Disciplined Intelligence

This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era. Concentrating on the thought of Canada's major scientists, philosophers, and clerics -- men such as William Dawson and Daniel Wilson, John Watson and W.D. LeSeur, G.M. Grant and Salem Bland -- A Disciplined Intelligence begins by reconstructing the central strands of intellectual and moral orthodoxy prevalent in Anglo-Canadian colleges on the eve of the Darwinian revolution. These include Scottish common sense philosophy and the natural theology of William Paley. The destructive impact of evolutionary ideas on that orthodoxy and the major exponents of the new forms of social evolution -- Spencerian and Hegelian alike -- are examined in detail.McKillop, A. B. is the author of 'Disciplined Intelligence', published 1979 under ISBN 9780773503434 and ISBN 0773503439.