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Infidel Death-Beds (1888)

Infidel Death-Beds (1888)

Foote, George William
McLaren, A. D.

Hardcover

Religious BiographiesAtheism & AgnosticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1164252305
ISBN13: 9781164252306
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Infidel Death-Beds is a book written by George William Foote and published in 1888. The book is a collection of stories and accounts of the final moments of famous atheists, freethinkers, and skeptics. Foote, who was a prominent British secularist and founder of the National Secular Society, compiled these stories to challenge the idea that only religious believers can have a peaceful and meaningful death. The book includes stories of famous figures such as Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as lesser-known individuals who lived and died without religious faith. In each story, Foote describes the final moments of the person's life, often drawing on contemporary accounts and eyewitness testimonies. Infidel Death-Beds was a controversial book when it was first published, as it challenged the dominant religious beliefs of the time. However, it was also widely read and influential, particularly among the growing community of freethinkers and skeptics in the late 19th century. Today, the book is considered a classic of secularist literature and a valuable historical document of the freethought movement.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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