Fiat Flux - The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher (Paperback)

Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and Bachelor's medical practice. Bachelor was an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in literature, science, nature, politics, and religion, and he became a self-professed freethinker in the 1870s. He was driven by a concept he called "fiat flux," an awareness of the "rapid flight of time" that motivated him to treat the people around him and the world itself as precious and fleeting.

He wrote occasional pieces for a local newspaper, bringing his unusually enlightened perspectives to the subjects of women's rights, capital punishment, the role of religion in politics, and the domination of the American political system by economic elite in the 1890s. These essays, along with family letters and the original diary entries, are included here for an uncommon glimpse into the life of a country doctor in nineteenth-century Arkansas.

General

Imprint:	University of Arkansas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	May 2013
Editors:	William D Lindsey
Foreword by:	Tom Bruce
Afterword by:	Jonathan Wolfe
Dimensions:	231 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - With dust jacket
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-1-55728-636-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-55728-636-1
Barcode:	9781557286369

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