“PLATO AGAINST THE ATHEISTS, OR TENTH BOOK OF THE LAWS; BY TAYLER LEWIS. New-York: Harper & Brothers; 1845. A wise man said that it would more avail us to bend our minds”
Author
Tayler Lewis
Tayler Lewis is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in ‘Darkness Visible.’, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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- 1845–1846
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
In Fuller’s words
“To these quotations, in almost every case, full translations have been given, sometimes literal, and sometimes periphrastic. The exceptions to this course are, when the nature and substance of the quotation were sufficiently indicated by the manner of its introduction.”
When Fuller engaged with Tayler Lewis
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Lewis in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Plato Against the Atheists . . .
“Plato Against the Atheists . . .”analyzed · quoted · read4 selected passages
“This book “was chosen as forming, in our judgment, one of the best positions from whence to make excursions over a large part of the Platonic philosophy.”
“To these quotations, in almost every case, full translations have been given, sometimes literal, and sometimes periphrastic.”
“The young man who is an enthusiastic student of Plato can never be a socialist in regard to education, a quack in literature, a demagogue in politics, or an infidel in religion.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Plato Against the Atheists . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 14 May 1845.
1846—
‘Darkness Visible.’
“‘Darkness Visible.’”analyzed · read4 selected passages
“We have had this book before us for several weeks, but the task of reading it has been so repulsive that we have been obliged to get through it by short stages”
“The views of Messrs. Lewis and Cheever are the opposite of all this. We need not state them; they are sufficiently indicated in each page of their own.”
“Messrs. Lewis and Cheever profess to occupy the position of defence; surely never was one sustained so in the spirit of offence.”
“Mr. Lewis appeals either to the natural or regenerate man as suits his purpose.”
Fuller, Margaret. "‘Darkness Visible.’." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 March 1846.