The Peak in Darien, with Some Other Inquires Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body. An Octave of Essays

266 pp. Author was a suffragette and feminist social reformer who founded the National Anti-Vivisection Society and other animal rights groups. This essay collection included discussion of women's and animal rights, and other topics. CONTENTS: Magnanimous Atheism; Hygeiolatry; Pessimism, and One of Its Professors; Zoophily; Sacrificial Medicine; The Fitness of Women for the Ministry of Religion; The House on the Shore of Eternity; The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death.