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"The New Paul and Virginia; Or, Positivism on an Island" by W. H. Mallock is a thought-provoking novel that explores the philosophical and societal implications of Positivism, a philosophical movement that emphasizes scientific reasoning and empirical evidence. Set on an idyllic island, the story follows the lives of two young individuals whose upbringing adheres to Positivist principles. As they navigate their way through love, relationships, and their evolving beliefs, the novel delves into the complexities of human nature and the clash between tradition and modernity.
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Excerpt from The New Paul and Virginia: Or Positivism on an Island 'Those who can read the signs of the times read in them that the kingdom of man is at hand' - Professor Clifford Thou art smitten, O God, thou art smitten; thy curse is upon thee, O Lord! And the love song of earth as thou diest, resounds through the wind of its wings, Glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things Songs before Sunrise About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Charles Cashdollar reinterprets nineteenth-century British and American Protestant thought by identifying positivism as the central intellectual issue of the era. Positivism meant, at first, the ideas of the French thinker Auguste Comte; later in the century, the term indicated a more general opposition to supernatural religion. Cashdollar shows that contemporary thinkers recognized positivism, at each of these stages, as the most fundamental of the proliferating challenges to religious belief. He further reveals how the encounter with positivism altered Protestant orthodoxy--in both subtle and radical ways. Positivists denied that humans could know anything other than physical phenomena. Declaring many orthodox beliefs archaic, they proposed a new, ethically based vision of service to humanity. After portraying the dissemination of these positions among British and American Protestants, the author explains how each of several groups reacted. A few theologians rejected positivism outright, but many more responded by recasting their own beliefs. The implications of this story of change extend to such topics as Darwinism, Biblical criticism, the rise of the social sciences, theological liberalism and the Social Gospel, the beginnings of fundamentalism, and the twentieth-century debate about "creationism" and science. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.