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An opportunity to the roughs of the Metropolis to sack the shops, ... goaded on by the fool who says in his heart there is 'no God,' which reminds us, he went on,
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God strike me blind! and who thereupon
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As this was tolerably definite, inquiries were made at the Hospital. In answer to these, the principal wrote:
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There is no truth whatever in the statement, and the lad who is supposed to have sworn never swore at all. He has a weak right eye; it was slightly inflamed--the result of a cold--but he is now quite well. He is very indignant and hurt at the statement, and, if he did swear, he is not blind.
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as he contemptuously termed it, as that attributed to him by the _British Monarchy_. Long before this story was attached to Mr Bradlaugh name it was told of Abner Kneeland, the Pantheist and abolitionist in America; indeed, the defiance of Deity in this particular manner is said to have originated in a story told by an American of Abner Kneeland.[27] It was ascribed to Mrs Emma Martin,[28] a Freethought speaker in England, who was eulogised by Mr G. J. Holyoake as
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It was related again and again of Mr G. J. Holyoake, who wrote a denial of it as early as January 1854. Many times also was the challenge ascribed to Mrs Harriet Law, a lecturer on the Freethought platform thirty years ago; and later, when Mrs Besant came into the movement, she was made to play the part of heroine in this affecting drama, although, as she herself pointed out,