Bank of Wisdom
The Bank of Wisdom was created in the mid-1990s by Emmett F. Fields in Louisville, Kentucky. Drawing on his large personal library of Free Thought, he scanned thousands of scarce and rare books as PDF files, then transferring them to CD-ROM disks. Among the books scanned were the entire 12 volume Dresden edition of Robert G. Ingersoll, Samuel Porter Putnam's Four Hundred Years of Freethought, J.M. Wheeler's Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations, and the 10 volume Patriot's edition of the works of Thomas Paine. Also by Paine, are the 4 volumes of an edition of his works by Moncure Daniel Conway, plus Conway's 2 volume biography of Paine. The Missouri artist Watson Heston produced several volumes of free thought cartoons published by the Truth Seeker in the 1890s, including the Freethinkers' Pictorial Textbook, and The Bible Comically Illustrated. These were scanned and published on CD-ROM disks. Numerous periodicals and similar publications have also been scanned. While at first there was a modest charge for disks, all scanned texts are now available for free PDF downloads from the Bank of Wisdom website.[1][2]
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- ↑ "Freethought History" (#27). 1998.
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