Philosophical Discussions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Philosophical Discussions<br><br>Chauncey Wright died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 12th of September, 1875, aged forty-five years.<br><br>His name was not widely known. He had written comparatively little. A few essays by him on scientific subjects had appeared in "The Mathematical Monthly," and the "Memoirs" and "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"; he had contributed several articles, mostly upon philosophical topics, to the "North American Review," and he had printed numerous briefer papers in "The Nation." His work gave evidence not only of a mind of rare power and unusual balance, but also of wide acquisitions and thorough intellectual discipline, and he had won recognition from competent judges as a philosophical thinker of a high order, from whom much was to be expected.<br><br>To collect his principal writings, and to present them in a form accessible to students was a duty to his memory, and in the interest of philosophy. Fragmentary, as of necessity such a collection must be, and but imperfectly representative of the scope of the author's mind, the general character of his philosophical opinions and method may clearly enough be learned from it.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.