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"Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race." <br> |
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"Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically." <ref>{{cite web|title=Truth Seeker Journal|author=Truth Seeker Company. (ISSN 0041-3712) |url=http://www.truthseeker.com/journals.htm}}</ref> ''Truth Seeker'' was extreme for its times, and it persists to this day though in self-resuscitating form. |
"Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically." <ref>{{cite web|title=Truth Seeker Journal|author=Truth Seeker Company. (ISSN 0041-3712) |url=http://www.truthseeker.com/journals.htm}}</ref> ''Truth Seeker'' was extreme for its times, and it persists to this day though in self-resuscitating form. |
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D.M. Bennett is interred at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]. His monument, erected by his fellow freethinkers, is covered with his statements. |
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Bennett was the subject of the biography ''D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker'' (2006) by Roderick Bradford and a 2009 documentary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Truth Seeker D. M. Bennett|url=http://www.theosophyforward.com/index.php/theosophy-and-the-society-in-the-public-eye/152-truth-seeker-d-m-bennett.html}}</ref> |
Bennett was the subject of the biography ''D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker'' (2006) by Roderick Bradford and a 2009 documentary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Truth Seeker D. M. Bennett|url=http://www.theosophyforward.com/index.php/theosophy-and-the-society-in-the-public-eye/152-truth-seeker-d-m-bennett.html}}</ref> |
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* [http://vimeo.com/10514808 D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker] (2009) - 1 hour video documentary by Roderick Bradford |
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* [http://www.truthseeker.com/journals.htm ''The Truth Seeker''] |
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* [http://www.green-wood.com/burial_results/index.php Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Search] |
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DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (December 23, 1818 – December 6, 1882) was the founder and publisher of Truth Seeker, a radical freethought and reform American periodical.[1] Bennett was a devout member of the Shakers for 13 years before evolving into a "freethinker", founding the Truth Seeker newspaper in 1873.[2] In 1878, Bennett wrote that "Jesuism", rather than Pauline Christianity, was the gospel taught by Peter, John and James.[3]
On 1 September 1873, D.M. and M.W. Bennett released the first tabloid edition of the Truth Seeker. Its masthead announced its purpose as follows:
"Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race."
"Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically." [4] Truth Seeker was extreme for its times, and it persists to this day though in self-resuscitating form.
D.M. Bennett is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. His monument, erected by his fellow freethinkers, is covered with his statements.
Bennett was the subject of the biography D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker (2006) by Roderick Bradford and a 2009 documentary.[5]
Obscenity Prosecution
United States Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock had Bennett arrested on December 10, 1878, for mailing Cupid's Yokes, a free-love pamphlet. Bennett was prosecuted, subjected to a widely publicized trial, and imprisoned in the Albany Penitentiary.
References
- Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure by Jeffrey I. Richman
- ^ "D. M. Bennett". findagrave.com.
- ^ Roderick Bradford. "D. M. Bennett".
- ^ D. M. Bennett. The Champions of the Church: Their crimes and persecutions. p. 84.
The Progress of Jesuism
- ^ Truth Seeker Company. (ISSN 0041-3712). "Truth Seeker Journal".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Truth Seeker D. M. Bennett".
Further reading
- Bradford, Roderick (2006). D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker (New York: Prometheus Books). ISBN 1-59102-430-7
- Jacoby, Susan (2004). Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (New York: Metropolitan Books). ISBN 0-8050-7442-2
External links
- D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker (2009) - 1 hour video documentary by Roderick Bradford
- The Truth Seeker
- Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Search