Fiat flux [[electronic resource] ] : the writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, nineteenth-century country doctor and philosopher / / edited and introduced by William D. Lindsey ; with a foreword by Thomas A. Bruce and an afterword by Jonathan Wolfe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779973203321
• Autore: Bachelor Wilson R. <1827-1903.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-61075-525-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LindseyWilliam D
• Disciplina: 610.92
• Soggetti: Physicians - Arkansas; Philosophers - Arkansas
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Wilson R. Bachelor, whys and wherefores / by William D. Lindsey -- Diary of Wilson R. Bachelor (1870-1902) -- Occasional pieces from the scrapbook of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890's) -- Letters of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890's) -- Afterword : medicine in the Arkansas River Valley, 1865-1890 / by Jonathan Wolfe -- Appendix I : Goodspeed autobiography of Wilson R. Bachelor (1889) -- Appendix II : masonic eulogy of Wilson R. Bachelor (1903) -- Appendix III : report of Wilson R. and Sarah Bachelor's golden wedding anniversary (1897) -- Appendix IV : letter of Wilson R. Bachelor to Zion's ensign (4 February 1893) -- Appendix V : genealogical charts.
• Sommario/riassunto: Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and Bachelor's medical practice. Bachelor was an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in literature, science, nature, politics, and religion, and he became a self-professed freethinker in the 1870's. He was driven by a concept he called "fiat flux," an awareness of the "rapid flight of time" that motivated him to treat the people around him and the world itself as precious and fleeting.