Taylor Isaac

Taylor, ISAAC (1787-1865), man of letters and mechanician, was born at Lavenham, in Suffolk. His father was Independent minister at Ongar, and here he spent the greater part of his life. His best known works The Natural History of Enthusiasm (1829), The Natural History of Fanaticism, (1833), and Spiritual Despotism (1835). His sister JANE (1783-1824) was the authoress of the Contributions of Q. Q. Hymns for Infant Minds was the joint work of Jane and another SIster ANN (1782-1866). ISAAC TAYLOR, (b. 1829), son of the elder Isaac, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the Church. He has published Words and Places (1864), The Alphabet (1883), The Origin of the Aryans (1890), and other works on ethnology and langnage.