George Jacob Holyoake

George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906) was an active English propagandist of advanced social theories and a secularist, born at Birmingham. He lived a busy life as an agitator, lecturing and writing. He espoused the cause of Garibaldi, edited the Reasoner. He was the last man to be imprisoned in England on a charge of atheism (1841). He was a zealous supporter of co-operation and all movements making for the betterment of the social condition of the working-classes. His numerous works embrace a valuable "History of Co-operation in England," "The Limits of Atheism," "Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life," &c. He is credited for coining the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878.

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