In existographies, Jack London (1876-1916) (RGM:553|1,500+) (FA:142) was an American realism and naturalism novelist, a semi-ranked greatest literary author ever, noted for []
Atheism
In 1895, London, age 19, while tramping and arrested and jailed for one month for vagrancy, listed ‘atheist’ as his religion on the necessary forms. [2]
Quotes | By
The following are quotes by London:
“I have always inclined to Haeckel’s position. In fact, ‘incline’ is too weak a word. I am a hopeless materialist. I see the ‘soul’ as nothing else than the sum of activities of the organism plus personal habits—plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I die, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.”
— Jack London (1914), “Letter to Ralph Kasper”, Jun 25 [1]
References
1. (a) London, Jack. (1914). “Letter to Ralph Kasper” (Ѻ), Jun 25
(b) Cardiff, Ira. (1945). What Great Men Think of Religion (pg. 240). Christopher Publishing House.
(c) Commager, Henry S. (1950). The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's (pg. 111). Publisher.
(c) Haught, James A. (1996). 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt (pg. 247). Prometheus.
2. Gabel, Stewart. (2012). Jack London: a Man in Search of Meaning: a Jungian Perspective (pg. 14). AuthorHouse.
External links
● Jack London – Wikipedia.
