Description
FATHER AND SON was published anonymously in 1907, and as its title suggests quite simply, it dwells on the ultimate connections of mind and heart between a man and his son. The elder Gosse, a zoologist of some repute, suffered great intellectual agony over the conflict between his scientific knowledge and his severely fundamentalist religious principles. He attempted a justification of geology in the light of Genesis and failed. All the ideological ferment of the age of Darwin was background to Edmund Gosse's youth, and the private, painful disillusionment of his own father's hopes of contributing a solution to the enigma of science versus Scripture had a profound influence on his childhood experience.
