1887 · [Plymouth
by Chapman, Charles
[Plymouth: printed by Cove & Co., Caxton Ope, Old Town Street, 1887. 8vo, pp. 22; annotated in pencil throughout by an astute reader of Leibnitz; original printed wrappers; soiled; a good copy of what is apparently a very rare pamphlet. Charles Chapman (1828-1922), was a writer, professor of logic and mental science, and Principal of Western College in Plymouth, Devon (a now-defunct but then-prominent nonconformist educational institution of the West Country) and a distinguished nineteenth-century intellectual. Alan P. F. Sell in his book Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity, 1689-1920 (2004), notes that Chapman was a professional lecturer in philosophy (truncated)