[Rarebooks] fa: SADDUCEE VERSUS PHARISEE - re. CONSTANCE NADEN & NEO-MATERIALISM - 1892

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian theology and philosophy, auctions ending Sunday, July 14. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


George M. McCrie: Sadducee versus Pharisee: A Vindication of Neo-Materialism. In Two Essays. I.— Constance Naden: A Study in Auto-Monism. II.— Pseudo-Scientific Terrorism. With an Appendix Reprinted from "The Journal of Mental Science." London: Bickers & Son, [1892]. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo pamphlet, stitch-bound (presumably as issued); 39 + [1] pp.

Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden (1858-1889) was "a poet, atheist, scientific theorist, and philosopher. Her verse, published early in her short, late-nineteenth-century career, reflects her interests in the biological sciences, the question of evolution, issues of religious faith and doubt, and the position of women… After publishing two collections of poetry she abandoned writing verse. An accomplished student of science, she produced a number of speeches on scientific and  political subjects, and later turned to philosophical writing, most of which remained unpublished till after her death" (Orlando [online], Cambridge University). Pamphlet with some modest toning to the edges, otherwise clean and sound; the stitched binding is fragile but secure. Uncommon: a search of Copac and WorldCat finds only two copies in libraries or institutions  (St. Andrews, Staatsbibliothek Berlin).