Note 8
Chapter II · OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.
George Jacob Holyoake, August 17, 1857; Edward Truelove, July, 1857.
…uttering, and writing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity. Within a month of the same time, at the Old Bailey, two persons, on two separate occasions,[8] were rejected as jurymen, and one of them grossly insulted by the judge and by one of the counsel, because they honestly declared that they had no theological belief; and a third, a foreigner,[9] for the same reason, was denied justice against a thief. Thi…
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