Kinglsey, Charles (1819-1875) — Yeast: A Problem

London Macmillan & Co. pp. xxvi, 324. Small 8vo., measuring 5" x 7.5". Bound in contemporary utilitarian navy blue cloth with gilt rules, and lettering to the spine; new endpapers. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound bindign; near fine. Influcenced by the reformist ideas of Thomas Carlyle, and by Henry Brooke's novel, The Fool of Quality, Kingsley penned, "Yeast, A Problem" in 1874. In it Kingsley leads a condemnation of the Catholic Church, the Oxford Movement, clerical celibacy, and the entire British social system which kept its agricultural and labour classes in permanent poverty.