Concept
Rationalist Association
Overview
irreligious organization in the United Kingdom
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The Alliance declares itself atheist; it desires the definitive and entire abolition of classes and the political equality and social equalization of individuals of both sexes. It desires that the earth, the instrument of labor, like all other capital, becoming the collective property of society as a whole, shall be no longer able to be utilized except by the workers, that is to say, by…
Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom
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The organ of the Alliance, who would "deeply deplore the recognition of any principle which could be wrested to justify bigotry and persecution," undertakes to point out the "broad and impassable barrier" which divides such principles from those of the association. "All matters relating to thought, opinion, conscience, appear to me," he says, "to be without the sphere of legislation; all pertaining to social act…
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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Since there was little in the apparent condition of the public mind, indicative of any tendency in this direction, my view of the immediate prospects of human improvement was not sanguine. More recently a spirit of free speculation has sprung up, giving a more encouraging prospect of the gradual mental emancipation of England; and concurring with the renewal under better auspices, of the movement for political…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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Philosophers who discussed Rationalist Association
Related ideas
- Matthew Arnold
- Julian Huxley
- John Stuart Mill
- Secularism
- Freethought
- United Kingdom
- Bertrand Russell
- Humanists UK
- Charles Darwin
- Ernst Haeckel
Place in the tradition
Part of Humanism.