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Life of John Knox
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Friendship in Doubt
Rebelling against Victorian religious and social strictures, occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J. F. C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg were active contributors and participants in the British secularist movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. Friendship in Doubt examines how the Agnostic movement inspired and introduced them to each other as foundational figures in the new religious movement of Thelema.
Modern Scottish Poets. With Biographical and Critical Notices
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Industrial Revolution
This volume tells the story of the revolution that created the modern, industrial world in which we live today, charting the move of industrialisation from 1850 in Western Europe and the USA, right up to the end of the 19th century when it reached Russia and Japan.
The Pirate's Secret
One windswept winter's evening, Arden Tregorey listens, enthralled, as his father tells him of his "golden secret" and of how he once outwitted the notorious one-eared pirate Lambert "Luggole" Spain. The next day his father is kidnapped and disappears, so young Arden sets off to the Caribbean in search of him. How will he travel the 5,000 miles of dangerous Atlantic Ocean, and will he succeed in finding his only living relative?
Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain
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.
