+ – Outlook. 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.
Benn, Alfred William. History of English rationalism in the nineteenth century. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
Mr. Benn’s book “includes intelligent summaries of the various systems of philosophy which have influenced English thought, and gives much detailed consideration to the influence of Coleridge and the neo-Platonists, to utilitarianism, and Benthamism, to the Oxford movement, and to all literary work of distinction which has influenced the spread of rationalism or tended to curb its spread.”—N. Y. Times.
“His book strikes us as neither amusing nor particularly instructive.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 440w.
“It is a singularly interesting and well written account of the movement of theological (and, to some extent, of philosophical) thought in England during the last century. The fulness and accuracy of Mr. Benn’s information regarding the books and writers whom he passes in review makes his survey instructive and suggestive even to those who dissent from the barren negativity of his conclusions.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 198. Je. 1, ’06. 2820w.
“The discussion is necessarily far less simple than Sir Leslie Stephen’s account of the eighteenth century, and its dramatic unity correspondingly weaker; but it has a richness and variety that are not without their compensating interest.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 2230w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 660w. Sat. R. 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1800w.