radical publisher and leading British atheist and materialist after the Napoleonic Wars; imprisoned for his seditious publications; ed REPUBLICAN, The LION and The Prompter; lectured on phrenology in Manchester and the North, 1829 and, after his conversion to allegorical Christianity, on phrenology as affording an aid to prayer, repentance, and salvation, in Brighton, 1836. (DNB; DLB; J. H. Wiener, Life, 1983; and A138)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
194.1
— 194.1 "Phrenology," REPUBLICAN, 13 (14 Apr 1826): 449- 51. (Leader article claiming the science a branch of materialism.)
194.2
— 194.2 "Phrenology," LION, 1 (18 Apr 1828): 481-5. (Includes antiphrenological letter from the radical, Thomas Turton of Sheffield.)
194.3
— 194.3 "Physiognomy and Phrenology Essential to the Establishment of a Correct Moral Philosophy," LION, 1 (20 June 1828): 769-72.
194.4
— 194.4 "Moral Philosophy Necessarily Founded on the Animal Nature of Man. That animal nature various in its degrees and qualities, phrenologically or organically and chemically constituted and physiognomically indicated," LION, 2 (4 July 1828): 1-5.
194.5
— 194.5 "Phrenology," LION, 2 (3 Oct 1828): 433. (Attack on D. WELSH'S Christian defense of phrenology.)
194.6
— 194.6 "Mania of Religion, Phrenologically Indicated," LION, 3 (8 May 1829): 586-8.
194.7
— 194.7 "Dr. Spurzheim and Phrenology," The Prompter, 1 (11 June 1831): 497-500.
194.8
— 194.8 "The true principle of prayer, repentance and salvation, with an explanation of the aids afforded by the Science of Phrenology," [lecture 6 in] The Lectures of Mr. Richard Carlile to the Inhabitants of Brighton with a Syllabus of his Course of Seven Lectures. London: [printed, 1836]. Pp. 8. (2d)
Editorial Information
Identifier
194.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
54
Printed page
49
Database ID
471
Original Transcription
194. CARLILE, Richard (1790-1843), radical publisher and leading
British atheist and materialist after the Napoleonic Wars; imprisoned
for his seditious publications; ed REPUBLICAN, The LION and The
Prompter; lectured on phrenology in Manchester and the North, 1829
and, after his conversion to allegorical Christianity, on phrenology
as affording an aid to prayer, repentance, and salvation, in Brighton, 1836. (DNB; DLB; J. H. Wiener, Life, 1983; and A138)