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Olive Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" and the Question of Progress: A Conversation with Cóilín Parsons

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), a South African novelist, anti-war campaigner, and women’s rights activist, came early to the study of the thing we call progress. As a teenager, she was given a copy of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles (1862), and it came to dominate her thoughts in early years, influencing not only her freethinking regarding religion, but also […] ....

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