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Climb Every Mountain
Superficially, Sir Leslie Stephen, author of Sketches from Cambridge, by A Don, Hours in A Library, Essays on Freethinking and Plain Speaking, Social Rights and Duties, etc. etc. etc., would seem to be the most desk-bound author imaginable. But, in … Continue reading
The Two Cultures
Last week, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of five programmes about the origin, meaning and significance of the word ‘culture’. The hook on which the series hung was the opposition between the ways in which the word was defined … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Classics, Life Science, Philosophy
Tagged Charles Darwin, E.B. Tylor, Matthew Arnold
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A Story For Which The World Was, In Fact, Prepared
I have to declare an interest. My great-great-[I think]grandfather, Sam Aylward, worked for Dr Arthur Conan Doyle at his surgery in Southsea, and is immortalised as Samkin Aylward in The White Company. (I have another Aylward ancestor, James, who is … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Cambridge, Classics, Life Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Religious Studies, Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Tagged Andrew Lang, Edmund Gurney, F.W.H. Myers, Franz Anton Mesmer, Giant Rat of Sumatra, Harry Houdini, Henry Sidgwick, Lord Rayleigh, Madame Blavatsky, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thomas Carlyle: A Forgotten Giant?
We have just published the Centenary Edition of the complete works of Thomas Carlyle. Will anyone want to read him?
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