Two pieces gathered by a nineteenth-century freethought publisher. Bulwer-Lytton’s The Fallen Star is an allegory of how a clever impostor, claiming knowledge of the stars, founds a new religion and priesthood among credulous people. Lord Brougham’s dissertation then weighs the classic arguments on why evil exists in a world made by a good God.
A curious freethought anthology pairing a novelist’s fable with a statesman’s philosophy. Download the free EPUB.