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Graham Wallas

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Graham Wallas (31 May 1858 - 9 August 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society.

Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Wallas was educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. It was at Oxford that Wallas abandoned his religion. He taught at Highgate School until 1885, when he resigned rather than participate in communion, and was President of the Rationalist Press Association.

Wallas joined the Fabian Society in April 1886, following his acquaintances Sidney Webb and George Bernard Shaw. He was to resign in 1904 in protest at Fabian support for Joseph Chamberlain's tariff policy.

He lectured at the newly-founded London School of Economics from 1895.

Works

• Property Under Socialism (1889)
• Human Nature in Politics (1908)
• The Great Society (1914)
• Our Social Heritage (1921)
• The Art of Thought (1926)

References

• Martin Wiener, Between two worlds : The political thought of Graham Wallas, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

External links

• »Spartacus bio
• [http://archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo='wallas') Catalogue of the Wallas papers] at the »Archives Division of the London School of Economics.

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