Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rogue Herries is a tale of 18th Century Cumberland. Hero Francis Herries rake, skeptic, violent-tempered, takes his family from the comforts of Doncaster to a rude, half-savage life in his ancestral home at Rosthwaite in the Cumberland lake country. His stupid wife irritates him; to irritate her he brings along his current mistress. Soon he is known, feared, disliked by the whole countryside. The troubles of '45 (invasion of England by the Young Pretender) hardly touch him, though he and his son are in Carlisle when the town falls to Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders...
Psychoscientist Oliver Lodge's faith is at the opposite pole from Skeptic Mencken's agnosticism (see col. i), goes farther than most Christians' hope. He believes not only that human beings survive death, but that they keep their memory, are able in some cases to communicate with the friends they leave behind them. Survivalist Lodge wanted not to die, wanted some scientific indication that his wish would come true. But he started with faith. Now "I know for a fact that, as individuals we survive the death of the body...