RATIONALIST LECTURE
"You can burn the man, but yoii cnnnot burn the thought," said the Nev. J. H. Chappie in .'i lecture on the Martyr Bruno delivered under the auspices of tlio Rationalist Association in tlics Strand Theatre on Sunday. In giving nn outlitie of the life and work of Bruno, the speaker said that his was an age of doubt the age of Erasmus* Montaigne and Cervantes, which had been the beginning of science as we knew it to-day. Bruno was the horn Id of the renaissance. He said that today the world faced another crisis in history and the datvn of a now renaissance.' He appealed to his hearers to doubt established ideas and think for themselves 4
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22975, 1 March 1938, Page 16
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