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Charles Clement Coe

Charles Clement Coe

English Unitarian minister and writer

Charles Clement Coe (8 February 1830 – 1 April 1921) was an English Unitarian minister and writer who advocated non-Darwinian evolution.[1][2]

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Coe was born in King's Lynn and was educated at Manchester College, Oxford. He was President of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862-1863) and was Minister of the Unitarian Great Meeting chapel in Bond Street, Leicester.[1] His was minister at Bank Street Unitarian Chapel in Bolton, Lancashire, from 1874 to 1895, when he moved to Bournemouth.[3]

It was while at Bolton that Coe wrote a large volume, Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution (1895). He defended evolution but rejected natural selection.[1][4][5] The biologist J. Arthur Thomson gave the book a positive review, commenting that it is a very interesting critique of natural selection written with much skill.[6] It was also positively reviewed in the The Lancet journal.[5]

Coe was an early writer to use the term neo-Darwinism in 1889.[7]

Publications

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Rev Charles Clement Coe". Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Obituaries of Unitarian Ministers". Unitarian Historical Society.
  3. [3]
    Bank Street Chapel (1896). Bank Street Chapel, Bolton, Bi-centenary Commemoration 1696-1896 (PDF). Philip Green (London); H. Rawson & Co. (Manchester). p. 141.
  4. [4]
    Schiller, F. C. S. (1886). "Nature Versus Natural Selection: an Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe". The Philosophical Review. 5 (3): 437. JSTOR 2175511.
  5. [5]
    "Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe". The Lancet. 2: 791–792. 1895.
  6. [6]
    Thomson, J. Arthur (1896). "Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution by Charles Clement Coe". International Journal of Ethics. 7 (1): 132. JSTOR 2375400.
  7. [7]
    Pearce, Trevor. (2020). Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0226720081
  8. [8]
    Hardman, Malcolm. (2017). Global Dilemmas: Imperial Bolton-le-Moors from the Hungry Forties to the Death of Leverhulme. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-1611479034


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