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Cambridge Philosophers III: McTaggart

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

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McTaggart′s father and mother were both members of a prosperous Wiltshire family, the Ellises: in fact they were first cousins, and this inbreeding may account for his premature death from a circulatory disease to which several Ellises succumbed. The Ellises were of yeoman stock, and had enriched themselves by West Indian enterprises; they had risen in the social scale via the practice of law. It is rather reminiscent of the The Forsyte Saga, a saga, as Galsworthy said, of the Sense of Property.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1995

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References

1 The works by McTaggart referred to are Some Dogmas of Religion (London, 1906, 2nd edition, 1930), The Nature of Existence (Vol I, Cambridge, 1921, Vol II (ed C. D. Broad), Cambridge, 1927), and Philosophical Essays (edited S. V. Keeling, London, 1934).Google Scholar

2 London, 1929.Google Scholar