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Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development
Harriet Martineau
Henry George Atkinson
其他書名
Cambridge Library Collection. Religion
出版
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
, 2019-06-30
主題
History / General
Philosophy / General
Religion / General
Religion / Atheism
Religion / Religion & Science
ISBN
107728831X
9781077288317
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AMQOxwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Henry George Atkinson (c.1812-c.1890), a free thinker and supporter of naturalism, published extensively on phrenology, mesmerism, and spiritualism. He became acquainted with the professional writer, political activist and radical philosopher Harriet Martineau (1802-76) in the 1840s, when she attributed her recovery from a long illness to mesmerism. Their correspondence was published in 1851, and promotes a radical form of atheistic naturalism, more extreme than that found in George Combe's best-selling Constitution of Man (also published in this series). It ranges widely over topics including the brain and the nervous system, matter and causation, superstition, theology and science. The book promotes the purity of natural law as superior to social customs and institutions, and reflects many concerns of the intelligentsia of the time, amongst whom it stirred up much controversy.