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Joseph McCabe (1867–1955)

See biography. English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a priest earlier in his life.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Big Blue Books 1.2 Little Blue Books 1.3 Collaborations 1.4 Magazine articles 1.5 Translations 1.6 Works about McCabe

[edit] Works

• From Rome to Rationalism, or: why I left the Church (1896)
• Twelve Years in a Monastery (1897)
• Modern Rationalism: a Sketch of the Progress of the Rationalist Spirit In the 19th Century (1897)
• Life in a Modern Monastery (1898)
• Religion of the 20th Century (1899)
• Peter Abélard (1901) [1]
• Saint Augustine and His Age (1902) [2]
• The Riddle Vindicated: Haeckel's Critics Answered (1903)
• Church Discipline: An Ethical Study of the Church of Rome (1903) [3]
• The Religion of Woman: An Historical Study (an introduction by Lady Florence Dixie; 1905) [4]
• Truth About Secular Education: Its History and Results (1906)
• A Hundred Years of Educational Controversy (1907)
• Talleyrand: A Biographical Study (1907) [5]
• The Bible in Europe: An Inquiry Into the Contribution of the Christian Religion to Civilization (1907) [6]
• Life and Letters of George Jacob Holyoake (1908) [7]
• The Martyrdom of Ferrer: Being a True Account of His Life and Work (1909)
• Woman in Political Evolution (1909)
• Evolution: a General Sketch from Nebula to Man (1909) [8]
• The Iron Cardinal (1909)
• The Decay of the Church of Rome (1910) [9]
• The Evolution of Mind (1910) [10]
• The Empresses of Rome (1911) [11]
• Goethe: The Man and His Character (1912) [12]
• The Story of Evolution (1912)
• The Existence of God. The Inquirer's Library 1. (1913)
• A Candid History of the Jesuits (1913) [13]
• Empresses of Constantinople (1913?)
• George Bernard Shaw: A Critical Study (1914) [14]
• The Religion of Sir Oliver Lodge (1914)
• The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels (1914)
• Treitschke and the Great War (1914) [15]
• The Soul of Europe: A Character Study of Militant Nations (1915) [16]
• The Kaiser: His Personality and Career (1915) [17]
• The War and the Churches (1915) [18]
• Crises in the History of the Papacy: A Study of 20 Famous Popes Whose Careers and Whose Influence Were Important in the Development of the Church and in the History of the World (1916) [19]
• The Influence of the Church on Marriage and Divorce (1916)
• The Tyranny of Shams (1916) [[20]]
• The Bankruptcy of Religion (1917) [21]
• The Pope's Favorite (1917)
• The Growth of Religion: A Study of its Origin and Development (1918) [22]
• The Popes and their Church: A Candid Account (1918) [23] [24]
• Georges Clemenceau, France's Grand Old Man: His Life and Opinions (1919)
• The Church and the People (1919) [25]
• A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (1920)
• Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud?: The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined (1920) [26]
• Robert Owen (1920)
• The ABC of Evolution (1920) [27]
• The End of the World (see Little Blue Book 144 with same title; 1921)
• The Evolution of Civilization (1921) [28]
• George Jacob Holyoake (1922) [29]
• Ice Ages: The Story of the Earth's Revolutions (1922) [30]
• A New Creed for a New World. Delivered in the Centennial Hall, Brisbane, on Tuesday, June 5, 1923. (1923)
• The Twilight of the Gods (1923)
• The Wonders of the Stars (1923)
• The Marvels of Modern Physics (1925)
• The Triumph of Evolution (1925)
• 1825 to 1925: A Century of Stupendous Progress (1926)
• Truth About the Catholic Church (1926)
• Science Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1927)
• The Key to Culture (1927) - Renewal R140033 (1927-1929)
• Debunking the Lourdes Miracles and Other Articles (1928)
• The Story Of Religious Controversy (1929) [31]
• The Key to Love and Sex (1929)
• The True Story of the Roman Catholic Church (in six double volumes, 1930-31).
• The New Science and the Story of Evolution (1931; The Story of Evolution (1912) rewritten)
• One Hundred Men Who Moved the World: Character Sketches of the Greatest Creative Forces of History (1931)
• Spain in Revolt (1931)
• An Outline of Today's Knowledge: Important Truths of Modern Science and History (1932)
• A Book of Popular Superstitions: A Study of Man's Capacity for Wrong Beliefs (1932)
• Can We Save Civilization? (1932)
• Edward Clodd: A Memoir (1932)
• The Story of the World's Oldest Profession: Prostitution in the Ancient, Medieval and Modern Worlds (1932)
• Great Ideas Made Simple: Help in Clearing up Ideas on Science, Philosophy, Literature (1934)
• Mr. G.K. Chesterton as an Historical Oracle (1934)
• Rhythm Method of Natural Birth Control (1934)
• The Riddle of the Universe Today (1934)
• The Social Record of Christianity. Thinker's Library 51. (1935)
• The Splendor of Moorish Spain (1935)
• Is The Position Of Atheism Growing Stronger? (1936)
• The Freethinker's Library (1936)
• A History of the Popes (1939) [32]
• A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers (1945)
• The History of Flagellation, 1946
• Eighty Years a Rebel; Autobiography. (1947)
• The Lies and Fallacies of the Encyclopedia Britannica; How Powerful and Shameless Clerical Forces Castrated a Famous Work of Reference (1947) [33]
• A Rationalist Encyclopædia: A Book of Reference, On Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science. (1948)
• Luther Burbank Speaks Out [34]
• The Romance of the Romanoffs [35]
• The Taint in Politics: A Study in the Evolution of Parliamentary Corruption [36]
• The Golden Ages of History [37]
• Spiritualism: A Popular History from 1847 [38]
• Life and Letters of George Jacob Holyoake (is this the same as above?) [39] [40]
• Prehistoric Man
• Principles of Evolution
• In the Shade of the Cloister
• Shakespeare and Goethe
• Origin of Life

[edit] Big Blue Books

• The Absurdities of the Christian Religion. The Freethinker's Library.
• The Ancient World: Sketches of Hammurabi, Confucius, Buddha, Cyrus, Mencius and Astoka. Big Blue Book 22. (1931)
• The Artistic Sterility of the Church [41]
• Atheist Russia Shakes the World: How the Wicked Bolsheviks Are to Save Our Christian Civilization. The Black International 9. (1941) [42]
• The Bloody Story of Anti-Semitism Down the Ages: A Few Friendly Counsels of a Freethinker to the Members of Our Three Great Religions. Big Blue Books B-584. (1947)
• The Catholic Church and the Sex Problem: The Stupidity, Futility, and Insolence of Its Ethic. Big Blue Books B-812. (1949)
• The Changing Morals of Today: Study of Modern Life and Literature. A History of Human Morals XII.
• The Church Defies Modern Life: One Sound Catholic Boast--We Never Change. The Black International 15. (1941) [43]
• The Church the Enemy of the Workers: Rome is the Natural Ally of All Exploiters. The Black International 14. (1941) [44]
• The Columbia Encyclopedia's Crimes Against the Truth. Big Blue Book B-939. (1951) [45]
• The Complete Story of Philosophy: A Primer for Everyman of the Entire History of Philosophy. The Key to Culture 36.
• A Critical Review of the Latest Claims That Are Supposed to Give Validity to the Idea of God. The Freethinker's Library. (1936)
• Dawn of the Era of Accomplishment: Sketches of Lincoln, Wagner, Darwin, Ibsen, Renan and Spencer. Big Blue Books 37. (1931)
• Dawn of the Era of Accomplishment: Sketches of Nietzsche, Pasteur, Haeckel, Burbank and Anatole France. Big Blue Books 38. (1931)
• The Dawn of the Modern Spirit: Sketches of Gibbon, Kant, Adam Smith, Washington, Mirabeau and Paine. Big Blue Books 33. (1931)
• The Dawn of the Modern Spirit: Sketches of Jefferson, Goethe, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Watt and Beethoven. Big Blue Books 34. (1931)
• The Dawn of the Modern Spirit: Sketches of Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Aranda, Franklin and Diderot. Big Blue Books 32. (1931)
• Does Atheism Rest Its Case on Logic? The Freethinker's Library 9. (1936)
• Fascist Romanism Defies Civilization: How the Pope Keeps to the Plot While the World Curses It. The Black International 10. (1941) [46]
• The Final Struggle: Sketches of Napoleon, Byron, Shelley, Bolivar, and Robert Owen. Big Blue Books 35. (1931)
• The Final Struggle: Sketches of Pushkin, Mazzini, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Carlyle and Heine. Big Blue Books 36. (1931)
• The Fruits of Romanism: The Catholic Church Does Far More Harm Than Good. The Black International 19. (1941) [47]
• The Futility of Basic Religious Ideas (1938)
• A Graphic Account of the History of America. The Key To Culture 22. (1928)
• The Greco-Roman Civilization: Sketches of Epicurus, Ptolemy, Julius Caesar, the Emperor Hadrian, Galen and Theodoric. Big Blue Books 24. (after 1931)
• Hitler Dupes the Vatican: How the Papacy Was Sold in Austria and Sold Civilization in Czecho-Slovakia. The Black International 5. (1941)
• The History and Meaning of the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books (1931)
• A History of Satanism: Telling How the Devil Was Born, How He Came to Be Worshipped as a God, and How He Died. Big Blue Books B-763. (1948)
• The Holy Faith of the Romanists: How Catholics Are Hypnotized about Their Weird Creed. The Black International 16. (1941)
• How the Faith is Protected [48]
• How the Pope of Peace Traded in Blood: The Red Pope. The Black International 2. (1941) [49] [50]
• Important Facts about the Great Modern Writers: All the Notable Writers from about 1750 to the End of the Nineteenth Century. The Key to Culture 30. (1928)
• Important Facts about the Great Writers of Antiquity: The Literature of Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Etc. The Key to Culture 28. (1928)
• Important Facts about the Great Writers of the Middle Ages. The Key To Culture 29.
• Is the Philosophy of Dialectical Materialism out of Date? The Freethinker's Library 4. (1936)
• The Life Story of Robert Owen: The Story of a Great and Naive Man Who Used His Life and Spent His Fortune in Furthering Every Social Crusade of His Time. Big Blue Books B-682. (1948)
• A Manual of Human Morality: A Complete Summary of Theories of Ethics and Laws of Behavior. The Key to Culture 37. (1928)
• The Meaning of Existentialism: The New Philosophy, Founded by Sartre, That Has Made Quick Progress among the Volatile Young Men of Paris' Latin Quarter. (1946)
• The Middle Ages: Sketches of Abelard, Saladin, Frederic the Second, Roger Bacon, Danta and Giotto. Big Blue Books 26. (after 1931)
• The Middle Ages: Sketches of Boccaccio, Gutenberg, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Columbus and Copernicus. Big Blue Books 27. (after 1931)
• The Middle Ages: Sketches of Tai-Tsung, the Caliph Muavia, Lintprand, Charlemagne, Abd-al-Rhaman III and Otto the Great. Big Blue Books 25. (after 1931)
• The Moral Life of China and India: An Outline of Their Lives from Early Days to Recent Times. A History of Human Morals VII.
• Morality in the Nineteenth Century: The Development of Modern Puritanism. A History of Human Morals XI.
• Morals Among the Greeks and Romans: Candid Account of Virtue and Vice in the Greco-Roman World. Big Blue Books B-486.
• Morals in the Arab-Persian Civilization. Big Blue Books B-488.
• Morals of the Ancient World: Ideas and Practices in Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Judea. Big Blue Books B-484.
• The Morals of the Savage: Weird Moral Ideas and Practices of Man in a State of Mental Childhood. Big Blue Books B-483.
• Phallic Ancient Civilizations and the Cult of Love: Survey of the Civilized Area in Which Sex Ethic Was Unknown. Big Blue Books B-485.
• The Pious Traitors of Belgium and France: How the Preaching of Peace Fizzled Out, and Why. The Black International 7. (1941) [51]
• The Pope and the Italian Jackal: How Mussolini's Invincible Legions Were Blessed. The Black International 8. (1941) [52]
• The Pope Helps Hitler to World-Power: How the Cross Courted the Swastika for Eight Years. The Black International 3. (1941) [53]
• Reason or Faith—Which Shall Prevail? The Freethinker's Library 6. (1936)
• The Reformation: Sketches of Wycliffe, John Hus, Erasmus, Luther and Richelieu. Big Blue Books 28. (after 1931)
• The Return of Humanism: Sketches of Francis Bacon, Descartes, Cromwell, Moliere and Milton. Big Blue Books 30. (1931)
• The Return of Humanism: Sketches of Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Bruno, Shakespeare and Galileo. Big Blue Books 29. (1931)
• The Return of Humanism: Sketches of Spinoza, Newton, Peter the Great, Locke, Montesquieu, and Frederick the Great. Big Blue Books 31. (1931)
• Rome Irreconcilable With Democracy: The Goebbelisms of American Catholic Writers. (1946)
• Rome Puts a Blight on Culture: The Roman Church the Poorest in Culture and Richest in Crime. The Black International 13. (1941) [54]
• Rome's Syllabus of Condemned Opinions: The Last Blast Of The Catholic Church's Medieval Trumpet. Big Blue Book B-878. [55] (1950)
• The Story of Economic Ideals in Man's Social Status: The History of Economic Theories. The Key to Culture 25. (1928)
• The Story of Human Social Ideals: The History of All That Man Has Hoped for and Desired in Social Reform. The Key to Culture 27. (1928)
• The Strange Civilizations of China and India: Asiatic Culture Personified in Buddha and Confucius. The Key To Culture 18.
• The Totalitarian Church of Rome: Its Fueher, Its Gauleiter, Its Gestapo, and Its Money-Box. The Black International 11. (1941) [56]
• The Tyranny of the Clerical Gestapo: Catholics the Most Priest-Ridden of All People. The Black International 12. (1941) [57]
• The Vatican Buries International Law: How Mussolini and the Yellow Brother Got Their Share. The Black International 4. (1941) [58]
• The Vatican's Last Crime: How the Black International Joined the World-Plot Against Freedom, Liberalism, and Democracy. The Black International 1. (1941) [59] [60]
• The War and Papal Intrigue: How the New Pope Talked Peace and Worked for War. The Black International 6. (1941) [61]
• The Wonderful Greco-Roman World: Sketches of Thales, Pericles, Pheidias, Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno. Big Blue Books 23. (1931)
• The Wonders of Ancient Egypt and Babylon (1928) - Renewal R148236
• Would a Godless World Make for Social Progress or Decline? The Freethinker's Library 10. (1936)
• Writers of Today and Their Message to the World. The Key to Culture 31. (1928)

[edit] Little Blue Books

Some Little Blue Books can be found in the "Collaborations" section.

[edit] Collaborations

• Can We Disarm? (1899; with Georges Darien) [62]
• Joseph McCabe and G.W. De Tunzelmann. Report of a Debate on Theism and the Problem of the Universe, at Essex Hall, London, W.C., Monday, November 29, 1909. With a preface and footnotes by the opener of the debate. (1910)
• Joseph McCabe and W.T. Lee. Christianity and Secularism: Which Is the Better for Mankind? Verbatim report of two nights' debate between Mr. W.T. Lee and Mr. Joseph McCabe. Held at the Town Hall, Holborn, on Thursday and Friday evenings, March 9 and 10, 1911. (1911) [63]
• Joseph McCabe and C.J. Shebbeare. Design Argument Reconsidered. A Discussion between the Rev. C.J. Shebbeare and Joseph McCabe. (1923; also Revelation of God in Nature: a Discussion between Rev. C.J. Shebbeare and Joseph McCabe)
• Joseph McCabe and George McCready Price. Is Evolution True? Verbatim report of debate between George McCready Price, M.A., and Joseph McCabe. Held at the Queen's Hall, Langham Place, London, W., on September 6, 1925 (Earl Russell in the chair) (1925)
• Joseph McCabe and Carlyle Summerbell. Has the Universe a God? The great debate between Rev. Carlyle Summerbell, D.D., and Joseph McCabe. Held in the Auditorium Recital Hall, Chicago, Sunday afternoon, October 18, 1925. (1925)
• Joseph McCabe's Magazine (July 1, 1930 – May 1, 1931. Vols. 1–3, 21 nos.)
• Appeal to Reason Library (1935)
• Little Blue Books (1926-1934)

• Little Blue Book 122. Joseph McCabe and Conan Doyle. Debate on Spiritualism. (1920)
• Little Blue Book 1125 Joseph McCabe, N.A. Crawford, B. Russell, M. Fishbein, J.V. Nash, M.A. De Ford and E.T. Brewster. A Book of American Shams.
• Little Blue Book 1262 Joseph McCabe and G.M. Price. Is Evolution True? Is Evolution, as a Process, Substantiated by Facts?
• Little Blue Book 1730 Joseph McCabe and E. Haldeman-Julius. How Man Made God.

[edit] Magazine articles

• The Church of Spain, 1911 article in Fra Magazine

[edit] Translations

• The Source of the Christian Tradition: a Critical History of Ancient Judaism (by Édouard Dujardin; 1881) [64]
• The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (by Ernst Haeckel; 1901)[65]
• Last Words on Materialism and Kindred Subjects (by Ludwig Buchner; 1901)
• The Wonders of Life; a popular study of biological philosophy (by Ernst Haeckel; 1905)
• Darwinism and the Problem of Life: A Study of Familiar Animal Life (by Conrad Guenther; 1906; translated from the third German edition) [66]
• Last Words on Evolution; a popular retrospect and summary (by Ernst Haeckel; 1906)
• The Rise of Christianity (by Albert Kalthoff; 1907) [67]
• Napoleon's Men and Methods (by Alexander Lange Kielland; 1908) [68]
• The Evolution of Man: a Popular Scientific Study (by Ernst Haeckel; 1910)
• Toleration and Other Essays (by Voltaire; 1912; translated and with an introduction by McCabe)
• The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus (by Arthur Drews; 1912)
• The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School (by Francisco Ferrer; 1913) [69] [70]
• An Introduction to Philosophy (by Wilhelm Windelband; 1921) [71]
• Rudolf Eucken: His Life, Work, and Travels (by Rudolf Eucken; 1921)
• The Argentine Republic, its development and progress (by Pierre Denis; 1922) [72]
• Degeneration in the Great French Masters, Rousseau—Chateaubriand—Balzac—Stendhal—Sand—Musset—Baudelaire—Flaubert—Verlaine—Zola (by Jean Carrere; 1922) [73]
• Einstein and the Universe; a popular exposition of the famous theory (by Charles Nordmann; 1922) [74]
• Socialism: An Analysis (by Rudolf Eucken; 1922)
• Leopold I of Belgium: Secret Pages of European History (Edon Caesar Corti; 1923)
• The Prince de Ligne, a gay Marshal of the old regime; (by Oscar Paul Gilbert; 1923) [75]
• The Theory of Social Economy, by Author:Gustav Cassell
• A History of Romania, 1925 translation of the book by Author:Nicolae Iorga

[edit] Works about McCabe

• Talks with Joseph McCabe, and Other Confidential Sketches (by Marcet Haldeman-Julius; 1931)
• Joseph McCabe: Fighter for Freethought. Fifty Years on the Rationalist Front (by Isaac Goldberg; 1936) [76]

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