"History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Leslie Stephen, 1876. Two volumes. Full leather. Writer, philosopher, literary critic, Stephen was ordained a deacon, but later turned agnostic. His two-volume work lays out the eighteenth-century philosophic history and analysis of deistic thought. Deists insisted that religious truth should be subject to the authority of human reason rather than divine revelation. Consequently, they denied that the Bible was the revealed word of God and rejected scripture as a source of religious doctrine. As devotees of natural religion, they rejected a... View More...
"John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Henry Holt & Company, New York, N.D. (1887). Posthumously published on Mill's arrangement with his executor. VG+ condition. Brown cloth bound with gilt title. Bookplate. Some pencil marginalia. Clean and tight. 313pp." View More...
"Principles of Political Economy, John Stuart Mill, 1884. Abridged, with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy, by J. Laurence Laughlin. D. Appleton and Company, New York. Single volume, text book for colleges. Brown embossed cloth, with gilt title on spine. leaf and flower design covers endpapers. With fold out map of US population density, based on 1880 Census, ""Excluding Indians not taxed."" There are five fold-out charts in good condition. Near fine condition all around, some very slight edge wear, scuffing." View More...
