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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

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  • In Sir Leslie Stephen

    His greatest learned work was History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1876). His philosophical study The English Utilitarians (1900) was somewhat less successful, though it is still a useful source. His philosophical contribution to the rationalist tradition, Science of Ethics (1882), attempted to wed evolutionary theory to ethics,…

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