THE NEW ZEALAND RATIONALIST

CONTENTS OF BACK ISSUES

This page: Dec 1949 - Nov 1954

 
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 16 No 3 NOVEMBER 1954
The Future of Islam ROBERT LOUZON
Editorial: Politics and Religion  
Recipes For Crime G H TAYLOR [F]
God and the Theologians JOHN BOWDEN
Capital Punishment RAYMOND DOUGLAS
Opposition to Religion in Schools [AS]
Obituary: T K Paterson  
Italy After 16 Centuries of Catholicism "SPECTATOR" [AS]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Notes by the President  
Chapman Cohen on Religious Revivials  
The Nobel Prize and Rationalism HOWARD MCCONNELL [PW]
The Growth of Materialism JOSEPH MCCABE [PW]
The Miracles Girl of Val D’Or K M WHITTEN [L]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 16 No 2 OCTOBER 1954
The Pope and Sex P VICTOR MORRIS [F]
Enquiry on Moral Delinquency ARTHUR O’HALLORAN
God and the Philosophers JOHN BOWDEN
Piltdown Skull F M PRICE
Hydrogen Bomb Petition [RR]
Obituary: Matthew H Seddon  
Origin of Life on Earth G T MACKADAM
Correspondence  
A Rationalist Reports on International Convention ELIZABETH A MILES
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Burning at Stake Still Approved by Catholic J H JOHNSON [L]
Jesus and Mahomedanism HERBERT CUTNER [TS]
Joseph McCabe Fund  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 16 No 1 SEPTEMBER 1954
Christianity’s Debt To Zoroaster HOWARD MCCONNELL [L]
Book Reviews: Inside Buchmanism (Williamson) ARTHUR O’HALLORAN
The Glands Inside Us (Ebling) "H.F."
Editorial: Morality and Religion  
God and the Scientists JOHN BOWDEN
Indian Rationalist Association  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Obituaries: George J Bromell; L B Lewis (Watson)  
Public Baptism ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
The Key To The Scriptures PERCY ROY
Notes By President  
Beliefs DR E L DWIGHT TURNER [PW]
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
The Search For Salvation MARSHALL J GAUVIN
The MRA Movement: An Indian View C R M RAO [IR]
For Newcomers "G.H.T." [F]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 11 AUGUST 1954
Editorial: A Plea For Bequests  
Science Notes T F SHANKEL [PW]
God As "Infinite Perfection" JOHN BOWDEN
Personal Notes; Correspondence  
The Secular State P GOVINA PILLAI [IR]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Billy Graham’s Circus P VICTOR MORRIS [F]
The Christian Crusades IRA D CARDIFF [PW]
Christian Morals and Rationalism ARCHIBALD ROBINSON
Donation to India Rationalist Association  
Hutt Valley Disclosures  
Book Review: Searchlight on Morals ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Reflections of a Doctor MAX ISENBERG [IR]
Children’s Register PATRICK CAMPBELL
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 10 JULY 1954
Distances in The Future F M PRICE
Editorial: Rationalist Friends  
NZ Truth Seeker and Its Writers ARTHUR O’HALLORAN
Notes on Theism (4) JOHN BOWDEN
Obituaries: Jack Wein; Charles E Major  
A Letter from Australia HARRY HASTINGS PEARCE
Correspondence  
Christianity To Suit All Tastes  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Annual Meeting  
Exorcism MAX ISENBERG [IR]
Obituaries: M N Roy and R D Karve (India)  
Middlebrow Meets the Argument From Design P. A. TRIOT [pseud.] [PW]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 9 JUNE 1954
A Successful Conference  
Psychology of Mythical Creatures and Places F M PRICE
President’s Report 1953-54 ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Life On Other Planets M MORRIS
Tributes to the Memory of Chapman Cohen C BRADLAUGH BONNER
Auckland Rationalist Conference Photos  
Personal Pass (?) ARTHUR PARLANE
NZ Parliamentary Prayers PATRICK CAMPBELL
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Notes on Theism (3) JOHN BOWDEN
Sabbath Desecration and the Law F A DE LA MARE
Obituaries: F Franich; James Blackwell  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 8 MAY 1954
James George Frazer [F]
Animal Intelligence "L.C."
Editorial  
New Light on Freemasonry HECTOR HAWTON [LG]
What Is Rationalism? ARCHIBALD ROBINSON [MR]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Man and Mind W F HAMILTON [H]
Notes On Theism (2) JOHN BOWDEN
Facts About Fatima [AR]
Gibbon’s Miss Nancy ROYSTON PIKE [LG]
A Mixed Bag E A MCDONALD
The RPA and Religion ARCHIBALD ROBINSON [LG]
Correspondence  
Obituary: Chapman Cohen  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 7 APRIL 1954
Rationalist Conference  
Editorial: Whangarei Library Censorship  
Book Review: Your Child At School (Lamb) S. EDGAR CRAIG
Summary of Mohammedanism PATRICK CAMPBELL
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Notes on Theism JOHN BOWDEN
Credulous Americans ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Solar Mythology JOHN G JACKSON [R]
How the Roman Church Counts Head JOSEPH MCCABE [PW]
A Ghost Has Vanished A COUVERT
Israel – A Theocracy? "AKIRA" [F]
Rationalist America Speaks To India MAX ISENBERG [IR]
Obituary: Max Isenberg JACK BENJAMIN
Tragic Air Accident in Singapore ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 6 MARCH 1954
Rationalism and Its Roll of Honour ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Editorial: A Rationalist Conference  
Church and Politics PERCY GORDON ROY
Should the Name of the Association Be Changed?  
Bowden-Wood Prophecies Debate  
Pre-Jewish Religions of Ancient Palestine MAX ISENBERG
Where Are The Dead?  
What Is Rationalism? F A DE LA MARE
Obituary: Charles Wood; Max Isenberg ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Peter – Rome [N]
Poems: "God in Everything"; "Grace Before Meals"  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 5 FEBRUARY 1954
The Rationalist Press Association Ltd F A DE LA MARE
Editorial  
Tangiwai Railway Disaster  
Obituaries: F Watts; Simon (Sam) Udjur; 
Edwin T Gorton
ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Poem: "The Bush Cathedral" A COUVERT
NZ Truth Seeker and Its Writers ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Protest Against Death Sentence on Niueans  
Function of Rationalism MAX ISENBERG
Notes on Evolution JOHN BOWDEN
Should the Association Remain Non-Political? E McDOUGALL
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Should the Name of the Association Be Changed?  
Bowden-Wood Debate – Bible Prophecies (3)  
The Duke and His Religion  
Is There Life On Mars? PATRICK CAMPBELL
Another Proposed Raid [N]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 4 DECEMBER-JANUARY 1953-1954
Religion on the Radio F M PRICE
Movies Unfit For Africans ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Tribute to Great Humanitarian (Paine) H D WITKWOSKI [CT]
Editorial: Christmas  
Live News For Freethinkers [PW]
The Man From Ectoplasm CARL H LOEB 
[AOR]
Should the Name of the Association Be Changed?  
Einstein and Religion [R]
Some Reflections on the Kasidah A J FAIRWEATHER
St Valentine’s Day  
A Copernican Fallacy RUBY TABOIS 
[F] [AOR]
The World’s Population  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Notes On Evolution JOHN BOWDEN
What Is Atheism? [A]
What Voltaire Did Not Say ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Obituaries: Victor Midgley; Sydney H Mason; 
Fred Watts
"C.D."
Catholic Book Censorship [JLF]
The Faith of the Baptists [F]
Physician, Heal Thyself J MALTON MURRAY
Police Censoring of Books [L]
Is There An Answer Without Religion? ELSIE LOCKE
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 3 NOVEMBER 1953
A Note on the Apocrypha MAX ISENBERG
Editorial: God and War  
Name of the Association  
Bible Prophecies: Bowden – Wood debate (cont’d)  
Sugar Ray Robinson and God [F]
The French Revolution and Christianity F RIDLEY [F]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Holy Smoke JOSEPH LEWIS 
[AOR]
What’s In a Name "OCTAGENARIAN"
Correspondence  
A Complaint and the President’s Reply  
Einstein’s Views on Religion [N]
Heresy-Hunting WALTER MURDOCH
Book Review: Mystique of Modern Monarchy (Black) ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Arnold Bennett’s Religion [MR]
Recommendations to Senator McCarthy [PW]
Divine Health Service; Live News for Freethinkers  
Bible In Schools F A DE LA MARE
Notes From the President ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 2 OCTOBER 1953
The Pope As Apostle of Science MAX ISENBERG
Editorial: Religion and the Press  
Joseph McCArthy – Freethought’s Greatest Menace BAYARD SIMMONS [F]
This "Spiritual" Business ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
The Churches and Broadcasting E MCDOUGALL
Bradlaugh’s Oath [R]
Personal Notes; Correspondence  
Sunday Sport Conference  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Bible Prophecies: Bowden – Wood debate (cont’d)  
A Short Account of Mithraism M C BROTHERTON
Impressions of a Visit to Canon Green Mission ALEX ROBARTS
Roman Catholic Pretensions MERRILL R HOLSTE [PW]
Catholicism vs Freedom  
Religion and the Press [L]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 15 No 1 SEPTEMBER 1953
Dr C E M Joad’s Last Testament S K RATCLIFFE
Editorial: Secular Education  
History of Evolution CHARLES SMITH [TS]
Voltaire: Champion of Progress BEN FINGERS [PW]
The Mission of Canon Green F A DE LA MARE
Obituary: Death of Marjorie Bowen [MR]
Correspondence; Notes by the President  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Education in Quebec HOWARD MCCONNELL [L]
Questions and Answers [L]
Secular Education in New Zealand  
What Buddhism Claims For Itself BHIKKU ANURUDDHA [HWD]
Analysis of Religious Census  
Poem: "The Bible" C E RATCLIFFE
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 14 No 11 AUGUST 1953
Manifesto of Ceylon Buddhist Students Union [L]
Editorial: The Highest Mountain  
Sidestepping Clerics J MALTON MURRAY
Auckland Activities; Correspondence  
Age of Faith E E L DWIGHT TURNER [L]
The Natural and Supernatural SIR THOMAS HUNTER
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Obituaries: C S Smith; S C Toon  
Catholic Censorship of Films G T MACKADAM
Book Review: Introduction to Malthus (edt. Glass) ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Panel of Doctors and Lawyers Take Our Platform ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Floods Galore F S HOUGHTON [F]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 14 No 10 JULY 1953
Prehistoric Origins W CARKEEK
Notes on "Quo Vadis" G I BENNETT [F]
Bible Prophecies: S W Wood – John Bowden debate  
Notes by the President; Correspondence  
The Pagan Hero and the Jesus Story S EDGAR CRAIG
Questions and Answers [L]
Thomas Paine MAX ISENBERG
Beware of Taking Oysters ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Catholic Church Nonsense "F.B."
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 14 No 9 JUNE 1953
On the Nature of Race and Race Differences [H]
On Unitarianism HERBERT CUTNER [F]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Sceptre of the Middles Ages HILDA MASON [CS]
Notes by the President; President’s Report ARTHUR O'HALLORAN 
Visiting Bishop Draws Criticism  
Religious Professions: Census 1951  
Faith in Filth ALFRED E O’NEIL [AOR]
Annual General Meeting; Correspondence  
Astronomy and Christian Mythology  
Sex Journal Prosecution  
Obituaries: Harold Parker; Richard F Williams  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 8 MAY 1953
Some Basic Evils of Christianity JAMES HERVEY JOHNSON [PW]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Editorial: Credulity Lingers  
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Notes and Comments ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Correspondence  
The "Inferior Sex" LEONARD C RAUGHLEY [CS]
Notable Debate: John Bowden at New Plymouth  
Is Science Good For Man? R C MULLENIX
Flood – Fact or Fiction? WILLIAM SPENCER [F]
Obituary: Sir Thomas A Hunter [incomplete]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 7 APRIL 1953
A Rationalist’s Plan JAMES HERVEY JOHNSON [L]
Roman Festivals in Scotland JAMES HUMPHREY
Rationalism and the Radio ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Thomas Paine Honoured  
Obituary: Edwin Wright  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Rationalism in India  
Prejudice Against the Jew DOROTHY GUGGENHEIM
Forward Rationalism  
Life on Other Worlds HERBERT CUTNER [F]
Notes and Comments ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Correspondence  
The Jehovah’s Witnesses RICHARD KEAN [VOF]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 6 MARCH 1953
These Are The Times JOSEPH MCCABE [PW]
Catholic Persecution of Heresy T F PALMER [F]
Date of the Fourth Gospel H S SHELTON
Editorial: The Role of Religion  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Notes and Comments ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
Some Thoughts On Materialism [H]
The Tarnished Mirror HOWARD MCCONNELL [L]
How Free Is the American Press? [L]
Poem: Our Day of Prayer L PICKLES
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 5 FEBRUARY 1953
Experiences Abroad CHARLES DAVEY
Religion and Science G VON FRANKENBERG
Catholic Action in British Politics F A RIDLEY [F]
Editorial: Rationalism Must Go On  
The Buchmanites W G COOK [AR]
Notes by the Secretary-Treasurer  
Atheism and Americanism ‘HISTORICUS’ [PW]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Twilight of the Supernatural ERASMUS [TS]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 4 DECEMBER 1952 - JANUARY 1953
Religion and Rationalism BISSETT LOVELOCK [F]
Our ‘Educated’ S GURUSWAMI [IR]
Sex Journal Prosecution  
Editorial: A Great American – Thomas Paine  
Rationalism CHARLES T SPRADING [L]
A Freethought Classic F A RIDLEY
Science And Its Critics HAROLD E MCCARTHY [H]
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Profane Swearing PERCY G ROY
Why I Don’t Believe In God ANDREW VENA [L]
Poem: "Yuletide Greetings" B M SANER
Correspondence  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 3 NOVEMBER 1952
The Religion of Somerset Maugham C G L DU CANN [F]
Editorial: Prayer and Education  
Negative Education F P WORTMAN [PW]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Correspondence  
Humanism vs Supernaturalism E L DWIGHT TURNER
Flying Saucers  F R LINE [L]
The Jesus of History F A RIDLEY [F]
Evolution and Douglas Dewar JOHN BOWDEN
He That Doubteth is Damned GEORGE SMITH
Notes by the Secretary-Treasurer ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 13 No 2 OCTOBER 1952
The Impotent Omnipotent PERCY G ROY
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
The Existence of God  
Be Good, Sweet Maid BISSETT LOVELOCK
Evolution and Douglas Dewar (cont’d) JOHN BOWDEN
Freethought Veterans FRANK HILL
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Racism in the Dock F A RIDLEY [F]
Poem: "Thomas Paine" PERCY FITZHUGH 
A Rationalist Poet: Sir Richard Burton  A J FAIRWEATHER
The Role of Theosophy  
The Catholic Curtain IRA D CARDIFF [CS]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 3 SEPTEMBER 1952
Charles Bradlaugh: The Truth  HYPATIA BRADLAUGH BONNER
Editorial: The Poor Duped Child  
A Choice For Humanists ARCHIBALD ROBINSON [PW]
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Correspondence  
Evolution and Douglas Dewar (cont’d) JOHN BOWDEN
Somerset Maugham’s Philosophy  
Religion and Morals PERCY G ROY
The Intolerance of Bishop Sheen JOSEPH BARTH
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 2 AUGUST 1952
Banning Hypnotism E W FLINT
God’s Heaven ROBERT RIPLEY
Editorial: Is Atheism Intelligible?  
Is Rationalism a Religion?  
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Mental Telepathy is Bunkum "VJW"
Literature Today M B GITTOS
For a New Zealand Culture  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Correspondence  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Evolution and Douglas Dewar (cont’d) JOHN BOWDEN
Obituary: William Duncan  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 10 JULY 1952
God and Politics PERCY G ROY
Editorial: Ideals of Rationalism  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Evolution and Douglas Dewar (cont’d) JOHN BOWDEN
Good Friday and the Priest RESTA OF IDLEAWHILE
Beyond the Racial Frontier  
Correspondence  
Power Board Donation  
Obituary: Patrick O’Malley  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 9 JUNE 1952
Racism and Rationalism F A RIDLEY [F]
Freedom Road: Of Freedom Rights ROBERT KELSO [H]
Obituaries: Mrs A L Browne; Mr P H Meredith  
Editorial: Rattling the Rationalists  
Christian Dogma Borrowed From Mythology ANON.
McCabe the Rebel JOHN W GUNN [AF]
Rationalists Overseas; Annual Meeting; A Challenge  
Annual Report  
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Correspondence  
The Anthropologist Studies Religion PROF RAYMOND FIRTH
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 8 MAY 1952
Priests, Pounds, and Public R H ROSETTI [F]
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow RESTA OF IDLEAWHILE
Facts For Freethinkers: Jehovah’s Witnesses F A RIDLEY (?) [F]
Editorial: Spiritualism: Not Proved  
Has The Universe A Future? IRA M FREEDMAN [UC]
Christ over Korea M R HOLSTE
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Correspondence  
Is There An Answer Without Religion? ELSIE LOCKE
New WEA Policy  
Obituary: John Luckens  
The Age of Funnies C BARTON
Science Notes T F SHANKEL [PW]
Rising Tide of Disbelief WOOLSEY TELLER [A]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 7 APRIL 1952
Ideological Collapse of the West and Religion AVRO MANHATTAN [LG]
Editorial: The Problem of Religion  
The Faith of Great Scientists GEORGE A FINK
Crime and Religion JOSEPH MCCABE
Pilgrim Fathers Debunked F A HORNIBROOK 
Obituaries: R Stannard; J Halliday  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 6 MARCH 1952
Theism’s Sideshow Monstrosity WOOLSEY TELLER [A]
North America - Haven For the Vatican? SACERDOS [NP]
Fact vs Faith "IWA"
Obituaries: William H Brabant; Catherine Irwin; 
Percy Meredith
 
Current Comments ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Rome - Enemy of Trade Unionism [PV]
Robert G Ingersoll - Atheist  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Materialism JOSEPH McCABE [RE]
The Principal of Indeterminacy IRA M FREEMAN [C]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 5 FEBRUARY 1952
The Pope as Obstetrical Expert W G COOK [AR]
Editorial: The Need For Clear Thinking  
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Reason and Faith ‘TRUTHSEEKER’
Current Comments (1st appearance) ST FRANCIS [F M PRICE]
Book Review: Very Near To Truth   
Is there an Omen [sic] without Religion? ELSIE LOCKE
Obituary: R H Rosetti  
Of Ants and Men AVRO MANHATTAN
"Christian" Names  
Labour Party No Friend of Rationalism  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 4 DECEMBER-JANUARY 1952
Papal Imperialism in Australia /F A RIDLEY [F]
Editorial: The Christmas Festival  
Obituary: B R McLaren  
The Clerical Mind N H HILLIARD
Jehovah’s Witnesses R KEAN [VF]
The Rylands Fragment and the Fourth Gospel JOHN BOWDEN
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Fulton Sheen on the Atomic Bomb  
Pastor Niemoller Must Pipe Down  
Here and There ZEALANDIA
Book Review: Freedom and Catholic Power (Blanshard) "MPC"
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Correspondence  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 3 NOVEMBER 1951
Sex and Rationalism W GLANVILLE COOK
Einstein’s Views on Religion  
Editorial: A Valiant Fighter: E Haldeman-Julius  
Shades of Spiritualism E L DWIGHT TURNER [L]
Franco-Vatican Dictatorship GEORGE DUNNE [L]
Reincarnation of Malthus ELSIE LOCKE
Correspondence  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 2 OCTOBER 1951
Asia, The West, and Christianity AVRO MANHATTAN
Editorial: Sin and Pain  
The Prevalence of Superstition  
Joseph McCabe Appeal  
Rationalism and Religion J V DUHIG [AR]
Definition of a Rationalist SIR SHELDON DUDLEY
Fred Hoyle Explains the Universe CONSTANCE BARTON
Canon Green - Travelling Salesman  
The Greatest of All Astronomers (God) RUBY TA’BOIS
Correspondence  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 1 SEPTEMBER 1951
Christianity In Samoa MERRIMAN BUTLER [LG]
Why I Became A Rationalist  
London Calling: Explaining The Wowser F A HORNIBROOK
Boredom RESTA OF IDLEAWHILE
Medical Ethics "WGC" [AR]
Wanted: New Members; Bequests Ensure Progress  
Stalin and the Popes J MALTON MURRAY
Miracle at Lourdes "MAZDA"
Money Talks; New Plymouth Active  
AMORC "BC" [AR]
New Zealand Weekend Debated  
Strangers Should Not Whisper  
Obituary: Mr A Thomas  
Correspondence  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 12 No 2 OCTOBER 1951
Freedom and Catholic Power  
Editorial: Resurrection Myth  
Obituaries: George Koller; Mathew S Letica  
A Modern Malthus  
Rationalism in Australia [AR]
From The Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Correspondence  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 10 JULY 1951
Daniel Discredited JOHN BOWDEN
Editorial: Futility of Prayer  
Random Thoughts on A Rational Life HORACE ROBINSON
Why I Became A Rationalist  
Peace Congress  
Correspondence  
Astronomy Notes ‘SPICA’
Spain and Misery ‘MAZDA’
President’s Report  HORACE ROBINSON
Religion: A Perspective (concl’d) N H HILLIARD
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 9 JUNE 1951
Maternity Welfare vs Vatican Dictatorship [SDM]
Editorial: What of Religion  
Religion: A Perspective (cont’d) N H HILLIARD
Notes from NZ Peace Conference  
Our Census Campaign  
How To Spread Freethought JAMES HERVEY JOHNSON
Suggestions For Membership Drive "HY"
From The Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Correspondence  
Archaeology and the Bible JOHN BOWDEN
Bodily Assumption  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 8 MAY 1951
New Zealand Liberty 1951  
Editorial: The Need For Rationalism  
The Meaning Of Rationalism  
Question and Answer 'ACADEMICUS'
A Cardinal In Japan  
World’s Worst Murderer Gets Pope’s Blessing [PV]
London Calling: The Stone of Destiny F A HORNIBROOK
Religion: A Perspective N H HILLIARD
To Be Or Not To Be  
Significance of Sex in the Racial Society JOHN HATCH [JSE]
Correspondence  
The Ten Commandments E F GREATHEAD
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 7 APRIL 1951
With Cross And Sword MARIA A. MACCIOCOCCHI [SW]
Editorial: Speech Day Inanities  
Odds and Ends "HY HY"
Sacred Relics HUGH R ORR
Archaeology and The Bible JOHN BOWDEN
Church Finance "B C" [AR]
Correspondence  
Trying To Save Face [A]
The Grave Was Not Its Goal  
Obituary: George Bernard Shaw [FN]
A New Zealander In China REWI ALLEY
Freethought Society Annual Conference  
Need For Sex Education  
Membership Drive  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 6 MARCH 1951
Why Not A Sensible Census HORACE ROBINSON
Joseph McCabe Appeal Fund  
Moral Re-Armament Fraud N H HILLIARD
Struggle For Freedom MAURICE BLACKBURN
Sex Education and Society V H WALLACE [AR]
Modern Miracle Makers J CORBETT [F]
Life Can Be Worth Living JULIAN HUXLEY [R]
Correspondence  
From the Library Table  
Poem: The Divinity of Blunders  
Fear: The Basis of All Religion  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 5 FEBRUARY 1951
The Pope Says No! ‘ZEALANDIA’
Continental Films and Religion S. POSTLETHWAITE-SMYTHE [F]
Editorial: Rationalism in New Zealand  
London Calling: Little Renee Tackles The Devil F A HORNIBROOK
Obituary: T Brindle  
A Critic of Evolution JOHN BOWDEN
Bible In Schools ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Correspondence  
Lourdes in India  
The Question of an Afterlife J C H
John Bowden’s Visit  
Suffer Little Children ‘RESTA’
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 4 DECEMBER-JANUARY 1950-51
Life; If Death Ends All ROBERT G INGERSOLL
Editorial: Rationalism and Politics  
London Calling  
World Government - Whose? [PW]
Wellington Activities  
From The Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Correspondence  
Obituary: John R Cameron  
Joseph McCabe Appeal  
A Great Man Passes: G B Shaw CONSTANCE BARTON
Annual Meeting  
John Bowden’s Visit  
Fallacies of Racism Exposed [C]
Book Reviews: Psychology and War (J Cohen) R McELWAIN
Revealing Testament (McCabe)  
Christmas Day  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 3 NOVEMBER 1950
Baseless Dogma of Assumption  
History Repeats Itself  
Editorial: Joseph McCabe - A Tribute  
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Euthanasia - Mercy or Murder?  
A Critic of Evolution JOHN ROWLAND [F]
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Correspondence  
Dull On Sunday ‘ZEALANDIA’
Holy Year  
Catholic Position on Religious Freedom  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 2 OCTOBER 1950
Roman Dogma and the United Front ‘ZEALANDIA’
Activity in Auckland  
State Aid For Denominational Schools ‘ABACUS’
Materialism Abandoned [FN]
Freethought In Mexico  
Humanism And Freethought  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Colour, Pride, and Prejudice CONSTANCE BARTON (?)
Support For Social Mysticism  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 1 SEPTEMBER 1950
Church Parade For Chamber of Commerce  
Missionaries On The Spot in China  
Editorial: From the Library Table  
World Peace and International Language  
Activities  
To Men and Women of Good Will  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Humanist Aloofness PERCY GORDON ROY 
How We Got Sunday J MALTON MURRAY
Why I Am Against The Catholic Church JAMES HERVEY JOHNSON
Funeral Services Without Theology  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 11  AUGUST 1950
Who Are The Enemies of World Peace?  
Why I Am An Atheist NANCY STANDEN
Editorial: Bible in Schools Issue  
"Holy Year" Crusade  
Secularism ROBERT G INGERSOLL [PW]
The Jewish Question ARCHIBALD ROBINSON 
Flogging a Relic of Barbarism ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON 
Auckland Activities  
Is Evolution a Myth JBS HALDANE
London Calling: Dawn Breaks in Mexico F A HORNIBROOK
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 10 JULY 1950
Why Were You Christened?  
Catholic Church Complains J T [JIM TROWER?]
Editorial: Rationalism and Spiritualism  
Official Australian attitude to Dissolution Bill  
Wanted – an Alternative to "Christian" Name ARTHUR O'HALLORAN
London Calling: Our Missionary Heroes F A HORNIBROOK
Jesuit Activities in American Unions J M
Australian Rationalists Protest Against Menzies Bill  
Activities  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Odds and Ends "Hy. Hy."
There Are More Things… BRIAN BELL
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 9 JUNE 1950
The Missing (But Not Forgotten) Factor  
The Continuing Battle [PW]
Old New Zealand SIR GEORGE GREY
Editorial: The Threat To Civil Liberty in Australia  
Streamlining the Bible V J W
Rationalism in Australia W GLANVILLE COOK
Tolerance [VF]
Auckland Activities  
The Scapular – or Why Go To Fatima? [F]
Practical Rationalism "A.T.P."
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Obituaries: H Boreham; Louisa Coppins  
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 8 MAY 1950
The Lord’s Prayer and the Hon Mr Algie  
Russians Smell a (Ra) Rat [PW]
Editorial: Whither Rationalism  
Funeral Services Without Religion  
Christ and Krishna Compared  
Indian Rationalist Association; TV in use at Vatican  
It Must Go if Civilisation is to Progress  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Philosophy for A Modern Man  
Voltaire ROBERT G INGERSOLL
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 11 No 7 APRIL 1950
Message to All Members and Readers HORACE ROBINSON
Rationalists of India Meet S GHOSH
Editorial: Christianity and Morality  
Book Review: Is Evolution a Myth?  
Jesus of Nazareth "Resta of Idleawhile"
Victory for Hastings Rationalists  
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
Auckland Activities; Christchurch Activities  
From the Office Chair CONSTANCE BARTON
Science and Peace LORD BOYD ORR [R]
Obituaries: Mr J Rusden Salt; Mrs E Holland; Mr J Houghton; Arnold Taylor; Mr W Potter  
Funeral Services Without Religion  
Voltaire ROBERT G INGERSOLL
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 6 MARCH 1950
Eugenics HARRISON HIRES [TS]
Science Notes HUGH ROBERT ORR
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK 
Wowsers on the Warpath [F]
Activities in Other Centres  
Miracles From a Pipeline  
The Vatican as a Monopoly Capitalist [R]
Topical MARJORIE PAUL
Euthanasia is the Answer [TS]
Insolence of Cardinal Spellman JOSEPH LEWIS [AFT]
Voltaire ROBERT G INGERSOLL
Pity Pars E W FLINT
Lighter Vein  
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 5 FEBRUARY 1950
It Might Have Happened Here [R]
Senate Votes Aid to Schools [L]
London Calling F A HORNIBROOK
A Win For Sunday Bowling  
The Education Act D K THOMSON [R]
The Greatest Scientists are Secularists GORDON CAULFIELD
If Death Ends All ROBERT G INGERSOLL
A Call To Arms [A]
Child and Church [PW]
Christ and Currency [FN]
Atheism in The Open [A]
Auckland Lectures S E CRAIG
Topical MARJORIE PAUL
Why Secularism Advances HUGH ROBERT ORR [PW]
   
New Zealand Rationalist Vol 10 No 4 DECEMBER 1949 - JANUARY 1950
The Barden Bill L. ALT [L]
Auckland Lectures S E CRAIG
Obituary: Mr H J Webber F W W
The World’s Finest Humanist Library GORDON CAULFIELD
Lysenko L R ALLEN
A Bishop and Birth Control [FN]
Annual Report  
Brighter Sundays [F]
29th International Congress of World Union of Freethinkers  
What Will You Give us in Place of Religion? [A]
From the Office Chair MARJORIE PAUL
Freedom For Sunday J R C
Swaffer Discovers Henshaw  
They Were Filled With the Spirit MURIEL WHITEFIELD
Reformed Christianity  

REPRINT ABBREVIATIONS
[AF] American Freeman
[AF] American Freethinker
[A] The Atheist (American Association for Advancement of Atheism)
[AOR] Age of Reason
[AR] Australian Rationalist
[AS] Auckland Star
[C] Courier (UNESCO Publications)
[CS] Common Sense
[CT] Capital Times (Wisconsin, USA)
[F] Freethinker (UK)
[FN] Freethought News
[H] The Humanist (American Humanist Association)
[HWD] Humanist World Digest
[IR] Indian Rationalist
[JLF] John A Lee’s Fortnightly (NZ)
[JSE] Journal of Sex Education
[L] The Liberal (USA)
[LG] Literary Guide (Rationalist Press Association, UK)
[MR] Monthly Record (South Place Ethical Society, UK)
[N] Nature
[NP] The Nation (Protestant)
[PV] People’s Voice
[PW] Progressive World
[R] The Rationalist (Melbourne)
[RE] Rationalist Encyclopedia (McCabe)
[RR] Rationalist Review (UK)
[SDM] Sydney Daily Mirror
[ST] Sydney Tribune
[SW] Soviet Woman
[UC] UNESCO Courier
[VF] Voice of Freedom


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