PIONEER PRESS PUBLICATIONS
By CHAPMAN COHEN.
THEISM OR ATHEISM? The Great Alternative. Bound in Full Cloth, Gilt Lettered. Price 5s., postage 3d.
Contents: Part I.—An Examination of Theism.—Chapter I.—What is God? Chapter II.—The Origin of the Idea of God. Chapter III.—Have we a Religious Sense? Chapter IV.—The Argument from Existence. Chapter V.—The Argument from Causation. Chapter VI.—The Argument from Design. Chapter VII.—The Disharmonies of Nature. Chapter VIII.—God and Evolution. Chapter IX.—The Problem of Pain. Part II.—Substitutes for Atheism.—Chapter X.—A Question of Prejudice. Chapter XI.—What is Atheism? Chapter XII.—Spencer and the Unknowable. Chapter XIII.—Agnosticism. Chapter XIV.—Atheism and Morals. Chapter XV.—Atheism Inevitable.
RELIGION AND SEX. Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development. Price 6s., postage 9d.
A Systematic and Comprehensive Survey of the relations between the sexual instinct and morbid and abnormal mental states and the sense of religious exaltation and illumination. The ground covered ranges from the primitive culture stage to present-day revivalism and mysticism. It is a work that should be in the hands of all interested in Sociology, Religion or Psychology.
CREED AND CHARACTER. The Influence of Religion on Racial Life. Price 7d., postage 1½d.
Contents: Chapter I.—Religion and Race Survival. Chapter II.—Christianity and Social Life. Chapter III.—The Case of the Jew. Chapter IV.—A Lesson from Spain.
DETERMINISM OR FREE-WILL? In Paper Cover, 1s. 9d., postage 2d. Half-Cloth, 2s. 6d., postage 3d.
Contents: Chapter I.—The Question Stated. Chapter II.—"Freedom" and "Will." Chapter III.—Consciousness, Deliberation, and Choice. Chapter IV.—Some Alleged Consequences of Determinism. Chapter V.—Professor James on the "Dilemma of Determinism." Chapter VI.—The Nature and Implication of Responsibility. Chapter VII.—Determinism and Character. Chapter VIII.—A Problem in Determinism. Chapter IX.—Environment.
CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY. With a Chapter on the Relation of Christianity to the Labour Movement. Fully Documented with Two Plates and Portrait. Price 1s., postage 1½d.
Contents: Chapter I.—Slavery and the Bible. Chapter II.—Paganism and Slavery. Chapter III.—Slavery in the Christian Ages. Chapter IV.—The English Slave Trade. Chapter V.—American Slavery. Chapter VI.—Christianity and Labour. Chapter VII.—Black and White.
WOMAN AND CHRISTIANITY. The Subjection and Exploitation of a Sex. An Anthropological and Historical Inquiry. Fully Documented. Price 1s., postage 1½d.
Contents: Chapter I.—Christianity and Morality. Chapter II.—Woman and Primitive Religious Beliefs. Chapter III.—Woman in Pre-Christian Civilization. Chapter IV.—Woman and the Bible. Chapter V.—Woman Under Christianity. Chapter VI.—Christianity and the Home. Chapter VII.—Madonna-Worship and Chivalry. Chapter VIII.—Religion and Woman.
DOES MAN SURVIVE DEATH? Is the Belief Reasonable? Verbatim Report of a Discussion between Horace Leaf and Chapman Cohen. Price 7d., postage 1d.
DEITY AND DESIGN. Price 1d., postage ½d.
THE PARSON AND THE ATHEIST. A Friendly Discussion on Religion and Life between Rev. the Hon. Edward Lyttelton, D.D., and Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 6d., postage 2d.
GOD AND MAN. An Essay in Common Sense and Natural Morality. Price 3d., postage 1d.
WAR AND CIVILIZATION. Price 1d., postage ½d.
SOCIALISM AND THE CHURCHES. Price 3d., postage 3d.
RELIGION AND THE CHILD. A Plea for Fair Play to the Child. Price 1d., postage ½d.
MODERN MATERIALISM. A Candid Examination. By Walter Mann. Paper Cover, 2s.; Cloth 3s. 6d., postage 2d.
Contents: Chapter I.—Modern Materialism. Chapter II.—Darwinian Evolution. Chapter III.—Auguste Comte and Positivism. Chapter IV.—Herbert Spencer and the Synthetic Philosophy. Chapter V.—The Contribution of Kant. Chapter VI.—Huxley, Tyndall, and Clifford open the Campaign. Chapter VII.—Buechner's "Force and Matter." Chapter VIII.—Atoms and the Ether. Chapter IX.—The Origin of Life. Chapter X.—Atheism and Agnosticism. Chapter XI.—The French Revolution and the Great War. Chapter XII.—The Advance of Materialism.
A careful and exhaustive examination of the meaning of Materialism and its present standing, together with its bearing on various aspects of life. A much needed work.
GOD-EATING. A Study in Christianity and Cannibalism. By J. T. Lloyd. In Coloured Wrapper. Price 6d., postage 1½d.
THE RUINS. A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires. To which is added The Law Of Nature. By C. F. Volney. A New Edition, being a Revised Translation with Introduction by George Underwood, Portrait, Astronomical Charts, and Artistic Cover Design by H. Cutner. Price 5s., postage 3d.
THE LIFE-WORSHIP OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. With Fine Portrait of Jefferies. By Arthur F. Thorn. Price 1s., postage 1½d.
THE BIBLE HANDBOOK. For Freethinkers and Inquiring Christians. By G. W. Foote and W. P. Ball. New Edition. Cloth Bound. Price 2s. 6d., postage 3d.
Contents: Part I.—Bible Contradictions. Part II.—Bible Absurdities. Part III.—Bible Atrocities. Part IV.—Bible Immoralities, Indecencies, Obscenities, Broken Promises, and Unfulfilled Prophecies.
(Issued by the Secular Society, Limited.)
JESUS CHRIST: Man, God, or Myth? With a Chapter on "Was Jesus a Socialist?" By George Whitehead. Paper Cover, 2s., postage 2d.; Cloth, 3s. 6d., postage 3d.
THE HISTORICAL JESUS AND MYTHICAL CHRIST. By Gerald Massey. A Demonstration of the Egyptian Origin of the Christian Myth. Should be in the hands of every Freethinker. With Introduction by Chapman Cohen. Price 6d., postage 1½d.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SECULARISM. By G. W. Foote. Price 2d., postage ½d.
HERESY IN ART. The Religious Opinions of Famous Artists and Musicians. By H. G. Farmer. Price 3d., postage ½d.
PRAYER: Its Origin, History, and Futility. By J. T. Lloyd. Price 2d., postage 1d.
PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MORALITY. By Walter Mann. Price 2d., postage ½d.
SCIENCE AND THE SOUL. With a Chapter on Infidel Death-Beds. By Walter Mann. Price 7d., postage 1½d.
SOCIETY AND SUPERSTITION. By Robert Arch. Price 6d., postage 1d.
FREETHOUGHT AND LITERATURE. By Mimnermus. Price 1d., postage ½d.
THE ROBES OF PAN. And other Prose Fantasies. By A. Millar. Price 1s., postage 1½d.
THE MOURNER: A Play of the Imagination. By G. H. Murphy. Price 1s., postage 1d.
MISTAKES OF MOSES. By Colonel Ingersoll. Price 2d., postage ½d.
IS SUICIDE A SIN? AND LAST WORDS ON SUICIDE. By Colonel Ingersoll. Price 2d., postage ½d.
ESSAY ON SUICIDE. By D. Hume. Price 1d., postage ½d.
A FIGHT FOR RIGHT. A Verbatim Report of the Decision in the House of Lords in re Bowman and others v. The Secular Society, Limited. With Introduction by Chapman Cohen. Price 1s., postage 1½d.
(Issued by the Secular Society, Limited.)
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. By C. T. Gorham. A Biographical Sketch of America's Greatest Freethought Advocate. With Four Plates. In Paper Covers, 2s., postage 2d. Cloth Bound, 3s. 6d., postage 2½d.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH. By The Right Hon. J. M. Robertson. An Authoritative Life of one of the greatest Reformers of the Nineteenth Century, and the only one now obtainable. With Four Portraits. In Paper Covers, 2s., postage 2d. Cloth Bound, 3s. 6d., postage 2½d.
THE JEWISH LIFE OF CHRIST. Being the Sepher Toldoth Jeshu, or Book of the Generation of Jesus. With an Historical Preface and Voluminous Notes. By G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler. Price 6d., postage 1d.
VOLTAIRE'S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY. Vol. I., 128 pp., with Fine Cover Portrait, and Preface by Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 3d., postage 1½d.
THE MARTYRDOM OF HYPATIA; The Rise of Christianity on the Ruins of Ancient Civilization. By M. M. Mangasarian. Price 1d., postage ½d.
WHO WAS THE FATHER OF JESUS? By G. W. Foote. Price 1d., postage ½d.
MAN AND HIS GODS. By George Whitehead. Price 2d., postage 1d.
THE SUPERMAN; Essays in Social Idealism. By George Whitehead. Price 2d., postage 1d.
THE SOCIALIST SUNDAY-SCHOOL MOVEMENT. By George Whitehead. Price 2d., postage 1d.