Charles Clement Coe (8 February 1830 – 1 April 1921) was an English Unitarian minister and writer who advocated non-Darwinian evolution.[1][2]
Charles Clement Coe | |
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| Born | 8 February 1830 |
| Died | 1 April 1921 |
| Occupation | Unitarian minister |
Coe was born in King's Lynn and was educated at Manchester College, Oxford. He was President of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862-1863) and was Minister of the Unitarian Great Meeting chapel in Bond Street, Leicester.[1] His was minister at Bank Street Unitarian Chapel in Bolton, Lancashire, from 1874 to 1895, when he moved to Bournemouth.[3]
It was while at Bolton that Coe wrote a large volume, Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution (1895). He defended evolution but rejected natural selection.[1][4][5] The biologist J. Arthur Thomson gave the book a positive review, commenting that it is a very interesting critique of natural selection written with much skill.[6] It was also positively reviewed in The Lancet journal.[5]
Coe was an early writer to use the term neo-Darwinism in 1889.[7]
Publications
edit- Outlines of a Christian Faith (1862)
- The Law of Parsimony and the Argument of Design (1882)
- General Gordon in a New Light: The Cause of War, and the Advocate of Peace (1885)[8]
- Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism (1889)
- Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution (1895)
Notes
edit- ^ a b c "Rev Charles Clement Coe". Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015.
- ^ "Obituaries of Unitarian Ministers". Unitarian Historical Society.
- ^ Bank Street Chapel (1896). Bank Street Chapel, Bolton, Bi-centenary Commemoration 1696-1896 (PDF). Philip Green (London); H. Rawson & Co. (Manchester). p. 141.
- ^ Schiller, F. C. S. (1886). "Nature Versus Natural Selection: an Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe". The Philosophical Review. 5 (3): 437. JSTOR 2175511.
- ^ a b "Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe". The Lancet. 2: 791–792. 1895.
- ^ Thomson, J. Arthur (1896). "Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe". International Journal of Ethics. 7 (1): 132. JSTOR 2375400.
- ^ Pearce, Trevor. (2020). Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0226720081
- ^ Hardman, Malcolm. (2017). Global Dilemmas: Imperial Bolton-le-Moors from the Hungry Forties to the Death of Leverhulme. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1611479034
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