Scholars working on Joseph Priestley have begun to take a proper measure of his philosophical position, known as “necessarianism,” a psychological determinism based on the teachings of the midcentury physician and theologian David Hartley—with, in Priestley′s own case, the addition of materialism. To its enemies, necessarianism seemed rank fatalism, but its adherents found that it both explained the evils about them and offered a sovereign remedy (generally through one or another variety of education) to resolve them and bring mankind to perfection.

'Pray, Mistress Mouse, will you give us some beer? Heigho, says Rowley, For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer.'

The event, sponsored by the ESA Student Involvement Committee, featured a Texas-sized cake from Mrs. Johnson's Bakery and gallons of Texas Tea, donated by Enterprise Coffee Beans, Dallas

The SNCD is a novel combination of the semismooth Newton and coordinate descent algorithms.