"Truth is not always fair, or soft of speech, Nor can all minds grasp all that it can teach; But if despised, by men rejected now, The future's dawn illuminates its brow."
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The Atheist (1919), p. 32
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George Bedborough
1868 – 1940
(1868 – 1940) was an English bookseller, journalist and writer who advocated for a number of causes, including sex reform, freethought, secularism, animal rights, vegetarianism, and free love. He was the secretary of the Legitimation League and editor of the League's publication The Adult: A Journal for the Advancement of freedom in Sexual Relationships. Bedborough was convicted for obscenity in 1898, after being caught selling a book on homosexuality; the case of Regina v. Bedborough, has also
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