HART, Edmund.

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Philosophical inquiries; First edition of this little-known work which purports to "investigate every received philosophical opinion, bring it to the test of reason, and divest it of its errors, shielded howsoever it may be by the names of great men" (preface, p. v). Despite its noble aims, it was not received wholly favourably, with the London Literary Gazette for 1828 judging Hart to be dictatorial and condescending in his tone, "a genuine recruit in the 'march-of-intellect' system - who neither looks to the right nor left, nor any way but his own purpose - as if prejudices, like fortresses, were to be taken by assault" (p. 522).WorldCat records copies in UK and US institutions only, locating a total of six in the former (British Library, Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews, and University College London) and three in the latter (Universities of Chicago, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin).

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