Item 2 - Exercise book, containing notes, essays, etc., in W. K. Clifford’s hand

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Exercise book, containing notes, essays, etc., in W. K. Clifford’s hand

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  • c. 1866 (Creation)

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1 volume containing 104 leaves foliated i-iii, 1-101, with 1 loose single sheet inside the front cover

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The contents are as follows:

Quotation in French, indexed ‘Religion not to meddle with science’.

Quotations, in Latin, from the works of Aquinas.

‘References about Attractions.’

Note indexed ‘R[eligious] systems founded on practice’.

‘Maria Victrix.’ A story.

Note on the ‘Divine Maya’.

‘Theoretical Dynamics.’

‘Geometry.’

Notes on Nourisson’s Spinoza et le Naturalisme Contemporain (1866).

‘Spinoza.’

‘The River.’

Untitled essay on conservatism.

‘The One Religion of the Future.’

‘Of Perfection.’

‘Is the perfection of the Social State a complete formula, including the whole of morality?’ Notes for a debate?

‘Allez en avant, et la Foi vous viendra.’

‘Return of the Golden Age.’ Syllabus and essay.

‘To what extent is the One Duty compatible with the retention of the Christian Name?’

‘Are we to desire the speedy disestablishment of the English Church?’

(Inserted is a sheet of notes headed ‘Character of Scientific Progress’.)

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