Freethought & Reason

The Enlightenment inheritance — reason against superstition, liberty of conscience, and the writers who insisted you check the claims yourself.

The case for thinking for yourself

In this collection

• Youth and Folly
• The Heart of the Spring
• Constancy in Change
• The Open Fire
• Crossing the Threshold of Faith: an Invitation
• Our Atlas
• Papacy and the Reformation
• A Maiden To Her Mirror
• Passages from the Life of a Fern
• Ignatius Fessler
• The Peasant Marey
• Out of the Primitive
• Lost and Found
• The Drawing in India Ink
• De Profundis
• A Word on Blasphemy. (1867.)
• Thanksgiving
• The Philosophy of Sight-Seeing
• My Words that once were Virtuous
• Of Pure and Entire Resignation of Self, for the Obtaining Liberty of Heart
• Shahnameh
• In Praise of a Whole Week
• Holy Scripture
• Bewailing the Pallor of Pining Love
• The Kirk of Scotland's Alarm
• The Astrologer who Stumbled into a Well
• An Animal in the Moon
• The Horoscope
• Democritus and the People of Abdera

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