Celebration of Humanism and Freethought

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested." — Francis Bacon

Bacon's memorable insight is specially significant when applied to the wide range of works by some of the world's most renowned writers, poets, philosophers, and intellectuals-men and women whose determination to espouse and defend the cause of humanism and freethought, interpreted broadly, has given us a well-endowed repository of the wisdom of the ages.

In A Celebration of Humanism and...