John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… a lifelong interest in materialism, which underpinned many of his ideas through to the 1830s. 3 In 1793 he published an Essay Towards A Definition of Animal Vitality based on ideas tried out at the Physical Society, in which he argued that … political potential of materialism saw him ejected from the Physical Society, but in the same year that he published An Essay Towards A Definition of Animal Vitality he published his genre-bending The Peripatetic , a compendium of verse and …
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