TRI

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TRI

Tribe, David. 100 Years of Freethought (London: Elek Books Limited, 1967) “Freethought has no beginning and no end,” Tribe commences. He then mentions some early dates:

• 1825 Early unitarianism
• 1833 Mexican secularism
• 1848 German free-religious movement
• 1854 Organized Positivism
• 1856 New Zealand rationalism
• 1862 Australian secularism
• 1864 Belgian Ligue de l’Enseignement
• 1869 Italian anti-clericalism
• 1871 Voysey’s theistic church
• 1873 U. S. freethought (based on the Truth Seeker, “now regrettably aiding racism”)
• 1876 American Ethical Culture
• 1881 Dutch Dageraad (Dawn) as a national movement
• 1883 Argentinean secularism
• 1887 Austrian secularism