Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Forging Friendships
5. 1. “The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet”: Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on Paleontological Method 27
6. 2. Evolutionary Naturalism on High: The Victorians Sequester the Alps 55
7. 3. Paradox: The Art of Scientifi c Naturalism 79
8. Institutional Politics
9. 4. Huxley and the Devonshire Commission 101
10. 5. Economies of Scales: Evolutionary Naturalists and the Victorian Examination System 131
11. 6. Odd Man Out: Was Joseph Hooker an Evolutionary Naturalist? 157
12. Broader Alliances
13. 7. Sunday Lecture Societies: Naturalistic Scientists, Unitarians, and Secularists Unite against Sabbatarian Legislation 189
14. 8. The Conduct of Belief: Agnosticism, the Metaphysical Society, and the Formation of Intellectual Communities 220
15. 9. Where Naturalism and Theism Met: The Uniformity of Nature 242
16. New Generations
17. 10. The Fate of Scientifi c Naturalism: From Public Sphere to Professional Exclusivity 265
18. 11. The Successors to the X Club? Late Victorian Naturalists and Nature, 1869–1900 288
19. 12. From Agnosticism to Rationalism: Evolutionary Biologists, the Rationalist Press Association, and Early Twentieth-Century Scientifi c Naturalism 309
20. Acknowledgments 327
21. Bibliography of Major Works on Scientifi c Naturalism 329
22. Contributors 335
23. Index 337