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Hardcover A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era Book

ISBN: 0773503439

ISBN13: 9780773503434

A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era

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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. Concentrating on the thought of Canada's major scientists, philosophers, and clerics -- men such as William Dawson and Daniel Wilson, John Watson and W.D. LeSeur, G.M. Grant and Salem Bland -- A Disciplined Intelligence begins by reconstructing...

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EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO 19TH CENTURY COMMON SENSE REALISM

McKillop's book was recommended to me years ago when I was working on a biography of a well-known 19th century Presbyterian historian. It turned out to be a wonderful resource for background on the impact and evolution of the Scottish Common-Sense Realist Evangelical tradition, not just for Canada but for North America and the English speeking world as well. I marked up a borrowed copy, and finally bought my own, as this is just a great book. I highly recommend it to anybody who is studying the intellectual background of North American higher education in the 19th century. Without a knowledge of Common Sense Realism, much if not most of 19th century intellectual history is really not intelligible. This is not a bad book to start with in that area.
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