A Texas Freethought Reader

A TEXAS FREETHOUGHT READER, a companion to GUIDED by REASON: The GOLDEN AGE of FREETHOUGHT in TEXAS, is a collection of some of the best, previously "lost" free thought literature produced by four of the most intelligent, articulate Texas freethinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jasper M. Gilbert, Chas. H. Jones, Thomas Volney Munson, and James Dickson Shaw. As relevant today as when it was originally written, this selection of articles, essays, and letters calls into question the veracity of one of humankind's most enduring myths and appeals to people everywhere, for the sake of the planet, to abandon ancient superstitions, unsupported by evidence, in favor of reason, rationality, and the scientific method.