Emma Marie Caillard
Emma Marie Caillard | |
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| Died | 1928 (aged 75–76) |
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Emma Marie Caillard (1852–1928) was a British writer, popular scientist, religious thinker, and philosopher. Her works combined science, metaphysics, and Christian theology.
Caillard was born into a prosperous Wiltshire family. Her father was the French-born Camille Caillard, barrister and judge in the county courts. Her mother Emma Reynolds was a cousin of Benjamin Disraeli. Emma Caillard never married, but focused on intellectual work, altogether publishing eleven books and dozens of journal articles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Her overall project, as Jacqueline DeVries explains, was 'demonstrating that Christianity need not be cordoned off from new scientific ideas'[1] For instance, in her book on electricity Caillard argued that physicists are realising that matter is energy, but energy is mind, and so science leads to the conclusion that there is "an Infinite Mind ... underlying and interpenetrating the material universe"..[2] For Caillard, Christians should feel free to engage with and understand science, and scientists should realise that their findings do not really warrant secularism or atheism.
Peter Broks describes her as one of the most prolific female scientific popularisers of her time.[3] Her popular science books included The Invisible Powers of Nature (Murray, 1888) and Electricity: The Science of the Nineteenth Century (Appleton, 1891). She also authored a series of articles explaining core scientific concepts in Good Words. She benefited from attending lectures on scientific topics at the Royal Institution.[4]
Several of her books were on religion, including a series of lay sermons in The Spectator which were reissued as a book. Several more of her books were on philosophy: Progressive Revelation: Through Nature to God (Murray, 1895),Law and Freedom (Nisbet, 1899), and Individual Immortality (Murray, 1903). These books drew on her articles in the Contemporary Review, where altogether she published nearly forty articles. She tackled central philosophical issues as well as the ubiquitous late-Victorian issue of science and religion. For example, in Law and Freedom, she attempted to find a middle way between free will and determinism, although she was criticised for helping herself too quickly to the reality of possibilities in a review in the Saturday Review.[5]
In addition, Caillard published three volumes of poetry: A Poem of Life (London Literary Society, 1884), Charlotte Corday and Other Poems (Kegan Paul and Trench, 1884), and The Lost Life and Other Poems (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1899).[6]
References
- ↑ deVries, Jacqueline (2026). "Emma Marie Caillard (1852–1927)". In Chandler, Andrew. Women in British Churches. London: Bloomsbury. Search this book on
- ↑ Caillard, Emma (1891). Electricity, the Science of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Appleton. p. 299. Search this book on
- ↑ Broks, Peter (1996). Media Science Before the Great War. Houndmills: Macmillan. p. 32. Search this book on
- ↑ Forgan, Sophie (2005). "Listening and Learning? Audiences and their Roles in Nineteenth-Century Britain". In Finnegan, Ruth. Participating in the Knowledge Society. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. Search this book on
- ↑ "Review of Law and Freedom". Saturday Review. 23 December 1899. p. 807.
- ↑ Blain, Virginia (1990). The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 170. Search this book on
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