 In 1880 he chaired a lecture by Charles Bradlaugh, with whom he disagreed over the issue of birth control, and soon became associated with the branch of secular thought led by Charles Watts and his son C. A. Watts.In 1882 he served as co-editor with the elder Watts on the "Secular Review", and two years later Ross became its sole editor and proprietor, penning many essays on secularism using the pseudonym "Saladin".In December 1888, Ross changed the name of "Secular Review" to the "Agnostic Journal and Secular Review", and shortly thereafter changed the name one final time to the "Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review".