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Eighteenth-Century Moral Philosophy & Natural Theology

  1. British Moralists*

  2. Selections ranging from Francis Bacon to Henry Sidgwick

  3. The Works of George Berkeley*

  4. The Works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz*

  5. The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke*

  6. The Complete Works and Correspondence of David Hume*

  7. The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert (a Collaborative Translation Project)

  8. Eighteenth Century Collection Online*

  9. Contains all books published in English between 1700-1799


English Romanticism, Secularization, & Religion

  1. William Blake: The William Blake Archive


John Henry Cardinal Newman, Gerald Manley Hopkins, & the Oxford Movement

  1. The John Henry Newman Reader

  2. Religion in Victorian Britain

  3. Extensive resources in the public domain on the religious culture of Victorian Britain


On the Victorian Debate over Religion and/or Evolution

  1. The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution

  2. The Darwin Correspondence Project

  3. The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

  4. The George Eliot Notebooks*

  5. Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers*

  6. Darwin and Religion

  7. Carlyle Letters

  8. Fully searchable collection of 10,000 letters by Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle


Additional Websites

  1. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism*

  2. Collection of critical essays

  3. Web-page on Secularism and Science

  4. Based at Trinity College in Hartford, CT

  5. The Vatican

  6. Official website of the Vatican

  7. The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts*

  8. Literature Online*

  9. 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 208 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources

  10. The Nietzsche Channel

  11. A generous sampling of Nietzsche texts, many of them complete (in German and in reliable English translation)

  12. Papal Encyclicals Online

  13. A well-organized source of historical documents issued by the Vatican, as well as related information on Church councils etc.

  14. The Internet Archive

  15. Major source of books in the public domain, usually available as .pdf documents

  16. Tracts for the Times – The Canterbury Project

  17. Complete text for all 91 tracts written by members of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement between 1833 and 1845

  1. SECULARIZATION & MODERNITY

  2. RESOURCES

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