Adam Sedgwick

A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge

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Produktbeschreibung

Geologist Adam Sedgwick's 1850 book gives a wide-ranging overview of the academic debates of his day, and his opinions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 5. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 776
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9781108001991
• ISBN-10: 1108001998
• Artikelnr.: 26821394

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Fifth Edition; Part I.
Preliminary Dissertation: 1. Introductory remarks on the doctrine of final
causes; 2. Theory of spontaneous generation, transmutation of species, &c.;
3. Ftal transformations, and their bearing on the theory of development;
4. Organic phenomena of geology, and general remarks on their bearing on
the theory of development; 5. Animal and vegetable remains of the primary
or Palæozoic division; 6. Fossils of the secondary division, &c.; 7.
Organic remains of the tertiary division, &c.; 8. Materialism. Mechanical
and moral laws. Laws of chance. Tendencies of modern science. Fantastical
views of nature. Evils of rash generalisation. Education, &c.; 9.
Conditions of the mind that have led men to deny a personal creator.
Atheism and pantheism. Illustrations of the doctrine of final causes.
Galvanic and phrenological hypotheses. Mechanical inventions, &c.; 10. On
the ideal theory of Locke - imperfections of his analysis. Schools of the
idealist and the Sensualists. Mischief of setting up idealism as the
interpreter of material nature, illustrated by the works of Oken, &c.; 11.
Digression on some discoveries of Oken followed out by Owen. Archetype of
nature. General scale of nature. Never existed at one time in the history
of the earth. The reconstruction of the scale subversive of the theory of
development, &c.; 12. Reconsideration of the argument for final causes.
Miracles. Belief in a first cause, and moral conclusions from it. Induction
of the fountain of all material truth, &c.; Part II: 1. Pantheistic views
of revelation and its evidences, and comments on the Newtonian philosophy.
Evidences of Christianity, historical and prophetical. Moral purity of the
gospel. Its propagation and effects on the progress of man, &c.; 2. Recent
changes in the University course. Modern science of Cambridge -
Philosophical society. Modern external improvements. Moral and social
character of the students, &c. External improvements in Cambridge; 3.
Modern religious movements. Principles of the Church of England contrasted
with those of the Church of Rome. Tracts for the times. Terms of communion.
Immorality of the tracts. Acts of apostasy. Causes of error in our estimate
of religious and moral questions. True Catholicity. Conclusion; Part III.
Discourse: Appendix to the Discourse; Supplement to the Appendix.