In this collection Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to 'find a language' to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face.
These essays focus on what the European Enlightenment has made of us. They put the many gains of science, and of a certain freedom, alongside a great and unexpected loss: the gradual loss of ourselves and of our lives.
This memoir of the author’s early years details the advantages of a weirdly dysfunctional family, a mysterious Irish ancestry, a violent and expensive prep school... Læs mere