A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern (Volume 1 of 2)

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Author

Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon), 1856-1933

Title

A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Free thought -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51793

Release Date

April 19, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.INTRODUCTORY — § 1. Origin and Meaning of the Word — § 2. Previous Histories — § 3. The Psychology of Freethinking
5. 5.PRIMITIVE FREETHINKING
6. 6.PROGRESS UNDER ANCIENT RELIGIONS — § 1. Early Association and Competition of Cults — § 2. The Process in India — § 3. Mesopotamia — § 4. Ancient Persia — § 5. Egypt — § 6. Phoenicia — § 7. Ancient China — § 8. Mexico and Peru — § 9. The Common Forces of Degeneration
7. 7.RELATIVE FREETHOUGHT IN ISRAEL — § 1 — § 2 — § 3
8. 8.FREETHOUGHT IN GREECE — § 1 — § 2 — § 3 — § 4 — § 5 — § 6 — § 7 — § 8 — § 9
9. 9.FREETHOUGHT IN ANCIENT ROME — § 1 — § 2 — § 3 — § 4
10. 10.ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY AND ITS OPPONENTS — § 1 — § 2 — § 3 — § 4 — § 5 — § 6
11. 11.FREETHOUGHT UNDER ISLAM 1 — § 1 — § 2 — § 3 — § 4 — § 5 — § 6
12. 12.CHRISTENDOM IN THE MIDDLE AGES — § 1. Heresy in Byzantium — § 2. Critical Heresy in the West — § 3. Popular Anti-Clerical Heresy — § 4. Heresy in Southern France — § 5. Freethought in the Schools — § 6. Saracen and Jewish Influences — § 7. Freethought in Italy — § 8. Sects and Orders — § 9. Thought in Spain — § 10. Thought in England — § 11. Thought in France — § 12. Thought in the Teutonic Countries
13. 13.FREETHOUGHT IN THE RENAISSANCE — § 1. The Italian Evolution — § 2. The French Evolution — § 3. The English Evolution — § 4. The Remaining European Countries
14. 14.THE REFORMATION, POLITICALLY CONSIDERED — § 1. The German Conditions — § 2. The Problem in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands — § 3. The Hussite Failure in Bohemia — § 4. Anti-Papalism in Hungary — § 5. Protestantism in Poland — § 6. The Struggle in France — § 7. The Political Process in Britain
15. 15.THE REFORMATION AND FREETHOUGHT — § 1. Germany and Switzerland — § 2. England — § 3. The Netherlands — § 4. Conclusion
16. 16.THE RISE OF MODERN FREETHOUGHT — § 1. The Italian Influence — § 2. Spain — § 3. France
17. 17.BY THE SAME AUTHOR
18. 18.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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