Freethought

Main category: Freethought

English: Freethought is part of history of irreligion and secularism. Freethought movement developed particularly in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Freethought movement

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  Nicolas de Largillière, Voltaire, 1720s.
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  Thomas Paine, 1792.
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  Richard Carlile.
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  Frances Wright.
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  Frances Wright.
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  Harriet Martineau, 1834.
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  George Holyoake employed the term secularism in 1851.
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  Portrait of George Jacob Holyoake.
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  The monument to Giordano Bruno (1889) in the place he was executed in Rome.
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  Flag of the freethinkers of Volonne.
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  Henri Demare, A tribute to late freethinkers, 1881.
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  Pansy is a symbol of freethought.
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  Pansy is a symbol of freethought.
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  Tombstone detail of a freethinker, Spain, late 19th century.
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  Matilda Joslyn Gage.
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  Matilda Joslyn Gage.
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  Freethought publications by G. W. Foote.
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  Watson Heston, Two Ways to Go, 1896.
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  Robert G. Ingersoll.
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  Frederick Triebel, Statue of Robert G. Ingersoll, 1909.
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  Statue of Robert G. Ingersoll in Peoria, Illinois.
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  Collected works of Robert G. Ingersoll.
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  American freethought writer D. M. Bennett's tomb from the 19th century.
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  Conway Hall Library in London.
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  Jugendweihe is a secular coming of age ceremony practiced by German 14 year olds. Photograph from early 20th century.
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  Anarchist, feminist and freethinker Voltairine de Cleyre 1901.
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  Francisco Ferrer.
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  The Boletín de la Escuela Moderna, 1905, edited by Francisco Ferrer.
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  Francisco Ferrer in a postcard from 1909.
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  Grave of Francisco Ferrer.
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  Grave of Francisco Ferrer.
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  Adolphe Puissant, Monument to Francisco Ferrer, Bruxelles 1911.
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  Monument to Francisco Ferrer, Barcelona.
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  Monument to Francisco Ferrer, Barcelona 2002.
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  Cover of The Truth Seeker from 1921.
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  Monument to the Freethinkers association in the Dasbeck cemetery, Germany.
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  Freethought gravestone in France.
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  Freethought gravestone in France.
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  Bust of Bertrand Russell in London.
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  Memorial for German freethinkers in Texas, 2002.
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  The Dutch magazine De Vrijdenker (The Freethinker) 2015.
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  Cover of 2018 issue of the Truth Seeker.

See also

• Atheism
• Criticism of religion
• History of atheism
• Irreligion
• Secular ceremonies
• Secularism

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