Chapman Cohen was an English freethinker, atheist, and secularist writer and lecturer.
12 Facts About Chapman Cohen
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Chapman Cohen was the elder son of Enoch Cohen, a confectioner, and his wife, Deborah.
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Chapman Cohen was born in Leicester, although the family moved to London in 1889.
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Chapman Cohen attended a local elementary school but was otherwise self-educated.
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Chapman Cohen had read Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and Plato by the time he was eighteen.
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Chapman Cohen was a bibliophile and avidly collected books all his life.
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Chapman Cohen described his own attitude to religion as being characterised by "easy-going contempt".
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Chapman Cohen moved to London in 1889, and soon became involved in the secularist movement.
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Chapman Cohen was elected a vice-president of the NSS in 1895.
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Chapman Cohen succeeded Foote as President of the National Secular Society.
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Chapman Cohen was a prolific author and his writing is characterised by a clarity of style and intellectual rigour.
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Chapman Cohen was the author of many books setting forth the freethought philosophy of life, which had a large sale, and he was outstanding as a forthright, witty and courteous debater and lecturer.