“Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.”

Daily News (18 February 1905)

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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