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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 7 1 Browse Search
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.) 6 0 Browse Search
William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves. 4 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 2 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 3 1 Browse Search
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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)
and serious assimilation of Kant's thought. Hickok, however, professes to reject the whole transcendental philosophy, and, in the main, the Kantian elements in his system are no larger than in the writings of British thinkers like Hamilton and Whewell. The Hegelian influence, which made itself strongly felt in the work of William T. Harris, was even more potent in Great Britain. In 1835 De Tocqueville reported that in no part of the civilized world was less attention paid to philosophy th that for one British philosopher who believed in the experimental method twenty were followers of the a priori method. Empiricism was certainly not the dominant characteristic of Anglo-Saxon thought in the period when Coleridge, Hamilton, and Whewell were in the foreground. Slowly the scientific mode of thought spread, however, and found in Mill's Logic its most convenient formulation. Chauncey Wright (1830-75), a computer for the Nautical Almanac who had made important contributions to ma
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)
t, the, 187 Westways, 90 Wet days at Edgewood, 111 Weyl, Walter, 365 Weyman, Stanley, 287 What I saw in California in 1846–; 1847, 142 What is Darwinism? 209 What is man? 20 What is vital in Christianity? 417 What Maisie knew, 106 What social classes owe to each other, 440 Wheeler, George M., 158 Wheelock, Eleazar, 393 When Johnny comes marching home, 497 When Knighthood was in flower, 91, 288 When the Frost is on the Punkin, 61 Where does the Sky begin? 218 Whewell, 228, 234 Whipple, Edwin Percy, 125, 126 White, Andrew D., 177, 354 White, Horace, 358, 440 White, James, 157 White, R. G., 473-74, 475, 482 White, Stanford, 48 White Jacket, 156 White World, the, 169 Whither, 204, 204 n. Whiting, 348 Whitman, Walter, 17, 50, 52, 53, 65, 117, 137, 304, 569, 570 Whitney, Asa, 146 Whitney, Eli, 453 Whitney, Josiah, 467, 470, 475 Whitney, Thomas R., 345 Whitney, William Dwight, 461, 462, 464. 467-70, 475, 477 Whittaker, F