Leslie Stephen, c. 1860
Anonymous
Between
1850 and 1864, Leslie Stephen was a student, tutor, and a fellow at
Cambridge. “I was a liberal after the fashion of those days: a
follower of J. S. Mill... I read Comte, too, and became convinced among
other things that Noah’s flood was a fiction... Upon my stating
in the summer of 1862 that I could no longer take part in the chapel
services, I resigned my tutorship.”
Reproduction of plate 35e from Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album
Original: albumen print (19.7 x 15.8 cm.)
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College
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