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Tylor, like other anthropologists, Mr. Huxley, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and their followers and popularisers, constructs on anthropological grounds, a theory of the Origin of Religion. These reasonings led to the belief in souls and spirits.
Natural philosopher, s. of a blacksmith, was b. in London, and apprenticed to a book-binder. He became one of the greatest of British discoverers and popularisers of science, his discoveries being chiefly in the department of electro-magnetism. He had an unusual power of making difficult subjects clearly understood.
The Esprit des Lois took twenty years in writing; and it needed the immense researches of men like Savigny before its significance could fully be grasped. Facile popularisers of this sort may have mollified the drawing-room; but they did not add to political ideas. A more fertile source of inquiry was to be found among the students of constitutional law.
Thereafter he did much original work on heat, sound, and light. In addition to his discoveries T. was one of the greatest popularisers of science. His style, remarkable for lucidity and elegance, enabled him to expound such subjects with the minimum of technical terminology.
The defects of the historical works designed for the general public defects which are sometimes enormous, and have, with many able minds, discredited popular works as a class are the consequences of the insufficient preparation or of the inferior literary education of the "popularisers."
A man so wholly out of tune with the prevailing note of English life could only affect it, of course, by means of disciples and popularisers often even popularisers who but dimly and distantly apprehend his meaning. He must be interpreted to the English by English intermediaries, half Philistine themselves, who speak his language ill, and who miss the greater part of his message.
Philosophy, strictly speaking, working by the light, not of the senses, as does physical science, but by the higher light of the intelligence alone, must be reckoned with by the thoughtful man. Yet this is precisely what so many of the lesser luminaries of science, the popularisers of the great discoveries made by other and greater men, appear to be wholly unable to see.
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