Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Whether this little volume will find sufficient patrons to defray the cost of its production is at least doubtful. The writer whose essays it contains lived in obscurity and will never be popular. But he possessed a fine intellect, however frustrated by circumstances; he belon...
This nameless principle of order, considered as a vague popular surmise, is as familiar to our experience as design. We all see, for instance, that water has a tendency to form...
3. Part 3The same simplicity characterises the reforming animus of the other great patriarch of "the new philosophy," in its sister branch. The still debated point between the school of...
1. Part 1Whether this little volume will find sufficient patrons to defray the cost of its production is at least doubtful. The writer whose essays it contains lived in obscurity and wil...
4. Part 41. Thus no one doubts, when coming to the intersection of two roads, he sees a sign-post, on one of whose pointers is written "To London," and on the other "To Windsor," no one...