

Gertsen (Aleksandr Ivanovich). See Herzen.

Ghillany (Friedrich Wilhelm), German critic, b. at Erlangan, 18
April, 1807. In '35 he became Professor of History at Nurenberg. His
principal work is on Human Sacrifices among the Ancient Jews, Nurnberg,
'42. He also wrote on the Pagan and Christian writers of the first
four centuries. Under the pseudonym of "Richard von der Alm" he wrote
Theological Letters, 1862; Jesus of Nazareth, 1868; and a collection of
the opinions of heathen and Jewish writers of the first four centuries
upon Jesus and Christianity. Died 25 June, 1876.

Giannone (Pietro), Italian historian, b. Ischitella, Naples, 7 May,
1676. He devoted many years to a History of the Kingdom of Naples,
in which he attacked the papal power. He was excommunicated and fled
to Vienna, where he received a pension from the Emperor, which was
removed on his avowal of heterodox opinions. He was driven from Austria
and took refuge in Venice: here also was an Inquisition. Giannone
was seized by night and cast before sunrise on the papal shore. He
found means, however, of escaping to Geneva. Having been enticed
into Savoy in 1736, he was arrested by order of the King of Sardinia,
and confined in prison until his death, 7 March, 1748.

Gibbon (Edward), probably the greatest of historians, b. Putney,
27 April 1737. At Oxford be became a Romanist, but being sent to a
Calvinist at Lausanne, was brought back to Protestantism. When visiting
the ruins of the Capitol at Rome, he conceived the idea of writing
the Decline and Fall of that empire. For twenty-two years before the
appearance of his first volume he was a prodigy of arduous application,
his investigations extending over the whole range of intellectual and
political activity for nearly fifteen hundred years. His monumental
work, bridging the old world and the new, is an historic exposure
of the crimes and futility of Christianity. Gibbon was elected to
Parliament in '74, but did not distinguish himself. He died of dropsy,
in London, 16 Jan. 1794.

Gibson (Ellen Elvira), American lecturess, b. Winchenden, Mass. 8 May,
1821, and became a public school teacher. Study of the Bible brought
her to the Freethought platform. At the outbreak of the American Civil
War she organised Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Societies, and was elected
chaplain to the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Artillery. President Lincoln
endorsed the appointment, which was questioned. She has written
anonymously Godly Women of the Bible, and has contributed to the
Truthseeker, Boston Investigator, and Ironclad Age, under her own
signature and that of "Lilian."

Giessenburg (Rudolf Charles d'Ablaing van), one of the most notable of
Dutch Freethinkers, b. of noble family, 26 April, 1826. An unbeliever
in youth, in '47 he went to Batavia, and upon his return set up as a
bookseller under the name of R. C. Meijer. With Junghuhn and Guenst,
he started de Dageraad, and from '56-68 was one of the contributors,
usually under his name "Rudolf Charles." He is a man of great
erudition, has written Het verbond der vrije gedachte (The Alliance of
Freethought); de Tydgenoot op het gebied der Rede (The Contemporary
in the Field of Reason); De Regtbank des Onderzoeks (The Tribunal
of Inquiry); Zedekunde en Christendom (Ethics and Christianity);
Curiositeiten van allerlei aard (Curiosities of Various Kinds). He has
also published the Religion and Philosophy of the Bible by W. J. Birch
and Brooksbank's work on Revelation. He was the first who published
a complete edition of the famous Testament du Cure Jean Meslier in
three parts ('64), has published the works of Douwes Dekker and other
writers, and also Curieuse Gebruiken.

Gilbert (Claude), French advocate, b. Dijon, 7 June, 1652. He had
printed at Dijon, in 1700, Histoire de Calejava, ou de l'isle
des hommes raisonables, avec le paralelle de leur Morale et du
Christianisme. The book has neither the name of author or printer. It
was suppressed, and only one copy escaped destruction, which was bought
in 1784 by the Duc de La Valliere for 120 livres. It was in form of a
dialogue (329 pp.), and attacked both Judaism and Christianity. Gilbert
married in 1700, and died at Dijon 18 Feb. 1720.

Gill (Charles), b. Dublin, 8 Oct. 1824, was educated at the University
of that city. In '83 he published anonymously a work on The Evolution
of Christianity. It was quoted by Mr. Foote in his defences before
Judge North and Lord Coleridge, and in the following year he put his
name to a second edition. Mr. Gill has also written a pamphlet on
the Blasphemy Laws, and has edited, with an introduction, Archbishop
Laurence's Book of Enoch, 1883.

Giles (Rev. John Allen, D.Ph.), b. Mark, Somersetshire, 26
Oct. 1808. Educated at the Charterhouse and Oxford, where he
graduated B.A. as a double first-class in '28. He was appointed
head-master of the City of London School, which post he left for
the Church. The author of over 150 volumes of educational works,
including the Keys to the Classics; privately he was a confirmed
Freethinker, intimate with Birch, Scott, etc. His works bearing on
theology show his heresy, the principal being Hebrew Records 1850,
Christian Records 1854. These two were published together in amended
form in 1877. He also wrote Codex Apocryphus Novi Testamenti 1852,
Writings of the Early Christians of the Second Century 1857, and
Apostolic Records, published posthumously in 1886. Died 24 Sept 1884.

Ginguene (Pierre Louis), French historian b. Rennes, 25 April,
1748. Educated, with Parny, by Jesuits. At Paris he became a
teacher, embraced the Revolution, wrote on Rousseau and Rabelais,
and collaborated with Chamfort in the Historic Pictures of the French
Revolution. Thrown into prison during the Terror, he escaped on the
fall of Robespierre, and became Director of Public Instruction. His
principal work is a Literary History of Italy. Died Paris, 11
Nov. 1816.

Gilliland (M. S.) Miss, b. Londonderry 1853, authoress of a little
work on The Future of Morality, from the Agnostic standpoint, 1888.

Gioja (Melchiorre), Italian political economist, b. Piazenza, 20
Sept. 1767. He advocated republicanism, and was appointed head of a
bureau of statistics. For his brochure La Scienza del Povero Diavolo
he was expelled from Italy in 1809. He published works on Merit and
Rewards and The Philosophy of Statistics. Died at Milan 2 Jan. 1829.

Girard (Stephen), American philanthropist, b. near Bordeaux France,
24 May, 1750. He sailed as cabin boy to the West Indies about 1760;
rose to be master of a coasting vessel and earned enough to settle
in business in Philadelphia in 1769. He became one of the richest
merchants in America, and during the war of 1812 he took the whole
of a Government loan of five million dollars. He called his vessels
after the names of the philosophers Helvetius, Montesquieu, Voltaire,
Rousseau, etc. He contributed liberally to all public improvements
and radical movements. On his death he left large bequests to
Philadelphia, the principal being a munificent endowment of a college
for orphans. By a provision of his will, no ecclesiastic or minister
of any sect whatever is to hold any connection with the college, or
even be admitted to the premises as a visitor; but the officers of the
institution are required to instruct the pupils in secular morality
and leave them to adopt their own religious opinions. This will has
been most shamefully perverted. Died Philadelphia, 26 Dec. 1831.

Glain (D. de Saint). See Saint Glain.

Glennie (John Stuart Stuart), living English barrister and
writer, author of In the Morningland, or the law of the origin and
transformation of Christianity, 1873, the most important chapter
of which was reprinted by Thomas Scott, under the title, Christ and
Osiris. He has also written Pilgrim Memories, or travel and discussion
in the birth-countries of Christianity with the late H. T. Buckle,
1875.

Glisson (Francis), English anatomist and physician, b. Rampisham,
Dorsetshire, 1597. He took his degree at Cambridge, and was there
appointed Regius Professor of Physic, an office he held forty years. He
discovered Glisson's capsule in the liver, and was the first to
attribute irritability to muscular fibre. In his Tractatus de natura
substantiae energetica, 1672, he anticipates the natural school in
considering matter endowed with native energy sufficient to account
for the operations of nature. Dr. Glisson was eulogised by Harvey,
and Boerhaave called him "the most accurate of all anatomists that
ever lived." Died in 1677.

Godwin (Mary). See Wollstonecraft.

Godwin (William), English historian, political writer and novelist,
b. Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, 3 March, 1756. The son of a Dissenting
minister, he was designed for the same calling. He studied at Hoxton
College, and came out, as he entered, a Tory and Calvinist; but making
the acquaintance of Holcroft, Paine, and the English Jacobins, his
views developed from the Unitarianism of Priestley to the rejection
of the supernatural. In '93 he published his republican work on
Political Justice. In the following year he issued his powerful
novel of Caleb Williams. He married Mary Wollstonecraft, '96; wrote,
in addition to several novels and educational works, On Population,
in answer to Malthus, 1820; a History of the Commonwealth, '24-28;
Thoughts on Man, '31; Lives of the Necromancers, '34. Some Freethought
essays, which he had intended to form into a book entitled The Genius
of Christianity Unveiled, were first published in '73. They comprise
papers on such subjects as future retribution, the atonement, miracles,
and character of Jesus, and the history and effects of the Christian
religion. Died 7 April, 1836.

Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von), Germany's greatest poet,
b. Frankfort-on-Main, 28 Aug. 1749. He records that early in his
seventh year (1 Nov. 1758) the great Lisbon earthquake filled his
mind with religious doubt. Before he was nine he could write several
languages. Educated at home until sixteen, he then went to Leipsic
University. At Strasburg he became acquainted with Herder, who directed
his attention to Shakespeare. He took the degree of doctor in 1771,
and in the same year composed his drama "Goetz von Berlichingen." He
went to Wetzlar, where he wrote Sorrows of Werther, 1774, which at
once made him famous. He was invited to the court of the Duke of
Saxe-Weimar and loaded with honors, becoming the centre of a galaxy
of distinguished men. Here he brought out the works of Schiller and
his own dramas, of which Faust is the greatest. His chief prose work
is Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. His works are voluminous. He
declared himself "decidedly non-Christian," and said his objects of
hate were "the cross and bugs." He was averse to abstractions and
refused to recognise a Deity distinct from the world. In philosophy
he followed Spinoza, and he disliked and discountenanced the popular
creed. Writing to Lavater in 1772 he said: "You look upon the gospel as
it stands as the divinest truth: but even a voice from heaven would not
convince me that water burns and fire quenches, that a woman conceives
without a man, and that a dead man can rise again. To you, nothing is
more beautiful than the Gospel; to me, a thousand written pages of
ancient and modern inspired men are equally beautiful." Goethe was
opposed to asceticism, and Pfleiderer admits "stood in opposition
to Christianity not merely on points of theological form, but to
a certain extent on points of substance too." Goethe devoted much
attention to science, and he attempted to explain the metamorphosis
of plants on evolutionary principles in 1790. Died 22 March, 1832.

Goldstuecker (Theodor), Sanskrit scholar, of Jewish birth, but a
Freethinker by conviction, b. Konigsberg 18 Jan. 1821; studied at Bonn
under Schlegel and Lassen, and at Paris under Burnouf. Establishing
himself at Berlin, he was engaged as tutor in the University and
assisted Humboldt in the matter of Hindu philosophy in the Cosmos. A
democrat in politics, he left Berlin at the reaction of '49 and came
to England, where he assisted Professor Wilson in preparing his
Sanskrit-English Dictionary. He contributed important articles on
Indian literature to the Westminster Review, the Reader, the Athenaeum
and Chambers' Encyclopaedia. Died in London, 6 March, 1872.

Goldziher (Ignacz), Hungarian Orientalist, b. Stuhlweissenburg,
1850. Is since 1876 Doctor of Semitic Philology in Buda-pesth; is
author of Mythology Among the Hebrews, which has been translated
by Russell Martineau, '77, and has written many studies on Semitic
theology and literature.

Gordon (Thomas), Scotch Deist and political reformer, was b. Kells,
Kirkcudbright, about 1684, but settled early in London, where he
supported himself as a teacher and writer. He first distinguished
himself by two pamphlets in the Bangorian controversy, which
recommended him to Trenchard, to whom he became amanuensis, and
with whom he published Cato's Letters and a periodical entitled The
Independent Whig, which he continued some years after Trenchard's
death, marrying that writer's widow. He wrote many pamphlets, and
translated from Barbeyrac The Spirit of the Ecclesiastics of All
Ages. He also translated the histories of Tacitus and Sallust. He died
28 July, 1750, leaving behind him posthumous works entitled A Cordial
for Low Spirits and The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken.

Gorlaeus (David), a Dutch philosopher, b. at Utrecht, towards the end
of the sixteenth century, has been accused of Atheism on account
of his speculations in a work published after his death entitled
Exercitationes Philosophicae, Leyden 1620.

Govea or Gouvea [Latin Goveanus] (Antonio), Portugese jurist and poet,
b. 1505, studied in France and gained great reputation by his legal
writings. Calvin classes him with Dolet, Rabelais, and Des Periers,
as an Atheist and mocker. He wrote elegant Latin poems. Died at Turin,
5 March, 1565.

Gratiolet (Louis-Pierre), French naturalist, b. Sainte Foy, 6 July
1815, noted for his researches on the comparative anatomy of the
brain. Died at Paris 15 Feb. 1865.

Graves (Kersey), American, author of The Biography of Satan, 1865,
and The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, 1876. Works of some vogue,
but little value.

Gray (Asa), American naturalist, b. 18 Nov. 1810, Paris, Oneida Co.,
New York. Studied at Fairfield and became physician 1831. Wrote
Elements of Botany, 1836, became Professor of Nat. Hist. at Harvard,
and was the first to introduce Darwinism to America. Wrote an
Examination of Darwin's Treatise 1861. Succeeded Agassiz as Governor of
Smithsonian Institute, and worked on American Flora. Died at Cambridge,
Mass., 30 Jan. 1888.

Green (H. L.), American Freethinker, b. 18 Feb. 1828. Edits the
Freethinker's Magazine published at Buffalo, New York.

Greg (William Rathbone), English Writer, b. Manchester 1809. Educated
at Edinburgh university, he became attracted to economic studies
and literary pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Manchester
Statistical Society, a warm supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League,
and author of one of its prize essays. In '40 he wrote on Efforts for
the Extinction of the African Slave Trade. In '50 he published his
Creed of Christendom, which has gone through eight editions, and in
1872 his Enigmas of Life, of which there were thirteen editions in
his life. He published also Essays on Political and Social Science,
and was a regular contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette. His works
exhibit a careful yet bold thinker and close reasoner. Died at
Wimbledon 15 Nov. 1881.

Grenier (Pierre Jules), French Positivist, b. Beaumont, Perigord,
1838, author of a medical examination of the doctrine of free will,
'68, which drew out letter from Mgr. Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans,
imploring him to repudiate his impious doctrines. Also author of
Aphorisms on the First Principles of Sociology, 1873.

"Grile (Dod)," pen name of Ambrose Bierce, American humorist, who
wrote on the San Francisco News-Letter. His Nuggets and Dust and
Fiend's Delight, were blasphemous; has also written in Fun, and
published Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, 1873.

Grimm (Friedrich Melchior von), Baron. German philosophic writer in
French, b. Ratisbon, 26 Dec. 1723. Going to France he became acquainted
with D'Holbach and with Rousseau, who was at first his friend, but
afterwards his enemy. He became secretary to the Duke of Orleans,
and wrote in conjunction with Diderot and Raynal caustic literary
bulletins containing criticisms on French literature and art. In
1776 he was envoy from the Duke of Saxe Gotha to the French Court,
and after the French Revolution was appointed by Catherine of Russia
her minister at Hamburg. Grimm died at Gotha, 19 Dec. 1807. He is
chiefly known by his literary correspondence with Diderot published
in seventeen vols. 1812-1813.

Gringore (Pierre), French poet and dramatist, b. about 1475, satirised
the pope and clergy as well as the early reformers. Died about 1544.

Grisebach (Eduard), German writer, b. Gottingen 9 Oct. 1845. Studied
law, but entered the service of the State and became Consul at
Bucharest, Petersburg, Milan and Hayti. Has written many poems, of
which the best known is The New Tanhaeuser, first published anonymously
in '69, and followed by Tanhaeuser in Rome, '75. Has also translated
Kin Ku Ki Kuan, Chinese novels. Is a follower of Schopenhauer, whose
bibliography he has compiled, 1888.

Grote (George), the historian of Greece, b. near Beckenham, Kent,
17 Nov. 1794. Descended from a Dutch family. He was educated for
the employment of a banker and was put to business at the age of
sixteen. He was however addicted to literary pursuits, and became
a friend and disciple of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham. In 1820 he
married a cultured lady, Harriet Lewin, and in '22 his Analysis of
the Influence of Natural Religion was published by Carlile, under
the pen name of Philip Beauchamp. He also wrote in the Westminster
Review. In '33 he was elected as Radical M.P. for the City of London
and retained his seat till '41. He was chiefly known in Parliament
for his advocacy of the ballot. In '46-'56 he published his famous
History of Greece, which cost him the best years of his life; this was
followed by Plato and the other Companions of Socrates. His review
of J. S. Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy,
'61, showed he retained his Freethought until the end of his life. He
died 18 June '71, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Grote (Harriet) nee Lewin, wife of the above, b. 1792, shared in his
opinions and wrote his life. Died 29 Dec. 1878.

Gruen (Karl) German author, b. 30 Sept. 1817, Luedenschied, Westphalia,
studied at Bonn and Berlin. In '44 he came to Paris, was a friend
to Proudhon and translated his Philosophy of Misery, was arrested in
'49 and condemned to exile; lived at Brussels till '62, when he was
made professor at Frankfort. He became professor of English at the
College of Colmar, established a Radical journal the Mannheim Evening
News and he wrote Biographical Studies of Schiller, '44, and Feuerbach,
'71. A Culture History of the 16th-17th Centuries, and The Philosophy
of the Present, '76. Died at Vienna 17 February, 1887.

Gruet (Jacques), Swiss Freethinker, tortured and put to death for
blasphemy by order of Calvin at Geneva, 26 July, 1547. After his death
papers were found in his possession directed against religion. They
were burnt by the common hangman, April, 1550.

Gruyer (Louis Auguste Jean Francois-Philippe), Belgian philosopher,
b. Brussels, 15 Nov. 1778. He wrote an Essay of Physical Philosophy,
1828, Tablettes Philosophiques, '42. Principles of Physical
Philosophy, '45, etc. He held the atomic doctrine, and that matter
was eternal. Died Brussels 15 Oct. 1866.

Guadet (Marguerite Elie), Girondin, b. Saint Emilion (Gironde),
20 July, 1758. He studied at Bordeaux, and became an advocate in
'81. He threw himself enthusiastically into the Revolution, and was
elected Deputy for the Gironde. His vehement attacks on the Jacobins
contributed to the destruction of his party, after which he took
refuge, but was arrested and beheaded at Bordeaux, 15 June, 1794.

Gubernatis (Angelo de), see De Gubernatis.

Guepin (Ange), French physician, b. Pontivy, 30 Aug. 1805. He became
M.D. in '28. After the revolution of July, '30, Dr. Guepin was made
Professor at the School of Medicine at Nantes. He formed the first
scientific and philosophical congress, held there in '33. In '48 he
became Commissaire of the Republic at Nantes, and in '50 was deprived
of his situation. In '54 he published his Philosophy of the Nineteenth
Century. After the fall of the Empire, M. Guepin became Prefet of La
Loire Inferieure, but had to resign from ill-health. Died at Nantes,
21 May, 1873, and was buried without any religious ceremony.

Gueroult (Adolphe), French author, b. Radepont (Eure), 29
Jan. 1810. Early in life he became a follower of Saint Simon. He wrote
to the Journal des Debats, the Republique, Credit and Industrie, and
founded l'Opinion National. He was elected to the Legislature in '63,
when he advocated the separation of Church and State. Died at Vichy,
21 July, 1872.

Guerra Junqueiro. Portuguese poet, b. 1850. His principal work is a
poem on The Death of Don Juan, but he has also written The Death of
Jehovah, an assault upon the Catholic faith from the standpoint of
Pantheism. Portuguese critics speak highly of his powers.

Guerrini (Olindo), Italian poet, b. Forli, 4 Oct. 1845. Educated
at Ravenna, Turin, and Bologna University; he has written many fine
poems under the name of Lorenzo Stecchetti. In the preface to Nova
Polemica he declares "Primo di tutto dice, non credo in Dio" ("First
of all I say do not believe in God.")

Gueudeville (Nicolas), French writer, b. Rouen, 1654. He became a
Benedictine monk, and was distinguished as a preacher, but the boldness
of his opinions drew on him the punishment of his superiors. He escaped
to Holland, and publicly abjured Catholicism. He taught literature
and philosophy at Rotterdam, wrote the Dialogue of the Baron de la
Hontan with an American Savage Amst. 1704, appended to the Travels
of La Hontan, 1724, edited by Gueudeville. This dialogue is a bitter
criticism of Christian usages. He translated Erasmus's Praise of Folly
(1713), More's Utopia (1715), and C. Agrippa, Of the Uncertainty and
Vanity of Sciences (1726). Died at the Hague, 1720.

Guichard (Victor), French writer, b. Paris, 15 Aug. 1803. He became
Mayor of Sens, and was elected deputy for the Yonne department. He
was exiled in '52, but again elected in '71. His principal work is
La Liberte de Penser, fin du Pouvoir Spirituel (1868). Died at Paris,
11th Nov. 1884.

Guild (E. E.), b. in Connecticut, 6 May, 1811. In '35 he became
a Christian minister, but after numerous debates became turned
Universalist. In '44 he published The Universalist Book of Reference,
which went through several editions. It was followed by Pro and Con,
in which he gives the arguments for and against Christianity.

Guirlando (Giulio) di Treviso. Italian heretic, put to death at Venice
for anti-trinitarian heresy, 19 Oct. 1562.

Gundling (Nicolaus Hieronymus), German scholar and Deistic philosopher,
b. near Nuremberg, 25 Feb. 1671. He wrote a History of the Philosophy
of Morals, 1706, and The Way to Truth, 1713. One of the first German
eclectics, he took much from Hobbes and Locke, with whom he derived
all ideas from experience. Died at Halle, 16 Dec. 1729.

Gunning (William D.), American scientific professor, b. Bloomingburg,
Ohio. Graduated at Oberlin and studied under Agassiz. He wrote Life
History of our Planet, Chicago, 1876, and contributed to The Open
Court. Died Greeley, Colorado, 8 March, 1888.

Guenst (Dr. Frans Christiaan), Dutch writer and publisher, b. Amsterdam,
19 Aug. 1823. He was intended for a Catholic clergyman; studied
at Berne, where he was promoted '47. Returning to Holland he became
bookseller and editor at Amsterdam. He was for many years secretary of
the City Theatre. Guenst contributed to many periodicals, and became
a friend of Junghuhn, with whom he started De Dageraad, the organ of
the Dutch Freethinkers, which he edited from '55 to '67. He usually
contributed under pseudonyms as "Mephistho" or ([therefore]). He was
for many years President of the Independent Lodge of Freemasons,
"Post Nubila Lux," and wrote on Adon Hiram, the oldest legend of
the Freemasons. He also wrote Wijwater voor Roomsch Katholieken
(Holy Water for the Roman Catholics); De Bloedgetuigen der Spaansche
Inquisitie (The Martyrs of the Spanish Inquisition, '63); and Heidenen
en Jezuieten, eene vergelijking van hunne zedeleer (Pagans and Jesuits,
a comparison of their morals, '67). In his life and conversation he
was frater gaudens. Died 29 Dec. 1886.

Guyau (Marie Jean), French philosopher, b. 1854, was crowned at the
age of 19 by the Institute of France for a monograph on Utilitarian
morality. In the following year he had charge of a course of philosophy
at the Condorcet lycee at Paris. Ill health, brought on by excess of
work, obliged him to retire to Mentone, where he occupied himself
with literature. His principal works are La Morale d'Epicure (the
morality of Epicurus), in relation to present day doctrines, 1878,
La Morale Anglaise Contemporaine (Contemporary English Ethics), '79,
crowned by the Academy of Moral Sciences. Verses of a philosopher,
'81. Esquisse d'une morale sans obligation ni sanction (Sketch of
morality without obligation or sanction,) '84, and L'Irreligion de
l'Avenir (the Irreligion of the Future) '87. M. Guyau was a follower of
M. Fouillee, but all his works bear the impress of profound thought and
originality. A chief doctrine is the expansion of life. Died Mentone,
31 March, 1888.

Guyot (Yves), French writer and statesman, b. Dinan, 1843. He wrote
with Sigismond Lacroix a Study of the Social Doctrines of Christianity,
'73, and a work on morality in the Bibliotheque Materialiste. Elected
on the Municipal Council of Paris '74-78, he has since been a deputy
to the Chamber, and is now a member of the government. He has written
the Principles of Social Economy, '84, and many works on that topic;
has edited Diderot's La Religieuse and the journals Droits de l'homme
and le Bien public.

Gwynne (George), Freethought writer in the Reasoner and National
Reformer, under the pen-name of "Aliquis." His reply to J. H. Newman's
Grammar of Assent shewed much acuteness. He served the cause both by
pen and purse. Died 25 Sept. 1873.

Gyllenborg (Gustaf Fredrik), Count. Swedish poet, b. 6 Dec. 1731, was
one of the first members of the Academy of Stockholm and Chancellor
of Upsala University. He published satires, fables, odes, etc.,
among which may be named The Passage of the Belt. His opinions were
Deistic. Died 30 March, 1808.

Haeckel (Ernst Heinrich Philipp August), German scientist, b. Potsdam,
16 Feb. 1834; studied medicine and science at Wuerzburg, Berlin,
and Vienna. In '59 he went to Italy and studied zoology at Naples,
and two years later was made Professor of Zoology at Jena. Between
'66 and '75 he travelled over Europe besides visiting Syria and Egypt,
and later he visited India and Ceylon, writing an interesting account
of his travels. He is the foremost German supporter of evolution; his
Natural History of Creation, '68, having gone through many editions,
and been translated into English '76, as have also his Evolution
of Man, 2 vols. '79, and Pedigree of Man, '83. Besides numerous
monographs and an able work on Cellular Psychology, Professor Haeckel
has published important Popular Lectures on Evolution, '78, and on
Freedom in Science and Teaching, published with a prefatory note by
Professor Huxley, '79.

Hagen (Benjamin Olive), Socialist, b. 25 June, 1791. About the year
1841 his attention was attracted to the Socialists by the abuse they
received. Led thus to inquire, he embraced the views of Robert Owen,
and was their chief upholder for many years in the town of Derby,
where he lived to be upwards of seventy years of age. His wife also
deserves mention as an able lady of Freethought views.

Halley (Edmund), eminent English astronomer, known in his lifetime
as "the Infidel Mathematician," b. Haggerston, London, 29 Oct. 1656;
educated at Oxford. At twenty he had made observations of the planets
and of the spots on the sun. In Nov. '76 he went to St. Helena
where he prepared his Catalogue of Southern Stars, '79. He also
found how to take the sun's parallax by means of the transits of
Mercury or Venus. In '78 he was elected a F.R.S. Two years later
he made observation on "Halley's comet," and in '83 published his
theory of the variation of the magnet. He became a friend of Sir
Isaac Newton, whom he persuaded to publish his Principia. In '98 he
commanded a scientific expedition to the South Atlantic. In 1713 he
was made sec. of the Royal Society and in 1720 Astronomer-royal. He
then undertook a task which required nineteen years to perform, viz:
to observe the moon throughout an entire revolution of her nodes. He
lived to finish this task. Died 14 Jan. 1742. Halley was the first who
conceived that fixed stars had a proper motion in space. Chalmers in
his Biographical Dictionary says, "It must be deeply regretted that
he cannot be numbered with those illustrious characters who thought
it not beneath them to be Christians."

Hammon (W.), pseudonym of Turner William, q. v.

Hamond or Hamont (Matthew), English heretic, by trade a ploughwright,
of Hethersett, Norfolk, burnt at Norwich, May 1579, for holding
"that the New Testament and the Gospel of Christ were pure folly,
a human invention, a mere fable." He had previously been set in the
pillory and had both his ears cut off.

Hannotin (Emile), French Deist, b. Bar le Duc in 1812, and some
time editor of the Journal de la Meuse. Author of New Philosophical
Theology, '46; Great Questions, '67; Ten Years of Philosophical
Studies, '72; and an Essay on Man, in which he seeks to explain life
by sensibility.

Hanson (Sir Richard Davies), Chief Justice of South Australia,
b. London, 5 Dec. 1805. He practised as attorney for a short time in
London, and wrote for the Globe and Morning Chronicle. In 1830 he took
part in the attempt to found a colony in South Australia. In 1851 he
became Advocate-General of the colony, and subsequently in 1861 Chief
Justice. In 1869 he was knighted. He wrote on Law in Nature 1865,
The Jesus of History 1869, and St. Paul 1875. Hanson wrote Letters
to and from Rome A.D. 61, 62 and 63. Selected and translated by
C.V.S. 1873. Died at Adelaide 10 Mar. 1876.

Hardwicke (Edward Arthur), M.D., eldest son of Junius Hardwicke,
F.R.C.S., of Rotherham, Yorks. In '75 he qualified as a surveyor, and
in '86 as a physician. For twelve years he was Surgeon Superintendent
of the Government Emigration Service. He is an Agnostic of the school
of Herbert Spencer, and has contributed to Freethought and scientific
periodicals.

Hardwicke (Herbert Junius), M.D., brother of above, b. Sheffield, 26
Jan. 1850. Studied at London, Edinburgh and Paris. In '78 he became a
member of the Edinburgh College of Physicians. Next year he was the
principal agent in establishing the Sheffield Public Hospital for
Skin Diseases. Besides numerous medical works, Dr. Hardwicke set up
a press of his own in order to print The Popular Faith Unveiled, the
publishers requiring guarantee in consequence of the prosecution of
Mr. Foote ('84), and Evolution and Creation ('87). He has contributed
to the Agnostic Annual, and has recently written Rambles in Spain,
Italy and Morocco ('89).

Harriot (Thomas), English mathematician, b. Oxford, 1560, accompanied
Raleigh to Virginia and published an account of the expedition. He was
noted for his skill in algebra, and A. Wood says "He was a Deist." Died
21 July 1621.

Harrison (Frederic), M.A., English Positivist, b. London 18 Oct. 1831,
educated at London and Oxford, when he was 1st class in classics. He
was called to the bar in '58. He has since been appointed Professor
of Jurisprudence and International Law. He has written many important
articles in the high-class reviews, and has published The Meaning
of History, Order and Progress, and on The Choice of Books and Other
Literary Pieces, '86, and has translated vol. ii of Comte's Positive
Polity. He was one of the founders of the Positivist school, '70,
and of Newton Hall in '81. A fine stylist, his addresses and magazine
articles bear the stamp of a cultured man of letters.

Hartmann (Karl Robert Eduard), German pantheistic pessimist
philosopher, b. Berlin, 23 Feb. 1842. In '58 he entered the Prussian
army, but an affection of the knee made him resign in '65. By the
publication of his Philosophy of the Unconscious in '69, he became
famous, though it was not translated into English until '84. He
has since written numerous works of which we name Self-Dissolution
of Christianity and The Religion of the Future, '75, The Crisis of
Christianity in Modern Theology, '80, The Religious Consciousness of
Mankind, '81, and Modern Problems, '86. Latterly Hartmann has turned
his attention to the philosophy of politics.

Hartogh Heys van Zouteveen (Dr. Herman), a learned Dutch writer,
b. Delft 13 Feb. 1841. He studied law and natural philosophy at Leyden,
and graduated doctor of law in '64 and doctor of natural philosophy in
'66. In '66 he received a gold medal from the king of Holland for a
treatise on the synthesis of organic bodies. Dr. Hartogh was some time
professor of chemistry and natural history at the Hague, but lived at
Delft, where he was made city councillor and in '69 and '70 travelled
through Egypt and Nubia as correspondent of Het Vaderland and was the
guest of the Khedive. He translated into Dutch Darwin's Descent of
Man and Expressions of the Emotions, both with valuable annotations
of his own. He has also translated and annotated some of the works
of Ludwig Buechner and "Carus Sterne," from the German, and works from
the French, besides writing several original essays on anthropology,
natural history, geology, and allied sciences, contributing largely
to the spread of Darwinian ideas in Holland. In '72 he visited the
United States and the Pacific coast. Since '73 he has resided at
Assen, of which he was named member of the city council, but could
not take his seat because he refused the oath. He is a director of
the Provincial Archaeological Museum at Assen, and a member of the
Dutch Literary Society the Royal Institution of Netherlands, India,
and other scientific associations. For a long while he was a member
of the Dutch Freethinkers' Society, De Dageraad, of which he became
president. To the organ De Dageraad he contributed important works,
such as Jewish Reports Concerning Jesus of Nazareth and the Origin
of Religious Ideas, the last of which has been published separately.

Haslam (Charles Junius), b. Widdington, Northumberland, 24 April,
1811. He spent most of his life near Manchester, where he became a
Socialist and published Letters to the Clergy of all Denominations,
showing the errors, absurdities, and irrationalities of their
doctrines, '38. This work went through several editions, and the
publishers were prosecuted for blasphemy. He followed it by Letters to
the Bishop of Exeter, containing materials for deciding the question
whether or not the Bible is the word of God, '41, and a pamphlet Who
are the Infidels? In '61 he removed to Benton, where he has since
lived. In '85 he issued a pamphlet entitled The Suppression of War.

Hassell (Richard), one of Carlile's shopmen, sentenced to two years
imprisonment in Newgate for selling Paine's Age of Reason, 28 May,
1824. He died in October 1826.

Hattem (Pontiaam van), Dutch writer, b. Bergen 1641. He was a
follower of Spinoza, inclined to Pantheistic mysticism, and had
several followers. Died 1706.

Haureau (Jean Barthelemy), French historian, b. Paris 1812. At the
age of twenty he showed his sympathy with the Revolution by a work
on The Mountain. In turn journalist and librarian he has produced
many important works, of which we name his Manual of the Clergy,
'44, which drew on him attacks from the clericals, and his erudite
Critical Examination of the Scholastic Philosophy, '50.

Hauy (Valentine), French philanthropist, b. Saint-Just 13 Nov. 1745. He
devoted much attention to enabling the blind to read and founded the
institute for the young blind in 1784. He was one of the founders
of Theophilantropy. In 1807 he went to Russia, where he stayed till
1817, devoting himself to the blind and to telegraphy. Died at Paris
18 March, 1822.

Havet (Ernest August Eugene), French scholar and critic, b. Paris,
11 April, 1813. In '40 he was appointed professor of Greek literature
at the Normal School. In '55 he was made professor of Latin eloquence
at the College de France. In '63 an article on Renan's Vie de Jesus in
the Revue des Deux Mondes excited much attention, and was afterwards
published separately. His work on Christianity and its Origins,
4 vols. 1872-84, is a masterpiece of rational criticism.

Hawkesworth (John), English essayist and novelist, b. in London about
1715. Became contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine and editor of
the Adventurer. In '61 he edited Swift's works with a life of that
author. He compiled an account of the voyages of Byron, Wallis,
Carteret, and Cook for government, for which he received L6,000;
but the work was censured as incidentally attacking the doctrine of
Providence. His novel Almoran and Hamet was very popular. Died at
Bromley, Kent, 17 Nov. 1773.

Hawley (Henry), a Scotch major-general, who died in 1765, and by the
terms of his will prohibited Christian burial.

Hebert (Jacques Rene), French revolutionist, b. Alencon 15 Nov. 1757,
published the notorious Pere Duchesne, and with Chaumette instituted
the Feasts of Reason. He was denounced by Saint Just, and guillotined
2 March 1794. His widow, who had been a nun, was executed a few
days later.

Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich), German metaphysician b. Stuttgart,
27 Aug. 1770. He studied theology at Tuebingen, but, becoming acquainted
with Schelling, devoted his attention to philosophy. His Encyclopaedia
of the Philosophical Sciences made a deep impression in Germany, and
two schools sprang up, one claiming it as a philosophical statement
of Christianity, the other as Pantheism hostile to revelation. Hegel
said students of philosophy must begin with Spinozism. He is said to
have remarked that of all his many disciples only one understood him,
and he understood him falsely. He was professor at Jena, Heidelberg,
and Berlin, in which last city he died 14 Nov. 1831, and was buried
beside Fichte.

Heine (Heinrich), German poet and litterateur, b. of Jewish parents
at Dusseldorf, 31 Dec. 1797. He studied law at Bonn, Berlin, and
Goettingen; became acquainted with the philosophy of Spinoza and
Hegel; graduated LL.D., and in June 1825 renounced Judaism and
was baptised. The change was only formal. He satirised all forms
of religious faith. His fine Pictures of Travel was received with
favor and translated by himself into French. His other principal
works are the Book of Songs, History of Recent Literature in Germany,
The Romantic School, The Women of Shakespeare, Atta Troll and other
poems. In 1835 he married a French lady, having settled in Paris,
where "the Voltaire of Germany" became more French than German. About
1848 he became paralysed and lost his eyesight, but he still employed
himself in literary composition with the aid of an amanuensis. After
an illness of eight years, mostly passed in extreme suffering on his
"mattress grave," he died 17 Feb. 1856. Heine was the greatest and
most influential German writer since Goethe. He called himself a
Soldier of Freedom, and his far-flashing sword played havoc with the
forces of reaction.

Heinzen (Karl Peter) German-American poet, orator and politician,
b. near Dusseldorf, 22 Feb. 1809. He studied medicine at Bonn,
and travelled to Batavia, an account of which he published (Cologne
1842). A staunch democrat, in 1845 he published at Darmstadt a work
on the Prussian Bureaucracy, for which he was prosecuted and had to
seek shelter in Switzerland. At Zurich he edited the German Tribune
and the Democrat. At the beginning of '48 he visited New York but
returned to participate in the attempted German Revolution. Again
"the regicide" had to fly and in August '50 returned to New York. He
wrote on many papers and established the Pioneer (now Freidenker),
first in Louisville, then in Cincinnati, then in New York, and from
'59 in Boston. He wrote many works, including Letters on Atheism,
which appeared in The Reasoner 1856, Poems, German Revolution, The
Heroes of German Communism, The Rights of Women, Mankind the Criminal,
Six Letters to a Pious Man (Boston 1869), Lessons of a Century,
and What is Humanity? (1877.) Died Boston 12 Nov. 1880.

Hellwald (Friedrich von), German geographer, b. Padua 29 March 1842,
and in addition to many works on various countries has written an
able Culture History, 1875.

Helmholtz (Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von) German scientist, b. Potsdam
31 Aug. 1821. Distinguished for his discoveries in acoustics, optics
and electricity, he is of the foremost rank among natural philosophers
in Europe. Among his works we mention The Conservation of Force (1847),
and Popular Scientific Lectures (1865-76.) Professor Helmholtz rejects
the design hypothesis.

Helvetius (Claude Adrien) French philosopher, b. Paris 18
Jan. 1715. Descended from a line of celebrated physicians, he had a
large fortune which he dispensed in works of benevolence. Attracted
by reading Locke he resigned a lucrative situation as farmer-general
to devote himself to philosophy. In August 1758 he published a work
On the Mind (De L'Esprit) which was condemned by Pope Clement XIII,
31 Jan. 1759, and burnt by the order of Parliament 6 Feb. 1759 for the
hardihood of his materialistic opinions. Mme. Du Deffand said "he told
everybody's secret." It was republished at Amsterdam and London. He
also wrote a poem On Happiness and a work on Man his Faculties and
Education. He visited England and Prussia and became an honored guest
of Frederick the Great. Died 26 Dec. 1771. His wife, nee Anne Catherine
De Lingville, b. 1719, after his death retired to Auteuil, where her
house was the rendezvous of Condillac, Turgot, d'Holbach, Morellet,
Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy, etc. This re-union of Freethinkers was
known as the Societe d'Auteuil. Madame Helvetius died 12 August 1800.

Henault, or Hesnault (Jean), French Epicurean poet of the 17th century,
son of a Paris baker, was a pupil of Gassendi, and went to Holland to
see Spinoza. Bayle says he professed Atheism, and had composed three
different systems of the mortality of the soul. His most famous sonnet
is on The Abortion. Died Paris, 1682.

Henin de Cuvillers (Etienne Felix), Baron, French general and writer,
b. Balloy, 27 April, 1755. He served as diplomatist in England, Venice,
and Constantinople. Employed in the army of Italy, he was wounded at
Arcola, 26 Sept. '96. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in
1811. He wrote much, particularly on magnetism. In the 8th vol. of
his Archives du Magnetisme Animal, he suggests that the miracles of
Jesus were not supernatural, but wrought by means of magnetism learnt
in Egypt. In other writings, especially in reflections on the crimes
committed in the name of religion, '22, he shows himself the enemy
of fanaticism and intolerance. Died 2 August, 1841.

Hennell (Charles Christian), English Freethinker, b. 9 March, 1809,
author of an able Inquiry concerning the Origin of Christianity,
first published in '38, a work which powerfully influenced "George
Eliot," and a translation of which was introduced to German readers
by Dr. D. F. Strauss. It was Hennell who induced "George Eliot"
to translate Strauss's Life of Jesus. He also wrote on Christian
Theism. Hennell lived most of his time in Coventry. He was married
at London in '39, and died 2 Sept. 1850.

Herault de Sechelles (Marie Jean), French revolutionist, b. of
noble family, Paris, 1760. Brought up as a friend of Buffon and
Mirabeau, he gained distinction as a lawyer and orator before the
Revolution. Elected to the Legislative Assembly in '91, he was made
President of the Convention, 2 Nov. 92. He edited the document known
as the Constitution of 1793, and was president and chief speaker at
the national festival, 10 Aug. '93. He drew on himself the enmity
of Robespierre, and was executed with Danton and Camille Desmoulins,
5 April, 1794.

Herbart (Johann Friedrich), b. Oldenburg 4 May 1776. In 1805 he was
made professor of philosophy at Goettingen, and in 1808 became Kant's
successor at Koenigsberg and opposed his philosophy. Though religiously
disposed, his philosophy has no room for the notion of a God. He was
recalled to Goettingen, where he died 14 Aug. 1841.

Herbert (Edward), Lord of Cherbury, in Shropshire, b. Montgomery
Castle, 1581. Educated at Oxford, after which he went on his
travels. On his return he was made one of the king's counsellors,
and soon after sent as ambassador to France to intercede for the
Protestants. He served in the Netherlands, and distinguished himself
by romantic bravery. In 1625 he was made a peer of Ireland, and in
'31 an English peer. During the civil wars he espoused the side of
Parliament. His principal work is entitled De Veritate, the object of
which was to assert the sufficiency of natural religion apart from
revelation. He also wrote Lay Religion, his own Memoirs, a History
of Henry VIII., etc. Died 20 Aug. 1648.

Hertell (Thomas), judge of the Marine Court of New York, and for some
years Member of the Legislature of his State. He wrote two or three
small works criticising Christian Theology, and exerted his influence
in favour of State secularization.

Hertzen or Gertsen (Aleksandr Ivanovich), Russian patriot, chief of
the revolutionary party, b. Moscow, 25 March, 1812. He studied at
Moscow University, where he obtained a high degree. In '34 he was
arrested for Saint Simonian opinions and soon afterwards banished
to Viatka, whence he was permitted to return in '37. He was expelled
from Russia in '42, visited Italy, joined the "Reds" at Paris in '48,
took refuge at Geneva, and soon after came to England. In '57 he set
up in London a Russian printing press for the publication of works
prohibited in Russia, and his publications passed into that country in
large numbers. Among his writings are Dilettantism in Science, '42;
Letters on the Study of Nature, '45-46; Who's to Blame? '57; Memoirs
of the Empress Catherine, and My Exile, '55. In '57 Herzen started the
magazine the Kolokol or Bell. Died at Paris, 21 Jan. 1870. His son,
Alessandro Herzen, b. Wladimar, 1839, followed his father's fortunes,
learnt most of the European languages and settled at Florence, where
he did much to popularise physiological science. He has translated
Maudsley's Physiology of Mind, and published a physiological analysis
of human free will.

Herwegh (Georg), German Radical and poet, b. Stuttgart, 31
May, 1817. Intended for the Church, he left that business for
Literature. His Gedichte eines Lebendigen (Poems of a Living Man)
aroused attention by their boldness. In '48 he raised a troop
and invaded Baden, but failed, and took refuge in Switzerland and
Paris. Died at Baden-Baden, 7 April, 1875.

Hetherington (Henry), English upholder of a free press, b. Soho,
London, 1792. He became a printer, and was one of the most energetic
of working men engaged in the foundation of mechanics' institutes. He
also founded the Metropolitan Political Union in March, 1830, which
was the germ both of trades' unionism and of the Chartist movement. He
resisted the "taxes upon knowledge" by issuing unstamped The Poor Man's
Guardian, a weekly newspaper for the people, established, contrary to
"law," to try the power of "might" against "right," '31-35. For this
he twice suffered sentences of six months' imprisonment. He afterwards
published The Unstamped, and his persistency had much to do in removing
the taxes. While in prison he wrote his Cheap Salvation in consequence
of conversation with the chaplain of Clerkenwell Gaol. On Dec. 8, '40,
he was tried for "blasphemous libel" for publishing Haslam's Letters
to the Clergy, and received four month's imprisonment. Hetherington
published A Few Hundred Bible Contradictions, and other Freethought
works. Much of his life was devoted to the propaganda of Chartism. He
died 24 Aug. 1849, leaving a will declaring himself an Atheist.

Hetzer (Ludwig), anti-Trinitarian martyr, b. Bischopzell, Switzerland;
was an Anabaptist minister at Zurich. He openly denied the doctrine of
the Trinity, and was condemned to death by the magistrates of Constance
on a charge of blasphemy. The sentence was carried out 4 Feb. 1529.

Heusden (C. J. van), Dutch writer in De Dageraad. Has written several
works, Thoughts on a Coming More Universal Doctrine, by a Believer,
etc.

Hibbert (Julian), Freethought philanthropist, b. 1801. During the
imprisonment of Richard Carlile he was active in sustaining his
publications. Learning that a distinguished political prisoner had
received a gift of L1,000, he remarked that a Freethinking prisoner
should not want equal friends, and gave Carlile a cheque for the same
amount. Julian Hibbert spent nearly L1,000 in fitting up Carlile's
shop in Fleet Street. He contributed "Theological Dialogues" to the
Republican, and also contributed to the Poor Man's Guardian. Hibbert
set up a private press and printed in uncial Greek the Orphic Hymns,
'27, and also Plutarch and Theophrastus on Superstition, to which
he wrote a life of Plutarch and appended valuable essays "on the
supposed necessity of deceiving the vulgar"; "various definitions
of an important word" [God], and a catalogue of the principal
modern works against Atheism. He also commenced a Dictionary
of Anti-Superstitionists, and Chronological Tables of British
Freethinkers. He wrote a short life of Holbach, published by James
Watson, to whom, and to Henry Hetherington, he left L500 each. Died
December 1834.

Hedin (Sven Adolph), Swedish member of the "Andra Kammaren" [House
of Commons], b. 1834. Studied at Upsala and became philosophical
candidate, '61. Edited the Aftonbladet, '74-76. Has written many
radical works.

Higgins (Godfrey), English archaeologist, b. Skellow Grange, near
Doncaster, 1771. Educated at Cambridge and studied for the bar,
but never practised. Being the only son he inherited his father's
property, married, and acted as magistrate, in which capacity he
reformed the treatment of lunatics in York Asylum. His first work was
entitled Horae Sabbaticae, 1813, a manual on the Sunday Question. In
'29 he published An Apology for the Life and Character of Mohammed and
Celtic Druids, which occasioned some stir on account of the exposure
of priestcraft. He died 9 Aug. 1833, leaving behind a work on the
origin of religions, to the study of which he devoted ten hours daily
for about twenty years. The work was published in two volumes in 1826,
under the title of "Anacalypsis, an attempt to draw aside the veil of
the Saitic Isis; or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations,
and Religions."

Hillebrand (Karl), cosmopolitan writer, b. 17 Sept. 1829, at
Giessen. His father, Joseph Hillebrand, succeeded Hegel as professor
at Heidelberg. Involved in the revolutionary movement in Germany,
Karl was imprisoned in the fortress of Rastadt, whence he escaped to
France. He taught at Strasbourg and Paris, where he became secretary
to Heine. On the poet's death he removed to Bordeaux, where he became a
naturalised Frenchman. He became professor of letters at Douay. During
the Franco-Prussian war he was correspondent to the Times, and was
taken for a Prussian spy. In 1871 he settled at Florence, where he
translated the poems of Carducci. Hillebrand was a contributor to
the Fortnightly Review, Nineteenth Century, Revue des deux Mondes,
North American Review, etc. His best known work is on France and the
French in the second half of the nineteenth century. Died at Florence,
18 Oct. 1884.

Hins (Eugene), Belgian writer, Dr. of Philosophy, Professor at Royal
Athenaeum, Charleroi, b. St. Trond, 1842. As general secretary of the
International, he edited L'Internationale, in which he laid stress
on anti-religious teaching. He contributed to La Liberte, and was
one of the prominent lecturers of the Societies Les Solidaires, and
La Libre-pensee of Brussels. He has written La Russie de voilee au
moyen de sa litterature populaire, 1883, and other works.

Hippel (Theodor Gottlieb von), German humoristic poet, b. Gerdauen,
Prussia, 31 Jan. 1741. He studied theology, but resigned it for law,
and became in 1780 burgomaster of Koenigsberg. His writings, which were
published anonymously, betray his advanced opinions. Died Bromberg,
23 April, 1796.

Hittell (John S.), American Freethinker, author of the Evidences
against Christianity (New York, 1857): has also written A Plea for
Pantheism, A New System of Phrenology, The Resources of California,
a History of San Francisco, A Brief History of Culture (New York,
1875), and St. Peter's Catechism (Geneva, 1883).

Hoadley (George), American jurist, b. New Haven, Conn., 31 July,
1836. He studied at Harvard, and in '47 was admitted to the bar,
and in '51 was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati. He
afterwards resigned his place and established a law firm. He was one
of the counsel that successfully opposed compulsory Bible reading in
the public schools.

Hobbes (Thomas), English philosopher, b. Malmesbury, 5 April,
1588. In 1608 he became tutor to a son of the Earl of Devonshire,
with whom he made the tour of Europe. At Pisa in 1628 he made the
acquaintance of Galileo. In 1642 he printed his work De Cive. In 1650
appeared in English his work on Human Nature, and in the following
year his famous Leviathan. At the Restoration he received a pension,
but in 1666 Parliament, in a Bill against Atheism and profaneness,
passed a censure on his writings, which much alarmed him. The latter
years of his life were spent at the seat of the Duke of Devonshire,
Chatsworth, where he died 4 Dec. 1679.

Hodgson (William, M.D.), English Jacobin, translator of d'Holbach's
System of Nature (1795). In 1794 he was confined in Newgate for two
years for drinking to the success of the French Republic. In prison
he wrote The Commonwealth of Reason.

Hoelderlin (Johann Christian Friedrich), German pantheistic poet,
b. Laufen, 20 March, 1770. Entered as a theological student at
Tuebingen, but never took to the business. He wrote Hyperion, a
fine romance (1797-99), and Lyric Poems, admired for their depth of
thought. Died Tuebingen, 7 June, 1843.

Hoijer (Benjamin Carl Henrik), Swedish philosopher, b. Great Skedvi,
Delecarlia, 1 June, 1767. Was student at Upsala University '83,
and teacher of philosophy '98. His promotion was hindered by his
liberal opinions. By his personal influence and published treatises he
contributed much to Swedish emancipation. In 1808 he became Professor
of Philosophy at Upsala. Died 8 June, 1812.

Holbach (Paul Heinrich Dietrich von) Baron, b. Heidelsheim
Jan. 1723. Brought up at Paris where he spent most of his life. Rich
and generous he was the patron of the Encyclopaedists. Buffon, Diderot,
d'Alembert, Helvetius, Rousseau, Grimm, Raynal, Marmontel, Condillac,
and other authors often met at his table. Hume, Garrick, Franklin,
and Priestley were also among his visitors. He translated from the
German several works on chemistry and mineralogy, and from the English,
Mark Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination. He contributed many
articles to the Encyclopedie. In 1765 he visited England, and from
this time was untiring in his issue of Freethought works, usually put
out under pseudonyms. Thus he wrote and had published at Amsterdam
Christianity Unveiled, attributed to Boulanger. The Spirit of the
Clergy, translated, from the English of Trenchard and Gordon, was
partly rewritten by d'Holbach, 1767. His Sacred Contagion or Natural
History of Superstition, was also wrongly attributed to Trenchard
and Gordon. This work was condemned to be burnt by a decree of the
French parliament, 8 Aug. 1770. D'Holbach also wrote and published
The History of David, 1768, The Critical History of Jesus Christ,
Letters to Eugenia, attributed to Freret, Portable Theology, attributed
to Bernier, an Essay on Prejudices, attributed to M. Du M [arsais],
Religious Cruelty, Hell Destroyed, and other works, said to be from
the English. He also translated the Philosophical Letters of Toland,
and Collins's Discourses on Prophecy, and attributed to the latter a
work with the title The Spirit of Judaism. These works were mostly
conveyed to the printer, M. Rey, at Amsterdam, by Naigeon, and the
secret of their authorship was carefully preserved. Hence d'Holbach
escaped persecution. In 1770 he published his principal work The
System of Nature, or The Laws of the Physical and Moral World. This
text-book of atheistic philosophy, in which d'Holbach was assisted
by Diderot, professed to be the posthumous work of Mirabaud. It made
a great sensation. Within two years he published a sort of summary
under the title of Good Sense, attributed to the cure Meslier. In
1773 he wrote on Natural Politics and the Social System. His last
important work was Universal Morality; or the Duties of Man founded
upon Nature. D'Holbach, whose personal good qualities were testified to
by many, was depicted in Rousseau's Nouvelle Heloise as the benevolent
Atheist Wolmar. Died 21 Jan. 1789.

Holcroft (Thomas), English author, b. 10 Dec. 1745, was successively
a groom, shoemaker, schoolmaster, actor and author. His comedies
"Duplicity," 1781, and "The Road to Ruin," 1792, were very
successful. He translated the Posthumous Works of Frederick the
Great, 1789. For his active sympathy with the French Republicans he
was indicted for high treason with Hardy and Horne Tooke in 1794,
but was discharged without a trial. Died 23 March, 1809.

Holland (Frederic May), American author, b. Boston, 2 May, 1836,
graduated at Harvard in '49, and in '63 was ordained Unitarian minister
at Rockford, Ill. Becoming broader in his views, he resigned, and has
since written in the Truthseeker, the Freethinkers' Magazine, etc. His
principal work is entitled The Rise of Intellectual Liberty, 1885.

Hollick (Dr. Frederick), Socialist, b. Birmingham, 22 Dec. 1813. He was
educated at the Mechanics' Institute of that town, and became one of
the Socialist lecturers under Robert Owen. He held a public discussion
with J. Brindley at Liverpool, in 1840, on "What is Christianity?" On
the failure of Owenism he went to America, where some of his works
popularising medical science have had a large circulation.

Hollis (John), English sceptic, b. 1757. Author of Sober and Serious
Reasons for Scepticism, 1796; An Apology for Disbelief in Revealed
Religion, 1799; and Free Thoughts, 1812. Died at High Wycombe, Bucks
26 Nov. 1824. Hollis, who came of an opulent dissenting family, was
distinguished by his love of truth, his zeal in the cause of freedom,
and by his beneficence.

Holmes (William Vamplew), one of Carlile's brave shopmen who came up
from Leeds to uphold the right of free publication. He was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, 1 March, '22, for selling blasphemous
and seditious libels in An Address to the Reformers of Great Britain,
and when in prison was told that "if hard labor was not expressed in
his sentence, it was implied." On his release Holmes went to Sheffield
and commenced the open sale of all the prohibited publications.

Holwell (John Zephaniah), noted as one of the survivors of the Black
Hole of Calcutta, b. Dublin, 7 Sept. 1711. He practised as a surgeon,
went to India as a clerk, defended a fort at Calcutta against Surajah
Dowlah, was imprisoned with one hundred and forty-five others in the
"Black Hole," 20th June, 1756, of which he published a Narrative. He
succeeded Clive as governor of Bengal. On returning to England
he published a dissertation directed against belief in a special
providence, and advocating the application of church endowments to
the exigencies of the State (Bath, 1786). Died 5 Nov. 1798.

Holyoake (Austin), English Freethinker, b. Birmingham, 27
Oct. 1826. His mental emancipation came from hearing the lectures of
Robert Owen and his disciples. He took part in the agitation for the
abolition of the newspaper stamp--assisting when risk and danger had
to be met--and he co-operated with his brother in the production of
the Reasoner and other publications from '45 till '62. Soon after
this he printed and sub-edited the National Reformer, in which
many of his Freethought articles appeared. Among his pamphlets may
be mentioned Heaven and Hell, Ludicrous Aspects of Christianity,
Thoughts on Atheism, the Book of Esther, and Daniel the Dreamer. He
also composed a Secular Burial Service. Austin Holyoake took pride
in the character of Freethought, and was ever zealous in promoting
its welfare. His amiable spirit endeared him to all who knew him. He
died 10 April, 1874, leaving behind thoughts written on his deathbed,
in which he repudiated all belief in theology.

Holyoake (George Jacob), b. Birmingham, 13 April 1817. Became
mathematical teacher of the Mechanics' Institution. Influenced by Combe
and Owen he became a Freethinker, and in '40 a Socialist missionary. In
'42, when Southwell was imprisoned for writing in the Oracle of Reason,
Mr. Holyoake took charge of that journal, and wrote The Spirit of
Bonner in the Disciples of Jesus. He was soon arrested for a speech
at Cheltenham, having said, in answer to a question, that he would put
the Deity on half-pay. Tried Aug. '42, he was sentenced to six months
imprisonment, of which he gave a full account in his Last Trial by
Jury for Atheism in England. In Dec. '43 he edited with M. Q. Ryall
the Movement, bearing the motto from Bentham, "Maximise morals,
minimise religion." The same policy was pursued in The Reasoner,
which he edited from 1846 till 1861. Among his many pamphlets we must
notice the Logic of Death, '50, which went through numerous editions,
and was included in his most important Freethought work, The Trial
of Theism. In '49 he published a brief memoir of R. Carlile. In
'51 he first used the term "Secularist," and in Oct. '52 the first
Secular Conference was held at Manchester Mr. Holyoake presiding. In
Jan. '53 he held a six nights discussion with the Rev. Brewin Grant,
and again in Oct. '54. He purchased the business of James Watson,
and issued many Freethought works, notably The Library of Reason--a
series, The Cabinet of Reason, his own Secularism, The Philosophy of
the People, etc. In '60 he was Secretary to the British Legion sent out
to Garibaldi. Mr. Holyoake did much to remove the taxes upon knowledge,
and has devoted much attention to Co-operation, having written a
history of the movement and contributed to most of its journals.

Home (Henry), Scottish judge, was b. 1696. His legal ability was
made known by his publication of Remarkable Decisions of the Court of
Session, 1728. In 1752 he was raised to the bench as Lord Kames. He
published Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
(1751), Elements of Criticism (1762), and Sketches of the History
of Man, in which he proved himself in advance of his age. Died 27
Dec. 1782.

Hon, Le (Henri). See Le Hon.

Hooker (Sir Joseph Dalton), English naturalist, b. 1817. He
studied medicine at Glasgow, graduating M.D '39. In '55 he
became assistant-director of Kew Gardens, and from '65-85 sole
director. Renowned as a botanist, he was the first eminent man of
science to proclaim his adoption of Darwinism.

Hope (Thomas), novelist and antiquarian, b. 1770. Famous for his
anonymous Anastasius, or Memories of a Modern Greek, he also wrote an
original work on The Origin and Prospects of Man '31. Died at London
3 Feb. 1831.

Houten (Samuel van), Dutch Freethinker, b. Groningen. 17 Feb. 1837;
he studied law and became a lawyer in that city. In '69 he was
chosen member of the Dutch Parliament. Has published many writings on
political economy. In '88 he wrote a book entitled Das Causalitaetgesetz
(The Law of Causality).

Houston (George). Was the translator of d'Holbach's Ecce <DW25>, first
published in Edinburgh in 1799, and sometimes ascribed to Joseph
Webb. A second edition was issued in 1813. Houston was prosecuted and
was imprisoned two years in Newgate, with a fine of L200. He afterwards
went to New York, where he edited the Minerva (1822). In Jan. 1827,
he started The Correspondence, which, we believe, was the first weekly
Freethought journal published in America. It lasted till July 1828. He
also republished Ecce <DW25>. Houston helped to establish in America a
"Free Press Association" and a Society of Free Inquirers.

Hovelacque (Abel), French scientist, b. Paris 14 Nov. 1843. He studied
law and made part of the groupe of la Pensee Nouvelle, with Asseline,
Letourneau, Lefevre, etc. He also studied anthropology under Broca
and published many articles in the Revue d'Anthropologie. He founded
with Letourneau, Thulie, Asseline, etc. The "Bibliotheque des sciences
contemporains" and published therein La Linguistique. He also founded
with the same the library of anthropological science and published in
collaboration with G. Herve a precis of Anthropology and a study of
the <DW64>s of Africa. He has also contributed to the Dictionary of
Anthropology. For the "Bibliotheque Materialiste" he wrote a work on
Primitive man. He has also published choice extracts from the works
of Voltaire, Diderot and Rousseau, a grammar of the Zend language,
and a work on the Avesta Zoroaster and Mazdaism. In '78 he was made a
member of the municipal council of Paris, and in '81 was elected deputy
to the chamber where he sits with the autonomist socialist group.

Howdon (John), author of A Rational Investigation of the Principles
of Natural Philosophy, Physical and Moral, printed at Haddington,
1840, in which he attacks belief in the Bible.

Huber (Marie), Swiss Deist, b. of Protestant parents, Geneva,
1694. In a work on the System of Theologians, 1731, she opposed
the dogma of eternal punishment. In '38 published Letters on the
Religion essential to Man. This was translated into English in the
same year. Other works show English reading. She translated selections
from the Spectator. Died at Lyons, 13 June, 1753.

Hudail (Abul). See Muhammad ibn Hudail (Al Allaf.)

Huet (Coenraad Busken), Dutch writer, b. the Hague, 28 Dec. 1826. He
became minister of the Walloon Church at Haarlem, but through his
Freethought left the church in '63, and became editor of various
newspapers, afterwards living in Paris. He wrote many works of literary
value, and published Letters on the Bible, '57, etc. Died 1887.

Hugo (Victor Marie), French poet and novelist, b. Besancon, 26
Feb. 1802. Was first noted for his Odes, published in '21. His dramas
"Hernani," '30, and "Marion Delorme," '31, were highly successful. He
was admitted into the French Academy in '41, and made a peer in
'45. He gave his cordial adhesion to the Republic of '48, and was
elected to the Assembly by the voters of Paris. He attacked Louis
Napoleon, and after the coup d'etat was proscribed. He first went to
Brussels, where he published Napoleon the Little, a biting satire. He
afterwards settled at Guernsey, where he remained until the fall of
the Empire, producing The Legend of the Ages, '59, Les Miserables, '62,
Toilers of the Sea, '69, and other works. After his return to Paris he
produced a new series of the Legend of the Ages, The Pope, Religions
and Religion, Torquemada, and other poems. He died 22 May, 1885,
and it being decided he should have a national funeral, the Pantheon
was secularised for that purpose, the cross being removed. Since his
death a poem entitled The End of Satan has been published.

Hugues (Clovis), French Socialist, poet, and deputy, b. Menerbes,
3 Nov. 1850. In youth he desired to become a priest, but under the
influence of Hugo left the black business. In '71 he became head
of the Communist movement at Marseilles. He was sentenced to three
years' imprisonment. In '81 he was elected deputy, and sits on the
extreme left.

Humboldt (Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von), illustrious German
naturalist and traveller, b. Berlin, 14 Sept. 1769. He studied under
Heyne and Blumenbach, travelled in Holland, France and England
with George Forster, the naturalist, and became director-general
of mines. In 1799 he set out to explore South America and Mexico,
and in 1804 returned with a rich collection of animals, plants and
minerals. Humboldt became a resident of Paris, where he enjoyed
the friendship of Lalande, Delambre, Arago, and all the living
distinguished French scientists. After numerous important contributions
to scientific knowledge, at the age of seventy-four he composed his
celebrated Cosmos, the first volume of which appeared in '45 and the
fourth in '58. To Varnhagen von Ense he wrote in 1841: "Bruno Bauer
has found me pre-adamatically converted. Many years ago I wrote,
'Toutes les religions positives offrent trois parties distinctes;
un traite de moeurs partout le meme et tres pur, un reve geologique,
et un mythe ou petit roman historique; le dernier element obtient
le plus d'importance.'" Later on he says that Strauss disposes of
"the Christian myths." Humboldt was an unwearied student of science,
paying no attention to religion, and opposed his brother in regard to
his essay On the Province of the Historian, because he considered it
to acknowledge the belief in the divine government of the world, which
seemed to him as complete a delusion as the hypothesis of a principle
of life. He died in Berlin, 6 May, 1859, in his ninetieth year.

Humboldt (Karl Wilhelm von), Prussian statesman and philosopher,
b. Potsdam, 22 June, 1767. He was educated by Campe. Went to Paris in
1789, and hailed the revolution with enthusiasm. In '92 he published
Ideas on the Organization of the State. He became a friend of Schiller
and Goethe, and in 1809 was Minister of Public Instruction. He took
part in founding the University of Berlin. He represented Prussia at
the Congress of Vienna, '14. He advocated a liberal constitution, but
finding the King averse, retired at the end of '19, and devoted himself
to the study of comparative philology. He said there were three things
he could not comprehend--orthodox piety, romantic love, and music. He
died 8 April, 1835. His works were collected and edited by his brother.

Hume (David), philosopher and historian, b. Edinburgh, 26 April,
1711. In 1735 he went to France to study, and there wrote his Treatise
on Human Nature, published in 1739. This work then excited no interest
friendly or hostile. Hume's Essays Moral and Political appeared in
1742, and in 1752 his Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals which
of all his writings he considered the best. In 1755 he published his
Natural History of Religion, which was furiously attacked by Warburton
in an anonymous tract. In 1754 he published the first volume of his
History of England, which he did not complete till 1761. He became
secretary to the Earl of Hertford, ambassador at Paris, where he was
cordially welcomed by the philosophers. He returned in 1766, bringing
Rousseau with him. Hume became Under Secretary of State in 1767,
and in 1769 retired to Edinburgh, where he died 25 Aug. 1776. After
his death his Dialogues on Natural Religion were published, and also
some unpublished essays on Suicide, the Immortality of the Soul,
etc. Hume's last days were singularly cheerful. His friend, the famous
Dr. Adam Smith, considered him "as approaching as nearly to the idea
of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human
frailty will permit."

Hunt (James), Ph.D., physiologist, b. 1833, was the founder of the
Anthropological Society, of which he was the first president, '63. He
was the author of the <DW64>'s Place in Nature, a work on Stammering,
etc. Died 28 Aug. 1869.

Hunt (James Henry Leigh), poet, essayist and critic, b. Southgate,
Middlesex, 19 Oct. 1784. was educated with Lamb and Coleridge at
Christ's Hospital, London. He joined his brother John in editing
first the Sunday News, 1805, and then the Examiner, 1808. They were
condemned to pay a fine, each of L500, and to be imprisoned for
two years, 1812-14, for a satirical article, in which the prince
regent was called an "Adonis of fifty." This imprisonment procured
him the friendship of Shelley and Byron, with whom, after editing
the Indicator he was associated in editing the Liberal. He wrote many
choice books of poems and criticisms, and in his Religion of the Heart,
'53, repudiates orthodoxy. Died 28 Aug. 1859.

Hutten (Ulrich von), German poet and reformer, b. of noble family
Steckelberg, Hesse Cassel, 22 April 1488. He was sent to Fulda
to become a monk, but fled in 1504 to Erfurt, where he studied
humaniora. After some wild adventures he went to Wittenberg in 1510,
and Vienna 1512, and also studied at Pavia and Bologna. He returned to
Germany in 1517 as a common soldier in the army of Maximilian. His
great object was to free his country from sacerdotalism, and
most of his writings are satires against the Pope, monks and
clergy. Persecution drove him to Switzerland, but the Council of
Zurich drove him out of their territory and he died on the isle of
Ufnau, Lake Zuerich, 29 Aug. 1523.

Hutton (James), Scotch geologist and philosopher, b. at Edinburgh 3
June, 1736. He graduated as M.D. at Leyden in 1749, and investigated
the strata of the north of Scotland. He published a dissertation
on Light, Heat, and Fire, and in his Theory of the World, 1795,
attributes geological phenomena to the action of fire. He also wrote
a work entitled An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge,
the opinions of which, says Chalmers, "abound in sceptical boldness
and philosophical infidelity." Died 26 March 1797.

Huxley (Thomas Henry), LL.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., b. Ealing, 4 May, 1825. He
studied medicine, and in '46 took M.R.C.S., and was appointed assistant
naval surgeon. His cruises afforded opportunities for his studies of
natural history. In '51 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, and
in '54 was made Professor at the School of Mines. In '60 he lectured on
"The Relation of Man to the Lower Animals," and afterwards published
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863). In addition to numerous
scientific works, Professor Huxley has written numerous forcible
articles, addresses, etc., collected in Lay Sermons, '70; Critiques
and Addresses, '73; and American Addresses, '79. A vigorous writer,
his Hume in the "English Men of Letters" series is a model of clear
exposition. In his controversies with Mr. Gladstone, in his articles
on the Evolution of Theology, and in his recent polemic with the
Rev. Mr. Wace in the Nineteenth Century, Professor Huxley shows all
his freshness, and proves himself as ready in demolishing theological
fictions as in demonstrating scientific facts. He states as his own
life aims "The popularising of science and untiring opposition to
that ecclesiastical spirit, that clericalism, which in England,
as everywhere else, and to whatever denomination it may belong,
is the deadly enemy of science."

Hypatia, Pagan philosopher and martyr, b. Alexandria early in
the second half of the fourth century. She became a distinguished
lecturer and head of the Neo-Platonic school (c. 400). The charms of
her eloquence brought many disciples. By a Christian mob, incited by
St. Cyril, she was in Lent 415 torn from her chariot, stripped naked,
cut with oyster-shells and finally burnt piecemeal. This true story
of Christian persecution has been disguised into a legend related of
St. Catherine in the Roman breviary (Nov. 25).

Ibn Bajjat. See Avenpace.

Ibn Massara. See Massara in Supplement.

Ibn Rushd. See Averroes.

Ibn Sabin. See Sabin.

Ibn Sina. See Avicenna.

Ibn Tofail. See Abu Bakr.

Ibsen (Henrik), an eminent Norwegian dramatist and poet, b. Skien,
20 March, 1828. At first he studied medicine, but he turned his
attention to literature. In '52, through the influence of Ole Bull,
he became director of the theatre at Bergen, for which he wrote a
great deal. From '57 to '63 he directed the theatre at Christiania. In
the following year he went to Rome. The Storthing accorded him an
annual pension for his services to literature. His dramas, Brand,
(Peer Gynt), Kejser og Galilaer (Caesar [Julian] and the Galilean),
Nora, and Samfundets Stotler (the Pillars of Society), and Ghosts
exhibit his unconventional spirit. Ibsen is an open unbeliever in
Christianity. He looks forward to social regeneration through liberty,
individuality, and education without superstition.

Ilive (Jacob), English printer and letter founder, b. Bristol about
1710. He published a pretended translation of the Book of Jasher, 1751,
and some other curious works. He was prosecuted for blasphemy in Some
Modest Remarks on the late Bishop Sherlock's Sermons, and sentenced to
two years' imprisonment, 15 June, 1756-10 June, 1758. He was confined
in the Clerkenwell House of Correction and published some pamphlets
exposing the bad condition of the prison and suggesting means for
its improvement. He died in 1768.

Imray (I. W.), author, b. 1802. Wrote in Carlile's Republican and Lion,
and published "Altamont," an atheistic drama, in 1828.

Ingersoll (Robert Green), American orator, b. Dresden, New York,
11 Aug. 1833. His father was a Congregationalist clergyman. He
studied law, and opened an office in Shawneetown, Illinois. In '62 he
became colonel of the 11th Illinois Cavalry, and served in the war,
being taken prisoner. In '66 he was appointed attorney-general for
Illinois. At the National Republican Convention, '76, he proposed
Blaine for President in a speech that attracted much attention. In
'77 he refused the post of Minister to Germany. He has conducted
many important cases, and defended C. B. Reynolds when tried for
blasphemy in '86. Col. Ingersoll is the most popular speaker in
America. Eloquence, humor, and pathos are alike at his command. He is
well known by his books, pamphlets, and speeches directed against
Christianity. He had published the Gods, Ghosts, Some Mistakes
of Moses, and a collection of his Lectures, '83, and Prose Poems
and Extracts, '84. Most of his lectures have been republished in
England. We mention What must I do to be Saved? Hell, The Dying Creed,
Myth and Miracle, Do I Blaspheme? Real Blasphemy. In the pages of the
North American Review Col. Ingersoll has defended Freethought against
Judge Black, the Rev. H. Field, Mr. Gladstone, and Cardinal Manning.

Inman (Thomas), B.A., physician and archaeologist, b. 1820. Educated
at London University, he settled at Liverpool, being connected with
the well-known shipping family of that port. He is chiefly known by
his work on Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, in which he
deals with the evidences of phallic worship amongst Jews and other
nations. It was first published in '69. A second edition appeared in
'73. He also wrote Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism Exposed
and Explained, '69, and a controversial Freethought work, entitled
Ancient Faiths and Modern, published at New York '76. Dr. Inman was
for some time President of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical
Society, and was physician to the Royal Infirmary of that city. His
professional life was one of untiring industry. He wrote several
medical works, including two volumes on the Preservation and
Restoration of Health. Died at Clifton, 3 May. 1876.

Iron (Ralph), pseudonym of Olive Schreiner, q.v.

Isnard (Felix), French physician, b. Grasse 1829. Author of a work
on Spiritualism and Materialism, 1879.

Isnard (Maximin), Girondin revolutionist, b. Grasse 16 Feb. 1751. He
was made a member of the Assembly, in which he declared, "The Law,
behold my God. I know no other." He voted for the death of the
King, and was nominated president of the Convention. On the fall of
the Girondins he made his escape, and reappeared after the fall of
Robespierre. In 1796 he was one of the Council of Five Hundred. Died
1830.

Isoard (Eric Michel Antoine), French writer, b. Paris, 1826. Was naval
officer in '48 but arrested as socialist in '49. In '70 he was made
sous-prefet of Cambrai and wrote Guerre aux Jesuites.

Isoard Delisle (Jean Baptiste Claude), called also Delisle de Sales,
French man of letters, b. Lyons 1743. When young he entered the
Congregation of the Oratory, but left theology for literature. In 1769
he published the Philosophy of Nature, which in 1771 was discovered to
be irreligious, and he was condemned to perpetual banishment. While in
prison he was visited by many of the philosophers, and a subscription
was opened for him, to which Voltaire gave five hundred francs. He
went to the court of Frederick the Great, and subsequently published
many works of little importance. Died at Paris 22 Sept. 1816.

Jacob (Andre Alexandre). See Erdan (A.)

Jacobson (Augustus), American, author of Why I do not Believe,
Chicago 1881, and The Bible Inquirer.

"Jacobus (Dom)" Pseudonym of Potvin (Charles) q.v.

Jacoby (Leopold) German author of The Idea of Development. 2
vols. Berlin 1874-76.

Jacolliot (Louis), French orientalist, b. Saint Etienne, 1806. Brought
up to the law, in '43 he was made judge at Pondichery. He first aroused
attention by his work, The Bible in India, '70. He also has written
on Genesis of Humanity, '76. The Religions Legislators, Moses, Manu
and Muhammad, '80, and The Natural and Social History of Humanity,
'84, and several works of travel.

Jantet (Charles and Hector), two doctors of Lyons, b. the first
in 1826, the second in '28, have published together able Apercus
Philosophiques on Renan's Life of Jesus, '64, and Doctrine Medicale
Materialiste, 1866.

Jaucourt (Louis de), Chevalier, French scholar and member of the
Royal Society of London and of the academies of Berlin and Stockholm,
b. Paris 27 Sept. 1704. He studied at Geneva, Cambridge, and Leyden,
furnished the Encyclopedie with many articles, and conducted the
Bibliotheque Raisonnee. Died at Compiegne, 3 Feb. 1779.

Jefferies (Richard), English writer, b. 1848, famous for his
descriptions of nature in The Gamekeeper at Home, Wild Life in a
Southern Country, etc. In his autobiographical Story of My Heart
(1883) Mr. Jefferies shows himself a thorough Freethinker. Died
Goring-on-Thames, 14 Aug. 1887.

Jefferson (Thomas), American statesman, b. Shadwell, Virginia, 2 April
1743. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1767. He became
a member of the House of Burgesses, 1769-75. In 1774 he published
his Summary Views of the Rights of British-Americans. He drafted
and reported to Congress the "Declaration of Independence" which
was unanimously adopted, 4 July 1766. He was Governor of Virginia
from 1719 to 1781, and originated a system of education in the
State. He was Ambassador to Paris from 1785-89, secretary of state
from 1789-93, vice-president 1791-1801 and third president of the
United States 1801-9. In '19 he founded the University of Virginia, of
which he was rector till his death, 4 July 1826. Dr. J. Thomas in his
Dictionary of Biography says "In religion he was what is denominated a
freethinker." He spoke in old age of "the hocus-pocus phantom of God,
which like another Cerberus had one body and three heads." See his
life by J. Parton.

Johnson (Richard Mentor), Colonel, American soldier and statesman,
b. Bryant's Station, Kentucky, 17 Oct. 1781. Was educated at Lexington,
studied law, and practiced with success. Became member of the Kentucky
Legislature in 1805, and raised a regiment of cavalry '12. Fought
with distinction against British and Indians. Was member of Congress
from 1807-19, and from '29-37; a United States Senator from '19-29,
and Vice-President of the United States, '37-40. Is remembered by his
report against the suspension of Sunday mails and his speeches in favor
of rights of conscience. Died at Frankfort, Kentucky, 19 Nov. 1850.

Johnson (Samuel), American author, b. Salem, Massachusetts, 10
Oct. 1822. He was educated at Harvard, and became pastor of a "Free
Church" at Lynn in '53. He never attached himself to any denomination,
although in some points his views were like those of the Unitarians
and Universalists. About '46 he published, in conjunction with
S. Longfellow, brother of the poet, Hymns of the Spirit, Oriental
Religions in relation to Universal Religion, of which the volume
on India appeared in '72, China '77, and Persia '84. Died Andover,
19 Feb. 1882.

Jones (Ernest Charles), barrister and political orator, b. Berlin,
25 Jan. 1819. His father was in the service of the King of Hanover,
who became his godfather. Called to the bar in '44 in the following
year he joined the Chartist movement, editing the People's Paper, Notes
to the People, and other Chartist periodicals. In '48 he was tried for
making a seditious speech, and condemned to two years' imprisonment,
during which he wrote Beldagon Church and other poems. He stood for
Halifax in '47, and Nottingham in '53 and '57, without success. He
was much esteemed by the working classes in Manchester, where he died
26 Jan. 1869.

Jones (John Gale), Political orator, b. 1771. At the time of the French
Revolution he became a leading member of the London Corresponding
Society. Arrested at Birmingham for sedition, he obtained a verdict of
acquittal. He was subsequently committed to Newgate in Feb. 1810, for
impugning the proceedings of the House of Commons, and there remained
till his liberation was effected by the prorogation of Parliament,
June 21. On 26 Dec. '11 he was again convicted for "a seditious and
blasphemous libel." He was a resolute advocate of the rights of free
publication during the trials of Carlile and his shopmen. Died Somers
Town, 4 April, 1838.

Jones (Lloyd), Socialist, b. of Catholic parents at Brandon, co. Cork,
Ireland, in March, 1811. In '27 he came over to Manchester, and
in '32 joined the followers of Robert Owen. He became "a social
missionary," and had numerous debates with ministers, notably one on
"The Influence of Christianity" with J. Barker, then a Methodist, at
Manchester, in '39. Lloyd Jones was an active supporter of co-operation
and trades-unionism, and frequently acted as arbitrator in disputes
between masters and men. He contributed to the New Moral World, Spirit
of the Age, Glasgow Sentinel, Leeds Express, North British Daily Mail,
Newcastle Chronicle, and Co-operative News. Died at Stockwell, 22 May,
1886, leaving behind a Life of Robert Owen.

Joseph II., Emperor of Germany, son of Francis I. and Maria Theresa,
b. Vienna 13 March 1741. In 1764 he was elected king of the Romans, and
in the following year succeeded to the throne of Germany. He wrought
many reforms, suppressed the Jesuits 1773, travelled in France as Count
Falkenstein, saw d'Alembert but did not visit Voltaire. He abolished
serfdom, allowed liberty of conscience, suppressed several convents,
regulated others, abridged the power of the pope and the clergy,
and mitigated the condition of the Jews. Carlyle says "a mighty
reformer he had been, the greatest of his day. Austria gazed on him,
its admiration not unmixed with terror. He rushed incessantly about,
hardy as a Charles Twelfth; slept on his bearskin on the floor of any
inn or hut;--flew at the throat of every absurdity, however broad
and based or dangerously armed. 'Disappear I say.' A most prompt,
severe, and yet beneficent and charitable kind of man. Immensely
ambitious, that must be said withal. A great admirer of Friedrich;
bent to imitate him with profit. 'Very clever indeed' says Friedrich,
'but has the fault (a terribly grave one!) of generally taking the
second step without having taken the first.'" Died Vienna 20 Feb. 1790.

Jouy (Victor Joseph Etienne de), French author b. Jouy near Versailles
1764. He served as soldier in India and afterwards in the wars of
the Republic. A disciple of Voltaire to whom he erected a temple,
he was a prolific writer, his plays being much esteemed in his own
day. Died 4 Sept. 1846.

Julianus (Flavius Claudius), Roman Emperor, b. Constantinople 17
Nov. 331. In the massacre of his family by the sons of Constantine
he escaped. He was educated in the tenets of Christianity but
returned to an eclectic Paganism. In 354 he was declared Caesar. He
made successful campaigns against the Germans who had overrun Gaul
and in 361 was made Emperor. He proclaimed liberty of conscience
and sought to uproot the Christian superstition by his writings, of
which only fragments remain. As Emperor he exhibited great talent,
tact, industry, and skill. He was one of the most gifted and learned
of the Roman Emperors, and his short reign (Dec. 361--26 June, 363),
comprehended the plans of a life-long administration. He died while
seeking to repel a Persian invasion, and his death was followed by
the triumph of Christianity and the long night of the dark ages.

Junghuhn (Franz Wilhelm), traveller and naturalist, b. Mansfeld,
Prussia 29 Oct 1812. His father was a barber and surgeon. Franz
studied at Halle and Berlin. He distinguished himself by love for
botany and geology. In a duel with another student he killed him and
was sentenced to imprisonment at Ehrenbreitster for 20 years. There
he simulated madness and was removed to the asylum at Coblentz,
whence he escaped to Algiers. In '34 he joined the Dutch Army in the
Malay Archipelago. He travelled through the island of Java making
a botanical and geological survey. In '54 he published his Licht
en Schaduwbeelden uit de binnenlanden van Java (Light and Shadow
pictures from the interior of Java), which contains his ideas of God,
religion and science, together with sketches of nature and of the
manners of the inhabitants. This book aroused much indignation from
the pious, but also much agreement among freethinkers, and led to
the establishment of De Dageraad (The Daybreak,) the organ of the
Dutch Freethinkers Union. Junghuhn afterwards returned to Java and
died 21 April, '64 at Lemberg, Preanges, Regentsch. His Light and
Shadow pictures have been several times reprinted.

Kalisch (Moritz Marcus), Ph.D., b. of Jewish parents in Pomerania,
16 May, 1828. Educated at the University of Berlin, where he
studied under Vatke and others. Early in '49 he came to England as a
political refugee, and found employment as tutor to the Rothschild
family. His critical Commentary on the Pentateuch commenced with a
volume on Exodus, '55, Genesis '58, Leviticus in two vols. in '67
and '72 respectively. His rational criticism anticipated the school
of Wellhausen. He published Bible Studies on Balaam and Jonah '77,
and discussions on philosophy and religion in a very able and learned
work entitled Path and Goal, '80. Kalisch also contributed to Scott's
series of Freethought tracts. Died at Baslow, Derbyshire, 23 Aug. 1885.

Kames (Lord). See Home (Henry).

Kant (Immanuel), German critical philosopher, b. Koenigsberg, 22
April, 1724. He became professor of mathematics in 1770. In 1781 he
published his great work, The Critick of Pure Reason, which denied
all knowledge of the "Thing itself," and overthrew the dogmatism of
earlier metaphysics. In 1792 the philosopher fell under the royal
censorship for his Religion within the Limits of Pure Reason. Kant
effected a complete revolution in philosophy, and his immediate
influence is not yet exhausted. Died at Koenigsberg, 12 Feb. 1804.

Kapila. One of the earliest Hindu thinkers. His system is known as
the Atheistic philosophy. It is expounded in the Sankhya Karika, an
important relic of bold rationalistic Indian thought. His aphorisms
have been translated by J. R. Ballantyne.

Karneades. See Carneades.

Keeler (Bronson C.) American author of an able Short History of the
Bible, being a popular account of the formation and development of
the canon, published at Chicago 1881.

Keim (Karl Theodor), German rationalist, b. Stuttgart,
17 Dec. 1825. Was educated at Tuebingen, and became professor of
theology at Zuerich. Is chiefly known by his History of Jesus of Nazara
('67-'72). He also wrote a striking work on Primitive Christianity
('78), and endeavored to reproduce the lost work of Celsus. His
rationalism hindered his promotion, and he was an invalid most of
his days. Died at Giessen, where he was professor, 17 Nov. 1878.

Keith (George), Lord Marshall, Scotch soldier, b. Kincardine 1685,
was appointed by Queen Anne captain of Guard. His property being
confiscated for aiding the Pretender, he went to the Continent, and
like his brother, was in high favor with Frederick the Great. Died
Berlin, 25 May, 1778.

Keith (James Francis Edward), eminent military commander, b. Inverugie,
Scotland, 11 June, 1696. Joined the army of the Pretender and was
wounded at Sheriffmuir, 1715. He afterwards served with distinction
in Spain and in Russia, where he rose to high favor under the
Empress Elizabeth. In 1747 he took service with Frederick the Great
as field-marshal, and became Governor of Berlin. Carlyle calls him
"a very clear-eyed, sound observer of men and things. Frederick, the
more he knows him, likes him the better." From their correspondence
it is evident Keith shared the sceptical opinions of Frederick. After
brilliant exploits in the seven years' war at Prague, Rossbach, and
Olmutz, Marshal Keith fell in the battle of Hochkirch, 14 Oct. 1758.

Kenrick (William), LL.D., English author, b. near Watford, Herts,
about 1720. In 1751 he published, at Dublin, under the pen-name of
Ontologos, an essay to prove that the soul is not immortal. His first
poetic production was a volume of Epistles, Philosophical and Moral
(1759), addressed to Lorenzo; an avowed defence of scepticism. In
1775 he commenced the London Review, and the following year attacked
Soame Jenyns's work on Christianity. He translated some of the works
of Buffon, Rousseau, and Voltaire. Died 10 June 1779.

Kerr (Michael Crawford) American statesman, b. Titusville, Western
Pennsylvania, 15 March 1827. He was member of the Indiana Legislature
'56, and elected to Congress in '74 and endeavoured to revise the
tariff in the direction of free-trade. Died Rockbridge, Virginia,
19 Aug. 1876, a confirmed Freethinker and Materialist.

Ket, Kett, or Knight (Francis), of Norfolk, a relative of the
rebellious tanner. He was of Windham and was an M.A. He was prosecuted
for heresy and burnt in the castle ditch, Norwich, 14 Jan. 1588. Stowe
says he was burnt for "divers detestable opinions against Christ
our Saviour."

Khayyam (Omar) or Umar Khaiyam, Persian astronomer, poet, b. Naishapur
Khorassan, in the second half of the eleventh century, and was
distinguished by his reformation of the calendar as well as by his
verses (Rubiyat), which E. Fitzgerald has so finely rendered in
English. He alarmed his contemporaries and made himself obnoxious to
the Sufis. Died about 1123. Omar laughed at the prophets and priests,
and told men to be happy instead of worrying themselves about God and
the Hereafter. He makes his soul say, "I myself am Heaven and Hell."

Kielland (Alexander Lange), Norwegian novelist, b. Stavanger, 18
Feb. 1849. He studied law at Christiania, but never practised. His
stories, Workpeople, Skipper Worse, Poison, and Snow exhibit his
bold opinions.

Kleanthes. See Cleanthes.

Klinger (Friedrich Maximilian von), German writer, b. Frankfort, 19
Feb. 1753. Went to Russia in 1780, and became reader to the Grand
Duke Paul. Published poems, dramas, and romances, exhibiting the
revolt of nature against conventionality. Goethe called him "a true
apostle of the Gospel of nature." Died at Petersburg, 25 Feb. 1831.

Kneeland (Abner), American writer, b. Gardner, Mass., 7 April, 1774,
became a Baptist and afterwards a Universalist minister. He invented
a new system of orthography, published a translation of the New
Testament, 1823, The Deist (2 Vols.), '22, edited the Olive Branch
and the Christian Inquirer. He wrote The Fourth Epistle of Peter,
'29, and a Review of the Evidences of Christianity, being a series
of lectures delivered in New York in '29. In that year he removed to
Boston, and in April '31 commenced the Boston Investigator, the oldest
Freethought journal. In '33 he was indicted and tried for blasphemy
for saying that he "did not believe in the God which Universalists
did." He was sentenced 21 Jan. '34, to two months' imprisonment and
fine of five hundred dollars. The verdict was confirmed in the Courts
of Appeal in '36, and he received two months' imprisonment. Kneeland
was a Pantheist. He took Frances Wright as an associate editor, and
soon after left the Boston Investigator in the hands of P. Mendum and
Seaver, and retired to a farm at Salubria, where he died 27 August,
1844. His edition, with notes, of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary,
was published in two volumes in 1852.

Knoblauch (Karl von), German author, b. Dillenburg, 3 Nov. 1757. He
was a friend of Mauvillon and published several works directed against
supernaturalism and superstition. Died at Bernburg, 6 Sept. 1794.

Knowlton (Charles) Dr., American physician and author, b. Templeton,
Mass., 10 May, 1800. He published the Fruits of Philosophy, for which
he was imprisoned in '32. He was a frequent correspondent of the Boston
Investigator, and held a discussion on the Bible and Christianity with
the Rev. Mr. Thacher of Harley. About '29 he published The Elements
of Modern Materialism. Died in Winchester, Mass., 20 Feb. 1850.

Knutzen (Matthias), b. Oldensworth, in Holstein, 1645. He early lost
his parents, and was brought to an uncle at Koenigsberg, where he
studied philosophy. He took to the adventurous life of a wandering
scholar and propagated his principles in many places. In 1674 he
preached Atheism publicly at Jena, in Germany, and had followers who
were called "Gewissener," from their acknowledging no other authority
but conscience. It is said there were seven hundred in Jena alone. What
became of him and them is unknown. A letter dated from Rome gives his
principles. He denied the existence of either God or Devil, deemed
churches and priests useless, and held that there is no life beyond
the present, for which conscience is a sufficient guide, taking the
place of the Bible, which contains great contradictions. He also
wrote two dialogues.

Koerbagh (Adriaan), Dutch martyr, b. Amsterdam, 1632 or 1633. He became
a doctor of law and medicine. In 1668 he published A Flower Garden
of all Loveliness, a dictionary of definitions in which he gave bold
explanations. The work was rigidly suppressed, and the writer fled
to Culemborg. There he translated a book De Trinitate, and began a
work entitled A Light Shining in Dark Places, to illuminate the chief
things of theology and religion by Vrederijk Waarmond, inquisitor of
truth. Betrayed for a sum of money, Koerbagh was tried for blasphemy,
heavily fined and sentenced to be imprisoned for ten years, to be
followed by ten years banishment. He died in prison, Oct. 1669.

Kolb (Georg Friedrich), German statistician and author, b. Spires 14
Sept. 1808, author of an able History of Culture, 1869-70. Died at
Munich 15 May, 1884.

Koornhert (Theodore). See Coornhert (Dirk Volkertszoon.)

Korn (Selig), learned German Orientalist of Jewish birth, b. Prague,
26 April, 1804. A convert to Freethought, under the name of "F. Nork,"
he wrote many works on mythology which may still be consulted with
profit. A list is given in Fuerst's Bibliotheca Judaica. We mention
Christmas and Easter Explained by Oriental Sun Worship, Leipsic, '36;
Brahmins and Rabbins, Weissen, '36; The Prophet Elijah as a Sun Myth,
'37; The Gods of the Syrians, '42; Biblical Mythology of the Old and
New Testament, 2 vols. Stuttgart, '42-'43. Died at Teplitz, Bohemia,
16 Oct. 1850.

Krause (Ernst H. Ludwig), German scientific writer, b. Zielenzig
22 Nov. 1839. He studied science and contributed to the Vossische
Zeitung and Gartenlaube. In '63 he published, under the pen-name of
"Carus Sterne," a work on The Natural History of Ghosts, and in
'76 a work on Growth and Decay, a history of evolution. In '77 he
established with Haeckel, Dr. Otto Caspari, and Professor Gustav Jaeger,
the monthly magazine Kosmos, devoted to the spread of Darwinism. This
he conducted till '82. In Kosmos appeared the germ of his little book
on Erasmus Darwin, '79, to which Charles Darwin wrote a preliminary
notice. As "Carus Sterne" he has also written essays entitled Prattle
from Paradise, The Crown of Creation, '84, and an illustrated work
in parts on Ancient and Modern Ideas of the World, '87, etc.

Krekel (Arnold), American judge, b. Langenfield, Prussia 14 March,
1815. Went with parents to America in '32 and settled in Missouri. In
'42 he was elected Justice of the Peace and afterwards county
attorney. In '52 he was elected to the Missouri State Legislature. He
served in the civil war being elected colonel, was president of
the constitutional convention of '65 and signed the ordinance of
emancipation by which the slaves of Missouri were set free. He was
appointed judge by President Lincoln 9 March, '65. A pronounced
Agnostic, when he realized he was about to die he requested his wife
not to wear mourning, saying that death was as natural as birth. Died
at Kansas 14 July, 1888.

Krekel (Mattie H. Hulett), b. of freethinking parents, Elkhart Indiana
13 April, 1840. Educated at Rockford, Illinois, in her 16th year became
a teacher. Married Judge Krekel, after whose death, she devoted her
services to the Freethought platform.

Kropotkin (Petr Aleksyeevich) Prince, Russian anarchist, b. Moscow
9 Dec 1842. After studying at the Royal College of Pages he went to
Siberia for five years to pursue geological researches. In '71 he went
to Belgium and Switzerland and joined the International. Arrested
in Russia, he was condemned to three years imprisonment, escaped
'76 and came to England. In '79 he founded at Geneva, Le Revolte was
expelled. Accused in France in '83 of complicity in the outrage at
Lyons, he was condemned to five years imprisonment, but was released in
'86, since which he has lived in England. A brother who translated
Herbert Spencer's "Biology" into Russian, died in Siberia in the
autumn of 1886.

Laas (Ernst) German writer, b. Furstenwalde, 16 June, 1837. He has
written three volumes on Idealism and Positivism, 1879-'84, and also
on Kant's Place in the History of the Conflict between Faith and
Science, Berlin, 1882. He was professor of philosophy at Strassburg,
where he died 25 July, 1885.

Labanca (Baldassarre), professor of moral philosophy in the University
of Pisa, b. Agnone, 1829. He took part in the national movement of
'48, and in '51 was imprisoned and afterwards expelled from Naples. He
has written on progress in philosophy and also a study on primitive
Christianity, dedicated to Giordano Bruno, the martyr of Freethought,
'86.

Lachatre (Maurice), French writer, b. Issoudun 1814, edits a "Library
of Progress," in which has appeared his own History of the Inquisition,
and History of the Popes, '83.

Lacroix (Sigismund), the pen name of Sigismund Julien Adolph
Krzyzanowski, b. Warsaw 26 May, 1845. His father was a refugee. He
wrote with Yves Guyot The Social Doctrines of Christianity. In '74 he
was elected a municipal councillor of Paris. In '77 he was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment for calling Jesus "enfant adulterin"
in Le Radical. In Feb. '81 he was elected president of the municipal
council, and in '83 deputy to the French parliament.

Laffitte (Pierre), French Positivist philosopher, b. 21 Feb. 1823
at Beguey (Gironde), became a disciple of Comte and one of his
executors. He was professor of mathematics, but since the death of
his master has given a weekly course of instruction in the former
apartment of Comte. M. Laffitte has published discourses on The
General History of Humanity, '59, and The Great Types of Humanity,
'75-6. In '78 he founded La Revue Occidentale.

Lagrange (Joseph Louis), Count, eminent mathematician, b. Turin, 25
Jan. 1736. He published in 1788 his Analytical Mechanics, which is
considered one of the masterpieces of the human intellect. He became
a friend of D'Alembert, Diderot, Condorcet, and Delambre. He said he
believed it impossible to prove there was a God. Died 10 April 1813.

La Hontan (Jean), early French traveller in Canada, b. 1666. In
his account of Dialogues with an American Savage, 1704, which was
translated into English, he states objections to religion. Died in
Hanover, 1715.

Lainez (Alexandre), French poet, b. Chimay, Hainault, 1650, of the same
family with the general of the Jesuits. He lived a wandering Bohemian
life and went to Holland to see Bayle. Died at Paris 18 April, 1710.

Laing (Samuel), politician and writer, b. Edinburgh 1812, the son of
S. Laing of Orkney. Educated at Cambridge, where he took his degree
'32; called to the bar '42; became secretary of the railway department
of the Board of Trade; returned as Liberal M.P. for Kirkwall '52;
helped repeal duty on advertisements in newspapers. In '60 he became
finance minister for India. His Modern Science and Modern Thought,
'85, is a plain exposition of the incompatibility of the old and
new view of the universe. In the Modern Zoroastrian, '87, he gives
the philosophy of polarity, in which, however, he was anticipated by
Mr. Crozier, who in turn was anticipated by Emerson. In '88 he entered
into a friendly correspondence with Mr. Gladstone on the subject of
Agnosticism his portion of which has been published.

Lakanal (Joseph), French educator, b. Serres, 14 July, 1762. Studied
for priesthood, but gave up that career. He entered with ardor into the
Revolution, was a member of the Convention 1792-5, and there protected
the interests of science. At the restoration in 1814 he retired to
America, and was welcomed by Jefferson and became president of the
University of Louisiana. He returned to France after the Revolution of
'30, and died in Paris 14 Feb. 1845.

Lalande (Joseph Jerome le Francais de), distinguished French
astronomer, b. Bourg en Bresse, 11 July 1732. Educated by the Jesuits,
he was made a member of the Academy of Sciences in his 20th year. In
1762 he became Professor of Astronomy at the College of France. In
1764 he published his Treatise of Astronomy, to which Dupuis subjoined
a memoir, which formed the basis of his Origin of all Religions, the
idea of which he had taken from Lalande. In Aug 1793 Lalande hazarded
his own life to save Dupont de Nemours, and some priests whom he
concealed in the observatory of Mazarin college. It was upon Lalande's
observations that the Republican calender was drawn up. At Lalande's
instigation Sylvain Marechal published his Dictionary of Atheists,
to which the astronomer contributed supplements after Marechal's
death. Lalande professed himself prouder of being an Atheist than
of being an astronomer. His Bibliographie Astronomique is called by
Prof. de Morgan "a perfect model of scientific bibliography." It was
said that never did a young man address himself to Lalande without
receiving proof of his generosity. He died at Paris 4 April, 1807.

Lamarck (Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet) French naturalist,
b. Picardy 1 Aug. 1744, educated for the Church, but entered the army
in 1761, and fought with distinction. Having been disabled, he went
to Paris, studied Botany, and published French Flora in 1788, which
opened to him the Academy of Sciences. He became assistant at the
Museum of Natural History, and in 1809 propounded, in his Zoological
Philosophy, a theory of transmutation of species. His Natural History
of Invertebrate Animals (1815-22) was justly celebrated. He became
blind several years before his death, 18 Dec. 1829.

Lamborelle (Louis). Belgian author of books on The Good Old Times,
Brussels, 1874; The Apostles and Martyrs of Liberty of Conscience,
Antwerp, 1882, and other anti-clerical works. Lamborelle lost a post
under government through his anticlerical views, and is one of the
council of the Belgian Freethought party.

Lamettrie (Julian Offray de). French physician and philosopher,
b. St. Malo, 25 Dec. 1709. Destined for the Church, he was educated
under the Jesuits at Caen. He, however, became a physician, studying
under Boerhaave, at Leyden. Returning to France, he became surgeon
to the French Guard, and served at the battles of Fontenoy and
Dettingen. Falling ill, he noticed that his faculties fluctuated with
his physical state, and drew therefrom materialistic conclusions. The
boldness with which he made his ideas known lost him his place, and he
took refuge in Holland. Here he published The Natural History of the
Soul, under the pretence of its being a translation from the English
of Charp [Sharp], 1745. This was followed by Man a Machine (1748),
a work which was publicly burnt at Leyden, and orders given for the
author's arrest. It was translated into English, and reached a second
edition (London, 1750). It was often attributed to D'Argens. Lamettrie
held that the senses are the only avenues to knowledge, and that it
is absurd to assume a god to explain motion. Only under Atheism will
religious strife cease. Lamettrie found an asylum with Frederick the
Great, to whom he became physician and reader (Feb. 1748). Here he
published Philosophical Reflections on the Origin of Animals (1750),
translated Seneca on Happiness, etc. He died 11 Nov. 1751, and desired
by his will to be buried in the garden of Lord Tyrconnel. The great
king thought so well of him that he composed his funeral eulogy.

La Mothe Le Vayer (Francois de). French sceptical philosopher,
b. Paris, 1588, was patronised by Louis XIV., and was preceptor to
the Duke of Anjou. Published The Virtue of Pagans and Dialogues
after the Manner of the Ancients, in which he gave scope to his
scepticism. Two editions of his collected works appeared, but neither
of these contains The Dialogues of Orasius Tubero (Frankfort 1606,
probably a false date). Died 1672.

Lancelin (Pierre F.), French materialist, b. about 1770. Became a
constructive engineer in the French navy, wrote an able Introduction
to the Analysis of Science, 3 vols. 1801-3, and a physico-mathematical
theory of the organisation of worlds, 1805. Died Paris, 1809.

Land (Jan Pieter Nicolaus), Dutch writer, b. Delft, 23 April, 1834. Has
written critical studies on Spinoza, and brought out an edition of
the philosopher's works in conjunction with J. van Vloten.

Landesmann (Heinrich). See Lorm.

Landor (Walter Savage), English poet, b. Ipsley Court, Warwickshire,
30 Jan. 1775. He was educated at Rugby and Oxford, and, inheriting
a fortune, could indulge his tastes as an author. He published a
volume of poems in 1795, and Gebir in 1798. An ardent Republican, he
served as a volunteer colonel in the Spanish Army against Napoleon
from 1808 to 1814, besides devoting a considerable sum of money to
the Spanish cause. He became a resident of Florence about 1816. His
reputation chiefly rests on his great Imaginary Conversations, in
which many bold ideas are presented in beautiful language. Landor
was unquestionably the greatest English writer of his age. While
nominally a Christian, he has scattered many Freethought sentiments
over his various works. Died at Florence, 17 Sept. 1864.

Lanessan (Jean Louis de), French naturalist, b. at Saint Andre de
Cubzac (Gironde), 13 July, 1843. At 19 he became a naval physician, and
M.D. in '68. He was elected in '79 as Radical member of the Municipal
Council of Paris, and re-elected in '81. In August of the same year
he was elected Deputy for the Department of the Seine. He founded
Le Reveil, edited the Marseillaise, and started the International
Biological Library, to which he contributed a study on the doctrine
of Darwin. He has written a standard work on botany, and has written
vol. iii. of the "Materialists' Library," on the Evolution of Matter.

Lanfrey (Pierre), French author and senator, b. Chambery, 26 Oct. 1828,
became known by a book on The Church and the Philosophers of the
Eighteenth Century, '55, and celebrated by his History of Napoleon
I. '67-75. M. Lanfrey also wrote The Political History of the Popes,
a work placed on the Index. Died at Pau, 15 Nov. 1877.

Lang (Andrew), man of letters, b. Selkirk, 31 March, 1844. Educated
at St. Andrews and Oxford. Mr. Lang made his name by his translation
of the Odyssey with Mr. Butcher, and by his graceful poems and
ballads. He has written In the Wrong Paradise, and many other
pleasant sketches. More serious work is shown in Custom and Myth,
'84, and Myth, Ritual and Religion, '87. A disciple of E. B. Tylor,
Mr. Lang successfully upholds the evolutionary view of mythology.

Lang (Heinrich), German Rationalist, b. 14 Nov. 1826. Studied theology
under Baur at Tuebingen, and became teacher at Zuerich, where he died,
13 Jan. 1876.

Lange (Friedrich Albert), German philosopher and writer, b. Wald,
near Solix, 28 Sept. 1828. He studied at Bonn, and became teacher in
the gymnasium of Cologne, '52. In '53 he returned to Bonn as teacher
of philosophy, and there enjoyed the friendship of Ueberweg. He became
proprietor and editor of the democratic Landbote, and filled various
municipal offices. In '70 he was called to the chair of philosophy at
Zuerich, but resigned in '72 and accepted a similar post at Marburg,
where he died 21 Nov. 1875. His fame rests on his important History
of Materialism, which has been translated into English.

Langsdorf (Karl Christian), German Deist, b. 18 May, 1757, author
of God and Nature, a work on the immortality of the soul, and some
mathematical books. Died Heidelberg, 10 June, 1834.

Lankester (Edwin Ray), F.R.S., LL.D., English scientist, b. London, 15
May, 1847, and educated at St. Paul's School and Oxford. Has published
many scientific memoirs, revised the translation of Haeckel's History
of Creation, and has done much to forward evolutionary ideas. In 1876
he exposed the spiritist medium Slade, and procured his conviction. He
is Professor of Zoology and Natural History in the University of
London.

La Place (Pierre Simon). One of the greatest astronomers,
b. Beaumont-en-Auge, 23 March, 1749. His father was a poor
peasant. Through the influence of D'Alembert, La Place became professor
of mathematics in the military school, 1768. By his extraordinary
abilities he became in 1785 member of the Academy of Science, which
he enriched with many memoirs. In 1796 he published his Exposition
of the System of the Universe, a popularisation of his greater work
on Celestial Mechanics, 1799-1825. Among his sayings were, "What we
know is but little, what we know not is immense." "There is no need
for the hypothesis of a God." Died Paris, 5 March, 1827.

Larevelliere-Lepaux (Louis Marie DE), French politician, b. Montaigu
25 Aug. 1753. Attached from youth to the ideas of Rousseau, he was
elected with Volney to represent Angers in the national assembly. He
was a moderate Republican, defended the proscribed Girondins, was
doomed himself but escaped by concealment, and distinguished himself
by seeking to replace Catholicism with theophilanthropy or natural
religion. He wrote Reflections on Worship and the National Fetes. He
became President of the Directory, and after the 18 Brumaire retired,
refusing to swear fealty to the empire though offered a pension by
Napoleon. Died Paris, 27 March, 1824.

Larousse (Pierre Athanase), French lexicographer, b. of poor parents,
23 Oct. 1817, at Toucy, Yonne, where he became teacher. He edited
many school books and founded the Grand Dictionnaire Universel du
XIXe. Siecle, 1864-77. This is a collection of dictionaries, and may
be called the Encyclopedie of this century. Most of M. Larousse's
colleagues were also Freethinkers. Died at Paris, 3 Jan. 1875.

Larra (Mariano Jose de), distinguished Spanish author, b. Madrid,
4 March, 1809. He went with his family to France and completed his
education. He returned to Spain in '22. At eighteen he published
a collection of poems, which was followed by El Duende Satirico
(The Satirical Goblin). In '31 appeared his Pobrecito Hablador (Poor
Gossip), a paper in which he unmercifully satirised the public affairs
and men of Spain. It was suppressed after its fourteenth number. He
edited in the following year the Revista Espanola, signing his articles
"Figaro." He travelled through Europe, and on his return to Madrid
edited El Mundo. Larra wrote also some dramas and translated Lamennais'
Paroles d'un Croyant. Being disappointed in love he shot himself,
13 April, 1837. Ch. de Mazade, after speaking of Larra's scepticism,
adds, "Larra could see too deep to possess any faith whatever. All
the truths of this world, he was wont to say, can be wrapped in a
cigarette paper!"

Larroque (Patrice), French philosopher, b. Beaume, 27 March, 1801. He
became a teacher and was inspector of the academy of Toulouse, 1830-36,
and rector of the academies of Cahors, Limoges, and Lyons, 1836-49. In
the latter year he was denounced for his opposition to clerical ideas
and lost his place. Among his numerous works we mention De l'Esclavage
chez les Nations Chretiennes, '57, in which he proves that Christianity
did not abolish slavery. This was followed by an Critical Examination
of the Christian Religion, '59, and a work on Religious Renovation,
'59, which proposes a moral system founded upon pure deism. Both were
for a while prohibited in France. M. Larroque also wrote on Religion
and Politics, '78. Died at Paris, 15 June, 1879.

Lassalle (Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb), founder of German Social
Democratic party, b. of Jewish parents, 11 April, 1825, in Breslau,
studied philosophy and law at Breslau and Berlin. He became a
follower of Hegel and Feuerbach. Heine, at Paris, '46, was charmed
with him. Humboldt called him "Wunderkind." In 1858 he published
a profound work on the philosophy of Heraclitus. For planning an
insurrection against the Prussian Government he was arrested, but
won his acquittal. Died through a duel, 31 Aug. 1864.

Lastarria (Jose Victorino), Chilian statesman and Positivist,
b. Rancagua, 1812. From youth he applied himself to teaching
and journalism, and in '38 was appointed teacher of civil law and
literature in the National Institute. He has founded several journals
and literary societies. From '43 he has been at different times deputy
to the legislature and secretary to the republic of Chili. He has
also served as minister to Peru and Brazil. In '73 he founded the
Santiago Academy of Science and Literature; has written many works,
and his Lecciones de Politicia Positiva has been translated into
French by E. de Riviere and others, 1879.

Lau (Theodor Ludwig), German philosopher, b. at Koenigsberg, 15 June
1670, studied at Koenigsberg and Halle, and about 1695 travelled
through Holland, England, and France. In 1717 he published in Latin,
at Frankfort, Philosophical Meditations on God, the World, and Man,
which excited an outcry for its materialistic tendency and was
suppressed. He was a follower of Spinoza, and held several official
positions from which he was deposed on account of his presumed
atheism. Died at Altona, 8 Feb. 1740.

Laurent (Francois), Belgian jurisconsult, b. Luxembourg, 8 July,
1810. Studied law and became an advocate. In '35 he was made
Professor of Civil Law in the University of Ghent, a post he held,
despite clerical protests, till his retirement in '80. A voluminous
author on civil and international law, his principal work is entitled
Studies in the History of Humanity. He was a strong advocate of the
separation of Church and State, upon which he wrote, 1858-60. He also
wrote Letters on the Jesuits, '65. Died in 1887.

Law (Harriet), English lecturess, who for many years occupied the
secular platform, and engaged in numerous debates. She edited the
Secular Chronicle, 1876-1879.

Lawrence (James), Knight of Malta, b. Fairfield, Jamaica, 1773, of good
Lancashire family. Educated at Eton and Gottingen; became acquainted
with Schiller and Goethe at Stuttgart and Weimar, was detained with
English prisoners at Verdun. In 1807 he published his The Empire of
the Nairs, or the Rights of Women, a free-love romance which he wrote
in German, French, and English. He also wrote in French and English,
a curious booklet The Children of God, London, 1853. He addressed a
poem on Tolerance to Mr. Owen, on the occasion of his denouncing the
religions of the world. It appears in The Etonian Out of Bounds. Died
at London 26 Sept. 1841.

Lawrence (Sir William), surgeon, b. Cirencester, 1783. Admitted
M.R.C.S., 1805, in '13 he was chosen, F.R.S., and two years later
was named Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the Royal College of
Surgeons. While he held that chair he delivered his Lectures on Man,
which on their publication in 1819 roused a storm of bigotry. In his
early manhood, Lawrence was an earnest advocate of radical reform;
but notwithstanding his early unpopularity, he acquired a lucrative
practice. Died London, 5 July, 1867.

Layton (Henry), educated at Oxford, and studied at Gray's Inn, being
called to the bar. He wrote anonymously observations on Dr. Bentley's
Confutation of Atheism (1693), and a Search After Souls, and Spiritual
Observations in Man (1700).

Leblais (Alphonse), French professor of mathematics, b. Mans,
1820. Author of a study in Positivist philosophy entitled Materialism
and Spiritualism (1865), to which Littre contributed a preface.

Le Bovier de Fontenelle. See Fontenelle.

Lecky (William Edward Hartpole), historian, b. near Dublin, 26 March,
1838. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His works, which are
characterised by great boldness and originality of thought, are
A History of the Rise and Spirit of Rationalism in Europe ('65),
A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne ('69),
and A History of England in the Eighteenth Century (1878-87).

Leclerc (Georges Louis). See Buffon.

Leclerc de Septchenes (N.), b. at Paris. Became secretary to Louis
XVI., translated the first three vols. of Gibbon, and wrote an essay
on the religion of the ancient Greeks (1787). A friend of Lalande,
he prepared an edition of Freret, published after his death. Died at
Plombieres, 9 June, 1788.

Leconte de Lisle (Charles Marie Rene), French poet, b. Isle of Bourbon,
23 Oct. 1818. After travelling in India, returned to Paris, and took
part in the revolution of '48, but has since devoted himself mainly
to poetry, though he has written also A Republican Catechism and A
Popular History of Christianity ('71). One of his finest poems is
Kain. On being elevated to the seat of Victor Hugo at the Academy in
'87, he gave umbrage to Jews and Catholics by incidentally speaking
of Moses as "the chief of a horde of ferocious nomads."

Lecount (Peter), lieutenant in the French navy. He was engaged in
the battle of Navarino. Came to England as a mathematician in the
construction of the London and Birmingham Railway, of which he wrote
a history (1839). He wrote a curious book in three volumes entitled A
Few Hundred Bible Contradictions; A Hunt After the Devil and other Old
Matters, by John P. Y., M.D.; published by H. Hetherington ('43). The
author's name occurs on p. 144, vol i., as "the Rev. Peter Lecount."

Leenhof (Frederick van), b. Middelburg (Zealand), Aug. 1647. Became
a minister of Zwolle, where he published a work entitled Heaven on
Earth (1703), which subjected him to accusations of Atheism. It was
translated into German in 1706.

Lefevre (Andre), French writer, b. Provins, 9 Nov. 1834. He became,
at the age of twenty-three, one of the editors of the Magasin
Pittoresque. He wrote much in La Libre Pensee and La Pensee Nouvelle;
has translated Lucretius in verse ('76), and written Religions and
Mythologies Compared ('77); contributed a sketchy History of Philosophy
to the Library of Contemporary Science ('78); has written Man Across
the Ages ('80) and the Renaissance of Materialism ('81). He has also
edited the Lettres Persanes of Montesquieu, some Dialogues of Voltaire,
and Diderot's La Religieuse ('86).

Lefort (Cesar), disciple of Comte. Has published a work on the method
of modern science (Paris, 1864).

Lefrancais de Lalande. See Lalande.

Legate (Bartholomew), Antitrinitarian native of Essex, b. about 1572,
was thrown into prison on a charge of heresy, 1611. King James had
many personal interviews with him. On one occasion the king asked him
if he did not pray to Jesus Christ. He replied that he had done so in
the days of his ignorance, but not for the last seven years. "Away,
base fellow!" said His Majesty, "It shall never be said that one
stayeth in my presence who hath never prayed to the Savior for seven
years together." He was burnt at Smithfield by the King's writ, De
Haeretico Comburendo, 18 March, 1612, being one of the last persons
so punished in England.

Leguay de Premontval. See Premontval.

Le Hon (Henri) Belgian scientist, b. Ville-Pommeroeul (Hainault) 1809,
was captain in the Belgian army, professor at the military school of
Brussels, and Chevalier of the Order of Leopold. Author of L'Homme
Fossile en Europe, '66. Translated Professor Omboni's exposition of
Darwinism. Died at San Remo, 1872.

Leidy (Joseph), M.D., American naturalist, b. Philadelphia, 9
Sept. 1823. He became professor of biology at the University of
Philadelphia, and is eminent for his contributions to American
palaeontology.

Leigh (Henry Stone), English author of a Deistic work on the Religions
of the World, 1869.

Leland (Theron C.), American journalist, b. 9 April, 1821. He edited
with Wakeman the journal Man. Died 2 June, 1885.

Lemaire (Charles), member of the Academical Society of Saint Quentin,
author of an atheistic philosophical work, in two vols., entitled
Initiation to the Philosophy of Liberty, Paris, 1842.

Lemonnier (Camille), Belgian writer, b. Ixel les Bruxelles, 1845,
author of stories and works on Hysteria, Death, etc., in which he
evinces his freethought sentiments.

Lenau (Nicolaus), i.e. Nicolaus Franz Niembsch von Strehlenau,
Hungarian poet, b. Czatad, 15 Aug. 1802. His poems, written in German,
are pessimistic, and his constitutional melancholy deepened into
insanity. Died Ober-Doebling, near Vienna, 22 Aug. 1850.

Lennstrand (Viktor E.), Swedish writer and orator, b. Gefle,
30 Jan. 1861. Educated at Upsala University. Founded the Swedish
Utilitarian Society, March '88, and in May was sentenced to a fine of
250 crowns for denial of the Christian religion. On the 29th Nov. he
was imprisoned for three months for the same offence. Has written
several pamphlets and has incurred several fresh prosecutions. In
company with A. Lindkvist he has founded the Fritankaren as the organ
of Swedish freethought.

Leontium, Athenian Hetaera, disciple and mistress of Epicurus (q.v.) She
acquired distinction as a philosopher, and wrote a treatise against
Theophrastus, which is praised by Cicero as written in a skilful and
elegant manner.

Leopardi (Giacomo), count, Italian pessimist poet, b. Recanati
(Ancona), 29 June, 1798. In 1818 he won a high place among poets by
his lines addressed To Italy. His Canti, '31, are distinguished by
eloquence and pathos, while his prose essays, Operette Morali, '27, are
esteemed the finest models of Italian prose of this century. Leopardi's
short life was one long disease, but it was full of work of the
highest character. As a poet, philologist, and philosopher, he is
among the greatest of modern Italians. Died at Naples, 14 July, 1837.

Lequinio (Joseph Marie), French writer and Conventionnel, b. Sarzeau,
1740. Elected Mayor of Rennes, 1790, and Deputy from Morbihar to
the Legislative Assembly. He then professed Atheism. He voted the
death of Louis XVI. "regretting that the safety of the state did not
permit his being condemned to penal servitude for life." In 1792 he
published Prejudices Destroyed, signed "Citizen of the World," in
which he considered religion as a political chain. He took part in the
Feasts of Reason, and wrote Philosophy of the People, 1796. Died 1813.

Lermina (Jules Hippolyte), French writer, b. 27 March, 1839. Founded
the Corsair and Satan, and has published an illustrated biographical
dictionary of contemporary France, 1884-5.

Lermontov (Mikhail Yur'evich), Russian poet and novelist, b. Moscow,
3 Oct. 1814. Said to have come of a Scotch family, he studied at Moscow
University, from which he was expelled. In '32 he entered the Military
Academy at St. Petersburg, and afterwards joined the Hussars. In
'37 some verses on the death of Pushkin occasioned his being sent to
the Caucasus, which he describes in a work translated into English,
'53. His poems are much admired. The Demon, exhibiting Satan in love,
has been translated into English, and so has his romance entitled A
Hero of Our Times. He fell in a duel in the Caucasus, 15 July, 1840.

Leroux (Pierre), French Socialist and philosophic writer, b. Bercy,
near Paris, 6 April, 1797. At first a mason, then a typographer, he
invented an early composing machine which he called the pianotype. In
1824 he became editor of the Globe. Becoming a Saint Simonian,
he made this paper the organ of the sect. He started with Reynaud
L'Encyclopedie Nouvelle, and afterwards with L. Viardot and Mme. George
Sand the Revue Independante ('41), which became noted for its pungent
attacks on Catholicism. His principal work is De l'Humanite ('40). In
June '48 M. Leroux was elected to the Assembly. After the coup d'etat
he returned to London and Jersey. Died at Paris, 12 April, 1871.

Leroy (Charles Georges), lieutenant ranger of the park of Versailles,
b. 1723, one of the writers on the Encyclopedie. He defended the work
of Helvetius on the Mind against Voltaire, and wrote Philosophical
Letters on the Intelligence and Perfectibility of Animals (1768),
a work translated into English in 1870. Died at Paris 1789.

Lespinasse (Adolf Frederik Henri de). Dutch writer, b. Delft, 14 May,
1819. Studied medicine, and established himself first at Deventer and
afterwards at Zwartsluis, Vaassen, and Hasselt. In the Dageraad he
wrote many interesting studies under the pen-name of "Titus," and
translated the work of Dupuis into Dutch. In 1870 he emigrated to
America and became director of a large farm in Iowa. Died in Orange
City (Iowa) 1881.

L'Espinasse (Julie Jeanne Eleonore de). French beauty and wit,
b. Lyons, 9 Nov. 1732. She became the protege of Madame du Deffand, and
gained the favor of D'Alembert. Her letters are models of sensibility
and spirit. Died Paris, 23 May, 1776.

Lessing (Gotthold Ephraim). German critic and dramatic poet, b. Kamenz,
22 Jan. 1729. He studied at Leipsic, and at Berlin became acquainted
with Voltaire and Mendelssohn. Made librarian at Wolfenbuettel he
published Fragments of an Unknown (1777), really the Vindication of
Rational Worshippers of God, by Reimarus, in which it was contended
that Christian evidences are so clad in superstition as to be unworthy
credence. Among his writings were The Freethinker and Nathan the
Wise, his noblest play, in which he enforces lessons of toleration
and charity to all faiths. The effect of his writings was decidedly
sceptical. Heine calls Lessing, after Luther, the greatest German
emancipator. Died at Brunswick 15 Feb. 1781.

Lessona (Michele). Italian naturalist, b. 20 Sept., 1823; has
translated some of the works of Darwin.

Leucippus. Greek founder of the atomic philosophy.

L'Estrange (Thomas), writer, b. 17 Jan. 1822. With a view to entering
the Church he graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, 26 Feb. '44,
but became an attorney. Having read F. A. Paley's Introduction to the
Iliad, he became convinced that the "cooking" process there described,
has been undergone by all sacred books now extant. He wrote for Thomas
Scott's series valuable tracts on Our First Century, Primitive Church
History, Irenaeus, Order, The Eucharist. He also edited Hume's Dialogues
on Natural Religion, and wrote The First Ten Alleged Persecutions.

Levallois (Jules), French writer, b. Rouen 18 May, 1829. In '55 he
became secretary to Sainte Beuve. Wrote Deisme et Christianisme, 1866.

Lewes (George Henry), English man of letters, b. in London, 18
April, 1817, he became a journalist and dramatic critic. In 1845-6
appeared his Biographical History of Philosophy, which showed higher
power. This has been republished as History of Philosophy from Thales
to Comte. Lewes was one of the first to introduce English readers to
Comte in his account of Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences, '47. In
'49 he became one of the founders of the Leader, for which he wrote
till '54. In that year he began his association with "George Eliot"
(q.v.). His Life of Goethe appeared in '55, and from this time he
began to give his attention to scientific, especially biological,
studies. In '64 he published an important essay on Aristotle. On
the foundation of the Fortnightly Review, '65, Lewes was appointed
editor. His last work, Problems of Life and Mind, 5 vols. '74-79,
was never completed owing to his death, 28 Nov. 1878. He bequeathed
his books to Dr. Williams's library.

Lichtenberg (Georg Christoph), German satirical writer and scientist,
b. Ober-Ramstaedt, 1 July, 1742; a friend of G. Forster, he left many
thoughts showing his advanced opinions. Died Goettingen, 24 Feb. 1799.

Lick (James), American philanthropist, b. Fredericksburg, Pa., 25
Aug. 1796. In 1847 he settled in California and made a large fortune
by investing in real estate. He was a Materialist and bequeathed
large sums to the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, and for other
philanthropic purposes. Died San Francisco, 1 Oct. 1876.

Lilja (Nicolai), Swedish writer, b. Rostanga, 18 Oct. 1808. Studied
at Lund and became parish clerk in the Lund diocese. He wrote, on Man;
his Life and Destiny. Died Lund 1870.

Lincoln (Abraham), sixteenth President of the United States,
b. Kentucky, 12 Feb. 1809. An uncompromising opponent of slavery,
his election (Nov. '60) led to the civil war and the emancipation
of slaves. Ward H. Lamon, who knew him well, says he "read Volney
and Paine and then wrote a deliberate and labored essay, wherein
he reached conclusions similar to theirs. The essay was burnt, but
he never denied or regretted its composition." Mrs. Lincoln said,
"Mr. Lincoln had no hope and no faith in the usual acceptance of those
words." Assassinated 14 April, 1865, he expired the following morning.

Lindet (Robert Thomas), "apostate" French bishop, b. Bernay, 1743. Was
elected to the States-General by the clergy of his district. He
embraced Republican principles, and in March, 1791, was made Bishop
of L'Eure. In Nov. 1792 he publicly married. On 7 Nov. 1793, renounced
his bishopric. He proposed that civil festivals should take the place
of religious ones. He became member of the Conseil des Anciens. Died
Bernay, 10 Aug. 1823, and was buried without religious service.

Lindh (Theodor Anders), b. Borgo (Finland), 13 Jan. 1833. Studied
at Helsingfors University, '51-57; became lawyer in '71, and is
now a member of the Municipal Council of Borgo. He has written many
poems in Swedish, and also translated from the English poets, and has
published Freethought essays, which have brought him into controversy
with the clergy.

Lindkvist (Alfred), Swedish writer, b. Gefle, 21 Oct. 1860, of
pious parents. At the University of Upsala he studied European
literature, and became acquainted with the works of Mill, Darwin,
and Spencer. He has published two volumes of poems, Snow Drops and
April Days, and lost a stipend at the University by translating
from the Danish a rationalistic life of Jesus entitled The Reformer
from Galilee. Mr. Lindkvist has visited Paris, and collaborated on
a Stockholm daily paper. In '88 he joined his friend Lennstrand in
propagating Freethought, and in Nov. received a month's imprisonment
for having translated one of J. Symes's anti-Christian pamphlets. He
now edits Fritankaren in conjunction with Mr. Lennstrand.

Lindner (Ernst Otto Timotheus), German physician, b. Breslau, 28
Nov. 1820. A friend of Schopenhauer, whose philosophy he maintained
in several works on music. He edited the Vossische Zeitung from
'63. Died at Berlin, 7 Aug. 1867.

Liniere (Francois Payot de), French satiric poet, b. Paris, 1628;
known as the Atheist of Senlis. Boileau says the only act of piety
he ever did was drinking holy water because his mistress dipped her
finger in it. Wrote many songs and smart epigrams, and is said to have
undertaken a criticism of the New Testament. Died at Paris in 1704.

Linton (Eliza, nee Lynn) novelist and journalist, daughter of vicar
of Crosthwaite, Cumberland, b. Keswick, 1822. Has contributed largely
to the leading Radical journals, and has written numerous works of
fiction, of which we must mention Under which Lord? and The Rebel of
the Family. In '72 she published The True History of Joshua Davidson,
Christian and Communist, and in '85 the Autobiography of Christopher
Kirkland. She has also written on the woman question, and contributed
largely to periodical literature.

Linton (William James), poet, engraver, and author, b. at London,
1812. A Chartist in early life, he was intimately associated with
the chief political refugees. He contributed to the democratic press,
and also, we believe, to the Oracle of Reason. He wrote the Reasoner
tract on "The Worth of Christianity." He was one of the founders of
the Leader, has edited the Truthseeker, the National and the English
Republic, and has published Famine a Masque, a Life of Paine, and a
memoir of James Watson and some volumes of poems. In '67 he went to
America, but has recently returned.

Liscow (Christian Ludwig), one of the greatest German satirists,
b. Wittenberg, 29 April, 1701. He studied law in Jena, and became
acquainted with Hagedorn in Hamburg. In 1745 he was Councillor of War
at Dresden. This post he abandoned, occupying himself with literature
until his death, 30 Oct. 1760. Liscow's principal satires are The
Uselessness of Good Works for our Salvation and The Excellence and
Utility of Bad Writers. He has been called the German Swift, and his
works show him to have been an outspoken Freethinker.

Lisle (Lionel), author of The Two Tests: the Supernatural Claims of
Christianity Tried by Two of its own Rules (London, 1877).

Liszinski (Casimir), Polish martyr of noble birth. Denounced as an
Atheist in 1688 by the Bishop of Wilna and Posnovia, he was decapitated
and burnt at Grodno 30 March, 1689. His ashes were placed in a cannon
and scattered abroad. Among the statements in Liszinski's papers was
that man was the creator of God, whom he had formed out of nothing.

Littre (Maximilian Paul Emile), French philologist and philosopher,
b. Paris, 1 Feb. 1801. He studied medicine, literature and most of
the sciences. An advanced Republican, he was one of the editors of
the National. His edition of the works of Hippocrates (1839-61) proved
the thoroughness of his learning. He embraced the doctrines of Comte,
and in '45 published a lucid analysis of the Positive Philosophy. He
translated the Life of Jesus, by Strauss, and wrote the Literary
History of France. His Dictionary of the French Language, in which he
applied the historical method to philology, is one of the most colossal
works ever performed by one man. He wrote on Comte and Positive
Philosophy, Comte and Mill, etc., but refused to follow Comte in his
later vagaries. From '67 till his death he conducted La Philosophie
Positive. Littre also wrote Science from the Standpoint of Philosophy,
'73; Literature and History, '75; Fragments of Positive Philosophy
and Contemporary Sociology, '76. He was proposed for the Academy in
'63, but was bitterly opposed by Bishop Dupanloup, and was elected in
'71. In the same year he was elected to the National Assembly, and in
'75 was chosen senator. Under the Empire he twice refused the Legion
of Honor. After a long life of incessant labor, he died at Paris,
2 June 1881.

Lloyd (John William), American poet and writer, b. of Welsh-English
stock at Westfield, New Jersey, 4 June, 1857. Is mostly
self-educated. After serving apprenticeship as a carpenter, became
assistant to Dr. Trall. Brought up as an orthodox Christian he became
an Agnostic and Anarchist, and has written much in Liberty and Lucifer.

Lohmann (Hartwic), a native of Holstein, who in 1616 occupied a
good position in Flensburg. He was accused of Atheism. In 1635 he
practised medicine at Copenhagen. He wrote a work called the Mirror
of Faith. Died 1642.

Lollard (Walter), heretic and martyr, b. England, towards end of
thirteenth century, began to preach in Germany in 1315. He rejected
the sacraments and ceremonies of the Church. It is said he chose
twelve apostles to propagate his doctrines and that he had many
followers. Arrested at Cologne in 1322, he was burnt to death, dying
with great courage.

Loman (Abraham Dirk), Dutch rationalist, b. The Hague 16 Sep. 1823. He
holds the entire New Testament to be unhistorical, and the Pauline
Epistles to belong to the second century, and has written many
critical works.

Lombroso (Cesare). Italian writer and scientist, b. Nov. 1836,
has been a soldier and military physician. Introduced Darwinism to
Italy. Has written several works, mostly in relation to the physiology
of criminals.

Longet (Francois Achille), French physiologist, b. St. Germain-en-Laye,
1811, published a Treatise on Physiology in 3 vols. and several
medical works. Died Bordeaux, 20 April, 1871.

Longiano (Sebastiano). See Fausto.

Longue (Louis Pierre de), French Deist, writer in the service of
the house of Conti; wrote Les Princesses de Malabares, Adrianople,
1734, in which he satirised religion. It was condemned to be burnt
31 Dec. 1734, and a new edition published in Holland with the imprint
Tranquebar, 1735.

Lorand (Georges), Belgian journalist, b. Namur, 1851, studied
law at Bologna (Italy) and soon became an active propagator of
Atheistic doctrines among the youth of the University and in workmen
associations. He edits La Reforme at Brussels, the ablest daily
exponent of Freethought and Democratic doctrines in Belgium. He has
lately headed an association for the suppression of the standing army.

"Lorm (Hieronymus)," the pen name of Heinrich Landesmann. German
pessimistic poet, b. Nikolsberg, 9 Aug. 1821. In addition to many
philosophical poems, he has written essays entitled Nature and Spirit,
Vienna, '84.

Lozano (Fernando), Spanish writer in Las Dominicales dal Libre
Pensamiento, where he uses the signature "Demofilo." He has written
Battles of Freethought, Possessed by the Devil, The Church and
Galeote, etc.

Lubbock (Sir John), banker, archaeologist, scientist and statesman,
b. in London, 30 April, 1834. Educated at Eton, he was taken into
his father's bank at the age of fourteen, and became a partner in
'56. By his archaeological works he has most distinguished himself. He
has written Prehistoric Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains,
and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages ('65), and The Origin
of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man ('70).

Lucretius Carus (Titus). Roman philosophical poet, b. about
B.C. 99. Little is known of his life, but his name is immortalised
by his atheistic work, De Rerum Natura, in six books, which is the
finest didactic poem in any language. Lucretius has been said to
have believed in one god, Epicurus, whose system he expounds. Full
of animation, dignity, and sublimity, he invests philosophy with the
grace of genius. Is said to have died by his own hand B.C. 55.

Luetzelberger (Ernst Karl Julius), German controversialist
b. Ditterswind, 19 Oct. 1802. He was a friend of the Feuerbachs. He
wrote on The Church Tradition of the Apostle John. He also wrote a
work on Jesus, translated in Ewerbeck's Qu'est ce que la Religion. In
'56 he was appointed town librarian at Nuremberg.

Lunn (Edwin), Owenite lecturer. Published pamphlets On Prayer, its
Folly, Inutility, etc. 1839, and Divine Revelation Examined, 1841.

Luys (Jules Bernard), French alienist, b. Paris, 1828. Is physician
at l'Hopital de la Charite, Paris, and author of a work on The Brain
and its Functions in the "International Scientific Series."

Lyell (Sir Charles), geologist, b. Kinnordy, Forfarshire, 14
Nov. 1797. Was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and devoted himself
to geology. In 1830-33 appeared his great work, The Principles of
Geology, which went through numerous editions. His last important
work was Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, in which he
accepts the Darwinian theory. Died 22 Feb. 1875.

Maccall (William), writer, b. Largs. Scotland, 1812. Educated at
Glasgow, he found his way to the Unitarian Church which he left
as insufficiently broad. He wrote Elements of Individualism ('47),
translated Spinoza's Treatise on Politics ('54), wrote to the Critic as
"Atticus," contributed to the National Reformer, Secular Review, etc.,
published Foreign Biographies ('73), and translated Dr. Letourneau's
Biology and other works. Maccall was an idealistic Pantheist of strong
individual character. Died at Bexley, 19 Nov. 1888.

Macchi (Mauro), Italian writer, b. Milan, 1 July, 1818. Became
professor of rhetoric at the age of twenty-four, when, becoming
obnoxious to the Austrians by the liberty of his opinions, he was
deprived of his position. He betook himself to radical journalism,
founded l'Italia, a Republican journal, for which he was exiled. He
was associated with Ausonio Franchi and Luigi Stefanoni in the Libero
Pensiero and the Libero Pensatore, and founded an Italian Association
of Freethinkers. In '61 he was elected deputy to Parliament for
Cremona, and in '79 was elevated to the Senate. Died at Rome, 24
Dec. 1880. One of his principal works is on the Council of Ten.

Macdonald (Eugene Montague), editor of the New York Truthseeker,
b. Chelsea, Maine, 4 Feb. 1855. He learned the printer's trade in
New York, where he became foreman to D. M. Bennett, and contributed
to the paper, which he has conducted since Mr. Bennett's death.

Macdonald (George), brother of the preceding. Wrote on the Truthseeker,
and now conducts Freethought, of San Francisco, in company with
S. P. Putnam. George Macdonald is a genuine humorist and a sound
Freethinker.

McDonnell (William), American novelist, b. 15 Sept. 1824. Author of The
Heathens of the Heath and Exeter Hall, '73, both Freethought romances.

Mackay (Robert William), author of The Progress of the Intellect,
1850, Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Christianity, '53, and The
Tubingen School, '63.

Mackey (Sampson Arnold), astronomer and shoemaker, of Norwich,
who is said to have constructed an orrery out of leather. He wrote
The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients, Norwich, 1822-24,
Pious Frauds, '26, A Lecture on Astronomy and Geology, edited by
W. D. Saull, '32, Urania's Key to the Revelation, '33, and The Age
of Mental Emancipation, '36-39. Mackey also wrote the Sphinxiad,
a rare book. Died 1846.

Mackintosh (Thomas Simmons), author of The Electrical Theory of the
Universe, 1848, and An Inquiry into the Nature of Responsibility. Died
1850.

MacSweeney (Myles), mythologist, b. at Enniskillen 1814. He came to
London, and hearing Robert Taylor at the Rotunda in 1830, adopted his
views. He held that Jesus never existed, and wrote in the National
Reformer, Secular Chronicle, and other papers. He published a pamphlet
on Moses and Bacchus in 1874. Died Jan. 1881.

Madach (Imre), Hungarian patriot and poet, b. 21 Jan. 1823, at
Sztregova, studied at the University of Buda Pesth, and afterwards
lived at Cseszlova. He was in '52 incarcerated for a year for having
given asylum at his castle to a political refugee. He became in '61
delegate at Pesth. In this year he published his fine poem Az Ember
Tragediaja (The Human Tragedy), in which mankind is personified as
Adam, with Lucifer in his company. Many Freethought views occur in
this poem. Died 5 Oct. 1864. His works were published in 3 vols., 1880.

Maier (Lodewyk). See Meyer.

Maillet (Benoit de). French author, b. Saint Michiel, 12 April,
1656. He was successively consul in Egypt and at Leghorn; and died at
Marseilles, 30 Jan. 1738. After his death was published "Telliamed"
(the anagram of his name), in which he maintained that all land
was originally covered with water and that every species of animal,
man included, owes its origin to the sea.

"Mainlaender" (Philipp), pseudonym of Philipp Batz, German pessimist,
author of a profound work entitled the Philosophy of Redemption,
the first part of which was published in 1876. It was said that
"Mainlaender" committed suicide in that year, but the second part of
his work has come out 1882-86. He holds that Polytheism gives place
to Monotheism and Pantheism, and these again to Atheism. "God is dead,
and his death was the life of the world."

Malherbe (Francois de). French poet, b. Caen, 1555. He served in
the civil wars of the League, and enjoyed the patronage of Henry
IV. He was called the prince of poets and the poet of princes. Many
stories are told illustrating his sceptical raillery. When told upon
his death-bed of paradise and hell he said he had lived like others
and would go where others went. Died Paris, 16 Oct. 1628.

Mallet (Mme. Josephine). French authoress of a work on The Bible,
its origin, errors and contradictions (1882).

Malon (Benoit). French Socialist, b. near St. Etienne, 1841. One
of the founders of the International; he has written a work on that
organisation, its history and principles (Lyons, 1872). He is editor
on L'Intransigeant, conducted the Revue Socialiste, and has written
on the religion and morality of the Socialists and other works.

Malvezin (Pierre). French journalist, b. Junhac, 26 June 1841. Author
of La Bible Farce (Brussels, 1879.) This work was condemned
and suppressed, 1880, and the author sentenced to three month's
imprisonment. He conducts the review La Fraternite.

Mandeville (Bernhard), b. Dort. 1670. He studied medicine, was made
a doctor in Holland, and emigrated to London. In 1705 he published
a poetical satire, The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turned Honest. In
1709, he published The Virgin Unmasked, and in 1723, Free Thoughts on
Religion the Church and National Happiness. In the same year appeared
his Fables of the Bees or Private Vices, Public Benefits. This work
was presented by the grand jury of Middlesex, 1723 and 1728. It was
attacked by Law, Berkeley, and others. Mandeville replied to Berkeley
in A Letter to Dion, occasioned by a book called Alciphron, or the
Minute Philosopher, 1732. He also wrote An Inquiry of Honor, and
Usefulness of Christianity in War, 1731. Died, London, 19 Jan. 1733.

Mantegazza (Paolo), Italian anthropologist, b. Monza, 31
Oct. 1831. Studied medicine at Milan, Pisa, and Paria, and travelled
considerably through Europe, and produced at Paris in 1854 his first
book The Physiology of Pleasure. He has also written on the physiology
of pain, spontaneous generation, anthropological works on Ecstacy,
Love and other topics, and a fine romance Il Dio Ignoto, the unknown
god (1876). Mantegazza is one of the most popular and able of Italian
writers.

Manzoni (Romeo), Dr. Italian physician, b. Arogno, 1847, studied
philosophy at Milan, and graduated at Naples. He has written on the
doctrine of love of Bruno and Schopenhauer A Life of Jesus, also Il
Prete, a work translated into German with the title Religion as a
Pathological Phenomenon, etc.

Marchena (Jose), Spanish writer, b. Utrera, Andalusia, 1768. Brought
up for the church, reading the writings of the French philosophers
brought on him the Inquisition. He fled to France where he became
a friend of Brissot and the Girondins. He wrote a pronounced Essai
de Theologie, 1797, and translated into Spanish Moliere's Tartufe,
and some works of Voltaire. He translated Dupuis' Origine de tous
les Cultes, became secretary to Murat, and died 10 Jan. 1821.

Marechal (Pierre Sylvain), French author, b. Paris, 15 Aug. 1750;
was brought up to the Bar, which he quitted for the pursuit of
literature. He was librarian to the Mazarin College, but lost his
place by his Book Escaped from the Deluge, Psalms, by S. Ar. Lamech
(anagram), 1784. This was a parody of the style of the prophets. In
1781 he wrote Le Nouveau Lucrece. In 1788 appeared his Almanack of
Honest People, in which the name of Jesus Christ was found beside
that of Epicurus. The work was denounced to Parliament, burnt at the
hands of the hangman, and Marechal imprisoned for four months. He
welcomed the Revolution, and published a republican almanack, 1793. In
1797 and 1798 he published his Code of a Society of Men without God,
and Free Thoughts on the Priests. In 1799 appeared his most learned
work, Travels of Pythagoras in Egypt, Chaldea, India, Rome, Carthage,
Gaul, etc. 6 vols. Into this fiction Marechal puts a host of bold
philosophical, political, and social doctrines. In 1800 he published
his famous Dictionary of Atheists, which the Government prohibited and
interdicted journals from noticing. In the following year appeared
his For and Against the Bible. Died at Montrouge, 18 Jan. 1803. His
beneficence is highly spoken of by Lalande.

Maret (Henry), French journalist and deputy, b. Santerre, 4 March,
1838. He ably combatted against the Empire, and edits Le Radical;
was elected deputy in '81.

Marguerite, of Valois, Queen of Navarre, sister to Francis I. b. at
Angouleme, 11 April, 1492. Deserves place for her protection to
religious reformers. Died 21 Dec. 1549.

Marguetel de Saint Denis. See Saint Evremond (C.)

Mario (Alberto), Italian patriot, b. 3 June, 1825. He edited the
Tribune and Free Italy, became aide-de-camp to Garibaldi and married
Jessie White, an English lady. In '60 he wrote a polemic against the
papacy entitled Slavery and Thought. Died 2 June, 1883.

Marlow (Christopher), English poet and dramatist, b. Canterbury,
8 Feb. 1564. Educated at Benet College, Cambridge, where he took his
degree in 1587. He devoted himself to dramatic writing and according
to some became an actor. He was killed in a brawl at Deptford, 1 June,
1593, in time to escape being tried on an information laid against him
for Atheism and blasphemy. The audacity of his genius is displayed in
Tamburlaine and Dr. Faustus. Of the latter, Goethe said "How greatly
is it all planned." Swinburne says "He is the greatest discoverer,
the most daring and inspired pioneer in all our poetic literature."

Marr (Wilhelm), German socialist, author of Religious Excursions,
1876, and several anti-Semitic tracts.

Marsais (Cesar Chesneau du). See Du Marsais.

Marselli (Niccola), Italian writer, b. Naples, 5 Nov. 1832. Author
of advanced works on the Science of History, Nature and Civilisation,
the Origin of Humanity, the Great Races of Humanity, etc.

Marston (Philip Bourke), English poet, b. London, 13 Aug. 1850. He
became blind in childhood, and devoted to poetry. A friend of
D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Thomson, his poems are sad and
sincere. Died 14 Feb. 1887, and was buried in accordance with his
own wishes in unconsecrated ground at Highgate, and without religious
service.

Marsy (Francois Marie de), b. Paris, 1714, educated as a Jesuit. He
brought out an analysis of Bayle, 1755, for which he was confined in
the Bastile. Died 16 Dec. 1763.

Marten (Henry), regicide, b. Oxford, 1602. Educated at Oxford, where
he proceeded B.A., 1619. He was elected to Parliament in 1640, and
expelled for his republican sentiments in 1643. He resumed his seat
6 Jan. 1646, took part in the civil war, sat as one of King Charles's
judges, and became one of the Council of State. He proposed the repeal
of the statute of banishment against the Jews, and when it was sought
to expel all profane persons, proposed to add the words "and all
fools." Tried for regicide 10 Oct. 1660, he was kept in Chepstow
Castle till his death, Sep. 1680. Carlyle calls him "sworn foe of
Cant in all its figures; an indomitable little Pagan if not better."

Martin (Emma), English writer and lecturess, b. Bristol, 1812. Brought
up as a Baptist, she, for a time, edited the Bristol Magazine. She
wrote the Exiles of Piedmont and translated from the Italian the Maxims
of Guicciardini. The trials of Holyoake and Southwell for blasphemy
led her to inquire and embrace the Freethought cause. While Holyoake
and Paterson were in gaol, Mrs. Martin went about committing the
"crime" for which they were imprisoned. In '43 she published Baptism A
Pagan Rite. This was followed by Tracts for the People on the Bible no
Revelation, Religion Superseded, Prayer, God's Gifts and Men's Duties,
a conversation on the being of God, etc. She also lectured and wrote
on the Punishment of Death, to which she was earnestly opposed. Died
Oct. 1851.

Martin (Bon Louis Henri), French historian, b. St. Quentin, 20
Feb. 1810. He was sent to Paris to study law, but abandoned it for
history. His History of France, in nineteen vols. (1838-53), is
a monumental work of erudition. A confirmed Republican, he warmly
opposed the Second Empire and after its fall became member of the
National Assembly, '71, and senator, '76. He was elected member of
the Academy, '78. In addition to his historical works he contributed
to le Siecle, la Liberte de penser, and l'Encyclopedie Nouvelle,
etc. Died 14 Dec. 1883.

Martin (Louis), author of Les Evangiles Sans Dieu (called by Victor
Hugo cette noble page), Paris, 1887, describes himself as an Atheist
Socialist.

Martin (Louis Auguste). French writer, b. Paris, 25 April, 1811,
editor of the Morale Independante and member of the Institute of
Geneva. For his True and False Catholics ('58), he was fined three
thousand francs and imprisoned for six months. He published the
Annuaire Philosophique. Several of his works are placed on the Roman
Index. Died Paris, 6 April, 1875.

Martinaud (M.), an ex-abbe who refused ordination, and wrote Letters
of a young priest, who is an Atheist and Materialist, to his bishop,
Paris, 1868, in which he says, "Religion is the infancy of peoples,
Atheism their maturity."

Martineau (Harriet), b. Norwich 12 June, 1803, descended from
a Huguenot family. Brought up as a Unitarian, she began writing
Devotional Exercises for Young Persons, and, taking to literature
as a means of living, distinguished herself by popularisations
of political economy. The Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and
Development, which passed between her and H. G. Atkinson, appeared in
'51, and disclosed her advance to the Positivist school of Thought. In
'53 she issued a condensed account of Comte's philosophy. She wrote
a History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace, and numerous
other works. Died at Ambleside 27 June, 1876. Her Autobiography,
published after her death, shows the full extent of her unbelief.

Masquerier (Lewis), American land reformer of Huguenot descent, b. 1
March, 1802. Wrote The Sataniad, established Greenpoint Gazette,
and contributed to the Boston Investigator. Died 7 Jan. 1888.

Massenet (Jules Emile Frederic), French musical composer, b. Montard,
12 May, 1842. Has written a daring and popular oratorio on Marie
Magdeleine, and an opera, Herodiade.

Massey (Gerald), poet and archaeologist, b. of poor parents at
Tring, in Herts, 29 May, 1828. At eight years of age he was sent
to a factory to earn a miserable pittance. At the age of fifteen
he came to London as an errand boy, read all that came in his way,
and became a Freethinker and political reformer. Inspired by the
men of '48, he started The Spirit of Freedom, '49. It cost him five
situations in eleven months. In '53 his Ballad of Babe Christabel,
with other Lyrical Poems at once gave him position as a poet of fine
taste and sensibility. Mr. Massey devoted himself to the study of
Egyptology, the result of which is seen in his Book of Beginnings
and Natural Genesis, '81-83, in which he shows the mythical nature of
Christianity. Mr. Massey has also lectured widely on such subjects as
Why Don't God Kill the Devil? The Historical Jesus and the Mythical
Christ, The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution, The Coming
Religion, etc. His poems are being re-published under the title My
Lyrical Life.

Massey (James). See Tyssot. (S.)

Massol (Marie Alexandre), French writer, b. Beziers, 18 March,
1805. He studied under Raspail, went to Paris in '30 and became a Saint
Simonian. In '48 he wrote on Lamennais' La Reforme, and on the Voix
du Peuple with his friend Proudhon, to whom he became executor. In
'65 he established La Morale Independante with the object of showing
morality had nothing to do with theology. Died at Paris 20 April, 1875.

Maubert de Gouvest (Jean Henri), French writer, b. Rouen, 20
Nov. 1721. Brought up as a monk, he fled and took service in the Saxon
army. He was thrown into prison by the King of Poland, but the Papal
nuncio procured his release on condition of retaking his habit. This
he did and went to Rome to be relieved of his vows. Failing this
he went to Switzerland and England, where he was well received by
Lord Bolingbroke. He published Lettres Iroquoises, Irocopolis, 1752,
and other anonymous works. At Frankfort in 1764 he was arrested as
a fugitive monk and vagabond, and was imprisoned eleven months. Died
at Altona, 21 Nov. 1767.

Maudsley (Henry), M.D., b. near Giggleswick, Yorkshire, 5
Feb. 1835. Educated at London University, where he graduated
M.D. in 1857. Taking mental pathology as his speciality, he soon
reached eminence in his profession. From '69-'79 he was professor
of medical jurisprudence at University College, London. His works on
The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind ('67), Body and Mind ('70),
Responsibility in Mental Disease ('73), and Body and Will ('83) have
attracted much attention. His Natural Laws and Supernatural Seemings
('80) is a powerful exposure of the essence of all superstition.

Mauvillon (Jakob von), b. Leipzig, 8 March, 1743. Though feeble in
body, he had a penchant for the army, and joined the engineer corps of
Hanover, and afterwards became lieutenant-colonel in the service of the
Duke of Brunswick. A friend and admirer of Mirabeau, he defended the
French Revolution in Germany. He wrote anonymously Paradoxes Moraux
(Amsterdam, 1768) and The Only True System of the Christian Religion
(Berlin, 1787), at first composed under the title of False Reasonings
of the Christian Religion. Died in Brunswick, 11 Jan. 1794.

Mazzini (Giuseppe), Italian patriot, b. Genoa, 28 June 1808. In '26 he
graduated LL.D., in the University of Genoa, and plunged into politics,
becoming the leader of Young Italy, with the object of uniting the
nation. Condemned to death in '33, he went to Switzerland and was
expelled, then came to England in '37. In '48 he returned, and in March
'49 was made triumvir of Rome with Saffi and Armellini. Compelled,
after a desperate resistance, to retire, he returned to London. He
wrote in the Westminster Review and other periodicals and his works are
numerous though mostly of a political character. They are distinguished
by highmindedness, love of toleration and eloquence. Carlyle called
Mazzini "a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity,
humanity and nobleness of mind." Died at Pisa 10 March, 1872. He was
a Deist.

Meissner (Alfred), German poet, b. Teplitz, 15 Oct. 1822. Has written
Ziska, an epic poem, The Son of Atta Troll, Recollections of Heine,
etc. Died Teplitz, 20 May, 1885.

Meister (Jacques Henri), Swiss writer, b. Bueckeburg, 6
Aug. 1744. Intended for a religious career, he went to France, and
became acquainted with D'Holbach and Diderot, of whom he wrote a short
life, and was secretary to Grimm. He wrote the Origin of Religious
Principles, 1762, and Natural Morality, 1787.

Menard (Louis), French author and painter, b. Paris, 1822. In
'48-'49 he wrote Prologue of a Revolution, for which he was obliged
to leave France. Has written on Morality before the Philosophers,
'60, Studies on the Origin of Christianity, '67, and Freethinkers'
Religious Catechism, '75.

Mendoza (Diego Hurtado de), famous and learned Spanish author, b. of
distinguished family, Granada, 1503. Intended for the church, he
studied Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew, but on leaving the university
he joined the army. At school he wrote his well known comic novel,
Lazarillo de Tormes, which was condemned by the Inquisition. Sent
on an embassy to Pope Paul III., the latter was greatly shocked at
his audacity and vehemence of speech. His chief work is his History
of the Moorish Wars, which remained unprinted thirty years, through
the intolerant policy of Philip II. Mendoza's satires and burlesques
were also prohibited by the Inquisition. He commented Aristotle and
translated his Mechanics. Died at Valladolid, April, 1575.

Mendum (Josiah P.), publisher and proprietor of the Boston
Investigator, b. Kennebunk, Maine, 7 July, 1811. He became a printer,
and in 1833 became acquainted with Abner Kneeland and after his
imprisonment engaged to print the Investigator, and when Kneeland
left Boston for the West to recruit his health, he carried on the
paper together with Mr. Horace Seaver. Mr. Mendum was one of the
founders of the Paine Memorial Hall, Boston, and a chief support of
Freethought in that city.

Mentelle (Edme), French geographer and historian, b. Paris, 11
Oct. 1730. Studied at the College de Beauvais under Crevier. His
Precis de l'Histoire des Hebreux (1798), and Precis de l'Histoire
Universelle are thoroughly anti-Christian. He doubted if Jesus ever
existed. He was a member of the Institute and Chevalier of the Legion
of Honor. Died at Paris, 28 Dec. 1815.

Mercier (L. A.), author of La Libre Pensee, Brussels, 1879.

Meredith (Evan Powell), Welsh writer, author of The Prophet of Nazareth
(1864), an able work exposing the prophecies of Jesus, and Amphilogia,
a reply in to the Bishop of Landaff and the Rev. J. F. Francklin, '67.

Meredith (George), philosophical poet and novelist, b. Hampshire,
1828, and educated partly on the Continent. Intended for the law,
he adopted literature in preference. He first appeared as a poet
with Poems ('51). Of his powerful novels we mention the Ordeal of
Richard Feveril ('59), Emilia in England ('64), now Sandra Belloni,
with Vittoria ('66) for a sequel. Rhoda Fleming, Beauchamp's Career
('76), The Egoist ('79), The Tragic Comedians ('81) and Diana of
the Crossways ('85). Deep thought and fine grace characterise his
writings. As a poet Mr. Meredith is not popular, but his volumes of
verse are marked by the highest qualities, and give him a place apart
from the throng of contemporary singers.

Merimee (Prosper), learned French writer, b. Paris, 28 Sept. 1808,
author of numerous essays and romances. Was made Inspector General
of Historic Monuments and was admitted to the Academy in '44. In his
anonymous brochure on H(enri) B(eyle), Eleutheropolis (Brussels), '64,
there is an open profession of Atheism. Died at Cannes, 23 Sept. 1870.

Merritt (Henry), English painter and writer, b. Oxford, 8 June,
1822. On coming to London he lived with Mr. Holyoake, and contributed
to the Reasoner, using the signature "Christopher." He wrote on Dirt
and Pictures and Robert Dalby and his World of Troubles, etc. Died
in London, 10 July, 1877.

Meslier or Mellier (Jean), cure of Etrepigny, Champagne, b. Mazerny,
Rethelois, 15 June, 1664. Died in 1729. After his death a will was
discovered of which he had made three copies, in which he repudiated
Christianity and requested to be buried in his own garden. His
property he left to his parishioners. Voltaire published it under
the title of Extract from the sentiments of Jean Meslier. To Meslier
has been attributed the work entitled Le Bon Sens, written by Baron
D'Holbach. Le Testament de Jean Meslier has been published in three
volumes at Amsterdam, 1864, preceded by a study by Rudolf Charles
(R. C. d'Ablaing van Giessenburg). It calls in question all the dogmas
of Christianity. Anacharsis Clootz proposed to the National Convention
to erect a statue to this "honest priest."

Metchnikov (Leon), Russian writer in French; author of a work on
Japan and of able articles, notably one on Christian Communion in
the Revue Internationale des Sciences Biologiques, tome 12.

Metrodorus of Lampsacus. Greek philosopher, b. 330 B.C., a disciple
and intimate friend of Epicurus. He wrote numerous works, the titles
of which are preserved by Diogenes Laertius. Died B.C. 277.

Mettrie, see La Mettrie.

Meunier (Amedee Victor), French writer, b. Paris, 2 May, 1817. Has
done much to popularise science by his Scientific Essays, 1851-58,
the Ancestors of Adam, '75, etc.

Meyer (Lodewijk), a Dutch physician, a friend and follower of
Spinoza, who published Exercitatio Paradoxa on the philosophical
interpretation of scripture, Eleutheropoli (Amst.), 1666. This has
been wrongly attributed to Spinoza. It was translated into Dutch
in 1667. He is also credited with Lucii Antistic Constantes, de
jure ecclesiasticorum. Alethopoli (Amst.), 1665. This work is also
attributed to another writer, viz. P. de la Court.

Mialhe (Hippolyte), French writer, b. Roquecourbe (Tarn), 1834. From
'60-62 he was with the French army of occupation at Rome. He has
organised federations of Freethinkers in France, edited L'Union
des Libres-Penseurs, and has written Memoires d'un libre Penseur
(Nevers, 1888).

Michelet (Jules), French historian, b. Paris, 21 Aug. 1798. Became
a Professor of History in 1821. Has written a History of France and
of the French Revolution; The Jesuits, with his friend Quinet, '43;
The Priest, Woman and the Family, '44; The Sorceress, dealing with
witchcraft in the Middle Ages, '62; The Bible of Humanity, '64. His
lectures were interdicted by the Government of Louis Phillippe, and
after the coup d'etat he was deprived of his chair. All Michelet's
works glow with eloquence and imagination. He never forgot that he
was a republican and Freethinker of the nineteenth century. Died at
Hyeres, 9 Feb. 1874.

Michelet (Karl Ludwig), German philosopher of French family, b. Berlin,
4 Dec. 1801. In '29 he became Professor of Philosophy. A disciple
of Hegel, he edited his master's works, '32. His principle work is A
System of Philosophy as an Exact Science, '76-81. He has also written
on the relation of Herbert Spencer to German philosophy.

Middleton (Conyers), Freethinking clergyman, b. York 1683. His Letters
from Rome, 1729, showed how much Roman Christianity had borrowed from
Paganism, and his Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers supposed
to have subsisted in the Christian Church, 1749, was a severe blow
to hitherto received "Christian Evidences." He also wrote a classic
Life of Cicero. Died at Hildersham near Cambridge, 28 July, 1750.

Mignardi (G.), Italian writer, who in 1884 published Memorie di un
Nuovo Credente (Memoirs of a New Believer).

Milelli (Domenico), Italian poet, b. Catanzaro, Feb. 1841. His family
intended to make him a priest, but he turned out a rank Pagan, as
may be seen in his Odi Pagane, '79, Canzonieri, '84, and other works.

Mill (James), philosopher and historian, b. Northwaterbridge, Montrose,
6 April, 1773. Studied at Edinburgh, and distinguished himself by his
attainments in Greek and moral philosophy. He was licensed as preacher
in the Scotch Church, but removed to London in 1800, and became editor
of the Literary Review, and contributed to the reviews. He published,
'17-'19, his History of British India. He contributed many articles to
the fifth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A friend of Bentham,
he wrote largely in the Westminster Review, and did much to forward
the views of Philosophic Radicalism. His Analysis of the Human Mind,
'39, is a profound work. In religion he was a complete sceptic. Reading
Bishop Butler's Analogy made him an Atheist. Died 23 June, 1836.

Mill (John Stuart), eminent English writer, son of the preceding,
b. London, 20 May, 1806. Educated by his father without religion, he
became clerk in the East India House, and early in life contributed to
the Westminster and Edinburgh Reviews. Of the first he became joint
editor in '35. His System of Logic, '43, first made him generally
known. This was followed by his Principles of Political Economy. In
'59 appeared his small but valuable treatise On Liberty, in which he
defends the unrestricted free discussion of religion. Among subsequent
works were Utilitarianism, '63; Auguste Comte and Positivism, '67;
Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy '65; Dissertations
and Discussions, '59-'75; and the Subjection of Women, '69. In '65
he was elected to Parliament for Westminster, but lost his seat in
'68. In '67 he was chosen Rector of St. Andrews, and delivered the
students an able address. Prof. Bain says "in everything characteristic
of the creed of Christendom he was a thorough-going negationist. He
admitted neither its truth nor its utility." Died at Avignon, 8 May,
1873, leaving behind his interesting Autobiography and three essays on
"Nature," "Theism," and "Religion."

Mille (Constantin), Roumanian writer, b. at Bucharest, educated at
Paris. He lectured at Jassy and Bucharest on the History of Philosophy,
from a Materialistic point of view. He was also active with Codreano,
and after the latter's death ('77), in spreading Socialism. Mille
contributes to the Rivista Sociala and the Vuetorul, edited by
C. Pilitis.

Milliere (Jean Baptiste), Socialist, b. of poor parents, Lamarche
(Cote d'Or), 13 Dec. 1817. He became an advocate, and founded the
Proletaire at Clermont Ferrand. For writing Revolutionary Studies he
was, after the coup d'etat, banished to Algeria until the amnesty of
'59. In '69 Milliere started, with Rochefort, the Marseillaise, of
which he became one of the principal directors. At the election for the
National Assembly he was elected for Paris by 73,000 votes. Although
he took no part in the Commune, but sought to act as an intermediary,
he was arrested and summarily shot near the Pantheon, Paris, 26 May,
1871. He died crying "Vive l'Humanite."

Mirabaud (Jean Baptiste de), French writer, b. Paris, 1675. He
translated Tasso and Ariosto, and became perpetual secretary to the
French Academy. He wrote Opinions of the Ancients on the Jews, a
Critical Examination of the New Testament, (published under the name
of Freret), The World: its Origin and Antiquity, 1751, Sentiments of
a Philosopher on the Nature of the Soul inserted in the collection
entitled Nouvelle libertes de Penser, Amst. (Paris) 1743. The System
of Nature, attributed to Mirabaud, was written by d'Holbach. Mirabaud
died 24 June, 1760.

Mirabeau (Honore Gabriel Riquetti Comte de), French statesman
and orator, b. at the Chateau de Bignon (Loiret) 9 March, 1749. He
inherited a passionate nature, a frank strong will, generous temper,
and a mind of prodigious activity. He entered the army in 1767,
but by an amorous intrigue provoked the ire of his father, by whom
he was more than once imprisoned. In 1776 he went to Amsterdam and
employed himself in literary work. In 1783 appeared anonymously his
Erotika Biblion, dealing with the obscenity of the Bible. In 1786 he
was sent to Berlin, where he met Frederick and collected materials
for his work on The Prussian Monarchy. He returned to the opening of
the States General and soon became leader of the Revolution, being
in Jan. 1791 chosen President of the National Assembly. He advocated
the abolition of the double aristocracy of Lords and bishops, the
spoliation of the Church and the National Guard. Carlyle calls him
"far the strongest, best practical intellect of that time." He died
2 April, 1791. Among his last words were, "Envelop me with perfumes
and crown me with flowers that I may pass away into everlasting sleep."

Miranda (Don Francisco). South American patriot and general, b. Caracas
1750, aided the Americans in their War of Independence, tried to free
Guatimalaus from the Spanish, allied himself to the Girondins and
became second in command in the army of Dumouriez. He was a friend
of Thomas Paine. In 1806-11 he was engaged seeking to free Peru from
the Spaniards, by whom he was made prisoner, and died in a dungeon
at Cadiz, 16 Jan. 1816. It was said General Miranda made a sceptic
of James Mill.

Miron. See Morin (Andre Saturnin.)

Mitchell (J. Barr), Dr., anonymous author of Dates and Data (1876)
and Chrestos; a Religious Epithet (1880). Dr. Mitchell has also
written in the National Reformer, using his initials only.

Mitchell (Logan), author of Lectures published as The Christian
Mythology Unveiled. This work was also issued under the title
Superstition Besieged. It is said that Mitchell committed suicide in
Nov. 1841. He left by his will a sum of L500 to any bookseller who had
the courage to publish his book. It was first published by B. Cousens,
and was republished in '81.

Mittermaier (Karl Josef Anton von), German jurisconsult, b. Munich,
5 Aug. 1787. Studied law and medicine at Landshut, where he became
professor. His works on Law gained him a high reputation. He obtained
a chair at the Heidelberg University. In 1831 he represented Baden in
Parliament. He advocated the unity of Germany and took an active part
in the Radical movement of '48. His writings are all in the direction
of freedom. Died 28 Aug. 1867.

Mittie (Stanilas), in 1789 proposed the taking of church bells to make
money and cannon, and during the revolution distinguished himself by
other anti-clerical suggestions. Died 1816.

Mocenicus (Philippus), Archbishop of Nicosia, Cyprus, a Venetian
philosopher, whose heretical Contemplations were printed at Geneva,
1588, with the Peripatetic Question of Caesalpinus and the books of
Telesio on The Nature of Things in the volume entitled Tractationum
Philosophicarum.

Moleschott (Jacob), scientific Materialist, b. of Dutch parents at 's
Hertogenbosch, 9 Aug. 1822; studied at Heidelburg where he graduated
M.D. Became Professor of Physiology at Zurich and afterwards at
Turin. Becoming a naturalised Italian he was in '76 made a senator,
and in '78 Professor of Physiology at the University of Rome. He has
written Circulation of Life, Light and Life, Physiological Sketches,
and other medical and scientific works. Lange calls him "the father
of the modern Materialistic movement."

Molesworth (Sir William), statesman and man of letters, the eighth
baronet of his family, b. Cornwall, 23 May, 1810. In '32 he was
returned M.P. for East Cornwall, and from '37-41 sat for Leeds. In
'53 he was First Commissioner of Public Works, and in '55 was Secretary
for the Colonies. He was for some time proprietor and conductor of the
Westminster Review, in which he wrote many articles. A noble edition
of Hobbes was produced at his expense, '39-45, and he contributed to
the support of Auguste Comte. Died 22 Oct. 1855.

Mommsen (Theodor), historian, b. Garding (Schleswig), 30
Nov. 1817. Studied at Kiel, and travelled from '44 to 47. He became
Professor of Law of Leipsic, Zuerich and Berlin. Is best known by his
History of Rome, '53-85, a work of great research and suggestiveness
in which he expresses the opinion that it is doubtful if the world
was improved by Christianity.

Monboddo (Lord). See Burnett (James).

Monge (Gaspard), French scientist, b. at Beaume, 10 May 1746. Taught
physics and mathematics at the military school of Mezieres, became a
member of the Academy of Sciences in 1780, and through the influence
of Condorcet was made Minister of the Marine in 1792. He was one of
the founders of the Polytechnic School. Napoleon made him a senator,
created him Count of Pelusium, and gave him an estate for his many
services to the French nation. On the return of the Bourbons he was
deprived of all his emoluments. Died 28 July, 1818. Marechal and
Lalande insert his name in their list of Atheists.

Mongez (Antoine), French archaeologist, b. Lyons, 30 June
1747. Distinguished by his studies, he became a member of the Academy
of Inscriptions and of the Institute, before which he said "he had
the honor to be an Atheist." He was one of the most ardent members of
the Convention, and wrote many memoirs. Died at Paris, 30 July, 1835.

Monroe (J. R.), Dr., editor and proprietor of the Ironclad Age,
b. Monmouth, co. New Jersey, about 1825. In '50 he went to Rochford,
where he had a good practice as a doctor. In '55 he started the
Rochford Herald, and in July, '57, the Seymour Times. During the Civil
War he was appointed surgeon to the 150th regiment, and after some
hard service his own health broke down. In '75 Dr. Monroe published
his dramas and poems in a volume. From this time his paper became
more Freethought and less political. In April, '82, he removed to
Indianapolis, Indiana, and changed the name to The Age, afterwards
Monroe's Ironclad Age. Dr. Monroe is a clever writer and a modest man,
with a remarkable fund of natural humor. Among his publications are
poems on The Origin of Man, etc., Genesis Revised, and Holy Bible
Stories.

Montaigne (Michel de), French philosophic essayist, b. at the family
castle in Perigord, 28 Feb. 1533. He studied law and became a judge
at Bordeaux about 1554. In 1580 he produced his famous "Essays,"
which indicate a sprightly humor allied to a most independent
spirit. The Essays, Hallam says, make in several respects an epoch in
literature. Emerson says, "Montaigne is the frankest and honestest
of all writers." Montaigne took as his motto: Que scais-je? [What
know I?] and said that all religious opinions are the result of
custom. Buckle says, "Under the guise of a mere man of the world,
expressing natural thoughts in common language, Montaigne concealed a
spirit of lofty and audacious inquiry." Montaigne seems to have been
the first man in Europe who doubted the sense and justice of burning
people for a difference of opinion. His denunciation of the conduct of
the Christians in America does him infinite honor. Died 13 Sept. 1592.

Monteil (Charles Francois Louis Edgar), French journalist, b. Vire,
26 Jan. 1845. Fought against the Empire, writing in Le Rappel. During
the Commune he was secretary to Delescluze. For his Histoire d'un
Frere Ignorantin, '74, he was prosecuted by the Christian Brothers,
and condemned to one year's imprisonment, 2,000 francs fine, and 10,000
francs damages. In '77 he wrote a Freethinker's Catechism, published
at Antwerp, and in '79 an edition of La Republique Francaise. In '80
he was made a member of the Municipal Council of Paris, and re-elected
in '84. In '83 he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He has
compiled an excellent secular Manual of Instruction for schools.

Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat), Baron, eminent French writer,
b. near Bordeaux, 18 Jan. 1689. His first literary performance was
entitled Persian Letters, 1721. In 1728 he was admitted a member of
the French Academy, though opposed by Cardinal Fleury on the ground
that his writings were dangerous to religion. His chief work is the
Spirit of Laws, 1748. This work was one of the first-fruits of the
positive spirit in history and jurisprudence. The chapters on Slavery
are written in a vein of masterly irony, which Voltaire pronounced
to be worthy of Moliere. Died 10 Feb. 1755.

Montgomery (Edmund), Dr. philosopher, b. of Scotch parents, Edinburgh
1835. In youth he lived at Frankfort, where he saw Schopenhauer,
and afterwards attended at Heidelberg the lectures of Moleschott and
Kuno Fischer. He became a friend of Feuerbach. He wrote in German and
published at Munich in '71, The Kantian Theory of Knowledge refuted
from the Empirical Standpoint. In '67 he published a small book On
the Formation of so-called Cells in Animal Bodies. In '71 he went to
Texas and prosecuted his scientific studies on life. He has written
in the Popular Science Monthly, The Index, and The Open Court and
Mind. Dr. Montgomery holds not only that there is no evidence of a God,
but that there is evidence to the contrary.

Montgolfier (Michel Joseph), aeronaut, b. Aug. 1740. He was the first
to ascend in an air balloon, 5 June 1783. A friend of Delambre and
La Lalande, he was on the testimony of this last an atheist. Died 26
June 1810.

Mook (Friedrich) German writer, b. Bergzabern, 29 Sept. 1844, studied
philosophy and theology at Tuebingen, but gave up the latter to study
medicine. He lived as a writer at Heidelberg and became lecturer to
a free congregation at Nuerenburg, and wrote a popular Life of Jesus,
published at Zuerich, '72-3. He travelled abroad and was drowned in
the river Jordan, 13 Dec. 1880. His brother Kurt, b. 12 Feb. 1847,
is a physician who has published some poems.

Moor (Edmund), Major in the East Indian Company, author of the Hindu
Pantheon, 1810 and Oriental Fragments, '34. Died 1840.

Moreau (Hegesippe), French poet, b. Paris 9, April 1810. A radical
and freethinker, he fought in the barricades in '30. Wrote songs and
satires of considerable merit, and a prose work entitled The Mistletoe
and the Oak. His life, which was a continual struggle with misery,
terminated in a hospital, 20 Dec. 1838. His works have been collected,
with an introduction by Sainte-Beuve.

Moreau (Jacques Joseph), Dr. of Tours, b. Montresor, 1804. He became a
distinguished alienist of the materialist school, and wrote on Moral
Faculties from a medical point of view, '36, and many physiological
works.

Morelly, French socialist of the eighteenth century,
b. Vitry-le-Francais, author of a work called Code de la Nature,
sometimes attributed to Diderot. It was published in 1755, and urges
that man should find circumstances in which depravity is minimised.

Morgan (Thomas), Welsh Deist, known by the title of his book as The
Moral Philosopher, 1737. Was a Presbyterian, but was deposed for
Arianism about 1723, and practised medicine at Bristol. He edited
Radicati's Dissertation on Death, 1731. His Moral Philosopher seeks
to substitute morality for religion. He calls Moses "a more fabulous
romantic writer than Homer or Ovid," and attacks the evidence of
miracles and prophecy. This was supplemented by A Further Vindication
of Moral Truth and Reason, 1739, and Superstition and Tyranny
Inconsistent with Theocracy, 1740. He replied to his opponents over
the signature "Philalethes." His last work was on Physico-Theology,
1741. Lechler calls Morgan "the modern Marcion." Died at London,
14 Jan. 1743.

Morgan (Sir Thomas Charles), M.D., b. 1783. Educated at Cambridge. In
1811 he was made a baronet, and married Miss Sidney Owensen. A warm
friend of civil and religious liberty and a sceptic, he is author of
Sketches of the Philosophy of Life, '18, and the Philosophy of Morals,
'19. The Examiner says, "He was never at a loss for a witty or wise
passage from Rabelais or Bayle." Died 28 Aug. 1843.

Morin (Andre Saturnin), French writer, b. Chatres, 28
Nov. 1807. Brought up to the law, and became an advocate. In '30
he wrote defending the revolution against the restoration. In '48
he was made sous-prefet of Nogent. During the Empire he combated
vigorously for Republicanism and Freethought, writing under the
signature "Miron," in the Rationaliste of Geneva, the Libre Pensee
of Paris, the Libero-pensiero of Milan, and other papers. He was
intimately associated with Ausonio Franchi, Trezza, Stefanoni,
and the Italian Freethinkers. His principal work is an Examination
of Christianity, in three volumes, '62. His Jesus Reduced to his
True Value has gone through several editions. His Essai de Critique
Religieuse, '85, is an able work. M. Morin was one of the founders
of the Bibliotheque Democratique, to which he contributed several
anti-clerical volumes, the one on Confession being translated into
English by Dr. J. R. Beard. In '76 he was elected on the Municipal
Council of Paris, where he brought forward the question of establishing
a crematorium. Died at Paris, 5 July, 1888, and was cremated at Milan.

Morison (James Augustus Cotter), English Positivist and man of letters,
b. London, 1831. Graduated at Lincoln Coll. Oxford, M.A., '59. In
'63 he published the Life and Times of Saint Bernard. He was one of
the founders of the Fortnightly Review, in which he wrote, as well as
in the Athenaeum. He contributed monographs on Gibbon and Macaulay to
Morley's "Men of Letters" Series. In '86 he published his striking work
The Service of Man, an Essay towards the Religion of the Future, which
shows that the benefits of Christianity have been much exaggerated and
its evils palpable. All his writings are earnest and thoughtful. He
collected books and studied to write a History of France, which would
have been a noble contribution to literature; but the possession of
a competence seems to have weakened his industry, and he never did
justice to his powers. Even the Service of Man was postponed until
he was no longer able to complete it as he intended. Morison was a
brilliant talker, and the centre of a wide circle of friends. George
Meredith dedicated to him a volume of poems. Died at Hampstead,
26 Feb. 1888.

Morley (John), English writer and statesman, b. Blackburn,
24 Dec. 1838, educated at Oxford. Among his fellow students was
J.C. Morison. He contributed to The Leader and the Saturday Review,
edited the Morning Star, and the Fortnightly Review, '67-82, in which
appeared the germs of most of his works, such as On Compromise,
Voltaire, '72; Rousseau, '73; Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
'78. During his editorship important Freethought papers appeared in
that review. From May, '80 till Aug. '83 he edited the Pall Mall
Gazette. Upon the death of Ashton Dilke, M.P., he was elected
to Parliament for Newcastle, and in Feb. '86 was appointed by
Mr. Gladstone Chief Secretary for Ireland.

Morselli (Enrico Agostino), Italian doctor and scientist, b. Modena,
1852. Has written many anthropological works, notably one on Suicide
in the International Scientific Series, and a study on "The Religion
of Mazzini." He edits the Rivista di Filosofia Scientifica, and has
translated Herbert Spencer on the past and future of religion.

Mortillet (Louis Laurent Gabriel de), French scientist, b. Meylan
(Isere), 29 Aug. 1821, and was educated by Jesuits. Condemned in
'49 for his political writings he took refuge in Switzerland. He
has done much to promote prehistoric studies in France. Has written
Materials to serve for the positive and philosophical history of man,
'64. The Sign of the Cross before Christianity, '66, Contribution
to the History of Superstition, and Prehistoric Antiquity of Man,
'82. He contributed to the Revue Independante, Pensee Nouvelle,
etc. M. de Mortillet is curator of the Museum of St. Germain and was
elected Deputy in 1885.

Moss (Arthur B.), lecturer and writer, b. 8 May, 1855. Has written
numerous pamphlets, a number of which are collected in Waves of
Freethought, '85. Others are Nature and the Gods, Man and the Lower
Animals, Two Revelations, etc. Mr. Moss has been a contributor to
the Secular Chronicle, Secular Review, Freethinker, Truthseeker,
and other journals, and has had a written debate on "Was Jesus God
or Man." A School Board officer, he was for a time prohibited from
lecturing on Sunday. A collection of his Lectures and Essays has been
published, 1889.

Mothe Le Vayer. See La Mothe Le Vayer.

Mott (Lucretia), American reformer, nee Coffin, b. Nantucket, 3
Jan. 1793. She was a Quakeress, but on the division of the Society
in 1827 went with the party who preferred conscience to revelation. A
strong opponent of slavery, she took an active part in the abolitionist
movement. She was delegated to the World's Anti-slavery Convention
in London in 1840, but excluded on account of her sex. A friend of
Mrs. Rose and Mrs. Stanton. Took an active part in Women's Rights
conventions. Died at Philadelphia, 11 Nov. 1880.

Muhammad ibn al Hudail al Basri, philosopher of Asia Minor, founder
of the Muhammadan Freethinking sect of Mutazilah, b. about 757. Died
about 849.

Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan (Abu Nasr.) See Alpharabius.

Muhammad Ibn Yahya Ibn Bajjat. See Avempace.

Muhammad Jalal ed din. See Akbar.

Muller (Dr. H. C.) Dutch writer, b. 31 Oct. 1855. Has contributed
good articles to de Dageraad (the Daybreak), and is now teacher of
modern Greek at the University of Amsterdam.

Murger (Henri), French author, b. Paris, 1822, contributed to the Revue
des Deux Mondes, tales poems and dramas. In his poem Le Testament in
"Winter Nights" he says in answer to the inquiring priest "Reponds
lui que j'ai lu Voltaire." His most popular work is entitled Scenes
of Bohemian Life. Died Paris, 28 Jan. 1861.

Musset (Louis Charles Alfred de), French poet, b. Paris, 11
Nov. 1810. Before the age of twenty he became one of the leaders of the
Romantic school. His prose romance, Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle,
'36, exhibits his intellectual development and pessimistic moods. Among
his finest works are four poems entitled Nuits. He contributed to
the Revue des Deux Mondes, and was admitted into the Academy in
'52. Died at Paris 1 May, 1857.

Naber (Samuel Adriaan), learned Dutch writer, b. Gravenhage, 16 July,
1828. Studied at Leyden and became rector of the Haarlem gymnasium,
and head teacher at the Amsterdam Athenaeum. He has edited a journal
of literature, and is joint author with Dr. A. Pierson of Verisimilia
(1886), a Latin work showing the fragmentary and disjointed character
of the Epistles attributed to Paul.

Nachtigal (Gustav.), Dr., German traveller, b. Eichstadt, 23
Feb. 1834. He studied medicine, went to Algiers and Tunis, became
private physician to the Bey of Tunis, explored North Africa, and
wrote an account thereof, Sahara und Sudan. He became German Consul
General at Tunis, and died 20 April, 1885.

Naigeon (Jacques Andre), French atheist, b. Dijon 1728. At first an
art student, he became a disciple and imitator of Diderot. He became
copyist to and collaborator with Holbach and conveyed his works to
Amsterdam to be printed. He contributed to the Encyclopedie, notably
the articles Ame and Unitaires and composed the Militaire Philosophe,
or difficulties on religion proposed to Father Malebranche, 1768. This
was his first work, the last chapter being written by Holbach. He
took some share in several of the works of that writer, notably in the
Theologie Portative. He published the Recueil Philosophique, 2 vols.,
Londres (Amst.), 1770; edited Holbach's Essay on Prejudices and his
Morale Universelle. He also edited the works of Diderot, the essays
of Montaigne and a translation of Toland's philosophical letters. His
principal work is the Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Philosophy in
the Encyclopedie Methodique (Paris 1791-94.) He addressed the National
Assembly on Liberty of Opinion, 1790, and asked them to withhold
the name of God and religion from their declaration of the rights of
man. Naigeon was of estimable character. Died at Paris, 28 Feb. 1810.

Naquet (Joseph Alfred). French materialist, b. Carpentras, 6 Oct. 1834,
became M.D. in '59. In '67 he received fifteen months imprisonment for
belonging to a secret society. He founded, with M. Regnard, the Revue
Encyclopedique, which was suppressed at once for containing an attack
on theism. In '69 he issued a work on Religion, Property, and Family,
which was seized and the author condemned to four months imprisonment,
a fine of five hundred francs, and the perpetual interdict of civil
rights. He represented Vaucluse in the National Assembly, where he
has voted with the extreme left. He was re-elected in '81. The new
law of divorce in France has been passed chiefly through M. Naquet's
energetic advocacy. In '83 he was elected to the Senate, and of late
has distinguished himself by his advocacy of General Boulanger.

Nascimento (Francisco Manuel do). Portuguese poet, b. Lisbon, 23
Dec, 1734. He entered the Church, but having translated Moliere's
Tartuffe, was accused of heresy (1778), and had to fly for his life
from the Inquisition. He wrote many poems and satires under the name of
"Filinto Elysio." Died 25 Feb. 1819.

Navez (Napoleon), Belgian Freethinker, president of La Libre Pensee,
of Antwerp, and active member of the Council of the International
Federation of Freethinkers.

Nelson (Gustave), a writer in the New York Truthseeker, conjectured to
be the author of Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions,
a large and learned work, showing how much of Christianity has been
taken from Paganism.

Newcomb (Simon), LL.D., American astronomer, b. Wallace, (Nova
Scotia), 12 March, 1835. Went to the United States in '53, and was
appointed computor on the Nautical Almanack. In '77 he became senior
professor of mathematics in the U. S. navy. He has been associated
with the equipment of the Lick observatory, and has written many
works on mathematics and astronomy, as well as Principles of Political
Economy, 1885.

Newman (Francis William) brother of Cardinal Newman, b. London
1805. Educated at Oxford, he was elected to a fellowship at Balliol
College '26, but resigned in '30, being unable conscientiously to
comply with the regulations of the Test Act then in force. He then
went to Bagdad with the object of assisting in a Christian mission,
but his further studies convinced him he could not conscientiously
undertake the work. He returned to England and became classical
teacher in Bristol College, and subsequently Latin Professor at
London University. In The Soul: its Sorrows and Aspirations, '49,
he states his Theistic position, and in Phases of Faith, '50, he
explains how he came to give up Christianity. He has also written A
History of the Hebrew Monarchy, '47, Theism: Doctrinal and Practical,
'58, and a number of Scott's tracts on the Defective Morality of
the New Testament, the Historical Depravation of Christianity, the
Religious Weakness of Protestantism, etc. Also Religion not History,
'77; What is Christianity without Christ? '81; Christianity in its
Cradle, '84; and Life after Death, '86.

Neymann (Clara), German American Freethought lecturess, friend and
colleague of Frau Hedwig Henrich Wilhelmi.

Nicholson (William), English writer on chemistry and natural
philosophy, b. London 1753. He went to India at an early age, and upon
returning settled at London as a Mathematical teacher. He published
useful introductions to chemistry and natural philosophy. Conducted
the British Encyclopedia, and the Journal of Natural Philosophy. He
also wrote The Doubts of the Infidels, submitted to the Bench of
Bishops by a weak Christian, 1781, a work republished by Carlile and
also by Watson. He died in poor circumstances 21 May, 1815.

Nicolai (Christoph Friedrich), German writer, b. Berlin, 18 March,
1733. A friend of Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn; he was noted
for founding "The Universal German Library." He wrote anecdotes of
Friedrich II., and many other works. Died at Berlin, 8 Jan. 1811.

Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm), German writer, b. Lutzen, 15 Oct. 1844,
author of sketches of Strauss, Schopenhauer, and Wagner, and of
Morgenroethe, and other philosophical works. Died 1889.

Nieuwenhuis (Ferdinand Jakob Domela), Dutch publicist, b. Utrecht,
3 May, 1848. At first a minister of the Lutheran church, on Nov. 25,
'77, he told his congregation that he had ceased to believe in
Christianity, and as an honest man resigned. He then contributed
to De Banier (Banner) de Dageraad (Dawn) and de Vragen des Tijds
(Questions of the time.) On 1st March, '79 he started a Socialist
paper Recht voor Allen, now an important daily organ of Socialism and
Freethought. His principle writings are--With Jesus, For or against
Socialism, The Religious Oath Question, The Religion of Reason,
The Religion of Humanity. On Jan. 19, '87, he was sentenced to one
years' solitary confinement for an article he had not written, and
was harshly treated till upon pressure of public opinion, he was
liberated 30 Aug. 1887. He is now member of the Dutch Parliament.

Noeldeke (Theodor), German Orientalist, b. Harburg, 2 March,
1836. Studied at Gottingen, Vienna, Leyden, and Berlin, and has been
professor of oriental studies at Gottingen, Kiel, and Strasburg. He
has written a History of the Koran, '56; a Life of Mahomet, '63; and
a Literary History of the Old Testament, which has been translated
into French by MM. Derembourg and J. Soury, '73.

Noire (Ludwig), German monist, b. 26 March, 1829. Studied at Geissen,
and became a teacher at Mainz. His works show the influence of
Spinoza and Schopenhauer. He is the author of Aphorisms on the Monist
philosophy, '77, and a work on the Origin of Speech, '77. He contends
that language originates in instinctive sounds accompanying will in
associative actions. Died 26 March, 1889.

Noorthouck (John), author of a History of London, 1773, and an
Historical and Classical Dictionary, 1776. Has been credited with
the Life of the Man After God's Own Heart. See Annet.

Nordau (Max Simon), b. of Jewish parents at Pesth, 29 July, 1849. He
became a physician in '73. He has written several books of travels
and made some noise by his trenchant work on Convential Lies of our
Civilisation. He has since written on The Sickness of the Century.

Nork (Felix). See Korn (Selig).

Nott (Josiah Clark), Dr., American ethnologist, b. Columbia, South
Carolina, 24 March, 1804. He wrote The Physical History of the Jewish
Race, Types of Mankind, '54, and Indigenous Races of the Earth, '55;
the last two conjointly with G. R. Gliddon, and with the object of
disproving the theory of the unity of the human race. Died at Mobile,
31 March, 1873.

Noun (Paul), French author of The Scientific Errors of the Bible, 1881.

Noyes (Thomas Herbert), author of Hymns of Modern Man, 1870.

Nunez (Rafael), President of Columbia, b. Carthagena, 28 Sept. 1825. He
has written many poems and political articles, and in philosophy is
a follower of Mill and Spencer.

Nuytz (Louis Andre). See Andre-Nuytz.

Nystrom (Anton Christen), Dr. Swedish Positivist, b. 15
Feb. 1842. Studied at Upsala and became a medical doctor in Lund,
'68. He served as assistant and field doctor in the Dano-Prussian
war of '67, and now practises an alienist in Stockholm, where he has
established a Positivist Society and Workmen's Institute. Has written
a History of Civilisation.

Ocellus Lucanus, early Greek philosopher, who maintained the
eternity of the cosmos. An edition of his work was published with a
translation by the Marquis d'Argens, and Thomas Taylor published an
English version.

Ochino (Bernardino Tommasini), Italian reformer, b. Sienna, 1487. A
popular preacher, he was chosen general of the Capuchins. Converted to
the Reformation by Jean Valdez, he had to fly to Geneva, 1542. Invited
to England by Cranmer, he became prebend of Canterbury and preached
in London until the accession of Mary, when he was expelled and went
to Zurich. Here he became an Antitrinitarian, and was banished about
1562 for Thirty Dialogues, in one of which he shows that neither in the
Bible nor the Fathers is there any express prohibition of polygamy. He
went to Poland and joined the Socinians, was banished thence also,
and died Slaukau, Moravia, in 1564. Beza ascribes the misfortunes of
Ochinus, and particularly the accidental death of his wife, to the
special interposition of God on account of his erroneous opinions.

O'Connor (Arthur, afterwards Condorcet), General, b. Mitchells, near
Bandon (Cork), 4 July, 1768. Joined the United Irishmen and went
to France to negotiate for military aid. In May 1798 he was tried
for treason and acquitted. He entered the French service and rose to
distinction. In 1807 he married Elisa, the only daughter of Condorcet,
whose name he took, and whose works he edited. He also edited the
Journal of Religious Freedom. Died at Bignon, 25 April, 1852.

O'Donoghue (Alfred H.) Irish American counsellor at law, b. about
1840. Educated for the Episcopal ministry at Trinity College, Dublin,
but became a sceptic and published Theology and Mythology, an inquiry
into the claims of Biblical inspiration and the supernatural element
in religion, at New York, 1880.

Oest (Johann Heinrich) German poet, b. Cassel 1727. Wrote poems
published at Hamburg, 1751, and was accused of materialism.

Offen (Benjamin), American Freethinker, b. in England, 1772. He
emigrated to New York, where he became lecturer to the Society of
Moral Philantropists at Tammany Hall. He wrote Biblical Criticism
and A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion, and supported the
Correspondent, Free Inquirer, and Boston Investigator. Died New York,
12 May, 1848.

Offray de la Mettrie (Julian). See Lamettrie.

O'Keefe (J. A.), M.D. Educated in Germany; author of an essay On
the Progress of the Human Understanding, 1795, in which he speaks
disparagingly of Christianity. He was a follower of Kant, and was
classed with Living Authors of Great Britain in 1816.

O'Kelly (Edmund de Pentheny), a descendant of the O'Kelly's; author
of Consciousness, or the Age of Reason, 1853; Theological Papers,
published by Holyoake; and Theology for the People, '55, a series of
short papers suggestive of religious Theism.

Oken (Lorenz), German morphologist and philosopher, b. Offenburg,
2 Aug. 1779. He studied at Goettingen and became a privat-docent in
that university. In a remarkable Sketch of Natural Philosophy, 1802,
he advanced a scheme of evolution. He developed his system in a work
on Generation, 1805, and a Manual of Natural Philosophy, 1809. He
was professor at Jena, but dismissed for his liberal views. From
'17 till '48 he edited the scientific journal Isis. In '32 he became
a professor at Zuerich, where he died, 11 Aug. 1851.

Oliver (William), M.D., of Bath, who was accused of Atheism. Died 1764.

Omar Khayyam. See Khayyam.

Omboni (Giovanni), Lombard naturalist, b. Abbiategrasso, 29 June,
1829. Is professor of geology at Padua, and author of many scientific
works.

Onimus (Ernest Nicolas Joseph), Dr., French Positivist, b. near
Mulhouse, 6 Dec. 1840. Studied medicine at Strasburg and Paris,
and wrote a treatise on The Dynamical Theory of Heat in Biological
Sciences, 1866. In '73 he was one of the jury of the Vienna Exhibition,
and obtained the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Is author of the
Psychology in the Plays of Shakespere, '78, and has written in the
Revue Positive and other periodicals.

Oort (Henricus), Dutch rationalist, b. Eemnes, 27 Dec. 1836. Studied
theology at Leyden, and became teacher at Amsterdam. Has written many
works, of which we mention The Worship of Baalim in Israel, translated
by Bp. Colenso, 1865, and The Bible for Young People, written with
Drs. Hooykaas and Kuenen, and translated by P. H. Wickstead, 1873-79.

Orelli (Johann Kaspar von), learned Swiss critic, b. Zuerich,
13 Feb. 1789. Edited many classics, and wrote a letter in favor of
Strauss at the time when there was an outcry at his being appointed
Professor at Zuerich. Died 6 Jan. 1849.

Osborne (Francis), English writer, b. Clucksand, Beds. 1589. Was an
adherent of Cromwell in the Civil War. His Advice to a Son, 1656, was
popular though much censured by the Puritans who drew up a complaint
against his works and proposed to have them burnt, and an order was
passed 27 July, 1658, forbidding them to be sold. Died 1659.

Oscar (L.), Swiss writer, author of Religion Traced Back to its
Source, Basel, 1874. He considers religion "a belief in conflict
with experience and resting on exaggerated fancies" of animism and
mythology. One of his chapters is entitled "The Crucifixion of the
Son of God as Christian mythology."

Ossoli (Countess d'). See Fuller (Margaret).

Oswald (Eugen), German teacher in England. Author of many popular
school books, and a Study of Positivism in England, 1884.

Oswald (Felix Leopold), American writer, b. Belgium, 1845. Educated
as a physician, he has devoted his attention to natural history,
and in pursuit of his studies has travelled extensively. He has
contributed to the Popular Science Monthly, The Truthseeker and other
journals, and has published Summerland Sketches, or Rambles in the
Backwoods of Mexico and Central America, '81; Physical Education,
'82; The Secrets of the East, '83, which argues that Christianity
is derived from Buddhism, and The Bible of Nature or the Principles
of Secularism, '88. Dr. Oswald is now employed as Curator of Natural
History in Brazil.

O'Toole (Adam Duff), Irish Freethought martyr, burnt to death at
Hogging (now College) Green, Dublin, in 1327. Holinshed says he
"denied obstinatelie the incarnation of our savior, the trinitie
of persons in the vnitie of the Godhead and the resurrection of the
flesh; as for the Holie Scripture, he said it was but a fable; the
Virgin Marie he affirmed to be a woman of dissolute life, and the
Apostolic see erronious."

"Ouida," See Ramee (Louise de la).

Ouvry (Henry Aime), Col., translator of Feuchterslebens, Dietetics
of the Soul and Rau's Unsectarian Catechism, and author of several
works on the land question.

Overton (Richard), English Republican, who wrote a satire on relics,
1642, and a treatise on Man's Mortality (London, 1643, Amsterdam,
1644) a work designed to show man is naturally mortal.

Owen (Robert), social reformer, b. Newton, Montgomeryshire, Wales, 14
March, 1771. At 18 he was so distinguished by his business talents that
he became partner in a cotton mill. In 1797 he married the daughter
of David Dale, and soon afterwards became partner and sole manager
at New Lanark Mills, where he built the first infant schools and
improved the dwellings of the workmen. From 1810-15 he published New
Views on Society, or, Essays on the Formation of Character. In '17 he
caused much excitement by proclaiming that the religions of the world
were all false, and that man was the creature of circumstances. In
'24 he went to America and purchased New Harmony, Indiana, from the
Rappists to found a new community, but the experiment was a failure,
as were also others at Orbiston, Laner, and Queenswood, Hants. In
'28 he debated at Cincinatti with Alex. Campbell on the Evidences of
Christianity. He published a numerous series of tracts, Robert Owen's
Journal, and The New Moral World, '35. He debated on his Social
System with the Rev. J. H. Roebuck, R. Brindley, etc. As his mind
began to fail he accepted the teachings of Spiritism. Died Newton,
17 Nov. 1858. Owen profoundly influenced the thought of his time in
the direction of social amelioration, and he is justly respected for
his energy, integrity and disinterested philanthropy.

Owen (Robert Dale), son of the above, b. Glasgow 9 Nov. 1800. Was
educated by his father till 1820, when he was sent to Fellenberg's
school, near Berne, Switzerland. In '25 he went to America to aid
in the efforts to found a colony at New Harmony, Indiana. On the
failure of that experiment he began with Frances Wright, in Nov. '28,
the publication of the Free Inquirer, which was continued till
'32. In that year he had a written discussion with O. Bachelor on
the existence of God, and the authenticity of the Bible, in which he
ably championed the Freethought cause. He wrote a number of tracts
of which we mention Situations, 1839; Address on Free Inquiry, 1840;
Prossimo's Experience, Consistency, Galileo and the Inquisition. He
was elected to Congress in '43. After fifteen years of labor he
secured the women of Indiana independent rights of property. He
became charge d'affaires at Naples in '53. During the civil war he
strongly advocated slave emancipation. Like his father he became a
Spiritualist. Died at Lake George, 17 June, 1877.

Paalzow (Christian Ludwig), German jurist, b. Osterburg (Altmark),
26 Nov. 1753, translated Voltaire's commentaries on The Spirit of
the Laws and Burigny's Examination of the Apologists of Christianity
(Leipzic, 1793), and wrote a History of Religious Cruelty (Mainz,
1800). Died 20 May, 1824.

Paepe (Cesar de). See De Paepe.

Pagano (Francisco Mario Saverio Antonio Carlo Pasquale). Italian
jurist, philosopher and patriot, b. Brienza, 1748. He studied at
Naples, and became the friend of Filangieri. Was made professor
of criminal law in 1787. For his Political Essays in three volumes
(1783-92) he was accused of Atheism and impiety. He wrote on Criminal
Process and a work on God and Nature. Taking part in the Provisional
Government of the Neapolitan Republic in 1791, he was taken prisoner
by the royalists and executed 6 Oct. 1800.

Page (David). Scotch geologist, b. 29 Aug. 1814. Author of
introductory and advanced text-books of geology, which went through
many editions. He gave advanced lectures in Edinburgh, and edited
Life Lights of Song, '64. His Man Where, Whence, and Whither?,
'67, advocating Darwinian views, made some stir in Scotland. He
became professor of geology at Durham University. A friend of Robert
Chambers, he was for some time credited with that writer's Vestiges
of Creation, in the scientific details of which he assisted. Died at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 9 March, 1879.

Paget (Violet). English authoress, who, under the pen-name of "Vernon
Lee," has written Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy and
Baldwin, dialogues on views and aspirations 1886. Since '71 she has
lived chiefly in Florence, and contributes to the principal reviews,
an article in the Contemporary (May '83) on "Responsibilities of
Unbelief" being particularly noticeable. Miss Paget's writings show
a cultivated mind and true literary instinct.

Pageze (L.) French Socialist; has written on the Concordat and the
Budget des Cultes, '86, Separation of Church and State, '87, etc.

Paine (Thomas), Deist, b. Thetford, Norfolk, 29 Jan., 1737. His father
was a Quaker and staymaker, and Paine was brought up to the trade. He
left home while still young, went to London and Sandwich, where he
married the daughter of an exciseman, and entered the excise. He
was selected by his official associates to embody their wants in a
paper, and on this work he displayed such talent that Franklin, then
in London, suggested America as a good field for his abilities. Paine
went in 1774, and soon found work for his pen. He became editor of the
Pennsylvanian Magazine and contributed to the Pennsylvanian journal
a strong anti-slavery essay. Common Sense, published early in 1776,
advocating absolute independence for America, did more than anything
else to precipitate the great events of that year. Each number of
the Crisis, which appeared during the war, was read by Washington's
order to each regiment in the service. Paine subscribed largely
to the army, and served for a short time himself. After peace was
declared, congress voted him three thousand dollars, and the state
of New York gave him a large farm. Paine turned his attention to
mechanics, and invented the tubular iron bridge, which he endeavored
to introduce in Europe. Reaching France during the Revolution,
he published a pamphlet advocating the abolition of royalty. In
1791 he published his Rights of Man, in reply to Burke. For this
he was outlawed. Escaping from England, he went to France, where he
was elected to the Convention. He stoutly opposed the execution of
the king, and was thrown by Robespierre into the Luxembourg prison,
where for nearly a year he awaited the guillotine. During this time
he wrote the first part of the Age of Reason, which he completed
on his release. This famous book, though vulnerable in some minor
points of criticism, throws a flood of light on Christian dogmas,
and has had a more extended sale than any other Freethought work. As
a natural consequence, Paine has been an object of incessant slander
by the clergy. Paine died at New York 8 June, 1809, and, by his own
direction was buried on his farm at New Rochelle. Cobbett is said to
have disinterred him and brought his bones to England.

Pajot (Francois). See Liniere.

Paleario (Aonio), i.e., Antonio, della Paglia, Italian humanist and
martyr, b. about 1500 at Veroli in the Roman Campagna. In 1520 he
went to Rome and took place among the brilliant men of letters of
court of Leo X. After the taking of Rome by Charles V. he retired
to Sienna. In 1536 he published at Lyons an elegant Latin poem on
the Mortality of the Soul--modeled on Lucretius. He was Professor
of Eloquence at Milan for ten years, but was accused of heresy. He
had called the Inquisition a poignard directed against all men of
letters. On 3 July, 1570, he was hung and his body thrown into the
flames. A work on the Benefit of Christ's Death has been attributed to
him on insufficient grounds. It is attributed to Benedetto da Mantova.

Pallas (Peter Simon), German naturalist and traveller, b. Berlin,
22 Sept. 1741. Educated as a physician at Gottingen and Leyden,
he was invited by Catherine II. to become Professor of Natural
History at St. Petersburg. He travelled through Siberia and settled
in the Crimea. In 1810 he returned to Berlin, where he died 8
Sept. 1811. Lalande spoke highly of him, and Cuvier considered him
the founder of modern geology.

Pallavicino (Ferrante), Italian poet and wit, b. Piacenza 1616. He
became a canon of the Lateran congregation, but for composing some
satirical pieces against Pope Urban VIII. had a price set on his
head. He fled to Venice, but a false friend betrayed him to the
Inquisition, and he was beheaded at Avignon, 5 March, 1644.

Palmer (Courtlandt), American reformer, b. New York, 25 March,
1843, graduated at the Columbia law-school in '69. He was brought
up in the Dutch Reformed Church, but became a Freethinker while
still young. Mr. Palmer did much to promote Liberal ideas. In '80
he established and became President of the Nineteenth Century Club,
for the utmost liberty of public discussion. He contributed to the
Freethinker's Magazine, Truthseeker, etc. A sister married Prof. Draper
with whom he was intimate. Died at New York, 23 July, 1888, and was
cremated at Fresh Pond, his friend Col. R. G. Ingersoll delivering
an eulogium.

Palmer (Elihu), American author, b. Canterbury, Connecticut,
1764. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1787, and studied divinity but
became a deist in 1791. In 1793 he became totally blind from an
attack of yellow fever. In 1797 he lectured to a Deistical Society
in New York. After this he dictated his Principles of Nature, 1802,
a powerful anti-Christian work, reprinted by Carlile in '19. He also
wrote Prospect or View of the Moral World from the year 1804. Palmer
was the head of the Society of Columbian Illuminati founded in New
York in 1801. He died in Philadelphia, 7 April, 1806.

Panaetius, Stoic philosopher, b. Rhodes, a pupil of Diogenes the Stoic,
and perhaps of Carneades. About 150 B.C. he visited Rome and taught a
moderate stoicism, denying the doctrine of the conflagration of the
world, and placing physics before dialectics. He wrote a work On
Duties, to which Cicero expresses his indebtedness in his De Officiis.
Died in Athens 111 B.C.

Pancoucke (Charles Joseph), eminent French publisher, b. Lille, 26
Nov. 1736. He settled at Paris and became acquainted with d'Alembert,
Garat, etc., and was a correspondent of Rousseau, Buffon and Voltaire,
whose works he brought out. He translated Lucretius, 1768, brought out
the Mercure de France, projected in 1781 the important Encyclopedie
Methodique, of which there are 166 vols., and founded the Moniteur,
1789. Died at Paris, 19 Dec. 1798.

Pantano (Eduardo), Italian author of a little book on the Sicilian
Vespers and the Commune, Catania, 1882.

Papillon (J. Henri Fernand), French philosophic writer, b. Belfort,
5 June, 1847. He wrote an Introduction to Chemical Philosophy,
'65; contributed to the Revue de Philosophie Positive and the Revue
des Deux Mondes. His principal work is entitled Nature and Life,
'73. Died at Paris 31 Dec. 1873.

Paquet (Henri Remi Rene), French writer, b. Charleville, 29
Sep. 1845. After studying under the Jesuits he went to Paris,
where he became an advocate, but devoted his main attention to
literature. Under the anagram of "Neree Quepat" he has published La
Lorgnette Philosophique, '72, a dictionary of the great and little
philosophers of our time, a study of La Mettrie entitled Materialist
Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century and other works.

Pare (William), Owenite Social reformer, b. Birmingham, 11
Aug. 1805. Wrote an abridgment of Thompson's Distribution of Wealth,
also works on Capital and Labor '54, Co-operative Agriculture, at
Rahaline, '70, etc. He compiled vol. 1 of the Biography of Robert
Owen. Died at Croydon, 18 June, 1873.

Parfait (Noel), French writer and politician, b. Chartres, 30
Nov. 1814. Took part in the revolution of '30, and wrote many radical
brochures. After the coup d'etat he took refuge in Belgium. In '71
was elected deputy and sat on the extreme left.

Parfait (Paul), son of the foregoing, b. Paris, 1841. Author of
L'Arsenal de la Devotion, '76, Notes to serve for a history of
superstition, and a supplement Le Dossier des Pelerinages, '77,
and other pieces. Died 1881.

Parisot (Jean Patrocle), a Frenchman who wrote La Foy devoilee par
la raison, 1681 [Faith Unveiled by Reason], a work whose title seems
to have occasioned its suppression.

Parker (Theodore), American rationalist, b. Lexington, Mass., 24
Aug. 1810. From his father--a Unitarian--he inherited independence
of mind, courage, and love of speculation. Brought up in poverty he
studied hard, and acquired a University education while laboring on the
farm. In March, '31, he became an assistant teacher at Boston. In June,
'37, he was ordained Unitarian minister. Parker gradually became known
as an iconoclast, and study of the German critics made him a complete
rationalist, so that even the Unitarian body rejected him. A society
was established to give him a hearing in Boston, and soon his fame
was established. His Discourse on Matters Pertaining to Religion,
'47, exhibited his fundamental views. He translated and enlarged
De Wette's Critical Introduction to the Old Testament. A fearless
opponent of the Fugitive Slave Law, he sheltered slaves in his own
house. Early in '59 failing health compelled him to relinquish his
duties. Died at Florence, 10 May, 1860. He bequeathed his library of
13,000 volumes to the Boston Public Library.

Parmenides, a Greek philosopher, b. Elea, Italy, 518 B.C. Is said
to have been a disciple of Xenophanes. He developed his philosophy
about 470 B.C. in a didactic poem On Nature, fragments of which are
preserved by Sextus Empiricus. He held to Reason as our guide, and
considered nature eternal.

Parny (Evariste Desire de Forges de), Viscount. French poet,
b. St. Paul, Isle of Bourbon, 6 Feb. 1753. Educated in France, he
chose the military profession. A disappointed passion for a creole
inspired his "Amatory Poems," and he afterwards wrote the audacious
War of the Gods, Paradise Lost, and The Gallantries of the Bible. His
poems, though erotic, are full of elegant charm, and he has been
named the French Tibullus. He was admitted into the French Academy
in 1803. Died at Paris, 5 Dec. 1814.

Parton (James), author, b. Canterbury, England, 9 Feb. 1822. Was taken
to the United States when a child and educated at New York. He married
Miss Willis, "Fannie Fern," and has written many biographies, including
Lives of Thomas Jefferson, '74, and of Voltaire, '81. He has also
written on Topics of the Time, '71, and Church Taxation. He resided
in New York till '75 when he removed to Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Parvish (Samuel), Deistic author of An Inquiry into the Jewish and
Christian Revelation (London, 1739), of which a second edition was
issued in 1746.

Pasquier (Etienne). French journalist, b. 7 April, 1529, at
Paris. Brought up to the bar he became a successful pleader. He
defended the Universities against the Jesuits, whom he also attacked
in a bitter satire, Catechisme des Jesuites. Died Paris, 30 Aug. 1615.

Passerano (Alberto Radicati di) count. Italian philosopher of last
century, attached to the court of Victor Amedee II. For some pamphlets
written against the Papal power he was pursued by the Inquisition and
his goods seized. He lived in England and made the acquaintance of
Collins, also in France and Holland, where he died about 1736, leaving
his goods to the poor. In that year he published at Rotterdam Recueil
de Pieces curieuses sur les matieres les plus interessantes, etc.,
which contains a Parallel between Mahomet and Sosem (anagram of Moses),
an abridged history of the Sacerdotal Profession, and a Faithful and
comic recital of the religion of modern cannibals, by Zelin Moslem;
also a Dissertation upon Death, which was published separately in
1733. The Recueil was republished at London in 1749. He also wrote a
pretended translation from an Arabic work on Mohammedanism, satirising
the Bible, and a pretended sermon by Elwall the Quaker.

Pasteur (Louis). French scientist b. Dole, 27 Dec 1822, became doctor
in '47 and professor of physic at Strassburg in '48. He received
the Rumford medal of the Royal Society in '56 for his discoveries
in polarisation and molecular chemistry. Decorated with the Legion
of honor in '53, he was made commander '68 and grand officer '78. His
researches into innoculation have been much contested, but his admirers
have raised a large institute for the prosecution of his treatment. He
was elected to the Academy as successor of Littre. He gave his name
as Vice-President of the British Secular Union.

Pastoret (Claude Emmanuel Joseph Pierre de), Marquis, French statesman
and writer, b. of noble family at Marseilles, 25 Oct. 1756. Educated by
the Oratorians at Lyons, in 1779 he published an Elege de Voltaire. By
his works on Zoroaster, Confucius and Mahomet (1787) and on Moses
Considered as Legislator and Moralist (1788) he did something for the
infant science of comparative religion. His principal work is a learned
History of Legislation, in 11 vols. (1817-37), in which he passes in
review all the ancient codes. He embraced the Revolution, and became
President of the Legislative Assembly (3 Oct. 1791). He proposed the
erection of the Column of July on the Place of the Bastille, and the
conversion of the church of Ste Genevieve into the Pantheon. On the
19th June, 1792, he presented a motion for the complete separation of
the state from religion. He fled during the Terror, but returned as
deputy in 1795. In 1820 he succeeded his friend Volney as member of
the French Academy, in '23 received the cross of the Legion of Honor,
and in '29 became Chancellor of France. Died at Paris, 28 Sept. 1840.

Pater (Walter Horatio), English writer, b. London, 4 Aug. 1839. B.A. at
Oxford in '62, M.A. in '65. Has written charming essays in the
Westminster Review, Macmillan, and the Fortnightly Review. In '73
he published The Renaissance, and in '85 Marius the Epicurean, His
Sensations and Ideas.

Paterson (Thomas), b. near Lanark early in this century. After
the imprisonment of Southwell and Holyoake he edited the Oracle of
Reason. For exhibiting profane placards he was arrested and sentenced
27 Jan. 1843 to three months' imprisonment. His trial was reported
under the title God v. Paterson ('43.) He insisted on considering
God as the plaintiff and in quoting from "the Jew book" to show
the plaintiff's bad character. When released he went to Scotland to
uphold the right of free publication, and was sentenced 8 Nov. '43 to
fifteen months' imprisonment for selling "blasphemous" publications
at Edinburgh. On his release he was presented with a testimonial 6
April, 1845, H. Hetherington presiding. Paterson went to America.

Patin (Gui), French physician, writer, and wit, b. near Beauvais
31 Aug. 1602. He became professor at the college of France. His
reputation is chiefly founded on his Letters, in which he attacked
superstition. Larousse says "C'etait un libre penseur de la famille
de Rabelais." Died at Paris 30 Aug. 1672.

Patot. See Tyssot de Patot (S.)

Pauw (Cornelius), learned Dutch writer, b. Amsterdam, 1739. He wrote
philosophical researches on the Americans, and also on the Egyptians,
Chinese, and Greeks. Was esteemed by Frederick the Great for his
ingenuity and penetration. Died at Xanten, 7 July, 1799. He was the
uncle of Anacharsis Clootz.

Peacock (John Macleay), Scotch poet, b. 21 March, 1817. He wrote
many poems in the National Reformer, and in '67 published Hours of
Reverie. Died 4 May, 1877.

Peacock or Pecock (Reginald), the father of English rationalism,
b. about 1390, and educated at Oriel College Oxford, of which he
was chosen fellow in 1417. Was successively Bishop of St Asaph,
1444, and Chichester, 1450, by the favor of Humphrey, the good
Duke of Gloster. He declared that Scripture must in all cases be
accommodated to "the doom of reason." He questioned the genuineness
of the Apostles' Creed. In 1457 he was accused of heresy, recanted
from fear of martyrdom, was deprived of his bishopric, and imprisoned
in a monastery at Canterbury, where he used to repeat to those who
visited him,


            "Wit hath wonder, that reason cannot skan,
            How a Moder is Mayd, and God is Man."


His books were publicly burnt at Oxford. He died in 1460. His influence
doubtless contributed to the Reformation.

Pearson (Karl), author of a volume of essays entitled The Ethic of
Freethought, 1888. Educated at Cambridge; B.A. '79, M.A. '82.

Pechmeja (Jean de), French writer. A friend of Raynal, he wrote a
socialistic romance in 12 books in the style of Telemachus, called
Telephe, 1784. Died 1785.

Peck (John), American writer in the Truthseeker. Has published Miracles
and Miracle Workers, etc.

Pecqueur (A.), contributor to the Rationaliste of Geneva, 1864.

Pelin (Gabriel), French author of works on Spiritism Explained and
Destroyed, 1864, and God or Science, '67.

Pelletan (Charles Camille), French journalist and deputy, son of
the following; b. Paris, 23 June, 1846. Studied at the Lycee Louis
le Grand. He wrote in La Tribune Francaise, and Le Rappel, and since
'80 has conducted La Justice with his friend Clemenceau, of whom he
has written a sketch.

Pelletan (Pierre Clement Eugene), French writer,
b. Saint-Palais-sur-Meir, 20 Oct. 1813. As a journalist he wrote in
La Presse, under the name of "Un Inconnu," articles distinguished
by their love of liberty and progress. He also contributed to the
Revue des Deux Mondes. In '52 he published his Profession of Faith
of the Nineteenth Century, and in '57 The Law of Progress and The
Philosophical Kings. From '53-'55 he opposed Napoleon in the Siecle,
and afterwards established La Tribune Francaise. In '63 he was
elected deputy, but his election being annulled, he was re-elected in
'64. He took distinguished rank among the democratic opposition. After
the battle of Sedan he was made member of the Committee of National
Defence, and in '76 of the Senate, of which he became vice-president
in '79. In '78 he wrote a study on Frederick the Great entitled Un
Roi Philosophe, and in '83 Is God Dead? Died at Paris, 14 Dec. 1884.

Pemberton (Charles Reece). English actor and author, b. Pontypool,
S. Wales, 23 Jan. 1790. He travelled over most of the world and
wrote The Autobiography of Pel Verjuice, which with other remains
was published in 1843. Died 3 March, 1840.

Pennetier (Georges), Dr., b. Rouen, 1836, Director of the Museum of
Natural History at Rouen. Author of a work on the Origin of Life,
'68, in which he contends for spontaneous generation. To this work
F. A. Pouchet contributed a preface.

Perfitt (Philip William), Theist, b. 1820, edited the Pathfinder,
'59-61. Preached at South Place Chapel. Wrote Life and Teachings of
Jesus of Nazareth, '61.

Periers (Bonaventure des). See Desperiers.

Perot (Jean Marie Albert), French banker, author of a work on Man
and God, which has been translated into English, 1881, and Moral and
Philosophical Allegories (Paris, 1883).

Perrier (Edmond), French zoologist, Curator at Museum of Natural
History, Paris, b. Tulle, 1844. Author of numerous works on Natural
History, and one on Transformisme, '88.

Perrin (Raymond S.), American author of a bulky work on The Religion
of Philosophy, or the Unification of Knowledge: a comparison of the
chief philosophical and religious systems of the world, 1885.

Perry (Thomas Ryley), one of Carlile's shopmen, sentenced 1824 to
three years' imprisonment in Newgate for selling Palmer's Principles
of Nature. He became a chemist at Leicester and in 1844 petitioned
Parliament for the prisoners for blasphemy, Paterson and Roalfe,
stating that his own imprisonment had not fulfilled the judge's hope
of his recantation.

Petit (Claude), French poet, burnt on the Place de Greve in 1665 as
the author of some impious pieces.

Petronius, called Arbiter (Titus), Roman Epicurean poet at the Court
of Nero, in order to avoid whose resentment he opened his veins and
bled to death in A.D. 66, conversing meanwhile with his friends on the
gossip of the day. To him we owe the lines on superstition, beginning
"Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor." Petronius is famous for his "pure
Latinity." He is as plain-spoken as Juvenal, and with the same excuse,
his romance being a satire on Nero and his court.

Petruccelli della Gattina (Ferdinando) Italian writer, b. Naples,
1816, has travelled much and written many works. He was deputy to
the Naples Parliament in '48, and exiled after the reaction.

Petrus de Abano. A learned Italian physician, b. Abano 1250. He
studied at Paris and became professor of medicine at Padua. He wrote
many works and had a great reputation. He is said to have denied the
existence of spirits, and to have ascribed all miracles to natural
causes. Cited before the Inquisition in 1306 as a heretic, a magician
and an Atheist, he ably defended himself and was acquitted. He was
accused a second time but dying (1320) while the trial was preparing,
he was condemned after death, his body disinterred and burnt, and he
was also burnt in effigy in the public square of Padua.

Peypers (H. F. A.), Dutch writer, b. De Rijp, 2 Jan. 1856, studied
medicine, and is now M.D. at Amsterdam. He is a man of erudition and
good natured though satirical turn of mind. He has contributed much
to De Dageraad, and is at present one of the five editors of that
Freethought monthly.

Peyrard (Francois), French mathematician, b. Vial (Haute Loire)
1760. A warm partisan of the revolution, he was one of those who (7
Nov. 1793) incited Bishop Gobel to abjure his religion. An intimate
friend of Sylvian Marechal, Peyrard furnished him with notes for
his Dictionnaire des Athees. He wrote a work on Nature and its Laws,
1793-4, and proposed the piercing of the Isthmus of Suez. He translated
the works of Euclid and Archimedes. Died at Paris 3 Oct. 1822.

Peyrat (Alphonse), French writer, b. Toulouse, 21 June, 1812. He
wrote in the National and la Presse, and combated against the Second
Empire. In '65 he founded l'Avenir National, which was several
times condemned. In Feb. '71, he was elected deputy of the Seine,
and proposed the proclamation of the Republic. In '76 he was chosen
senator. He wrote a History of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception,
'55; History and Religion, '58; Historical and Religious Studies, '58;
and an able and scholarly Elementary and Critical History of Jesus,
'64.

Peyrere (Isaac de la), French writer, b. Bordeaux, 1594, and brought up
as a Protestant. He entered into the service of the house of Conde, and
became intimate with La Mothe de Vayer and Gassendi. His work entitled
Praeadamitae, 1653, in which he maintained that men lived before Adam,
made a great sensation, and was burnt by the hangman at Paris. The
bishop of Namur censured it, and la Peyrere was arrested at Brussels,
1656, by order of the Archbishop of Malines, but escaped by favor of
the Prince of Conde on condition of retracting his book at Rome. The
following epitaph was nevertheless made on him:


            La Peyrere ici git, ce bon Israelite,
            Hugenot, Catholique, enfin Pre-adamite:
            Quatre religions lui plurent a la fois:
              Et son indifference etait si peu commune
            Qu'apres 80 ans qu'il eut a faire un choix
              Le bon homme partit, et n'en choisit pas une.


Died near Paris, 30 Jan. 1676.

Pfeiff (Johan Gustaf Viktor), Swedish baron, b. Upland, 1829. Editor
of the free religious periodical, The Truthseeker, since 1882. He has
also translated into Swedish some of the writings of Herbert Spencer.

Pharmacopulo (A.P.) Greek translator of Buechner's Force and Matter, and
corresponding member of the International Federation of Freethinkers.

Phillips (Sir Richard), industrious English writer, b. London, 1767. He
was hosier, bookseller, printer, publisher, republican, Sheriff of
London (1807-8), and Knight. He compiled many schoolbooks, chiefly
under pseudonyms, of which the most popular were the Rev. J. Goldsmith
and Rev. D. Blair. His own opinions are seen most in his Million of
Facts. Died at Brighton 2 April, 1840.

Phillippo (William Skinner), farmer, of Wood Norton, near Thetford,
Norfolk. A deist who wrote an Essay on Political and Religious
Meditations, 1868.

Pi-y Margall (Francisco), Spanish philosopher and Republican statesman,
b. Barcelona, 1820. The first book he learnt to read was the Ruins
of Volney. Studied law and became an advocate. He has written many
political works, and translated Proudhon, for whom he has much
admiration, into Spanish. He has also introduced the writings and
philosophy of Comte into his own country. He was associated with
Castelar and Figueras in the attempt to establish a Spanish Republic,
being Minister of the Interior, and afterwards President in 1873.

Pichard (Prosper). French Positivist, author of Doctrine of Reality,
"a catechism for the use of people who do not pay themselves with
words," to which Littre wrote a preface, 1873.

Pierson (Allard). Dutch rationalist critic, b. Amsterdam 8 April,
1831. Educated in theology, he was minister to the Evangelical
congregation at Leuven, afterwards at Rotterdam and finally professor
at Heidelberg. He resigned his connection with the Church in '64. He
has written many works of theological and literary value of which we
mention his Poems '82, New Studies on Calvin, '83, and Verisimilia,
written in conjunction with S. A. Naber, '86.

Pigault-Lebrun (Guillaume Charles Antoine), witty French author,
b. Calais, 8 April, 1753. He studied under the Oratorians of
Boulogne. He wrote numerous comedies and romances, and Le Citateur,
1803, a collection of objections to Christianity, borrowed in part
from Voltaire, whose spirit he largely shared. In 1811 Napoleon
threatened the priests he would issue this work wholesale. It
was suppressed under the Restoration, but has been frequently
reprinted. Pigault-Lebrun became secretary to King Jerome Napoleon,
and died at La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 24 July, 1835.

Pike (J. W.) American lecturer, b. Concord (Ohio), 27 June, 1826,
wrote My Religious Experience and What I found in the Bible, 1867.

Pillsbury (Parker), American reformer, b. Hamilton, Mass., 22
Sep. 1809. Was employed in farm work till '35, when he entered
Gilmerton theological seminary. He graduated in '38, studied a year
at Andover, was congregational minister for one year, and then,
perceiving the churches were the bulwark of slavery, abandoned the
ministry. He became an abolitionist lecturer, edited the Herald
of Freedom, National Anti-Slavery Standard, and the Revolution. He
also preached for free religious societies, wrote Pious Frauds, and
contributed to the Boston Investigator and Freethinkers' Magazine. His
principal work is Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles, 1883.

Piron (Alexis), French comic poet, b. Dijon, 9 July, 1689. His
pieces were full of wit and gaiety, and many anecdotes are told of
his profanity. Among his sallies was his reply to a reproof for being
drunk on Good Friday, that failing must be excused on a day when even
deity succumbed. Being blind in his old age he affected piety. Worried
by his confessor about a Bible in the margin of which he had written
parodies and epigrams as the best commentary, he threw the whole book
in the fire. Asked on his death-bed if he believed in God he answered
"Parbleu, I believe even in the Virgin." Died at Paris, 21 Jan. 1773.

Pisarev (Dmitri Ivanovich) Russian critic, journalist, and materialist,
b. 1840. He first became known by his criticism on the Scholastics of
the nineteenth century. Died Baden, near Riga, July 1868. His works
are published in ten vols. Petersburg, 1870.

Pitt (William). Earl of Chatham, an illustrious English statesman
and orator, b. Boconnoc, Cornwall, 15 Nov. 1708. The services to his
country of "the Great Commoner," as he was called, are well known,
but it is not so generally recognised that his Letter on Superstition,
first printed in the London Journal in 1733, entitles him to be ranked
with the Deists. He says that "the more superstitious people are,
always the more vicious; and the more they believe, the less they
practice." Atheism furnishes no man with arguments to be vicious;
but superstition, or what the world made by religion, is the greatest
possible encouragement to vice, by setting up something as religion,
which shall atone and commute for the want of virtue. This remarkable
letter ends with the words "Remember that the only true divinity
is humanity."

Place (Francis), English Radical reformer and tailor; b. 1779 at
Charing Cross. He early became a member of the London, Corresponding
Society. He wrote to Carlile's Republican and Lion. A friend of
T. Hardy, H. Tooke, James Mill, Bentham, Roebuck, Hetherington, and
Hibbert (who puts him in his list of English Freethinkers). He was
connected with all the advanced movements of his time and has left
many manuscripts illustrating the politics of that period, which are
now in the British Museum. He always professed to be an Atheist--see
Reasoner, 26 March, '54. Died at Kensington, 1 Jan. 1854.

Platt (James), F.S.S., a woolen merchant and Deistic author of
popular works on Business, '75; Morality, '78; Progress, '80; Life,
'81; God and Mammon, etc.

Pliny (Caius Plinius Secundus), the elder, Roman naturalist, b. Verona,
A.D. 22. He distinguished himself in the army, was admitted into the
college of Augurs, appointed procurator in Spain, and honored with
the esteem of Vespasian and Titus. He wrote the history of his own
time in 31 books, now lost, and a Natural History in 37 books, one
of the most precious monuments of antiquity, in which his Epicurean
Atheism appears. Being with the fleet at Misenum, 24 Aug. A.D. 79,
he observed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and landing to assist
the inhabitants was himself suffocated by the noxious vapors.

Plumacher (Olga), German pessimist, follower of Hartmann, and authoress
of a work on Pessimism in the Past and Future, Heidelberg, 1884. She
has also defended her views in Mind.

Plumer (William) American senator, b. Newburyport, Mass. 25 June,
1759. In 1780 he became a Baptist preacher, but resigned on account
of scepticism. He remained a deist. He served in the Legislature
eight terms, during two of which he was Speaker. He was governor
of New Hampshire, 1812-18, wrote to the press over the signature
"Cincinnatus," and published an Address to the Clergy, '14. He lived
till 22 June, 1850.

Plutarch. Greek philosopher and historian, b. Cheronaea in Boetia, about
A.D. 50. He visited Delphi and Rome, where he lived in the reign of
Trajan. His Parallel Lives of forty-six Greeks and Romans have made
him immortal. He wrote numerous other anecdotal and ethical works,
including a treatise on Superstition. He condemned the vulgar notions
of Deity, and remarked, in connection with the deeds popularly ascribed
to the gods, that he would rather men said there was no Plutarch than
traduce his character. In other words, superstition is more impious
than Atheism. Died about A.D. 120.

Poe (Edgar Allan), American poet, grandson of General Poe, who figured
in the war of independence, b. Boston, 19 Jan. 1809. His mother was
an actress. Early left an orphan. After publishing Tamerlane and other
Poems, '27, he enlisted in the United States Army, but was cashiered in
'31. He then took to literary employment in Baltimore and wrote many
stories, collected as the Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor. In
'45 appeared The Raven and other Poems, which proved him the most
musical and dextrous of American poets. In '48 he published Eureka,
a Prose Poem, which, though comparatively little known, he esteemed
his greatest work. It indicates pantheistic views of the universe. His
personal appearance was striking and one of his portraits is not
unlike that of James Thomson. Died in Baltimore, 7 Oct. 1849.

Poey (Andres), Cuban meteorologist and Positivist of French and Spanish
descent, b. Havana, 1826. Wrote in the Modern Thinker, and is author
of many scientific memoirs and a popular exposition of Positivism
(Paris, 1876), in which he has a chapter on Darwinism and Comtism.

Pompery (Edouard), French publicist, b. Courcelles, 1812. A follower
of Fourier, he has written on Blanquism and opportunism, '79, and a
Life of Voltaire, '80.

Pomponazzi (Pietro) [Lat. Pomponatius], Italian philosopher,
b. Mantua, of noble family, 16 Sept. 1462. He studied at Padua,
where he graduated 1487 as laureate of medicine. Next year he was
appointed professor of philosophy at Padua, teaching in concurrence
with Achillini. He afterwards taught the doctrines of Aristotle at
Ferrara and Bologna. His treatise De Immortalitate Animae, 1516, gave
great offence by denying the philosophical foundation of the doctrine
of the immortality of the soul. The work was burnt by the hangman at
Venice, and it is said Cardinal Bembo's intercession with Pope Leo
X. only saved Pomponazzi from ecclesiastical procedure. Among his works
is a treatise on Fate, Free Will, etc. Pomponazzi was a diminutive
man, and was nicknamed "Peretto." He held that doubt was necessary
for the development of knowledge, and left an unsullied reputation
for upright conduct and sweet temper. Died at Bologna, 18 May, 1525,
and was buried at Mantua, where a monument was erected to his memory.

Ponnat (de), Baron, French writer, b. about 1810. Educated by
Jesuits, he became a thorough Freethinker and democrat and a friend
of A. S. Morin, with whom he collaborated on the Rationaliste of
Geneva. He wrote many notable articles in La Libre Pensee, Le Critique,
and Le Candide, for writing in which last he was sentenced to one
year's imprisonment. He published, under the anagram of De Pontan,
The Cross or Death, a discourse to the bishops who assisted at the
Ecumenical Council at Rome (Brussels, '62). His principal work is
a history of the variations and contradictions of the Roman Church
(Paris, '82). Died in 1884.

Porphyry, Greek philosoper of the New Platonic school, b. Sinia,
233 A.D. His original name was Malchus or Melech--a "King." He was
a pupil of Longinus and perhaps of Origen. Some have supposed that
he was of Jewish faith, and first embraced and then afterwards
rejected Christianity. It is certain he was a man of learning and
intelligence; the friend as well as the disciple of Plotinus. He wrote
(in Greek) a famous work in fifteen books against the Christians, some
fragments of which alone remain in the writings of his opponents. It
is certain he showed acquaintance with the Jewish and Christian
writings, exposed their contradictions, pointed out the dispute between
Peter and Paul, and referred Daniel to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes.
He wrote many other works, among which are lives of Plotinus and
Pythagorus. Died at Rome about 305.

Porzio (Simone), a disciple of Pomponazzi, to whom, when lecturing
at Pisa, the students cried "What of the soul?" He frankly professed
his belief that the human soul differed in no essential point from
the soul of a lion or plant, and that those who thought otherwise
were prompted by pity for our mean estate. These assertions are in
his treatise De Mente Humana.

"Posos (Juan de)," an undiscovered author using this pen-name,
expressed atheistic opinions in a book of imaginary travels, published
in Dutch at Amsterdam in 1708, and translated into German at Leipsic,
1721.

Post (Amy), American reformer, b. 1803. From '28 she was a leading
advocate of slavery abolition, temperance, woman's suffrage and
religious reform. Died Rochester, New York, 29 Jan. 1889.

Potter (Agathon Louis de). See De Potter (A. L.)

Potter (Louis Antoine Joseph de). See De Potter (L. A. J.)

Potvin (Charles), Belgian writer b. Mons. 2 Dec. 1818, is member of the
Royal Academy of Letters, and professor of the history of literature
at Brussels. He wrote anonymously Poesie et Amour '58, and Rome and
the Family. Under the name of "Dom Jacobus" he has written an able
work in two volumes on The Church and Morality, and also Tablets of
a Freethinker. He was president of "La Libre Pensee" of Brussels from
'78 to '83, is director of the Revue de Belgique and has collaborated
on the National and other papers.

Pouchet (Felix Archimede), French naturalist, b. Rouen 26
Aug. 1800. Studied medicine under Dr. Flaubert, father of the author
of Mme. Bovary, and became doctor in '27. He was made professor of
natural history at the Museum of Rouen, and by his experiments enriched
science with many discoveries. He defended spontaneous generation and
wrote many monographs and books of which the principal is entitled
The Universe, '65. Died at Rouen, 6 Dec. 1872.

Pouchet (Henri Charles George), French naturalist, son of the
proceeding, b. Rouen, 1833, made M.D. in '64, and in '79 professor
of comparative anatomy in the museum of Natural History at Paris. In
'80 he was decorated with the Legion of Honor. He has written on The
Plurality of the Human Race, '58, and collaborated on the Siecle,
and the Revue des Deux Mondes and to la Philosophie Positive.

Pouchkine (A.), see Pushkin.

Pougens (Marie Charles Joseph de), French author, a natural son of the
Prince de Conti, b. Paris, 15 Aug. 1755. About the age of 24 he was
blinded by small pox. He became an intimate friend of the philosophers,
and, sharing their views, embraced the revolution with ardor, though
it ruined his fortunes. He wrote Philosophical Researches, 1786, edited
the posthumous works of D'Alembert, 1799, and worked at a dictionary of
the French language. His Jocko, a tale of a monkey, exhibits his keen
sympathy with animal intelligence, and in his Philosophical Letters,
1826, he gives anecdotes of Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Alembert, Pechmeja,
Franklin, etc. Died at Vauxbuin, near Soissons, 19 Dec. 1833.

Poulin (Paul), Belgian follower of Baron Colins and author of What
is God? What is Man? a scientific solution of the religious problem
(Brussels, 1865), and re-issued as God According to Science, '75,
in which he maintains that man and God exclude each other, and that
the only divinity is moral harmony.

Poultier D'Elmolte (Francois Martin), b. Montreuil-sur-Mer, 31
Oct. 1753. Became a Benedictine monk, but cast aside his frock
at the Revolution, married, and became chief of a battalion of
volunteers. Elected to the Convention he voted for the death of
the King. He conducted the journal, L'Ami des lois, and became
one of the Council of Ancients. Exiled in 1816, he died at Tournay
in Belgium, 16 Feb. 1827. He wrote Morceaux Philosophiques in the
Journal Encyclopedique; Victoire, or the Confessions of a Benedictine;
Discours Decadaires, for the use of Theophilantropists, and Conjectures
on the Nature and Origin of Things, Tournay, 1821.

Powell (B. F.), compiler of the Bible of Reason, or Scriptures of
Ancient Moralists; published by Hetherington in 1837.

Prades (Jean Martin de), French theologian b. Castel-Sarrasin, about
1720. Brought up for the church, he nevertheless became intimate with
Diderot and contributed the article Certitude to the Encyclopedie. On
the 18th Nov. 1751 he presented to the Sorbonne a thesis for the
doctorate, remarkable as the first open attack on Christianity by
a French theologian. He maintained many propositions on the soul,
the origin of society, the laws of Moses, miracles, etc., contrary
to the dogmas of the Church, and compared the cures recorded in the
Gospels to those attributed to Esculapius. The thesis made a great
scandal. His opinions were condemned by Pope Benedict XIV., and he
fled to Holland for safety. Recommended to Frederick the Great by
d'Alembert he was received with favor at Berlin, and became reader to
that monarch, who wrote a very anti-Christian preface to de Prades'
work on ecclesiastical history, published as Abrege de l'Histoire
ecclesiastique de Fleury, Berne (Berlin) 1766. He retired to a benefice
at Glogau (Silesia), given him by Frederick, and died there in 1782.

Prater (Horatio), a gentleman of some fortune who devoted himself to
the propagation of Freethought ideas. Born early in the century, he
wrote on the Physiology of the Blood, 1832. He published Letters to
the American People, and Literary Essays, '56. Died 20 July, 1885. He
left the bulk of his money to benevolent objects, and ordered a deep
wound to be made in his arm to insure that he was dead.

Preda (Pietro), Italian writer of Milan, author of a work on Revelation
and Reason, published at Geneva, 1865, under the pseudonym of
"Padre Pietro."

Premontval (Andre Pierre Le Guay de), French writer, b. Charenton, 16
Feb. 1716. At nineteen years of age, while in the college of Plessis
Sorbonne, he composed a work against the dogma of the Eucharist. He
studied mathematics and became member of the Academy of Sciences
at Berlin. He wrote Le Diogene de D'Alembert, or Freethoughts on
Man, 1754, Panangiana Panurgica, or the false Evangelist, and Vues
Philosophiques, Amst., 2 vols., 1757. He also wrote De la Theologie
de L'Etre, in which he denies many of the ordinary proofs of the
existence of a God. Died Berlin, 1767.

Priestley (Joseph), LL.D., English philosopher, b. Fieldhead, near
Leeds, 18 March, 1733. Brought up as a Calvinist, he found his way
to broad Unitarianism. Famous as a pneumatic chemist, he defended the
doctrine of philosophical necessity, and in a dissertation annexed to
his edition of Hartley expressed doubts of the immateriality of the
sentient principal in man. This doctrine he forcibly supported in
his Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit, 1777. Through the obloquy
these works produced, he lost his position as librarian to Lord
Shelburne. He then removed to Birmingham, and became minister of
an independent Unitarian congregation, and occupied himself on his
History of the Corruptions of Christianity and History of the Early
Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, which involved him in controversy
with Bishop Horsley and others. In consequence of his sympathy with
the French Revolution, his house was burnt and sacked in a riot,
14 July, 1791. After this he removed to Hackney, and was finally
goaded to seek an asylum in the United States, which he reached in
1794. Even in America he endured some uneasiness on account of his
opinions until Jefferson became president. Died 6 Feb. 1804.

Pringle (Allen), Canadian Freethinker, author of Ingersoll in Canada,
1880.

Proctor (Richard Anthony), English astronomer, b. Chelsea, 23 March,
1837. Educated at King's College, London, and at St. John's, Cambridge,
where he became B.A. in '60. In '66 he became Fellow of the Royal
Astronomical Society, of which he afterwards became hon. sec. He
maintained in '69 the since-established theory of the solar corona. He
wrote, lectured, and edited, far and wide, and left nearly fifty
volumes, chiefly popularising science. Attracted by Newman, he was for
a while a Catholic, but thought out the question of Catholicism and
science, and in a letter to the New York Tribune, Nov. '75, formally
renounced that religion as irreconcilable with scientific facts. His
remarks on the so-called Star of Bethlehem in The Universe of Suns,
and other Science Gleanings, and his Sunday lectures, indicated his
heresy. In '81 he started Knowledge, in which appeared many valuable
papers, notably one (Jan. '87), "The Beginning of Christianity." He
entirely rejected the miraculous elements of the gospels, which he
considered largely a rechauffe of solar myths. In other articles
in the Freethinkers' Magazine and the Open Court he pointed out the
coincidence between the Christian stories and solar myths, and also
with stories found in Josephus. The very last article he published
before his untimely death was a vindication of Colonel Ingersoll
in his controversy with Gladstone in the North American Review. In
'84 he settled at St. Josephs, Mobille, where he contracted yellow
fever and died at New York, 12 Sep. 1888.

Proudhon (Pierre Joseph), French anarchist and political thinker,
b. Besancon, 15 Jan. 1809. Self-educated he became a printer,
and won a prize of 1,500 francs for the person "best fitted for a
literary or scientific career." In '40 appears his memoir, What is
Property? in which he made the celebrated answer "C'est le vol." In
'43 the Creation of Order in Humanity appeared, treating of religion,
philosophy and logic. In '46 he published his System of Economical
Contradictions, in which appeared his famous aphorism, "Dieu,
c'est le mal." In '48 he introduced his scheme of the organisation
of credit in a Bank of the People, which failed, though Proudhon
saw that no one lost anything. He attacked Louis Bonaparte when
President, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and a fine
of 10,000 francs. On 2 Jan. '50 he married by private contract while
in prison. For his work on Justice in the Revolution and in the Church
he was condemned to three years' imprisonment and 4,000 francs fine in
'58. He took refuge in Belgium and returned in '63. Died at Passy,
19 Jan. 1865. Among his posthumous works was The Gospels Annotated,
'66. Proudhon was a bold and profound thinker of noble aspirations,
but he lacked the sense of art and practicability. His complete works
have been published in 26 vols.

Protagoras, Greek philosopher, b. Abdera, about 480 B.C. Is said to
have been a disciple of Democritus, and to have been a porter before
he studied philosophy. He was the first to call himself a sophist. He
wrote in a book on the gods, "Respecting the gods, I am unable to
know whether they exist or do not exist." For this he was impeached
and banished, and his book burnt. He went to Epirus and the Greek
Islands, and died about 411. He believed all things were in flux,
and summed up his conclusions in the proposition that "man is the
measure of all things, both of that which exists and that which does
not exist." Grote, who defends the Sophists, says his philosophy "had
the merit of bringing into forcible relief the essentially relative
nature of cognition."

Prudhomme (Sully). See Sully Prudhomme.

Pueckler Muskau (Hermann Ludwig Heinrich), Prince, a German writer,
b. Muskau, 30 Oct. 1785. He travelled widely and wrote his observations
in a work entitled Letters of a Defunct, 1830; this was followed by
Tutti Frutti, '32; Semilasso in Africa, '36, and other works. Died
4 Feb. 1871.

Pushkin (Aleksandr Sergyeevich), eminent Russian poet, often
called the Russian Byron, b. Pskow, 26 May, 1799. From youth he
was remarkable for his turbulent spirit, and his first work, which
circulated only in manuscript, was founded on Parny's Guerre des
Dieux, and entitled the Gabrielade, the archangel being the hero. He
was exiled by the Emperor, but, inspired largely by reading Voltaire
and Byron, put forward numerous poems and romances, of which the most
popular is Eugene Oneguine, an imitation of Don Juan. He also wrote
some histories and founded the Sovremennik (Contemporary), 1836. In
Jan. 1837 he was mortally wounded in a duel.

Putnam (Samuel P.), American writer and lecturer, brought up as a
minister. He left that profession for Freethought, and became secretary
to the American Secular Union, of which he was elected president in
Oct. 1887. In '88 he started Freethought at San Francisco in company
with G. Macdonald. Has written poems, Prometheus, Ingersoll and Jesus,
Adami and Heva; romances entitled Golden Throne, Waifs and Wanderings,
and Gottlieb, and pamphlets on the Problem of the Universe, The New
God, and The Glory of Infidelity.

Putsage (Jules), Belgian follower of Baron Colins, founder of the
Colins Philosophical Society at Mons; has written on Determinism and
Rational Science, Brussels 1885, besides many essays in La Philosophie
de L'Avenir of Paris and La Societe Nouvelle of Brussels.

Pyat (Felix) French socialist, writer and orator, b. Vierzon, 4
Oct. 1810. His father was religious and sent him to a Jesuit college
at Bourges, but he here secretly read the writings of Beranger and
Courier. He studied law, but abandoned it for literature, writing in
many papers. He also wrote popular dramas, as The Rag-picker of Paris,
'47. After '52 he lived in England, where he wrote an apology for
the attempt of Orsini, published by Truelove, '58. In '71 he founded
the journal le Combat. Elected to the National Assembly he protested
against the treaty of peace, was named member of the Commune and
condemned to death in '73. He returned to France after the armistice,
and has sat as deputy for Marseilles. Died, Saint Gerainte near Nice,
3 Aug. 1889.

Pyrrho. Greek philosopher, a native of Elis, in Peloponesus, founder of
a sceptical school about the time of Epicurus; is said to have been
attracted to philosophy by the books of Democritus. He attached himself
to Anaxarchus, and joined her in the expedition of Alexander the Great,
and became acquainted with the philosophy of the Magi and the Indian
Gymnosophists. He taught the wisdom of doubt, the uncertainty of all
things, and the rejection of speculation. His disciples extolled his
equanimity and independence of externals. It is related that he kept
house with his sister, and shared with her in all domestic duties. He
reached the age of ninety years, and after his death the Athenians
honored him with a statue. He left no writings, but the tenets of his
school, which were much misrepresented, may be gathered from Sextus
and Empiricus.

Quental. See Anthero de Quental.

"Quepat (Neree.") See Paquet (Rene).

Quesnay (Francois), French economist, b. Merey, 4 June 1694. Self
educated he became a physician, but is chiefly noted for his Tableau
Economique, 1708, and his doctrine of Laissez Faire. He derived moral
and social rules from physical laws. Died Versailles, 16 Dec. 1774.

Quinet (Edgar), French writer, b. Bourgen Bresse, 17 Feb. 1803. He
attracted the notice of Cousin by a translation of Herder's The
Philosophy of History. With his friend Michelet he made many attacks
on Catholicism, the Jesuits being their joint work. He fought in
the Revolution of '48, and opposed the Second Empire. His work on
The Genius of Religion, '42, is profound, though mystical, and his
historical work on The Revolution, '65 is a masterpiece. Died at
Versailles, 27 March, 1875.

Quintin (Jean), Heretic of Picardy, and alleged founder of the
Libertines. He is said to have preached in Holland and Brabant in
1525, that religion was a human invention. Quintin was arrested and
burnt at Tournay in 1530.

Quris (Charles), French advocate of Angers, who has published some
works on law and La Defense Catholique et la Critique, Paris, 1864.

Rabelais (Francois), famous and witty French satirist and philosopher,
b. Chinon, Touraine, 7 Jan. 1495. At an early age he joined the order
of Franciscans, but finding monastic life incompatible with his genial
temper, quitted the convent without the leave of his superior. He
studied medicine at Montpelier about 1530, after which he practised
at Lyons. His great humorous work, published anonymously in 1535, was
denounced as heretical by the clergy for its satires, not only on their
order but their creed. The author was protected by Francis I. and was
appointed cure of Meudon. Died at Paris, 9 April, 1553. His writings
show surprising fertility of mind, and Coleridge says, "Beyond a
doubt he was among the deepest as well as boldest thinkers of his age."

Radenhausen (Christian), German philosopher, b. Friedrichstadt, 3
Dec. 1813. At first a merchant and then a lithographer, he resided
at Hamburg, where he published Isis, Mankind and the World (4 vols.),
'70-72; Osiris, '74; The New Faith, '77; Christianity is Heathenism,
'81; The True Bible and the False, '87; Esther, '87.

Radicati (Alberto di), Count. See Passerano.

Ragon (Jean Marie de), French Freemason, b. Bray-sur-Seine, 1781. By
profession a civil engineer at Nancy, afterwards Chief of Bureau to
the Minister of the Interior. Author of many works on Freemasonry,
and The Mass and its Mysteries Compared with the Ancient Mysteries,
1844. Died at Paris, 1862.

Ram (Joachim Gerhard), Holstein philosopher of the seventeenth century,
who was accused of Atheism.

Ramaer (Anton Gerard Willem), Dutch writer b. Jever, East Friesland,
2 Aug. 1812. From '29 he served as officer in the Dutch army. He
afterwards became a tax collector, and in '60 was pensioned. He wrote
on Schopenhauer and other able works, and also contributed largely
to De Dageraad, often under the pseudonym of "Lachme." He had a noble
mind and sacrificed much for his friends and the good cause. Died 16
Feb. 1867.

Ramee (Louise de la), English novelist, b., of French extraction,
Bury St. Edmunds, 1840. Under the name of "Ouida," a little sister's
mispronunciation of Louisa, she has published many popular novels,
exhibiting her free and pessimistic opinions. We mention Tricotin,
Folle Farine, Signa, Moths and A Village Commune. She has lived much
in Italy, where the scenes of several novels are placed.

Ramee (Pierre de la) called Ramus, French humanist, b. Cuth
(Vermandois) 1515. He attacked the doctrines of Aristotle, was accused
of impiety, and his work suppressed 1543. He lost his life in the
massacre of St. Bartholomew, 26 Aug. 1572.

Ramsey (William James), b. London, 8 June, 1844. Becoming a Freethinker
early in life, he for some time sold literature at the Hall of Science
and became manager of the Freethought Publishing Co. Starting in
business for himself he published the Freethinker, for which in '82
he was prosecuted with Mr. Foote and Mr. Kemp. Tried in March '83,
after a good defence, he was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment,
and on Mr. Foote's release acted as printer of the paper.

Ranc (Arthur), French writer and deputy, b. Poitiers, 10 Dec. 1831,
and was brought up a Freethinker and Republican by his parents. He
took the prize for philosophy at the College of Poitiers, and studied
law at Paris. He conspired with C. Delescluze against the Second
Empire and was imprisoned, but escaped to Geneva. He collaborated on
La Marseillaise, was elected on the Municipal Council of Paris in
'71, and Deputy, '73. Has written Under the Empire and many other
political works.

Randello (Cosimo), Italian author of The Simple Story of a Great
Fraud, being a criticism of the origin of Christianity, directed
against Pauline theology, published at Milan, 1882.

Rapisardi (Mario), Italian poet, b. Catania, Sicily, 1843. Has
translated Lucretius, '80, and published poems on Lucifer, and The
Last Prayer of Pius IX., '71, etc.

Raspail (Francois Vincent), French chemist and politician b. Carpentras
24 Jan. 1794, was brought up by ecclesiastics and intended for the
Church. He became, while quite young, professor of philosophy at the
theological seminary of Avignon but an examination of theological
dogmas led to their rejection. He went to Paris, and from 1815-24 gave
lessons, and afterwards became a scientific lecturer. He took part
in the Revolution of '30. Louis Philippe offered him the Legion of
Honor but he refused. Taking part in all the revolutionary outbreaks
he was frequently imprisoned. Elected to the chamber in '69 and sat
on the extreme left. Died at Arcueil 6 Jan. 1878.

Rau (Herbert), German rationalist b. Frankfort 11 Feb. 1813. He studied
theology and became preacher to free congregations in Stuttgart and
Mannheim. He wrote Gospel of Nature, A Catechism of the Religion of
the Future, and other works. Died Frankfort 26 Sept. 1876.

Rawson (Albert Leighton) LL.D. American traveller and author,
b. Chester, Vermont 15 Oct. 1829. After studying law, theology, and
art, he made four visits to the East, and made in '51-2 a pilgrimage
from Cairo to Mecca, disguised as a Mohammedan student of medicine. He
has published many maps and typographical and philological works,
and illustrated Beecher's Life of Jesus. Has also written on
the Antiquities of the Orient, New York, '70, and Chorography of
Palestine, London, '80. Has written in the Freethinkers' Magazine,
maintaining that the Bible account of the twelve tribes of Israel
is non-historical.

Raynal (Guillaume Thomas Francois) l'abbe, French historian and
philosopher, b. Saint Geniez, 12 April, 1713. He was brought up as a
priest but renounced that profession soon after his removal to Paris,
1747, where he became intimate with Helvetius, Holbach, etc. With
the assistance of these, and Diderot, Pechmeja, etc., he compiled a
philosophical History of European establishments in the two Indies
(4 vols. 1770 and 1780), a work full of reflections on the religious
and political institutions of France. It made a great outcry, was
censured by the Sorbonne, and was burnt by order of Parliament 29 May,
1781. Raynal escaped and passed about six years in exile. Died near
Paris, 6 March, 1796.

Reade (William Winwood), English traveller and writer, nephew of
Charles Reade the novelist, b. Murrayfield, near Crieff, Scotland,
26 Dec. 1824. He studied at Oxford, then travelled much in the heart
of Africa, and wrote Savage Africa, '63, The African Sketch Book,
and in '73, The Story of the Ashantee Campaign; which he accompanied
as Times correspondent. In the Martyrdom of Man ('72), he rejects
the doctrine of a personal creator. It went through several editions
and is still worth reading. He also wrote Liberty Hall, a novel,
'60; The Veil of Isis, '61, and See Saw, a novel, '65. He wrote his
last work The Outcast, a Freethought novel, with the hand of death
upon him. Died 24 April, 1875.

Reber (George), American author of The Christ of Paul, or the Enigmas
of Christianity (New York, 1876), a work in which he exposes the
frauds and follies of the early fathers.

Reclus (Jean Jacques Elisee), French geographer and socialist, the
son of a Protestant minister, b. Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde), 15
March, 1830, and educated by the Moravian brethren, and afterwards at
Berlin. He early distinguished himself by his love for liberty, and
left France after the coup d'etat of 2 Dec. '51, and travelled till '57
in England, Ireland, and the North and South America, devoting himself
to studying the social and political as well as physical condition of
the countries he visited, the results being published in the Tour du
monde, and Revue des Deux Mondes, in which he upheld the cause of the
North during the American war. In '71 he supported the Commune and was
taken prisoner and sentenced to transportation for life. Many eminent
men in England and America interceded and his sentence was commuted
to banishment. At the amnesty of March '79, he returned to Paris,
and has devoted himself to the publication of a standard Universal
Geography in 13 vols. In '82 he gave two of his daughters in marriage
without either religious or civil ceremony. He has written a preface
to Bakounin's God and the State, and many other works.

Reddalls (George Holland), English Secularist, b. Birmingham,
Nov. 1846. He became a compositor on the Birmingham Daily Post, but
wishing to conduct a Freethought paper started in business for himself,
and issued the Secular Chronicle, '73, which was contributed to by
Francis Neale, H. V. Mayer, G. Standring, etc. He died 13 Oct. 1875.

Reghillini de Schio (M.), Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics,
b. of Venetian parents at Schio in 1760. He wrote in French an
able exposition of Masonry, 1833, which he traced to Egypt; and an
Examination of Mosaism and Christianity, '34. He was mixed in the
troubles of Venice in '48, and fled to Belgium, dying in poverty at
Brussels Aug. 1853.

Regnard (Albert Adrien), French doctor and publicist, b. Lachante
(Nievre), 20 March, 1836, author of Essais d'Histoire et de
Critique Scientifique (Paris, '65)--a work for which he could
find no publisher, and had to issue himself--in which he proclaimed
scientific materialism. Losing his situation, he started, with Naquet
and Clemenceau, the Revue Encyclopedique, which being suppressed
on its first number, he started La Libre Pensee with Asseline,
Condereau, etc. His articles in this journal drew on him and Eudes
a condemnation of four months' imprisonment. He wrote New Researches
on Cerebral Congestion, '68, and was one of the French delegates to
the anti-Council of Naples, '69. Has published Atheism, studies of
political science, dated Londres, '78; a History of England since 1815;
and has translated Buechner's Force and Matter, '84. He was delegate
to the Freethinkers' International Congress at Antwerp, '85.

Regnard (Jean Francois), French comic poet, b. Paris. 8 Feb. 1655. He
went to Italy about 1676, and on returning home was captured by an
Algerian corsair and sold as a slave. Being caught in an intrigue
with one of the women, he was required to turn Muhammadan. The French
consul paid his ransom and he returned to France about 1681. He wrote
a number of successful comedies and poems, and was made a treasurer
of France. He died as an Epicurean, 4 Sept. 1709.

Regnier (Mathurin), French satirical poet, b. Chartres, 21
Dec. 1573. Brought up for the Church, he showed little inclination for
its austerities, and was in fact a complete Pagan, though he obtained
a canonry in the cathedral of his native place. Died at Rouen, 22
Oct. 1613.

Reich (Eduard) Dr., German physician and anthropologist of Sclav
descent on his father's side, b. Olmuetz, 6 March 1839. He studied at
Jena and has travelled much, and published over thirty volumes besides
editing the Athenaeum of Jena '75, and Universities of Grossenbain,
'83. Of his works we mention Man and the Soul, '72; The Church of
Humanity, '74; Life of Man as an Individual, '81; History of the Soul,
'84; The Emancipation of Women, '84.

Reil (Johann Christian), German physician, b. Rauden, East Friesland,
20 Feb. 1758. Intended for the Church, he took instead to medicine;
after practising some years in his native town he went in 1787
to Halle, and in 1810 he was made Professor of Medicine at Berlin
University. He wrote many medical works, and much advanced medical
science, displacing the old ideas in a way which brought on him the
accusation of pantheism. Attending a case of typhus fever at Halle
he was attacked by the malady, and succumbed 22 Nov. 1813.

Reimarus (Hermann Samuel), German philologist, b. Hamburg, 22
Dec. 1694. He was a son-in-law of J. A. Fabricus. Studied at Jena and
Wittenberg; travelled in Holland and England; and was appointed rector
of the gymnasium in Weimar, 1723, and in Hamburg, 1729. He was one of
the most radical among German rationalists. He published a work on
The Principle Truths of Natural Religion, 1754, and left behind the
Wolfenbuettel Fragments, published by Lessing in 1777. Died at Hamburg,
1 March, 1768. Strauss has written an account of his services, 1862.

Reitzel (Robert), German American revolutionary, b. Baden, 1849. Named
after Blum, studied theology, went to America, walked from New
York to Baltimore, and was minister to an independent Protestant
church. Studied biology and resigned as a minister, and became speaker
of a Freethought congregation at Washington for seven years. Is now
editor of Der Arme Teufel of Detroit, and says he "shall be a poor
man and a Revolutionaire all my life."

Remsburg (John E.), American lecturer and writer, b. 1848. Has
written a series of pamphlets entitled The Image Breaker, False
Claims of the Christian Church, '83, Sabbath Breaking, Thomas Paine,
and a vigorous onslaught on Bible Morals, instancing twenty crimes
and vices sanctioned by scripture, '85.

Renan (Joseph Ernest), learned French writer, b. Treguier (Brittany)
27 Feb. 1823. Was intended for the Church and went to Paris to
study. He became noted for his linguistic attainment, but his
studies and independence of thought did not accord with his intended
profession. My faith, he says was destroyed not by metaphysics
nor philosophy but by historical criticism. In '45 he gave up all
thoughts of an ecclesiastic career and became a teacher. In '48
he gained the Volney prize, for a memoir on the Semitic Languages,
afterwards amplified into a work on that subject. In '52 he published
his work on Averroes and Averroism. In '56 was elected member of
the Academy of Inscriptions, and in '60 sent on a mission to Syria;
having in the meantime published a translation of Job and Song of
Songs. Here he wrote his long contemplated Vie de Jesus, '63. In
'61 he had been appointed Professor of Hebrew in the Institute of
France, but denounced by bishops and clergy he was deprived of his
chair, which was, however, restored in '70. The Pope did not disdain
to attack him personally as a "French blasphemer." The Vie de Jesus
is part of a comprehensive History of the Origin of Christianity, in
8 vols., '63-83, which includes The Apostles, St Paul, Anti-Christ,
The Gospels, The Christian Church, and Marcus Aurelius, and the end
of the Antique World. Among his other works we must mention Studies on
Religious History ('58), Philosophical Dialogues and Fragments ('76),
Spinoza ('77), Caliban, a satirical drama ('80), the Hibbert Lecture
on the Influence of Rome on Christians, Souvenirs, '84; New Studies
of Religious History,'84; The Abbess of Jouarre, a drama which made
a great sensation in '86; and The History of the People of Israel,
'87-89.

Renand (Paul), Belgian author of a work entitled Nouvelle Symbolique,
on the identity of Christianity and Paganism, published at Brussels
in 1861.

Rengart (Karl Fr.), of Berlin, b. 1803, democrat and freethought
friend of C. Deubler. Died about 1879.

Renard (Georges), French professor of the Academie of Lausanne;
author of Man, is he Free? 1881, and a Life of Voltaire, '83.

Renouvier (Charles Bernard), French philosopher, b. Montpellier,
1815. An ardent Radical and follower of the critical philosophy. Among
his works are Manual of Ancient Philosophy (2 vols., '44); Republican
Manual, '48; Essays of General Criticism, '54; Science of Morals, '69;
a translation, made with F. Pillon, of Hume's Psychology, '78; and A
Sketch of a Systematic Classification of Philosophical Doctrines, '85.

Renton (William), English writer, b. Edinburgh, 1852. Educated in
Germany. Wrote poems entitled Oil and Water Colors, and a work on The
Logic of Style, '74. At Keswick he published Jesus, a psychological
estimate of that hero, '76. Has since published a romance of the last
generation called Bishopspool, '83.

Rethore (Francois), French professor of philosophy at the Lyceum of
Marseilles, b. Amiens, 1822. Author of a work entitled Condillac,
or Empiricism and Rationalism, '64. Has translated H. Spencer's
Classification of Sciences.

Reuschle (Karl Gustav), German geographer, b. Mehrstetten, 12
Dec. 1812. He wrote on Kepler and Astronomy, '71, and Philosophy and
Natural Science, '74, dedicated to the memory of D. F. Strauss. Died
at Stuttgart, 22 May, 1875.

Revillon (Antoine, called Tony), French journalist and deputy,
b. Saint-Laurent-les Macon (Ain), 29 Dec. 1832. At first a lawyer in
'57, he went to Paris, where he has written on many journals, and
published many romances and brochures. In '81 he was elected deputy.

Rey (Marc Michel), printer and bookseller of Amsterdam. He printed
all the works of d'Holbach and Rousseau and some of Voltaire's,
and conducted the Journal des Savans.

Reynaud (Antoine Andre Louis), Baron, French mathematician, b. Paris,
12 Sept. 1777. In 1790 he became one of the National Guard of Paris. He
was teacher and examiner for about thirty years in the Polytechnic
School. A friend of Lalande. Died Paris, 24 Feb. 1844.

Reynaud (Jean Ernest), French philosopher, b. Lyons, 14 Feb. 1806. For
a time he was a Saint Simonian. In '36 he edited with P. Leroux the
Encyclopedie Nouvelle. He was a moderate Democrat in the Assembly
of '48. His chief work, entitled Earth and Heaven, '54, had great
success. It was formally condemned by a clerical council held at
Perigueux. Died Paris, 28 June, 1863.

Reynolds (Charles B.), American lecturer, b. 4 Aug. 1832. Was
brought up religiously, and became a Seventh Day Baptist preacher,
but was converted to Freethought. He was prosecuted for blasphemy
at Morristown, New Jersey, May 19, 20, 1887, and was defended by
Col. Ingersoll. The verdict was one of guilty, and the sentence was
a paltry fine of 25 dollars. Has written in the Boston Investigator,
Truthseeker, and Ironclad Age.

Reynolds (George William MacArthur), English writer; author of many
novels. Wrote Errors of the Christian Religion, 1832.

Rialle (J. Girard de), French anthropologist, b. Paris 1841. He
wrote in La Pensee Nouvelle, conducted the Revue de Linguistique et
de Philologie comparee, and has written on Comparative Mythology,
dealing with fetishism, etc., '78, and works on Ethnology.

Ribelt (Leonce), French publicist, b. Bordeaux 1824, author of several
political works and collaborator on La Morale Independante.

Ribeyrolles (Charles de), French politician, b. near Martel (Lot)
1812. Intended for the Church, he became a social democrat; edited the
Emancipation of Toulouse, and La Reforme in '48. A friend of V. Hugo,
he shared in his exile at Jersey. Died at Rio-Janeiro, 13 June, 1861.

Ribot (Theodule), French philosopher, b. Guingamp (Cotes du-Nord)
1839; has written Contemporary English Psychology '70, a resume of
the views of Mill, Bain, and Spencer, whose Principles of Psychology
he has translated. Has also written on Heredity, '73; The Philosophy
of Schopenhauer, '74; The maladies of Memory, personality and Will,
3 vols.; and Contemporary German Psychology. He conducts the Revue
Philosophique.

Ricciardi (Giuseppe Napoleone), Count, Italian patriot, b. Capodimonte
(Naples), 19 July, 1808, son of Francesco Ricciardi, Count of
Camaldoli, 1758-1842. Early in life he published patriotic poems. He
says that never after he was nineteen did he kneel before a priest. In
'32 he founded at Naples Il Progresso, a review of science, literature,
and art. Arrested in '34 as a Republican conspirator, he was imprisoned
eight months and then lived in exile in France until '48. Here he
wrote in the Revue Independante, pointing out that the Papacy from
its very essence was incompatible with liberty. Elected deputy to the
Neapolitan Parliament, he sat on the extreme left. He wrote a History
of the Revolution of Italy in '48 (Paris '49). Condemned to death in
'53, his fortune was seized. He wrote an Italian Martyrology from
1792-1847 (Turin '56), and The Pope and Italy, '62. At the time of the
Ecumenical Council he called an Anti-council of Freethinkers at Naples,
'69. This was dissolved by the Italian government, but it led to the
International Federation of Freethinkers. Count Ricciardi published
an account of the congress. His last work was a life of his friend
Mauro Macchi, '82. Died 1884.

Richepin (Jean), French poet, novelist, and dramatist, b. Medeah
(Algeria) in 1849. He began life as a doctor, and during the
Franco-German war took to journalism. In '76 he published the Song
of the Beggars, which was suppressed. In '84 appeared Les Blasphemes,
which has gone through several editions.

Richer (Leon), French Deist and journalist, b. Laigh, 1824. He was
with A. Gueroult editor of l'Opinion Nationale, and in '69 founded and
edits L'Avenir des Femmes. In '68 he published Letters of a Freethinker
to a Village Priest, and has written many volumes in favor of the
emancipation of women, collaborating with Mdlle. Desraismes in the
Women's Rights congresses held in Paris.

Rickman (Thomas Clio), English Radical. He published several volumes
of poems and a life of his friend Thomas Paine, 1819, of whom he
also published an excellent portrait painted by Romney and engraved
by Sharpe.

Riem (Andreas), German rationalist b. Frankenthal 1749. He became
a preacher, and was appointed by Frederick the Great chaplain of a
hospital at Berlin. This he quitted in order to become secretary of the
Academy of Painting. He wrote anonymously on the Aufklaring. Died 1807.

Ritter (Charles), Swiss writer b. Geneva 1838, and has translated into
French Strauss's Essay of Religious History, George Eliot's Fragments
and Thoughts, and Zeller's Christian Baur and the Tuebingen School.

Roalfe (Matilda), a brave woman, b. 1813. At the time of the blasphemy
prosecutions in 1843, she went from London to Edinburgh to uphold
the right of free publication. She opened a shop and circulated a
manifesto setting forth her determination to sell works she deemed
useful "whether they did or did not bring into contempt the Holy
Scriptures and the Christian Religion." When prosecuted for selling The
Age of Reason, The Oracle of Reason, etc., she expressed her intention
of continuing her offence as soon as liberated. She was sentenced to
two months imprisonment 23 Jan. '44, and on her liberation continued
the sale of the prosecuted works. She afterwards married Mr. Walter
Sanderson and settled at Galashiels, where she died 29 Nov. 1880.

Robert (Pierre Francois Joseph), French conventionnel and friend of
Brissot and Danton, b. Gimnee (Ardennes) 21 Jan. 1763. Brought up
to the law he became professor of public law to the philosophical
society. He was nominated deputy for Paris, and wrote Republicanism
adapted to France, 1790, became secretary to Danton, and voted for the
death of the king. He wrote in Prudhomme's Revolutions de Paris. Died
at Brussels 1826.

Robertson (A. D.), editor of the Free Enquirer, published at New
York, 1835.

Robertson (John Mackinnon), Scotch critic, b. Arran, 14 Nov. 1856. He
became journalist on the Edinburgh Evening News, and afterwards on
the National Reformer. Mr. Robertson has published a study of Walt
Whitman in the "Round Table Series." Essays towards a Critical Method,
'89, and has contributed to Our Corner, Time, notably an article on
Mithraism, March, '89, The Westminster Review, etc. He has also issued
pamphlets on Socialism and Malthusianism, and Toryism and Barbarism,
'85, and edited Hume's Essay on Natural Religion, '89.

Roberty (Eugene de), French positivist writer, of Russian birth,
b. Podolia (Russia), 1843; author of works on Sociology, Paris, '81,
and The Old and the New Philosophy, an essay on the general laws of
philosophic development, '87. He has recently written a work entitled
The Unknowable, '89.

Robin (Charles Philippe), French physician, senator member of the
Institute and of the Academy of Medecine, b. Jasseron (Aix), 4 June,
1821. Became M.D. in '46, and D.Sc. '47. In company with Littre he
refounded Nysten's Dictionary of Medicine, and he has written many
important medical works, and one on Instruction. In '72 his name was
struck out of the list of jurors on the ground of his unbelief in God,
and it thus remained despite many protests until '76. In the same
year he was elected Senator, and sits with the Republican Left. He
has been decorated with the Legion of Honor.

Robinet (Jean Baptiste Rene), French philosopher, b. Rennes, 23 June,
1735. He became a Jesuit, but gave it up and went to Holland to publish
his curious work, De la Nature, 1776, by some attributed to Toussaint
and to Diderot. He continued Marsy's Analysis of Bayle, edited the
Secret Letters of Voltaire, translated Hume's Moral Essays, and took
part in the Recueil Philosophique, published by J. L. Castilhon. Died
at Rennes, 24 March, 1820.

Robinet (Jean Eugene Francois), French physician and publicist,
b. Vic-sur-Seille, 1825. He early attached himself to the person
and doctrine of Auguste Comte, and became his physician and one of
his executors. During the war of '70 he was made Mayor of the Sixth
Arrondissement of Paris. He has written a Notice of the Work and
Life of A. Comte, '60, a memoir of the private life of Danton, '65,
The Trial of the Dantonists, '79, and contributed an account of the
Positive Philosophy of A. Comte and P. Lafitte to the "Bibliotheque
Utile," vol. 66, '81.

Roell (Hermann Alexander), German theologian, b. 1653, author of a
Deistic dissertation on natural religion, published at Frankfort in
1700. Died Amsterdam, 12 July, 1718.

Rogeard (Louis Auguste), French publicist, b. Chartres, 25 April,
1820. Became a teacher but was dismissed for refusing to attend
mass. In '49 he moved to Paris and took part in the revolutionary
movement. He was several times imprisoned under the Empire, and in
'65 was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for writing Les Propos
de Labienus (London, i.e. Zuerich), '65. He fled to Belgium and wrote
some excellent criticism on the Bible in the Rive Gauche. In '71
he assisted Pyat on Le Vengeur, and was elected on the Commune but
declined to sit. An incisive writer, he signed himself "Atheist." Is
still living in Paris.

Rokitansky (Karl), German physician and scientist, founder of the
Viennese school in medicine, b. Koeniggraetz (Bohemia) 11 Feb. 1804,
studied medicine at Prague and Vienna, and received his degree of
Doctor in '28. His principal work is a Manual of Practical Anatomy,
'42-6. Died Vienna, 23 July, 1878.

Roland (Marie Jeanne), nee Phlipon, French patriot, b. Paris, 17 March,
1754. Fond of reading, Plutarch's Lives influenced her greatly. At
a convent she noted the names of sceptics attached and read their
writings, being, she says, in turn Jansenist, stoic, sceptic, atheist,
and deist. The last she remained, though Miss Blind classes her with
Agnostics. After her marriage in 1779 with Jean Marie Roland de la
Platiere (b. Lyons, 1732), Madame Roland shared the tasks and studies
of her husband, and the Revolution found her an ardent consort. On
the appointment of her husband to the ministry, she became the centre
of a Girondist circle. Carlyle calls her "the creature of Simplicity
and Nature, in an age of Artificiality, Pollution, and Cant," and
"the noblest of all living Frenchwomen." On the fall of her party
she was imprisoned, and finally executed, 8 Nov. 1793. Her husband,
then in hiding, hearing of her death, deliberately stabbed himself,
15 Nov. 1793.

Rolph (William Henry), German philosopher, b. of English father,
Berlin, 26 Aug. 1847. He became privat-docent of Zoology in the
University of Leipsic, and wrote an able work on Biological Problems,
'84, in which he accepts evolution, discards theology, and places
ethics on a natural basis. Died 1 Aug. 1883.

Romagnosi (Giovanni Domenico), Italian philosopher and jurist,
b. Salso Maggiore, 13 Dec. 1761. He published in 1791 an able work
on penal legislation, Genesis of Penal Law, many pages of which are
borrowed from d'Holbach's System of Nature. He became Professor of
Law in Parma, Milan, and Pavia. A member of the Italian Academy,
he was named professor at Corfu, where he died 8 June, 1835. In
'21 he wrote Elements of Philosophy, followed by What is a Sound
Mind? ('27) and Ancient Moral Philosophy, '32. A somewhat obscure
writer, he nevertheless contributed to the positive study of sociology.

Romiti (Guglielmo), Italian Positivist. Professor of Anatomy in the
University of Siena. Has published Anatomical Notes, and a Discourse
which excited some commotion among the theologians.

Romme (Gilbert), French Mathematician, b. Riou, 1750, became deputy
to the Legislative Assembly in 1791, and to the Convention in 1792. In
Sept. 1793 he introduced the new Republican Calendar, the plan of which
was drawn by Lalande, and the names assigned by Fabre d'Eglantine. He
advocated the Fetes of Reason. Being condemned to death, he committed
suicide, 18 June, 1795. His brother Charles, b. 1744, was also an
eminent geometrician, and a friend of Laland. He died 15 June, 1805.

Ronge (Johannes), German religious reformer, b. Bischopwalde
(Silesia), 16 Oct. 1813. He entered the seminary of Breslau,
and became a Catholic priest in '40. His liberal views and bold
preaching soon led to his suspension. In '44 his letter denouncing the
worship of "the holy coat," exhibited by Arnoldi, Bishop of Treves,
made much clamor. Excommunicated by the Church, he found many free
congregations, but was proscribed after the revolution of '49 and took
refuge in England. In '51 he issued a revolutionary manifesto. In
'61 he returned to Frankfort, and in '73 settled at Darmstadt. Died
at Vienna, 25 Oct. 1887.

Ronsard (Pierre), French poet, b. of noble family 11 Sept. 1524. He
became page to the Duke of Orleans, and afterwards to James V. of
Scotland. Returning to France, he was a great favorite at the French
Court. Died 27 Dec. 1585.

Roorda van Eysinga (Sicco Ernst Willem), Dutch positivist, b. Batavia
(Java), 8 Aug. 1825. He served as engineer at Java, and was expelled
about '64 for writing on behalf of the Javanese. He contributed
to the De Dageraad and Revue Positive. Died Clarens (Switzerland),
23 Oct. 1887.

Roquetaillade (Jean de la), also known as Rupescina, early French
reformer of Auvillac (Auvergne), who entered the order of the
Franciscans. His bold discourses led to his imprisonment at Avignon
1356, by order of Innocent VI., when he wrote an apology. Accused
of Magic, Nostradamus says he was burnt at Avignon in 1362, but this
has been disputed.

Rose (Charles H.), formerly of Adelaide, Australia, author of A Light
to Lighten the Gentiles, 1881.

Rose (Ernestine Louise) nee Suesmond Potowsky, Radical reformer
and orator, b. Peterkov (Poland), 13 Jan. 1810. Her father was
a Jewish Rabbi. From early life she was of a bold and inquiring
disposition. At the age of 17 she went to Berlin. She was in Paris
during the Revolution of '30. Soon after she came to England where she
embraced the views of Robert Owen, who called her his daughter. Here
she married Mr. William E. Rose, a gentleman of broad Liberal views. In
May '36, they went to the United States and became citizens of the
Republic. Mrs. Rose lectured in all the states on the social system,
the formation of character, priestcraft, etc. She lectured against
slavery in the slave-owning states and sent in '38 the first petition
to give married women the right to hold real estate. She was one
of the inaugurators of the Woman's Rights Movement, and a constant
champion of Freethought. An eloquent speaker, some of her addresses
have been published. Defence of Atheism, Women's Rights and Speech
at the Hartford Bible Convention in '54. About '73 she returned to
England where she still lives. One of her last appearances at public
was at the Conference of Liberal Thinkers at South Place Chapel in
'76, where she delivered a pointed speech. Mrs. Rose has a fine face
and head, and though aged and suffering, retains the utmost interest
in the Freethought cause.

Roskoff (Georg Gustav), German rationalist, b. Presburg, Hungary, 30
Aug. 1814. He studied theology and philosophy at Halle, and has written
works on Hebrew Antiquity, '57. The Samson legend and Herakles myth,
'60, and a standard History of the Devil in 2 vols., Leipzig, '69.

Ross (William Stewart), Scotch writer, b. 20 Mar. 1844. Author of
poems and educational works, and editor of Secular Review, now The
Agnostic Journal. Wrote God and his Book, '87, and several brochures
published under the pen name of "Saladin."

Rosseau (Leon), French writer in the Rationalist of Geneva under the
name of L. Russelli. He published separately the Female Followers of
Jesus, founded the Horizon, contributed to la Libre Pensee, and was
editor of l'Athee. Died 1870.

Rossetti (Dante Gabriel), poet and painter, b. of Italian parents,
London, 12 May, 1828. Educated at King's College, he became a student
at the Royal Academy and joined the pre-Raphaelites. As a poet
artist he exhibited the richest gifts of originality, earnestness,
and splendour of expression. Died at Westgate on Sea, 9 April, 1882.

Rossetti (William Michael) critic and man of letters, brother of
the preceding, b. London, 25 Sep. 1829. Educated at King's College,
he became assistant secretary in the Inland Revenue Office. He has
acted as critic for many papers and edited many works, the chief being
an edition of Shelley, '70, with a memoir and numerous notes. He is
Chairman of the Committee of the Shelley Society.

Rossmaessler (Emil Adolf), German naturalist b. Leipsic 3 March,
1806. Studied theology, but abandoned it for science, and wrote many
scientific works of repute. In '48 he was elected to Parliament. Among
his writings are Man in the Mirror of Nature. '49-55. The History of
the Earth, '68. Died as a philosopher 8 April, 1867.

Roth (Julius), Dr., German author of Religion and Priestcraft, Leipzig,
1869; Jesuitism, '71.

Rothenbuecher (Adolph), Dr., German author of an able little Handbook
of Morals, written from the Secular standpoint, Cottbus, 1884.

Rotteck (Karl Wenceslaus von), German historian and statesman
b. Freiburg 18 July, 1775. Studied in his native town, where in
1798 be became Professor of History. In 1819 he represented his
University in the States of Baden, where he distinguished himself by
his liberal views. He was forbidden by government to edit any paper
and was deprived of his chair. This persecution hastened his death,
which occurred 26 Nov 1840. Rotteck's General History of the World
(9 vols., 1827) was very popular and gave one of the broadest views
of history which had then appeared.

Rousseau (Jean Jacques), Swiss philosopher, b. Geneva, 28 June,
1712. After a varied career he went to Paris in 1741 and supported
himself. In 1751 he obtained a prize from the academy of Dijon for
negative answer to the question "whether the re-establishment of the
arts and sciences has conduced to the purity of morals." This success
prompted further literary efforts. He published a dictionary of music,
the New Heloise (1759), a love story in the form of letters, which
had great success, and Emilius (May 1762), a moral romance, in which
he condemns other education than that of following nature. In this
work occurs his Confession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, discarding
the supernatural element in Christianity. The French parliament
condemned the book 9 June, 1762, and prosecuted the writer, who fled
to Switzerland. Pope Clement XVIII fulminated against Emile, and
Rousseau received so many insults on account of his principles that
he returned to Paris and on the invitation of Hume came to England
in Jan. 1766. He knew little English and soon took offence with
Hume, and asked permission to return to Paris, which he obtained on
condition of never publishing anything more. He however completed his
Confessions, of which he had previously composed the first six books
in England. Rousseau was a sincere sentimentalist, an independent
and eloquent, but not deep thinker. His captious temper spoiled his
own life, but his influence has been profound and far-reaching. Died
near Paris, 2 July, 1778.

Rouzade (Leonie) Madame, French Freethought lecturess. Has written
several brochures and novels, notably Le Monde Renverse, 1872,
and Ci et ca, ca et la, ideas upon moral philosophy and social
progress. Writes in Malon's Revue Socialiste, and is one of the
editors of Les Droits des Femmes.

Roy (Joseph), French translator of Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity,
1864, and Religion, Death, Immortality, '66. Has also translated
Marx's Capital.

Royer (Clemence Auguste), French authoress, b. Nantes, 24 April, 1830,
of Catholic royalist family. Visiting England in '54, she studied our
language and literature. Going to Switzerland, in '59 she opened at
Lausanne a course of logic and philosophy for women. In '60 she shared
with Proudhon in a prize competition on the subject of taxation. In
'62 she translated Darwin's Origin of Species, with a bold preface
and notes. In '64 her philosophical romance The Twins of Hellas
appeared at Brussels, and was interdicted in France. Her ablest work
is on The Origin of Man and of Societies, '69. In this she states
the scientific view of human evolution, and challenges the Christian
creed. This was followed by many memoirs, Pre-historic Funeral Rites,
'76; Two Hypotheses of Heredity, '77; The Good and the Moral Law,
'81. Mdlle. Royer has contributed to the Revue Moderne, Revue de
Philosophie, Positive, Revue d'Anthropologie, etc., and has assisted
and spoken at many political, social, and scientific meetings.

Ruedt (P. A.), Ph. D., German lecturer and "apostle of unbelief,"
b. Mannheim, 8 Dec. 1844. Educated at Mannheim and Carlsruhe, he
studied philosophy, philology, and jurisprudence at Heidelberg
University, '65-69. Dr. Ruedt became acquainted with Lassalle,
and started a paper, Die Waffe, and in '70 was imprisoned for
participation in social democratic agitation. From '74 to '86 he
lived in St. Petersburg as teacher, and has since devoted himself to
Freethought propaganda. Several of his addresses have been published.

Ruelle (Charles Claude), French writer, b. Savigny, 1810. Author of
The History of Christianity, '66, and La Schmita, '69.

Ruge (Arnold), German reformer, b. Bergen (Isle Ruegen), 13
Sept. 1802. Studied at Halle, Jena, and Heidelberg, and as a member of
the Tugenbund was imprisoned for six years. After his liberation in
'30 he became professor at Halle, and with Echtermeyer founded the
Hallische Jahrbuecher, '38, which opposed Church and State. In '48 he
started Die Reform. Elected to the Frankfort Assembly, he sat on the
Extreme Left. When compelled to fly he came to England, where he wrote
New Germany in "Cabinet of Reason" series, and translated Buckle's
History of Civilisation. He acted as visiting tutor at Brighton,
where he died 30 Dec. 1880.

Ruggieri (Cosmo), Florentine philosopher and astrologer, patronised
by Catherine de Medicis. He began to publish Almanachs in 1604, which
he issued annually. He died at Paris in 1615, declaring himself an
Atheist, and his corpse was in consequence denied Christian burial.

Rumpf (Johann Wilhelm), Swiss author of Church, Faith, and Progress,
and The Bible and Christ, a criticism (Strasburg, 1858). Edited Das
Freire Wort (Basle, '56).

Russell (John). See Amberley.

Ryall (Malthus Questell), was secretary of the Anti-Persecution Union,
1842, and assisted his friend Mr. Holyoake on The Oracle of Reason
and The Movement. Died 1846.

Rydberg (Abraham Viktor), Swedish man of Letters, b. Joenkoeping, 18
Dec. 1829. He has written many works of which we mention The Last
Athenian Roman Days, and The Magic of the Middle Ages, which have
been translated into English.

Rystwick (Herman van), early Dutch heretic who denied hell and
taught that the soul was not immortal, but the elements of all
matter eternal. He was sent to prison in 1499, and set at liberty
upon abjuring his opinion, but having published them a second time,
he was arrested at the Hague, and burnt to death in 1511.

Sabin (Ibn), Al Mursi, Spanish Arabian philosopher, b. Murcia about
1218 of noble family. About 1249 he corresponded with Frederick II.,
replying to his philosophical questions. Committed suicide about 1271.

Sadoc, a learned Jewish doctor in the third century B.C. He denied
the resurrection, the existence of angels, and the doctrine
of predestination, and opposed the idea of future rewards and
punishments. His followers were named after him, Sadducees.

Saga (Francesco) de Rovigo, Italian heretic, put to death for
Anti-Trinitarianism at Venice, 25 Feb. 1566.

Saigey (Emile), French inspector of telegraph wires. Wrote Modern
Physics, 1867, and The Sciences in the Eighteenth Century: Physics
of Voltaire, '74. Died 1875.

Saillard (F.), French author of The Revolution and the Church (Paris,
'69), and The Organisation of the Republic, '83.

Sainte Beuve (Charles Augustin), French critic and man of letters
b. Boulogne, 23 Dec. 1804. Educated in Paris, he studied medicine,
which he practised several years. A favorable review of V. Hugo's
Odes and Ballades gained him the intimacy of the Romantic school. As
a critic he made his mark in '28 with his Historical and Critical
Picture of French Poetry in the Sixteenth Century. His other principal
works are his History of Port Royal, '40-62; Literary Portraits,
'32-39; and Causeries du Lundi, '51-57. In '45 he was elected to the
Academy, and in '65 was made a senator. As a critic he was penetrative,
comprehensive, and impartial.

Saint Evremond (Charles de Marguetel de Saint Denis) seigneur de,
French man of letters, b. St. Denys-le-Guast (Normandy), 1 April,
1713. He studied law, but subsequently entered the army and became
major-general. He was confined in the Bastile for satirising Cardinal
Mazarin. In England he was well received at the court of Charles
II. He died in London, 20 Sept. 1703, and was buried in Westminster
Abbey. Asked on his death-bed if he wished to reconcile himself to God,
he replied, he desired to reconcile himself to appetite. His works,
consisting of essays, letters, poems, and dramas, were published in
3 vols. 1705.

Saint-Glain (Dominique de), French Spinozist, b. Limoges, about
1620. He went into Holland that he might profess the Protestant
religion more freely; was captain in the service of the States,
and assisted on the Rotterdam Gazette. Reading Spinoza, he espoused
his system, and translated the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus into
French, under the title of La Clef du Sanctuaire, 1678. This making
much noise, and being in danger of prosecution, he changed the title to
Ceremonies Superstitieuses des Juifs, and also to Reflexions Curieuses
d'un Esprit Desinteresse, 1678.

Saint-Hyacinthe (Themiseul de Cordonnier de), French writer,
b. Orleans, 24 Sept. 1684. Author of Philosophical Researches,
published at Rotterdam, 1743. Died near Breda (Holland), 1746. Voltaire
published his Diner Du Comte de Boulainvilliers under the name of
St. Hyacinthe.

Saint John (Henry). See Bolingbroke, Lord.

Saint Lambert (Charles, or rather Jean Francois de), French writer,
b. Nancy, 16 Dec. 1717. After being educated among the Jesuits he
entered the army, and was admired for his wit and gallantry. He became
a devoted adherent of Voltaire and an admirer of Madame du Chatelet. He
wrote some articles in the Encyclopedie, and many fugitive pieces and
poems in the literary journals. His poem, the Seasons, 1769 procured
him admission to the Academy. He published essays on Helvetius and
Bolingbroke, and Le Catechisme Universel. His Philosophical Works
were published in 1801. Died Paris, 9 Feb. 1803.

Sale (George), English Oriental scholar, b. Kent, 1680, educated
at Canterbury. He was one of a society which undertook to publish a
Universal History, and was also one of the compilers of the General
Dictionary. His most important work was a translation of the Koran,
with a preliminary discourse and explanatory notes, 1734. He was one
of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Learning. Died
14 Nov. 1736.

Salieres (A.), contributor to l'Athee, 1870. Has written a work on
Patriotism, 1881.

Sallet (Friedrich von), German pantheist poet of French descent,
b. Neisse (Silesia), 20 April, 1812. An officer in the army, he was
imprisoned for writing a satire on the life of a trooper. In '34 he
attended Hegel's lectures at Berlin, and in '38 quitted the army. He
wrote a curious long poem entitled the Layman's Gospel, in which he
takes New Testament texts and expounds them pantheistically--the God
who is made flesh is replaced by the man who becomes God. Died Reichau
(Silesia), 21 Feb. 1843.

Salmeron y Alonso (Nicolas), Spanish statesman, b. Alhama lo Seco,
1838. Studied law, and became a Democratic journalist; a deputy to the
Cortes in 1871, and became President thereof during the Republic of
'73. He wrote a prologue to the work of Giner on Philosophy and Arts,
'78, and his own works were issued in 1881.

Salt (Henry Stephens), English writer, b. India, 20 Sept. 1851;
educated at Eton, where he became assistant master. A contributor
to Progress, he has written Literary Sketches, '88. A monograph on
Shelley, and a Life of James Thomson, "B.V.", 1889.

Saltus (Edgar Evertson), American author, b. New York 8 June
1858. Studied at Concord, Paris, Heidelberg and Munich. In '84 he
published a sketch of Balzac. Next year appeared The Philosophy of
Disenchantment, appreciative and well written views of Schopenhauer
and Hartmann. This was followed by The Anatomy of Negation, a sketchy
account of some atheists and sceptics from Kapila to Leconte de Lisle,
'86. Has also written several novels, and Eden, an episode, '89. His
brother Francis is the author of Honey and Gall, a book of poems
(Philadelphia, '73.)

Salverte (Anne Joseph Eusebe Baconniere de), French philosopher,
b. Paris, 18 July, 1771. He studied among the Oratorians. Wrote Epistle
to a Reasonable Woman, an Essay on What should be Believed, 1793,
contributed to Marechal's Dictionnaire des Athees, published an eloge
on Diderot, 1801, and many brochures, among others a tragedy on the
Death of Jesus Christ. Elected deputy in '28, he was one of the warm
partisans of liberty, and in '30, demanded that Catholicism should not
be recognised as the state religion. He is chiefly remembered by his
work on The Occult Sciences, '29, which was translated into English,
'46. To the French edition of '56 Littre wrote a Preface. He died 27
Oct. 1839. On his death bed he refused religious offices.

Sand (George), the pen name of Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, afterwards
baroness Dudnevant, French novelist, b. Paris, 1 July, 1804, and
brought up by her grandmother at the Chateau de Nohant. Reading
Rousseau and the philosophers divorced her from Catholicism. She
remained a Humanitarian. Married Sept. 1822, Baron Dudnevant, an
elderly man who both neglected and ill-treated her, and from whom
after some years she was glad to separate at the sacrifice of her
whole fortune. Her novels are too many to enumerate. The Revolution of
'48 drew her into politics, and she started a journal and translated
Mazzini's Republic and Royalty in Italy, Died at her Chateau of Nohant,
8 June, 1876. Her name was long obnoxious in England, where she was
thought of as an assailant of marriage and religion, but a better
appreciation of her work and genius is making way.

Sarcey (Franscique), French critic, b. Dourdan, 8 Oct. 1828, editor
of Le XIXe. Siecle, has written plays, novels, and many anti-clerical
articles.

"Sarrasi," pseudonym of A. de C....; French Orientalist b. Department
of Tarn, 1837, author of L'Orient Devoile, '80, in which he shows
the mythical elements in Christianity.

Saull (William Devonshire), English geologist, b. 1783. He established
a free geological museum, contributed to the erection of the John
Street Institute, and was principally instrumental in opening the
old Hall of Science, City Road. He wrote on the connection between
astronomy, geology, etc. He died 26 April, 1855, and is buried in
Kensal Green, near his friends, Allen Davenport and Henry Hetherington.

Saunderson (Nicholas), English mathematician b. Thurleston (Yorkshire),
2 Jan. 1682. He lost both his eyes and his sight by small pox when
but a year old, yet he became conversant with Euclid, Archimedes,
and Diophantus, when read to him in Greek. He lectured at Cambridge
University, explaining Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy, and even his works on light and color. It was said,
"They have turned out Whiston for believing in but one God, and put
in Saunderson, who believes in no God at all." Saunderson said that
to believe in God he must first touch him. Died 19 April, 1739.

Sauvestre (Charles), French journalist, b. Mans. 1818, one of
the editors of L'Opinion Nationale. Has written on The Clergy and
Education ('61), Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu; Secret Instructions
of the Jesuits ('65), On the Knees of the Church ('68), Religious
Congregations Unveiled ('70), and other anti-clerical works. He died
at Paris in 1883.

Saville (Sir George), Marquis of Halifax, English statesman,
b. Yorkshire, 1630. He became President of the Council in the reign
of James II., but was dismissed for opposing the repeal of the Test
Acts. He wrote several pieces and memoirs. Burnet gives a curious
account of his opinions, which he probably tones down.

Sawtelle (C. M.), American author of Reflections on the Science of
Ignorance, or the art of teaching others what you don't know yourself,
Salem, Oregon, 1868.

Sbarbaro (Pietro), Italian publicist and reformer, b. Savona, 1838;
studied jurisprudence. He published a work on The Philosophy of
Research, '66. In '70 he dedicated to Mauro Macchi a book on The Task
of the Nineteenth Century, and presided at a congress of Freethinkers
held at Loreto. Has written popular works on the Conditions of Human
Progress, the Ideal of Democracy, and an essay entitled From Socino
to Mazzini, '86.

Schade (Georg), German Deist, b. Apenrade, 1712. He believed in the
immortality of brutes. In 1770 he was imprisoned for his opinions
on the Isle of Christiansoe. He settled at Kiel, Holstein, in 1775,
where he died in 1795.

Scherer (Edmond), French critic and publicist, b. Paris 8 April,
1815. Of Protestant family, he became professor of exegesis at Geneva,
but his views becoming too free, he resigned his chair and went to
Strasburg, where he became chief of the School of Liberal Protestants,
and in the Revue de Theologie et de Philosophie Chretienne, '50-60,
put forward views which drew down a tempest from the orthodox. He also
wrote in the Bibliotheque Universelle and Revue des Deux-Mondes. Some
of his articles have been collected as Melanges de Critique Religieuse,
'60; and Melanges d'Histoire Religieuse, '64. He was elected deputy in
'71, and sat with the Republicans of the Left. Died 1889.

Scherr (Johannes), German author, b. Hohenrechberg, 3
Oct. 1817. Educated at Zuerich and Tuebingen, he wrote in '43 with his
brother Thomas a Popular History of Religious and Philosophical Ideas,
and in '57 a History of Religion, in three parts. In '60 he became
Professor of History and Literature at Zuerich, and has written many
able literary studies, including histories of German and English
literature. Died at Zuerich, 21 Nov. 1887.

Schiff (Johan Moriz), German physiologist, b. Frankfort, 1823. Educated
at Berlin and Gottingen, he became Professor of Comparative Anatomy at
Berne, '54-63; of Physiology at Florence, '63-76, and at Genoa. Has
written many physiological treatises, which have been attacked as
materialistic.

Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von), eminent German poet and
historian, b. Marbech, 10 Nov. 1759. His mother wished him to become a
minister, but his tastes led him in a different direction. A friend of
Goethe, he enriched German literature with numerous plays and poems,
a History of the Netherlands Revolt, and of the Thirty Years' War. He
died in the prime of mental life at Weimar, 9 May, 1805.

Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), German zoologist, b. Torgau, 21 Feb. 1823. He
travelled widely, and became professor of natural history at
Jena. Among the first of Germans to accept Darwinism, he has
illustrated its application in many directions, and published an able
work on The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism in the "International
Scientific Series." Died at Strasburg, 17 Jan. 1886.

Schmidt (Kaspar), German philosopher, b. Bayreuth,
25 Oct. 1806. Studied at Berlin, Erlangen, and Koenigsberg, first
theology, then philosophy. Under the pseudonym of "Max Stirner"
he wrote a system of individualism The Only One, and His Possession
(Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum), '45. He also wrote a History of
Reaction in two parts (Berlin, '52), and translated Smith's Wealth
of Nations and Say's Text-book of Political Economy. Died at Berlin,
25 June, 1856.

Schneeberger (F. J.), Austrian writer, b. Vienna, 7 Sept, 1827. Has
written some popular novels under the name of "Arthur Storch," and
was one of the founders of the German Freethinkers' Union.

Schoelcher ( Victor), French philosophist, b. Paris, 21 July
1804. While still young he joined the secret society Aide-toi, le ciel
t'aidera, and studied social questions. He devoted himself from about
'26 to advocating the abolition of slavery, and wrote many works
on the subject. On 3 March, '48, he was made Under Secretary of the
Navy, and caused a decree to be issued by the Provisional Government
enfranchising all slaves on French territory. He was elected Deputy for
Martinique '48 and '49. After 2 Dec. '51, he came to London, where he
wrote occasionally in the Reasoner and National Reformer. He returned
to France during the war, and took part in the defence of Paris. In
'71 he was again returned for Martinique, and in '75 he was elected
a life senator.

Scholl (Aurelien), French journalist, b. Bordeaux, 14 July, 1833. He
began life as a writer on the Corsaire, founded Satan, Le Nain Jaune,
etc., and writes on l'Evenement. Has written several novels, and le
Proces de Jesus Christ, '77.

Scholl (Karl), German writer and preacher to the Free religious bodies
of Mannheim and Heidelberg, b. Karlsruhe, 17 Aug. 1820. He became
a minister '44, but was suspended for his free opinions in '45. His
first important work was on the Messiah Legend of the East (Hamburg,
'52), and in '61 he published a volume on Free Speech, a collection
of extracts from French, English, and American Freethinkers. In '70
he started a monthly journal of the Religion of Humanity, Es Werde
Licht! which continued for many years. Has published many discourses,
and written Truth from Ruins, '73, and on Judaism and the Religion
of Humanity, '79.

Schopenhauer (Arthur), German pessimist philosopher, b. Danzig,
22 Feb. 1788. The son of a wealthy and well-educated merchant and a
vivacious lady, he was educated in French and English, and studied
at Goettingen science, history, and the religions and philosophies of
the East. After two visits to Italy, and an unsuccessful attempt to
obtain pupils at Berlin, he took up his abode at Frankfort. In 1815
he wrote his chief work, The World as Will and Idea, translated into
English in '83. His philosophy is expressed in the title, will is
the one reality, all else appearance. He also wrote The Two Ground
Problems of Ethics, '61, On the Freedom of Will, and a collection
of essays entitled Parega and Paralipomena ('51). Died at Frankfort,
21 Sept. 1860. Schopenhauer was a pronounced Atheist, and an enemy of
every form of superstition. He said that religions are like glow-worms;
they require darkness to shine in.

Schroeter (Eduard), German American writer, b. Hannover, 4 June,
1810, studied theology at Jena; entered the Free-religious communion
in '45. In '50, he went to America, living since '53 in Sauk City,
and frequently lecturing there. In '81, he attended the International
Conference of Freethinkers at Brussels. He was a constant contributor
to the Freidenker, of Milwaukee, until his death 2 April, 1888.

Schroot (A.), German author of Visions and Ideas (Berlin, 1865),
Natural Law and Human Will; Creation and Man, and Science and Life
(Hamburg, 1873).

Schuenemann Pott (Friedrich), German American, b. Hamburg, 3 April,
1826. He joined the "Freie Gemeinde," and was expelled from Prussia
in '48. After the Revolution he returned to Berlin and took part
in democratic agitation, for which he was tried for high treason,
but acquitted. In '54 he removed to America, where he made lecturing
tours over the States settling at San Francisco.

Schultze (Karl August Julius Fritz), German writer, b. Celle, 7 May,
1846, studied at Jena, Goettingen and Muenich, has written an able study
on Fetishism, Leipzig '71, a pamphlet on Religion in German Schools,
'72, a History of the Philosophy of the Renaissance, '74, and Kant
and Darwin, '75. In '76, he was appointed Professor of Philosophy in
Jena, since which he has written The Elements of Materialism, '80,
Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, 2 vols. '81-82, and Elements of
Spiritualism, 1883.

Schumann (Robert Alexander), German musical composer, b. Nekau, 8
July, 1810. He studied law at Leipsic, but forsook it for music. He
started a musical journal '34, which he edited for some years. His
lyrical compositions are unsurpassed, and he also composed a "profane"
oratorio, Paradise and the Peri ('40). His character and opinions
are illustrated by his Letters. Died 29 July, 1856.

Schweichel (Georg Julius Robert), German writer, b. Koenigsberg, 12
July, 1821. He studied jurisprudence, but took to literature. Taking
part in the events of '48, after the reaction he went to
Switzerland. Has written several novels dealing with Swiss life,
also a Life of Auerbach. He wrote the preface to Dulk's Irrgang des
Leben's Jesu, 1884.

Schweitzer (Jean Baptista von), German Socialist poet, b. Frankfort,
12 July, 1833. He studied law in Berlin and Heidelberg; became after
Lassalle's death president of the German Workmen's Union, and was
sent to Parliament in '67. He wrote the Zeitgeist and Christianity,
'62, The Darwinians, '75, and several other works. Died 28 July, 1875.

Scot (Reginald), English rationalist, author of The Discoverie of
Witchcraft, 1584, the first English work to question the existence of
witches. It was burnt by order of King James I, and was republished
in 1886. Scot died in 1599.

Scott (Thomas), English scholar, b. 28 April 1808. In early life he
travelled widely, lived with Indians and had been page to Chas. X,
of France. Having investigated Christianity, he in later life devoted
himself to Freethought propaganda by sending scholarly pamphlets among
the clergy and cultured classes. From '62-77, he issued from Mount
Pleasant, Ramsgate, over a hundred different pamphlets by Bp. Hinds,
F. W. Newman, Kalisch, Lestrange, Willis, Strange, etc., most of which
were given away. He issued a challenge to the Christian Evidence
Society, and wrote with Sir G. W. Cox, The English Life of Jesus
'71. Altogether his publications extend to twenty volumes. Little
known outside his own circle, Thomas Scott did a work which should
secure him lasting honor. Died at Norwood, 30 Dec. 1878.

Seaver (Horace Holley), American journalist, b. Boston, 25
Aug. 1810. In '37 he became a compositor on the Boston Investigator,
and during Kneeland's imprisonment took the editorship, which
he continued for upwards of fifty years during which he battled
strenuously for Freethought in America. His articles were always
very plain and to the point. A selection of them has been published
with the title Occasional Thoughts (Boston, '88). With Mr. Mendum, he
helped the erection of the Paine Memorial Hall, and won the esteem of
all Freethinkers in America. Died, 21 Aug. 1889. His funeral oration
was delivered by Colonel Ingersoll.

Sebille (Adolphe), French writer, who, under the pseudonym
of "Dr. Fabricus," published God, Man, and his latter end, a
medico-psychological study, 1868, and Letters from a Materialist to
Mgr. Dupanloup, 1868-9.

Sechenov or Setchenoff (Ivan), Russian philosopher, who, in 1863,
published Psychological Studies, explaining the mind by physiology. The
work made a great impression in Russia, and has been translated into
French by Victor Derely, and published in '84 with an introduction
by M. G. Wyrouboff.

Secondat (Charles de). See Montesquieu.

Seeley (John Robert), English historian and man of letters, b. London,
1834, educated at City of London School and Cambridge, where he
graduated in '57. In '63, he was appointed Professor of Latin in
London University. In '66, appeared his Ecce <DW25>, a survey of the
Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously, and which Lord
Shaftesbury denounced in unmeasured terms as vomitted from the pit of
hell. In '69, he became professor of modern history at Cambridge, and
has since written some important historical works as well as Natural
Religion ('82). Prof. Seeley is president of the Ethical Society.

Segond (Louis August), French physician and Positivist, author of
a plan of a positivist school to regenerate medicine, 1849, and of
several medical works.

Seidel (Martin), Silesian Deist, of Olhau, lived at the end of the
sixteenth century. He held that Jesus was not the predicted Messiah,
and endeavored to propagate his opinion among the Polish Socinians. He
wrote three Letters on the Messiah, The Foundations of the Christian
Religion, in which he considered the quotation from the Old Testament
in the new, and pointed out the errors of the latter.

Sellon (Edward), English archaeologist, author of The Monolithic
Temples of India; Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus,
1865, and other scarce works, privately printed.

Semerie (Eugene), French Positivist, b. Aix, 6 Jan. 1832. Becoming
physician at Charenton, he studied mental maladies, and in '67
published a work on Intellectual Symptoms of Madness, in which
he maintained that the disordered mind went back from Positivism
to metaphysics, theology, and then to fetishism. This work was
denounced by the Bishop of Orleans. Dr. Semerie wrote A Simple Reply
to M. Dupanloup, '68. During the sieges of Paris he acted as surgeon
and director of the ambulance. A friend of Pierre Lafitte, he edited
the Politique Positive, and wrote Positivists and Catholics, '73,
and The Law of the Three States, '75. Died at Grasse, May, 1884.

Semler (Johann Salomo), German critic, b. Saalfeld, 18 Dec. 1725. He
was professor of theology at Halle and founder of historical Biblical
criticism there. He translated Simon's Critical History of the New
Testament, and by asserting the right of free discussion drew down
the wrath of the orthodox. Died at Halle, 4 March, 1791.

Serafini (Maria Alimonda), Italian authoress of a Catechism for
Female Freethinkers (Geneva, 1869), and a work on Marriage and Divorce
(Salerno, '73).

Serveto y Reves (Miguel), better known as Michael Servetus, Spanish
martyr, b. Villanova (Aragon), 1509. Intended for the Church, he
left it for law, which he studied at Toulouse. He afterward studied
medicine at Paris, and corresponded with Calvin on the subject
of the Trinity, against which he wrote De Trinitatis Erroribus
and Christianismi Restitutio, which excited the hatred of both
Catholics and Protestants. To Calvin Servetus sent a copy of his
last work. Calvin, through one Trie, denounced him to the Catholic
authorities at Lyons. He was imprisoned, but escaped, and to get to
Naples passed through Geneva, where he was seized at the instance of
Calvin, tried for blasphemy and heresy, and burnt alive at a slow fire,
26 Oct. 1553.

Seume (Johann Gottfried), German poet, b. near Weissenfels, 29
Jan. 1763. He was sent to Leipsic, and intended for a theologian,
but the dogmas disgusted him, and he left for Paris. He lived an
adventurous life, travelled extensively, and wrote Promenade to
Syracuse, 1802, and other works. Died at Teplitz, 13 June, 1810.

Sextus Empiricus, Greek sceptical philosopher and physician, who
probably lived early in the third century of the Christian era. He
left two works, one a summary of the doctrines of the sceptics in
three books; the other an attack on all positive philosophy.

Shadwell (Thomas), English dramatist, b. Straton Hall, Norfolk,
1640. Although damned by Dryden in his Mac Flecknoe, Shadwell's plays
are not without merit, and illustrate the days of Charles II. Died
6 Dec. 1692.

Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper), third Earl, b. London, 26
Feb. 1671. Educated by Locke, in 1693 he was elected M.P. for Poole,
and proposed granting counsel to prisoners in case of treason. His
health suffering, he resigned and went to Holland, where he made the
acquaintance of Bayle. The excitement induced by the French Prophets
occasioned his Letters upon Enthusiasm, 1708. This was followed,
by his Moralists and Sensus Communis. In 1711 he removed to Naples,
where he died 4 Feb. 1713. His collected works were published under
the title of Characteristics, 1732. They went through several editions,
and did much to raise the character of English Deism.

Shakespeare (William). The greatest of all dramatists,
b. Stratford-on-Avon, 23 April, 1564. The materials for writing his
life are slender. He married in his 19th year, went to London, where he
became an actor and produced his marvellous plays, the eternal honor
of English literature. Shakespeare gained wealth and reputation and
retired to his native town, where he died April 23, 1616. His dramas
warrant the inference that he was a Freethinker. Prof. J. R. Green
says, "Often as his questionings turned to the riddle of life
and death, and leaves it a riddle to the last without heeding the
common theological solutions around him." His comprehensive mind
disdained endorsement of religious dogmas and his wit delighted in
what the Puritans call profanity. Mr. Birch in his Inquiry into the
Philosophy and Religion of Shakespeare, sustains the position that
he was an Atheist.

Shaw (James Dickson), American writer, b. Texas, 27 Dec. 1841. Brought
up on a cattle farm, at the Civil War he joined the Southern Army,
took part in some battles, and was wounded. He afterwards entered the
Methodist Episcopal ministry, '70; studied biblical criticism to answer
sceptics, and his own faith gave way. He left the Church in March,
'83, and started the Independent Pulpit at Waco, Texas, in which he
publishes bold Freethought articles. He rejects all supernaturalism,
and has written The Bible, What Is It?, Studies in Theology, The
Bible Against Itself, etc.

Shelley (Percy Bysshe), English poet, b. Field Place (Sussex), 4
Aug. 1792. From Eton, where he refused to fag, he went to Oxford. Here
he published a pamphlet on the necessity of Atheism, for which he
was expelled from the University. His father, Sir Timothy Shelley,
also forbade him his house. He went to London, wrote Queen Mab, and
met Miss Westbrook, whom, in 1811, he married. After two children
had been born, they separated. In '16 Shelley learned that his wife
had drowned herself. He now claimed the custody of his children,
but, in March, '17, Lord Eldon decided against him, largely on
account of his opinions. Shelley had previously written A Letter
to Lord Ellenborough, indignantly attacking the sentence the judge
passed on D. I. Eaton for publishing Paine's Age of Reason. On 30
Dec. '16, Shelley married Mary, daughter of William Godwin and Mary
Wollstonecraft. In '18, fearing their son might also be taken from him,
he left England never to return. He went to Italy, where he met Byron,
composed The Cenci, the Witch of Atlas, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais,
Epipsychidion, Hellas, and many minor poems of exquisite beauty,
the glory of our literature. He was drowned in the Bay of Spezzia,
8 July, 1822. Shelley never wavered in his Freethought. Trelawny,
who knew him well, says he was an Atheist to the last.

Siciliani (Pietro), Professor in the University of Bologna b. Galatina,
19 Sep. 1835, author of works on Positive Philosophy, Socialism,
Darwinism, and Modern Sociology, '79; and Modern Psychogeny, with a
preface by J. Soury, '82. Died 28 Dec. '85.

Sidney (Algernon), English Republican, and second son of Robert, Earl
of Leicester, b. 1617. He became a colonel in the Army of Parliament,
and a member of the House of Commons. On the Restoration he remained
abroad till 1677, but being implicated in the Rye House Plot, was
condemned by Judge Jeffreys to be executed on Tower Hill, 7 Dec. 1678.

Sierebois (P.). See Boissiere.

Siffle (Alexander Francois), Dutch writer, b. Middleburg, 11 May,
1801. Studied law at Leyden, and became notary at Middleburg. He
wrote several poems and works of literary value, and contributed
to de Dageraad. He was a man of wide reading. Died at Middleburg,
7 Oct. 1872.

Sigward (M.), b. St. Leger-sur-Dhume, France, 15 April, 1817. An
active French democrat and Freethinker, and compiler of a Republican
calendar. He took part in the International Congress at Paris '89,
and is one of the editors of Le Danton.

Simcox (Edith), author of Natural Law in the English and Foreign
Philosophical Library; also wrote on the Design Argument in the
Fortnightly Review, 1872, under the signature "H. Lawrenny."

Simon de Tournai, a Professor at Paris University early in the XIIIth
century. He said that "Three seducers," Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad,
"have mystified mankind with their doctrines." He was said to have
been punished by God for his impiety.

Simon (Richard), learned French theological critic, b. Dieppe, 15 May,
1638. Brought up by the Congregation of the Oratory, he distinguished
himself by bold erudition. His Critical History of the Old Testament,
1678, was suppressed by Parliament. He followed it with a Critical
History of the New Testament, which was also condemned. Died at Dieppe,
11 April, 1712.

Simonis.--A physician, b. at Lucques and persecuted in Poland for
his opinions given in an Atheistic work, entitled Simonis Religio,
published at Cracow, 1588.

Simpson (George), of the Glasgow Zetetic Society, who in 1838 put
forward a Refutation of the Argument a priori for the being and
attributes of God, in reply to Clarke and Gillespie. He used the
signature "Antitheos." Died about 1844.

Sjoberg (Walter), b. 24 May, 1865, at Borgo (Finland), lives near
Helsingfors, and took part in founding the Utilistiska Samfundet
there. During the imprisonment of Mr. Lennstrand he gave bold lectures
at Stockholm.

Skinner (William), of Kirkcaldy, Deist, author of Thoughts on
Superstition or an attempt to Discover Truth (Cupar, 1822), was
credited also with Jehovah Unveiled or the God of the Jews, published
by Carlile in 1819.

Slater (Thomas), English lecturer, b. 15 Sept. 1820. Has for many
years been an advocate of Secularism and Co-operation. He was on the
Town Council of Bury, and now resides at Leicester.

Slenker (Elmina), nee Drake, American reformer, b. of Quaker parents,
23 Dec. 1827. At fourteen, she began notes for her work, Studying
the Bible, afterwards published at Boston, '70; she conducts the
Children's Corner in the Boston Investigator, and has contributed
to most of the American Freethought papers. Has written John's Way
('78), Mary Jones, The Infidel Teacher ('85), The Darwins ('79),
Freethought stories. Resides at Snowville, Virginia.

Smith (Geritt), American reformer, b. Utica (N.Y.), 6 March, 1799,
graduated at Hamilton's College. He was elected to Congress in 1850,
but only served one Session. Though of a wealthy slaveholding family,
he largely devoted his fortune to the Anti-Slavery cause. In religion,
originally a Presbyterian, he came to give up all dogmas, and wrote
The Religion of Reason, '64, and Nature the base of a Free Theology,
'67. Died, New York, 28 Dec. 1874.

Snoilsky (Karl Johan Gustav), Count, Swedish poet, b. Stockholm,
8 Sept. 1841. Studied at Upsala, '60. Displays his Freethought in
his poems published under the name of "Sventroest."

Socinus [Ital. Sozzini] (Fausto), anti-trinitarian, b. Siena, 5
Dec. 1539. He adopted the views of his uncle, Laelio, (1525-1562),
and taught them with more boldness. In 1574 he went to Switzerland,
and afterwards to Poland, where he made many converts, and died 3
March, 1604.

Sohlman (Per August Ferdinand), Swedish publicist, b. Nerika, 1824. He
edited the Aftonbladet, of Stockholm, from '57, and was a distinguished
Liberal politician. Died at Stockholm, 1874.

Somerby (Charles Pomeroy), American publisher, b. 1843. Has issued
many important Freethought works, and is business manager of the
Truthseeker.

Somerset (Edward Adolphus Saint Maur), 12th Duke of, b. 20
Dec. 1804. Educated at Eton and Oxford. He married a daughter of
Thomas Sheridan. Sat as M.P. for Totnes, '34-35, and was Lord of the
Treasury, '35-39, and First Lord of the Admiralty, '59-66. In '72 he
startled the aristocratic world by a trenchant attack on orthodoxy
entitled Christian Theology and Modern Scepticism. He also wrote on
mathematics and on Monarchy and Democracy. Died 28 Nov. 1885.

Soury (Auguste Jules), French philosopher, b. Paris, 1842. In '65 he
became librarian at the Bibliotheque Nationale. He has contributed
to the Revue des Deux Mondes, Revue Nouvelle, and other journals,
and has published important works on The Bible and Archaeology, '72;
Historical Studies on Religions, '77; Essays of Religious Criticism,
'78; Jesus and the Gospels, '78, a work in which he maintains that
Jesus suffered from cerebral affection, and which has been translated
into English, together with an essay on The Religion of Israel from
his Historical Studies. Studies of Psychology, '79, indicated a new
direction in M. Soury's Freethought. He has since written A Breviary
of the History of Materialism, '80; Naturalist Theories of the World
and of Life in Antiquity, '81; Natural Philosophy, '82; Contemporary
Psychological Doctrines, '83. He has translated Noeldeke's Literary
History of the Old Testament, 73; Haeckel's Proofs of Evolution,
'79; and Preyer's Elements of General Physiology, '84.

Southwell (Charles), English orator, b. London, 1814. He served
with the British Legion in Spain, and became an actor and social
missionary. In Nov. '41 he started The Oracle of Reason at Bristol,
for an article in which on "The Jew Book" he was tried for blasphemy
14 Jan. '42, and after an able defence sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment, and a fine of one hundred pounds. After coming out he
edited the Lancashire Beacon. He also lectured and debated both in
England and Scotland; wrote Christianity Proved Idolatry, '44; Apology
for Atheism, '46; Difficulties of Christianity, '48; Superstition
Unveiled; The Impossibility of Atheism which he held on the ground
that Theism was unproved, and Another Fourpenny Wilderness, in answer
to G. J. Holyoake's criticism of the same. He also wrote about '45,
Confessions of a Freethinker, an account of his own life. In '56 he
went to New Zealand, and died at Auckland 7 Aug. 1860.

Souverain (N.), French author of Platonism Unveiled 1700, a posthumous
work. He had been a minister in Poitou and was deposed on account of
his opinions.

Sozzini. See Socinus.

Spaink (Pierre Francois), Dutch physician, b. Amsterdam, 13 Dec. 1862,
and studied at the city, wrote for a time on De Dageraad, with the pen
names "A. Th. Eist." and "F.R.S." Has translated Romanes' Scientific
Evidences of Organic Evolution.

Spaventa (Bertrando), Italian philosopher, b. 1817. Since '61 he
has been professor of philosophy at Naples. Has written upon the
Philosophy of Kant, Gioberti, Spinoza, Hegel, etc. Died 1888.

Specht (Karl August), Dr. German writer, b. Lhweina, 2 July,
1845. Has been for many years editor of Menschenthum at Gotha, and
has written on Brain and Soul, Theology and Science and a Popular
History of the World's Development, which has gone through several
editions. Dr. Specht is a leading member of the German Freethinkers'
Union.

Spencer (Herbert), English philosopher, b. Derby, 1820. He was
articled to a civil engineer, but drifted into literature. He
wrote in the Westminster Review, and at the house of Dr. Chapman
met Mill, Lewes and "George Eliot." His first important work was
Social Statistics, '51. Four years later appeared his Principles of
Psychology, which with First Principles, '62; Principles of Biology,
'64; Principles of Sociology, '76-85, and Data of Ethics, '79, form
part of his "Synthetic Philosophy" in which he applies the doctrines
of evolution to the phenomena of mind and society no less than to
animal life. He has also published Essays, 3 vols, '58-74; a work on
Education '61; Recent Discussions on Science, Philosophy and Morals,
'71; The Study of Sociology, '72; Descriptive Sociology, '72-86,
an immense work compiled under his direction. Also papers directed
against Socialism; The Coming Slavery, '84; and Man and the State,
'85, and has contributed many articles to the best reviews.

Spinoza (Baruch), Pantheistic philosopher, b. of Jewish parents,
Amsterdam, 24 Nov. 1632. He early engaged in the study of theology and
philosophy, and, making no secret of his doubts, was excommunicated
by the Synagogue, 27 July, 1656. About the same time he narrowly
escaped death by a fanatic's dagger. To avoid persecution, he retired
to Rhinsburg, and devoted himself to philosophy, earning his living by
polishing lenses. About 1670 he settled at the Hague, where he remained
until his death. In 1670 he issued his Tractatus Theologico-politicus,
which made a great outcry; and for more than a century this great
thinker, whose life was gentle and self-denying, was stigmatized as
an atheist, a monster, and a blasphemer. A re-action followed, with
Lessing and Goethe, upon whom he had great influence. Though formerly
stigmatized as an atheist, Spinoza is now generally recognised as
among the greatest philosophers. He died in poverty at the Hague,
21 Feb. 1677. His Ethics was published with his Opera Posthuma. The
bi-centenary of his death was celebrated there by an eloquent address
from M. Renan.

Spooner (Lysander), American writer, b. Athol (Mass.), 19
Jan. 1808. His first pamphlet was A Deist's Reply to the alleged
Supernatural Evidences of Christianity. He started letter-carrying from
Boston to New York, but was overwhelmed with prosecutions. He published
many works against slavery, and in favor of Individualism. Died at
Boston, 14 May, 1887.

Stabili (Francesco), see Cecco' d'Ascoli.

Stamm (August Theodor), German Humanist, wrote The Religion of Action,
translated into English, 1860. After the events of '48, he came to
England, went to America, Aug. '54.

Standring (George), English lecturer and writer, b. 18 Oct. 1855,
was for some years chorister at a Ritualistic Church, but discarded
theology after independent inquiry in '73. He became hon. sec. of the
National Secular Society about '75, resigning on appointment of paid
sec., was auditor and subsequently vice-president. Started Republican
Chronicle, April, 1875, this was afterwards called The Republican, and
in Sept. '88 The Radical. He is sec. of the London Secular Federation,
and has contributed to the National Reformer, Freethinker, Progress,
Our Corner, Reynolds's and Pall Mall Gazette. His brother, Sam.,
b. 27 July, 1853, is also an active Freethinker.

Stanley (F. Lloyd), American author of An Outline of the Future
Religion of the World (New York and London, 1884), a Deistic work in
which he criticises preceding religions.

Stanton (Elizabeth, nee Cady), American reformer, b. Johnstone, New
York, 12 Nov. 1815. A friend of Ernestine Rose and Lucretia Mott, she
was associated with them in the Anti-Slavery and the Woman's Rights
crusades, of which last the first convention was held at her home in
Seneca Falls, July '48. She edited with her friends, Susan Anthony
and Parker Pilsbury, The Revolution, and is joint author of History
of Woman's Suffrage ('80-86). She has written in the North American
Review notably on "Has Christianity Benefited Woman," May, 1885.

Stap (A.), author of Historic Studies on the origins of
Christianity. Bruxelles, 1864, and The Immaculate Conception, 1869.

Starcke (Carl Nicolay), Dr. and teacher of philosophy in the
University of Copenhagen, b. 29 March, 1858. A decided disciple
of Feuerbach on whom he published a dissertation in '83. This able
Monograph on the whole doctrine of the German philosopher was in '85,
published in a German edition. Prof. Starcke has since published in
the "International Scientific Series," a work on The Primitive Family,
in which he critically surveys the views of Lubbock, Maine, McLennan,
etc. He is now engaged on a work on Ethics based on the doctrines of
Ludwig Feuerbach.

Stecchetti (Lorenzo). See Guerrini (O.)

Stefanoni (Luigi). Italian writer and publicist, b. Milan, 1842. In
'59, his first Romance, The Spanish in Italy was suppressed by
the Austrians. He joined Garibaldi's volunteers and contributed
to Unita Italiana. In '66, he founded at Milan the Society of
Freethinkers and the organ Il Libero Pensiero, in which he wrote A
critical History of Superstition, afterwards published separately
2 vols. '69. He also compiled a Philosophical Dictionary, '73-75;
and wrote several romances as L'Inferno, The Red and Black of Rome,
etc. He translated Buechner's Force and Matter, Morin's Jesus reduit,
La Mettrie's Man-machine, Letourneau's Physiology of the Passions,
and Feuerbach's Essence of Religion.

Steinbart (Gotthelf, Samuel), German rationalist, b. Zuellichau, 21
Sept. 1738. Brought up in a pietist school, he became a Freethinker
through reading Voltaire. In '74, he became Prof. of Philosophy
at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, and wrote a System of Pure Philosophy,
'78. Died, 3 Feb. 1809.

Steinthal (Hajjim), German philologist, b. Groebzig, 16 May, 1823,
has written many works on language and mythology.

Steller (Johann), Advocate at Leipsic, published an heretical work,
Pilatus liberatoris Jesu subsidio defensus, Dresden, 1674.

"Stendhal (M. de)," Pseud, see Beyle (M. H.)

Stephen (Sir James FitzJames), English judge and writer, b. London, 3
March, 1829. Studied at Cambridge, graduated B.A. '52, and was called
to the bar in '54. He was counsel for the Rev. Rowland Williams when
tried for heresy for writing in Essays and Reviews, and his speech
was reprinted in '62. He wrote in the Saturday Review, and reprinted
Essays by a Barrister. From Dec. '69, to April, '72, he was Legal
Member of the Indian Council, and in '79 was appointed judge. He is
author of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, '73, and some valuable
legal works. He has written much in the Nineteenth Century, notably
on the Blasphemy Law '83, and Modern Catholicism, Oct. '87.

Stephen (Leslie), English man of letters, brother of preceding,
b. London, 28 Nov. 1832. Educated at Cambridge where he graduated M.A.,
'57. He married a daughter of Thackeray, and became editor of the
Cornhill Magazine from '71-82, when he resigned to edit the Dictionary
of National Biography. Mr. Stephen also contributed to Macmillan, the
Fortnightly, and other reviews. Some of his boldest writing is found
in Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking, '73. He has also written
an important History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century,
'76, dealing with the Deistic movement, and The Science of Ethics,
'82, besides many literary works.

Stern (J)., Rabbiner, German writer, b. of Jewish parents,
Liederstetten (Wurtemburg), his father being Rabbi of the town. In
'58 he went to the Talmud High School, Presburg and studied the
Kabbalah, which he intended to translate into German. To do this he
studied Spinoza, whose philosophy converted him. In '63 he graduated at
Stuttgart. He founded a society, to which he gave discourses collected
in his first book, Gottesflamme, '72. His Old and New Faith Among the
Jews, '78, was much attacked by the orthodox Jews. In Women in the
Talmud, '79, he pleaded for mixed marriages. He has also written Jesus
as a Jewish Reformer, The Egyptian Religion and Positivism, and Is the
Pentateuch by Moses? In '81 he went to live at Stuttgart, where he has
translated Spinoza's Ethics, and is engaged on a history of Spinozism.

"Sterne (Carus)"; pseud. See Krause (E).

Stevens (E. A.), of Chicago, late secretary of American Secular Union,
b. 8 June, 1846. Author of God in the State, and contributor to the
American Freethought journals.

Stewart (John), commonly called Walking Stewart, b. London before
1750. Was sent out in 1763 as a writer to Madras. He walked through
India, Africa, and America. He was a Materialist. Died in London,
20 Feb. 1822.

"Stirner (Max)." See Schmidt (Kaspar).

Stosch (Friedrich Wilhelm), called also Stoss (Johann Friedrich),
b. Berlin, 1646, and studied at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. In 1692 he
published a little book, Concordia rationis et fidei, Amst. [or rather
Berlin]. It was rigorously suppressed, and the possession of the work
was threatened with a penalty of five hundred thalers. Lange classes
him with German Spinozists, and says "Stosch curtly denies not only
the immateriality, but also the immortality of the soul." Died 1704.

Stout (Sir Robert), New Zealand statesman, b. Lerwick (Shetland Isles),
1845. He became a pupil teacher, and in '63 left for New Zealand. In
'67 he began the study of the law, was elected to the General Assembly
in '75, and became Attorney-General in March, '78. He has since been
Minister of Education of the Colony.

Strange (Thomas Lumsden), late Madras Civil Service, and for many
years a judge of the High Court, Madras. A highly religious man, and
long an Evangelical Christian, he joined the Plymouth Brethren, and
ended in being a strong, and then weak Theist, and always an earnest
advocate of practical piety in life and conduct, and a diligent
student and writer. When judge, he sentenced a Brahmin to death,
and sought to bring the prisoner "to Jesus." He professed himself
influenced, but at the gallows "he proclaimed his trust to be in
Rama and not in Christ." This set the judge thinking. He investigated
Christianity's claims, and has embodied the result in his works. The
Bible, Is it the Word of God? '71; The Speaker's Commentary Reviewed,
'71; The Development of Creation on the Earth, '74; The Legends of the
Old Testament, '74; and The Sources and Development of Christianity,
'75. A friend of T. Scott and General Forlong, he died at Norwood,
4 Sept. 1884.

Strauss (David Friedrich), German critic, b. Ludwigsburg (Wurtemburg),
27 Jan. 1808. He studied Theology at Tuebengen, was ordained in '30, and
in '32 became assistant-teacher. His Life of Jesus Critically Treated,
'35, in which he shows the mythical character of the Gospels, aroused
much controversy, and he was deprived of his position. In '39 the
Zuerich Government appointed him professor of church history, but they
were obliged to repeal their decision before the storm of Christian
indignation. His next important work was on the Christian Doctrines
(2 vols.), '40. In '47 he wrote on Julian the Apostle, and in '58 an
account of the Life and Time of Ulrich von Hutten. He prepared a New
Life of Christ for the German People, '64, followed by the Christ of
the Creeds and the Jesus of History. In '70 he published his lectures
on Voltaire, and two years later his last work The Old Faith and the
New, in which he entirely breaks not only with Christianity but with
the belief in a personal God and immortality. A devoted servant of
truth, his mind was always advancing. He died at his native place,
8 Feb. 1874.

Strindberg (Johan August), Swedish writer, known as the Scandinavian
Rousseau, b. Stockholm, 22 Jan. 1849. He has published many prominent
rationalistic works, as The Red Chamber and Marriage. The latter
was confiscated. He is one of the most popular poets and novelists
in Sweden.

Stromer (Hjalmar), Swedish astronomer, b. 1849. He lectured on
astronomy and published several works thereon, and also wrote
Confessions of a Freethinker. Died 1887.

Strozzi (Piero), Italian general in the service of France, b. of
noble Florentine family 1500. Intended for the Church he abandoned
it for a military career, and was created marshal of France by Henry
II. about 1555. He was killed at the siege of Thionville, 20 June
1558, and being exhorted by the Duc de Guise to think of Jesus,
he calmly declared himself an Atheist.

Suard (Jean Baptiste Antione), French writer, b. Besancon, 15 Jan,
1734. He became a devoted friend of Baron d'Holbach and of Garat,
and corresponded with Hume and Walpole. He wrote Miscellanies of
Literature, etc. He had the post of censor of theatres. Died at Paris
20 July, 1817.

Sue (Marie Joseph, called Eugene), French novelist, b. Paris, 10
Dec. 1804. He wrote many romances, of which The Mysteries of Paris
and The Wandering Jew, '42-45, were the most popular. In '50 he was
elected deputy and sat at the extreme left, but was exiled by the
coup d'etat. He died as a Freethinker at Annecy (Savoy), 3 July 1857.

Sullivan (J.), author of Search for Deity, an inquiry as to the origin
of the conception of God (London, 1859).

Sully Prudhomme (Rene Francois Armand), French poet, b. Paris, 16
March 1839. He studied law but took to poetry and has published many
volumes. In '78 he was made Chevalier of Honor, and in '82 member of
the Academy. His poems are of pessimistic cast, and full of delicacy
of philosophical suggestion.

Sunderland (La Roy), American author and orator, b. Exeter (Rhode
Island), 18 May, 1803. He became a Methodist preacher and was prominent
in the temperance and anti-slavery movements. He came out of the Church
as the great bulwark of slavery and opposed Christianity during the
forty years preceding his death. He wrote many works against slavery
and Pathetism, '47; Book of Human Nature, '53, and Ideology, 3 vols.,
'86-9. Died in Quincy (Mass.) 15 May, 1885.

Suttner (Bertha von), Baroness, Austrian author of Inventory of a Soul,
1886, and of several novels.

Sutton (Henry S.), anonymous author of Quinquenergia; or, Proposals
for a New Practical Theology, and Letters from a Father to a Son on
Revealed Religion.

Swinburne (Algernon Charles), English poet and critic, b. London,
5 April, 1837, educated at Oxford, and went to Florence, where he
spent some time with W. S. Landor. Atalanta in Calydon, a splendid
reproduction of Greek tragedy, first showed his genius. Poems and
Ballads, 1866, evinced his unconventional lyrical passion and power,
and provoked some outcry. In his Songs before Sunrise, 1871, he
glorifies Freethought and Republicanism, with unsurpassed wealth
of diction and rhythm. Mr. Swinburne has put forward many other
volumes of melodious and dramatic poems, and also essays, studies,
and prose miscellanies.

Symes (Joseph), English lecturer and writer, b. Portland, 29 Jan. 1841,
of pious Methodist parents. In '64 he offered himself as candidate for
the ministry, and was sent to the Wesleyan College, Richmond, and in
'67 went on circuit as preacher. Having come to doubt orthodoxy,
he resigned in '72, preached his first open Freethought lecture
at Newcastle, 17 Dec. '76. Had several debates, wrote Philosophic
Atheism, Man's Place in Nature, Hospitals not of Christian Origin,
Christianity a Persecuting Religion, Blows at the Bible, etc. He
contributed to the Freethinker, and was ready to conduct it during
Mr. Foote's imprisonment. He went to Melbourne, Dec. '83, and there
established the Liberator, and has written Life and Death of My
Religion, '84; Christianity and Slavery, Phallic Worship, etc.

Symonds (John Addington), English poet and author, b. Bristol,
5 Oct. 1840, educated at Harrow and Oxford, and was elected in
'62 to a Fellowship at Magdalen College, which he vacated on his
marriage. His chief work is on the Renaissance in Italy, 7 vols.,
completed in '86. He has also written critical sketches, studies,
and poems. Ill health compels his living abroad.

Taine (Hippolyte Adolphe), D.C.L., brilliant French man of letters,
b. Vouziers, 21 April, 1828. Educated at the College Bourbon (now the
Condorcet Lyceum), in '53 he took the degree of Doctor of Letters. In
'56 appears his French Philosophers of the Nineteenth Century, in which
he sharply criticised the spiritualist and religious school. He came
to England and studied English Literature; his Hand History of which
was sent in for the Academy prize, '63, but rejected on the motion of
Bishop Dupanloup on account of its materialist opinions. Also wrote
on English Positivism, a study of J. S. Mill. In '71 Oxford made
him D.C.L., and in Nov. '78, he was elected to the French Academy;
his latest work is The Origins of Contemporary France.

Talandier (Alfred), French publicist, b. Limoges, 7 Sept. 1828. After
entering the bar, he became a socialist and took part in the revolution
of '48. Proscribed after 12 Dec. he came to England, started trades
unions and co-operation, translated Smiles's Self-Help, and wrote in
the National Reformer. Returned to Paris in '70 and became professor at
the Lycee Henri IV. In '74 he was deprived of his chair, but elected on
the Municipal council of Paris, and two years later chosen as deputy,
and was re-elected in '81. In '83 he published a Popular Rabelais
and has written in Our Corner on that great Freethinker.

Taubert (A.), the maiden name of Dr. Hartmann's first wife. She wrote
The Pessimists and their Opponents, 1873.

Taule (Ferdinand), M.D., of Strassburg, author of Notions on the
Nature and Properties of Organised Matter. Paris, 1866.

Taurellus (Nicolaus), German physician and philosopher, b. Montbehard,
26 Nov. 1547, studied medicine at Tuebingen and Basle. For daring to
think for himself, and asking how the Aristotelian doctrine of the
eternity of the world could be reconciled with the dogma of creation,
he was stigmatised as an atheist. Wrote many works in Latin, the
principal of which is Philosophiae Triumphans, 1573. He died of the
plague 28 Sept. 1606.

Taylor (Robert), ex-minister, orator, and critic, b. Edmonton,
18 Aug. 1784. In 1805 he walked Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospital,
and became M.R.C.S., 1807. Persuaded to join the Church, he entered
St. John's, Cambridge, Oct. 1809, in Jan. '13 graduated B.A., and
soon after took holy orders. He was curate at Midhurst till '18, when
he first became sceptical through discussions with a tradesman. He
preached a sermon on Jonah which astonished his flock, and resigned. He
then went to Dublin and published The Clerical Review and started
"The Society of Universal Benevolence." In '24 he came to London and
started "The Christian Evidence Society," and delivered discourses with
discussion; also edited the Philalethian. In '27 he was indicted for
blasphemy, tried Oct. 24, after an able defence he was found guilty,
and on 7 Feb. '28 sentenced to one year's imprisonment in Oakham
Gaol. Here he wrote his Syntagma on the Evidences of Christianity,
and his chief work, The Diegesis, being a discovery of the origins,
evidences, and early history of Christianity. He also contributed a
weekly letter to The Lion, which R. Carlile started on his behalf. On
his liberation they both went on "an infidel mission" about the
country, and on May 30 the Rotunda, Blackfriars, was taken, where
Taylor attired in canonicals delivered the discourses published in
The Devil's Pulpit. He was again prosecuted, and on 4 July, '31, was
sentenced to two year's imprisonment. He was badly treated in gaol,
and soon after coming out married a wealthy lady and retired. Died
at Jersey, 5 June, 1844.

Taylor (Thomas), known as "The Platonist," b. London, 1758. He
devoted his life to the elucidation and propagation of the Platonic
philosophy. He translated the works of Plato, Aristotle, Porphyry, five
books of Plotinus, six books of Proclus, Gamblichus on the Mysteries,
Arguments of Celsus taken from Origen, Arguments of Julian against
the Christians, Orations of Julian, etc. He is said to have been so
thorough a Pagan that he sacrificed a bull to Zeus. Died in Walworth,
1 Nov. 1835.

Taylor (William), of Norwich, b. 7 Nov. 1765. He formed an acquaintance
with Southey, with whom he corresponded. His translations from
the German, notably Lessing's Nathan the Wise, brought him some
repute. He also wrote a Survey of German Poetry and English Synonyms,
1830. He edited the Norwich Iris, 1802, which he made the organ of his
political and religions views. In '10 he published anonymously A Letter
Concerning the Two First Chapters of Luke, also entitled Who was the
Father of Jesus Christ? 1810, in which he argues that Zacharias was
the father of Jesus Christ. Also wrote largely in the Monthly Review,
replying therein to the Abbe Barruel; and the Critical Review when
edited by Fellowes, in which he gave an account of the rationalism
of Paulus. Died at Norwich, 5 March, 1836.

Tchernychewsky (N. G.) See Chernuishevsky.

"Tela (Josephus)," the Latinised name of Joseph Webbe who in 1818
edited the Philosophical Library, containing the Life and Morals of
Confucius, Epicurus, Isoscrates, Mahomet, etc., and other pieces. Webbe
is also thought to have been concerned in the production of Ecce <DW25>,
'13. Cushing, in his Initials and Pseudonyms, refers Tela to "Joseph
Webb," 1735-87; an American writer; Grand Master of Freemasons in
America; died in Boston." I am not satisfied that this is the same
person.

Telesio (Bernardino), Italian philosopher, b. of noble family at
Cosenza, 1509. He studied at Padua, and became famous for his learning,
optical discoveries, and new opinions in philosophy. He wrote in
Latin On the Nature of Things according to Proper Principles, 1565. He
opposed the Aristotelian doctrine in physics, and employed mathematical
principles in explaining nature, for which he was prosecuted by the
clergy. He died Oct. 1588. His works were placed in the Index, but
this did not prevent their publication at Venice, 1590.

Telle (Reinier), or Regnerus Vitellius, Dutch Humanist, b. Zierikzee,
1578. He translated Servetus On the Errors of the Trinity, published
1620. Died at Amsterdam, 1618.

Testa (Giacinto), of Messina, Italian author of a curious Storia di
Gesu di Nazareth, 1870, in which he maintains that Jesus was the son
of Giuseppe Pandera, a Calabrian of Brindisi.

Thaer (Albrecht Daniel). German agriculturist, b. Celle, 14 May,
1752. Studied at Gottingen, and is said to have inspired Lessing's
work on The Education of the Human Race. Died 28 Oct. 1828.

Theodorus of Cyrene, a Greek philosopher, whose opinions resembled
those of Epicurus. He was banished for Atheism from his native city. He
resided at Athens about 312 B.C. When threatened with crucifixion, he
said it mattered little whether he rotted in the ground or in the air.

Theophile de Viau, French satiric poet, b. Clerac, 1590. For the
alleged publication of Le Parnasse Satyriques, he was accused of
Atheism, condemned to death, and burnt in effigy. He fled, and was
received by the Duc de Montmorency at Chantilly, where he died,
25 Sept. 1626.

Thompson (Daniel Greenleaf), American author of works on The Problem
of Evil, '87; The Religious Sentiments, etc. He is President of the
Nineteenth Century Club.

Thomson (Charles Otto), Captain, b. Stockholm, 3 Jan. 1833. Went to
sea in '49 and became a merchant captain in '57, and was subsequently
manager of the Eskilstuna gas works. At Eskilstuna he started a
Utilitarian Society in '88, of which he is president. He has done
much to support Mr. Lennstrand in his Freethought work in Sweden; has
translated articles by Ingersoll, Foote and others, and has lectured
on behalf of the movement. He shares in the conduct of Fritaenkaren.

Thomson (James), Pessimistic poet, b. Port Glasgow, 23
Nov. 1834. Educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, he became
a schoolmaster in the army, where he met Mr. Bradlaugh, whom he
afterwards assisted on the National Reformer. To this paper he
contributed many valuable essays, translations, and poems, including
his famous "City of Dreadful Night," the most powerful pessimistic
poem in the English language, (April, '74, afterwards published with
other poems in '80). "Vane's Story" with other poems was issued in
'81, and "A Voice from the Nile," and "Shelley" (privately printed in
'84). Thomson also contributed to the Secularist and Liberal, edited
by his friend Foote, who has published many of his articles in a
volume entitled Satires and Profanities, which includes "The Story of
a Famous Old Jewish Firm," also published separately. Thomson employed
much of his genius in the service of Freethought. Died 3 June, 1882.

Thomson (William), of Cork. A disciple of Bentham, and author of The
Distribution of Wealth, 1824; Appeal for Women, '25; Labor Reward,
'27, and in the Co-operative Magazine.

Thorild (Thomas), or Thoren, Swedish writer, b. Bohuslau, 18 April,
1759. In 1775 he studied at Lund, and in 1779 went to Stockholm,
and published many poems and miscellaneous pieces in Swedish, Latin,
German, and English, in which he wrote Cromwell, an epic poem. In
1786 he wrote Common Sense on Liberty, with a view of extending the
liberty of the press. He was a partisan of the French Revolution,
and for a political work was imprisoned and exiled. He also wrote a
Sermon of Sermons, attacking the clergy, and a work maintaining the
rights of women. Died at Greifswald; 1 Oct. 1808. He was a man far
in advance of his time, and is now becoming appreciated.

Thulie (Jean Baptiste Henri), French physician and anthropologist,
b. Bordeaux, 1832. In '56 he founded a journal, "Realism." In '66 he
published a work on Madness and the Law. He contributed to La Pensee
Nouvelle, defending the views of Buechner. He has written an able study,
La Femme, Woman, published in '85. M. Thulie has been President of
the Paris Municipal Council.

Tiele (Cornelis Petrus), Dutch scholar, b. Leyden, 16
Dec. 1830. Although brought up in the Church, his works all tell in
the service of Freethought, and he has shown his liberality of views
in editing the poems of Genestet together with his life, '68. He has
written many articles on comparative religion, and two of his works
have been translated into English, viz., Outlines of the History of
Religion, a valuable sketch of the old faiths, fourth ed. '88; and
Comparative History of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Religions, '82.

Tillier (Claude), French writer, b. of poor parents, Clamecy,
11 April, 1801. He served as a conscript, and wrote some telling
pamphlets directed against tyranny and superstition, and some novels,
of which we note My Uncle Benjamin. Died at Nevers, 12 Oct. 1844. His
works were edited by F. Pyat.

Tindal (Matthew), LL.D., English Deist, b. Beer-ferris, Devon,
1657. Educated at Oxford, and at first a High Churchman, he was
induced to turn Romanist in the reign of James II., but returned to
Protestantism and wrote The Rights of the Christian Church. This work
was much attacked by the clergy, who even indicted the vendors. A
defence which he published was ordered to be burnt by the House of
Commons. In 1730 he published Christianity as Old as the Creation, to
which no less than 150 answers were published. He died 16 Aug. 1733,
and a second volume, which he left in MS., was destroyed by order of
Gibson, Bishop of London.

Toland (John), Irish writer, b. Redcastle, near Londonderry, 30
Nov. 1669. Educated as a Catholic, he renounced that faith in early
youth, went to Edinburgh University, where he became M.A. in 1690,
and proceeded to Leyden, studying under Spanheim, and becoming a
sceptic. He also studied at Oxford, reading deeply in the Bodleian
Library, and became the correspondent of Le Clerc and Bayle. In
1696 he startled the orthodox with his Christianity not Mysterious,
which was "presented" by the Grand Jury of Middlesex and condemned by
the Lower House of Convocation. The work was also burnt at Dublin,
Sept. 1697. He wrote a Life of Milton (1698), in which, mentioning
Eikon Basilike, he referred to the "suppositious pieces under the
name of Christ, his apostles and other great persons." For this he was
denounced by Dr. Blackhall before Parliament. He replied with Amytor,
in which he gives a catalogue of such pieces. He went abroad and
was well received by the Queen of Prussia, to whom he wrote Letters
to Serena (1704), which, says Lange, "handles the kernel of the
whole question of Materialism." In 1709 he published Adeisidaenon and
Origines Judaicae. In 1718 Nazarenus, on Jewish, Gentile and Mahommedan
Christianity, in which he gave an account of the Gospel of Barnabus. He
also wrote four pieces entitled Tetradymus and Pantheisticon, which
described a society of Pantheists with a liturgy burlesquing that
of the Catholics. Toland died with the calmness of a philosopher,
at Putney, 11 March, 1722. Lange praises him highly.

Tollemache (Hon. Lionel Arthur), b. 1838, son of Baron Tollemache,
a friend of C. Austin, of whom he has written. Wrote many articles
in Fortnightly Review, reprinted (privately) as Stones of Stumbling,
'84. Has also written Safe Studies, '84; Recollections of Pallison,
'85; and Mr. Romanes's Catechism, '87.

Tone (Theobald Wolfe), Irish patriot, b. Dublin, 20 June,
1763. Educated at Trinity College in 1784, he obtained a scholarship
in 1786, B.A. He founded the Society of United Irishmen, 1791. Kept
relations with the French revolutionists, and in 1796 induced the
French Directory to send an expedition against England. He was taken
prisoner and committed suicide in prison, dying 19 Nov. 1798.

Topinard (Paul), M.D., French anthropologist, b. Isle-Adam 1830. Editor
of the Revue d'Anthropologie, and author of a standard work on that
subject published in the Library of Contemporary Science.

Toulmin (George Hoggart), M.D., of Wolverhampton. Author of The
Antiquity and Duration of the World, 1785; The Eternity of the
Universe, 1789; the last being republished in 1825.

Tournai (Simon de). See Simon.

Traina (Tommaso), Italian jurist. Author of a work on The Ethics of
Herbert Spencer, Turin, 1881.

Travis (Henry), Dr., b. Scarborough, 1807. He interested himself
in the socialistic aspect of co-operation, and became a friend and
literary executor to Robert Owen. In '51-53 he edited Robert Owen's
Journal. He also wrote on Effectual Reform, Free Will and Law, Moral
Freedom and Causation, and A Manual of Social Science, and contributed
to the National Reformer. Died 4 Feb. 1884.

Trelawny (Edward John), b. Cornwall, Nov. 1792. Became intimate in
Italy with Shelley, whose body he recovered and cremated in August,
1822. He accompanied Byron on his Greek expedition, and married a
daughter of a Greek chief. He wrote Adventures of a Younger Son,
'31; and Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author, '78. He died 13
Aug. 1881, and was cremated at Gotha, his ashes being afterwards placed
beside those of Shelley. Trelawny was a vehement Pagan despising the
creeds and conventions of society. Swinburne calls him "World-wide
liberty's lifelong lover."

Trenchard (John), English Deist and political writer, b. Somersetshire,
1669. He studied law, but abandoned it, and was appointed Commissioner
of Forfeited Estates in Ireland. In conjunction with Gordon he
wrote Cato's Letters on civil and religious liberty, and conducted
The Independent Whig. He sat in the House of Commons as M.P. for
Taunton; he also wrote the Natural History of Superstition, 1709; but
La Contagion Sacree, attributed to him, is really by d'Holbach. Died
17 Dec. 1723.

Trevelyan (Arthur), of Tyneholm, Tranent, N.B., a writer in the
Reasoner and National Reformer. Published The Insanity of Mankind
(Edinburgh, 1850), and some tracts. He was a Vice-President of the
National Secular Society. Died at Tyneholm, 6 Feb. 1878.

Trezza (Gaetano), Italian writer, b. Verona, Dec. 1828. Was brought
up and ordained a priest, and was an eloquent preacher. Study led him
to resign the clerical profession. He has published Confessions of a
Sceptic, '78; Critical Studies, '78; New Critical Studies, '81. He is
Professor of Literature at the Institute of High Studies, Florence. To
the first number of the Revue Internationale '83, he contributed Les
Dieux s'en vont. He also wrote Religion and Religions, '84; and a work
on St. Paul. A study on Lucretius has reached its third edition, '87.

Tridon (Edme Marie, Gustave), French publicist, b. Chatillon sur
Seine, Burgundy, 5 June, 1841. Educated by his parents who were rich,
he became a doctor of law but never practised. In '64 he published in
Le Journal des Ecoles, his remarkable study of revolutionary history
Les Hebertistes. In May, '65 he founded with Blanqui, etc., Le Candide,
the precursor of La Libre Pensee, '66, in both of which the doctrines
of materialism were expounded. Delegated in '65 to the International
Students Congress at Liege his speech was furiously denounced by Bishop
Dupanloup; he got more than two years' imprisonment for articles in
Le Candide and La Libre Pensee, and in Ste Pelagie contracted the
malady which killed him. While in prison he wrote the greater part
of his work Du Molochisme Juif, critical and philosophical studies
of the Jewish religion, only published in '84. After 4 Sept. '70,
he founded La Patrie en Danger. In Feb. '71 he was elected deputy to
the Bordeaux Assembly, but resigned after voting against declaration
of peace. He then became a member of the Paris Commune, retiring after
the collapse to Brussels where he died 29 Aug. 1871. He received the
most splendid Freethinker's funeral witnessed in Belgium.

Truebner (Nicolas), publisher, b. Heidelberg, 17 June, 1817. After
serving with Longman and Co., he set up in business, and distinguished
himself by publishing works on Freethought, religions, philosophy
and Oriental literature. Died London, 30 March, 1884.

Truelove (Edward), English publisher, b. 29 Oct. 1809. Early in
life he embraced the views of Robert Owen, and for nine years was
secretary of the John Street Institution. In '44 and '45 he threw
in his lot with the New Harmony Community, Hampshire. In '52 he
took a shop in the Strand, where he sold advanced literature. He
published Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary and Romances, Paine's
complete works, D'Holbach's System of Nature, and Taylor's Syntagma
and Diegesis. In '58 he was prosecuted for publishing a pamphlet on
Tyrannicide, by W. E. Adams, but the prosecution was abandoned. In
'78 he was, after two trials, sentenced to four months' imprisonment
for publishing R. D. Owen's Moral Physiology. Upon his release he
was presented with a testimonial and purse of 200 sovereigns.

Trumbull (Matthew M.), American general, a native of London,
b. 1826. About the age of twenty he went to America, served in the
army in Mexico, and afterwards in the Civil War. General Grant made
him Collector of Revenue for Iowa. He held that office eight years,
and then visited England. In 1882 he went to Chicago, where he exerted
himself on behalf of a fair trial for the Anarchists.

Tschirnhausen (Walthier Ehrenfried), German Count, b. 1651. He was a
friend of Leibniz and Wolff, and in philosophy a follower of Spinoza,
though he does not mention him. Died 1708.

Tucker (Benjamin R.), American writer, b. Dartmouth, Mass., 17 April,
1854. Edits Liberty, of Boston.

Turbiglio (Sebastiano), Italian philosopher, b. Chiusa, 7 July, 1842,
author of a work on Spinoza and the Transformation of his Thoughts,
1875.

Turgenev (Ivan Sergyeevich), Russian novelist, b. Orel, 28
Oct. 1818. In his novels, Fathers and Sons and Virgin Soil he has
depicted characters of the Nihilist movement. Died at Bougival,
near Paris, 3 Sept. 1883.

Turner (William), a surgeon of Liverpool, who, under the name of
William Hammon, published an Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a
Philosophical Unbeliever, 1782, in which he avows himself an Atheist.

Tuuk (Titia, Van der), Dutch lady, b. Zandt, 27 Nov. 1854. Was
converted to Freethought by reading Dekker, and is now one of the
editors of De Dageraad.

Twesten (Karl), German publicist and writer, b. Kiel, 22 April,
1820. Studied law, '38-41, in Berlin and Heidelberg, and became
magistrate in Berlin and one of the founders of the National Liberal
Party. Wrote on the religious, political, and social ideas of Asiatics
and Egyptians (2 vols.), '72. Died Berlin, 14 Oct. 1870.

Tylor (Edward Burnet), D.C.L., F.R.S., English anthropologist,
b. Camberwell, 2 Oct. 1832. He has devoted himself to the study
of the races of mankind, and is the first living authority upon
the subject. He has wrote Anahuac, or Mexico and the Mexicans, '61;
Researches into the Early History of Mankind, '65; Primitive Culture;
being researches into the development of mythology, philosophy,
religion, art, and custom (2 vols.), '71. In this splendid work he
traces religion to animism, the belief in spirits. He has also written
an excellent handbook of Anthropology, an introduction to the Study
of Man and Civilisation, '81; and contributed to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, as well as to periodical literature. He is President of
the Anthropological Society.

Tyndall (John), LL.D., F.R.S., Irish scientist, b. near Carlow,
1820. In '47 he became a teacher in Queenswood College (Hants), and
afterwards went to Germany to study. In '56 he went to Switzerland
with Professor Huxley, and they wrote a joint work on glaciers. He
contributed to the Fortnightly Review, notably an article on Miracles
and Special Providence, '66. In '72 he went on a lecturing tour in
the United States, and two years later was president of the British
Association. His address at Belfast made a great stir, and has been
published. In addition to other scientific works he has published
popular Fragments of Science, which has gone through several editions.

Tyrell (Henry). See Church.

Tyssot de Patot (Simon), b. of French family in Delft, 1655. He
became professor of mathematics at Deventer. Under the pen name of
"Jacques Masse" he published Voyages and Adventures, Bordeaux, 1710,
a work termed atheistic and scandalous by Reimmann. It was translated
into English by S. Whatley, 1733, and has been attributed to Bayle.

Ueberweg (Friedrich), German philosopher, b. Leichlingen 22 Jan. 1826;
studied at Goettingen and Berlin, and became Professor of Philosophy at
Koenigsberg, where he died 9 June, 1871. His chief work is a History
of Philosophy. Lange cites Czolbe as saying "He was in every way
distinctly an Atheist and Materialist."

Uhlich (Johann Jacob Marcus Lebericht), German religious reformer,
b. Koethen 27 Feb. 1799. He studied at Halle and became a preacher. For
his rationalistic views he was suspended in 1847, and founded the
Free Congregation at Magdeburg. He wrote numerous brochures defending
his opinions. His Religion of Common Sense has been translated and
published in America. Died at Magdeburg, 23 March, 1872.

Ule (Otto), German scientific writer, b. Lossow 22 Jan. 1820. Studied
at Halle and Berlin. In '52 he started the journal Die Natur, and
wrote many works popularising science. Died at Halle 6 Aug. 1876.

Underwood (Benjamin F.). American lecturer and writer, b. New York
6 July, 1839. Has been a student and a soldier in the Civil War. He
fought at Ball's Bluff, Virginia, 21 Oct. '61, was wounded and held
prisoner in Richmond for nine months. In '81 he edited the Index in
conjunction with Mr. Potter, and in '87 started The Open Court at
Chicago. He has had numerous debates; those with the Rev. J. Marples
and O. A. Burgess being published. He has also published Essays and
Lectures, The Religion of Materialism, Influence of Christianity
on Civilisation, etc. His sister, Sara A., has written Heroines of
Freethought, New York, 1876.

Vacherot (Etienne), French writer, b. Langres, 29 July, 1809. In '39 he
replaced Victor Cousin in the Chair of Philosophy at the Sorbonne. For
his free opinions expressed in his Critical History of the School
of Alexandria, a work in three vols. crowned by the Institute,
'46-51, he was much attacked by the clergy and at the Empire lost
his position. He afterwards wrote Essays of Critical Philosophy,
'64, and La Religion, '69.

Vacquerie (Auguste), French writer, b. Villequier, 1819. A friend of
Victor Hugo. He has written many dramas and novels of merit, and was
director of Le Rappel.

Vaillant (Edouard Marie), French publicist, b. Vierzon, 26
Jan. 1840. Educated at Paris and Germany. A friend of Tridon he
took part in the Commune, and in '84 was elected Muncipal Councillor
of Paris.

Vairasse (Denis) d'Alais, French writer of the seventeenth century. He
became both soldier and lawyer. Author of Histoire des Sevarambes,
1677; imaginary travels in which he introduced free opinions and
satirised Christianity.

Vale (Gilbert) author, b. London, 1788. He was intended for the church,
but abandoned the profession and went to New York, where he edited
the Citizen of the World and the Beacon. He published Fanaticism;
its Source and Influence, N.Y. 1835, and a Life of Paine, '41. Died
Brooklyn, N.Y. 17 Aug. 1866.

Valk (T. A. F. van der), Dutch Freethinker, who, after being a
Christian missionary in Java, changed his opinions, and wrote in De
Dageraad between 1860-70, using the pen name of "Thomas."

Valla (Lorenzo), Italian critic, b. Piacenza, 1415. Having hazarded
some free opinions respecting Catholic doctrines, he was condemned to
be burnt, but was saved by Alphonsus, King of Naples. Valla was then
confined in a monastery, but Pope Nicholas V. called him to Rome and
gave him a pension. He died there, 1 Aug. 1457.

Vallee (Geoffrey), French martyr, b. Orleans, 1556. He wrote La
Beatitude des Chrestiens ou le Fleo de la Foy, for which he was accused
of blasphemy, and hanged on the Place de Greve, Paris, 9 Feb. 1574.

Valliss (Rudolph), German author of works on The Natural History
of Gods (Leip., 1875); The Eternity of the World, '75; Catechism of
Human Duty, '76, etc.

Van Cauberg (Adolphe), Belgian advocate. One of the founders and
president of the International Federation of Freethinkers. Died 1886.

Van Effen. See Effen.

Vanini (Lucilio, afterwards Julius Caesar), Italian philosopher and
martyr, b. Taurisano (Otranto), 1585. At Rome and Padua he studied
Averroism, entered the Carmelite order, and travelled in Switzerland,
Germany, Holland and France making himself admired and respected by
his rationalistic opinions. He returned to Italy in 1611, but the
Inquisition was on his track and he took refuge at Venice. In 1612 he
visited England, and in 1614 got lodged in the Tower. When released
he went to Paris and published a Pantheistic work in Latin On the
Admirable Secrets of Nature, the Queen and Goddess of Mortals. It was
condemned by the Sorbonne and burnt, and he fled to Toulouse in 1617;
but there was no repose for Freethought. He was accused of instilling
Atheism into his scholars, tried and condemned to have his tongue cut
out, his body burned and his ashes scattered to the four winds. This
was done 19 Feb. 1619. President Gramond, author of History of France
under Louis XIII., writes "I saw him in the tumbril as they led him
to execution, mocking the Cordelier who had been sent to exhort him
to repentance, and insulting our Savior by these impious words. 'He
sweated with fear and weakness, and I die undaunted.'"

Vapereau (Louis Gustave), French man of letters, b. Orleans 4 April,
1819. In '41 he became the secretary of Victor Cousin. He collaborated
on the Dictionnaire des Sciences Philosophiques and the Liberte
de Penser, but is best known by his useful Dictionnaire Universel
des Contemporains. In '70 he was nominated prefect of Cantal, but
on account of the violent attacks of the clericals was suspended in
'73 and resumed his literary labors, compiling a Universal Dictionary
of Writers, '76, and Elements of the History of French Literature,
1883-85.

Varnhagen von Ense (Earl August Ludwig Philipp), German author,
b. Dusseldorf, 21 Feb. 1785. He studied medicine and philosophy,
entered the Austrian and Russian armies, and served in the Prussian
diplomatic service. He was an intimate friend of Alex. von Humboldt,
and shared his Freethinking opinions. Died in Berlin, 10 Oct. 1858. He
vividly depicts the men and events of his time in his Diary.

Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers), Marquis; French moralist, b. Aix,
6 Aug. 1715. At eighteen he entered the army, and left the service
with ruined health in 1743. He published in 1746 an Introduction to
the Knowledge of the Human Mind, followed by Reflections and Maxims,
which was deservedly praised by his friend Voltaire. Died at Paris 28
May, 1747. His work, which though but mildly deistic, was rigorously
suppressed, and was reprinted about 1770.

Velthuysen (Lambert), Dutch physician, b. Utrecht, 1622. He wrote
many works on theology and philosophy in Latin. His works, De Officio
Pastorum and De Idolatria et Superstitione were proceeded against in
1668, but he was let off with a fine. Died 1685.

Venetianer (Moritz), German Pantheist, author of Der Allgeist, 1874,
and a work on Schopenhauer as a Scholastic.

Vereschagin (Vasily), Russian painter, b. Novgorod, 1842. He studied
at Paris under Gerome, took part in the Russo-Turkish war, and has
travelled widely. The realistic and anti-religious conceptions of his
Holy Family and Resurrection were the cause of their being withdrawn
from the Vienna Exhibition in Oct. '85, by order of the archbishop. In
his Autobiographical Sketches, translated into English, '87, he shows
his free opinions.

Vergniaud (Pierre Victurnien), French Girondist orator, b. Limoges,
31 May, 1759. He studied law, and became an advocate. Elected to
the Legislative Assembly in 1791, he also became President of the
Convention. At the trial of the King he voted for the appeal to
the people, but that being rejected, voted death. With Gensonne
and Guadet, he opposed the sanguinary measures of Robespierre, and,
being beaten in the struggle, was executed with the Girondins, 31
Oct. 1793. Vergniaud was a brilliant speaker. He said: "Reason thinks,
Religion dreams." He had prepared poison for himself, but as there
was not enough for his comrades, he resolved to suffer with them.

Verlet (Henri), French founder and editor of a journal, La Libre
Pensee, 1871, and author of a pamphlet on Atheism and the Supreme
Being.

Verliere (Alfred), French author of a Guide du Libre-Penseur (Paris,
1869); collaborated La Libre Pensee, Rationaliste, etc. To Bishop
Dupanloup's Atheisme et Peril Social he replied with Deisme et Peril
Social, for which he was condemned to several months' imprisonment.

Vermersch (Eugene), French journalist, b. Lille about 1840. Took part
in the Commune, and has written on many Radical papers.

Vernes (Maurice), French critic, b. Mauroy, 1845. Has published
Melanges de Critique Religieuse, and translated from Kuenen and Tiele.

Veron (Eugene), French writer and publicist, b. Paris, 29 May, 1825. He
wrote on many journals, founded La France Republicaine at Lyons, and
l'Art at Paris. Besides historical works he has written L'Esthetique
in the "Library of Contemporary Science," '78; The Natural History
of Religions, 2 vols., in the Bibliotheque Materialiste, '84; and La
Morale, '84.

Viardot (Louis), French writer, b. Dijon, 31 July, 1800. He came
to Paris and became an advocate, but after a voyage in Spain, left
the bar for literature, writing on the Globe National and Siecle. In
'41 he founded the Revue Independante with "George Sand," and Pierre
Leroux. He made translations from the Russian, and in addition to many
works on art he wrote The Jesuits, '57; Apology of an Unbeliever,
translated into English, '69, and republished as Libre Examen,
'71. Died 1883.

Vico (Giovanni Battista), Italian philosopher, b. Naples 1668. He
became Professor of Rhetoric in the University of that city, and
published a New Science of the Common Nature of Nations, 1725, in
which he argues that the events of history are determined by immutable
laws. It presents many original thoughts. Died Naples, 21 Jan. 1743.

Virchow (Rudolf), German anthropologist, b. Schivelbein Pomerania,
13 Oct. 1821. Studied medicine at Berlin and became lecturer, member
of the National Assembly of '48, and Professor of Pathological
Anatomy at Berlin. His Cellular Pathology, '58, established his
reputation. He was chosen deputy and rose to the leadership of the
Liberal opposition. His scientific views are advanced although he
opposed the Haeckel in regard to absolute teaching of evolution.

Vischer (Friedrich Theodor), German art critic, b. Ludwigsburg,
30 June, 1807. Was educated for the Church, became a minister, but
renounced theology and became professor of  and is Jahrbuecher der
Gegenwart, '44, was accused of blasphemy and for his Freethinking
opinions he was suspended two years. At the revolution of '48 he
was elected to the National Assembly. In '55 he became Professor
at Zuerich. His work on AEsthetic, or the Science of the Beautiful,
'46-54, is considered classic. He has also written, Old and New,
'81, and several anonymous works. Died Gmunden, 14 Sept. 1887.

Vitry (Guarin de) French author of a Rapid Examination of Christian
Dogma, addressed to the Council of 1869.

Vloten (Johannes van), Dutch writer, b. Kampen, 18 Jan. 1818; studied
theology at Leiden and graduated D.D. in '43. He has, however, devoted
himself to literature, and produced many works, translating plays of
Shakespeare, editing Spinoza, and writing his life--translated into
English by A. Menzies. He edited also De Levensbode, 1865, etc.

Voelkel (Titus), Dr., German lecturer and writer, b. Wirsitz (Prussian
Poland) 14 Dec. 1841. Studied ('59-65) theology, natural philosophy,
and mathematics, and spent some years in France. He returned '70,
and was for ten years employed as teacher at higher schools. Since
'80 has been "sprecher" of Freethought associations and since '85
editor of the Neues Freireligioeses Sonntags-Blatt, at Magdeburg. In
'88 he was several times prosecuted for blasphemy and each time
acquitted. He represented several German societies at the Paris
Congress of Freethinkers, '89.

Voglet (Prosper), Belgian singer, b. Brussels, 1825. He was blinded
through his baptism by a Catholic priest, and has in consequence to
earn his living as a street singer. His songs, of his own composition,
are anti-religious. Many have appeared in La Tribune du Peuple,
which he edited.

Vogt (Karl), German scientist, b. Giessen, 5 July, 1817, the
son of a distinguished naturalist. He studied medicine and became
acquainted with Agassiz. In '48 he was elected deputy to the National
Assembly. Deprived of his chair and exiled, he became professor
of Natural History at Geneva. His lectures on Man, His Position in
Creation and in the History of the Earth, '63, made a sensation by
their endorsement of Darwinism. They were translated into English
and published by the Anthropological Society. He has also written
a Manual of Geology, Physiological Letters, Zoological Letters,
Blind Faith and Science, etc., and has contributed to the leading
Freethought journals of Germany and Switzerland.

Volkmar (Gustav), Swiss critic, b. Hersfeld, 11 Jan. 1809. Studied at
Marburg '29-32; became privat docent at Zurich, '53, and professor
'63. He has written rationalist works on the Gospel of Marcion,
'52; Justin Martyr, '53; the Origin of the Gospels, '66; Jesus and
the first Christian Ages, '82, etc.

Volney (Constantin Francois Chassebouf de), Count, French philosopher,
b. Craon (Anjou) 3 Feb. 1757. Having studied at Ancenis and Angers,
he went to Paris in 1774. Here he met D'Holbach and others. In 1783
he started for Egypt and Syria, and in 1787 published an account of
his travels. Made Director of Commerce in Corsica, he resigned on
being elected to the Assembly. Though a wealthy landlord, he wrote
and spoke for division of landed property. In 1791 his eloquent Ruins
appeared. During the Terror he was imprisoned for ten months. In '95
he visited America. Returning to France, Napoleon asked him to become
colleague in the consulship but Volney declined. He remonstrated
with Napoleon when he re-established Christianity by the Concordat,
April 1802. Among his other works was a History of Samuel and the
Law of Nature. Died 25 April, 1820.

Voltaire (Francois Marie. Arouet de), French poet, historian and
philosopher, b. Paris 21 Nov. 1694. Educated by the Jesuits, he
early distinguished himself by his wit. For a satirical pamphlet on
the death of Louis XIV he was sent to the Bastille for a year and
was afterwards committed again for a quarrel with the Chevalier de
Rohan. On his liberation he came to England at the invitation of Lord
Bolingbroke, and became acquainted with the English Freethinkers. His
Lettres Philosophiques translated as "Letters on the English," 1732,
gave great offence to the clergy and was condemned to be burnt. About
1735 he retired to the estate of the Marquise de Chatelet at Cirey,
where he produced many plays. We may mention Mahomet, dedicated
to the Pope, who was unable to see that its shafts were aimed at
the pretences of the church. In 1750 he accepted the invitation
of Frederick II. to reside at his court. But he could not help
laughing at the great king's poetry. The last twenty years of his
life was passed at Ferney near the Genevan territory, which through
his exertions became a thriving village. He did more than any other
man of his century to abolish torture and other relics of barbarism,
and to give just notions of history. To the last he continued to wage
war against intolerance and superstition. His works comprise over a
thousand pieces in seventy volumes. Over fifty works were condemned
by the Index, and Voltaire used no less than one hundred and thirty
different pen-names. His name has risen above the clouds of detraction
made by his clerical enemies. Died 30 May, 1778.

Voo (G. W. van der), Dutch writer, b. 6 April, 1806. For more than
half a century he was schoolmaster and teacher of the French language
at Rotterdam, where he still lives. He contributed many articles to
De Dageraad.

Vosmaer (Carel), Dutch writer, b. the Hague 20 March, 1826. Studied law
at Leyden. He edited the Tydstroom (1858-9) and Spectator (1860-73),
and wrote several works on Dutch art and other subjects. Died at
Montreux (Switzerland), 12 June, 1888.

Voysey (Charles), English Theist, b. London 18 March, 1828. Graduated
B.A. at Oxford, '51, was vicar of Healaugh, Yorkshire, '64-71, and
deprived 11 Feb. '71 for heresy in sermons published in The Sling
and the Stone. He has since established a Theistic Church in Swallow
Street, Piccadilly, and his sermons are regularly published. He has
also issued Fragments from Reimarus, '79, edited The Langham Magazine
and published Lectures on the Bible and the Theistic Faith, etc.

Vulpian (Edme Felix Alfred), French physician, b. 5 Jan. 1826. Wrote
several medical works and upon being appointed lecturer at the School
of Medicine, '69, was violently opposed on account of his Atheism. He
was afterwards elected to the Academy of Sciences. Died 17 May, 1887.

Wagner (Wilhelm Richard), German musical composer and poet, b. Leipsic,
22 May, 1813. From '42-49 he was conductor of the Royal Opera, Dresden,
but his revolutionary sentiments caused his exile to Switzerland, where
he produced his "Lohengrin." In '64 he was patronised by Ludwig II. of
Bavaria, and produced many fine operas, in which he sought that poetry,
scenery, and music should aid each other in making opera dramatic. In
philosophy he expressed himself a follower of Schopenhauer. Died at
Venice, 13 Feb. 1883.

Waite (Charles Burlingame), American judge, b. Wayne county, N.Y. 29
Jan. 1824. Educated at Knox College, Illinois, he was admitted to the
Bar in '47. After successful practice in Chicago, he was appointed
by President Lincoln Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. In '81 he
issued his History of the Christian Religion to the year A.D. 200,
a rationalistic work, which explodes the evangelical narratives.

Wakeman (Thaddeus B.), American lawyer and Positivist, b. 29 Dec. 1834,
was one of the editors of Man and a president of the New York Liberal
Club. A contributor to the Freethinkers' Magazine.

Walferdin (Francois-Hippolyte), b. Langres, 8 June, 1795. A friend
of Arago he contributed with him to the enlargement of science, and
was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1844. He published a fine
edition of the works of Diderot in '57, and left the bust of that
philosopher to the Louvre. Died 25 Jan. 1880.

Walker (E.), of Worcester. Owenite author of Is the Bible True? and
What is Blasphemy? 1843.

Walker (Edwin C.), editor of Lucifer and Fair Play, Valley Falls,
Kansas.

Walker (Thomas), orator, b. Preston, Lancashire, 5 Feb. 1858. Went
to America and at the age of sixteen took to the platform. In
'77 he went to Australia, and for a while lectured at the Opera,
Melbourne. In '82 he started the Australian Secular Association, of
which he was president for two years when he went to Sydney. In '85
he was convicted for lecturing on Malthusianism, but the conviction
was quashed by the Supreme Court. In '87 he was elected M.P. for
Northumberland district. Is President of Australian Freethought Union.

Walser (George H.), American reformer, b. Dearborn Co. Indiana,
26 May, 1834. Became a lawyer, and a member of the legislature
of his State. He founded the town of Liberal Barton Co. Missouri,
to try the experiment of a town without any priest, church, chapel
or drinking saloon. Mr. Walser has also sought to establish there a
Freethought University.

Ward (Lester Frank). American botanist, b. Joliet, Illinois, 18
June, 1841. He served in the National Army during the civil war and
was wounded. In '65 he settled at Washington and became librarian
of the U.S. bureau of statistics. He is now curator of botany and
fossil plants in the U.S. national museum. Has written many works
on paleo-botany, and two volumes of sociological studies entitled
Dynamic Sociology. He has contributed to the Popular Science Monthly.

Ward (Mary A.), translator of Amiel's Journal, and authoress of a
popular novel Robert Elsmere, 1888.

Warren (Josiah). American reformer, b. 26 June, 1798. He took an
active part in Robert Owen's communistic experiment at New Harmony,
Indiana, in '25-6. His own ideas he illustrated by establishing a
"time store" at Cincinnati. His views are given in a work entitled
True Civilisation. Died Boston, Mass. 14 April, 1874.

Washburn (L. K.), American lecturer and writer, b. Wareham, Plymouth,
Mass., 25 March, 1846. In '57 he went to Barre. Was sent to a Unitarian
school for ministers, and was ordained in Ipswich, Feb. '70. He read
from the pulpit extracts from Parker, Emerson, and others instead
of the Bible. He went to Minneapolis, where he organised the first
Freethought Society in the State. He afterwards resided at Revere,
and delivered many Freethought lectures, of which several have been
published. He now edits the Boston Investigator.

Waters (Nathaniel Ramsey), American author of Rome v. Reason, a memoir
of Christian and extra Christian experience.

Watson (James), English upholder of a free press, b. Malton (Yorks),
21 Sept. 1799. During the prosecution of Carlile and his shopmen in
1822 he volunteered to come from London to Leeds. In Feb. '23 he was
arrested for selling Palmer's Principles of Nature, tried 23 April,
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, during which he read
Gibbon, Hume, and Mosheim. When liberated he became a compositor on the
Republican. In '31 Julian Hibbert gave him his type and presses, and he
issued Volney's Lectures on History. In Feb. '33 he was sentenced to
six months' imprisonment for selling The Poor Man's Guardian. Hibbert
left him L450, which he used in printing d'Holbach's System of Nature,
Volney's Ruins, F. Wright's Lectures, R. D. Owen's pamphlets, Paine's
works, and other volumes. Died at Norwood, 29 Nov. 1874.

Watson (Thomas), author of The Mystagogue, Leeds, 1847.

Watts (Charles), Secularist orator, b. Bristol, 28 Feb. 1835. Converted
to Freethought by hearing Charles Southwell, he became a lecturer
and assistant editor on the National Reformer. Mr. Watts has had
numerous debates, both in England and America, with Dr. Sexton,
Rev. Mr. Harrison, Brewin Grant, and others. He started the Secular
Review with G. W. Foote, and afterwards Secular Thought of Toronto. He
wrote a portion of The Freethinker's Text Book, and has published
Christianity: its Origin, Nature and Influence; The Teachings of
Secularism compared with Orthodox Christianity, and other brochures.

Watts (Charles A.), a son of above, b. 27 May, 1858. Conducts Watts's
Literary Gazette and edits the Agnostic Annual.

Watts (John), brother of Charles, b. Bedminster, Bristol, 2
Oct. 1834. His father was a Wesleyan preacher, and he was converted
to Freethought by his brother Charles. He became sub-editor of the
Reasoner, and afterwards for a time edited the National Reformer. He
edited Half Hours With Freethinkers with "Iconoclast," and published
several pamphlets, Logic and Philosophy of Atheism, Origin of Man,
Is Man Immortal? The Devil, Who were the Writers of the New Testament,
etc. Died 31 Oct. 1866.

Watts (of Lewes, Sussex), author of the Yahoo, a satire in verse
(first published in 1833), also The Great Dragon Cast Out.

Webber (Zacharias), Dutch painter, who in the seventeenth century
wrote heretical works On the Temptation of Christ and The Seduction
of Adam and Eve, etc. He defended Bekker, whom he surpassed in
boldness. Under the pen name J. Adolphs he wrote The True Origin,
Continuance and Destruction of Satan. Died in 1679.

Weber (Karl Julius), German author, b. Langenburg, 16 April,
1767. Studied law at Erlangen and Goettingen. He lived for a while
in Switzerland and studied French philosophy, which suited his
satirical turn of mind. He wrote a history of Monkery, 1818-20;
Letters of Germans Travelling in Germany, '26-28; and Demokritos,
or the Posthumous Papers of a Laughing Philosopher, '32-36. Died
Kupferzell, 19 July, 1832.

Weitling (Wilhelm), German social democrat, b. Magdeburg, 1808. He
was a leader of "Der Bund der Gerechten," the League of the Just,
and published at Zuerich The Gospel of Poor Sinners. He also wrote
Humanity, As It Is and As It Should Be. He emigrated to America,
where he died 25 Jan. 1871.

Wellhausen (Julius), German critic, b. Hameln 17 May, 1844, studied
theology at Goettingen, and became professor in Griefswald, Halle,
and Marburg. Is renowned for his History of Israel in progress, '78,
etc., and his Prolegomena to the same, and his contributions to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Westbrook (Richard Brodhead), Dr., American author, b. Pike co.,
Pennsylvania, 8 Feb. 1820. He became a Methodist preacher in '40,
and afterwards joined the Presbyterians, but withdrew about '60,
and has since written The Bible: Whence and What? and Man: Whence and
Whither? In '88 Dr. Westbrook was elected President of the American
Secular Union, and has since offered a prize for the best essay on
teaching morality apart from religion.

Westerman (W. B.) During many years, from 1856-68, an active
co-operator on De Dageraad.

Westra (P.), Dutch Freethinker, b. 16 March, 1851. Has for some years
been active secretary of the Dutch Freethought society, "De Dageraad."

Wettstein (Otto), German American materialist, b. Barmen, 7 April,
1838. About '48 his parents emigrated. In '58 he set up in business as
a jeweller at Rochelle. He contributed to the Freethinkers' Magazine,
The Ironclad Age, and other journals, and is treasurer of the National
Secular Union.

White (Andrew Dickson), American educator, b. Homer, N.Y., 7
Nov. 1832. He studied at Yale, where he graduated in '53; travelled
in Europe, and in '57 was elected professor of history and English
literature in the University of Michigan. He was elected to the State
Senate, and in '67 became first president of Cornell, a university
which he has largely endowed. Among his works we must mention The
Warfare of Science (N.Y., '76) and Studies in General History and in
the History of Civilisation, '85.

Whitman (Walt), American poet, b. West Hills, Long Island, N.Y.,
31 May, 1819. Educated in public schools, he became a printer,
and travelled much through the States. In the civil war he served
as a volunteer army nurse. His chief work, Leaves of Grass, with
its noble preface, appeared in '55, and was acclaimed by Emerson as
"the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet
contributed." It was followed by Drum Taps, November Boughs and Sands
at Seventy. This "good gray poet" has also written prose essays called
Democratic Vietas and Specimen Days and Collect.

Wicksell (Knut), Swedish author and lecturer, b. Stockholm, 30
Dec. 1851, studied at Upsala, and became licentiate of philosophy in
'85. Has written brochures on Population, Emigration, Prostitution,
etc., and anonymously a satirical work on Bible Stories, as by Tante
Malin. Represented Sweden at the Paris Conference of '89.

Wieland (Christopher Martin), German poet and novelist, b. near
Biberach, 5 Sept. 1733. A voluminous writer, he was called the
Voltaire of Germany. Among his works we notice Dialogues of the
Gods, Agathon, a novel, and Euthanasia, in which he argues against
immortality. He translated Horace, Lucian and Shakespeare. Died Weimer,
20 Jan. 1813. His last words were "To be or not to be."

Wiener (Christian), Dr., German author of a materialistic work on
the Elements of Natural Laws, 1863.

Wiessner (Alexander), German writer, author of an examination of
spiritualism (Leipsic, 1875).

Wigand (Otto Friedrich), German publisher, b. Goettingen, 10
Aug. 1795. In 1832 he established himself in Leipsic, where he
issued the works of Ruge, Bauer, Feuerbach, Scherr, and other
Freethinkers. Died 31 Aug. 1870.

Wightman (Edward), English anti-Trinitarian martyr of
Burton-on-Trent. Was burnt at Lichfield 11 April, 1612, being the
last person burnt for heresy in England.

Wihl (Ludwig), German poet, b. 24 Oct. 1807. Died Brussels, 16
Jan. 1882.

Wilbrandt (Adolf), German author, b. Rosbock, 24 Aug. 1837. Has
written on Heinrich von Kleist, Hoelderlin, the poet of Pantheism,
and published many plays, of which we may mention Giordano Bruno,
1874, and also some novels.

Wilhelmi (Hedwig Henrich), German lecturess and author of Vortrage,
published at Milwaukee, 1889. She attended the Paris Congress of '89.

Wilkinson (Christopher), of Bradford, b. 1803. Wrote with Squire Farrah
an able Examination of Dr. Godwin's Arguments for the Existence of God,
published at Bradford, 1853.

Williams (David), Welsh deist, b. Cardiganshire, 1738. He became a
dissenting minister but after publishing two volumes of Sermons on
Religious Hypocrisy, 1774, dissolved the connections. In conjunction
with Franklin and others he founded a club and drew up a Liturgy on
the Universal Principles of Religion and Morality, which he used at a
Deistic chapel opened in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, 7 April,
1776. He wrote various political and educational works, and established
the literary fund in 1789. Died Soho, London, 29 June, 1816.

Willis (Robert), physician and writer, b. Edinburgh, 1799. He studied
at the University and became M.D. in 1819. He soon after came to
London, and in '23 became M.R.C.S. He became librarian to the College
of Surgeons. Besides many medical works he wrote a Life of Spinoza,
'70, and Servetus and Calvin, '77. He also wrote on The Pentateuch and
Book of Joshua in the face of the Science and Moral Senses of our Age,
and A Dialogue by Way of Catechism, both published by T. Scott. Died
at Barnes, 21 Sept. 1878.

Wilson (John), M.A., of Trin. Coll., Dublin, author of Thoughts on
Science, Theology and Ethics, 1885.

Wirmarsius (Henrik), Dutch author of Den Ingebeelde Chaos, 1710.

Wislicenus (Gustav Adolf), German rationalist, b. Saxony, 20
Nov. 1803. He studied theology at Halle, and became a minister,
but in consequence of his work Letter or Spirit (1845) was suspended
and founded the Free Congregation. For his work on The Bible in the
Light of Modern Culture he was, in Sept. '53, sentenced to prison
for two years. He went to America, and lectured in Boston and New
York. He returned to Europe in '56, and stayed in Zuerich, where he
died 14 Oct. 1785. His chief work, The Bible for Thinking Readers,
was published at Leipsic in '63.

Wittichius (Jacobus), Dutch Spinozist, b. Aken, 11 Jan. 1671. Wrote
on the Nature of God, 1711. Died 18 Oct. 1739.

Wixon (Susan H.), American writer and editor of the "Children's Corner"
in the Truthseeker, has for many years been an advocate of Freethought,
temperance, and women's rights. She was a school teacher and member
of the Board of Education of the City of Fall River, Mass., where
she resides. She contributes to the Boston Investigator.

Wollny (Dr. F.), German author of Principles of Psychology (Leipsic,
1887), in the preface to which he professes himself an Atheist.

Wollstonecraft (Mary), English authoress, b. Hoxton, 27 April,
1759. She became a governess. In 1796 she settled in London, and began
her literary labors with Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. She
also wrote a Vindication of the Rights of Man, in answer to Burke,
and Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In 1797 she married William
Godwin, and died in childbirth.

Wooley (Milton), Dr., American author of Science of the Bible 1877;
Career of Jesus Christ, '77; and a pamphlet on the name God. Died
Aug. 1885.

Woolston (Thomas), Rev. English deist, b. Northampton, 1669. He studied
at Cambridge, and became a Fellow at Sydney College and a minister. He
published in 1705 The Old Apology, which was followed by other works in
favor of an allegorical interpretation of Scripture. In 1726 he began
his Six Discourses upon the Miracles, which were assailed in forcible,
homely language. Thirty thousand copies are said to have been sold,
and sixty pamphlets were written in opposition. Woolston was tried for
blasphemy and sentenced (March, 1729) to one year's imprisonment and
a fine of L100. This he could not pay, and died in prison 29 Jan. 1733.

Wright (Elizur), American reformer, b. South Canaan, Litchfield
Co., Connecticut, 12 Feb. 1804. He graduated at Yale College,
'26. Having warmly embraced the principles of the Abolitionists,
he became secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
and edited the Abolitionist and Commonwealth. He was a firm and
uncompromising Atheist, and a contributor to the Boston Investigator,
the Freethinker's Magazine, etc. Died at Boston, 21 Dec. '85. His
funeral oration was delivered by Col. Ingersoll.

Wright (Frances), afterwards D'Arusmont, writer and lecturess,
b. Dundee, 6 Sept. 1795. At the age of eighteen she wrote A Few Days in
Athens, in which she expounds and defends the Epicurean philosophy. She
visited the United States, and wrote Views on Society and Manners
in America, 1820. She bought 2,000 acres in Tennessee, and peopled
it with slave families she purchased and redeemed. She afterwards
joined Owen's experiment; in part edited the New Harmony Gazette,
and afterwards the Free Inquirer. A Course of Popular Lectures was
published at New York in '29, in which she boldly gives her views on
religion. She also wrote a number of fables and tracts, and assisted
in founding the Boston Investigator. Died at Cincinnati, 14 Dec. 1852.

Wright (Henry Clarke), American reformer, b. Sharon, Litchfield
co. Connecticut, 29 Aug. 1797. A conspicuous anti-slavery orator,
he was a friend of Ernestine Rose, Lucretia Mott, etc. He wrote The
Living, Present and the Dead Past. Died Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
16 Aug. 1870.

Wright (Susannah), one of Carlile's shopwomen. Tried 14 Nov. 1822,
for selling pamphlets by Carlile. She made a good defence, in the
course of which she was continually interrupted.

Wundt (Wilhelm Max), German scientist, b. Neckaran (Baden),
16 Aug. 1832. His father was a clergyman. He studied medicine at
Tuebingen, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and became professor of physiology at
Heidelberg in '64, and has since held chairs at Zurich and Leipsic. His
principal works are Principles of Physiological Psychology, '74;
Manual of Human Physiology; Logic, '83; Essays, '85; Ethik, '86.

Wuensch (Christian Ernest), German physician, b. Hohenstein, 1744. Was
Professor of Mathematics and Physics in Frankfort on the Oder, 1828.

Wyrouboff (Gr.), Count; Russian Positivist, who established the
Revue de Philosophie Positive with Littre, and edited it with him
from 1867-83.

Xenophanes, Greek philosopher, b. Colophon, about 600 B.C. He founded
the Eleatic school, and wrote a poem on Nature and Eleaticism, in
which he ridiculed man making gods in his own image.

Ximines (Augustin Louis), Marquis de, French writer, b. Paris, 26
Feb. 1726. Was an intimate friend of Voltaire, and wrote several
plays. Died Paris, 31 May, 1817.

York (J. L.), American lecturer, b. New York, 1830. He became a
blacksmith, then a Methodist minister, then Unitarian, and finally
Freethought advocate. He was for some years member of the California
Legislature, and has made lecturing tours in Australia and through
the States.

Yorke (J. F.), author of able Notes on Evolution and Christianity,
London, 1882.

Youmans (Edward Livingstone), American scientist, b. Coeymans, N.Y.,
3 June, 1821. Though partially blind he was a great student. He became
M.D. about 1851, and began to lecture on science, popularly expounding
the doctrines of the conservation of energy and evolution. He
popularised Herbert Spencer, planned the "International Scientific
Series," and in '72 established the Popular Science Monthly, in which
he wrote largely. Died at New York, 18 Jan. 1887.

Zaborowski Moindrin (Sigismond), French scientific writer, b. La
Creche, 1851. Has written on The Antiquity of Man, '74; Pre-historic
Man, '78; Origin of Languages, '79; The Great Apes, '81; Scientific
Curiosities, '83.

Zambrini (Francesco), Italian writer, b. Faenza, 25 Jan. 1810. Educated
at Ravenna and Bologna. He devoted himself to literature and produced
a great number of works. Died 9 July, 1887.

Zarco (Francisco), Mexican journalist, b. Durango, 4 Dec. 1829. Edited
El Siglo XIX and La Ilustracion, in which he used the pen-name of
"Fortun." He was elected to Congress in '55, and imprisoned by the
reactionaries in '60. Juarez made him Secretary of State and President
of Council. He was a friend of Gagern. Died Mexico, 29 Dec. 1869.

Zeller (Eduard), German critic, b. Kleinbottwar (Wuertemberg), 22
Jan. 1814. Studied theology at Tuebingen and Berlin, became professor
at Berne, '47. He married a daughter of Baur; gave up theology for
philosophy, of which he has been professor at Berlin since '72. Has
written a memoir of Strauss, '74; Outlines of the History of Greek
Philosophy, '83; Frederick the Great as a Philosopher, '86; and other
important works.

Zijde (Karel van der), Dutch writer, b. Overschie, 13 July, 1838. Has
been teacher at Rotterdam. Under the pen-name of M. F. ten Bergen
he wrote The Devil's Burial, 1874. Besides this he has written many
literary articles, and is now teacher of Dutch and German at Zaandam.

Zimmern (Helen), b. Hamburg, 25 March, 1846. Has lived in England
since '50, and is naturalised. She has written lives of Schopenhauer
and Lessing, and a paraphrase of Firdusi's Shah Nahmeh.

Zola (Emile), French novelist, b. of Italian father, Paris, 2 April,
1840. By his powerful collection of romances known as Les Rougon
Macquart, he made himself the leader of the "naturalist" school,
which claims to treat fiction scientifically, representing life as
it is without the ideal.

Zorrilla (Manuel Ruiz), Spanish statesman, b. Burgo-de-Osma, 1834,
became a lawyer, and in '56 was returned to the Cortes by the
Progressive party. For a brochure against the Neo-Catholics he was
prosecuted. In '70 he became President of the Cortes, and has since
been exiled for his Republicanism.

Zouteveen (H. H. H. van). See Hartogh.

Zuppetta (Luigi), Italian jurist and patriot, b. Castelnuovo, 21 June,
1810. He studied at Naples, took part in the democratic movement of
'48, was exiled and returned in 1860, and has been Professor of Penal
Law in the University of Pavia.






SUPPLEMENT.


Those which have already appeared are marked *


Abd al Hakk ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Sabin. See Sabin.

Abu Abd'allah Muhammad ibn Massara al Jabali. Arabian pantheist
b. 881. He lived at Cordova in Spain and studied the works of
Empedocles and other Greek philosophers. Accused of impiety, he
left Spain and travelled through the East. Returned to Spain and
collected disciples whom he led to scepticism. He was the most eminent
predecessor of Ibn Rushd or Averroes. Died Oct. 931. His works were
publicly burned at Seville.

* Acosta (Uriel), the name of his work was Examen Traditorum
Philosophicarum ad legem Scriptam.

Acuna (Rosario de), Spanish writer and lecturess, b. Madrid about
1854. Contributes to Las Dominicales of Madrid. Has written The Doll's
House, and other educational works.

* Adams (Robert C.), American Freethought writer and lecturer,
the son of the Rev. Needham Adams, b. Boston 1839. He became a
sea-captain, and was afterwards shipper at Montreal. Has written
in Secular Thought, the Truthseeker and the Freethinker's Magazine,
and published rational lectures under the title Pioneer Pith, '89. In
'89 he was elected President of the Canadian Secular Union.

Admiraal (Aart), Dutch writer, b. Goedereede, 13 Oct. 1833. At first
a schoolmaster, he became in '60 director of the telegraph bureau at
Schoonhoven. He wrote from '56 for many years in De Dageraad over
the anagram "Aramaldi." In '67 he published The Religion of the
People under the pseudonym "Bato van der Maas," a name he used in
writing to many periodicals. A good mind and heart with but feeble
constitution. He died 12 Nov. 1878.

Airoldi (J.) Italian lawyer, b. Lugano (Switzerland), 1829; a poet
and writer of talent.

Albaida (Don Jose M. Orense), Spanish nobleman (marquis), one of the
founders of the Republican party. Was expelled for his principles;
returned to Spain, and was president of the Cortes in 1869.

* Alchindus. Died about 864.

* Aleardi had better be deleted. I am now told he was a Christian.

Alfarabi. See Alpharabius.

Algeri (Pomponio), a youth of Nola. Studied at Padua, and was accused
of heresy and Atheism, and burnt alive in a cauldron of boiling oil,
pitch, and turpentine at Rome in 1566.

Alkemade (A. de Mey van), Dutch nobleman, who contributed to
De Dageraad, and also published a work containing many Bible
contradictions, 1862; and in '59 a work on the Bible under the pen name
"Alexander de M."

Allais (Denis de). See Vairasse.

Allais (Giovanni), Italian doctor, b. Casteldelfino, 1847.

Almquist (Herman), Swedish, b. 1839, orientalist; professor of
philology at the University of Upsala. An active defender of new
ideas and Freethought.

Altmeyer (Jean Jacques), Belgian author, b. Luxembourg, 20
Jan. 1804. Was professor at the University of Brussels. He wrote an
Introduction to the Philosophical Study of the History of Humanity,
'36, and other historical works. Died 15 Sept. 1877.

Amari (Michele), Sicilian historian and orientalist, b. Palmero, 7
July, 1806. In '32 he produced a version of Scott's Marmion. He wrote
a standard History of the Musulmen in Sicily. After the landing of
Garibaldi, he was made head of public instruction in the island. He
took part in the anti-clerical council of '69. Died at Florence,
July 1889.

* Amaury de Chartres. According to L'Abbe Ladvocat his disciples
maintained that the sacraments were useless, and that there was no
other heaven than the satisfaction of doing right, nor any other hell
than ignorance and sin.

Anderson (Marie), Dutch lady Freethinker, b. the Hague, 2
Aug. 1842. She has written many good articles in de Dageraad, and
was for some time editress of a periodical De Twintigste Eeuw (the
twentieth century). She has also written some novels. She resides now
at Wuerzburg, Germany, and contributes still to de Dageraad. As pen-name
she formerly used that of "Mevrouw Quarles" and now "Dr. Al. Dondorf."

* Anthero de Quental. This name would be better under Quental.

Apono. See Petrus de Abano. This would probably be best under Abano.

* Aquila. Justinian forbade the Jews to read Aquila's version of
the Scriptures.

Aranda (Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea), Count, Spanish statesman,
b. of illustrious family, Saragossa, 18 Dec. 1718. Was soldier and
ambassador to Poland. He imbibed the ideas of the Encyclopaedists,
and contributed to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain in 1767. He
also disarmed the Inquisition. In 1792 he was elected Spanish minister
to France. He was recalled and exiled to Aragon, where he died in 1799.

Argilleres (Antoine), at first a Jacobin monk and afterwards a
Protestant preacher, was tortured several times, then decapitated and
his head nailed to a gibbet at Geneva, 1561-2, for having eight years
previously taken the part of Servetus against Calvin at Pont-de-Veyle
in Bresse.

* Arnould (Victor). Has continued his Tableau in the Positivist
Revue and La Societe Nouvelle. From 1868 to '73 he edited La Liberte,
in which many a battle for Freethought has been fought.

Ascarate (Gumezindo de), Spanish professor of law at the University of
Madrid and Republican deputy, b. Leon about 1844. One of the ablest
Radical parliamentary orators; in philosophy, he is a follower of
Krause. He has written Social Studies, Self-Government and Monarchy,
and other political works.

Aszo y Del Rio (Ignacio Jordan de), Spanish jurist and naturalist,
b. Saragossa, 1742. Was professor at Madrid, and left many important
works on various branches of science. In his political works he
advocated the abolition of ecclesiastical power. Died 1814.

* Aubert de Verse (Noel) had probably better be omitted, although
accused of blasphemy himself, I find he wrote an answer to Spinoza,
which I have not been able to see.

Auerbach (Berthold), German novelist of Jewish extraction,
b. Nordstetten, 28 Feb. 1812. Devoted to Spinoza, in '41 he published
a life of the philosopher and a translation of his works, having
previously published an historical romance on the same subject. Died
Cannes, 8 Feb. 1882.

* Aymon (Jean). La vie et L'Esprit de M. Benoit Spinoza (La Haye,
1719) was afterwards issued under the famous title Treatise of Three
Impostors.

* Bahrdt (Karl Friedrich). The writings of this enfant terrible of
the German Aufklarung fill 120 volumes.

* Bailey (William Shreeve) was born 10 Feb. 1806. He suffered much
on account of his opinions. Died Nashville, 20 Feb 1886. Photius Fisk
erected a monument to his memory.

* Bancel (Francis Desire). In his work Les Harangues de l'Exil, 3
vols., 1863, his Freethought views are displayed. He also wrote in
La Revue Critique.

Barnaud (Nicolas), of Crest in Dauphine. Lived during the latter half
of the sixteenth century. He travelled in France, Spain, and Germany,
and to him is attributed the authorship of a curious work entitled Le
Cabinet du Roy de France, which is largely directed against the clergy.

Barreaux. See des Barreaux.

Barth (Ferdinand), b. Mureck, Steyermark Austria, 1828. In '48 he
attained reputation as orator to working men and took part in the
revolution. When Vienna was retaken he went to Leipzig and Zurich,
where he died in 1850, leaving a profession of his freethought.

Bartrina, Spanish Atheistic poet, b. Barcelona, 1852, where he died
in 1880.

Bedingfield (Richard, W. T.), Pantheistic writer, b. May, 1823,
wrote in National Reformer as B.T.W.R., established Freelight,
'70. Died 14 Feb. 1876.

* Berigardus (Claudius), b. 15 Aug. 1578.

* Bertillon (Louis Adolphe). In a letter to Bp. Dupanloup, April, '68,
he said, You hope to die a Catholic, I hope to die a Freethinker. Died
1883.

* Berwick (George J.) M.D., Dr. Berwick, I am informed, was the author
of the tracts issued by Thomas Scott of Ramsgate with the signature of
"Presbyter Anglicanus."

Blein (F. A. A.), Baron, French author of Essais Philosophiques,
Paris, 1843.

Blum (Robert), German patriot and orator, b. Cologne, 10 Nov. 1807. He
took an active part in progressive political and religious movements,
and published the Christmas Tree and other publications. In '48 he
became deputy to the Frankfort Parliament and head of the Republican
party. He was one of the promoters at the insurrection of Vienna,
and showed great bravery in the fights of the students with the
troops. Shot at Vienna, 9 Nov. 1848.

* Blumenfleld (J. C.), this name I suspect to be a pseudonym.

Bolin (A. W.), a philosophic writer of Finland, b. 2 Aug. 1835. Studied
at Helsingford, '52, and became Doctor of Philosophy in '66, and
Professor in '73. He has written on the Freedom of the Will, The
Political Doctrines of Philosophy, etc. A subject of Russian Finland;
he has been repeatedly troubled by the authorities for his radical
views on religious questions.

Bolivar (Ignacio), Spanish professor of natural history at the
University of Madrid, and one of the introducers of Darwinian ideas.

Boppe (Herman C.), editor of Freidenker of Milwaukee, U.S.A.

Borsari (Ferdinand), Italian geographer, b. Naples, author of a work
of the literature of American aborigines, and a zealous propagator
of Freethought.

Bostrom (Christopher Jacob), Swedish Professor at Upsala, b. 4
Jan. 1797. Besides many philosophical works, published trenchant
criticism of the Christian hell creed. Died 22 March, 1866.

Boucher (E. Martin), b. Beaulieu 1809. Conducted the Rationaliste
at Geneva, where he died 1882. His work Search for the Truth was
published at Avignon, 1884.

Bourneville (Magloire Desir), French deputy and physician,
b. Garancieres, 21 Oct. 1840. Studied medicine at Paris, and in '79
was appointed physician to the asylum of Bicetre. He was Municipal
Councillor of Paris from '76 to '83. On the death of Louis Blanc he
was elected deputy in his place. Wrote Science and Miracle, '75;
Hysteria in History, '76; and a discourse on Etienne Dolet at the
erection of the statue to that martyr, 18 May 1889.

Boutteville (Marc Lucien), French writer, professor at the Lycee
Bonaparte. Wrote to Dupanloup on his pamphlet against Atheism, 1867;
wrote in La Pensee Nouvelle, '68; is author of a large and able work
on the Morality of the Church and Natural Morality, '66; and has
edited the posthumous works of Proudhon, 1870.

* Bovio (Giovanni), b. Trani, 1838, Dr. of law and advocate. Author
of a dramatic piece, Cristo alla festa di Purim, and of a History
of Law in Italy. Signor Bovio delivered the address at unveiling the
monument to Bruno at Rome, 9 June, 1889.

Boyer. See Argens.

* Bradlaugh (Charles), M.P. In April, 1889, he introduced a Bill to
repeal the Blasphemy Laws.

Braga (Teofilo), Portuguese Positivist, b. 24 Feb. 1843. Educated
at Coimbra. Has written many poems, and a History of Portuguese
Literature. Is one of the Republican leaders.

Branting (Hjalmar), Swedish Socialist, b. 1860. Sentenced in '88
to three months' imprisonment for blasphemy in his paper Social
Democraten.

Braun (Eugen), Dr. See F. W. Ghillany.

Braun (Wilhelm von), Swedish humoristic poet, b. 1813. He satirised
many of the Bible stories. Died 1860.

Brewer (Ebenezer Cobham), English author. Has written numerous school
books, and compiled a Dictionary of Miracles, 1884.

Brismee (Desire), Belgian printer, b. Ghent, 27 July, 1822. As editor
of Le Drapeau he underwent eighteen months' imprisonment. The principle
founder of Les Solidaires, he was the life-long secretary of that
society, and his annual reports are a valuable contribution towards
the history of Freethought in Belgium. An eloquent speaker, many of
his Freethought orations were printed in La Tribune du Peuple. Died
at Brussels 18 Feb. 1888.

* Brothier (Leon). Died about 1874.

* Brown (G. W.) Dr. Brown's new work is published at Rockford,
Illinois, and entitled Researches in Jewish History, including the rise
and development of Zoroastrianism and the derivation of Christianity.

* Bruno (Giordano), b. Nola, 21 March, 1548. The Avisso di Roma
of 19 Feb. 1600, records the fact of his being burnt, and that he
died impenitent. Signor Mariotti, State Secretary to the Minister
of Public Instruction, has found a document proving that Bruno was
stripped naked, bound to a pole, and burnt alive, and that he bore
his martyrdom with great fortitude.

Buen (Odon de), Spanish writer on Las Dominicales, of Madrid,
b. Aragon, 1884. Professor of Natural History at the University of
Barcelona. Has written an account of a scientific expedition From
Christiania to Treggurt, has translated Memoirs of Garibaldi. He
married civilly the daughter of F. Lozano, and was delegate to the
Paris Freethought Conference, 1889.

Calderon (Alfredo), Spanish journalist and lawyer, b. 1852. He edits
La Justicia. Has written several books on law.

Calderon (Lauresmo), Professor of Chemistry in the University of
Madrid, b. 1848. Is a propagator of Darwinian ideas.

Calderon (Salvador), Spanish geologist and naturalist, b. 1846;
professor at the University of Seville. Has made scientific travels
in Central America, and written largely on geological subjects.

Calvo (Rafael), Spanish actor and dramatic author, b. 1852. A
pronounced Republican and Freethinker.

* Canestrini (Giovanni), b. Revo (Trente), 26 Dec. 1835.

Cassels (Walter Richard), a nephew of Dr. Pusey, is the author of
Supernatural Religion, a critical examination of the worth of the
Gospels (two vols. 1874 and three '79). Has written under his own name
Eidolon and other poems, 1850, and Poems, '56. In '89 he published
A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays.

Castro (Fernando), Spanish philosopher and historian. He was a
priest, and on his death-bed confessed himself a Freethinker, and
had a secular burial. Died about 1874, aged 60 years.

Cavia (Mariano), Spanish journalist and critic, b. 1859, editor of
the Liberal of Madrid.

* Coke (Henry), author of Creeds of the Day, is the third son of the
first Earl of Leicester, and was born 3 Jan. 1827. He served in the
navy during the first China War, 1840-42. Published accounts of the
siege of Vienna, '48, at which he was present, also "Ride over Rocky
Mountains," which he accomplished with great hardships in '50. Was
private secretary to Mr. Horsman when Chief Secretary for Ireland in
'54-'58. Married Lady K. Egerton, 1861.

Cornette (Henri Arthur Marie), Belgian professor of Flemish literature
at Antwerp, b. Bruges, 27 March, 1852. A writer in L'Avenir of
Brussels and the Revue Socialite, he has published separate works
on Freemasonry, 1878; Pessimism and Socialism, '80; Freethought
Darwinism, etc.

Curros (Enriquez), living Spanish poet, who was prosecuted by the
Bishop of Santiago, of Galicia, for his collection of poems entitled
Airs of my Country, but he was acquitted by the jury.

Czerski (Johannes), German reformer, b. Warlubien, West Prussia, 12
May, 1813. He became a Catholic priest in '44, broke with the Church,
associated himself with Ronge, married, and was excommunicated. Has
written several works against Roman Catholicism, and is still living
at Schneidemuekl-Posen.

D'Ercole (Pasquale), Italian professor of philosophy in the University
of Turin, author of a work on Christian Theism, in which he holds
that the principles of philosophic Theism are undemonstrated and at
variance both with reality and with themselves.

Deschanel (Emile Auguste), French senator, b. Paris, 19 Nov. 1819. He
wrote in the Revue Independante, Revue des Deux Mondes and Liberte de
Penser; for writing against clericalism in the last he was deprived
of his chair. After 2 Dec. he went to Belgium. He has been Professor
of Modern Literature at the College of France, and written many
important works.

Desnoiresterres (Gustave le Brisoys), Frenchman of letters,
b. Bayeux, 20 June, 1817, author of Epicurienes et Lettres XVII. and
XVIII. Siecles, 1881, and Voltaire et la Societe Francaise au
XVIII. Siecle, an important work in eight vols.

* Desraimes (Maria), b. 15 Aug. 1835.

Diogenes (Apolloinates), a Cretan, natural philosopher, who lived
in the fifth century B.C. He is supposed to have got into trouble at
Athens through his philosophical opinions being considered dangerous to
the State. He held that nothing was produced from nothing or reduced
to nothing; that the earth was round and had received its shape from
whirling. He made no distinction between mind and matter.

Donius (Augustinus), a Materialist, referred to by Bacon. His work,
De Natura Dominis, in two books, 1581, refers the power of the spirit,
to motion. The title of his second book is "Omnes operationes spiritus
esse motum et semum."

Dosamantes (Jesus Ceballos), Mexican philosopher; author of works on
Absolute Perfection, Mexico, 1888, and Modern Pharisees and Sadducees
(mystics and materialists), '89.

Druskowitz (Helene), Dr., b. Vienna, 2 May, 1858. Miss Druskowitz is
Doctor of philosophy at Dresden, and has written a life of Shelley,
Berlin, '84; a little book on Freewill, and The New Doctrines, '83.

Dufay (Henri), author of La Legende du Christ, 1880.

Duller (Eduard), German poet and historian, b. Vienna, 18 Nov. 1809. He
wrote a History of the Jesuits (Leipsic, '40) and The Men of the People
(Frankfort, '47-'50). Died at Wiesbaden, 24 July, 1853.

* Du Marsais (Cesar Chesneau). He edited Mirabaud's anonymous work
on The World and its Antiquity and The Soul and its Immortality,
Londres, 1751.

* Fellowes (R.) Graduated B.A. at Oxford 1796, M.A. 1801. Died 6
Feb. 1847.

Figueras-y-Moracas (Estanilas), Spanish statesman and orator,
b. Barcelona, 13 Nov. 1810. Studied law and soon manifested Republican
opinions. In '51 he was elected to the Cortes, was exiled in '66, but
returned in '68. He fought the candidature of the Duc de Montpensier in
'69, and became President of the Spanish Republic 12 Feb. '73. Died
poor in 1879, and was buried without religious ceremony, according
to his wish.

Fitzgerald (Edward), English poet and translator, b. near Woodbridge,
Suffolk, 31 March, 1809. Educated at Cambridge and took his degree in
'30. He lived the life of a recluse, and produced a fine translation
of Calderon. His fame rests securely on his fine rendering of the
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Died 14 June, 1883.

Galletti (Baldassare), cavalier Pantheist of Palermo. Has translated
Feuerbach on Death and Immortality, and also translated from
Morin. Died Rome, 18 Feb. 1887.

Ganeval (Louis), French professor in Egypt, b. Veziat, 1815, author
of a work on Egypt and Jesus devant l'histoire n'a jamais vecu. The
first part, published in '74, was prohibited in France, and the second
part was published at Geneva in '79.

Garrido (Fernando), Spanish writer, author of Memoirs of a Sceptic,
Cadiz 1843, a work on Contemporary Spain, published at Brussels in
'62, The Jesuits, and a large History of Political and Religious
Persecutions, a work rendered into English in conjunction with
C. B. Cayley. Died at Cordova in 1884.

Gerling (Fr. Wilhelm), German author of Letter of a Materialist
to an Idealist, Berlin 1888, to which Frau Hedwig Henrich Wilhelmi
contributes a preface.

Geroult de Pival, French librarian at Rouen; probably the author of
Doutes sur la Religion, Londres, 1767. Died at Paris about 1772.

Goffin (Nicolas), founder of the Society La Libre of Liege and
President of La Libre Pensee of Brussels, and one of the General
Council of the International Federation of Freethinkers. Died 23
May, 1884.

Goldhawke (J. H.), author of the Solar Allegories, proving that the
greater number of personages mentioned in the Old and New Testaments
are allegorical beings, Calcutta 1853.

Gorani (Giuseppe), count, b. Milan, 1744. He was intimate with
Beccaria, D'Holbach, and Diderot. He wrote a treatise on Despotism,
published anonymously, 1770; defended the French Revolution and was
made a French citizen. Died poor at Geneva, 12 Dec. 1819.

Govett (Frank), author of the Pains of Life, 1889, a pessimistic
reply to Sir J. Lubbock's Pleasures of Life. Mr. Govett rejects the
consolations of religion.

Guimet (Etienne Emile), French traveller, musician, anthropologist
and philanthropist, b. Lyons, 2 June, 1836, the son of the inventor
of ultramarine, whose business he continued. He has visited most
parts of the world and formed a collection of objects illustrating
religions. These he formed into a museum in his native town, where he
also founded a library and a school for Oriental languages. This fine
museum which cost several million francs, he presented to his country,
and it is now at Paris, where M. Guimet acts as curator. In 1880 he
began publishing Annales du Musee Guimet, in which original articles
appear on Oriental Religions. He has also written many works upon his
travels. He attended the banquet in connection with the International
Congress of Freethinkers at Paris, 1889.

Guynemer (A. M. A. de), French author of a dictionary of astronomy,
1852, and an anonymous unbelievers' dictionary, '69, in which many
points of theology are discussed in alphabetical order.

Hamerling (Robert), German poet, b. Kirchberg am Wald, 24 March,
1830. Author of many fine poems, of which we mention Ahasuerus in Rome
'66. The King of Sion; Danton and Robespierre a tragedy. He translated
Leopardis' poems '86. Died at Gratz, 13 July, 1889.

Heyse (Paul Johann Ludwig), German poet and novelist, b. Berlin,
15 March, 1830. Educated at the University, after travelling to
Switzerland and Italy he settled at Munich in '54. Has produced many
popular plays and romances, of which we specially mention The Children
of the World, '73, a novel describing social and religious life of
Germany at the present day, and In Paradise, 1875.

Hicks (L. E.) American geologist, author of A Critique of Design
Arguments. Boston, 1883.

Hitchman (William), English physician, b. Northleach, Gloucestershire,
1819, became M.R.C.S. in '41, M.D. at Erlangen, Bavaria. He established
Freelight, and wrote a pamphlet, Fifty Years of Freethought. Died 1888.

Hoeffding (Harald), Dr., Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Copenhagen, b. Copenhagen, 1843. Has been professor since '83. Is
absolutely free in his opinion and has published works on the newer
philosophy in Germany, '72, and in England, '74. In the latter work
special attention is devoted to the works of Mill and Spencer. German
editions have been published of his works Grundlage der humanen
Ethik (Basis of Human Ethics '80), Psychologie im Umriss (Outlines
of Psychology '87), and Ethik 1888.

Holst (Nils Olaf), Swedish geologist, b. 1846. Chairman of the Swedish
Society for Religious Liberty.

Ignell (Nils), Swedish rationalist, b. 12 July, 1806. Brought
up as a priest, his free views gave great offence. He translated
Renan's Life of Jesus, and did much to arouse opposition to orthodox
Christianity. Died at Stockholm, 3 June, 1864.

Jacobsen (Jens Peter), Danish novelist and botanist, b. Thistede,
7 April, 1847. He did much to spread Darwinian views in Scandinavia,
translating the Origin of Species and Descent of Man. Among his
novels we may name Fru Marie Grubbe, scenes from the XVII. century,
and Niels Lyhne, in which he develops the philosophy of Atheism. This
able young writer died at his birth place, 3 April 1885.

Kleist (Heinrich von), German poet, b. Frankfurt-on-Oder, 18
Oct. 1777. Left an orphan at eleven, he enlisted in the army in 1795,
quitted it in four years and took to study. Kant's Philosophy made
him a complete sceptic. In 1800 he went to Paris to teach Kantian
philosophy, but the results were not encouraging. Committed suicide
together with a lady, near Potsdam, 21 Nov. 1811. Kleist is chiefly
known by his dramas and a collection of tales.

Letourneau (Charles Jean Marie), French scientist, b. Auray
(Morbihan), 1831. Educated as physician. He wrote in La Pensee
Nouvelle, and has published Physiology of the Passions, '68; Biology,
'75, translated into English by W. Maccall; Science and Materialism,
'79; Sociology based on Ethnography, '80; and the Evolution of
Marriage and the Family, '85. He has also translated Buechner's Man
According to Science, Light and Life and Mental Life of Animals,
Haeckel's History of Creation, Letters of a Traveller in India,
and Herzen's Physiology of the Will.

Lippert (Julius), learned German author of works on Soul Worship,
Berlin, 1881; The Universal History of Priesthoods, '83; and an
important Culture History of Mankind, '86-7.

Lloyd (William Watkiss), author of Christianity in the Cartoons,
London 1865, in which he criticises Rafael and the New Testament side
by side. He has also written The Age of Pericles, and several works
on Shakespeare.

Lucian, witty Greek writer, b. of poor parents, Samosata, on
the Euphrates, and flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius and
Commodus. He was made a sculptor, but applied himself to rhetoric. He
travelled much, and at Athens was intimate with Demonax. His principal
works are dialogues, full of wit, humor, and satire, often directed
against the gods. According to Suidas he was named the Blasphemer,
and torn to pieces by dogs for his impiety, but on this no reliance
can be placed. On the ground of the dialogue Philopatris, he has
been supposed an apostate Christian, but it is uncertain if that
piece is genuine. It is certain that he was sceptical, truth-loving,
and an enemy of the superstition of the time which he depicts in his
account of Alexander, the false prophet.

Maglia (Adolfo de), Spanish journalist, b. Valencia, 3 June,
1859, began writing in La Tronada at Barcelona, and afterwards
published L'Union Republicana. He founded the Freethinking group
"El Independiente" and edits El Clamor Setabense and El Pueblo
Soberano. Was secretary for Spain at the Anticlerical Congress at Rome
in '85, and in '89 at Paris. During this year he has been condemned
to six years' imprisonment and a fine of 4,000 francs for attacking
Leo XIII. and the Catholic dogmas.

disciples, whom he conducted from faith to scepticism. He was the most
eminent predecessor of Ibn Roschd or Averroes. Died Oct.-Nov. 931. His
works were publicly burned at Seville.

Mata (Pedro), Spanish physician, professor at the University of
Madrid. Author of a poem, Glory and Martyrdom, 1851; a Treatise on
Human Reason, '58-64; and on Moral Liberty and Free Will, '68.

Mendizabal (Juan Alvarez), Spanish Liberal statesman, b. Cadiz,
1790. Was minister during the reign of Cristina, and contributed
to the subjugation of the clerical party. He abolished the religious
orders and proclaimed their goods as national property. Died at Madrid,
3 Nov. 1853.

* Meredith (Evan Powell), b. 1811. Educated at Pontypool College, he
became a Baptist minister, and was an eloquent preacher in the Welsh
tongue. He translated the Bible into Welsh. Investigation into the
claims of Christianity made him resign his ministry. In his Prophet
of Nazareth he mentioned a purpose of writing a work on the gospels,
but it never appeared. He died at Monmouth 23 July, 1889.

Miralta (Constancio), the pen name of a popular Spanish writer,
b. about 1849. Has been a priest and doctor of theology, and is one
of the writers on Las Dominicales. His most notable works are Memoirs
of a Poor Clerical, The Secrets of Confession, and The Sacrament
Exposed. His work on The Doctrine of Catholicism upon Matrimony has
greatly encouraged civil marriages.

Moraita (Miguel), Spanish historian, b. about 1845. Is Professor
of History at Madrid, and one of the most ardent enemies of
clericalism. Has written many works, including a voluminous History
of Spain. In '84 he made a discourse at the University against
the pretended antiquity of the Mosaic legends, which caused his
excommunication by several bishops. He was supported by the students,
against whom the military were employed. He is Grand Master of the
Spanish Freemasons.

Moya (Francisco Xavier), Spanish statistician, b. about 1825. Was
deputy to the Cortes of 1869, and has written several works on the
infallibility of the Pope and on the temporal power.

Nakens (Jose), Spanish journalist, b. 1846. Founder and editor of El
Motin, a Republican and Freethought paper of Madrid, in connection
with which there is a library, in which he has written La Piqueta--the
Pick-axe.

Nees Von Esenbeck (Christian Gottfried), German naturalist,
b. Odenwald, 14 Feb. 1776. He became a doctor of medicine, and was
Professor of Botany at Bohn, 1819, and Breslau, '31. He was leader of
the free religious movement in Silesia, and in '48, took part in the
political agitations, and was deprived of his chair. Wrote several
works on natural philosophy. Died at Breslau, 16 March, 1858.

Nyblaus (Claes Gudmund), Swedish bookseller, b. 1817, has published
some anti-Christian pamphlets.

Offen (Benjamin), American lecturer, b. England, 1772. He emigrated to
America and became lecturer to the Society of Moral Philanthropists at
Tammany Hall, New York, and was connected With the Free Discussion
Society. He wrote A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion, a
critical review of the Bible. Died at New York, 12 May, 1848.

Palmaer (Bernhard Henrik), Swedish satirist, b. 21 Aug. 1801. Author of
The Last Judgment in the Crow Corner. Died at Linkoping, 7 July, 1854.

Panizza (Mario). Italian physiologist and philosopher; author of a
materialist work on The Philosophy of the Nervous System, Rome, 1887.

Perez Galdos (Benito), eminent living Spanish novelist, b. Canary
Islands, lived since his youth in Madrid. Of his novels we mention
Gloria, which has been translated into English, and La Familia
de Leon Roch, 1878, in which he stoutly attacks clericalism and
religious intolerance. He has also written Episodes nacionales,
and many historical novels.

Regenbrecht (Michael Eduard), German rationalist, b. Brannsberg,
1792. He left the Church with Ronge, and became leader of the free
religious movement at Breslau, where he died 9 June, 1849.

Robert (Roberto). Spanish anti-clerical satirist, b. 1817. Became
famous by his mordant style, his most celebrated works being The
Rogues of Antonio, The Times of Mari Casania, The Skimmer of the
Centuries. Died in 1870.

Rupp (Julius), German reformer, b. Koenigsberg, 13 Aug. 1809. Studied
philosophy and theology, and became in '42 a minister. He protested
against the creeds, and became leader of the Free-religious movement
in East Prussia.

Ryberg (Y. E.), Swedish merchant captain, b. 16 Oct. 1828. He has
translated several of Mr. Bradlaugh's pamphlets and other secular
literature.

Sachse (Heinrich Ernst), German atheist, b. 1812. At Magdeburg he
did much to demolish the remains of theism in the Free-religious
communities. Died 1883.

Sales y Ferre (Manuel), Spanish scientist, b. about 1839. Professor
at the University of Seville. Has published several works on geology
and prehistoric times.

Schneider (Georg Heinrich), German naturalist, b. Mannheim,
1854. Author of The Human Will from the standpoint of the New
Development Theory (Berlin, 1882), and other works.

Schreiner (Olive), the daughter of a German missionary in South
Africa. Authoress of "The Story of an African Farm," 1883.

Serre (... de la), author of an Examination of Religion, attributed to
Saint Evremond, 1745. It was condemned to be burnt by the Parliament
of Paris.

Suner y Capderila. Spanish physician of Barcelona, b. 1828. Became
deputy to the Cortes in 1829, and is famous for his discourses
against Catholicism.

Tocco (Felice), Italian philosopher and anthropologist, b. Catanzaro,
12 Sept. 1845, and studied at the University of Naples and Bologna,
and became Professor of Philosophy at Pisa. He wrote in the
Rivista Bolognese on Leopardi, and on "Positivism" in the Rivista
Contemporanea. He has published works on A. Bain's Theory of Sensation,
'72; Thoughts on the History of Philosophy, '77; The Heresy of the
Middle Ages, '84; and Giordano Bruno, '86.

Tommasi (Salvatore), Italian evolutionist, author of a work on
Evolution, Science, and Naturalism, Naples 1877, and a little pamphlet
in commemoration of Darwin, '82.

Tubino (Francisco Maria), Spanish positivist, b. Seville, 1838, took
part in Garibaldi's campaign in Sicily, and has contributed to the
Rivista Europea.

Tuthill (Charles A. H.), author of The Origin and Development of
Christian Dogma, London, 1889.

Vernial (Paul), French doctor and member of the Anthropological
Society of Paris, author of a work on the Origin of Man, 1881.

Wheeler (Joseph Mazzini), atheist, b. London, 24 Jan., 1850. Converted
from Christianity by reading Newman, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, etc. Has
contributed to the National Reformer Secularist, Secular Chronicle,
Liberal, Progress, and Freethinker which he has sub-edited since
1882, using occasionally the signatures "Laon," "Lucianus" and other
pseudonyms. Has published Frauds and Follies of the Fathers '88,
Footsteps of the Past, a collection of essays in anthropology and
comparative religion '86; and Crimes of Christianity, written in
conjunction with G. W. Foote, with whom he has also edited Sepher
Toldoth Jeshu. The compiler of the present work is a willing drudge
in the cause he loves, and hopes to empty many an inkstand in the
service of Freethought.





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