John Edwin McGee

John Edwin McGee was an English historian, notably of positivism.

Logan (2009) describes McGee's 1931 text as a basic but dated source of factual information, "told from the perspective of a true believer."^[1]^[2]

His works included:

A syllabus in the teaching of history 1934
An outline of English history 1936
A crusade for humanity: the history of organized positivism in England, London : Watts & Co., 1931
A history of the British secular movement 1948

References

^ Logan, Peter (2009). Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7661-1. OCLC 316432611. McGee is a basic but dated source of factual information, told from the perspective of a true believer
^ John Edwin McGee, A Crusade for Humanity: The History of Organized Positivism in England (London: Watts, 1931). 64.