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THE AGNOSTIC ISLAND, Watts & Co., 1891, first edition, chipped front and rear paper panels attached to front and rear boards, hand written title to spine, else a good copy with vg+ contents.
THE AGNOSTIC ISLAND. by GOULD, F.J. (Frederick James), 1855-1938 :
by GOULD, F.J. (Frederick James), 1855-1938 :
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THE AGNOSTIC ISLAND.
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London : Watts & Co., [1891]. First edition. An overtly polemical novel from the man credited as the first to use "humanist" in its modern sense - "Little more than a pamphlet; but a clever pamphlet, it must be confessed. Its purpose is to show the superiority of the Agnostic position over that of the Christian ... by imagining a Utopia, in New Guinea, inhabited by Agnostic colonists, who are as near moral perfection as it seems possible for mortal man to get. To them arrive three missionaries sent out to convert the Agnostics ... Two retire and the third is perverted by a charming female Agnostic" (Yorkshire Post, 29th July 1891). Crown 8vo (19cm). 124,[iv] + [16]pp advertisements. Original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt and blocked in blind; some minor wear at tips; a few slight marks, but a very good copy of a scarce book.
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- Keywords English Literature, Fiction
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The Agnostic Island
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