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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
own. His Philosophy of mathematics is still worth reading. So also is Shedd's Philosophy of history, which illustrates the independence of the evolutionary conception of history from the thought of Spencer or Darwin. For sheer intellectual power, however, and for comprehensive grasp of technical philosophy Hickok is easily the foremost figure in American philosophy between the time of Jonathan Edwards and the period of the Civil War. He left, however, no influential disciples except Presidents Seeley and Bascom. American philosophy before the Civil War produced not a single original philosophic work of commanding importance. To the modem reader it is all an arid desert of commonplace opinion covered with the dust of pedantic language. The storm which broke the stagnant air and aroused many American minds from this dogmatic torpor came with the controversy over evolution which followed the publication of Lyell's Geology, Darwin's Origin of species, and Spencer's First principles
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
41 Scribe, 550 Scribner, Charles, 310 Scribner's magazine, 73, 158, 301, 310, 312, 316 Scribner's monthly, 38, 48, 301, 310, 311, 312, 314 Scripps, 327 Scrope, Poulett, 434 Scudder, H. E., 307 Seabury, Samuel, 345 Seaman, E. C., 434 Sea power in its relation to the War of 1812, 196 Search for the North Pole, the, 169 Seasons, 37 Seaward, 52 Sea Wolf, the, 94 Secret, the, 282 Secret service, 266, 286 Sedgwick, Ellery, 307 Sedgwick, Theodore, 434 Seeley, Pres., 229 n. Seidensticker, Oswald, 587 Sejour, Victor, 593 Selections from modern Greek writers, 460 Self, 275 Self-culture, 109 Self reliance, 415 Seligman, E. R. A., 359 Sense of the past, the, 103 Serdatsky, Yenta, 606 Seth Jones or the captive of the frontier, 66 Seume, J. G., 578 Seven days, 295 Seven English cities, 83 Seven keys to Baldpate, 289 Seven Spanish cities, 164 Seventeen, 420 Seventh annual report (Mann, H.), 408 Severals relat