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Freethought

Main category: Freethought
English: Freethought is part of history of irreligion and secularism. Freethought movement developed particularly in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Freethought movement

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    Nicolas de Largillière, Voltaire, 1720s.
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    Etienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, Voltaire defending Innocence against Fanaticism, circa 1791.
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      Thomas Paine, 1792.
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    Richard Carlile.
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    Frances Wright.
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    Frances Wright.
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    Harriet Martineau, 1834.
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    George Holyoake employed the term secularism in 1851.
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    Portrait of George Jacob Holyoake.
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      The monument to Giordano Bruno (1889) in the place he was executed in Rome.
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    Flag of the freethinkers of Volonne.
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    Henri Demare, A tribute to late freethinkers, 1881.
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    Pansy is a symbol of freethought.
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    Pansy is a symbol of freethought.
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    Tombstone detail of a freethinker, Spain, late 19th century.
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    Matilda Joslyn Gage.
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    Matilda Joslyn Gage.
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      Watson Heston, Two Ways to Go, 1896.
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    Robert G. Ingersoll.
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    Frederick Triebel, Statue of Robert G. Ingersoll, 1909.
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      Statue of Robert G. Ingersoll in Peoria, Illinois.
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      Collected works of Robert G. Ingersoll.
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    American freethought writer D. M. Bennett's tomb from the 19th century.
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    Conway Hall Library in London.
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    Jugendweihe is a secular coming of age ceremony practiced by German 14 year olds. Photograph from early 20th century.
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      Anarchist, feminist and freethinker Voltairine de Cleyre 1901.
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    Francisco Ferrer.
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    The Boletín de la Escuela Moderna, 1905, edited by Francisco Ferrer.
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    Francisco Ferrer in a postcard from 1909.
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    Grave of Francisco Ferrer.
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    Grave of Francisco Ferrer.
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    Adolphe Puissant, Monument to Francisco Ferrer, Bruxelles 1911.
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    Monument to Francisco Ferrer, Barcelona.
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    Monument to Francisco Ferrer, Barcelona 2002.
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    Cover of The Truth Seeker from 1921.
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    Monument to the Freethinkers association in the Dasbeck cemetery, Germany.
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      Memorial by The Freethinkers' Association for Cremation, 1930, Magdeburg.
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      Freethought gravestone in France.
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    Freethought gravestone in France.
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      Bust of Bertrand Russell in London.
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    Memorial for German freethinkers in Texas, 2002.
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    The Dutch magazine De Vrijdenker (The Freethinker) 2015.
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    Cover of 2018 issue of the Truth Seeker.

See also

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