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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
y. The first volume of the new work on The science of politics, By P. E. Dove, published anonymously in the first edition. where you are noticed, will be published at once in Boston. It seems to me calculated to influence many minds. No previous English work on the same topics will compare with it, nor do I know any Continental work equally profound, careful, and revolutionary. It is curious that British authors should take such a sudden start. Since this work there has appeared Social Statics, by Herbert Spencer (who can he be? Is it not a nom de plume,—two great families grouped on one page?), which is not inferior in talent to the other book, and which is equally original and penetrating, but not calculated to reach so many readers, though it is most artistic in its style and arrangement. Two such works published within two months of each other,—one in Scotland, and the other in England,—without any apparent concert or knowledge of each other, form an era in political sci<