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Henry George Atkinson (c.1812 c.1890), a free thinker and supporter
of naturalism, published extensively on phrenology, mesmerism, and
spiritualism. He became acquainted with the professional writer,
political activist and radical philosopher Harriet Martineau (1802
76) in the 1840s, when she attributed her recovery from a long
illness to mesmerism. Their correspondence was published in 1851,
and promotes a radical form of atheistic naturalism, more extreme
than that found in George Combe's best-selling Constitution of Man
(also published in this series). It ranges widely over topics
including the brain and the nervous system, matter and causation,
superstition, theology and science. The book promotes the purity of
natural law as superior to social customs and institutions, and
reflects many concerns of the intelligentsia of the time, amongst
whom it stirred up much controversy.
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