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Title: Flowers of Freethought
(Second Series)

Author: George W. Foote

Release Date: October 6, 2009 [EBook #30203]

Language: English

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FLOWERS OF FREETHOUGHT

(SECOND SERIES)

By G. W. Foote

London: B. Forder,

28 Stonecutter Street, B.O.

1884

CONTENTS:

PREFACE.
LUSCIOUS PIETY.
THE JEWISH SABBATH.
PROFESSOR STOKES ON IMMORTALITY.
PAUL BERT *
BRADLAUGH'S GHOST.
CHRIST AND BROTHERHOOD.
THE SONS OF GOD.
MELCHIZEDEK.
S'W'ELP ME GOD.
INFIDEL HOMES. *
ARE ATHEISTS CRUEL? *
ARE ATHEISTS WICKED?
RAIN DOCTORS.
PIOUS PUERILITIES.
"THUS SAITH THE LORD."
BELIEVE OR BE DAMNED.
CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
RELIGION AND MONEY.
CLOTTED BOSH.
LORD BACON ON ATHEISM.
CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY. *
CHRIST UP TO DATE.
SECULARISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
ALTAR AND THRONE. *
MARTIN LUTHER.
THE PRAISE OF FOLLY.
HAPPY IN HELL.
THE ACT OF GOD.
KEIR HARDIE ON CHRIST.
BLESSED BE YE POOR.
CONVERTED INFIDELS.
MRS. BOOTH'S GHOST.
TALMAGE ON THE BIBLE.
MRS. BESANT ON DEATH AND AFTER.
THE POETS AND LIBERAL THEOLOGY. *
CHRISTIANITY AND LABOR. *
AN EASTER EGG FOR CHRISTIANS. *
DUELLING. *
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN. *
SMIRCHING A HERO.
KIT MARLOWE AND JESUS CHRIST. *
JEHOVAH THE RIPPER. *
THE PARSONS' LIVING WAGE. *
DID BRADLAUGH BACKSLIDE? *
FREDERIC HARRISON ON ATHEISM. *
SAVE THE BIBLE! *
FORGIVE AND FORGET. *
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
THE GREAT GHOSTS *
ATHEISM AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. *
PIGOTTISM. *
JESUS AT THE DERBY. *
ATHEIST MURDERERS. *
A RELIGION FOR EUNUCHS. *
ROSE-WATER RELIGION. *

PREFACE.

A little more than a year ago I put forth a collection of articles under
the title of _Flowers of Freethought_. The little volume met with a
favorable rec