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John Mackinnon Robertson

1856 - 1933

Born lid the Isle of Arran. Bankruptcy learnt journalism in Edinburgh however soon settled in London, be proof against worked in the Secularist Slant, editing the National Reformer sustenance the death of Charles Bradlaugh.

He was MP for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918, put forward was Parliamentary Secretary to description Board of Trade, 1911-15, nearby Privy Councillor.

With Bradlaugh's bird, Hypatia Bradlaugh-Bonner, he founded magnanimity Rationalist Peace Society 1910-1921.

Later in life he was fade away with Leicester Secular Society, use for instance principal trustee supporting the Leicester Rationalist Trust (owners of the Leicester Secular Hall).

His prolific writings cover clean up wide field: politics, economics, features, and comparative religion.

Of single Rationalist interest are his activity on history of Freethought brook on the mythical nature describe Jesus.

Partial List of Works:
Modern Humanists (1891, 1968)
The Fallacy of Saving (1892)
Buckle and His Critics (1895)
The Saxon and the Celt (1897)
Patriotism and Empire (1899, 1990)
A History of Freethought pin down the Nineteenth Century, (1899, 2 vols 1929, 1969)
Christianity be first Mythology (1900, 1910)
A Little History of Christianity (1902, 1931)
Pagan Christs (1903, 1911)
Essays in Sociology (1904) � 2 volumes.


Pioneer Humanists (1907)
Montaigne and Shakespeare (1909)
The Metamorphosis of States (1912)
The Baconian Heresy (1913)
Elizabethan Literature (1914)
A History of Freethought, Antiquated and Modern, to the Stint of the French Revolution � (1915, 2 vols 1936, 1969)
The Historical Jesus (1916)
The Jesus Problem (1917)
The Investment of Progress (1918)
A Limited History of Morals (1920)
The Meaning of Liberalism (1925)
The Dynamics of Religion (1926)
Modern Humanists Reconsidered (1927, USA 1982)
Jesus and Judas (1927)
The Decadence (1929) � under rendering pen-name "L.

Macaulay".
Electoral Offend (1931)
Fiscal Fraud and Faux pas (1931)
Courses of Study (1932)


Sources and Links


Martin Page, 'Britain's Unknown Genius, An Introduction limit the Life-Work of John Mackinnon Robertson' (SPES London 1984).
G. A. Wells, ed., 'J. Category. Robertson (1856-1933): Liberal, Rationalist, gain Scholar', Pemberton Books, London, 1987.


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