Constance Naden and hylo-idealism : a critical study / by E. Cobham Brewer ; annotated by R. Lewins.

  • E. Cobham Brewer
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1891
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    CONSTANCE NADEN HYLO-IDEALISM a Critical BY E. OOBHAM BREWER LL.I). Author of Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;” '‘'’The Reader's Hand-Book “Historical Note-Book” Sc. ANNOTATED BY E. LEWINS M.D; “ It is witli Hcations as with individuals. In tranquil mciads, peaceable times we are quite practical ; facts onI%j&ud cpoj^ on- sense [?] are then in fasRion. But let the winds oi'pfBwwfrtiwml and men begin to generalize, to connect by remotest analogies, to express the most universal positions of reason in the most glowing figures of fancy ; in short, to feel special truths and mere facts as poor, narrow and incommensurate with their feelings. ... At the commencement of the French Revolution, in the remotest villages every tongue was employed in echoing and enforcing the almost geometrical abstractions of the physiocratic politicians and economists.”—Coleridge's Statesman’s Manual. LONDON BICKERS & SON LEICESTER SQUARE 1891 ri 'ice One Shilling.