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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN FISKE! Complete in 24 volumes. This set was printed in 1874! The FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 7 covers are detached. Fiske was a famous philosopher known particularly for his popularization of Charles Darwin's work. FAMOUS FOR HIS WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, especially it's discovery, Colonial America, and the AMERICAN REVOLUTION. From 1869 to 1871, he was university lecturer on philosophy at Harvard, in 1870 instructor in history there, and assistant librarian 1872-1879. This set was printed during this period.This set appears to be the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. This set was printed in 1874! This large set contains ALL OF HIS WORKS, and is complete. The Standard Library Edition. Printed in high quality paper. Illustrated with engraved frontis plates.Bound in the original leather bindings. These are the highest quality leather. The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, and it was through the popularization of Charles Darwin's work that he first became known to the public. Also active as a popularizer of evolutionary science, Fiske applied his understanding of Darwninan theory to American history. “Drawing on the work of British historians who viewed Parliament as the acme of European ideas of freedom and self-government, [Fiske] argued that the United States had evolved even further. The New England town meeting was the purest form of local government and the American Federal Union the highest form of representative government… Fiske’s work drew audiences partly because of his literary skills but even more because his ideas spoke so eloquently to the needs of his time. He became the most popular historian of his generation… To educated audiences across the United States who came to his lectures and bought his books, he presented a view of their past that appealed to their national pride” (ANB). He applied himself to the philosophical interpretation of Darwin's work and produced many books and essays on this subject. His philosophy was influenced by Herbert Spencer's views on evolution. In a letter from Charles Darwin to John Fiske, dated from 1874, (THE TEAR THIS SET WAS PRINTED) the naturalist remarks: "I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are." The Complete Works of JOHN FISKE. 1) THE HISTORICAL WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE.(Complete in 12- volumes) Together With: 2) THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE.(Complete in 12-volumes) Therefore: Complete in 24-volumes with ALL OF FISKE's WORKS . Printed in 1874! Some titles may have slightly later date. During the author's lifetime. This set is well Over 140 YEARS OLD!! 1) THE HISTORICAL WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE. Titles: Vol. I The Discovery of America Vol. II The Discovery of America II Vol. III The Discovery of America III Vol. IV Old Virginia and Her Neighbors I Vol. V Old Virginia and Her Neighbors II Vol. VI The Beginnings of New England Vol. VII The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America I Vol. VIII he Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America II Vol. IX New France and New England Vol. X The American Revolution I Vol. XI The American Revolution II Vol. XII The Critical Period of American History Together with: 2) THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE. With Many Portraits of Illustrious Philosophers, Scientists, and Other Men of Note. Titles: Vol. I Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy I Vol. II Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Vol. II Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Vol. IV Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy IV Vol. V Myths and Myth-Makers Vol. VI The Unseen World and OTher Essays Vol. VII Excursions of an Evolutionist Vol. VIII Darwin, Darwinism and Other Essays Vol. IX Studies in Religion Vol. X A Century of Science Vol. XI The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War Vol. XII Civil Government in the Unites States An extraordinary and complete set of Fiske's complete works. Illustrated with Many Photogravures, Maps, Charts, Facsimiles, Etc. Bound in the highest quality moroccan leather bindings. These are the original bindings from 1874! Marbled boards and end-papers. Ornate gilded spine with raised hubs. Top edge gilded. Wide margins. 8 1/4 inches tall. Complete in 12 volumes each, as stated on title page. 24-volumes total. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York. Printed in 1874.Not dated inn titke Page. Some dates vary. Each volume contains a frontis, a preface, and a list of illustrations. This set has a lot of external wear, but still displays exceptionally well as a nice antiquarian set, taking a significant amount of shelf space. As loose leather bindings towards interior decoration alone, this set is worth over $1000. This set is complete, and from 1874. PLEASE READ THE CONDITION PARAGRAPH BEFORE PURCHASING: 7 covers are detached. —> CONDITION: Internally very fresh clean and well preserved. Very Good condition overall but with significant external wear, especially to the hinges : 7 hinges are detached, and are in need of repair by a bindery; there this is als some hinge starting. Some general rubbing, external wear, some chips, as shown. Clean, bright, FINE interior. Printed on high quality paper that is still fresh and bright. Rag style paper. Wide margins. Likely free of any trace of foxing. No writing or previous signs of ownership. A gorgeous and complete collection of Fiske's Works, including all of his writings on The HISTORY OF AMERICA, THE COLONIES, AMERICAN REVOLUTION, DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Etc.... This set would make a great gift or addition to any collection. 7 covers are detached. This is an important piece of Americana, and History of The United States of America. This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any fine library. Antiquarian books make a great investment, are only going up in value, and are sure to increase the aura of any room or office! We will pack very securely to ensure safe arrival at your doorstep. All books are individually wrapped and professionally padded. We double wrap, and will leave plenty of space between this purchase and the walls of the box. We fill Bound in the original leather bindings. Ornate gilded spine. Top edge gilded. Wide margins. These measure 8 1/4 inches tall. Complete in 24 volumes. Printed in English. This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any library. Antiquarian books make a great investment, are only going up in value, and are sure to increase the aura of any room or office! _______________________~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any library. Antiquarian books make a great investment, are only going up in value, and are sure to increase the aura of any room or office! #1968-7R (Click on the picture at the top of this listing, to see enlarged, detailed pictures.Please see our other listings for similar rare books!) John Fiske John Fiske (March 30, 1842 – July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian. John FiskeBornEdmund Fiske Green March 30, 1842 Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesDiedJuly 4, 1901 (aged 59) Gloucester, Massachusetts, United StatesEra19th-century philosophyRegionWestern philosophyInfluences Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Paul Broca SignatureContentsBiographyEdit John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855.[1] On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. As a child, Fiske exhibited remarkable precocity. He lived at Middletown during childhood, until he entered Harvard. He graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and from Harvard Law School in 1865. He had already admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1864, but never practised law. His career as author began in 1861, with an article on "Mr. Buckle's Fallacies" published in the National Quarterly Review. After that, he was a frequent contributor to American and British periodicals.[1] From 1869 to 1871, he was university lecturer on philosophy at Harvard, in 1870 instructor in history there, and assistant librarian 1872-1879. On resigning the latter position in 1879, he was elected a member of the board of overseers, and at the expiration of the six-years' term was re-elected in 1885. Beginning in 1881, he lectured annually on American history at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and beginning in 1884 held a professorship of American history at that institution, but continued to make his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lectured on American history at University College Londonin 1879, and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1880. He gave many hundreds of lectures, chiefly upon American history, in the principal cities of the United States and Great Britain.[1] Fiske was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1884.[2] The largest part of his life was devoted to the study of history, but at an early age inquiries into the nature of human progress led him to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, and it was through the popularization of Charles Darwin's work that he first became known to the public.[1] He applied himself to the philosophical interpretation of Darwin's work and produced many books and essays on this subject. His philosophy was influenced by Herbert Spencer's views on evolution. In a letter from Charles Darwin to John Fiske, dated from 1874, the naturalist remarks: "I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are." "Professor John Fiske flies the evolution kite in America." – Daily Graphic, September 12, 1874. Nineteenth-century enthusiasm for brain size as a simple measure of human performance, championed by scientists including Darwin's cousin Francis Galton and the French neurologist Paul Broca, led Fiske to believe in the racial superiority of the "Anglo-Saxon race". Fiske's beliefs on race did not preclude his commitment to abolitionist causes. Indeed, so anti-slavery was he that twenty-three years after the cessation of the American Civil War, he declared the North's victory complete "despite the feeble wails" of "unteachable bigots."[3] In his book "The Destiny of Man" (1884), he devotes a whole chapter to the "End of the working of natural selection upon man", describing it as "a fact of unparalleled grandeur." In his view, "the action of natural selection upon Man has ... been essentially diminished through the operation of social conditions." In books such as Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (ISBN 0-384-15780-7), Fiske aimed to show that "in reality there has never been any conflict between religion and science, nor is any reconciliation called for where harmony has always existed." On page 364, he demonstrates his sensitivity to Christianity as a religion: We arrive at a deeper reason than has hitherto been disclosed for the difference between our position with reference to Christianity, and that which has been assumed by Radicalism and by Positivism. It is not merely that we refuse to attack Christianity because we recognize its necessary adaptation to a certain stage of culture, not yet passed by the average minds of the community ; it is that we still regard Christianity as, in the deepest sense, our own religion.[4] Fiske was a popular lecturer on these topics in his early career. Later he turned to historical writings, publishing books such as The Discovery of America (1892). In addition, he edited, with James Grant Wilson, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1887). He died, worn out by overwork, at Gloucester, Massachusetts, July 4, 1901. BibliographyEditGeneralEditFiske late in life. ▪ The Progress From Brute to Man Online Text from the North American Review 1871 ▪ Myths and Myth Makers (1872) (Online publication) ▪ Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874) ▪ The Unseen World (1876) (Online publication) ▪ Darwinism and Other Essays (1879; revised and enlarged, 1885) ▪ Excursions of an Evolutionist (1883) ▪ The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin (1884) ▪ The Idea of God as Affected by modern Knowledge (1885) ▪ Origin of Evil (1899) ▪ A Century of Science and Other Essays (1899) ▪ Through Nature to God (1899) ▪ The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1900) ▪ Life Everlasting (the Ingersoll Lecture, 1901) HistoryEdit ▪ American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History (1885) ▪ The Critical Period of American History, 1783-89 (1888) (Online publication) The John Fiske Monument, Petersham. In a brief, but scathing critique of this book in his Preface to The New Nation, 1962, the historian Merrill Jensen called Fiske's work "a book of vast influence but of no value as either history or example." A few sentences farther in Jensen's Preface, he stated, "Andrew C. McLaughlin, an impeccably conservative historian of the Constitution who wrote a far better book on the same period, said that Fiske's book was 'altogether without scientific standing, because it is little more than a remarkably skillful adaptation of a very few secondary authorities showing almost no evidence of first hand acquaintance with the sources.'" ▪ The Beginnings of New England (1889) ▪ The War of Independence, a book for young people (1889) ▪ Civil Government of the United States (1890) ▪ The American Revolution (two volumes, 1891) ▪ The Discovery of America (two volumes, 1892) (Online publication) ▪ A United States History for Schools (1895) ▪ Old Virginia and her Neighbors (two volumes, 1897) ▪ Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (two volumes, 1899)[5] ▪ Essays, Literary and Historical (1902) ▪ New France and New England (1902) ▪ A collection of his historical works appeared in 1912 as Historical Works (Popular Edition). It is in eleven volumes. See alsoEdit ▪ American philosophy ▪ List of American philosophers Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLSFZS[2] (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/;[5] 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist,[6] best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors[7] and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.[8] Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.[9][10] By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanationsand it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution.[11][12] Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.[13][14] Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge(Christ's College) encouraged his passion for natural science.[15] His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyagemade him famous as a popular author.[16] Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin began detailed investigations, and in 1838 conceived his theory of natural selection.[17] Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority.[18] He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay that described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.[19] Darwin's work established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature.[11]In 1871 he examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms (1881), he examined earthwormsand their effect on soil.[20][21] Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history,[22] and he was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey.