| | 9 | Author: | Gov. Thomas Hutchinson | Add | | | Title: | THE WITCHCRAFT DELUSION OF 1692  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN May last I had occasion to consult the original manuscript of Gov.
Hutchinson’s second volume of the History of Massachusetts, which, it
is well known, is among the Hutchinson papers in the State archives in Boston. I
had never before seen the manuscript, and did not readily find the passage of
which I was in search. The first portion of the manuscript seemed to be missing,
and its place was supplied by matter which belonged to the Appendix. My first
inpression [sic] was that the missing sheets were those which
Gov. Hutchinson did not recover after the stamp-act riot of 1765. Finding the
matter of the Appendix out of place, suggested that the volume might have been
carelessly arranged for binding. On collating the manuscript the early portion
was found in another part of the volume. This was the copy used by the printers. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 | Add | | | Title: | Bentham | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | There are two men, recently deceased, to whom their country
is indebted not only for the greater part of the important ideas
which have been thrown into circulation among its thinking men in
their time, but for a revolution in its general modes of thought
and investigation. These men, dissimilar in almost all else,
agreed in being closet-students -- secluded in a peculiar degree,
by circumstances and character, from the business and intercourse
of the world: and both were, through a large portion of their
lives, regarded by those who took the lead in opinion (when they
happened to hear of them) with feelings akin to contempt. But
they were destined to renew a lesson given to mankind by every
age, and always disregarded -- to show that speculative
philosophy, which to the superficial appears a thing so remote
from the business of life and the outward interests of men, is in
reality the thing on earth which most influences them, and in the
long run overbears every other influence save those which it must
itself obey. The writers of whom we speak have never been read by
the multitude; except for the more slight of their works, their
readers have been few.. but they have been the teachers of the
teachers; there is hardly to be found in England an individual of
any importance in the world of mind, who (whatever opinions he
may have afterwards adopted) did not first learn to think from
one of these two; and though their influences have but begun to
diffuse themselves through these intermediate channels over
society at large, there is already scarcely a publication of any
consequence addressed to the educated classes, which, if these
persons had not existed, would not have been different from what
it is. These men are, Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-- the two great seminal minds of England in their age. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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