Richard Carlile  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Richard Carlile (9 December 179010 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom. In 1819 he is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.

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