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Freethought Review, Volume II, Issue 13, 1 October 1884, Page 12

The Swansea town council after having a few weeks before given permission to the bands to play in the parks on Sunday, have been induced to reverse their decision. The police reported as to the improved conduct of the lower classes while the bands were playing. A,strange argument against the bands was adduced by the Rev. Dr. Morgan to the effect that the Salvation Army have been tremendously injured. This to most people would have rather been a recommendation than otherwise. Tourguenef, according to the ‘ Freidenkcr,’ was in youth an Hegelian, but ultimately became an agnostic. Thus ho did not deny that life after death is possible, but declared openly that it did not attract him, but, on the contrary, seemed terrible. “ What should Ido through all eternity f he used to say. c< How could I till up this incomprehensible abyss 1 Is my petty personality worthy of becoming eternal 1 How I could live without a body, I cannot imagine.” At the third annual meeting of the Freethought League of Germany, Dr. Ludwig Buchner, who presided, delivered an address on the Woman Question, in which he maintained that woman should stand equal with man in rights and opportunities. The ‘ Radical Review,’ referring to a report of the meeting printed in a German paper says : “The lecture was well received, and several other speakers emphasized it as the special duty of Freethinkers to help woman in her hard struggle for better conditions of life. And yet the great mass of women stand aloof from Freethinkers, and side with the Christians, who, to use the language of one of the prominent English journals, say that ‘ to marry, to bear children, to be mistresses of families, to give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil, to learn in silence with all subjection, such arc St. Raul’s precepts of the gentler sex.”