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George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes was born on April 18 1817. He would be later known in his life as a English biographer, literary, Novelist, Philosopher, scientist. His early career in his life wasn't a great start due to not having plan for his education. That would later change when he spent two years in Germany. His wife ''George Eliot'' would have four kids and go on a trip to Germany as a honeymoon and as a research trip. -
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George Henry Lewes Life
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Lewes' Earliest Impacts on Literature
In 1845–46, Lewes published The Biographical History of Philosophy, which was an attempt to depict the life of philosophers. In 1847–48, he published two novels – Ranthorpe, and Rose, Blanche and Violet – which, though displaying considerable skill in plot, construction, and characterisation, have taken no permanent place in literature. -
Lewes' Impacts on Science
After spending time in Germany he would later returned to London. As time flew by the year would be 1853 where he started to occupying himself with scientific and biological work. He always showed scientific in his writing. He exposition of accepted scientific truth and the results of individual research and reflection. Some physiologists accepted the suggestion Lewes made. He best known for his writing of the life of Goethe. The combination of science and literary taste. -
Lewes' Most Notable Impact on Literature
The culmination of Lewes's work in prose literature is the Life of Goethe, probably the best known of his writings. Lewes's versatility, and his combination of scientific with literary tastes, the work became well known in Germany itself, despite the boldness of its criticism and the unpopularity of some of its views. -
Lewes' Impact on Philosophy
When Lewes was younger he had been interested in philosophic. Two essays that influence him were the positivism of Auguste comte and John Stuart mill. He made an outcome of his work on the foundation of a creed which lead to a rapprochement between metaphysics and science. He reach a monistic doctrine that mind and matter are two aspects. Different books go on and talk about how psychology explained the mental phenomena and historical conditions and this is lewes important contribution