Rationalist Press Association
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The Rationalist Press Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom, founded on 26 May 1899 to promote freedom of thought and inquiry and the principles of rationalism, 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'.
From 1929 until 1951, the R.P.A. published, through Watts & Co. the groundbreaking Thinker's Library series of books.
The RPA publishes the quarterly New Humanist magazine.
Bibliography
- Cooke, Bill (2003). The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association. London, Rationalist Press Association. ISBN 0301003025
- Gould, F.J. (1929). The Pioneers of Johnson's Court. London, Watts & Co.
- Whyte, Adam Gowans (1949). The Story of the R.P.A. 1899-1949. London, Watts & Co.
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