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Add. MS c/93/10
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Letter from Lord Acton to Henry Sidgwick
Date(s)
- 28 Sept. 1898 (Production)
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1 doc
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(1838-1900)
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On the contents and title of Sidgwick's proposed chapter in the Cambridge Modern History. Proposes that it should be called 'Political Philosophy'. Refers to other related chapters of the work, such as that on Machiavelli and another on revolutionary theory in the sixteenth century. Also refers to disagreement between himself and Sidgwick on some aspects of the thinking of Bacon, Descartes and Hobbes.