Dedicated to John Ruskin, Mallock’s 1879 book asks whether life keeps any meaning or moral value once religious belief is abandoned. He takes on the positivists and scientific moralists of his day, examining the prize of life, sociology as a basis for morality, and the nature of goodness, and argues that their ethics borrow from the faith they reject.
A provocative Victorian debate on meaning and belief that still speaks to modern arguments. Download the free EPUB.