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...review of Malcolm Muggeridge's The Earnest Atheist (TIME, March 8) gives an excellent précis of the book, which is an attack on the integrity of Samuel Butler. Because it is an attack, and there are many people who believe in Butler's integrity, I feel that some account should have been given of his virtues and some correction made of Muggeridge's misstatements...
...EARNEST ATHEIST-Malcolm Muggeridge-Putnam...
...just about to rights, yanked Butler unceremoniously out of the Hall of Fame, gave him a dreadful tanning. It would be an understatement to say that Malcolm Muggeridge has debunked Butler: he has flayed him, skinned him alive. So savage a job, in fact, is The Earnest Atheist that impartial observers may find themselves sympathizing with the victim...
...malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and blasphemous by one single monosyllable-Paine." Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore Roosevelt testified that officially it was still open season on Paine when he referred to him as that "filthy little atheist." Author Pearson is not the first modern biographer to adopt the thesis that Paine's notoriety had its source in political rather than religious causes, but in his Tom Paine he gives more room than his predecessors have to the part played by Paine's personal makeup...
...seemed the natural thing to do. she let him take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing to let her starve. Jean's brother Marc, a stalwart priest, got his atheist friend Gaure, a chemistry professor, to help him rig up a homemade wireless, to get news of the outside world. Before they knew it, both were involved in a far-flung spy system. Gaure was caught, tortured, shot. Later on Marc was arrested too, but only for running an illicit...