TPUK 1979 Number 3 Volume 6

The TPNHA Board (now TPHA) from 1894, standing in front of the Paine Monument on North Avenue in New Rochelle, NY. On the right is Thaddeus Wakeman, a freethinker, professor, and noted philosopher, who took the lead in the creation of TPNHA. Also in the picture, in the rear wearing a hat, is Wilson MacDonald, the sculptor of the Paine bust on top of the Monument.

BOOK REVIEW: Freethought In The United States, A Descriptive Bibliography

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1979 Number 3 Volume 6

Even among the students of social movements there is a wide measure of ignorance as to the extent and influence of the Freethought movement particularly in the second half of the 19th century.

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John Wesley (1703-1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement known as Methodism - link

THOMAS PAINE: THE METHODIST INFLUENCE

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1979 Number 3 Volume 6

Paine admired the teachings of Jesus, and he went to great lengths to free them from smothering additions, which had been drawn from the mythology of ancient cults and grafted onto them by the churchmakers who usurped Jesus’s role of teacher.

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