Scottish Metaphysics, Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of Physical Science. By the writer of 'Free Notes on Herbert Spencer's First Principles. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1887.

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Small 8vo: xiv, 244 pp. Original red cloth, faded on spine. First edition. Scarce. Presentation copy from the author to Miss Allan, inscribed on half-title and dated 1887. With a letter (three sides of a folded quarto sheet), dated December 1887, addressed to Miss Allan, signed 'E. Edmond', offering advice on how to study metaphysics. 'You see I have been obliged in this book to state a good deal of the old artificial system, along with the proposed natural system, . but it requires a new volume simply to state the natural system. This I cannot afford to spend money upon. For such books do not sell, except they are done by or recommended by, a Professor or other grand man. Still, to try and make my present one useful, I have asked Blackwood to send copies to the public libraries in the kingdom, where some person, not yet drilled in the old grooves, may come to appreciate it, and at last bring it into notice and repute. Thus the Americans first brought Carlyle into notice.' Edmond was also the author of 'Oxford Metaphysics and Ethics' (1889).…

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Title
Scottish Metaphysics, Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of Physical Science. By the writer of 'Free Notes on Herbert Spencer's First Principles. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1887.
Author
EDMOND, E.
Publication year
1887
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1st Edition

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