The Life of Richard Lord Westbury, Vol. 1 of 2


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Excerpt from The Life of Richard Lord Westbury, Vol. 1 of 2: Formerly Lord High Chancellor; With Selections From His Correspondence To Eleanor, Lady Westbury, I am indebted for much important information and for access to some private letters. My warm thanks are due to Mr. Augustus B. Abraham, brother-in-law of Lord Westbury, whose recollections have furnished much of the material for the early life, and who has rendered most valuable information, advice, and assistance with respect to other portions of the work. To other members of the family and to many of their friends who have given me much kind aid, 'i tender my grateful acknowledgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







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At the end of June 1860, the great and good of Britain’s intellectual establishment gathered in Oxford for the annual jamboree of the Association for the Advancement of Science. Only six months after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the stage was set and the characters in place for the mother of all donnybrooks. But for all the posturing and opinionating about the nature of evolution, the exchanges held massive and broader implications for social authority and established control in a changing world. Although taking place over 150 years ago, the Oxford debate still inflames the same passions today and continues to set the defining terms for the struggle between science and religion. As such, this book is as much a pertinent contribution to today’s cultural wars as it is a convincing historical record.