Some Nineteenth Century Scotsmen; Being Personal Recollections
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I succeeded him for some ten years, and I constantly found evidence not only of the wonderful tuition of his students in psychology, metaphysics, and ethics, but also of what he had done to make them indepen- dent thinkers. GEORGE GROOM ROBERTSON 335 When I organized the series of Books entitled Philo- sophical Classics for English Headers, the volume on Hobbes was assigned to Mr Robertson. I knew that he would do it well ; and he devoted himself, with un- remitting care, to an almost exhaustiv...e study of the still remaining sources of our knowledge of Hobbes, both as a man and a philosopher. The book speaks for itself. A friend writes to me, "To students, so far as I could see while hospitable and kindly, he hedged himself really behind a great reticence and aloofness. I fancy he had a horror of idle questions, and the pert levity of immature knowledge. I have met, and stayed with other students at his house, but never saw him ' drawn out ' at all. We were all a little afraid of frosty kindness.
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