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Jock Lewes was the brain behind the formation of the Special Air Service. He was also a radical tactical thinker and brilliant leader and trainer of men. He developed, and gave his name to, the lethally effective Lewes Bomb. This is his biography.

The philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes (1817 78) published this work in two volumes in 1845 6. This is a reissue of an 1892 printing, which brought the volumes into one book. Lewes wrote widely on literature, science and philosophy, and was also the long-term intimate companion of George Eliot. This book is a narrative history, rather than an encyclopedia, of key philosophers. It is, therefore, a partial and personal study instead of an exhaustive textbook. The first volume concentrates solely on Greek philosophy, beginning with the Pre-Socratics and ending with the Neo-Platonists. The...