Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America - Paperback

by Arthur Wrobel (Editor)

Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "pseudo-sciences""-disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodology with moral and spiritual concerns, disseminated with a combination of aggressive entrepreneurship and

Author Biography

Arthur Wrobel is associate professor of American literature at the University of Kentucky and the editor of American Notes and Queries.