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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The sudden death of Professor Hobhouse on June 21, at the age of sixty-four years, at Alençon, Normandy, is a heavy loss to science and philosophy. He combined in a rare degree great powers of metaphysical speculation and synthesis with capacity for painstaking and detailed research in many fields of empirical science. He was one of the pioneers of comparative psychology; he developed a technique of the greatest value in the handling of the vast and chaotic data of anthropology; he laid the foundations of a scientific sociology; and he has attempted a synthesis of the results of his scientific and philosophical studies on a scale which must win for him a high place among the systematic thinkers of the world. As a teacher and a social leader he inspired love and reverence by the nobility of his thought and utterance, his passion for justice, his wise and tender humanity. Members of the Philosophical Institute have special cause to mourn his loss. When the Institute was founded in 1925, it was the unanimous wish of all connected with its foundation that Professor Hobhouse should be its chairman; and it has been a great piece of good fortune for the Institute to have had the benefit of his ripe wisdom and extensive experience during the first five years of its life.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1929

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References

page 442 note 1 Theory of Knowledge, 1896.

page 444 note 1 Mind in Evolution, 1901. Third edition, 1926.

page 445 note 1 Cf. Appendix to third edition of Mind in Evolution.

page 445 note 2 The Rational Good, 1921.

page 446 note 1 Elements of Social Justice, 1922; Metaphysical Theory of the State, 1918.

page 448 note 1 Social Development, 1924; Morals in Evolution, 1906; 4th edition, 1923.

page 450 note 1 Development and Purpose, 1913; revised and largely rewritten, 1927.