1. Grant Allen by Grant Allen (18481899) The following essay originally appeared in The Hand ofGod and Other Posthumous Essays written by Grant Allen and published in 1909 http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/allen/objectoflife.html

What Is the object of life? by Grant Allen The following essay originally appeared in The Hand of God and Other Posthumous Essays Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a Canadian-born writer of fiction and popularizations of scientific material. As part of his advocacy of free-thought, he wrote extensively on the origins of religion, postulating that the worship of the dead was the basis of all religion. To suppose otherwise is to fall implicitly into anthropomorphic and anthropocentric error. It is to figure to one's self the universe as an objective totality, worked upon from without by a vast and idealised quasi-human artificer and designer, who moulds and models every part and detail of his work with special reference to its preordained place in his projected scheme of a cosmical system. Those who think in this manner think anthropomorphically; they accept that conception of the outer world which Herbert Spencer But, viewed abstractly, [the human race] cannot have any special purpose to subserve in the scheme of the universe, any more than the fungus of the vine-disease, or the maidenhair fern, or the little green aphides that feed upon our rose-bushes; ... Life as a whole, therefore, has no object, any more than the revolution of the planets has an object, or the double refraction of Iceland spar, or the particular flow of the black currents that swirl and eddy below the spray of Niagara. All these things are the necessary outcome of pre-existent conditions; their laws of sequence and causation can be investigated and proved; but the idea of an object as applied to them is philosophically inadmissible; for an object implies a person who designs, a person who overcomes particular difficulties in the raw material on which he works, by some particular and cunning arrangement of its parts and organs. But the power which underlies the universe works on very different lines indeed from these. We only degrade it to our own puny level of handicraft by conceiving of it (

2. FirstScience.com Poems - A Ballade Of Evolution By Grant Allen Grant Allen (18481899) was born in Ontario, Canada the son of a ProtestantMinister. He was educated in France and England, and http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/poems/allen.asp

Brain Strain Fun Stuff The Facts Other A Ballade of Evolution By Grant Allen In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestor dive: From a shapeless albuminous grain We mortals our being derive. He could split himself up into five, Or roll himself round like a ball; For the fittest will always survive, While the weakliest go to the wall. As an active ascidian again Fresh forms he began to contrive, Till he grew to a fish with a brain And brought forth a mammal alive. With his rivals he next had to strive To woo him a mate and a thrall; So the handsomest managed to wive, While the ugliest went to the wall.

3. Untitled Allen, Grant, 18481899 Correspondence. Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. The Woman Who Did http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/speccol/FindingAids/grantallen4.html

4. Project Gutenberg Author Record Project Gutenberg Author record. Allen, Grant, 18481899. Titles. AfricanMillionaire, An. Biographies Of Working Men. British Barbarians, The. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/allen__grant__1848-1899.html

Project Gutenberg Author record Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 Titles African Millionaire, An Biographies Of Working Men British Barbarians, The Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose ... Woman Who Did, The To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

5. Register Of The Grant Allen Literary Manuscripts And Correspondence, Allen, Grant, 18481899 Correspondence. Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. The Woman Who Did http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/speccol/FindingAids/grantallen.html

6. Project Gutenberg Author Index Alger, Horatio, 18321899. Allen, Emory Adams, 1853-. Allen, Grant, 1848-1899.Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925. Allen, James, 1864-1912. Altemus, Henry. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/author_index_A.html

Project Gutenberg Author Index "A" A Young Girl Abbott, David Phelps, 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 ... Azuela, Mariano, 1873-1952 To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

7. Grant Allen Allen, (Charles) Grant (Blairfindie). 18481899. This précis of Grant Allen, Wolfe Islander and Canadas first crime http://www.wolfeisland.com/mystery/allen.htm

8. Grant Allen (1848-1899): An Annotated Bibliography Note You have come straight to the Fiction Bibliography. For an index tothis site go to The Grant Allen Home Page. By Professor Grant Allen. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/GA/FBibliography.htm

Note: You have come straight to the Fiction Bibliography. For an index to this site go to The Grant Allen Home Page Novelist and Miscellaneous Writer Born Alwington, Kingston, Ontario 24 Feb 1848 - Died Hindhead, Surrey 25 Oct 1899 An Annotated Bibliography of His Creative Writings Last revised: Fri 21 Feb 2003 I seek eagerly more details and corrections. There is a section on unresolved problems at the end. Contact me at peter.morton@flinders.edu.au New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature is slightly inaccurate and incomplete in its entries for fiction. The bibliographies in the three volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography The Library of Congress, the University of Toronto Library and the University of California libraries seem to hold the fullest collections of GA's fiction. Abbreviations CIHM=Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, Ottawa Penn=Rare Books and Manuscripts, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries My First Book Two Portraits Oxford University Magazine and Review, 1 (Nov 1869), 12-13. Unsigned.

9. Jerry Stokes (1891) By Grant Allen Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (Grant Allen) (18481899), the son of an Irish Protestant minister and notable scholar, http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/jerrysto.htm

The following is a Gaslight etext.... A message to you about Back to Gaslight's Grant Allen page From the Strand magazine , (1891-mar) Jerry Stokes by Grant Allen J ERRY S TOKES was a member of Her Majesty's civil service. To put it more plainly, he was the provincial hangman. Not a man in all Canada, he used to boast with pardonable professional pride, had turned off as many famous murderers as he had. He was a pillar of the constitution, was Jerry Stokes. He represented the Executive. And he wasn't ashamed of his office, either. Quite on the contrary, zeal for his vocation shone visible in his face. He called it a useful, a respectable, and a necessary calling. If it were not for him and his utensils, he loved to say to the gaping crowd that stood him treat in the saloons, no man's life would be safe for a day in the province. He was a practical philanthropist in his way, a public benefactor. It is not good that foul crime should stalk unpunished through the land; and he, Jerry Stokes, was there to prevent it. He was the chosen instrument for its salutary repression: Executions performed with punctuality and despatch; for terms, apply to Jeremiah Stokes, Port Hope, Ontario.

10. Grant Allen (1848-1899): An Annotated Bibliography Of Non-Fiction For an index to this site go to The Grant Allen HomePage. Grant items.A lot of Grant Allen’s nonfiction first appeared anonymously. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/GA/NFBibliography.htm

Note: You have come straight to the Bibliography. For an index to this site go to The Grant Allen HomePage GRANT ALLEN Novelist and Miscellaneous Writer Born Alwington, Kingston, Ontario 24 Feb 1848 - Died Hindhead, Surrey 25 Oct 1899 An Annotated Bibliography of His Non-fiction Last revised: Tue 04 Feb 2003 This bibliography is intended to help students of Grant Allen by listing everything from his pen and providing annotations for some items. Cornhill, or the ones which he later collected in books under his own name, are easily identified. But his many Daily News in the late 70s and the Pall Mall Gazette and the Daily News , but I can trace none. The Academy I seek eagerly more details and corrections. There is a section on unresolved problems at the end. Contact me at peter.morton@flinders.edu.au New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Dictionary of Literary Biography The Library of Congress, the University of Toronto Library and the University of California libraries seem to hold the fullest collections of GA's books. Abbreviations CIHM=Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, Ottawa

11. Grant Allen by Madalyn Murray O'Hair February, 1991 Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (Grant Allen)(18481899), the son of an Irish Protestant minister and notable scholar http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/allen/

Grant Allen by Madalyn Murray O'Hair February, 1991 Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (Grant Allen) (1848-1899), the son of an Irish Protestant minister and notable scholar, was born at Alwington, near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on 24 February 1848. He was partly educated in America and France. In England he was at King Edward's School in Birmingham, and later at Merton College in Oxford, graduating with honors in 1871. He also studied in Europe. Two years later, in 1873, he was appointed Professor of Logic at Queens College, Spanish Town, Jamaica. He also taught philosophy, ethics, Latin, and Greek at this college for Negroes. When its principal died, Allen took over and from 1874 to 1876 was the college's principal. At one point, while on the island, he took a brief holiday to the Blue Mountains. Since there were no hotel accommodations there, he put up at a store kept by a mulatto woman. In the small back room he occupied, there were a few books which he picked up and read. One was Darwin's Origin of Species and the other was Edward Clodd's The Childhood of the World . The latter had in it the name and the address of the author. From that beginning Grant Allen developed agnostic and radical views on life, eventually becoming an ardent socialist. He went to England in 1876 and immediately looked up Mr. Clodd, with whom he remained friends for the rest of his life.

12. Browse Top Level > Texts > Project Gutenberg > Authors > A Bailey, 18361907; Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899; Allen, Emory Adams, 1853-.Allen, Grant, 1848-1899; Allen, James, 1864-1912; Allen, James http://www.archive.org/texts/textslisting-browse.php?collection=gutenberg&cat=Au

13. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: Grant Allen Grant Allen. Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (18481899). Other Allenlinks Gaslight's Grant Allen page Grant Allen Novelist and http://www.catch22.com/SF/ARB/SFA/Allen,Grant.php3

Grant Allen Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen Other Allen links: Gaslight's Grant Allen page Grant Allen: Novelist and Miscellaneous Writer Grant Allen page Bio: Victorian author of both fiction and scientific books. His novel The Woman Who Did was notorious in it's time. Bibliography: An African Millionaire January 1981, Dover Publications Paperback ISBN:0-486-23992-6 The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories Short story collection The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel January 1975, Ayer Hardcover ISBN:0-405-06272-9 Amazon.com The Desire of the Eyes Short story collection The Devil's Lie The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry into the Origin of Religions August 1988, Society of Metaphysicians (UK) Paperback ISBN: 1-852-28814-0 January 2000, Boot Tree (UK) Paperback ISBN:1-585-09074-3 Amazon.co.uk The Hand of God Ivan Greet's Masterpiece Short story collection Kalee's Shrine Strange Stories Short story collection The Tents of Shem Short story collection Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and an Intermezzo Short story collection The White Man's Foot The Woman Who Did "The Beckoning Hand" "Pallinghurst Barrow" "What is the Object of Life?"

14. Victorian And Edwardian Ghost Stories, Edited By Richard Dalby Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995. ISBN 07867-0279-6. Fiction Index. Allen, Grant,(1848-1899) Pallinghurst Barrow, 1892. (Illustrated London News, 1892.). http://www.hycyber.com/HF/victorian_edwardian_ghost.html

The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, edited by Richard Dalby Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995. ISBN: 0-7867-0279-6 Fiction Index Allen, Grant, Pallinghurst Barrow, Illustrated London News, Anonymous Ghosts, 1887. (poem) ( Ghost Stories and Presentiments, Haunted, December, 1868.) Baring-Gould, S., H. P., A Book of Ghosts, Benson, A. C., The Slype House, The Isles of Sunset, Benson, Robert, The Watcher, 1903. (short short) ( The Invisible Light, Bierce, Ambrose, The Moonlit Road, Can Such Things Be? Braddon, Mary E., John Granger, Belgravia Annual, Broughton, Rhoda, Poor Pretty Bobby, Temple Bar, December, 1872.) Capes, Bernard, A Ghost-Child, Pall Mall Magazine, January, 1906.) Chambers, Robert W., The Bridal Pair, December, 1902.) Cowper, Frank, Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk, January, 1889.) Cram, Ralph Adams, Sister Maddelena, Black Spirits, and White, Crawford, F. Marion, Dickens, Charles, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman, All the Year Round, Christmas, 1866.) Edwards, Amelia B., The New Pass, Monsieur Maurice, Erckmann-Chatrian [Emile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890)] The White and the Black

15. Gaslight Contents By Author Grant Allen (18481899) My New Year's Eve among the mummies (1880-jan)F writing as J. Arbuthnot Wilson Jerry Stokes (1891-mar http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/arts/english/gaslight/contents.htm

The following is a Gaslight etext.... A message to you about Gaslight CONTENTS by author links to fiction [F] and non-fiction [N] on the Gaslight website David P. Abbott "Fraudulent spiritualism unveiled" [N] Edmond About The Man with the Broken Ear [F] (1862, transl. 1867, 1878 ed.) (transl. from (Prepared by Patricia Teter) Achmed Abdullah (pseud. for Alexander Nikolayevitch Romanoff) (1881-1945) "A simple act of piety" [F] (1918, 1919 ed.) George Ade Fables in slang [F] The Fable of How ... delayed" More fables in slang [F] The Fable of the Honest Money-Maker and the Partner of His Joys, ... Montana" (Prepared by Diana Patterson, et alia Max Adeler (Pseud. for Chas. Heber Clark) (1841-1915) "A desperate adventure" [F] (year?) James Agate from At half-past eight: essays of the theatre, 1921-1922 [N] "Art and the screen" "Some film-emotions and a moral" Louisa May Alcott "Behind the mask, or A woman's power" [F] (in progress) published under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard "A strange island" [F] Originally from Morning-Glories, and Other Stories Thomas Bailey Aldrich "A Christmas fantasy with a moral" [F] Grant Allen "My New Year's Eve among the mummies" (1880-jan) [F] writing as J. Arbuthnot Wilson

16. Wacky Anne's Christmas Library: Author Information Horatio Alger (18321899) St. Nicholas , 1865 Grant Allen (1848-1899)Wolverden Tower , 1899 or 1900 Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). http://members.tripod.com/~wackyanne/library/xlinfo.htm

The Library: Author Information Note: means new to the site for Christmas 2002. Alcott, Louisa May Alden, Raymond M. Alger, Horatio Allen, Grant ... Wiggin, Kate Douglas Louisa May Alcott Little Women Ch.1 Playing Pilgrims Ch.2 A Merry Christmas Ch.3 The Laurence Boy Raymond MacDonald Alden Why The Bells Chimed , also known as Why The Chimes Rang From (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906, 1908, 1924) Horatio Alger St. Nicholas Grant Allen Wolverden Tower , 1899 or 1900 Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales are beautiful, but are written with strong morals and possibly disturbing conclusions, the protagonist usually dying. You might want to pre-read them before telling them to younger children. The Fir Tree Published in 1845, and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872. Another translation, called The Pine Tree , was published in Good Stories for Great Holidays The Goblin and the Huckster Published in The Little Match-Girl Published in 1846, and translated by H.P. Paull in 1872. Another translation of this story was published in Good Stories for Great Holidays , 1914. It is a lovely story that always makes me cry.

17. Melchiori, Grant Allen s Grant Allen The Downward Path Which Leads to Fiction (Roma Bulzoni Editore, 2000)is the first fulllength study of Grant Allen (1848-1899), Canadian-born http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/bavs/reviews/Melchiori.htm

Barbara Arnett Melchiori, Grant Allen: The Downward Path which Leads to Fiction (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000), 205 pp., ISBN: 88-8319-526-4 Grant Allen: The Downward Path Which Leads to Fiction Grant Allen: A Memoir The Devils Die (1888), sensational short stories and "Hill-top" purpose novels like Philistia (1884) and The British Barbarians The Woman Who Did (1895) but throughout his fiction. Her analysis confirms him as a significant commentator in the literary history of the New Woman. Further sections provide analysis of the novels that John Lane brought out following the scandalised reception of The Woman Who Did English Literature in Transition 44:4 (2001) and a collection of essays on Grant Allen edited by William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers is to be published with Ashgate Press. (Lyssa Randolph)

18. Canadian Poetry, Bibliography Allen, Grant, 18481899 London; Chicago Elkin Mathews John Lane;Stone Kimball 1894 79 p. Preliminaries omitted. Allen, Grant http://collections.chadwyck.com/html/canpo/bibliography/contents.htm

Bibliography Welcome to the online bibliography for Canadian Poetry , containing a complete list of all the works included in the database. Hint: you can choose Find from the Edit menu of your web browser to look for a particular word on the current page. A B C D ... Y A Adams, Mary Electa, 1823-1898 From Distant Shores: Poems / Mary Electa Adams [Toronto] [1898] [22] p. Preliminaries omitted. Alexander, James Lynne, 1800-1879 47 p. Preliminaries and advertisement omitted. Allan, Peter John, 1825-1848 London xxiv, 171 p. Preliminaries and introductory matter including biographical notice omitted. Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 London; Chicago 79 p. Preliminaries omitted. Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 1 p. Only poem by Allen included. Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 London G. Richards 222 p. Only poems by Allen included. Allen, J. Antisell (Joseph Antisell), 1814-1900. Kingston, C. W. James M. Creighton 156 p. Preliminaries, introductory and editorial matter omitted. Allen, J. Antisell (Joseph Antisell), 1814-1900.

19. Brooklyn Public Library /All Locations 1978 1 Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, 18481899 See Allen, Grant, 1848-18991 Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941- 1980 1 Allen, Clara Marie Anecdotes. http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org:90/kids/1899,2126/search/dAllen, Clara

KEYWORD AUTHOR TITLE SUBJECT Mark Nearby SUBJECTS are: Year Entries Allen, Brian See also Israel, Logic Allen Cage (Fictitious character) See Cage, Allen (Fictitious character) Allen, Carol. Allen, Chaney. Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, 1848-1899 See Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941- Allen, Clara Marie Anecdotes. Allen Co., Ind. See Allen County (Ind.) Amish Indiana Allen County Social life and customs. Allen County (Ind.) Social life and customs. Allen, Davis Brewster, 1916- Criticism and interpretation. ... Allen, Dick.

20. Brooklyn Public Library /All Locations and winning / by Chaney Allen.; Central Library; 362.292 A 1978 Allen, Charles GrantBlairfindie, 18481899 See Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 Allen, Charlotte http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org:90/kids/1899,2126/search/dAllen, Clara

KEYWORD AUTHOR TITLE SUBJECT Mark Nearby SUBJECTS are: Year Allen, Brian See also Israel, Logic Allen Cage (Fictitious character) See Cage, Allen (Fictitious character) Allen, Carol. Tea with demons / by Carol Allen with Herbert S. Lustig.; Brklyn Hts, Central Library, Flatlands ; 616.8914 A Allen, Chaney. Central Library ; 362.292 A Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, 1848-1899 See Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941- Daddy's girl / by Charlotte Vale Allen.; Bedford, Brklyn Hts, Brower Pk, Bushwick, Carroll Gdn, Central Library, Central Library, Clarendon, Clinton Hill, Coney Isl, Crown Hts, Dekalb, E Flatbush, E Parkway, Homecrest, Kensington, Kings Bay, Macon, McKinley, Midwood, Mill Basin, Paerdegat, Red Hook, Saratoga, Spring Ck, W Whitman, Wash Irving, Wmsburgh ; 306.7 A Allen, Clara Marie Anecdotes. Central Library Allen Co., Ind. See Allen County (Ind.) Amish Indiana Allen County Social life and customs. Amischen. English; Central Library ; 977.274 L Allen County (Ind.) Social life and customs.

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