Fiat flux
Subtitle: the writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, nineteenth-century country doctor and philosopher
By: edited and introduced by William D. Lindsey ; with a foreword by Thomas A. Bruce and an afterword by Jonathan Wolfe
Contributors: Lindsey, William D., 1950-; Bruce, Thomas Allen, 1930-; Wolfe, Jonathan James, 1944-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Fayetteville, Ark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781557286369
Subjects: Authorship; Diaries; Physicians; Biography; Freethinkers; Philosophers; Collected Correspondence
Other titles: Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, nineteenth-century country doctor and philosopher
Description: Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and Bachelor's medical practice. Bachelor was an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in literature, science, nature, politics, and religion, and he became a self-professed freethinker in the 1870s. He was driven by a concept he called "fiat flux," an awareness of the "rapid flight of time" that motivated him to treat the people around him and the world itself as precious and fleeting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and index.

NLM copy, author inscription on front flyleaf: "William D. Lindsey, Sept. 2013".
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Wilson R. Bachelor, whys and wherefores / by WIlliam D. Lindsey; title: Diary of Wilson R. Bachelor (1870-1902); title: Occasional pieces from the scrapbook of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890s); title: Letters of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890s); title: Afterword : medicine in the Arkansas River Valley, 1865-1890 / by Jonathan Wolfe; title: Appendix I : Goodspeed autobiography of Wilson R. Bachelor (1889); title: Appendix II : masonic eulogy of Wilson R. Bachelor (1903); title: Appendix III : report of Wilson R. and Sarah Bachelor's golden wedding anniversary (1897); title: Appendix IV : letter of Wilson R. Bachelor to Zion's ensign (4 February 1893); title: Appendix V : genealogical charts.