THOMSON， JAMES (1834-1882)詹姆斯·汤姆逊，英国诗人Poet， b. at Port Glasgow and brought up in the Royal Caledonian Asylum， was for some years an army teacher， but was dismissed for a breach of discipline. He became associated with Charles Bradlaugh， the free-thought protagonist， who introduced him to the conductors of various secularist publications. His best known poem is The City of Dreadful Night， deeply pessimistic. Others are Vane's Story and Weddah and Omel-Bonain. His views resulted in depression， whi