ESSAYS ON FREETHINKING AND PLAINSPEAKING

LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. VERY GOOD WITHOUT D.J.. PUB 1873. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THEOLOGIAN HENRY PARRY LIDDON WITH HIS DATED (12-23-1873) SIGNATURE ON VERSO OF THE FRONT FREE-ENDPAPER . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL RED PEBBLED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND DECORATIVE DESIGN TO THE UPPER AND LOWER COVERS IN BLIND, CHOCOLATE COATED ENDPAPERS. OTHER THAN SOME MODERATE SOILING TO THE BOARDS, DULLING TO THE SPINE, AND SOME LIGHT WEAR AT THE HEEL OF THE SPINE A NICE TIGHT WELL PRESERVED COPY WITH NICE OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATIONS. Stephen's first wife was the daughter of Wm Makepeace Thackeray and with his second wife he was the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. In addition to being an noted mountaineerer during the "golden age of alpinism", he made two valuable contributions to philosophical history and theory. The first was "The History of Thought in the Eighteenth Century" (1876 and 1881). This work was generally recognised as an important addition to philosophical literature and led immediately to Stephen's election at the Athenaeum Club in 1877. The second was "The Science of Ethics" (1882). It was extensively adopted as a textbook on the subject and made him the best-known proponent of evolutionary ethics in late-nineteenth-Century Britian. This book was also part of the moral philosopher Marcus George Singer's library with his signature and date (1963) on the blank page following the front free endpaper. .