WILLIAM HURRELL

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• WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK (1849— )

MALLOCK (1849— )  , English author, was born at Cockington Court, Devonshire . He was educated privately, and at Balliol College, Oxford . He won the Newdigate prize in 1872, and took a second class in the final classical schools in 1874 . He attracted considerable attention by his satirical story The New Republic (2 vols., 1877), in which he introduced characters easily recognized as prominent living men, Mark Pattison, Matthew Arnold, W.K . Clifford and others . His keen logic and gift for acute exposition and criticism were displayed in later years both in fiction and in controversial works . In a series of books dealing with religious questions he insisted on dogma as the basis of religion and on the impossibility of founding religion on purely scientific data . In Is Life Worth Living ? (1879) and The New Paul and Virginia (1878) he attacked Positivist theories, and in a volume on the intellectual position of the Church of England, Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption (1900), he advocated the necessity of a strictly defined creed . Later volumes on similar topics were Religion as a Credible Doctrine (1903) and The Reconstruction of Belief (1905) . He published several brilliant works on economics, directed against Radical and Socialist theories: Social Equality (1882), Property and Progress (1884), Labour and the Popular Welfare (1893), Classes and Masses (1896) and Aristocracy and Evolution (1898); and among his anti-socialist works should be classed his novel, The Old Order Changes (1886) . His other novels include A Romance of the Nineteenth Century (1881), A Human Document (1892), The Heart of Life (1895) and The Veil of the Temple (1904) .

He published a volume of Poems in r88o, and in 1900

Lucretius on Life and Death in verse .