Index

• Adams, John Couch, 42, 135
• Albert, Prince, 63
• Alcott, Bronson, 49
• Algebraic notation, 1
• Alison, Archibald, 32, 124
  • “On Spring
  • “On the Encouragement to Active Duty
• Ancient mythologies and theologies
  • Boole’s interest in, 20–26
  • Buddhism, 99
  • Druidism, 24, 90, 101–102
  • in Egypt, 91–95
  • Greek and Roman, 100–101
  • Heathenism, 25, 51, 104
  • Hinduism, 23, 25, 26, 98–100, 104–105
  • paganism in, 25, 87–88, 98
  • in Persia, 88–90
• Anderson-Pelham, Charles, 9
• Antinaturalism, 38
• Aristotle, 1, 29, 50, 81, 181
  • Posterior Analytics, 50
• Arnold, Thomas, Principles of Church Reform, 32
• Assyria, 24, 102
• Astronomy, 78–79, 135
  • laws of, 167–168
  • Newton’s contributions to, 84–85, 107
  • planetary atmosphere and, 109–110
  • and the possibility of life on other planets, 116–118
• Atmosphere, Earth’s
  • air in, 112–113
  • compared to other planets, 109–112
  • volcanic energy and, 113–114
  • water in, 110

• Babbage, Charles, 5
• Bacon, Francis, 20, 165, 166
• Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 22
• Barrow, Isaac, 34, 124
• Barry, James, 62
• Benson, John, 60
• Bentham, Jeremy, 43
• Berkeley, George, 38
• Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne, 18
• Biot, Jean Baptiste, 18
• Bird, Golding, Natural Philosophy, 136
• Birkbeck, George, 9
• Bonaparte, Napoléon, 22, 98
• Boole, George
  • advocacy for leisure, 8
  • beliefs regarding saving mission of Christianity, 26
  • childhood of, 3
  • on claims of science, 14, 52–59, 163
  • “Claims of Science, The,” 3, 14, 163
  • on the continued exercise of reason, 2–3
  • contributions to mathematics, 1–2
  • contributions to the information age, 1
  • on education, 3, 45–52, 147
  • education of, 4
  • egalitarian views of, 46
  • on extraterrestrial life, 27–29
  • as a generalist, 69–70
  • on the German model, 43
  • on the Great Exhibition, 1851, 54
  • on happiness, 44
  • on happiness of children, 47
  • on the human mind, 57–58
  • on inductive reasoning, 42
  • interest in ancient mythologies and theologies, 20–26
  • Isaac Newton and, 16–19
  • Laws of Thought, The, 2, 11, 70
  • on learning by experience, 47–48
  • on learning of history, 39–40, 131–132
  • on leisure and self-improvement, 3, 8, 10, 38–39, 127
  • Mathematical Analysis of Logic, The, 11, 50, 57
  • on moral development, 39–40, 44
  • on naturalism, 43–44
  • “On Belief and Its Relation to Understanding
  • “On the Character and Origin of the Ancient Mythologies,” 3, 21, 87
  • “On the General Method in Analysis
  • “On the Genius and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton,” 3, 73
  • “On the Question: Are the Planets Inhabited?,” 3, 10, 107
  • “Plea for Freedom, A,” 3, 123
  • on pluralism, 27–29
  • on political and religious freedom, 30–34, 123–126
  • public education movement and, 8–9
  • on pursuit of knowledge as activity, 65–66
  • at Queen’s College, Cork, 12–14, 52–53, 67
  • on rectitude of intention, 43
  • religious beliefs of, 33
  • remaining artifacts of thinkers including, 66–71
  • research program and correspondence of, 11
  • “Social Aspect of Intellectual Culture, The,” 3, 14, 59–66, 185
  • structural comparisons by, 24
  • varied interest and methods of, 3
  • views on laws and authority, 26
• Boole Transcriptor, 71
• Boulanger, Nicholas Antoine, 21–22
• Boyle, Robert, 19
• Brash, Richard Rolt, 60
• Brougham, Henry Lord, 30–31
• Brewster, David, 17–18
• Britain
  • Education Act of 1870, 10
  • Egypt and, 22, 24
  • Factory Acts of 1833, 7, 37
  • human suffering and the poor in, 4–7, 46, 56
  • India and, 23–26
  • leisure time in, 8
  • limited suffrage law of 1832, 7
  • literature of, 5–6
  • New Poor Law of 1834, 7
  • public discussion in, 10–11
  • the Reformation in, 31, 41
  • religious and political freedom in, 30–34
  • social aspect of intellectual culture in, 59–66
  • Ten Hours Act of 1847, 34–35
• British Association for the Advancement of Science, 5
• British Museum, 130
• British Register, 69
• British Statesman, 131
• Broad Church Anglicanism, 32
• Bromhead, Edward, 30
• Brown, Thomas, 161
• Bryant, Jacob, 20–26, 94
  • New System or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, A, 20
• Buchanan, Claudius, 23
• Buddhism, 99
• Buffon, Georges, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi, 68
• Bunyan, John, 5
• Butler, Joseph, Sermons, 70
• Byron, Lord, 28

• Caesar, Julius, 39
• Calvinism, 31
• Cambridge Mathematical Journal, 11
• Capitulation of Alexandria, 22
• Carlyle, Thomas, 43, 50, 141
• Carroll, Lewis, 2
• Cases of Conscience, 137
• Casuistry, 137
• Catholics, 31, 53, 60
• Ceylon, 24, 99, 102
• Chalmers, Thomas, 48, 52, 58, 124, 128, 138, 161
  • On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, 58
• Champollion, Jacques-Joseph, Dictionnaire égyptien en écriture hiéroglyphique, 22
• Champollion, Jean-François, 22
• Charge of the Light Brigade, 59
• Charles I, King, 16, 39
• Chartist movement, 36
• Chasseboeuf, Constantin François de, 22
• Children, happiness of, 47
• Christianity, 22, 25, 140, 161
  • Boole’s belief in, 33
  • civilizing mission of, 26
  • in education, 51–52, 125
  • fall of the Roman Empire and, 41–42
  • pluralism and, 27
• Christian literature, 51, 157
• Church of England, 31
• Cicero, 176
• Clarke, Adam, 139
• Clarke, Samuel, 34
• Classical studies, 156–157
• Clement of Alexandria, 99
• Cohen, David, 33
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 50
• Comets, 120
• Communism, 45–46
• Comte, Auguste, 24, 25, 57
• Conant, James B., 55
• Condorcet, Marquis de, 55–56, 57
  • Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Human Mind, 55
• Conduitt, John, 17
• Constructivist theories, 48
• Contributions toward a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork, 61
• Cork Literary and Scientific Society, 61
• Corn Laws, 36
• Cowper, William, 26
• Craik, George David, 39–40
• Crimean War, 59
• Cuvier, Georges, 61
• Cuvierian Society, 14, 60–61, 63–64
• Cyclopaedia, 131

• Dante, 53
• Dargan, William, 63
• D’Aubigné, J. H. M., History of the Reformation, 131
• Debus, Allen, 71
• Deductive reasoning, 181
• De Morgan, Augustus, 11
• De Rouvroy, Claude Henri, 15
• Descartes, René, 77
• Dewey, John, 48
• Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, Boole, L’Oiseau de Nuit, 70
• Dick, Thomas, Celestial Scenery, 28
• Dickens, Charles, 5, 60
• Disraeli, Benjamin, Sybil, 38
• Divine Mind, 190
• Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, Lewis
• Druidism, 24, 90, 101–102
• Dualism in nature, 181
• Durity, Anthony, 70–71
• Duty and virtue, 129
• Dymond, Jonathan, 138

• Early Closing Association, 8–9, 36
• Economist, The, 53
• Edinburgh Review, 5
• Education, 8–9, 10, 38. See also Knowledge
  • Boole on, 3, 45–52, 147
  • Christianity and, 51–52, 125, 140
  • classical studies, 156–157
  • constructivist theories of, 48
  • English composition, 153–154
  • grammar, 152–153
  • history, 39–40, 131–132
  • inductive method and, 48
  • language, 142, 155–156
  • mathematics, 151
  • moral, 39–40, 44, 131–132, 157–159
  • pedagogy, 48–49
  • versus learning by experience
  • widespread resistance to, 46–47
• Education Act of 1870, 10
• Edwards, Jonathan, 32, 125
  • “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
• Egypt, 22, 24, 102–103
  • religious system of ancient, 91–95
• Egyptian hieroglyphs, 22
• Elements of Moral Science, 43, 137
• Elements of Physics, 136
• Eliot, George, 20, 21
  • Middlemarch, 20
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement, 31
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 43, 141
• Encke’s comet, 120
• Engels, Friedrich, 6, 45–46
  • On the Condition of the Working Class in England, 6
• English Civil War, 1640–1647, 39
• English composition education, 153–154
• Enlightenment, the, 5, 22
  • pluralism and, 27
• Etruscans, 90
• Etymology, 94–95
• Everest, Mary, 17, 33
• Evils Which Are Produced by Late Hours of Business, The, 37
• External Nature, worship of, 24
• Extraterrestrial life, 27–28

• Factory Acts of 1833, 7, 37
• Female industrial movement, 62
• First Report of the Directors of the School of Arts, 8–9
• “Fits of Easy Reflection and Transmission
• Fitzgerald, John, 70
• “Fluxions
• Foreign Quarterly Review, 18
• Forster, William Edward, 131
• Freedom, Political and religious, 30–34, 123–126
• French Revolution, 61
• Froebel, Friedrich, 47

• Gadsby, William, 38
• Galileo, 20, 53
• Galloway, Thomas, 18
• Geography, 132–133, 148–149
• Geometry, 80
• German Romanticism, 50
• Gibbon, Edward, 25, 41–42
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 41, 103
• Gnostic philosophy, 140
• God, 29–30
  • accountability to, 128
  • as Divine Architect, 173
  • greatness of, 44
  • meaning of truth and, 140–141
  • philosophers on, 34
  • and the possibility of life on other planets, 116–118
  • will and intelligence of, 138, 189–190
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 44
• Göttingischen gelehrten Anzeigen, 40
• Grammar education, 152–153
• Gravity/gravitation, 76–79, 107, 135, 168
• Great Awakening, 32
• Great Exhibition, 53–54
• “Great transformation
• Gregory, Duncan F., 11
• Grosseteste, Robert, 62
• Guicciardini, Francesco, 39
• Guizot, François, 39, 132
  • History of European Civilization, 132

• Hall, Marie Boas, 69
• Hall, Samuel Carter, 35–36
• Happiness, 44, 129
  • of children, 47
  • moral perception and, 175
• Harvey, J. R., 61
• Heathenism, 25, 51, 104, 156
• Heeren, Arnold Hermann Ludwig, 40
• Heffernan, James, 62
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 6
• Herodotus, 23, 39, 89, 91
• Herschel, John, 18, 28, 29
• Herschel, William, 29
• Hill, Frederic, 9
• Hinduism, 23, 25, 26, 98–100, 104–105
• History
  • biographies, 132
  • geography and study of, 132–133, 148–149
  • moral development through study of, 39–40, 131–132
  • philosophy of, 132
• Hoare, R. C., 101
• Hodgskin, Thomas, 16
• Hogan, John, 62
• Horner, Leonard, 8–9
• Howard, George Frederick, 60
• Human mind, the, 57–58, 166
  • laws of science and, 170–172
  • truth in, 141
• Human suffering, 4–7
  • philanthropy for, 144–145
  • political thought on, 4–5
  • portrayed in literature, 5–6
• Humboldt, Alexander von, 69
• Hume, David, 39
• Humphreys, J. D., 61
• Hutcheson, Francis, 48
• Hyde, Edward (Earl of Clarendon), History of the Rebellion, 39, 131

• India, 23–26, 98–100, 102, 104–105
• Inductive reasoning, 42
  • in education, 48–49
• Industrial Revolution, 4
• Intellectual culture, social aspect of, 14, 59–66, 185–195
• Intelligence of God, 189–190
• Intelligent design, 29–30
• Ireland, 12–15, 36. See also Cuvierian Society
  • Act of Union, 60
• Irish Examiner, 59
• Isis, 91–95

• Jones, Richard, 5
• Jones, W., 139
• Journal des Savants, 18
• Jupiter, 112–113
• Justice, 159–160

• Kane, Robert, The Industrial Resources of Ireland, 13, 64–65
• Kant, Immanuel, 38, 44, 50, 57–58
• Kelland, Philip, 68
• Kelvin, Lord, 68
• Kepler, Johannes, 78
• Kircher, Athanasius, 22
• Knowledge. See also Education
  • claims of science and, 52–59
  • desire for, 172–173, 176–177
  • methods for imparting, 148
  • pursuit of, as activity, 65–66
  • science as increasing system of, 164–165
  • self-improvement through
  • social aspect of intellectual culture an, 14, 59–66, 185
  • specialization and, 69

• Labor laws and movements
  • Factory Acts of 1833, 7, 37
  • retail store hours and, 34–37
  • Ten Hours Act of 1847, 34–35
• Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, 18
• Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 61
• Languages, study of, 142, 155–156
• Lardner, Dionysius, 131
• Laws and authority, 26
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1, 18
• Leisure time, 8, 34–45
  • Boole on, 38–39
• Le Verrier, Urbain, 42, 135
• Liebig, Justus von, 61
• Life
  • characteristics of, 108–109
  • water as requirement for, 110
• Light and color, 74–76
• Limited suffrage law of 1832, 7
• Lincoln Mechanics’ Institute. See Mechanics’ Institute
• Lincolnshire Chronicle, 10
• Lincoln Topographical Society, 27
• Literature, English, 5–6
• Locke, John, 21, 34, 124, 139
  • inductive method and, 48
• Locke, Richard Adams, 28
• Logic. See Mathematics and logic
• London Horticultural Society, 62
• London Royal Society, 5, 71

• Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 35
• MacDowell, Patrick, 62
• MacHale, Desmond, 70, 71
• Machiavelli, Niccolò, 39
• Mackintosh, James, Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, 138
• Magiian priests, 88, 89–90
• Malthus, Thomas, 4, 5
• Mannerism, 141
• Mars, 109–112
• Marx, Karl, 4, 45–46
• Mathematics and logic, 2, 50–51, 57, 69, 182
  • education, 151
  • in question of life on other planets, 118–120
• Maurice, Thomas, 23
• Mechanics’ Institute, 3, 10, 15–16, 20, 34, 42, 125, 126
  • Boole’s “On Education” lecture at, 45
  • political and religious freedom and, 30–31
  • study of physical science at time of establishment of, 135–136
• Metaphysics, 57
• Metropolitan Drapers’ Association, 37
• Michaud, Joseph François, 18
• Michaud, Louis Gabriel, 18
• Mill, James, 22–23, 25, 47
  • History of British India, 23, 105
• Mill, John Stuart, 5, 22, 24, 50, 105
  • Autobiography, 47
  • on education, 47
  • Logic, 57
• Milman, Henry Hart, 42
• Milton, John, 31, 39, 53, 60, 63, 177, 185–186
  • Areopagitica, 31
• Monotheism, 25
• Monthly Magazine, 69
• Moore, Keith, 71
• Moral development, 39–40, 44, 131–132, 157–159
• Moral perception, 175
• Moral philosophy, 136–138
• Müller, Karl Otfried, 21

• Naturalism, 43–44
• Natural Philosophy, 67–68, 136
• Natural Truth, 107
• Naturphilosophie, 68
• Naturwissenschaft, 68
• Neander, August, Life of Jesus Christ, 70
• Newman, John Henry, 31–32
• New Poor Law of 1834, 7
• Newton, Isaac, 3, 11, 15–17, 34, 139
  • birth and education of, 73
  • Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, The, 24
  • compared to Aristotle, 81
  • David Brewster’s biography of, 17–18
  • death of, 83
  • geometry and, 80
  • impact of contributions to astronomy by, 84–85, 107
  • interest in gravity and astronomy, 76–79
  • interest in light and color, 74–76
  • later life of, 82
  • as Master of the Mint, 82
  • moral character of, 83
  • “On the Genius and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
  • Opticks, 20, 74
  • power of generalizing, 80
  • Principia, or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 77–78
• Nichol, John Pringle, 28–29
• Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 40, 131
  • History of Rome, 32, 131

• Ó Doibhlin, Crónán, 70
• Oriel College, Oxford, 31
• Osiris, 91–95
• Ottoman Empire, 59
• Owen, Robert, 5

• Paganism, 25, 87–88, 98
• Paley, William, 137
• Peacock, George, 1
• Pedagogy, 48–49
• Peel, Robert, 41
• Pelham, Henry, 9
• Periodicity, 108
• Persia, 23, 24, 88–90, 102
• Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 44, 48–49
• “Peter Bell, a Tale
• Peterloo Massacre, 30
• Philanthropy, 144–145
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 11
• Physical science, 133–136
• Pictorial History of England, 39–40
• Planetary systems. See Astronomy; Atmosphere, Earth’s
• Plato, 19, 77, 176
• Pluralism, 27–29
• Plutarch, 77, 92
• Polanyi, Karl, 6
• Polytheism, 20, 25, 97, 103–106
• Pope, Alexander, 44
• Portlaw Cotton Factory, 62
• Portlock, Joseph Ellison, 61
• Power, T., 61
• Practical Theology, 137
• Primitivism, 23
• Protestant Reformation, 31, 41
• Public discussion, 10–11
• Puritanism, 32
• Pursuit of knowledge, 65–66
• Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 32, 125

• Queen’s College, Cork, 12–14, 52–53, 67
• Quetelet, Adolphe, 5
  • Summary of a Course of Natural Philosophy, 67

• Refraction, 74–75
• Ricardo, David, 4
• “Right Use of Leisure, The,” 3, 8, 10, 127
• Robertson, William, 23, 131
  • History of Charles V, 131
• Roche, James, 61
• Rogers, Henry, 32
• Romantic movement, 28
• Rosetta Stone, 22
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Emile: ou, de l’Education, 47
• Royal Cork Institution, 60–61
• Royal Society, 20, 74
• Ruhmkorff, Heinrich, 61
• Russell, Bertrand, 2

• Saturn, 113
• Scepticism, 175–176
• Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 68
• Schiller, Friedrich, History of the Thirty Years War, 39, 131
• Schröter, Johann Hieronymus, 29
• Science
  • claims of, 14, 52–59, 163
  • desire for knowledge and, 172–173, 176–177
  • the human mind and, 170–172
  • indefinite human progression with, 178–179
  • laws of nature and, 166–170, 193–194
• Sedgwick, Adam, 5
• Senior, Nassau William, Political Economy, 70
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 28
• Sismondi, Simon de, 39
• Skinner, Cyriack, 185
• Smith, Adam, 23–24, 34, 44, 46, 124
• Snow, James, 30
• Socialism, 4–5
• Society of Friends, 138
• Socrates, 193
• Spinoza, Benedict de, 34
• Stewart, Dugald, 47
• Structural comparison, 24
• Sullivan, William K., 61
• Sun, The, 28
• Sunday School Teachers’ Magazine, 38
• Supreme Intelligent Cause, 176
• Symbolic logic, 1–2

• Tacitus, 39
• Tait, Peter Guthrie, 68
• “Task, The
• Taylor, A. J. P., 59
  • History of Modern Civilization, 132
• Taylor, William Cooke, 41, 124
  • Factories and the Factory System, 41
• Ten Hours Act of 1847, 34–35
• Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 59–60
• Thévenot, Melchisédech, 23
• Thomson, William, 12
• Times (London), 59
• Treatise on Natural Philosophy, 68
• Trinity College, Dublin, 53, 74
• Trollope, Anthony, 12
  • Kellys and the O’Kellys, The, 12
  • Macdermots, The, 12
• Truth
  • discovery of, 174
  • independent existence of, 38
  • meaning of, 140–141
  • moral, 96, 104, 106
  • of morals and politics, 65
  • natural, 107
  • religious, 51, 53
  • seeking of, 21, 23, 43, 128, 138–139
• Turner, Martyn, 10
• Twomey, Emer, 70
• Tytler, Alexander Fraser, 41, 131
  • Elements of General History, 131
  • Universal History, 41
• Unitarianism, 31, 125

• University College Cork (UCC) Library, 67, 70, 71

• Vaughan, Edward Thomas, 32, 124
  • Age of Great Cities, 132
• Venus, 109–111, 114
• Vericour, Raymond de, 53
• Vico, Giambattista, 24
• Victoria, Queen, 63
• Villiers, George William Frederick, 52
• Virchow, Rudolf, 67
  • “Life Full of Work and Toil Is Not a Burden but a Benediction, A
• Virgil, 177
• Volcanic energy, 113–114
• Voltaire, 21, 39, 131
  • Age of Louis XIV, 39, 131

• Walsh, John, 62
• Ward, William, 23
• Wardlaw, Ralph, 70, 138
  • Christian Ethics, 70
• Watt, James, 16
• Wayland, Francis, 43, 137
• Weber, Max, 69
• Whately, Richard, 124, 140
• Whewell, William, 5, 18, 50
  • Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics as a Part of a Liberal Education, 50
• Will of God, 138, 189–190
• Wills, William Gorman, 62
• Wordsworth, William, 28

• Young, Thomas, 68
  • Lectures, 136
• Young Men’s Christian Association, 36

• Zoology, 68
• Zoroaster, 88–89