Excerpt from On False Education
"We recommend our readers to peruse this work dispassionately and to form their own opinions, and they will, we imagine, be largely assisted by absence of prejudice It would be futile to disguise the fact that in the work, as a whole, the author represents the tendency of modern thought among thinking people." - Science Gossip.
"The idea which inspires him is not worthless; it is that of a kingdom of heaven on earth." - Manchester Guardian.
"Mr. Hovenden is an audacious and fascinating author... His fascination arises from the magnitude of his subjects and the unconventional, unpedantic manner in which he treats them; his audacity consists in his assumed emancipation from authority and scientific tradition." - Manchester Courier.
"The aim of the book is to throw, as it were, a searchlight on the pitiable and impenetrable darkness that prevails in regard to the study of nature, and to solve the mystery of the unknowable Simplicity rather than subtlety marks the analysis of his subject, and not at any time is his phraseology enigmatical or technically obscure. While his arguments are based on cases stated, he is not so arrogant and dogmatic as to assert that on the evidence he adduces he is entitled to a verdict of "proven."" Belfast News Letter.
"As regards his scientific views, there is much that is true, Tor he has borrowed largely and carefully." - Standard.
"There is no doubt that the enlightened ideas set forth in the volume cannot but relieve the burden of a mind borne down by superstition." - Scotsman.
The book is suggestive and interesting, if only for the numberless and judicious scientific quotations contained in its notes." - Truth.
"Written in a straightforward and vigorous style, Mr. Hovenden"s book should command wide attention as an able statement of the scientific conception of life." - Literary Guide.
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