A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2

CHAPTER XIII

THE RISE OF MODERN FREETHOUGHT--(Continued)

§ 4. England

While France was thus passing from general fanaticism to a large measure of freethought, England was passing by a less tempestuous path to a hardly less advanced stage of opinion. It was indeed a bloody age; and in 1535 we have record of nineteen men and five women of Holland, apparently Anabaptists, w...