Alan Rauch.

Alan Rauch. Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect. Durham, N C: Duke University Pres 2001 Pp x 293 $1995 paper. ISBN 0-8223-2668-x

"Let knowledge make progress from more to more," Tennyson exhorted in his "Prologue" to In Memoriam (1849) It's a commonplace of nineteenth-century British intellectual history that there was now more to know than forever before, and that these recent things to know and fresh ways of knowing them challenged not alone the intellectual, but also the moral and spiritual, capacities of the knowers.

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