The Panidea: or, an omnipresent reason considered as the creative and sustaining logos. By Theoptes

[Durfee, Job.]

Published by Thomas H. Webb & Co, Boston, 1846

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. 176; original printed wrappers backed with red cloth at an early date, manuscript paper label on spine; wrappers lightly soiled and worn with minor loss to back wrap; a few corners creased and curled but text generally clean. A good, sound copy. A work of Emersonian pantheism by the Chief Judge of the Rhode Island Supreme Court who presided over the Dorr trials. In an earlier work, The Influence of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress (1843), Durfee believed that he had found in the advent of steam power a sign of divine intervention, indicating a "law of progress" in man's development. Panidea adumbrates this theme: all is eventually assimilated into the "Theanthropoid," Durfee's term for the Divine Mind. See Schneider, History of American Philosophy. DAB offers a concise assessment: "a somewhat pretentious philosophical work which nobody read." American Imprints 2262. Seller Inventory # 54235

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Panidea: or, an omnipresent reason ...

Publisher: Thomas H. Webb & Co, Boston

Publication Date: 1846

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition