Biographia Philosophica: A Retrospect (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Biographia Philosophica: A Retrospect

I have to thank Professor pringle-pattison, my successor in the Chair of Hamilton, for his kindness in reading the proofs, and for useful suggestions.

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Excerpt from Biographia Philosophica: A Retrospect

It may appear to some that in the following pages the Biographia is too prominent, to others that the Philosophia is in excess, and perhaps a larger number may think that there is too much of both.

When I remembered bow the modesty of David Hume confined his narrative of the events of his own really memorable life within about a dozen pages, I was ready to agree with the first of these opinions, and to resolve that this Retrospect should remain unpublished. But I reflected that here the Biographia was introduced for the sake of Philosophia so that it was not a story of personal incidents for their own sake.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.