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Free thought.
On the general subject of the growth of Free Thought with special reference to the United States, we present a condensation of Professor Goldwin Smith's views.
The history of religion during the past century may be described as the sequel of that dissolution of the mediaeval faith which commenced at the Reformation.
At the Reformation Protestantism threw off the yoke of pope and priest, priestly control over conscience through the confessional, priestly absolution for sin, and belief in the magical power of the priest as consecrator of the Host, besides the worship of the Virgin and the saints, purgatory, relics, pilgrimages, and other incidents of the medieval system.
Though Protestantism produced a multitude of sects, especially in England at the time of the Commonwealth, hardly any of them were free-thinking or sceptical; those of any importance, at all events, were in some sense dogmatic, and were anchored to the inspiration of the Bible.
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Smith, Goldwin 1823-
Author; born in Reading, England, Aug. 23, 1823; graduated at Oxford University in 1845; was Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858-66.
During the Civil War in the United States he was a stanch champion of the national government.
He visited the United States in 1864, and later was for a time honorary Professor of English and Constitutional History at Cornell University.
In 1871 he settled in Toronto, Canada.
He is widely known as an exponent of the idea that Canada will finally unite her political life with that of the United States.
His publications include Does the Bible sanction American slavery?
on the morality of the emancipation proclamation; A letter to a Whig member of the Southern Independence Association; England and America; The Civil War in America; The relations between England and America; The political destiny of Canada; William Lloyd garrison; History of the United States, etc.
Todd, Marion 1881-
Lawyer; born in Plymouth, N. Y.; educated in Eaton Rapids schools and at Ypsilanti Normal School, in Michigan; admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of California in 1881; and practised there for several years.
She wrote Prof. Goldwin Smith and his satellites in Congress; Protective tariff delusion; Pizarro and John Sherman; and Railroads of Europe and America.