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This newly-gathered collection contains a cross-section of the assessment of Spencer's thought made by some of his most influential contemporaries, including T. H. Green, William James, Henry Sidgwick, T. H. Huxley, F. W. Maitland and J. A. Hobson. The wide range of thinkers represented here provides a clear indication of Spencer's importance to Victorian thought.

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Arguably the greatest single work in the history of psychology. James's analyses of habit, the nature of emotion, the phenomenology of attention, the stream of thought, the perception of space, and the multiplicity of the consciousness of self are still widely cited and incorporated into contemporary theoretical accounts of these phenomena.

The culmination of Romanes's highly influential analysis of the phylogenetic development of mind. Analyzing and rejecting the various arguments adduced against the continuity of descent as applied to human mind and building a positive case based on presumed parallels between ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, Romanes presented the classic 19th century account of the origin of human faculty.

In his day, Hume was as famous for his history as his philosophy: quickly established as a classic, his masterpiece "History of England was enormously popular, going through over one hundred editions. Most of the 41 articles contained in these volumes appear for the first time since their original publication, making it possible to assess the shifting attitudes about Hume's "History during its first century of life.