Holyoake, imprisoned for blasphemy in his youth and the coiner of the word Secularism, sets out his confession of belief. He traces free thought through three stages, from open questioning and investigation to a positive Secularism concerned with this life, and explains how the movement arose, how it spread, and why secular instruction in schools is not the same thing as Secularism.
A key statement of nineteenth-century British free thought by its most respected advocate. Download the free EPUB.