The attempts of his grandson and a few others to represent Adams as a Unitarian is not honest.
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The correspondence of the two men, the most accomplished who ever rose to high political office in America- they freely quote Greek, Latin, Italian and French to each other- it is very free and most interesting.
His rejection of Christianity, which he professed to admire morally, runs all through his letters to Jefferson, of which there is a good selection edited by Welstach (1925), through it is better to read them in the original edition (1856). He signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which began (article 11), "The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion," he continued, "The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus has made a convenient cover for absurdity." The treaty was ratified by the Senate in 1797 without a single exception. She is very resolutely Agnostic, without using that word in her Pensees d'une solitare (written later in life) and she wrote a poem for her tombstone which begins: "I do not know." In the strict sense she was an atheist.Īdams, John (1735-1826), Second President of the United States. The cultural splendor of Spain had just roused France from the Dark Age.Ī French woman writer of great distinction whose salon was one of the most brilliant intellectual centers of Paris. His first principle was that "Reason precedes Faith." Compare the date with the preceding paragraph. This soured his disposition, so that it is absurd to call his letters to Heloise "love-letters," but his teaching was still so free that he was twice (11) solemnly condemned by the Church. He was "the idol of Paris," and troubadour as well as a philosopher, until a canon of the cathedral had him castrated for an affair with his niece Heloise. The most learned and far away the most brilliant master in Christian Europe in the twelfth century. Stanley Lane Poole (The Moors in Spain, 1897) also says that he created a civilization "such as the wildest imagination can hardly conjure up." He defied the Koran all his life and was clearly an atheist. 1904) Scott piously deplores his "infidelity" and sensuality and then describes his magnificent work in lyrical language. Scott's Moorish Empire in Europe (3 vols. It was from the splendor of his empire that civilization was rekindled in France, then in Europe generally. The greatest of the Moslem Arab Caliphs, who raised Spain from a state of profound demoralization to one of unprecedented prosperity, culture and brilliance while Christian Europe lay in the darkest phase of the Dark Age. Leonard Abbot says in his life of Ferrer that Abbe had "just the same ideas and aims as Ferrer."
Abbe was an intimate friend of Haeckel and shared his atheism (or Monism). He was not only a distinguished German physicist and one of the most famous inventors on the staff at the Zeiss optical works at Jena but a notable social reformer, By a generous scheme of profit-sharing he virtually handed over the great Zeiss enterprise to the workers. 392998 A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers 1945 Joseph McCabe
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