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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain - The 'Darwinians' and their Critics (Paperback)
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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain - The 'Darwinians' and their Critics (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and
their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half
of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of
evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force
for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In
this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians
have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine
the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The
essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially the
biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the physicist John Tyndall, and the
philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer. But they look also at
those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals,
including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour, the novelist Samuel
Butler, and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on
the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary
naturalism, the volume points to the enduring strength of religion
in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century.
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