Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas (
May 31,
1858 -
August 9,
1932) was an
English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the
Fabian Society.
Born in
Monkwearmouth,
Sunderland, Wallas was educated at
Shrewsbury School and
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. It was at
Oxford that Wallas abandoned religion and converted to
rationalism. He taught at
Highgate School until
1885, when he resigned rather than participate in
communion, and was President of the
Rationalist Press Association.
Wallas joined the Fabian Society in April
1886, following his acquaintances
Sidney Webb and
George Bernard Shaw. He was to resign in
1904 in protest at Fabian support for
Joseph Chamberlain's tariff policy.
He lectured at the newly-founded
London School of Economics from
1895.
Property Under Socialism (
1889)
Human Nature in Politics (
1908)
The Great Society (
1914)
Our Social Heritage (
1921)
The Art of Thought (
1926)
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Martin Wiener,
Between two worlds : The political thought of Graham Wallas, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
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Spartacus bio*
Free ebook of Graham Wallas at
Project Gutenberg
