“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive knowledge.”—Outlook.
“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of science.”
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“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.
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Hibbert, Walter. Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.
“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and its transformations.”—Nature.
“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”
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“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us particularly happy.”