PEACE TO ALL BEINGS.
FOOTNOTES
1 This odious law has now been altered, and a married woman is a person, not a chattel.
2 "The Disciples," p. 14.
3 "On the Nature and Existence of God." 1874.
4 "On the Nature and Existence of God." 1874.
5 "The Gospel of Atheism." 1876.
6 "Why I do not Believe in God." 1887.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 "Life, Death, and Immortality." 1886.
10 "Life, Death, and Immortality." 1886.
11 "Life, Death, and Immortality." 1886.
12 Ibid.
13 "The Gospel of Atheism." 1876.
14 "On the Nature and Existence of God." 1874.
15 "The True Basis of Morality." 1874.
16 "Gospel of Atheism." 1876.
17 "On the Nature and Existence of God." 1874.
18 "A World without God." 1885.
19 "The Gospel of Atheism." 1876.
20 "The Gospels of Christianity and Freethought." 1874.
21 "A World without God." 1885.
22 "A World without God." 1885.
23 "The Gospel of Atheism." 1876.
24 "A World without God." 1885.
25 "A World without God." 1885.
26 "The Christian Creed." 1884.
27 National Reformer, June 18, 1882
28 Theosophist, June, 1882.
29 I leave these words as they were written in 1889. I resigned my office in the N.S.S. in 1890, feeling that the N.S.S. was so identified with Materialism that it had no longer place for me.
LIST OF BOOKS QUOTED.
"Autobiography," J.S. Mill, 184
"Christian Creed, The," 173
"Freethinkers' Text-book," 144
"Gospel of Atheism, The," 145, 152, 158, 168
"Gospels of Christianity and Freethought," 164
"Life, Death, and Immortality," 147, 149, 150
Link, The, 333
National Reformer, The, 79, 80, 280, 346-50, 354
Our Corner, 286, 329
Theosophist, The, 282, 288
"True Basis of Morality," 156
"Why I do Not Believe in God," 146
"World without God," 165, 169, 172
INDEX.
- Affirmation Bill brought in, 287
- rejected, 299
- Atheist, position as an, 139
- Authorship, first attempts at, 84.
- Bennett, D.M., prosecution of, 232
- Blasphemy prosecution, 283, 287, 289
- Blavatsky, H.P., 189, 337
- meeting with, 341
- "Bloody Sunday," 324
- Bradlaugh, Charles, first meeting with, 135
- as friend, 137
- in the Clock Tower, 258
- and the scene in the House, 265
- v. Newdegate; result, 289
- prosecuted for blasphemy, 283, 289
- Confirmation, 51
- Daughter, application to remove, 213
- denied access to, 219
- Death of father, 21
- of mother, 126
- Doubt the first, 58
- "Elements of Social Science," 196
- Engagement, 69
- Essay, first Freethought, 113
- Fenians, the, 73
- Freethinker prosecution, 283, 287, 296
- Freethought Publishing Company, the, 285
- Harrow, life at, 30
- Hoskyns, Rev. E., libel action against, 359
- Knowlton pamphlet, the, 205
- prosecution, 208
- trial, 210
- "Law of Population, The," 212, 210
- "Law and Liberty League," the, 326
- Lecture, the first, 181
- Linnell, the Trafalgar Square victim, 316
- funeral of, 327
- Link, founding of the, 331
- Malthusian League formed, 229
- Malthusianism and Theosophy, 240
- Marriage, 70
- tie broken, no
- Match-girls' strike, 335
- Union, established, 336
- National Reformer, the, 134
- first contribution to, 180
- resignation of co-editorship, 320
- National Secular Society joined, 135
- elected vice-president of, 202
- resignation of, 357
- Northampton Election, 183
- struggle, 253, 344
- Oaths Bill, the, 314, 329
- Our Corner, 286, 314
- Political Opinions, 174
- Pusey, Dr., 109, 284
- Russian politics, 311
- Scientific work, 249
- School Board, election to, 338
- Scott, Thomas, 112, 127
- Socialism, 299
- debate on, between Messrs. Bradlaugh and Hyndman, 301
- Socialist debates, 318, 319
- Socialists and open-air speaking, 312
- Defence Association, 323
- Stanley, Dean, 23, 122
- Theosophical Society, the, 180
- joined, 344
- headquarters established, 361
- Theosophy and Charles Bradlaugh, 350
- the National Secular Society, 357
- Trafalgar Square, closing of, to the public, 323
- Truelove, Edward, trial of, 225
- Voysey, Rev. Charles, 106
- Working Women's Club, 337, 360