American Freethinker
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer, who was at the heart of the early United States'' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech
When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world: t...
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer, who was at the heart of the early United States'' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech
When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world: t...
