Von Hugel, Baron Friedrich. Essays & Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion: Second Series. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930. Reprint Edition. [8925]
Maroon cloth with bright gilt spine titles, no dj, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, "withdrawn" stamp on ffep, no other library matter. ix., 287 clean pp. with index, rear free end paper with extensive notes in pencil. Very good. Hardcover.
First published in 1926. 10 essays on the Philosophy of Religion.
Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925), Austrian Roman Catholic author and Christian apologist. He was born in Italy and lived most of his life in England, and succeeded to his father's Austrian title of Baron in 1870. Von Hügel rejected both idealism and positivism, incorporating a kind of mysticism into his epistemology.
"Von Hügel distinguished between knowledge of abstract ideas and of numerical and spatial relation, on the one hand, and knowledge of real existences on the other. The former is clear and readily intelligible; the latter is never totally clar, since any statement or set of statements about a real object will fail to exhaust what is to be discovered in it...von Hügel defended a sacramental and institutional faith - namely, that of Catholicism. But in his openness to and sympathy with the critical evaluation of the biblical tradition by the methods of scientific inquiry, von Hügel belonged to the Catholic Modernist movement." - Ninain Smart, Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967).