A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy

Frederick City, MD: Ezekiel Hughes, 1844. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. First edition. Boards rubbed with 2 inch chip from spine head and some loss from other corners, portion of front free endpaper removed, foxed throughout. 1844 Hard Cover. xxiv, 178 pp. Samuel Tyler was a Maryland lawyer who dabbled in writings on philosophy and logic... "through articles on logic and metaphysics which he contributed to the Princeton Review he gained the approval of Europe and the esteem and correspondence of Sir William Hamilton, celebrated philosopher of the Scottish school of Realism. Several of these papers were collected under the titles A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy (1844) and The Progress of Philosophy in the Past and in the Future (1858)." (World Biographical Encyclopedia)