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McCabe, Joseph.

A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945). Complaining that Wheeler, John M. Robertson, and others “have too readily admitted liberal members of organized religions,” McCabe proposed narrowing his list. He noted that “all the thinkers during seven centuries of ancient Greece except Plato and Pythagoras rejected the idea of spirit or a personal God and immortality. So did nearly all the writers of ancient Rome. At the other end of the scale it is hardly necessary to record that such men as Haldeman-Julius, McCabe, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Lewis, etc., are atheists.” He also noted that Prof. James Leuba has twice shown, “from their own private assurances, that three-fourths of the 500 leading men of science and history in America ‘disbelieve’ in God, and that is the dictionary definition of atheism.”