As president of the British Association in 1874, John Tyndall surveyed scientific thought from Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius through Bruno to Darwin, and claimed for science the right to wrest from theology the entire domain of cosmological theory. This reprint restores passages cut from the spoken address and adds a preface answering the storm of criticism it provoked.
One of the most controversial speeches of the Victorian age, essential to the history of science and religion. Download the free EPUB.