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MALLOCK, WILLIAM HURRELL (1849— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 492 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALLOCK, See also:WILLIAM HURRELL (1849— ) , See also:English author, was See also:born at Cockington See also:Court, See also:Devonshire. He was educated privately, and at Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford. He won the See also:Newdigate See also:prize in 1872, and took a second class in the final classical See also:schools in 1874. He attracted considerable See also:attention by his satirical See also:story The New See also:Republic (2 vols., 1877), in which he introduced characters easily recognized as prominent living men, See also:Mark See also:Pattison, See also:Matthew See also:Arnold, W.K. See also:Clifford and others. His keen See also:logic and See also:gift for acute exposition and See also:criticism were displayed in later years both in fiction and in controversial See also:works. In a See also:series of books dealing with religious questions he insisted on See also:dogma as the basis of See also:religion and on the impossibility of See also:founding religion on purely scientific data. In Is See also:Life See also:Worth Living? (1879) and The New See also:Paul and See also:Virginia (1878) he attacked Positivist theories, and in a See also:volume on the intellectual position of the See also:Church of See also:England, See also:Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption (1900), he advocated the See also:necessity of a strictly defined creed. Later volumes on similar topics were Religion as a Credible Doctrine (1903) and The Reconstruction of Belief (1905). He published several brilliant works on See also:economics, directed against See also:Radical and Socialist theories: Social Equality (1882), See also:Property and Progress (1884), Labour and the Popular Welfare (1893), Classes and Masses (1896) and See also:Aristocracy and See also:Evolution (1898); and among his See also:anti-socialist works should be classed his novel, The Old See also:Order Changes (1886). His other novels include A See also:Romance of the Nineteenth See also:Century (1881), A Human Document (1892), The See also:Heart of Life (1895) and The See also:Veil of the See also:Temple (1904).

He published a volume of Poems in r88o, and in 1900 See also:

Lucretius on Life and See also:Death in See also:verse.

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