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Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1

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This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made books more available, which encouraged thinking and questioning beyond the confines of the Bible and provincial customs. It traces the modernization of education as we learned more about the universe -- astronomy, physics and science, philosophy -- and delved into understanding our own natures beyond religious constraints. It begins with Giordano Bruno, then bounces around among an array of philosophers - Bruno, Spinoza, Descartes, Locke, Spencer, Heeckel, etc., while making a sweep through Literature, the discovery of America, the French and American Revolutions, America's Civil War, playwrights like Shakespeare, agnostics like Ingersoll and Paine, the major and minor poets of Europe and America, geology, evolution, politics, nature, ethics, women's emancipation, and evaluates the influence of freethought in the Western world as of the 1890's. Putnam was a highly accomplished and prolific writer and poet, easy to follow yet often profound. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC) (19 hr 33 min)

Chapters

Proem (Preface) - The Past - Bruno; The Present - Ingersoll; and The Future - T…

7:55

Read by Michele Fry

I. Introduction

14:28

Read by Michele Fry

II. The Three Voyages - Columbus, Vasco de Gama, and Magellan

20:33

Read by Rita Boutros

III. Before Columbus

26:37

Read by Rita Boutros

IV. Astronomy

16:22

Read by Harley James

V. The Reformation

8:20

Read by Larry Wilson

VI.1 Philosophy: Bruno

24:51

Read by Larry Wilson

VI.2 Philosophy: Spinoza

18:05

Read by Larry Wilson

VII.1 Minor Philosophers: Pomponazzi

32:16

Read by Rita Boutros

VII.2 Minor Philosophers: Telesio, Campanella, Vanini

16:09

Read by Cbteddy

VIII.1 The Critical Philosophy: Descartes, Hobbs & Locke

14:42

Read by Michele Fry

VIII.2 The Critical Philosophy: Hume & Kant

25:44

Read by Ted Lienhart

VIII.3 The Critical Philosophy: Hamilton

21:23

Read by Ted Lienhart

VIII.4 The Critical Philosophy: Comte

22:01

Read by Tessa Adler

IX. The Final Scientific Answer - Monism

33:34

Read by Rita Boutros

X.1 Education and Ethics: Bacon

32:04

Read by Kari Burns

X.2 Education and Ethics: Comenius, Pestalozzi

15:26

Read by Rita Boutros

X.3 Education and Ethics: Froebel & Combe

15:22

Read by Ted Lienhart

X.4 Education and Ethics: Herbert Spencer & Huxley

21:34

Read by Ted Lienhart

X.5 Education and Ethics: Holyoake

20:44

Read by Rita Boutros

X.6 Education and Ethics: Owen & Haeckel

23:37

Read by Ted Lienhart

XI.1 Literature: Provencal

22:25

Read by Ted Lienhart

XI.2 Literature: Rabelais, Montaigne & Cervantes

13:30

Read by jenno

XI.3 Literature:Mysteries and Moralities, Marlow

19:08

Read by Kari Burns

XI.4 Literature: Shakespere

26:10

Read by Kari Burns

XII Gibbon

43:52

Read by Ted Lienhart

XIII.1 Voltaire

21:31

Read by JFSmoyer

XIII.2 How Voltaire Died

32:53

Read by JFSmoyer

XIII.3 Rousseau, Diderot, the Paris Salon

30:37

Read by C. B. Seyfarth

XIII.4 The French Revolution

18:59

Read by Tatiana Chichilla

XIII.5 Thomas Paine

31:30

Read by Kari Burns

XIII.6 Condorcet, Volney

11:35

Read by KevinS

XIV.1 Shelley-Goethe Era

24:10

Read by Michele Fry

XIV.2 Shakesperean Era (Homer, Virgil & Milton)

32:56

Read by Kari Burns

XIV.3 Modern Poets (Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Keats, Byron, Lessing, Schiller &…

32:46

Read by Michele Fry

XV. Geology - Age of Man; Age of Earth; Order of Evolution

23:52

Read by Harley James

XVI.1 Evolution - What is Evolution?

27:27

Read by Rita Boutros

XVI.2 Evolution - Methods & Proofs

28:07

Read by Rita Boutros

XVI.3 Evolution - Results - Religion - Morality, Progress

36:42

Read by Rita Boutros

XVII.1 Modern Europe - Politics (Kossuth, Mazzini)

22:42

Read by Ted Lienhart

XVII.2 Modern Europe - Politics (Garibaldi & Proudhon)

20:41

Read by Ted Lienhart

XVII.3 Modern Europe - Politics (Bakounine, Marx, Lassalle & Gambetta)

22:28

Read by Ted Lienhart

XVII.4 Modern Europe - Politics (Oasteler & Bradlaugh)

15:56

Read by Ted Lienhart

XVIII.1 Modern European Literature: Realism (Tennyson & Swinburne)

17:22

Read by Beeswaxcandle

XVIII.2 Modern European Literature: France and Scandanavia: (Massey, Hugo, Zola…

11:08

Read by Beeswaxcandle

XVIII.3 Modern European Literature: Russia (Pushkin, Gogol, Turgeneff, Tolstoi …

7:47

Read by Beeswaxcandle

XVIII.4 Modern European Literature: Science and Philosophy (Huxley, Tyndale, Mi…

10:13

Read by Beeswaxcandle

XIX.1 America Before the Civil War - Paine and Jefferson

23:22

Read by Michele Fry

XIX.2 America Before the Civil War - William Lloyd Garrison

11:29

Read by Michele Fry

XIX.3 America Before the Civil War - Freethought (Bryant, Poe, Thoreau & Emerso…

11:02

Read by Michele Fry

XX.1 Woman's Emancipation - the Bible, the Church, the State - Before Christian…

20:32

Read by Rita Boutros

XX.2 Woman's Emancipation - Woman Herself

30:22

Read by Rita Boutros

XXI.1 America Today - Inside Christianity

22:17

Read by Tatiana Chichilla

XXI.2 America Today - Outside Christianity; Walt Whitman

3:43

Read by Phil Chenevert

XX1.3 America Today - Outside Christianity; Ingersoll

12:28

Read by Tatiana Chichilla