MIND IN EVOLUTION

406pp., extreme foxing on paste downs & end papers, deckled edges, inscribed by the author's sister, Emily Hobhouse, on the f.f.e.p., hardback, cover insect-worn & scuffed, spine faded, gilt lettering, top edge of spine torn & frayed, bent corners, Macmillan and Co., London, 1901

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) was a British sociologist & political theorist, a leading figure in New Liberalism through his influential work Liberalism (1911). In Mind in Evolution (1901), he traced the progressive evolution of thought & morality, arguing that mental development shaped ethics & social life.

Inscribed by Emily Hobhouse, who campaigned against the British Concentration Camps during the Anglo Boer War, to "Dr. Murray, with the love and thanks of Emily Hobhouse/ N.B. I was a stranger and ye took me in, Dec 1900/ Sick & in prison, and ye visited me, Oct 27-Nov 1 1901"