| Entry type: Book | Call Number: 1222 | Barcode: 31290030401558 |
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Publication Date
1941
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Place of Publication
Cambridge
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Book-plate
No
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Edition
W.E.A edition (first published March 1941)
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Number of Pages
127
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Publication Info
hardcover
Copy specific notes
Bookplate inserted; “Robert Menzies” written in pencil on front endpaper. Highlighted in pencil on [p. 8 – quoting Aristotle]: “One may enquire why a boy, though he may be a mathematician, cannot be a philosopher. Perhaps the answer is that mathematics deals with abstractions whereas the first principles of philosophy are derived from experience: the young can only repeat them without conviction of their truth, whereas the definitions of mathematicians are easily understood. […] The young are not fit to be students of politics for they have no experience of life and conduct, and it is these that supply the premises and subject-matter of this branch of thought.” Pages 84, 86 and 88 also earmarked.
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