The Library of Original Sources: 1833-1865, Volume 9

An examination of developments in philosophy and science from 1800 to 1860, including writings by Oersted, Faraday, Pestalozzi, Basil Hall, Harriet Martineau, George McDuffie, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, William Henry Seward, Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Herman von Helmholtz, Gustav Kirchoff, Robert Bunsen, and others. Includes writings on slavery in the American South, including Chief Justice Taney on the Dred Scott decision. Also includes materials on evolution by Charles Lyell, Theodor Schwann, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Ernst Haeckel, as well as writings on education by Friedrich Froebel and Horace Mann.