MALLOCK, William Hurrell, English author: b. Devonshire, 1849. He was graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, and won the Newdegate prize in 1872. He has never entered a profession but has devoted himself entirely to literary work. His philosophical d sociologi cal writings include 'Is Life Worth Living?' (1879) ; 'Social Equality, a Study in a Missing Science' (1882) ; 'Atheism and • the Value of Life' (1884) • 'Property and Progress' (1884) ; 'Labour and the Popular Welfare' (1893) ; 'Studies of Contemporary Superstition' (1895) ; 'Classes and Masses' (1896) ; 'Aristocracy and Evolution' (1898) ; 'Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption' (1900) ; 'Religion as a Credible Doctrine> (1902); 'The Reconstruction of Be. lief' (1905) ; 'The Nation as a Business Firm,' and 'Social Reform' (1914). He has also written several works of fiction, most of which deal with.the same social and religious problems as the above works, including 'The New Re public• (1877), in which he introduces many well-known contemporaries under thin dis guises; 'A Romance of the Nineteenth Cen tury' (1881; new ed., 1894) ; 'The Old
Order Changes' (1886) ; 'A Human Document' (1892) ; 'The Heart of Life' (1895), and 'The Individualist' (1899), and has published two volumes of verse, 'The Veil of the Temple' (1904) ; a translation of Lucretius' 'On Life and Death' (1878), and 'An Immortal Soul' (1908). His philosophical works deal with the fundamentals of religion, arguing for supernat uralism and aiming to show that science alone supplies no basis for religious belief ; in his political and economic writings he has attacked the radical and socialistic theories and tenden cies of the age. In 1916 he was awarded a Civil List pension.