Editing Secular humanism (section)

===Secularism===

[[File:Holyoake2.JPG|thumb|upright|George Holyoake coined the term "secularism" and led the secular movement in Britain from the mid-19th century.]]
In 1851 [[George Holyoake]] coined the term "secularism"<ref>Holyoake, G. J. (1896). ''The Origin and Nature of Secularism.'' London: Watts & Co., p. 50.</ref> to describe "a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life".<ref name="Secularism 101">{{cite web 
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|title= Secularism 101: Defining Secularism: Origins with George Jacob Holyoake 
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|date= 2 September 2011 
|access-date= 13 November 2011 
|archive-date= 22 September 2006 
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The modern secular movement coalesced around Holyoake, [[Charles Bradlaugh]] and their intellectual circle. The first secular society, the [[Leicester Secular Society]], dates from 1851. Similar regional societies came together to form the [[National Secular Society]] in 1866.