Inventing Secularism

Anthony McIntyre 🔖 writing in Being Human, a new humanist magazine, reviews a book on a prominent secularist.George Holyoake, through a mixture of persistence and privation, became a standout figure in the twin traditions of humanism and secularism in the 19th Century. In the 125th anniversary year of Humanists UK, the body has been keen to promote Holyoake whom it describes as “a towering