Father And Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Classics) - Softcover

Father And Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 272 pages. cover worn, name ffep, text tanned, The era in which faith and reason conflicted in a profound manner seems far a way, and perhaps even a bit incomprehensible, to citizens of the modern world. M ost of us take for granted our right to choose the life of the mind over that of the spirit without feeling remorse. At the very least, we've learned that the t wo need not be mutually exclusive. But this is hard-won ease, born of a conflict that began with the Victorians. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (1907) traces his own reckoning--as well as that of his father, the eminent British zoologist Phi lip Gosse--with the clash. His story is, as he declares, The diagnosis of a dyi ng Puritanism.The only Puritanism that dies here, however, is the author 's. His parents were Christian fundamentalists and as a result, young Edmund was denied interaction with other children as well as all variety of fictional tale s. Here was perfect purity, Gosse writes, perfect intrepidity, perfect abnega tion; yet there was also narrowness, isolation, and absence of perspective, let it boldly be admitted, an absence of humanity. Despite all of this, the child m aintained his sense of humor, which adds much levity to a tale of such potential ly grim proportions.When Edmund was 8, his mother died of cancer, leaving him the care of a man in whom sympathetic imagination . was singularly absen t. Philip Gosse held on to his faith in God above all else--so much so, in fact , that when evolutionary theory was announced to the world, he dismissed it enti rely because it discounted the book of Genesis. Little by little, Edmund began t o chafe against the traditions he had inherited. By the age of 11, he already sa w himself imprisoned for ever in the religious system which had caught me and w. Artikel-Nr. 5707ag

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