Oct 13
By Marie Harrold Garrison — October, 1900 A whole year passed in the country causes one to consider seriously in more phases than one the subjects of grain-raising and of weed-growing. “Every human life is a field under more or less cultivation,” says the “last-day” composition of a sweet girl graduate. Trite as the sentence …
Oct 10
By H. L. Green — December, 1901 We have lost about all our faith in the power of Freethinkers to organize, notwithstanding we have spent a good share of our long life in endeavoring to organize them. The more intelligent people are the more difficult it is to organize them into societies. Each one has …
Oct 09
By B. F. Underwood — March, 1899 Unorganized Liberals have fewer labels to classify them, and fewer fences to divide them from others of the same community than those who are inside church organizations. The sects generally claim to teach all the virtues; yet one may belong to none of the sects and possess the …
Oct 08
By J. M. Peebles, M.D. — November, 1900 Fancying the name of the Free Thought Magazine, and having been a Free Thought Spiritualist for these fifty years and more, and further having had the pleasure of this journalistic editor’s acquaintance for a full half century, may I claim sufficient hospitality for the insertion of several …
Oct 06
By H.L. Green — September, 1897 Watson Heston (left), was born in the backwoods of Anglaize County, Ohio, September 25, 1846. Was brought up on a farm at a time when the facilities for education were very limited, being able only to attend the common district schools during the usual term of three or four …
Oct 06
By Moses Harman — April, 1897 In the March, 1897 number of this Magazine the editor promises that in the next issue “Moses Harman, editor of ‘Lucifer,’ will give his Free Love creed, as it were—set forth fully what he believes and advocates on the marriage question.” As fully as possible in the space allowed, …
Oct 05
By A. Philistine — October, 1900 Kanawha Falls, West Virginia: At the risk of being called a carper and a fogy, I will say that many Freethinkers do the cause of Free Thought more harm than good by their utterances, their manners or their actions. Because a person does not believe in the theology of Christians, …
Oct 04
By Flora W. Fox — January, 1893 Editor Freethinkers Magazine: It seems so exasperatingly strange that our laws are framed in such a manner as to protect the strong at the expense of the weak. What but the narrow, bigoted Church power, could be guilty of scourging to death our progressive thinkers? It has ever been …
