This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.
PART I Volume 2 Victorian Science as Cultural Authority Introduction
Science as a Source of Cultural Authority [ William Whewell], Review of John
Herschel, Preliminary Discourse non the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831)
Hugh Miller, Stromness and its Asterolepis and The Development Hypothesis,
and its Consequences (1851) Herbert Spencer, The Social Organism (1860)
Thomas Henry Huxley, On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
(1866) John Ruskin, Athena Keramitis (1903) George Henry Lewes, On the
Dread and Dislike of Science: A Defense of Science against the Claims of
Theology (1878) Arthur James Balfour, A Defence of Philosophical Doubt,
being an Essay on the Foundations of Belief (1879) Frances Power Cobbe, The
Scientific Spirit of the Age (1888) Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science
(1900) [ Mona Caird], The Sanctuary of Mercy (1892) Science Lending New
Cultural Authority to an Existing Field Baden Powell, The Connexion of
Natural and Divine Truth; or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy
Considered as Subservient to Theology (1838) James Cowles Prichard, On the
Relations of Ethnology to Other Branches of Knowledge (1848) Alexander Bain,
The Senses and the Intellect (1874) Henry Maudsley, An Address on Medical
Psychology (1872) William Kingdon Clifford, Right and Wrong, the Scientific
Ground of their Distinction (1875) Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait,
The Unseen Universe, or, Physical Speculations on a Future State (1878)
Vernon Lee, Apollo the Fiddler: A
Chapter on Artistic Anachronism (1882)
Francis Galton, Measurement of Character (1884) Havelock Ellis, The
Criminal (1916) Pro-Science and Anti-Science Satire or Parody Punch; or, the
London Charivari Benjamin Bendigo, pseud. [ William M. Thackeray], Science at
Cambridge (1848) J. L. [ John Leech], H.R.H. Field-Marshall Chancellor
Prince Albert Taking the Pons Asinorum (1848) Unnatural Selection and
Improvement of Species. (A Paper Intended to be Read at our Social Science
Congress, by One who has been Spending Half-an-Hour or so with Darwin) (1860
) Punchs Scientific Register (1864) Psychosis, Our Modern Philosophers:
Darwin, Bain and Spencer; or, The Descent of Man, Mind and Body (1884)
[ William Cosmo Monkhouse], The Automaton: A Comedy in Tree Acts (n.d.) May
Kendall Taking Long Views and The Conquering Machine (1887) Ether
Insatiable (1894) Worlds that Project (or Contest) the Cultural Authority of
Science Coventry Patmore, The Two Desarts (1878) [ Algernon Charles
Swinburne], Disgust: A Dramatic Monologue (1881) Thomas Hardy, Two on a
Tower: A Romance (1883) James Clerk Maxwell, To Hermann Stoffkraft , Ph.D.,
the Hero of a Recent Work called Paradoxical Philosophy. A Paradoxical Ode.
[ After Shelley] (1884) Grant Allen, The Child of the Phalanstery (1884)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885) Israel Zangwill,
The Memory Clearing House (1892) Editorial Notes
Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonanthan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V. Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick
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