A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and NationsWheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini)
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A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations
Wheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini)
Free thought -- Biography
Scott (Thomas), English scholar, b. 28 April 1808. In early life he
travelled widely, lived with Indians and had been page to Chas. X,
of France. Having investigated Christianity, he in later life devoted
himself to Freethought propaganda by sending scholarly pamphlets among
the clergy and cultured classes. From '62-77, he issued from Mount
Pleasant, Ramsgate, over a hundred different pamphlets by Bp. Hinds,
F. W. Newman, Kalisch, Lestrange, Willis, Strange, etc., most of which
were given away. He issued a challenge to the Christian Evidence
Society, and wrote with Sir G. W. Cox, The English Life of Jesus
'71. Altogether his publications extend to twenty volumes. Little
known outside his own circle, Thomas Scott did a work which should
secure him lasting honor. Died at Norwood, 30 Dec. 1878.
Seaver (Horace Holley), American journalist, b. Boston, 25
Aug. 1810. In '37 he became a compositor on the Boston Investigator,
and during Kneeland's imprisonment took the editorship, which
he continued for upwards of fifty years during which he battled
strenuously for Freethought in America. His articles were always
very plain and to the point. A selection of them has been published
with the title Occasional Thoughts (Boston, '88). With Mr. Mendum, he
helped the erection of the Paine Memorial Hall, and won the esteem of
all Freethinkers in America. Died, 21 Aug. 1889. His funeral oration
was delivered by Colonel Ingersoll.
Sebille (Adolphe), French writer, who, under the pseudonym
of "Dr. Fabricus," published God, Man, and his latter end, a
medico-psychological study, 1868, and Letters from a Materialist to
Mgr. Dupanloup, 1868-9.
Sechenov or Setchenoff (Ivan), Russian philosopher, who, in 1863,
published Psychological Studies, explaining the mind by physiology. The
work made a great impression in Russia, and has been translated into
French by Victor Derély, and published in '84 with an introduction
by M. G. Wyrouboff.
Secondat (Charles de). See Montesquieu.
Seeley (John Robert), English historian and man of letters, b. London,
1834, educated at City of London School and Cambridge, where he
graduated in '57. In '63, he was appointed Professor of Latin in
London University. In '66, appeared his Ecce Homo, a survey of the
Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously, and which Lord
Shaftesbury denounced in unmeasured terms as vomitted from the pit of
hell. In '69, he became professor of modern history at Cambridge, and
has since written some important historical works as well as Natural
Religion ('82). Prof. Seeley is president of the Ethical Society.
Segond (Louis August), French physician and Positivist, author of
a plan of a positivist school to regenerate medicine, 1849, and of
several medical works.
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