Copyright, 1913,
by
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

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CONTENTS

CHAP.
I[Introductory]
II[Reason Free (Greece And Rome)]
III[Reason in Prison (The Middle Ages)]
IV[Prospect of Deliverance (The Renaissance and the Reformation)]
V[Religious Toleration]
VI[The Growth of Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)]
VII[The Progress of Rationalism (Nineteenth Century)]
VIII[The Justification of Liberty of Thought]
[Bibliography]
[Index]

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A HISTORY OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT

CHAPTER I

FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND THE FORCES AGAINST IT

(INTRODUCTORY)