Scientific naturalism in Victorian Britain : an essay in the social history of ideas
This thesis considers, from a sociological viewpoint, the intellectual movement in Victorian Britain known as scientific naturalism. It argues that the naturalist cosmology needs to be seen as part of the strategy of certain social groups; in particular, naturalism expressed the interests of the new...
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University of Edinburgh
1980
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.258799 |