![]() ![]() It is wrong always, everywhere, and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” So wrote William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) in his famous essay “The Ethics of Belief,” delivered originally to the Metaphysical Society on April 11, 1876.Īlan Willard Brown, who wrote a history of the Society, reports that the publication of Clifford’s essay in January of 1877 “had created a storm of controversy among religious-minded men.”` Clifford, who at the age of twenty-nine had been the youngest member ever elected to the exclusive debating group, was Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College London. The following article was delivered as a paper at a conference sponsored by The Centre for Inquiry at Westminster College, Oxford, on July 27, 1996.
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