Books in the Key Issues S. series

Part of the "Key Issues" series which offers insight into the historical, social and political context in which a key publication or topic emerged. This is the second volume of a two-volume set containing important secondary literature on Hume on religion.

The 1870s is a key decade in the evolution of British thinking about the nature, purpose and future of empire. This book documents the writings that were central to this debate, and includes contributions by British thinkers, statesmen and officials such as J.A. Froude and Robert Lowe.

The "Key Issues" series makes available the contemporary responses that met important books on their first appearance. The notion that language was a divine gift to humanity was seriously questioned by Darwin's theory of evolution. This text contains various contributions to the controversy.