American Freethinker Lawrence Blum Life along the Illinois River

Life along the Illinois River is a gracious portrait of a river that unites humanity and nature

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American Freethinker Lawrence Blum Life along the Illinois RiverThe first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer, who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world: the interconnected web of life that inspired compassion