Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from The Freethinker

Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from The Freethinker, is by G. W. Foote, and its introduction is dated April, 1885. The introduction says English literature has its Comic Histories, its Comic Grammars, its Comic Geographies and its Comic Law-Books, and that Carlyle once prophesied that it would some day boast its Comic Bible. The introduction says "La Bible Amusante" has had an extensive sale in France, and that several of the French drawings were copied with more or less fidelity in the Freethinker.

The writer says the Freethinker has been prosecuted twice for Blasphemy, and that its editor, proprietor and publisher have been punished respectively with twelve, nine and three months' imprisonment. The writer says they are really in deadly earnest, and that they employ satire as Lucian, Rabelais, Erasmus, Voltaire and Heine used theirs. The writer also says that compared with the advancement of Freethought everything else is to them of trivial moment.