“The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the work of his prime.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w. |
“Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining style than that in which the average professor delivers the average lecture.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w. |
* Stephen, Sir Leslie. Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.
W 7–196.
Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”
| Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w. |
“Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”