De l'Intelligence, in Two Volumes: Premiere Partie - Les Elements de la Connaissance: Livre Premier: Les Signes; Livre Deuxieme: Les Images; Livre Troiseme: Les Sensations; Livre Quatrieme: Les Conditions Physiques des Evenements Moraux; Deuxieme Partie - Les Diverses Sortes de Connaissances: Livre Premier: Mecanisme General de la Connaissance; Livre Deuxieme: La Connaissance des Corps; Livre Troisieme: La Connaissance de l'Esprit; Livre Quatrieme: La Connaissance des Choses Generales;

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Mixed edition (vol. 1 first, vol. 2 second). Edges rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1870 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. Half-leather: leather spine and boards, pebbled cloth boards, gilt titles and rules. 492; 508 pp. 8vo. Taine was a French critic and historian, a chief influence in French naturalism, an advocate of sociological positivism, and an early historicist (perhaps the first). This works provides an analysis of the human mind, discussing brain physiology, knowledge, sense perceptions, images, etc.