John S. Haller Jr. is emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and has written on subjects ranging from the history of race and sexuality to medicine, pharmacy, and spirituality. He is former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences and, until his retirement, served for twenty years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Positivism: Auguste ComteChapter 2. Assent: John Henry NewmanChapter 3. The Unknown: Herbert SpencerChapter 4. Higher Intelligence: Alfred Russel WallaceChapter 5. Agnosticism: Thomas Henry HuxleyChapter 6. Cosmic Theism: John FiskeChapter 7. Will to Believe: William JamesChapter 8. Telesis: Lester Frank WardChapter 9. Entheism: Paul CarusChapter 10. Roads Not TakenNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Haller has produced a delectable smorgasbord of nineteenth-century thought, enough to satisfy the hungry appetite of any scholar interested in the history and philosophy of science, Victorian society and culture, the history of ideas, or social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." - Michael A. Flannery, author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology

John S. Haller Jr. is emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and has written on subjects ranging from the history of race and sexuality to medicine, pharmacy, and spirituality. He is former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences and, until his retirement, served for twenty years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Positivism: Auguste ComteChapter 2. Assent: John Henry NewmanChapter 3. The Unknown: Herbert SpencerChapter 4. Higher Intelligence: Alfred Russel WallaceChapter 5. Agnosticism: Thomas Henry HuxleyChapter 6. Cosmic Theism: John FiskeChapter 7. Will to Believe: William JamesChapter 8. Telesis: Lester Frank WardChapter 9. Entheism: Paul CarusChapter 10. Roads Not TakenNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Haller has produced a delectable smorgasbord of nineteenth-century thought, enough to satisfy the hungry appetite of any scholar interested in the history and philosophy of science, Victorian society and culture, the history of ideas, or social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." - Michael A. Flannery, author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology

John S. Haller Jr. is emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and has written on subjects ranging from the history of race and sexuality to medicine, pharmacy, and spirituality. He is former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences and, until his retirement, served for twenty years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Positivism: Auguste ComteChapter 2. Assent: John Henry NewmanChapter 3. The Unknown: Herbert SpencerChapter 4. Higher Intelligence: Alfred Russel WallaceChapter 5. Agnosticism: Thomas Henry HuxleyChapter 6. Cosmic Theism: John FiskeChapter 7. Will to Believe: William JamesChapter 8. Telesis: Lester Frank WardChapter 9. Entheism: Paul CarusChapter 10. Roads Not TakenNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Haller has produced a delectable smorgasbord of nineteenth-century thought, enough to satisfy the hungry appetite of any scholar interested in the history and philosophy of science, Victorian society and culture, the history of ideas, or social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." - Michael A. Flannery, author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology