Voltaire 1694-1778 from a FreeThinker's Periodical (1856)
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 14/06/2014

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) was a feature in an 1856 article printed in an episodic style. The periodical was called Half-hours with Freethinkers. 

Iconoclast" was the pseudonym of Charles Bradlaugh, 1833-1891, and he and two others, John Watts, and Andrew Collins published accounts of celebrated Freethinkers. 

The book is for sale on Amazon but is free from archive.org at this web address.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30200

Here's a quote from it. 

We can believe only what appears to be true; and nothing can appear true but in one of the three following ways—by intuition or feeling, as I exist, I see the sun; or by an accumulation of probability amounting to certainty, as there is a city called Constantinople; or by positive demonstration, as triangles of the same base and height are equal. 

Faith, therefore, being nothing at all of this description, can no more be a belief, a persuasion, than it can be yellow or red. It can be nothing but the annihilation of reason, a silence of adoration at the contemplation of things absolutely incomprehensible. 

Sound familiar?