Chapter II: Progress of Anti-Christian Thought

As to the physical sciences, compare White, Baden Powell, Whewell, and Draper, as above cited; also Draper's Conflict between Religion and Science (Internat. Lib. of Science); and the series of Histories of the Sciences published by the R. P. A. On the development of philosophy, cosmic and moral, and of Biblical Criticism, see the references in the author's Short History of Freethought. A specially full and illuminating study of modern thought is made in Mr. A. W. Benn's History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century (two vols. Longmans, 1906).