Further Reading and References8. How To Be An Agnostic: An A–Z
The Owl of Minerva: A Memoir, by Mary Midgley, is published by
Routledge (2005). The quote is on page x.
The Longinus quote is from, ‘On Sublimity’, in Classical Literary
Criticism, published by Oxford University Press (1989), page 143.
A summary of Karl Popper on Darwinism is in Unended Quest, Chapter 37
(see above). Melvyn Bragg’s quote is in Devout Sceptics (see above).
The Devout Sceptics interviews by Bel Mooney are collected in a Hodder
and Stoughton book with the same title (2003): see page 57 for Paul
Davies’ quote.
Oscar Wilde’s essay on facts can be found in his collected works.
An earlier version of the prayer to God was published on the Guardian’s
Cif Belief website (www.guardian.co.uk/belief).
Roger Hull makes his comments on the American Sublime in the cata-
logue to the exhibition.
Leslie Stephen’s ‘An Agnostic’s Apology’ is in Atheism: A Reader, edited
by S.T. Joshi, published by Prometheus Books (2000).
Victor Stenger explores something and nothing in God the Failed
Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, published by
Prometheus Books (2008).
Freud, by Jonathan Leer, is published by Routledge (2005).
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is published by Bantam Press
(2006).
Newman’s discussion comes from his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
and I’m indebted to the discussions of it by Anthony Kenny in a
TLS article of July 28, 2010, and in Newman’s Unquiet Grave by John
Cornwell, published by Continuum (2010).
Jeanette Winterson’s website is http://www.jeanettewinterson.com.
Will in the World, by Stephen Greenblatt, is published by Pimlico (2004).
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland is published by Granta (2009).
Thomas Carlyle’s quote on silence is in his essay ‘Sir Walter Scott’, in
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.
The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value, by John
Cottingham, is published by Cambridge University Press (2005).
The Hume comment on avoiding high enquires is from his Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding Section XII, Part III.