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Secular Thought Toronto Public Library. Reference Department, THIS BOOK MUST NOT BE TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM. S\^li'< REFERENCE LIBRARY Vol. XXX^IL No. 1. JAN., 1911 WW^WWWWWWwwwWWWWWWwwwWWWWWW $ecularCj)ouabt A Monthly Journal of Rational Criticism In Politics^ Science^ and Religion. CONTENTS: PACK War Must Cease G. W. Foote 3 Editorial Notes— Peace and War 3 " What Is " War ? ' 4 The Past Year and the Future . 5 $1,000,000 For Education in Quebec 8 Freethoug-ht and Other Historical Myths 9 The Martyrdom of Hypatia 9 Execution of Madame Roland 10 Mai^nificence of Saracenic Spain 10 The Methodist Pope Y. Modernism 11 The Final Salvation of Toronto 12 The Results of Revivalism \ 1 " Semper Eadem " 14 Blasphemy Against Booth G. W. Foote 15 Freethought and Anarchy. II Georg-e Allen White 17 Benjamin F. Underwood. Biographical Sketch 21 Toronto University Professors Among the Socialists : Prof. Lloyd on " Waste of National Resources " j; Prof. Abbott on " Modern Methods of Philosophy " The Lisbon Freethought Congress '. ^i^\^iM^iMiM\i^\^^^{A)^^iA){Al{^\^{A}WWWW^ WW ^ ^^ Published at 185^ Queen St. West, Toronto, Canada. • . S. ELLIS, Editor. C. .M. ELLIS lius.iN-Ess M©». I Oc ; '* P^ >• > Mlvaace SECULAR THOUGHT. VALUABLE BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. Books'cmt be ohtaincd from office of Secular Thonifht. THE OLDEST LAWS IN THE WORLD, being an account of the Hammu- Legislation, by Chilperic Edwards, paper rabi Code and the Sinaitic 64 pp., 40c. cover, 25c. ; cloth, Meaning. By W. W. Hardwicke, SUND-W OBSERVANCE : Its Origin and M.D., " Religious Systems," etc. author of 'l"he Evolution of Man and His R. P. A. Cheap Reprints. 25c. Walts & Co., Loudon. MARRIAGE AND RACE DEATH. The Foundations of an Intelligent System 8vo., heavy paper, paper cover, of Marriage. By Morrison I. Swift. 270 pp. Morrison I. Swift Press. 1906. 50 cents. "New York : The FUNERAL SERVICES WITHOUT THEOLOCiY. A series of addresses adapted containing; examples of method \o various occasions. With an Appendix of treat- quotations: By F. Gould. pages, ing personal recollections, and poetical J. 60 cloth, 40 cents. Watts & Co., London. T«E ANviLO-ROMAN CONCORDATS. By F. Hugh O'Donnell. Reprinted from the Belfast News-Letter. 5c. FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF FREETHOUGHT. By Samuel P. Putnam. portraits of Pioneers and living Reformers. Soo Paiges, with nearly 150 full-page Cloth, $5.' THE BIBLE By John E. Remsburg. An inquiry mto the Authenticity, the Credi- Bible. With an Appendix and a 36-page Index, bility and the Morality of the or authority adduced. enabling the reader to refer at once to any argument About 500 pages, cloth, $1.25. AD.AM'S DLARY. By Mark Twain. Illustrated by F. Strothmann. $1. EVE'S DIARY. By Mark Twain- Illustrated by Lister Ralph. Cloth, Si. HUMAN ORIGINS} By Samuel Lalng. A very valuable work. 30 cts. DARWINISM AND 'THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE. A Study of F^amiliar Professor at the University Freiburg Animal Life. By Conrad Guenther, Ph.D., Edition by Joseph McCabe. London : in Baden. Translated from the Third 8vo, cloth, $3-50- Owen & Co. 436 PP-, roy. handsome SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS. By John E. Remsburg. .\ volume of containing all the available evidence for about ^50 pages, w th full-page portraits, of Pame, franklin, Washmgjon, forming a just estimate of the religious views Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant. THF EVOLUTION OF MAN: A Popular Scientific Study. By Enist Haecke! or Ontogeny. Translated from the 5th (enlarged Vol I Human Embryology illustrations. H. P. A. Cheap Repr.,its edit'ion by Joseph McCabe. With 209 25c. Wahs & Co., London. FKNST H MECKEL'S "EVOLUTION OF MAN,' \'ol. II. is also ready, in ' price 25c. The two volumes can also 'n'lner cover, 192 pp., 199 illustrations, with anew portr^-ut of the author, price be had in one volume, cloth lettered, $1.15, post paid. sIkmiM !..• in ll.c lil)rary of ovoiy This magnificently ilUist rat. •.[ work Freethinker. TH£ CHllDREN'S PLUTARCH, by F. I.Gould, with six full-page illustra- is a work that should have a largo tion*' >y Walter Crane, cloth, viii 286 pp., sale^:^Vicc$l.oo A PICTUTp^-BOOK OF EVOLUTION, In' Dennis Hird. M..A., in cloth, with a work of great value for children 182 illustrations price $1.00, will also be found - and hIso for adults, for the matter of that. Passmore Edwards. 100 pp., i)aper covers 25., A FEW •FOOTPRINTS, by J. ;i'!ovh: 4f>< ^o-z^^rir^^ SECULAK THOUa A Monthly Journal of Rational Criticism in Politics, Science, and Religion. J. S. ELLIS. Editor. NEW SERIES. C VOL. XXXVII. No. I. TORONTO, JANU.\RY, 191 1. 20c.; $2 per ann. WAR MUST CEASE. Granted, 11 you will, that great engines 01 destruction are necessary to our protection ; still, they are at best but a necessary evil, and are no more to be worshipped than the bolts and bars that secure our houses by night. And a nation which attaches its pride to such things is Halting in the march of humanity. Some people say that war will never cease in this world. I say that it will. I also say that it must. The war fever poisons the blood of mankind, and the cost of it is bringing all the great nations to bankruptcy. We are becoming the slaves of our Frankenstein. But the best heads and hearts are vowed to bring about a wiser and nobler state of things. The road may be long, but they will reach the goal at last. They count on sharp stones and sharper thorns, and they will never despair. The victory will be theirs in the end. Their fire of humanity will burn up all the battleships, and every gun will be melted in the flame of their ideals. G. W. FoOTE, Editor London Freethinker. PEACE AND WAR. We have always been among those who have considered the "strugo^le for existence" so inevitable a concomitant of human life that war— in some of its many forms —must always be a probability to be provided or insured against, with an ever- present contingency of a relapse into war in its acutest form. It may be true that war is never an unavoidable necessity ; that at best it is an extravagant price to pay for any peace secured by it ; and that a Court of Arbitration would give all the real advantages war could possibly secure, with few of its heart-burnings and none of its horrors and sufferings and its smouldering legacies of further strife. But we have to deal with complex masses oi men, most oi SECULAR THOUGHT. them vcr\- ignorant and prejudiced and open to sinister sug-- gostions from the most interested and unscrupulous men, and capable of forming utterl}- irrational judgments. And until greater intelligence and more rational modes of thought become far more general than they are in our day, it seems equally certain that the present unstable condition of social, political and international relations will persist. Under such circumstances, while perforce we must work for peace on every occasion, it would be as foolish in a nation to be wholly unprepared for the risk of war as it would be in an individual to be unprepared for the risk of fire or death. The two great questions, therefore, are— ist. What form of the inevitable conflict demands our most immediate attention? and 2nd, What are the best means for bringing about a better and more stable and peaceful condition ? WHAT IS "WAR?" Looking around the world at the beginning of a new year, one is compelled to admit that commercial and industrial rivalry and reckless ambition are almost universal, that they are almost as wasteful of human life and natural resources as the most destructive military wars, and that it is the manifest tendency of this commercial rivalry to breed international jealousy and hatred. Still another result is the development of class differences in the contemplation of the industrial rivalry. The plutocrat who buys a legislature to pass iniquitous laws cares no more for the lives crushed out to create his millions than does a general who orders a premature assault to gain a political victory or gratify a personal whim. If to gain a commercial or political advantage at any cost of human lite, health and happiness be the object of war, then much of what to-day is called trade or commerce would be f;ir more correctly described as real war. What can we think of men who, in order to swell railwa\- shareholders' dividends, refuse or neglect to take the needed precautions to protect the lives exposed to danger by their machinery and methods of work? What can we say when we read the statistics which prove that on this North American continent every year about 40,000 human lives are sacrificed SECULAR THOUGHT. and 150,000 human beings are maimed, larg-ely throucrh the failure of wealthy corporations to provide proper safeg-uards? What can we think of the slavish notions of the workmen who submit, often willinoly, to industrial conditions in which their lives are in hourly peril and health is impossible — where, indeed, in some cases, the workmen rot to a miserable death in a year or two or even a few months ? If this is not war, then we can only say that it is somethin^j- "just as g'ood," or bad, according- to the point of view. There seems to be no possible remedy but the very slow and uncertain one of education ; and by education we mean, not the orthodox system of book instruction and drilling- in more or less routine lessons in moralit\- and moral precepts, but the development of a larg"er and broader altruism' which has its expression in the Co-operative motto, "The best way to find happiness is to do your best to make others happy." This is an altruism which can only become a general sentiment and an active force through a long course of experience in Co-ope- rative methods and results.
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