THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION, 



LIMITED. 



Registered Office— 11, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 



Leslie Stephen 

 Edward Clodd 

 J. M. Robertson 

 Stanton Coit 



Chairman : 

 George Jacob Holyoake. 



Honorary Associates: 



Emile Zola 

 Ernst Haeckel 

 W. C. Coupland 

 W. E. W. Sullivan 



Ed. Wester jiarck 

 Paul Carus 

 F. J. Gould 

 J. G. R. Forlono 



This Association is a Company Limited by Guarantee, and not having 

 a Capital divided into Shares. It was formally incorporated in 1899 

 under the Companies' Acts in order to give the fullest security that 

 money subscribed or bequeathed to its funds shall be used for certain 

 specified purposes. The chief of these, as set forth in the Memo- 

 randum of Association, are the following : — 



To stimulate freedom of thought and inquiry in reference to 

 ethics, theology, philosophy, and kindred subjects. 



To promote a secular system of education, the main object of 

 which shall be to cultivate in the young moral and intellectual 

 fitness for social life. 



To publish and distribute, either gratuitously or otherwise, 



books, pamphlets, and periodicals designed to assist in the 



spread of Rationalist principles, especially in their bearing on 

 human conduct. Rationalism may be defined as the mental 

 attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and 

 aims at establishing a system of philosophy and ethics verifiable by 

 experience and independent of all arbitrary assumptions or 

 authority. 



The Rationalist Press Association, Limited, is not a financial or 

 commercial venture, but exists to promote what its members and sup- 

 porters regard as the true moral and intellectual interests of humanity. 

 As its name indicates, it most immediate object is the encouragement 

 of Rationalist literature — of literature which the organised forces of 



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