Registered Office: 62 Farringdon Street, London, E.C. 4.

Secretary: Miss E. M. VANCE.

The Memorandum of Association sets forth that the Society's Objects are:—To promote the principle that human conduct should be based upon natural knowledge, and not upon supernatural belief, and that human welfare in this world is the proper end of all thought and action. To promote freedom of inquiry. To promote universal Secular Education. To promote the complete secularization of the State, etc. And to do all such lawful things as are conducive to such objects. Also to have, hold, receive, and retain any sums of money paid, given, devised, or bequeathed by any person, and to employ the same for any of the purposes of the Society.

Members pay an entrance fee of ten shillings, and a subsequent yearly subscription of five shillings. The liability of members is limited to £1, in case the Society should ever be wound up.

The Society's affairs are managed by an elected Board of Directors, one-third of whom retire (by ballot), each year, but are eligible for re-election.

Friends desiring to benefit the Society are invited to make donations, or to insert a bequest in the Society's favour in their wills. The now historic decision of the House of Lords in re Bowman and Others v. the Secular Society, Limited, in 1917, a verbatim report of which may be obtained from its publishers, the Pioneer Press, or from the Secretary, makes it quite impossible to set aside such bequests.

A Form of Bequest.—The following is a sufficient form of bequest for insertion in the wills of testators:—

I give and bequeath to the Secular Society, Limited, the sum of £—— free from Legacy Duty, and I direct that a receipt signed by two members of the Board of the said Society and the Secretary thereof shall be a good discharge to my Executors for the said Legacy.

It is advisable, but not necessary, that the Secretary should be formally notified of such bequests, as wills sometimes get lost or mislaid. A form of membership, with full particulars, will be sent on application to the Secretary, 62 Farringdon Street, London, E.C. 4.

National Secular Society.

President:
CHAPMAN COHEN.

Secretary:
Miss E. M. VANCE.
62 Farringdon Street, London, E.C. 4.

Principles and Objects.

Secularism teaches that conduct should be based on reason and knowledge. It knows nothing of divine guidance or interference; it excludes supernatural hopes and fears; it regards happiness as man's proper aim, and utility as his moral guide.

Secularism affirms that Progress is only possible through Liberty, which is at once a right and a duty, and therefore seeks to remove every barrier to the fullest equal freedom of thought, action, and speech.

Secularism declares that theology is condemned by reason as superstitious, and by experience as mischievous, and assails it as the historic enemy of Progress.

Secularism accordingly seeks to dispel superstition; to spread education; to disestablish religion; to rationalize morality; to promote peace; to dignify labour; to extend material well-being; and to realize the self-government of the people.

P.S.—Beyond a minimum of Two Shillings per year, every member is left to fix his own subscription according to his means and interest in the cause.

All applications for Membership to be made to the Secretary as above.

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THEISM OR ATHEISM? The Great Alternative. Bound in Full Cloth, Gilt Lettered. Price 5s., postage 3d.

Contents: Part I.—An Examination of Theism.—Chapter I.—What is God? Chapter II.—The Origin of the Idea of God. Chapter III.—Have we a Religious Sense? Chapter IV.—The Argument from Existence. Chapter V.—The Argument from Causation. Chapter VI.—The Argument from Design. Chapter VII.—The Disharmonies of Nature. Chapter VIII.—God and Evolution. Chapter IX.—The Problem of Pain. Part II.—Substitutes for Atheism.—Chapter X.—A Question of Prejudice. Chapter XI.—What is Atheism? Chapter XII.—Spencer and the Unknowable. Chapter XIII.—Agnosticism. Chapter XIV.—Atheism and Morals. Chapter XV.—Atheism Inevitable.

RELIGION AND SEX. Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development. Price 6s., postage 9d.

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CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY. With a Chapter on the Relation of Christianity to the Labour Movement. Fully Documented with Two Plates and Portrait. Price 1s., postage 1½d.

Contents: Chapter I.—Slavery and the Bible. Chapter II.—Paganism and Slavery. Chapter III.—Slavery in the Christian Ages. Chapter IV.—The English Slave Trade. Chapter V.—American Slavery. Chapter VI.—Christianity and Labour. Chapter VII.—Black and White.

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DEITY AND DESIGN. Price 1d., postage ½d.

THE PARSON AND THE ATHEIST. A Friendly Discussion on Religion and Life between Rev. the Hon. Edward Lyttelton, D.D., and Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 6d., postage 2d.

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WAR AND CIVILIZATION. Price 1d., postage ½d.

SOCIALISM AND THE CHURCHES. Price 3d., postage 3d.

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MODERN MATERIALISM. A Candid Examination. By Walter Mann. Paper Cover, 2s.; Cloth 3s. 6d., postage 2d.

Contents: Chapter I.—Modern Materialism. Chapter II.—Darwinian Evolution. Chapter III.—Auguste Comte and Positivism. Chapter IV.—Herbert Spencer and the Synthetic Philosophy. Chapter V.—The Contribution of Kant. Chapter VI.—Huxley, Tyndall, and Clifford open the Campaign. Chapter VII.—Buechner's "Force and Matter." Chapter VIII.—Atoms and the Ether. Chapter IX.—The Origin of Life. Chapter X.—Atheism and Agnosticism. Chapter XI.—The French Revolution and the Great War. Chapter XII.—The Advance of Materialism.

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GOD-EATING. A Study in Christianity and Cannibalism. By J. T. Lloyd. In Coloured Wrapper. Price 6d., postage 1½d.

THE RUINS. A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires. To which is added The Law Of Nature. By C. F. Volney. A New Edition, being a Revised Translation with Introduction by George Underwood, Portrait, Astronomical Charts, and Artistic Cover Design by H. Cutner. Price 5s., postage 3d.

THE LIFE-WORSHIP OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. With Fine Portrait of Jefferies. By Arthur F. Thorn. Price 1s., postage 1½d.

THE BIBLE HANDBOOK. For Freethinkers and Inquiring Christians. By G. W. Foote and W. P. Ball. New Edition. Cloth Bound. Price 2s. 6d., postage 3d.

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JESUS CHRIST: Man, God, or Myth? With a Chapter on "Was Jesus a Socialist?" By George Whitehead. Paper Cover, 2s., postage 2d.; Cloth, 3s. 6d., postage 3d.

THE HISTORICAL JESUS AND MYTHICAL CHRIST. By Gerald Massey. A Demonstration of the Egyptian Origin of the Christian Myth. Should be in the hands of every Freethinker. With Introduction by Chapman Cohen. Price 6d., postage 1½d.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SECULARISM. By G. W. Foote. Price 2d., postage ½d.

HERESY IN ART. The Religious Opinions of Famous Artists and Musicians. By H. G. Farmer. Price 3d., postage ½d.

PRAYER: Its Origin, History, and Futility. By J. T. Lloyd. Price 2d., postage 1d.

PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MORALITY. By Walter Mann. Price 2d., postage ½d.

SCIENCE AND THE SOUL. With a Chapter on Infidel Death-Beds. By Walter Mann. Price 7d., postage 1½d.

SOCIETY AND SUPERSTITION. By Robert Arch. Price 6d., postage 1d.

FREETHOUGHT AND LITERATURE. By Mimnermus. Price 1d., postage ½d.

THE ROBES OF PAN. And other Prose Fantasies. By A. Millar. Price 1s., postage 1½d.

THE MOURNER: A Play of the Imagination. By G. H. Murphy. Price 1s., postage 1d.

MISTAKES OF MOSES. By Colonel Ingersoll. Price 2d., postage ½d.

IS SUICIDE A SIN? AND LAST WORDS ON SUICIDE. By Colonel Ingersoll. Price 2d., postage ½d.

ESSAY ON SUICIDE. By D. Hume. Price 1d., postage ½d.

A FIGHT FOR RIGHT. A Verbatim Report of the Decision in the House of Lords in re Bowman and others v. The Secular Society, Limited. With Introduction by Chapman Cohen. Price 1s., postage 1½d.

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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. By C. T. Gorham. A Biographical Sketch of America's Greatest Freethought Advocate. With Four Plates. In Paper Covers, 2s., postage 2d. Cloth Bound, 3s. 6d., postage 2½d.

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THE JEWISH LIFE OF CHRIST. Being the Sepher Toldoth Jeshu, or Book of the Generation of Jesus. With an Historical Preface and Voluminous Notes. By G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler. Price 6d., postage 1d.

VOLTAIRE'S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY. Vol. I., 128 pp., with Fine Cover Portrait, and Preface by Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 3d., postage 1½d.

THE MARTYRDOM OF HYPATIA; The Rise of Christianity on the Ruins of Ancient Civilization. By M. M. Mangasarian. Price 1d., postage ½d.

WHO WAS THE FATHER OF JESUS? By G. W. Foote. Price 1d., postage ½d.

MAN AND HIS GODS. By George Whitehead. Price 2d., postage 1d.

THE SUPERMAN; Essays in Social Idealism. By George Whitehead. Price 2d., postage 1d.

THE SOCIALIST SUNDAY-SCHOOL MOVEMENT. By George Whitehead. Price 2d., postage 1d.

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THE BELIEFS OF UNBELIEVERS. By Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 6d. per 100, postage 3d.

ARE CHRISTIANS INFERIOR TO FREETHINKERS? By Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 6d., per 100, postage 3d.

DOES MAN DESIRE GOD? By Chapman Cohen. Price 1s. 6d. per 100, postage 3d.

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