J. M. Wheeler spent years assembling short lives of everyone he could establish as a sceptic, heretic or unbeliever, from the ancient philosophers to his own Victorian contemporaries. Published in 1889 by the Freethought press, A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers is both a reference work and an argument about who really built the modern mind.
The secularist movement’s own roll of honour. Download the free EPUB.