FISKE, John - CLARK, John Spencer.

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The Life and Letters of John Fiske. First edition, handsomely bound, of this biography of the historian and philosopher by his lifelong friend, tracing his life from boyhood to Harvard to his association with Spencer and Huxley. Fiske was "one of the most important intellectual influences in the last quarter of the 19th century. He was probably the most admirably fitted among all his contemporaries to lead the fight for evolution among his countrymen, and the charm of his historical writings and lectures not only instilled an interest in the subject into a vast number of people but was the prime cause of not a few of the distinguished scholars of today first turning to history as their life-work" (DAB).

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