Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey

viii, 358 pp. "...examines several different views of science espoused by major American thinkers and shows how these views affected their attitudes toward the central institutions of civilization. ... shows how different ideas of the nature and scope of science led to different ideas of religion, law, and morality. ...deals with the impact made on American philosophy by foreign thinkers like Locke, Coleridge, and Herbert Spencer..."