Terrible Tales of Ancient Egypt

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: G. E. Moore, John Maynard Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Chaplin, John Stuart Mill, Francis Crick, Philip Larkin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Terry Pratchett, T. H. White, Fred Hoyle, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Robert Bolt, David Attenborough, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Martin Amis, Cecil Rhodes, Julian Huxley, Daniel Day-Lewis, Charles Darwin, Noel Gallagher, Arthur C. Clarke, Herbert Spencer, Anthony Kenny, Simon le Bon, John Collier, Herbert Read, Sid Watkins, Emilia Fox, Mitch Benn, Donald Watson, Henry Labouchère, Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell, David Baboulene, George Holyoake, Frederick James Furnivall, Leslie Stephen, Laura Marling, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Michael Ruse, Michael Foster, Allan Beswick, Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, Hertha Marks Ayrton, Richard Pankhurst, Robert John Lechmere Guppy, Patrick Bateson, Charles Cayley, Stephen Oliver, A. W. Benn. Excerpt: Alfred William Benn (1843 1915) was an agnostic and an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association . His book A History of Modern Philosophy was published in the Thinker's Library series in 1930. He was the author of The Greek Philosophers (2 vols, 1882); The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century (2 vols, 1906); and The History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy (2 vols, 1912). Benn was also a member of the London Positivist group and a friend of the lawyer and positivist Vernon Lushington. Lushington's daughter Susan recorded in her diary on 3rd September 1889 that Benn and his wife visited the Lushingtons Surrey home - Pyports, Cobham - and how Mrs Benns told her "how she came to be a positivist." References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Allan Beswick is a radio broadcaster who presents the breakfast show on BBC Radio Manchester in Manchester. His jobs pri...