Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose.(Book Review)

Wordsworth Circle | September 22, 2003| | Copyright

Tim Milnes, Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), viii + 278. $60.00.

In 1839, Thomas De Quincey set himself the task of refuting David Hume's notorious argument against miracles in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1748). De Quincey began with the best of intentions ("Hume's argument against miracles is simply this"), but before long he was preoccupied with questions of rhetoric, and, when he came to revise the essay in 1858, he confessed that he had left the question of ...

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