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SIMMEL, Georg [1858-1918].
Die Probleme Der Geschichtsphilosophie. Eine Erkenntnistheoretische Studie. Dritte, erweiterte Auflage.
Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1907..
8vo. pp. 179. original cloth (spinal extremities bit frayed, few marginal pencil notes). Third Edition (first: 1892).
$141 USD Book Number: PMMeSIMM29 Order / Enquire

SIMPSON, James [781-1853].
Necessity Of Popular Education, As A National Object; With Hints On The Treatment Of Criminals, And Observations On Homicidal Insanity.
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1834..
12mo. pp. xii, [13]-262. with half-title. original cloth (stains to cloth, spine label chipped, some light foxing). First American Edition. The author was a Scottish advocate and acquaintance of Sir Walter Scott. "He took a deep interest in the agitation in favour of better elementary education. He was one of the founders of the Edinburgh modern infant school, in which he endeavoured to solve the problem of religious education by permitting the parents to select the religious instructors themselves. Failing to receive adequate support, however the school was ultimately sold to the kirk session of New Greyfriars. Simpson continued devoted to the cause of non-sectarian education, and lectured on its behalf in many of the principal towns of England and Scotland. In 1837 he appeared as a witness before the committee of the House of Commons on national education in Ireland, and his examination lasted seven days." (DNB) The present work includes chapters on the effects of ignorance on the condition of the manual-labour class, the effects of imperfect education on the condition of the class of people above manual labour, the faculties of man and their relative objects, education as adapted to the faculties and infant education, education subsequent to infancy, the just estimate of civil history as a study for youth, popular education as the duty of the nation with a proposed plan, and difficulties, obstacles and encouragements. The appendix includes hints on the necessity of a change of principle in the legislation for the efficient protection of society from crime, observations on the degree of knowledge applied to the investigation of insanity in trials for crime, chiefly violence and homicide, &c.
$250 USD Book Number: elala3084 Order / Enquire

SPENCER, Herbert [1820-1903].
An Autobiography.
New York: D.Appleton And Company, 1904..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xv, 655; vii, 613 + [2]ads. 10 portraits (incl. 2 frontis.). 2 folding diagrams. several text illus. (1 full-page). original cloth, t.e.g. First American Edition.
$154 USD Book Number: PENASPEN46 Order / Enquire

STEPHEN, Sir Leslie [1832-1904].
History Of English Thought In The Eighteenth Century.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1881..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xv, 466; xi, 469. with half-titles. contemporary quarter morocco (spines rubbed, corners knocked (library arms in gilt on upper front cover & library stamp on verso of titles). Second Edition. "An ambitious work.in which [Stephen] explained the arguments of the old English deists and the scepticism of Hume." The fairly lengthy chapter on Hume occupies pp. 309-343 of Volume I. The year following publication of the present work Stephen became the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
$308 USD Book Number: PEPstSTE87 Order / Enquire

STEWART, Dugald [1753-1828].
Acount Of The Life And Writings Of William Robertson, D.D. F.R.S.E. Late Principal Of The Univerity of Edinburgh, And Historiographer To His Majesty For Scotland. [Read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh.].
London: Printed by A.Strahan, For T.Cadell Jun. And W.Davies.And E.Balfour, Edinburgh, 1801..
pp. iv, 202. modern bds. (scattered light foxing, a few leaves wrinkled). First Separate Edition, with revisions and added Appendix. Read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1796. cfJessop p. 178 (citing only octavo edn. of the same year & later edns.). cfRand I 498 (later edns.).
$577 USD Book Number: PEWouSTE37 Order / Enquire

STEWART, Dugald [1753-1828].
Elements Of The Philosophy Of The Human Mind.
Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Allan and Company For Archibald Constable and Company., 1818-21..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xii; 585; 1 p.l., [v]-xv, 595. lacking half-titles. contemporary diced russia (covers detached, spines defective, internally very good). Sixth Edition of Volume I; Third Edition of Volume III. Jessop p. 177. Rand I p. 498.
$250 USD Book Number: PEWemSTE73 Order / Enquire

STEWART, J[ohn] A[lexander] [1846-1933].
Notes On The Nicomachean Ethics Of Aristotle.
Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1892..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix, [3], 539; 2 p.l., 475. with half-titles. index. original cloth (chipping to head of spine of Vol. I & inner front hinge partly cracked). ownership entry of American philosopher Alan Gewirth [1912-2004], who has scored several passages. First Edition.
$300 USD Book Number: elala5773 Order / Enquire

STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.
The Port Huron Statement.
New York: Students For A Democratic Society, 1964..
12mo. pp. 63, [1]. wrs. (some pen scoring). Second Printing.
$250 USD Book Number: dola540 Order / Enquire

SUITS, Bernard [Herbert].
The Grasshopper Games, Life And Utopia.
Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, [1980]..
8vo. pp. x, [2], 178. numerous double-page illus. & title vignette by Frank Newfeld. cloth. dw. (sear to head of dw. spine). Second Printing.
$75 USD Book Number: dola227 Order / Enquire

SUTHERLAND, Alexander [1852-1902].
The Origin And Growth Of The Moral Instinct.
London: Longmans, Green, And Co. 1898..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiii, [1]blank, 461, [1]blank, [1 leaf]; vi, 336. with half-titles. original cloth (spinal extremities slightly frayed, staining to pp. 272-73 of Vol. I). First Edition. Rand II 869. Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia, 16444.
$231 USD Book Number: PTHeSUTH78 Order / Enquire

[TAYLOR, Thomas] [1758-1835].
A Dissertation Of The Eleusinian And Bacchic Mysteries.
Amsterdam [ie. London]: J.Weitstein, [1790]..
8vo. pp. iv, 184. modern quarter calf (few pencil markings). First Edition. One of the author's earlier dissertations. Taylor devoted himself to the translation and exposition of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neo-Platonists and Pythagoreans, and professed a kind of Polytheism of the Neo-Platonist type. He figures as the half-crazy enthusiast in Isaac D'Israeli's novel Vaurien, as 'the modern Pletho' in the same author's Curiosities of Literature, and as 'England's gentile priest' in Mathias's Pursuits of Literature.
$799 USD Book Number: PAYDi[TA84 Order / Enquire

TENNANT, Charles.
Ireland And England, Or The Irish Land And Church Questions.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, And Dyer, 1868..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., vi, [1 leaf], 190, [2]ads. with half-title. original gilt & blind-stamped cloth, all edges gilt (extremities frayed & cloth bit puckered). First Edition. A critique of John Stuart Mill's pamphlet England and Ireland written by the author of the People's Blue Book.
$205 USD Book Number: PNNelTEN77 Order / Enquire

THOMAS AQUINAS, Saint.
In Octo Libros Politicorum Aristotelis Expositio Seu De Rebus Civilibus.
Quebec: Laval University, 1940..
8vo. pp. 432. text in double columns. printed wrs. (tear in lower front joint). ownership entry of American philosopher Alan Gewirth. Edition issued for the use of Laval University Alumni.
$45 USD Book Number: elala5844 Order / Enquire

TINNEY, John Pern.
The Rights Of The Sovereignty Vindicated. With Particular Reference To Political Doctrines Of The Edinburgh Review, And Of Other Periodical Publications.
London: Printed By And For C. And R.Baldwin, And For Brodie And Co., 1809..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 210, [2]errata & ads. disbound. First Edition.
$125 USD Book Number: elala3003 Order / Enquire

TOOKE, John Horne [1736-1812].
[Greek Title]. Or, The Diversions Of Purley. Part I.Second Edition. [.Part II.].
London: Printed For The Author At J.Johnson's, 1798-1805..
2 Volumes. 4to. pp. 4 p.l. (incl. errata), 534; 4 p.l. (incl. errata), 615, [36]index to both volumes. engraved frontis. by W.Sharp & 1 other engraved plate, both in Part I. new half calf over 19th century marbled bds., gilt crest on upper covers of the Law Society of Upper Canada (small rubberstamp on titles & verso of frontis.). Second Edition of Part I (first: 1786); First Edition of Part II. Horne Tooke's important treatise on language established his reputation as a philologist. In it he emphasised the need for the study of Gothic and Anglo-Saxon and covered, besides the grammar of English, the distribution of language, and Locke's discussion on the 'nature, use and signification of Language' in his Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. "As a philologist Horne Tooke deserves credit for seeing the necessity of studying Gothic and Anglo-Saxon, and learnt enough to be far in advance of Johnson in that direction.His philology was meant to subserve a characteristic philosophy. Locke, he said, had made a happy mistake when he called his book an essay upon human understanding, instead of an essay upon grammar. Horne Tooke was, in fact, a thorough nominalist after the fashion of Hobbes; he especially ridiculed the Hermes of Harris, and Monboddo, who had tried to revive Aristotelean logic; held that every word meant simply a thing; and that reasoning was the art of putting words together. Some of his definitions on this principle became famous; as that truth means simply what a man 'troweth', and that right means simply what is ruled, whence it follows that right and wrong are as arbitrary as right and left, and may change places according to the legislator's point of view." (DNB) Alston III 854. cfRand I 346.
$750 USD Book Number: POKreTOO14 Order / Enquire

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