The complete online text of Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

Sculpture is different from scientific models in that models are scaled representations of reality. While both convey information, sculpture achieves its intent directly since the viewer does not have to account for any differences in scale, and is also self-representational since it directs attention...

I MUST BEGIN WITH A CONFESSION, a strange confession perhaps yet a candid one. From the moment I stepped onto the airplane to make the journey here and accept this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, I have been feeling the steady, searching gaze...