Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-01-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:00 1 Aims
00:01:46 2 Development
00:03:21 3 Publications
00:03:31 3.1 Library of Useful Knowledge
00:04:51 3.2 Other SDUK publications
00:05:39 4 In popular culture



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The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), was founded in 1826, mainly at the instigation of Lord Brougham, with the object of publishing information to people who were unable to obtain formal teaching, or who preferred self-education.  A Whiggish London organisation that published inexpensive texts intended to adapt scientific and similarly high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading public, it was wound up in 1848.
An American group of the same name was founded as part of the Lyceum movement in the United States around the same period. Its Boston branch sponsored lectures by such speakers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was active from 1829 to 1947. Henry David Thoreau cites the Society in his essay "Walking," in which he jestingly proposes a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance.