"By arranging selections from the writings of very different thinkers in chronological order Mrs Knight shows how their seminal insights developed from Classical times, through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the intellectual upheavals of the nineteenth century to fertilize the liberal and scientific outlook of western civilization." Pp.16/200,owners name to fep,some marginal marks. Red cloth,d/w rubbed and chipped. G/G.

Knight  Humanist  Anthology  Confucius  Russell  Philosophy  Epicurus  Cicero  Pliny  Plutarch  Spinoza  Voltaire  Hume  Paine  Bentham  Schopenhauer  Shelley  Eliot  Spencer  Huxley  Freud  Einstein  Bronowski  A5378