ABSTRACT
It might seem that science and religion became locked in a struggle for existence in the brave new world that science opened up. And yet we may ask how new a world it was; and what the cultural position of science in mid-Victorian Britain really amounted to. One way to do this is to look at widely-read general journals, the great Reviews; and particularly at a new one devoted to the sciences. Yet in 1864 the up-and-coming chemist William Crookes, painfully making a career, began with the scientific journalist James Samuelson something like a quarterly Review devoted to science. At all events, the early Quarterly Journal of Science seems to have had important features in common with the Reviews. In 1864, the first issue of the Quarterly Journal of Science appeared, with a manifesto preceding the articles. In the Quarterly Journal of Science there is a hostile review of an atheistic work by the German materialist Louis Buchner.
