1902 Standard Library Writings of John Fiske Complete Set Cosmic Philosophy. This item is unavailable.1902 Standard Library Writings of John Fiske Complete Set Cosmic Philosophy

Standard Library Edition: The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske with Many Portraits of Illustrious Philosophers, scientists, and Other Men of Note in Twelves. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Books measure 8.25 x 5.50". 8vo. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Volume 1: 276 pages Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Volume 2: 410 pages Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Volume 3: 372 pages Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Volume 4: 389 pages Myth and Myth Makers Volume 5: 358 pages The Unseen World and Other Essays Volume 6: 458 pages Excursions of an Other Essays Volume 7: 363 pages Darwinism and Other Essays Volume 8: 365 pages Studies in Religion Volume 9: 441 pages A Century of Science Volume 10: 524 pages The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War Volume 11: 373 pages Civil Government in the United States Volume 12: 425 pages In good condition. Cloth bindings: normally scuffed. Head and tails of spine bumped and scuffed. Bumped corners. Volume 5: tail of spine has white marking. Volume 9: Spine is rubbed including gilt lettering. Gilt on top edges of text blocks normally scuffed, still attractive. Deckled edges. Previous ownership signature on all 12 volumes on front end-page. Uncut edges of some pages throughout all 12 volumes. Normal age-staining in margins of the books. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos. John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian. He was heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer and applied Spencer's concepts of evolution to his own writings on linguistics, philosophy, religion, and history. John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855. On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. FORN-SHELF-0490-BB-2602-EF100. …