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Edward Spencer Beesly

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British historian and philosopher

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According to Wikipedia, Edward Spencer Beesly was an English positivist, trades union activist, and historian. Life He was born on 23 January 1831 in Feckenham, Worcestershire, the eldest son of the Rev. James Beesly and his wife, Mary Fitzgerald, of Queen's county, Ireland. After reading Latin and Greek with his father, in the autumn of 1846 Beesly was sent to King William's College on the Isle of Man, an evangelical establishment whose inadequate instruction and low moral tone were later depicted in Eric, or, Little by Little, by his school friend F. W. Farrar.

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Edward Spencer Beesly's Published Works

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  • The fundamental principles of the positive philosophy : being the first two chapters of the "Cours de philosophie positive" of Auguste Comte (2)
  • Some public aspects of Positivism : annual address delivered at the Cavendish Rooms, Mortimer Street, W., on the festival of humanity, 1 Moses 93 (1 January, 1881) (1)
  • Illustrations of Positivism, a Selection of Articles From the 'Positivist Review', Ed. By E.S. Beesly (1)
  • Positivism Before the Church Congress, a Reply to Mr. Balfour [in His Address to the Manchester Church Congress] (0)
  • The Sheffield outrages and the meeting at Exeter Hall : two leeters (0)
  • Queen Elizabeth, 1533-1603 (0)
  • The social future of the working class : a lecture delivered to a meeting of Trades' unionists, May 7, 1868 (0)
  • A Discourse on the Positive Spirit, Tr. With Notes by E.S. Beesly (0)
  • Fowler's Julius Caesar (1892) (0)

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