This treasury of poetry, prose, and rare steel engravings celebrates humanism with some of history's most acclaimed writers.
A unique reference work. A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought is a remarkable collection of quotations, aphorisms, and epigrams that demonstrates the reverence with which freedom of expression, tolerance, and pluralistic ideas are held. Where dogma, authoritarianism, and absolutism reign, the light of liberty is snuffed out. Some of history's most renowned thinkers are included: Matthew Arnold, Francis Bacon, Cicero, Joseph Conrad, Diogenes, Will Durant, Ecclesiates, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe, Edith Hamilton, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Hoffer, Homer, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson, Lucretius, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Santayana, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Von Hagen, and H. G. Wells, among others, along with rare engravings that have been out of print for over a century.
This timeless collection of art and philosophy is of universal interest and deserves a place in every library.
Dave Allan Williams is a writer and world-traveller.
302 pages Publication date 25th January, 1996