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1 online resource (viii, 345 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index. |
| Summary |
This text examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of 'The Origin of Species', wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite. |
| Contents |
Introduction, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman; Forging Friendships; 1. ""The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet"": Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on Paleontological Method -Gowan Dawson; 2. Evolutionary Naturalism on High: The Victorians Sequester the Alps -Michael S. Reidy; 3. Paradox: The Art of Scientific Naturalism -George Levine; Institutional Politics; 4. Huxley and the Devonshire Commission -Bernard Lightman; 5. Economies of Scales: Evolutionary Naturalists and the Victorian Examination System -James Elwick -- 6. Odd Man Out: Was Joseph Hooker an Evolutionary Naturalist? -Jim EnderspyBroader Alliances; 7. Sunday Lecture Societies: Naturalistic Scientists, Uniarians, and Secularists Unite against Sabbatarian Legislation -Ruth Barton; 8. The Conduct of Belief: Agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the Formation of Intellectual Communities -Paul White; 9. Where Naturalism and Theism Met: The Uniformity of Nature -Matthew Stanley; New Generations; 10. The Fate of Scientific Naturalism: From Public Sphere to Professional Exclusivity -Theodore M. Porter. -- 11. The Sucessors to the X Club? Late Victorian Naturalists and Nature, 1869-1900 -Melinda Baldwin12. From Agnosticism to Rationalism: Evolutionary Biologists, The Rationalist Press Association, and Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Naturalism -Peter J. Bowler; Acknowledgments; Bibliography of Major Works on Scientific Naturalism; List of Contributors; Index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Naturalism -- History -- 19th century.
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Naturalism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Naturalism -- Religious aspects.
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Naturalism -- Religious aspects. |
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Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Science. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Dawson, Gowan, editor.
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Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version 9780226109503 |
| ISBN |
022610964X (ebook) |
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9780226109640 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
YBP11673393 |
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