Naturalists. Both in his life and in his writings he was remarkable for impartiality. It was his peculiar virtue that he could quote his opponents without warping their meaning. From this point of view he would have been perhaps the first historian of philosophy of his time, had his professional labours been less exacting. Bibliography The following were published, either in his lifetime or posthumously. Development of Greek Philosophy, The (1908) Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays, The (1903) Fichte (1881) Blackwood's Philosophical Classics On the Philosophy of Kant (1879) Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition Friedrich von Hermann Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition Francis Bacon (with John Malcolm Mitchell) Roger Bacon (with an anonymous co-author) Friedrich Eduard Beneke George Berkeley Saint Bonaventura (with an anonymous co-author) Giordano Bruno (with John Malcolm Mitchell) Joseph Butler (in part) Category (in part) Johannes Scotus Erigena (with John Malcolm Mitchell) Johann Gottlieb Fichte (with an anonymous co-author) Fourier, François Charles Marie Pierre Gassendi (with an anonymous co-author) David Hume (with John Malcolm Mitchell) Immanuel Kant (with an anonymous co-author) Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography Adelard of Bath Alcuin Alexander of Hales Alfred Anglicus Bacon, Roger Eyton, Thomas Campbell References Attribution External links Scottish philosophers 1852 births 1902 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Aberdeen Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester People from Kingsbarns 19th-century Scottish educators 19th-century British philosophers