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Generations of reason : a family's search for meaning in post-Newtonian England / Joan L. Richards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Joan L., 1948- author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frend, William, 1757-1841.
- Frend, William.
- De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871.
- De Morgan, Augustus.
- De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth, 1809-1892.
- De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth.
- Reason--History.
- Reason.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This text recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution and prosperity of the Victorian age.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Family Tree
- Introduction
- PART ONE: DIVINING REASON
- CHAPTER 1: Faith in Reason
- CHAPTER 2: Breaking Away
- CHAPTER 3: Education of an Anglican
- CHAPTER 4: The Road to Unitarianism
- CHAPTER 5: Exercising Reason
- CHAPTER 6: Trials in Cambridge
- PART TWO: DEFINING REASON
- CHAPTER 7: Trials in London
- CHAPTER 8: Reasoning in Uneasy Times
- CHAPTER 9: Heiress
- CHAPTER 10: Son of India
- CHAPTER 11: Reading Man
- CHAPTER 12: Laying the Groundwork
- CHAPTER 13: Unitarian Women
- CHAPTER 14: Gentleman of Reason
- CHAPTER 15: Reasoning among the Stars
- CHAPTER 16: Expanding Consciousness
- PART THREE: DIVIDING REASON
- CHAPTER 17: Home on Gower Street
- CHAPTER 18: Rearing Young Seedlings
- CHAPTER 19: Expanding Reason
- CHAPTER 20: Beyond Matter
- CHAPTER 21: Beyond Reason
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 0-300-26257-4
- OCLC:
- 1267765708
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