8vo, 538 pp., 14s. History of Intellectual Development ON THE LINES OF MODERN EVOLUTION. VOL. I.-Greek and Hindoo Thought; Græco-Roman Paganism; Judaism; and Christianity down to the Closing of the Schools of Athens by Justinian, 529 A.D. BY JOHN BEATTIE CROZIER (Author of "Civilization and Progress"). EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES: The Athenæum says: "Of Mr. Crozier's masterly insight into the true bearing of great intellectual systems, and of their relation one to another, it is difficult to speak too highly, and yet the skill with which he has marshalled his facts, and the unfaltering precision and lucidity of his language, always dignified and often eloquent. are no less admirable ... If the first volume of this scheme may be accepted as a fair specimen of what the whole is to be, the English philosophical literature will be the richer by a work of rare ability." The Spectator says: "We do not know elsewhere in the English tongue such a succinct and brilliant conspectus, in concentrated form and in non-technical language, of the intellectual and spiritual movement of the early world which culminated in the victory of Christianity. Nor do we know of any other work on an equal scale and of the same scope in which the movement of thought is so clearly treated from the point of view of development." The REV. MARCUS DODS, D.D., says in the Bookman: Vast and complicated as is the subject which Dr. Crozier handles, there is nothing crude and nothing dims in its presentation. On the contrary, his work upon any special department of thought will stand comparison with that of experts. He has a genius for seizing upon the essential points, and for eliminating all that is accidental or mere excrescence. He has also a genius for exposition, concealing all that is ponderous, and brightening his pages as well as aiding his reader by felicitous illustration. His work is one of the most considerable additions recently made to philosophical literature, and is so devoid of technicalities that it should find a public beyond the schools. . . . There is no part of his work which is not fruitful. The development of the idea of God among the Jews has never been more lucidly or succinctly presented even by a specialist. The messianic idea, its growth and culmination in Jesus, will be better understood from the few pages in which Mr. Crozier hides an immense amount of thoroughly digested reading than from many ponderous volumes. The book is sure to receive the attention of all thoughtful persons." LONGMANS, GREEN, & Co., Paternoster Row, E.C. (I) CIVILIZATION AND PROGRESS. PRESS NOTICES. "The book of a very able man The testimony which we are compelled to give to the high ability of this ambitious work is completely impartial We can have no doubt as to the great ability of the book, nor as to the literary power with which the thoughts it contains are often expressed Great literary faculty Full of original criticism It will rectify much that is faulty in the views of his predecessors A book far less superficial than Mr. Buckle's." Spectator. "The ability of Mr. Crozier consists in a remarkable clearness of detail vision Fine critical observation singular acumen of distinction-the power, so to speak, of seeing through millstones, of being in a manner clairvoyant This accurate and subtle thinker."-Academy. "This is a work of real ability. It is full of thought, and its style is both forcible and clear. The reader is borne on a stream of strong thinking from point to point, until at last, when he pauses to get a little mental breath, he finds that he has been doing almost as much thinking as the author himself, so stimulating and suggestive is the book, and so full is it of discriminating, vigorous, and subtle ideas This rich and suggestive book."Inquirer. "There can be no doubt, we think, that Mr. Crozier has put his finger upon the weak point in the speculations of previous writers, and that he has himself laid hold of the right method for the adequate treatment of his subject . . The work is one of real and pre-eminent merit, and will deservedly take a high place in the class of literature to which it belongs."--Scottish Review. LONGMANS, GREEN, & Co., Paternoster Row, E.C. (2) |