MALLOCK

mallock, william hurrell (1849- ), english author, was born at cockington court, devonshire. he was educated privately, and at balliol college, oxford. he won the newdigate prize in 1872, and took a second class in the final classical schools in 1874. he attracted considerable attention by his satirical story _the new republic_ (2 vols., 1877), in which he introduced characters easily recognized as prominent living men, mark pattison, matthew arnold, w. k. clifford and others. his keen logic and gift for acute exposition and criticism were displayed in later years both in fiction and in controversial works. in a series of books dealing with religious questions he insisted on dogma as the basis of religion and on the impossibility of founding religion on purely scientific data. in _is life worth living?_ (1879) and _the new paul and virginia_ (1878) he attacked positivist theories, and in a volume on the intellectual position of the church of england, _doctrine and doctrinal disruption_ (1900), he advocated the necessity of a strictly defined creed. later volumes on similar topics were _religion as a credible doctrine_ (1903) and _the reconstruction of belief_ (1905). he published several brilliant works on economics, directed against radical and socialist theories: _social equality_ (1882), _property and progress_ (1884), _labour and the popular welfare_ (1893), _classes and masses_ (1896) and _aristocracy and evolution_ (1898); and among his anti-socialist works should be classed his novel, _the old order changes_ (1886). his other novels include _a romance of the nineteenth century_ (1881), _a human document_ (1892), _the heart of life_ (1895) and _the veil of the temple_ (1904). he published a volume of _poems_ in 1880, and in 1900 _lucretius on life and death_ in verse.