Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain (Variorum Collected Studies Series)

by Bernard Lightman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $153.58

  Argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. This book presents a collection of essays that deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, physicist John Tyndall, and philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer.