They are the freethinkers of the unlettered classes, however, and their ideas no doubt have some influence in preparing these classes for socialist principles.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Some of his disciples, however, became freethinkers in the technical sense, and held that revelation was needless, and that in point of fact no supernatural revelation had been made.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The work I have undertaken will, I trust, do something to show how many of the world's worthiest men and women have been freethinkers.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler