Generations of Reason: A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family

This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason permeated t...