TY - BOOK AU - Dawson, Gowan AU - Dawson, Gowan AU - Lightman, Bernard V. TI - Victorian scientific naturalism : : community, identity, continuity SN - 9780226109503 U1 - 501 DAW PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - : The University of Chicago Press KW - Science KW - Philosophy & theory KW - Naturalism -- History -- 19th century KW - Naturalism -- Religious aspects KW - Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century KW - Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century KW - Naturalism KW - Science -- Social aspects KW - Science -- history KW - Intellectual life N1 - Introduction / Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman -- Forging friendships -- "The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet": Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on paleontological method / Gowan Dawson -- Evolutionary naturalism on high: the victorians sequester the Alps / Michael S. Reidy -- Paradox: the art of scientific naturalism / George Levine -- Institutional politics -- Huxley and the Devonshire Commission / Bernard Lightman -- Economies of scales: evolutionary naturalists and the victorian examination system / James Elwick -- Odd man out: was Joseph Hooker an evolutionary naturalist? / Jim Endersby -- Broader alliances -- Sunday lecture societies: naturalistic scientists, unitarians, and secularists unite against sabbatarian legislation / Ruth Barton -- The conduct of belief: agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the formation of intellectual communities / Paul White -- Where naturalism and theism met: the uniformity of nature / Matthew Stanley -- New generations -- The fate of scientific naturalism: from public sphere to professional exclusivity / Theodore M. Porter -- The successors to the X Club? Late victorian naturalists and nature, 1869-1900 / Melinda Baldwin -- From agnosticism to rationalism: evolutionary biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and early twentieth-century scientific naturalism /- Peter J. Bowler -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of major works on scientific naturalism N2 - Examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite ER -