Blasphemy in Victorian Britain? Foote and the Freethinker. (George William Foote, editor of The Freethinker) From: History Today | Date: October 1, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The Freethinker is a British publication that gained a notorious reputation under founder and editor, George William Foote. He used cartoons to attract readers to the publication, but its content was considered blasphemous by British law. Foote went out of his way to create controversy.

In the aftermath of one of the most famous brushes with the religious laws of England, George William Foote concluded by way of a pyrrhic victory that `Blasphemy is entirely a matter of opinion. What is blasphemy in one country is piety in another. Progress tends to reduce it from a crime to an affair of ...

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