“A careful reader will very seldom even suspect him of confusion in ideas; there is hardly a word and—once the sentences have been construed—hardly an argument to baffle an intelligent schoolboy. Yet, with all these pitfalls avoided, we are defrauded of a good philosophical style, the worthy yet popular expression of a valuable thought, by the elementary failure to construct an unambiguous and balanced sentence.”
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“It belongs to the front ranks of its class. Altogether the reading of the book is a rich experience, and its comparative freedom from the jargon of the philosophical schools makes it available for a much wider circle of readers than is usually the case with this kind of literature.” R. R.
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“In Mr Webb, terminology is reduced to a minimum. His argument can be followed by any fairly well read man without difficulty, and this is no small praise.”
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“Mr Webb could not, we think, publish a book that did not contain acute and illuminating pages, but he certainly does not show here anything like the constructive force, or the lucidity of exposition, which marked his earlier volume.”
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WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN. God and personality; being the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1918–1919. (Library of philosophy) *$3 Macmillan 231