Campbell, Thomas
From Philosopedia
Campbell, Thomas (1777—1844)
A Scottish poet and reformer, Campbell was educated for the ministry but became a skeptic and turned to poetry. He played a part in the project to break the religious tyranny of Oxford and Cambridge Universities by founding the University of London as a purely secular institution.
He rejected the idea of immortality, but Joseph McCabe states that Campbell “wavered between a pale theism and agnosticism.” Dean Milman and Macaulay were among his pallbearers. Although in his poems Campbell resented “superstition’s rod,” he was buried in Westminster Abbey.
