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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) moves beyond Alan Willard Brown's 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel. The contributors shed light on many of the colourful figures that joined the Society as well as the alliances that they formed with fellow members. The collection also examines the major concepts that informed the papers presented at Society meetings. By discussing groups, important individuals, and underlying concepts, the volume contributes to a rich, new picture of Victorian intellectual life during the 1870's, a period when intellectuals were wondering how, and what, to believe in a time of social change, spiritual crisis, and scientific progress.
Contents
List of figures
The Contributors
Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, and Richard England: Introduction
Part I: Society and the Politics of Engagement
1: Bruce Kinzer: The Personalization of Intellectual Combat: James Fitzjames Stephen and the Metaphysical Society
2: Catherine Marshall: The Editors of the Metaphysical Society or, Disseminating the Ideas of the Metaphysicians
3: Andrew Vincent: Liberalism and the Metaphysical Society
Part II: Miracles, Unseen Universes, and Natural Causes
4: Gowan Dawson: The Cross-Examination of the Physiologist : T. H. Huxley and the Resurrection
5: Richard England: Cause, Nature, and the limits of language: Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of Theism
6: Anne DeWitt: Expertise in the Miracles Debate
7: W. J. Mander: Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe
Part III: Intuitionism and Empiricism: Mapping the Boundaries
8: Ian Hesketh: Evolution, Ethics, and the Metaphysical Society, 1869 1875
9: Piers J. Hale: Between intuition and empiricism: William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind and moral
10: William Sweet: Intuitionism, Religious Belief, and Proof in Papers of the Metaphysical Society
11: Bernard Lightman: Catholics and the Metaphysical Basis of Science
12: Richard England, Bernard Lightman, and Catherine Marshall: Postscript
Index
