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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
d not completely break all communication between America and foreign liberal thought as represented by Comte, Fourier, and even Proudhon, or by Bentham, Grote, and Mill. Even the arch-skeptic Hume continued to be reprinted in this country; and the vitality of the sensualistic or quasi-materialistic tradition in the medical profession is evidenced by James Rush's Analysis of the human intellect (1865). Despite, however, the presence with us of men of such first-rate scientific eminence as Joseph Henry, Benjamin Peirce, or Nathaniel Bowditch, scientific thought was not sufficiently organized to demand a philosophy more in consonance with its own procedure. Even in Great Britain, where science was earlier and better organized by means of the Association for the Advancement of Science (1832), Mill's effort to revive and continue Hume's attempt to introduce the experimental method of natural sciences into mental and moral questions found acceptance very slowly. Toward the end of his life
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Heber, Richard, 454 Heemweh, 585 Heerbrandt, 583 Hegel, 230, 231, 238, 239, 245 Heidelberg (University), 87, 462 Heilprin, Angelo, 167 Heine, 77, 119, 582, 583 Heinzen, Carl, 587 Held by the enemy, 266, 286 Helfferich, 443 Hell of War and its Penalties, the, 363 Helmet of Mambrino, The, 158 Helmuth, J. H. C., 576, 577 Helper, H. R., 343, 344 Hemphill, 327 Henckell, Karl, 582 Hennepin, 180 Henoch Jedesias, 595 Henrietta, the, 274, 286 Henry, Joseph, 233 Henry St. John, gentleman, 67 Hephzibah Guinness, 90 Herald (N. Y.), 168, 320, 321, 322 Herald of the New-found World, the, 437 Herbart, 240 Her great Match, 283 Her husband's wife, 294 Hermann, J. G. J., 460, 461, 462 Hermann, K. F., 462 Herndon, William L., 136 Herne, James A., 266, 278, 279, 280, 285 Heroines of fiction, 83 Heron, Matilda, 271 Herrick, 38 Heyse, 462 Hiawatha, 604 Hichborn, 365 Hickman, Bill, 143, 151 Hickok, 228, 229,