Sep 17
Marquis de Condorcet (1743) It was on this date, September 17, 1743, that French mathematician and political philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, was born in Ribemont, Picardy, France. His father died early, so his mother, a very devout woman, had Condorcet educated at Jesuit Colleges in Reims and at the Collège …
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Jun 27
Augustus de Morgan was a Theist with an ethical appreciation of Christianity. He described himself as an “unattached Christian,” and refused to join even the Unitarian Church.
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May 18
“Christian religion … has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. … Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.”
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