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A Vast Confusion

From Robert Burton's' Anatomy of Melancholy. Quoted by Michael Gilleland. “I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, etc., daily…
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Alfred Sidgwick · Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs

Convinced of Edification

New at IWP Books: Alfred Sidgwick, 1892, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs. “In all those cases where ideals are brought into conflict it is…

Alfred Sidgwick · Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs

Impatient Dogmatism

New at IWP Books: Alfred Sidgwick, 1892, Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs. “There was a time, which ended some twenty years ago, when most…

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