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(i) John TYNDALL. The Sabbath. Presidential Address to the Glasgow Sunday Society Delivered in St Andrew's Hall October 25, 1880. London, Spottiswoode and Co. for Longman, Green, and Co., 1880. 8vo (210 x 136mm), pp. 48; a few light spots; original printed upper and lower wrappers; wrappers a little spotted and marked, otherwise a very good copy. First edition in book form. (ii) Robert WALLACE. Irish Usurpation in British Politics (Revised and Authorised Report.) Speech Delivered . in Committee of the House of Commons, on July 12th and 13th, 1893. London, Colston & Company for The Temple Company, [?1893]. 8vo (212 x 136mm), pp. 16; variable light spotting; original printed upper and lower wrappers; wrappers spotted, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare. (iii) William Edward Hartpole LECKY. Introduction to Democracy and Liberty . Reprinted from the Cabinet Edition. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 8vo (212 x 136mm), pp. lv, [1 (blank)]; a few light spots; original printed upper and lower wrappers; wrappers a little spotted, otherwise a very good copy. First separate edition. Three works bound in one volume, early 20th-century English half polished calf gilt over cloth by Bickers & Son, London, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in three, patterned endpapers, top edges gilt, brown silk marker; extremities minimally rubbed, spine slightly faded, endpapers slightly spotted; provenance: Arthur E. Clementson, 19 April 1911 (pencilled inscription on front flyleaf, noting that the volume was bound by Bickers; The Sabbath with further inscription on upper wrapper dated 18 January 1881).A Sammelband of three late-nineteenth-century British political works, bound up for the owner by Bickers. The first item, The Sabbath, is by the scientist John Tyndall (1820-1893), and was an address delivered to the Glasgow Sunday Society in his capacity as president. The Society was formed to obtain the opening of museums, art galleries, libraries and gardens on Sundays, to promote the delivery of Sunday lectures on literary, philosophical, and scientific subjects, and to provide concerts of high-class music on Sundays. Like his great friend T.H. Huxley, Tyndall was committed to progressive scientific ideals 'which challenged the hegemony of the traditional religious world view' (ODNB), and in this lecture he argues that Sabbatarians should make common cause with the reformers, exhorting them to, 'Back with your support the moderate and considerate demands of the Sunday Society, which scrupulously avoids interfering with the hours devoted by common consent to public worship. Offer the museum, the picture gallery, and the public garden as competitors to the public-house. By so doing you will fall in with the spirit of your time, and row with, instead of against, the resistless current along which man is borne to his destiny' (pp. 44-45). Perhaps unexpectedly, Tyndall makes his case from a conservative standpoint: 'Most of you here are Liberals; perhaps Radicals, perhaps even Republicans. In the proper sense of the term, I am a Conservative. Madness or folly can demolish: it requires wisdom to conserve [.] The first requisite of a true conservatism is foresight [.] We have here represented not a true, but a false and ignorant conservatism. The true conservative looks ahead and prepares for the inevitable. He forestalls revolution by securing, in due time, sufficient amplitude for the national vibrations' (p. 45). The address was first published in the November 1880 issue of The Nineteenth Century and then separately published with small additions in this form, before being collected in Tyndall's New Fragments (London, 1892).Written by Robert Wallace (1831-1899), the theologian, sometime editor of The Scotsman, and radical Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East from 1886 to 1899, Irish Usurpation in British Politics is a closely-argued and witty attack on Gladstone's proposal to omit sub-sections 3 and 4 of c. N° de ref. del artículo H4019
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