Lucretius -- Sebastian Castellio -- Giordano Bruno -- John Locke -- Voltaire -- David Hume -- Thomas Paine -- Thomas Jefferson -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- John Stuart Mill -- Charles Robert Darwin -- Abraham Lincoln -- Edward FitzGerald -- Margaret Fuller -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- George Eliot -- Matthew Arnold -- Robert G. Ingersoll -- Samuel Clemens -- John Burroughs -- William James -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Clarence Darrow -- Jane Addams -- Bertrand Russell -- Margaret Sanger.
Summary
"The men and women who appear in this book were infidels in the sense that their religious views did not agree with the requirements of the orthodox religion dominating their respective societies."--Dust jacket.