LIST OF BOOKS QUOTED.

“Autobiography,” J.S.  Mill, 184

“Christian Creed, The,” 173

“Freethinkers’ Text-book,” 144

“Gospel of Atheism, The,” 145, 152, 158, 168

“Gospels of Christianity and Freethought,” 164

“Life, Death, and Immortality,” 147, 149, 150

Link, The, 333

National Reformer, The, 79, 80, 280, 346-50, 354

Our Corner, 286, 329

Theosophist, The, 282, 288

“True Basis of Morality,” 156

“Why I do Not Believe in God,” 146

“World without God,” 165, 169, 172

INDEX.

Affirmation Bill brought in, 287
  rejected, 299
Atheist, position as an, 139
Authorship, first attempts at, 84.

Bennett, D.M., prosecution of, 232
Blasphemy prosecution, 283, 287, 289
Blavatsky, H.P., 189, 337
  meeting with, 341
“Bloody Sunday,” 324
Bradlaugh, Charles, first meeting with, 135
  as friend, 137
  in the Clock Tower, 258
  and the scene in the House, 265
  v.  Newdegate; result, 289
  prosecuted for blasphemy, 283, 289

Confirmation, 51

Daughter, application to remove, 213
  denied access to, 219
Death of father, 21
  of mother, 126
Doubt the first, 58

“Elements of Social Science,” 196
Engagement, 69
Essay, first Freethought, 113

Fenians, the, 73
Freethinker prosecution, 283, 287, 296
Freethought Publishing Company, the, 285

Harrow, life at, 30
Hoskyns, Rev. E., libel action against, 359

Knowlton pamphlet, the, 205
  prosecution, 208
  trial, 210

“Law of Population, The,” 212, 210
“Law and Liberty League,” the, 326
Lecture, the first, 181
Linnell, the Trafalgar Square victim, 316
  funeral of, 327
Link, founding of the, 331

Malthusian League formed, 229
Malthusianism and Theosophy, 240
Marriage, 70
  tie broken, no
Match-girls’ strike, 335
  Union, established, 336

National Reformer, the, 134
  first contribution to, 180
  resignation of co-editorship, 320
National Secular Society joined, 135
  elected vice-president of, 202
  resignation of, 357
Northampton Election, 183
  struggle, 253, 344

Oaths Bill, the, 314, 329
Our Corner, 286, 314

Political Opinions, 174
Pusey, Dr., 109, 284

Russian politics, 311

Scientific work, 249
School Board, election to, 338
Scott, Thomas, 112, 127
Socialism, 299
  debate on, between Messrs. Bradlaugh and Hyndman, 301
Socialist debates, 318, 319
Socialists and open-air speaking, 312
  Defence Association, 323
Stanley, Dean, 23, 122

Theosophical Society, the, 180
  joined, 344
  headquarters established, 361
Theosophy and Charles Bradlaugh, 350
  the National Secular Society, 357
Trafalgar Square, closing of, to the public, 323
Truelove, Edward, trial of, 225