Abstract

Joseph Priestley, scientist and minister, wrote on an extraordinarily wide range of topics. In this sampler volume are selections on educational philosophy, political theory, science and religion. Bland though his ideas may seem to us today, some of them were controversial enough to make necessary his flight from England to the United States in 1791. Priestley's autobiography, very evocative of the intellectual climate of eighteenth century England, is also included.—A. E. F.