BIB_ID
401467
Accession number
MA 8854.4
Creator
Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903.
Display Date
1881 January 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for sending him a volume on Descartes (most probably "Descartes" by John Pentland Mahaffy, in Knight's series "Philosophical Classics for English Readers"); praising "the uncommon interest of the narrative"; pointing out some of the limitations of the book: "considering how much has been made of the connection between Descartes' metaphysics and his mathematics, I should have liked to see this a little more fully attended to."
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