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This book provides a background to the development of Humanism. It considers a range of important figures in the movement in the 19th century, including R. W. Emerson, F. E. Abbot, William J. Potter, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, and G. B. Foster.

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Haydon was a pioneer of humanist, non-theist thinking in America. Here, now available, are his radio addresses, including sections on Emerson, Robert Ingersoll, the Free Religious Association, the early Chicago School Theologians, and the Unitarians. An important contribution to American liberal religious thought, this is ideal for courses in philosophy, American religion, or a humanist discussion group. Jerome Stone Author of TURBO CAPITALISM AND UNLIMITED POPULATION = DISASTER!! We in the Appalachian Humanist group in Highlands, North Carolina find it very helpful and instructive to have Creighton Peden as a founder and member of our group. Not only have we studied and discussed many chapters of this book as a group, we have been his reviewers and supporters. In that both he and the book have survived is testament to Creighton's character and the weight of his message. Karen Hawk Leader, Appalachian Humanist Association

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W. Creighton Peden is Fuller E. Callaway Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia Regents University. He received his BA from Davidson College, his MA in Theology and MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago, and his PhD in Philosophical Theology from St Andrews University, Scotland. Peden has published intellectual biographies on the Early Chicago School in Theology: E. S. Ames – Christian Pragmatism; G. B. Foster – From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion; A. E. Haydon – A Good Life in a World Made Good; Gerald Birney Smith – Religion of Democracy: An Intellectual Biography of Gerald Birney Smith, 1868–1929; H. N. Wieman – The Life and Thought of Henry Nelson Wieman; and B. E. Meland – Life and Thought of Bernard Eugene Meland; and is co-editor, with John N. Gaston, of Bernard Eugene Meland’s Unpublished Papers. He is also the author of Empirical Tradition in American Liberal Religious Thought, 1860–1960, and co-author, with Charles Hartshorne, of Whitehead’s View of Reality.

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