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...naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend was his grandfather's valet, who was killed by falling from a mulberry tree. At school Henri won a prize at mathematics, and at 16 was allowed to go to Paris, ostensibly to enter L'Ecole Polytechnique, really "with the firm intention of becoming a seducer...
...fearing citizens were indignant, agnostics surprised, atheists delighted, at a letter mailed and made public last week by one Freeman Hopwood of Manhattan who signed himself "General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc." The letter...
...American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., with members in every state and territory of the Union, and on behalf of millions of unorganized Atheists, respectfully requests that you refrain this year from issuing the Thanksgiving Proclamation...
...book that was keeping him alive, but another book by Georges Clémenceau appeared on U. S. bookstalls last week.** In two ponderous volumes the Tiger agilely avoids autobiography, memoirs, history; explains at great length his carefully reasoned atheism under such headings as: Abstraction; Myths; Religious Bargains and Their Results; Philosophic Doubt; Diffusion; Cosmogonies; Cosmology...
INFIDELS AND HERETICS, An Agnostic's Anthology-Clarence Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...