Higher Pantheism
Romantic sensibility and political necessity led Humphry Davy, Britain's most prominent scientist in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, to pantheism: nature worship, involving for him a fervent belief in the immortality of the soul. Rapt with a vision of sublimity, from mountain tops...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2000
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Zygon
Year: 2000, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 603-612 |
Further subjects: | B
Nature
B Victorians B Science B James Glaisher B Britain B Mountains B Thomas Henry Huxley B Humphry Davy B Worship B Pantheism B Sublime B Romanticism B Alfred Tennyson B Agnostic B John Tyndall B Michael Faraday B Victor Frankenstein |
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Summary: | Romantic sensibility and political necessity led Humphry Davy, Britain's most prominent scientist in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, to pantheism: nature worship, involving for him a fervent belief in the immortality of the soul. Rapt with a vision of sublimity, from mountain tops or balloons, men of science in succeeding generations also found in pantheism a reason for their vocation and a way of making sense of their world. It should be seen as an alternative both to active participation in church life (like Faraday's) and to a gritty agnosticism (like Huxley's), indicating again how subtle and complex relationships were between science and religion in the nineteenth century. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00300 |