Author: Walter Leatherbee Leighton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-12-31

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780364942376

Excerpt from French Philosophers and New-England Transcendentalis: A Thesis Thanks for assistance in the course of actually drawing up the dissertation are due first, to Dr. Albert Lefevre, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, for valuable suggestions concerning the definition of Transcendentalism next, to Dr. R. H. Wilson and adjunct-professor Dr. E. P. Dargan, of the depart ment of Romance Languages at the University of Virginia, for kind help in the. Work of revision and correction, and, finally, to Dr. Charles W. Kent, professor at the head of the department of English at the University of Virginia, for general supervision of my work [on the thesis. In the work of compiling and Writing the thesis I have been swayed by two motives: first, the purpose to gather by careful research and investigation certain definite facts concerning the French philosophers and the Transcendental movement in New England; and, secondly, the desire to set forth the information amassed in a cursory and readable style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.