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Giordano Bruno.

From the Statue in the Campo dei Fiori, Rome.

HISTORY OF

MODERN

PHILOSOPHY

BY

A. W. BENN,

AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH RATIONALISM IN THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY," ETC.

[ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION, LIMITED]

London:

WATTS & CO.,

17 JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.

1912

PRINTED BY WATTS AND CO.,
JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET,
LONDON, E.C.

CHAPTER I.	PAGE
The Philosophical Renaissance	1
CHAPTER II.
The Metaphysicians	31
CHAPTER III.
The Theorists of Knowledge	65
CHAPTER IV.
The German Idealists	101
CHAPTER V.
The Humanists of the Nineteenth Century	124
Bibliography	149
Index	153

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Giordano Bruno

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