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40 Cards in this Set
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Matthew Arnold |
Dover Beach |
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Charles Darwin |
Origins of Species and Descent of Man |
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The Age of Doubt |
crisis of faith...a life lived so full no time to reflect where we have been |
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Religion & Science |
science chipping away at the foundations of faith.. complex mechanism such as a watch we infer that the watch must have had a maker; similarly when we see the order and beauty of the universe, we must infer the existence of a Creator |
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Thomas Babingtonn MaCaulay |
Lord Bacongood things science has done. "a point which yesterday was invisible is its goal today and will be its starting post tomorrow |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson |
"The Kracken" - Sea Monstor, biblical last days"In Memoriam" - meditation on mortality evolution, all the wheels of being slow, tho' nature red in tooth and claw |
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In what jail (spelled "gaol" in Britain) did WIlde serve a sentence of two years hard labor? |
Reading Gaol |
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What was the name of Wilde's aristocrat lover? |
Lord Alfred Douglas |
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What did Wilde declare to the customs officers in America? |
"I have nothing to declare except my genius" |
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What kind of religion did Stevenson's family practice when he was a child? |
Calvinism |
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What happened in London the year after Jekyll and Hyde appeared? |
The notorious Jack-the-Ripper murders |
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What magazine did Sherlock Holmes's short stories first appear in? |
The Strand Magazine |
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What was Lewis Carroll's real name, and what was he a professor of? |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Mathematics |
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What did Henry James call Victorian novels? |
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What are "numbers" of a Victorian novel? |
They were monthly or weekly magazine that came out in parts. They gave the reader a wealth of additional material for about the same price as "three deckers" |
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What are "three deckers"? |
Long novels packaged in three separate volumes that thereby tripled rental fees and allowed three readers to peruse a single novel at one time |
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What was the literacy rate in England by 1900? |
97% |
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What did Hopkins think his poetry "err[ed] on the side of"? |
oddness |
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What kind of priest was Hopkins? |
Jesuit priest |
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What was the title of Philip Gosse's rebuttal of Darin and what did he think God hid in the rocks? |
"Omphalos" (1857) "God hid the fossils in the rocks" |
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What was Arnold's job after 1851? |
School Inspector |
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What did Arnold think would replace religion and philosophy? |
Poetry |
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What islands did Darwin visit off the coast of South America? |
Galapagos Island |
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Who also theorized evolution in 1858, spurring Darwin to publish? |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Who proposed an "argument from Design" in 1802? |
William Paley --> "when we see a complex mechanism such as a watch, we infer that the watch must have had a maker; similarly , when we see the order and beauty of the universe, we must infer the existence of a Creator". |
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What did Ruskin hear at the end of every bible verse?
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clink of Hammers - geologists
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What did paleontologists discover in 1856?
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Neanderthal Skeletons
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Death of Oscar Wilde |
1900 |
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WIlde's The Importance of Being Earnest |
1895 |
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First Sherlock Holmes Novel |
1887 |
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Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
1886 |
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Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass |
1871 |
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Darwin's Decent of Man |
1871 |
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Carroll's Alice in Wonderland |
1865 |
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Dyce's Pegwell Bay |
1860 |
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Darwin's Origin of Species |
1859 |
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Tennyson's In Memoriam |
1850 |
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Word "scientist" invented |
1840 |
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Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle |
1839 |
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Lyell's Principle of Geology |
1833 |
