Talk:G. W. Foote

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Bradlaugh was a Neo-Malthusian, as was Annie Besant, before she became a Theosophist and recanted. Bradlaugh's focus was on birth control, and was quite different from the middle-class Malthusian argument that led to the repeal of outdoor relief. Many of Foote's fellow "anti-Bradlaughites" (like Holyoake) pretended to be shocked by the candidness of the Neo-Malthusian program, especially Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy -- but I have trouble seeing GW Foote this way, given the contents of The Freethinker. Dan Allosso (talk) 21:02, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I think that's fair enough. As the article makes clear, of course, the birth control issue was just one of several issues behind the split. --Dannyno (talk) 14:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

"passed away"
I note that "passed away" was recently, for about the fourth time, changed to "died" in a good-faith attempt to apply a rule about euphemisms. Could I appeal for people trying to rid Wikipedia of euphemisms to check the context of what they are changing? In this case "passed away" is what appears in the original source. --Dannyno (talk) 17:38, 19 January 2010 (UTC)