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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. 1893 hardback. Deccal pages in lovely lightlty tanned condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is a volume like the present has entered the minds of some of William Law’s admirers. John Sterling writing in 1843 to Professor Maurice his brother-in-law enthusiastically announces his discovery of one of Law’s earliest philosophical Essays and suggests to Maurice that he should see to its being reprinted for the sake of his students and other thoughtful young men. In a subsequent letter Sterling puts forward the idea that a volume might be made out of Law somewhat similar to Coleridge’s well-known volume the Aids to Reflection. And though unhappily the larger undertaking was never carried out yet the Essay referred to the Remarks on the Fable of the Bees was republished by the Messrs. Macmillan in 1844 with a singularly characteristic Introduction by Professor Maurice a piece of work that will make all who read it greatly regret that its able and versatile author did not go on to render in our day the same service to William Law that Coleridge had rendered to Archbishop Leighton. I need not say that it never entered my head to attempt the task that Sterling had in vain called upon Maurice to undertake. (SP)