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Annie Besant
Is the Bible Indictable?
Being an Enquiry Whether the Bible Comes Within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature

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In the 1870s, firebrand activist Annie Besant and her friend Charles Bradlaugh made the risky decision to republish an American book called The Fruits of Philosophy, which includes frank discussions of sexual intimacy and rudimentary birth-control methods, in Britain. The two were prosecuted on charges of obscenity. In this wittily incisive essay, Besant applies the extremely broad criteria used to judge that work as obscene to the Bible.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 17 ● ISBN 9781776537341 ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3242562 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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