Mens creatrix : an essay.

xiii, 367 p.; 22 cm. [First printed in 1917] From the preface, dated October 1916: `This book was planned in the year 1908 when I was a junior don engaged in lecturing on Philosophy. At that time I had the presumption to believe that I was myself destined to be a philosopher. The course of events has led to my since being mainly occupied with what are foolishly distinguished as "practical affairs" (for what is so powerful in practice as a philosophy?), and the completion of this book has been the work of odd moments. I have been eager to finish it, partly as a tribute to an old ambition, partly as a stimulus, if it may be so, to some real philosopher to do more adequately what I am only able to sketch out. We need very urgently some one who will do for our day the work that St. Thomas Aquinas did for his.' -- `Preface to the issue of 1923. This issue is not a new edition. There is no part of the main argument that I wish to change. Where topical allusions are become out of date I have added a footnote to point this out; but no other alterations have been made. I hope soon to complete a supplementary volume under the title Christus Veritas: that will be mainly theological, whereas this is mainly philosophical.' Good faded orig. violet cloth. Spine and front edges lt. abraded.…