Evidence: | 'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should have preferred it if you had been a convert & admitted that every word I said was true. But I am quite satisfied to have a candid & generous critic & that you could not cease to be without ceasing to be yourself. Most of the points between us would require a treatise instead of a letter. As, for example, I can never understand what is meant to aversion & desire [to] expect anticipation of pain & pleasure. Therefore to me it is the same thing to say that conduct is determined by one or the other. But this implies a psychological difference not to be bridged over in a letter.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1882 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Leslie Stephen |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 28 Nov 1832 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Henry Sidgwick |
Title: | Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Social Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | Mind 7 (Oct 1882) |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4016 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Leslie Stephen | |
Editor: | John Bicknell | |
Title: | The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 2 1882-1904 | |
Place of Publication: | Ohio State University Press | |
Date of Publication: | 2 | |
Vol: | 1996 | |
Page: | 255 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Stephen to Henry Sidgwick (10/10/1882) |
Citation: | Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol. 2 1882-1904 (Ohio State University Press, 2), 1996, p. 255, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4016, accessed: 06 December 2023 |
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