History of the Dialectic Society

Edité par Edinburgh: printed for the Society by T. & A. Constable, 1887

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Quarter vellum. Some slight rubbing of backstrip and boards; free endpapers lightly embrowned. Subscriber's copy, with the ownership inscription of David B. Bogle, 12 February 1891. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, this no. 134. Printed "List of Members" addendum, 1 December 1887, tipped in. Founded in 1787, the Dialectic Society was the oldest surviving of Edinburgh University's clubs and societies. This anniversary history includes, besides an extensive but anonymous narrative, lists of subjects debated (the first recorded, from 10 December 1791, was "Will the Revolution of France be of more advantage than disadvantage to Europe?" Decided "unanimously in affirmative") and of the 1,112 members, noting the Essays they read to the society. David Blyth Bogle (1868-1922) was admitted a member on the same day, 18 March 1888, as his twin brother Andrew Nisbet Bogle (1868-1957). The sons of the Rev Andrew Bogle, minister at Callander, they were each described as "Student of Arts". Andrew was to follow his father into the ministry and serve in 1930 as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. David went to Canada, where he was the author of Unconscious Traitors: or, Canada, the War and the Empire (Winnipeg, 1916), an exercise in argument perhaps learnt at the Dialectic Society: "If this war has taught civilization," he concluded, "that there is only one method of extinguishing war, namely that of placing upon the selfish and rapacious a disability to make war successfully, and that this can only be done by organized force inspired by love of justice and liberty, it will have accomplished much in the evolution of mankind.".

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• Titre: History of the Dialectic Society
• Éditeur: Edinburgh: printed for the Society by T. & A. Constable
• Date de parution: 1887
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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