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A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2

Note 80 — Chapter X · FREETHOUGHT IN THE RENAISSANCE

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Cp. Owen, pp. 201, 218; Lange, i, 183–87 (tr. i, 220–25). He, however, granted that the mass of mankind, “brutish and materialized,” needed the belief in heaven and hell to moralize them (Christie, pp. 140–41). ↑

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