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Fiat flux : the writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, nineteenth-century country doctor and philosopher / edited and introduced by William D. Lindsey ; with a foreword by Thomas A. Bruce and an afterword by Jonathan Wolfe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bachelor, Wilson R., 1827-1903.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bachelor, Wilson R., 1827-1903--Diaries.
- Bachelor, Wilson R.
- Bachelor, Wilson R., 1827-1903--Correspondence.
- Physicians--Arkansas--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Philosophers--Arkansas--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Penn Provenance:
- NLM copy, author inscription on front flyleaf: "William D. Lindsey, Sept. 2013".
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 1870's. 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Wilson R. Bachelor, whys and wherefores / by William D. Lindsey
- Diary of Wilson R. Bachelor (1870-1902)
- Occasional pieces from the scrapbook of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890's)
- Letters of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890's)
- Afterword : medicine in the Arkansas River Valley, 1865-1890 / by Jonathan Wolfe
- Appendix I : Goodspeed autobiography of Wilson R. Bachelor (1889)
- Appendix II : masonic eulogy of Wilson R. Bachelor (1903)
- Appendix III : report of Wilson R. and Sarah Bachelor's golden wedding anniversary (1897)
- Appendix IV : letter of Wilson R. Bachelor to Zion's ensign (4 February 1893)
- Appendix V : genealogical charts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-525-1
- OCLC:
- 859155837
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