Between 1940 and 1941, the Literary Guide (now New Humanist) ran a series of articles and contributions under the heading ‘Books which made me a rationalist’, inviting readers to reflect on their roads to rationalism.
As war is far too important to be left to the generals, so morality is far too important to be […]
What Iain brought to his writing was himself. He brought a wonderful combination of the dark and the light side of life, […]
The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley was raised without […]
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the […]
…that perfect Tranquility of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a […]
There is no hope but us. There is no mercy but us. There is no justice. There is just us… […]
I settled my religious muddles by deciding that I had better be an atheist. Diana Wynne Jones in Something About […]
You can always appeal to common decency, which the vast majority of people believe in without the need to tie […]
I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security Spoken by the […]
More science is needed, more interchange and more co-ordination. Act to that end. This is my philosophy of action; this […]
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