Author:John Mackinnon Robertson

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John Mackinnon Robertson
(1856–1933)
British politician and journalist; advocate of rationalism and secularism

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "J. M. Ro."

John Mackinnon Robertson

Works

  • Modern Humanists, (1891)
  • The Fallacy of Saving: A Study in Economics, (1892)
  • Montaigne and Shakspere, (1897)
  • Perversion of Scotland, (1896)
  • "Concerning Preciosity" in The Yellow Book, 13 (1897), pp. 79–106
  • New Essays Towards a Critical Method (1897), (external scan)
  • Miscellanies, (1898)
  • History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century, (1899)
  • Christianity and Mythology (1900)
  • Studies in Religious Fallacy, (1900)
  • Short History of Christianity (1902)
  • Pagan Christs (1903)
  • Courses of Study (1904/1908) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
  • Letters on Reasoning (1905) (external scan)
  • The Evolution of States: An Introduction to English Politics, (1912)
  • Rationalism, (1912)
  • The Baconian Heresy, (1913)
  • Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern (1915)
  • The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions, (1916)
  • The Jesus Problem (1917)
  • Shakespeare and Chapman, (1917)
  • Short History of Morals, (1920)
  • Explorations, (1923)
  • Jesus and Judas, (1927)

Contributions to EB1911

Works about Robertson


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1933, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 91 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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