The Freethinker denounces this doctrine as infamous beyond the power of words to express.
The Freethinker knows, or feels that he knows, that there is no sovereign of the universe, who, like some petty king or tyrant, delights in showing his authority.
THE object of the Freethinker is to ascertain the truth--the conditions of well-being--to the end that this life will be made of value.
The Freethinker knows that the universe is natural--that there is no room, even in infinite space, for the miraculous, for the impossible.
The Freethinker also asserts that every man must bear the consequences of his actions--that he must reap what he sows, and that he cannot be justified by the goodness of another, or damned for the wickedness of another.
Whilst he thus arranged a match between Hogg and his sister, Shelley knew that his friend was a Freethinker on questions relating to religion.
Mr. Bradlaugh will, I suppose, be hereafter described in the dictionaries of biography as 'Freethinker and Politician.
Mr. Bradlaugh was a freethinker of the second class.
And, laughing as if he had achieved a blasphemy, and unconscious of the shadow of doom, the gay oldfreethinker disappeared.
To say that a man is a Freethinker is to give, to ninety-nine people out of a hundred, the impression that he is anti-religious.
I believe that what the Freethinker is, the Christian may well become.
In this matter, it must be observed, the Freethinker makes no claim to superiority over the Christian; it is the Christian who forces that claim upon him.
Freethinker and Christian read the record of both cases, but it is the Freethinker alone whose philosophy of life is wide enough to explain both.
In the crises of life the behaviour of the Freethinker is at least as calm and as courageous as that of the Christian.
Freethinker and religionist are in agreement here.
But something in the place of religion is a thing that no scientific Freethinker desires.
It is paying the Freethinker a "violent compliment," to use an expression of John Wesley's, to place him upon a level of excellence that is apparently so far above that of the average Christian.
Often the Freethinker is denounced because he is destructive or dangerous.
Had Spencer first of all set himself to answer the question, "What is it that the Freethinker sets himself to remove?
Freethinker and religionist are each living in the same world, they are each fed with the same foods and killed with the same poisons.
It expresses, in a sentence, the essence of the distinction between the Freethinker and the religionist.
If the Freethinker is wrong, it is plain that his fault consists in taking a too optimistic view of human nature.
I was already a republican and a freethinkerin the days of the Empire.
I tell you, my friends, I can tell a freethinker by his face.
I hear a freethinker speaking, my friends," he said.
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds.
Voltaire, on the contrary, at once a freethinker and a deist, suited it very well.
Now a freethinker either has no religion at all, or creates one for himself; therefore a strong-minded freethinker is in reality feeble-minded.
The Freethinker takes nothing on trust, if he can help it; he dissects, analyses, and proves everything, Does this make him a barren sceptic?
Fighting spooks" is a pretty locution, and every Freethinkerwould admit that fighting spooks is a most unprofitable business.
He was a true Freethinkerin his grand assertion of the majesty of reason and conscience.
The Freethinker is thus a politician and a social reformer.
Thus, while the Protestant laughs at the Catholic, the Freethinker laughs at both.
It is at present denouncing the secularisation of the Church of St. Geneviève, in order that Victor Hugo, who died a Freethinker and was buried without religious rites, might repose in an unconsecrated place.
The Archbishop's sermons are hard for a Freethinker to criticise.
The Freethinker does not let his ship rot away in harbor; he spreads his canvas and sails the seas of thought.
To be a freethinker is to search for truth without fear.
Where does the freethinker have equal rights with the Christian, equal freedom, equal justice?
A Christian cannot be a freethinker, and a freethinker cannot be a Christian.
If the Freethinker had been ashamed of his freethinking, if he had sought to conceal it in phrases,--the implication was that the case might not have been so bad.
It was not easy, at any rate it was not easy in the Five Towns, for a timid man in reply to the question, "Are you in favour of a professed Freethinker sitting in the House of Commons?
In religion she was, I should think, as nearly a freethinker as anyone could be whose mind seldom turned upon the subject.
I do not say that a freethinker may not be an honorable man; that he may not, from high motives, scorn to do a mean act; but I dare not trust him.
