Word: kant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lost.- Kant's Theory of Ethics, Abbot's edition, and note book in Phil. IV. The finder will please send word to T. T. Baldwin, 43 Matthews...
...look sharp you will see a small book of Ben Johnson's with this characteristic phrase: Sum Ben Jonsonii. It would take too much space to give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens; an invitation...
...unpublished manuscript of Kant has been recently found in Russia and promises to be of great interest, as it throws light upon his home life and surroundings...
...experience theory iaid a sure foundation of knowledge. No. VI.-"David Hume as expounded by Huxley." It is unnecessary to examine Hume's skepticism, but it is best to do so in the defense of it by Huxley. No. VII.-"A Criticism of the Critical Philosophy," showing that kant has stated and defended most important truths, but has undermined knowledge by making the mind begin with appearances and not with things. No. VIII.-"Herbert Spencer's Philosophy as culminated in his Ethics." Here there will be carefully examined his physiological utilitarianism...
...finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept. 28, 1841. Half-past three in morning." It is written on the back of a letter addressed to him by Charles Sumner. The two lines...