An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
de Mill, John Stuart
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
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Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of Experience and Association, is not a mere matter of abstract speculation; it is full of practical consequences, and lies at the foundation of all the great differences of practical opinion in an age of progress. The practical reformer has continually to demand that changes be made in things which are supported by powerful and widely-spread feelings, or to question the apparent necessity and indefeasibleness of established facts; and it is often an indispensable part of his argument to show, how those powerful feelings had their origin, and how these facts came to seem necessary and indefeasible. There is therefore a natural hostility between him and a philosophy which discourages the explanation of feelings and moral facts by circumstances and associations, and prefers to treat them as ultimate elements of human nature…and deems intuition to be the voice of Nature and of God, speaking with an authority higher than that of reason….Considering then the writings and fame of Sir W.Hamilton as the great fortress of the intuitional philosophy in this country…I thought it might be a real service to philosophy to attempt a thorough examination of all his most important doctrines, and an estimate of his general claims to eminence as a philosopher…On the whole, the book has done its work: it has shown the weak side of Sir William Hamilton, and his reduced his too great philosophical reputation within more moderate bounds." J S Mill, Autobiography pp.271-276.
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- An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
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Rare book specialist Hamish Riley-Smith, who died on August 10, did not originally intend to become a dealer.
He went to Trinity College Dublin, where he read economics and met our mother Brigitta (Gita) von Wagner. He planned to work in the family brewing business, John Smith's, and spent seven years learning the craft at Whitbread's. But after all the family interest in John Smith's was sold in 1972, he looked for a new career.
In 1974 he started Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books. He had no formal training in the book business, other than an acute awareness of business and a degree in economics. He started, in his own words, as a runner, taking one book to another dealer and making a small margin.
Hamish quickly realised this was not for him and started to focus on Arabic and economic books and the social sciences. Through knowledge and research he built up a strong and friendly working relationship with the Japanese, travelling to Japan often. He also traded in Arabia, the US and Europe.
Sacks of catalogues
We can remember how sacks of catalogues would leave the house and go off to museums and institutions across the world, and answers would come back via telex. This was a world before the internet, mobile phones and faxes and computers were only just coming in.
Among his proudest sales were the 14th century Qur'an manuscript of Mameluk Sultan Al Malik Al Nasir Muhammad (pictured here); The Papers of Sir Roy Harrod; The library of Sir John Hicks; The Betjeman Library; typescript/manuscript of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico Philosophicus; The Felibriges Library of Musée Theodore Aubanel, Avignon; as well as collections of Isaac Newton; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Shakespeare; William Petty; Robert Owen and Adam Smith.
He was resolute in his independence and had many friends and colleagues in the book business, but he never did a book fair ("I am not a book fairy") and refused to join any trade associations.
He will be remembered by the family as a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a great source of fun and interest; for Hamish, above all, family came first. His business will continue to be run by his wife Gita and two sons, Damian, director of Paragraph Publishing, and Crispian, director of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd.
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