Author: Neil H. Petrie
Neil H. Petrie is professor emeritus of English at Colorado State University. Before his retirement, Dr. Petrie taught numerous courses in nineteenth-century English literature and culture, including one that examined pre-and post-Darwinian ideas in Victorian England.
Agnosticism Revisited
Agnosticism, Thomas Henry Huxley’s venerable coinage from Victorian England, has fallen on hard times. Over a century has passed since Huxley did battle with what he called the “ecclesiasticism” of his time, and the term he used to describe the process by which belief should be judged has suffered from widespread misunderstanding and debasement. Suspecting …