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Science versus religion.(Editorial)
THE DEBATE OVER RELIGION takes many forms. When religious belief dominated both popular feeling and the state apparatus it was the wont of those thinkers who were sceptical about religion, or positive unbelievers, to discuss such matters either privately or in a subdued fashion amongst themselves and their peers. That until relatively recently was also the situation in the highly religiose United States, with occasional noisy exceptions like Colonel Robert Ingersoll in the nine-teenth century. The situation is much worse in strict Islamic states, where sanctions can be extreme. Even now in some parts of the USA there is considerable active intolerance of non-believers. In ...
- A case of religious mania: Gosse's Father and Son.(Essays)(Edmund Gosse...
- Magazine article from: ANQ Meyers, Jeffrey June 22, 2009 700+ words
...same filial rebellion that Edmund Gosse described in his brilliant...Edmund mastered the rituals of religion and methods of science. He...fanatical in science as he was in religion, fought mightily but in vain...he tried to reconcile religion and science by "proving...
- Edmund Gosse and the Victorian nude: Jason Edwards takes a fresh look at...
- Magazine article from: History Today Edwards, Jason November 1, 2001 700+ words
IN HIS 1907 MEMOIR, Father and Son, the influential art critic and litterateur Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) recalled his Victorian childhood in Marychurch, Devonshire, during the 1850s and 1860s among the Plymouth Brethren...
- Dr. Donne & Sir Edmund Gosse.(John Donne)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Bernstein, Jeremy March 1, 1998 700+ words
...take much interest in the result at the end of the journey." When it comes to the principal subject of this essay, Sir Edmund Gosse, I know what he meant, and for this reason I shall conduct the "reader over the road" that led me to that rather unlikely...
- Edmund Gosse.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Does the rain have a father?(Science)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Bamforth, Iain July 1, 2007 700+ words
...books on natural history," states Edmund Gosse in the first chapter of the book...immanence to try to rescue his religion, though it wasn't the storm...caused the gale in the first place. Edmund Gosse was an Edwardian worthy when he...
- And on the eighth day Blair created academies; NEVER MIND THE BULLOCK.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) March 20, 2006 700+ words
...than a hundred years ago, Edmund Gosse published a memoir Father...by ideas of the benefits of religion, should allow groups to set...that those of the "wrong" religion are inferior? It is no use...good men do good' only religion makes good men do evil...
- The world of paperbacks.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review January 1, 2005 700+ words
...Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion ([pounds sterling]8.99) edited...a very accessible introduction to the religion of the ancient world in all its bizarre...edited and introduced by Vivien Jones and Edmund Gosse's Father and Son ([pounds sterling...
- Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls.
- Magazine article from: National Review Gardner, James July 31, 1995 700+ words
...the triumph of Christianity, the old religion lingered latest in the country, and died out at last as but paganism -- the religion of the villagers, before the advance...of some of the best minds of his age: Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Gerard Manley...
