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Frederic Harrison

About the Author

Frederic Harrison (1831-1923) was a British historian, literary critic, and jurist.  A prominent follower and defender of Positivist philosophy, he is best known today for two essay collections, The Choice of Books (1886) and Early Victorian Literature (1896), and for his autobiography, The Creed of Layman (1907