Søren Kierkegaard launches his attack on Christendom represented by the Church of Denmark with a series of newspaper pamphlets and polemics today collected under the title The Moment.
George Boole, The Laws of Thought (1854)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
James George Frazer (January 1)
Henri Poincaré (April 29)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (August 20)
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