English Composition and Rhetoric

by Alexander Bain

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1877 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London. Fourth edition.

319 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Alexander Bain was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and education reform. He founded Mind, the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology. Bain was the inaugural Regius Chair in Logic and Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, where he also held Professorships in Moral Philosophy and English Literature and was twice elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen.