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A disciplined intelligence : critical inquiry and Canadian thought in the Victorian era

This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.
Print Book, English, 2001
[New Carleton library ed.] View all formats and editions
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2001
xxxii, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
9780773521414, 9780773521421, 0773521410, 0773521429
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1. Education and Intellect : Intellectual Anarchy ; The Institutionalization of Concern ; Education as Disposition ; The Basis of a Liberal Education
2. The Colonial Philosophers : The Scottish Legacy, James George and the Web of Gossamer ; William Lyall
Intellect, the Emotions, and Man's Moral Nature ; The Apogee of Common Sense
3. The Uses of Natural Theology : The Prevalence of [William] Paley ; James Beaven and the Eye of Faith ; Dr. [James] Bovell's Quadrilateral Mind ; Sequela
4. The Veils of Isis : The Veils of Isis ; The Reception of [Charles] Darwin in Canada ; Support from the Flanks ; Christian Guardians ; Man's Place in Nature
5. A Critical Spirit : The Spectre of Doubt ; The Critical Intellect ; Freedom and Concern ; Science, Ethics, and Evolution ; A Defence of Modern Thought
6. The Secret of [Georg] Hegel : The Rejection of Common Sense ; John Watson and the Secret of Hegel ; Science and the Idealist Alternative ; Conscience and Community
7. The Sadness and Joy of Knowledge : Faith Through Reason ; Pastoral Epistles ; The Sacred, the Secular, and the Social Gospel ; Religion Through Sociology