[*] “The best brief presentation extant in English of the religion of Egypt.”
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Stephen, Leslie. Freethinking and plain speaking. [*]$1.50. Putnam.
“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.
“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward Fuller.
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“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented author commemorated.”
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Stephen, Leslie. Hobbes. [**]75c. Macmillan.
This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies. It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs, explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic, voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited authority.” (Ind.)