INDEX.

Affirmation Bill brought in, 287

rejected, 299

Atheist, position as an, 139

Authorship, first attempts at, 84.

Bennett, D.M., prosecution of, 232

Blasphemy prosecution, 283, 287, 289

Blavatsky, H.P., 189, 337

meeting with, 341

"Bloody Sunday," 324

Bradlaugh, Charles, first meeting with, 135

as friend, 137

in the Clock Tower, 258

and the scene in the House, 265

v. Newdegate; result, 289

prosecuted for blasphemy, 283, 289

Confirmation, 51

Daughter, application to remove, 213

denied access to, 219

Death of father, 21

of mother, 126

Doubt the first, 58

"Elements of Social Science," 196

Engagement, 69

Essay, first Freethought, 113

Fenians, the, 73

Freethinker prosecution, 283, 287, 296

Freethought Publishing Company, the, 285

Harrow, life at, 30

Hoskyns, Rev. E., libel action against, 359

Knowlton pamphlet, the, 205

prosecution, 208

trial, 210

"Law of Population, The," 212, 210

"Law and Liberty League," the, 326

Lecture, the first, 181

Linnell, the Trafalgar Square victim, 316

funeral of, 327

Link, founding of the, 331

Malthusian League formed, 229

Malthusianism and Theosophy, 240

Marriage, 70

tie broken, no

Match-girls' strike, 335

Union, established, 336

National Reformer, the, 134

first contribution to, 180

resignation of co-editorship, 320

National Secular Society joined, 135

elected vice-president of, 202

resignation of, 357

Northampton Election, 183

struggle, 253, 344

Oaths Bill, the, 314, 329

Our Corner, 286, 314

Political Opinions, 174

Pusey, Dr., 109, 284

Russian politics, 311

Scientific work, 249

School Board, election to, 338

Scott, Thomas, 112, 127

Socialism, 299

debate on, between Messrs. Bradlaugh and Hyndman, 301

Socialist debates, 318, 319

Socialists and open-air speaking, 312

Defence Association, 323

Stanley, Dean, 23, 122

Theosophical Society, the, 180

joined, 344

headquarters established, 361

Theosophy and Charles Bradlaugh, 350

the National Secular Society, 357

Trafalgar Square, closing of, to the public, 323

Truelove, Edward, trial of, 225

Voysey, Rev. Charles, 106

Working Women's Club, 337, 360