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=100  1\$aDesmond, Adrian,$eauthor.
=245  10$aReign of the Beast :$bThe Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution /$cAdrian Desmond.
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=505  0\$aAbout the AuthorAbbreviationsPreface1. Evolution Underground – Setting the Stage2. Introducing SaullPart I — 1820s: Dirty Dives and Subversive Origins3. From Eternity to Here: Blasphemy, Eternalism, and the Emerging Question of Origins4. From the Devil’s Chaplain to That Dirty Little JacobinPart II — 1830s: The Shaven Ape at New Jerusalem’s Gate5. Perfectibility6. Founding the Museum — June 18317. Monkey-Man —The Bristol Lecture 18338. The Antichrist and the Shaven Monkey9. Damned Monkeys10. An Appeal to the Revolutionary Enemy11. Creation on the Cheap12. Making Sense of the Museum13. A Purpose-built Museum — 183514. Satires on Saull15. Martyrs, Churches, and Vestries16. Lease-holder of the New Moral World Part III — 1840s: Atheists and Aborigines17. Halls of Science18. The Atheist Breakaway19. Backlash20. Peace and Harmony21. Secularism and Salvage22. British Aborigines23. Reforming Scientific Society24. Museum and Pantheon for the Masses25. Celebrating the DeadPart IV — 1850s: Destruction26. Provisions for the Afterlife27. Death and DissolutionAppendix 1: The Authorship of “D.”. 1826. “Letter From A Friend: On Fossil Exuviae and Planetary Motion.” Republican 14 (8 September 1826): 265–67Appendix  2: The Authorship of “D.”. 1832. Letter from a Student in the Sciences to a Student of Theology. London: John BrooksAppendix 3: Saull’s PublicationsAppendix 4: The Major London Lecture Venues of Freethought, Radicalism, and Owenism in the 1830sAppendix 5: Geology Lecturers in Owenite, Radical, and Mutual Instruction InstitutionsAppendix 6: Saull’s Close CoterieBibliographyIndex
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=520  \\$aIn the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.
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=653  \\$aEvolution theories
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=653  \\$aFossils
=653  \\$aDinosaurs
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