Social Rights and Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies

Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. In addition to three volumes of critical studies, he made two valuable contributions to philosophical history and theory. The first was The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1876 and 1881, which was generally recognized as an important...