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work_7pyey2pb4bdmpouzsepu2xamay	Jeffrey Robert Mackowiak	The poetics of mid-Victorian scientific materialism in the writings of John Tyndall, W.K. Clifford and others	2013	242	.pdf	application/pdf	102991	5931	58	Before them, materialism could be viewed as an interpretation of theoretical constructs; subsequently, it seemed to men like Tyndall and Clifford a The former, like many Victorian positivists, advanced a belief in death's physical dominion but metaphoric impotence if life has been lived well and nobly, dedicated to the betterment of both self and species. the First Law, in particular, which Tyndall referred to as one of science's 'great generalizations', 'has been called the most important discovery of the nineteenth century', as Sharlin has universal history, like sentience and organic growth, material phenomena, as Tyndall explained at Belfast (BA, p. Frank Turner, in 'Victorian Scientific Naturalism and Thomas Carlyle', concurs with Tyndall's (perhaps biased, one suspects, by friendship and long familiarity) opinions in this regard: 'Preaching Science: John Tyndall and the Rhetoric of Victorian Scientific Naturalism'. 'Preaching Science: John Tyndall and the Rhetoric of Victorian Scientific Naturalism'. 'John Tyndall and Victorian Scientific Naturalism'.	./cache/work_7pyey2pb4bdmpouzsepu2xamay.pdf	./txt/work_7pyey2pb4bdmpouzsepu2xamay.txt