BIB_ID
401649
Accession number
MA 8861.1
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1880 May 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 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.
Embossed letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ S.W."
Docketed.
Embossed letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ S.W."
Docketed.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing interest in writing a volume on John Stuart Mill for Knight's series "Philosophical Classics for English Readers": "I think that, in spite of a strong sense of his shortcomings as a philosopher I should be in sufficient sympathy with him to do him justice"; rejecting the idea of writing on other philosophers suggested by Knight, among them Malebranche, Comte, and Schelling: "Malebranche is too much outside the main current of speculation. Comte is too little of a philosopher. Schelling, even if I understood him which I admit I do not, by general consent leads to nothing."
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