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Provenance
The papers of Arthur Oncken Lovejoy were a bequest to the University and were received in 1963.
Biographical Note
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy was born in Berlin, October 10. 1873, the son of Wallace William Lovejoy, A
Boston medical student studying in Germany, and Sara Oncken Lovejoy, his German wife. They
family returned to Boston in 1875, but Sara Lovejoy died shortly thereafter. Wallace Lovejoy married
Emmeline Dutton in 1881 after leaving the practice of medicine to assume a ministry in the Episcopal
church.
Arthur Lovejoy received his early education in schools in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Following his graduation from the Germantown, Pennsylvania Academy in 1891, the family moved to
Oakland, California. Lovejoy entered the University of California at Berkeley in 1891, his course of
study emphasizing the humanities and languages. Under the influence of the philosopher George
Holmes Howison, Lovejoy's prime interest changed from religion to philosophy. He graduated in
1895 and entered Harvard where he studied under Josiah Royce and William James. He received
the M.A. in 1897 and studied at the Sorbonne, 1898-1899.
During the early part of the century, Lovejoy published widely on a number of subjects: the history of
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religion, the history of philosophy, on pragmatism and realism, and on social and political questions.
His concern for academic freedom led him in 1913 toward the establishment of an organization which
culminated in the formation of the American Association of University Professors in 1915.
During World War I, he was active in the National Security League and the YMCA. After the war,
Lovejoy turned his attention to scholarship, particularly in philosophy and the history of ideas. His
1933 William James Lectures at Harvard were published in 1936 as The Great Chain of Being. He
retired from Hopkins in 1938to devote himself to his research. He then became involved in the
planning of The Journal of the History of Ideas which began publication in 1940. During World War
!! Lovejoy was active politically and socially, serving as administrator, editor and writer for the
Historical Service Board of the American Historical Association and for the Universities Committee on
Post-War International Problems. He was a member of the American Committee for Cultural
Freedom with a view to countering the Communist threat. He served as a member of the University
of Maryland Board of Regents from 1951-1955. He also continued his scholarly work. Gradually his
health declined and his eyesight failed completely. Arthur O. Lovejoy never married. He died in
Baltimore on December 30, 1962.
The papers of Arthur O. Lovejoy span the years 1872 to 1963 and include correspondence,
manuscript notes for lectures, notebooks, diaries, newspaper clippings, reports, speeches,
photographs, drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, and books owned and annotated by Lovejoy.
Since 1963, when the papers were received by the University, the collection has been reviewed,
indexed, and arranged at various times. In 1963, Marjorie Nicolson, an associate of Professor
Lovejoy during 1923-26, examined the papers at the request of Hopkins professor, George Boas.
She arranged some material into envelopes and noted the contents of each envelope on the outside,
and that categorization has not been changed. Miss Nicolson found that the three main subjects of
the papers were Nature, Primitivism, and Romanticism, and that much of Lovejoy's research had
formed the basis of his many published articles. Miss Nicolson also observed that Lovejoy may have
been planning a book or series of articles on "The Romantic Theory of Knowledge," since some
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During 1974-1975, Daniel J. Wilson prepared a detailed index of the collection. He listed the subject
or title of each item in the collection. A complete index to the large amount of correspondence was
also prepared. In 1979, the papers were filed into different document boxes, but the original order
that corresponds with Wilson's index was retained. In 1993, a container list was prepared to
correctly list the material and the box numbers. The papers are now arranged by series since the
latest revision was intended to follow Wilson's useful and complete index. In a general sense, the
papers are arranged in the following order: lecture notes, diaries and notebooks, writings, biographical
material, photographs, and correspondence.
In 2005, an envelope of five French manuscripts, previously omitted from the container list, was
found in the collection. A note on the envelope suggests Lovejoy purchased the humorous dialogues
and poems in book stalls along the Seine. The manuscripts were placed in Box 66 under
APurchased MSS.@
The largest part of the collection filed in Boxes 1 to 59 contains Lovejoy's notes on notable
philosophers including Emerson, Locke, Nietzche, and Santayana and his classroom lectures on the
many topics of Philosophy including Realism, Vitalism, Evolution, and Meaning. Correspondence,
filed in Boxes 72 to 84 forms another large segment of the collection. Some biographical material
and family photographs are filed in Boxes 67-69 as well as Lovejoy's reports and papers dealing
with academic freedom and post-war (World War II) problems.
For an analysis of the collection, see Marjorie Nicolson's letter, October 1963 in the Provenance File.
Container List
Lecture Notes
Box 1 (Cont.)
Bergson, 'Bergsonism & Romantic Anti-Intellectualism'
Misc notes and articles by others on Bergson.
'Is he realist or idealist, epistemolog dualist or monist'
Misc notes on Bergson and some clippings of other articles on him.
'The Practical Tendencies of Bergsonism' Typscript with corrections originally printed
in Int. J. of Ethics, 23 (1913)
Fragments of a ms., possibly early draft of Reason, Understanding and Time
Various other assorted notes
Bruno, Gordano, Lecture on GB, emphasizes his view of God, thenotion of plenitude, and his
pantheism, also containing a review of his life.
Misc. and fragmentary notes on Bruno.
Box 2 (Cont.)
Coleridge, 'Bibliography, gen & misc, & reading ref.'
Outlines & Questions: Chronology'
'Relations to various writers' misc. notes.
'Coleridge in America' various notes.
'Notes on 'Dejection an Ode"
'Coleridge & Evolution' notes and reprint of article by Potter.
Coleridge, Freedom, etc. Misc notes to Dec.,1935.'
'God--conception of; the Absolute, the unconditioned.' notes
'Notes on Coleridge's Huntington Lib ms.'
'Coleridge on Free Will etc.' notes
'Idealism & Realism' notes
'Imitation of Nature; Imitating the Universal' notes
'Understanding; Kantian conceptions of' notes
'Influence of Germans' notes
'Coleridge & Jacobi' notes
'first period: pantheistic & necessitarian' notes
Naturalistic conception of Shakespeare. notes
'Word 'Romantic' & Antithesis of Anc. & Modern.' notes
Dewey, 'Remarks Mr. Dewey, Revision' Largely ms. of Analysis of Dewey's Empir Accto f
Appear.
'Dewey on 'Sensible Appearances and Relativity' ms. on appearance and fragments
of
two others.
'Are Both Perceptual Objects and Scientific Objects Parts of the Physical World?'
Ms. of paper on the above subject, especially with regard to Dewey.
Box 2a (Cont.)
Dewey, Fragment of ms. on reflective agent.
Fragment of ms. on pragmatism, dualism and idealism
Fragment of ms. of pragmatism and error.
Fragment of ms. discussing Dewey and space.
Misc notes on Dewey.
'Pol Philos - Harrington' ms. lecture on the economic base of political power.
Influence on American political thought and early Constitutions' ms. lecture
'Doctrine' ms. lecture on H ethical presuppositions, the political theory, and its
operation in the modern world, also discussion of self-esteem that is very similar to
that in Reflections on Human Nature.
'Constitution of the Civil State' a lecture on theory and development of state
'Unclassified, duplicates, discards' assorted ms. fragments.
Articles, Boundaries of Society, Stephen C. Pepper.
Hooker, 'I-II' Intro ms. lecture, covers temper of time and H political philos.
'III' ms lecture on the development of the state of nature idea and the consent
theory.
'Hooker & Social Contract, Incident & Sea Venture & Mayflower.' frag. ms. lectures.
'Text of Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. printed.
'Duplicates & Discards'
Misc, not used, 1930-31'
Hume, 'Ethics & Political Philosophy, I' discusses approbation and disapprobation in Hume
somewhat more fully than in Reflections on Human Nature.
'Anticipations of: inc. 'impotence of reason." misc notes
'Lecture VIII' An early draft of lecture VIII of RHN, some differences, but no major
ones. typescript.
review of James theory of radical empiricism, ties it to, and separates from Hume's.
typescript, 9 pp.
Kant, 'Transcendental Analytic' ms lecture, one dated 1910, another 1908, another undated,
also some notes.
'Transcendental Ego and Unity of Apperception' the lecture ms. are on Liebniz not
Kant.
'Transcendental Deduction' ms lecture notes, some parts dated 1908 others 1910.
'The Kantian Ego' misc notes.
'Notes: contains several ms. lectures, one dated 1912, also misc notes. also, 'Final
lectures, Kant.'
'Kant and Evolution, 1957' ms. addenda to that article.
'Analytic and synthetic Judgments' misc notes, also
on Leibniz and Wolff
'Types of Interpretation' ms. fragments.
'Tr. Aesthetic,' ms lecture notes, probably from 1907
'Early Influence in England and France.' ms. lecture notes.
Conception of Noumenon and Ding-an-Sien' ms fragment, assorted notes.
'Anticipations of Kant' misc notes.
Box 4 (Cont.)
Kepler, 'Misc notes'
La Mettrie, 'Man and Apes: 18th cent.' Ms discussion of La M position, misc notes, article
on La M by H. Hastings.
McColley, Grant, Several papers by McColley sent to AOL for comment (see McColley and
Nicolson correspondence with AOL)
McGilvary, Typescript drafts, with some ms., of AOL's reply to McG rejoinder regarding the
time retarding journey controversy.
Monboddo, 'Lord Monboddo and Rousseau' ms draft of "Monboddo and Rousseau," see
Essays in H of I, pp.38-61 or Modern Philology, XXX (1933), 275-96.
Misc notes on the subject.
'Additional material for article'
Montague, 'Criticism on Montague's epistemological papers' several draft ms. and notes
Memorial Minute, Feb. 1954,' Ms and ts draft.
'Unreal Subsistence and Consciousness' paper by Montague with AOL comments on
it.
Reprints of four articles by Montague.
Moore, G.E, 'G.E. Moore, I' ms fragments of critique of Moore, part a critique of views on
existence of bodies.
G.E. Moore, II' Ms lecture, critique of Moore, especially on sense-data.
Peirce, Misc. ms fragments and notes most apparently having to do with the article in the
Peirce volume in 1952.
Box 9 (Cont.)
'Dualism of Mind & Matter,' Misc. notes and ms fragments. 1958.
'Percepts in Heads' Ms. notes, and ms fragments. 1958.
'Conception of Physical Object,' ms fragments and misc. notes.
'Consciousness and Knowledge' misc. notes.
'His Neutral Monism re Psychophysical Events' Misc. notes.
'Physical and Perceptual Space & percepts in my head,' Misc. notes.
'Mind and Matter, 1st Position' Misc. notes.
'Notes on Russell's Theory of Matter and Perception, 1926'
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Santayana, 'Notes and ms on' Mss. on essences and phenomenolism, misc. notes.
Misc. notes and ms on Santayana
'Essence Doctrine' Ts of criticism of RD by Durant Drake, June 1930
Strong, 'Reply to Strong, 1933' ms draft of "Dualism and the Paradox of Reference."
'Dualism and the Paradox of Reference' typescript
'Strong on Consciousness, etc.' ms lectures on Strong's epistemology and
panpsychism.
The Anomaly of Knowledge, Revised version of AK (1923) With outline of proposed book
1959
'AKNPIV Do Ideas Exist?' ms fragments for Chapter IV of book 1959
some comments on the New Realists.
'For AK, On Behaviorism, Viennese Logical-Positivism, c.1959
Ms draft, largely typed. Recapitulates views of "Thinking Behaviorist"
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Box 12 (Cont.)
'Bibliographical Notes, Gen. & unclassified.'
'The Arguments of Behaviorism' ms lecture notes on Methodological Behaviorism and
Existential Behaviorism, dated 1937
'Methodological Behaviorism, Psychophysical Dualism, For Harvard course' ms lecture
notes on Boring.
'E.G. Boring's articles'
'Existential Behaviorism,' misc. notes
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Carus Lecture Notes, 'Philos Rev. Comments of Presidential Address and Reply'
Galleys of Discussion of Presidential Address, with AOL marginal comments, in PR,
Typed copy of Creighton's comment, Typed and expanded version of AOL reply to
Creighton, as ms draft of the previous.
'Carus Lectures, Materials for Introduction,' misc. notes
'Argt for realism,' misc ms. fragments and notes
'Suggestions For Carus Lectures, Apr. 26, 1927' outlines a scheme different from
RD, more along the lines of Presidential address of 1916
Ms lecture on knowing and transcending standpoints.
Misc. notes and ms fragments.
Box 15 (Cont.)
Chain of Being (Leibniz)
'Princ of Suffic. Reason' misc notes.
'Idea of Divine Self-sufficiency' misc. notes.
'Is moral evil reducible to metaphysical' misc. notes.
'Principle of Plenitude,' misc. notes.
'Princ. of Plenitude, II The exigentia existendi' misc. notes.
'Princ. of Plenitude & Existence of Matter,' misc. notes.
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Box 16 (Cont.)
'Averroes, Thomas Aquinas' ms fragments and notes.
'Ocellus' notes.
China & Europe 16th-18th Century (Correspondence), 'China in the Eyes of Europe,' AOL
ms.
Material in this box the gift of Robert Rosenthal, Curator of Special Collections, Univ.
of Chicago, Sept. 1974.
China & Europe in 16th-18th Centuries (correspondence)
13 letters, most to AOL, from Derk Bodde, D.C. Allen, Donald Lasch, William
Appleton, re AOL work on the Chinese influence in Europe.
China in the Eyes of Europe, 1580-1780, by AOL
Tentative outlines of the volume, one dated 1948.
Ms. apparently complete, of article 'China in the Eyes of Europe, 1580-1780.
Largely typed with some corrections by AOL
Box 17 (Cont.)
Partial carbon and ms. draft of the above.
China & Europe 16th-18th Century (Miscellaneous Notes). From Univ of Chicago.
Assorted loose reviews of books and articles on China and chinese influence.
'China in Europe' notes apparently taken in Lib. of Congress.
'Chinese Vogue in Europe, 17th-18th c.' notes.
'Chinese Origin, Use or discarded for 1947 revision' notes.
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Communism in Christianity
'Communism in Christianity - before 5th c.' ms fragments, usually typed on several
early expressions of communistic thinking
'Communism in Xtnty - to 5th century' notes on early church fathers.
'M.A. Unclassified - after 8th c.' notes
'Bibliography: Mod Works on.'
'Basil, Wealth,' typed ms on Basil.
Typed ms fragment on Duns Scotus
Notes on Tertullian
Ms on Shepherd of Hermas, not in AOL handwriting.
Box 18 (Cont.)
'Introd. to' notes on meetings of Philos Sem., 1931, other notes.
'Preconceived - Good Theory of Desire' ms fragments.
'Methodological Preliminaries to Psychology of Moral Consciousness.' ms lecture.
'Psychol of Desire, I. Feelings' notes.
'Trolands, Fundamentals of Human Motivation,' ms discussion of with reports of
Seminary, 1932.
'Ehrenfels,' notes.
Assorted ms. fragments, notes, and reports on meetings of the Seminary, 1931.
Ethics, 'Ethics, Misc.' Misc. notes and outlines for ethics courses, 1909-10, 1914-15.
'Conceptions of Justice (Notes and clippings), ms fragment dealing with justice and
taxation.
'Evolutionary Hedonism,' notebook containing notes and ms fragments.
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Emergent Evolution,
'The Meanings of emergence and its modes,' ms, part typed and part hand.
Also there are assorted loose ms fragments.
Ms. titled, 'Meaning, Grounds, and Consequences of the Hypothesis of Emergent
Evolution.' appears fragmentary.
'Functional Emergence, state of evidence' ms fragments.
'McDougall,' notes.
'T.A. More,' ms fragment and notes.
'Bibliographical Notes,'
'Future of Earth and Man,' notes.
'Alternatives to Emergent; the retrotensive method,' ms fragments.
Assorted loose notes and ms fragments.
Evolution, History of
'Notes for Intro Chapter on situation at beginning of 18th century
Evolution, History of
'Herder and his evolutionism,' notes and ms fragments.
'Temporalizing of Ch. of Being, Kant,' notes.
'Maupertius' notes
'Schelling,' notes
'17-18th c. Evolutionism,' notes and ms fragment.
'The situation before the mid-18th century,' notes.
'18th C. Evolutionism, the meaning of species,' notes.
'Buffon & the sterility of hybrids,' notes.
'Diderot,' notes.
'Bonnet,' notes.
'Preformationism pro and con, 18th cent.' notes.
Letter and paper by Joseph Blickensderfer on Monboddo.
Loose notes and bibliography.
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Box 22 (Cont.)
Evolution (Apes and Man)
'Bibliographical References,'
'Hobbes,' notes.
'Ideas, Locke and Hume,' notes
'Anomaly of Knowledge,' notes and supplementary material.
'Images, I: In Perception,' ms lecture, March 30, 1922.
'Images in Perception: II (April 20, 1921 Colloquium)' ms lecture
Assorted ms fragments, and notes.
Interaction Problem
'Mind-Body Problem, Unclassified notes, 1937.' notes.
'Mind-Body (Interaction) Problem, Student Reading, Refs. 1938'
'Pragmatic Interactionism & Pragmatism, Misc. notes.'
'Notes and Queries on Dunlap's paper (Feb. 8, 1935)'
'Mind-Body Problem ...Bibliography'
Misc loose notes.
Box 30 (Cont.)
Theory of Meaning (neo-positivism)
Lecture on Carnap and meaning, ms.
A number of other lecture fragments, some on James and futurist theory of meaning.
'Criteria etc. of Meaning, for Singer volume,' copy of ms typed, ms fragments.
Box 32 (Cont.)
Appeal to Nature,
'Word "Nature"' notes.
'Nature as Norm,' notes and ms fragments.
Assorted loose notes and bibliographies.
'Nature as Norm, Sophistic period, Callicles in Gorgias,' ms fragment, notes
'Nature in Hippocratica,' ms fragment, notes.
'Philos. Prim: Nat vs Art,' notes, not in AOL handwriting
Assorted loose notes and ms fragments.
Philosophy of Nature,
'Introd to status of Scientific Objects,' ms lecture.
'Status of scientific objects on McGilvary's 'Physics and Metaphysics" ms fragment.
'Status of sci & C.S. Objects: Second Issue, Sem. 1933-34' ms fragment.
'Third Issue, on Stace,' ms fragment.
'Status of Sci Objects & Swann on Reality in Physics,' ms fragments.
'Bifurcation--not to be used,' ms fragments.
'Status of Sci. Objects, Final discussion April 19, 26, 1934,' ms fragments.
Several loose ms fragments on the status of scientific objects.
'Analytical Outline for Discussion of Status of Common-Sense and Scientific Objects.'
Seminar 1934
'Recapit & Formulation of Questions, Views, Issues,' ms lecture.
'Principle of Indeterminacy,' ms lectures.
Philosophy of Nature,
'Sellars: Physics and Ontology,' copy of paper by Mr. Davids on Sellars, AOL ms
referring to this paper.
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Peace
Ms fragment of speech on "Adult Education and Post-War Planning" by AOL,
6/8/43 to Adult Education Council of Greater Boston.
Analytical Outline of Question Proposed for Discussion at Conference on the
Enforcement of Peace by Military Sanctions meeting held by Universities
Committee on Post-war International Problems, June 5, 1943, prepared by
AOL
Record of the above conference with AOL serving as chairman.
Analytical Outline of Conference on Treatment of Germany, UCP-WIP, 7/17/43 no
indication of authorship.
misc. notes.
Philos. Anthropology
'Introductory, Relation of this inquiry to ethics,' notes.
'Gen. Presumptions against Dualism,' notes, ms fragment.
'2nd. meeting, 10/7/37,' ms lecture, course will largely be a defense of
psychophysical dualism.
Box 35 (Cont.)
'3rd meeting, 10/14/37,' largely a definition of terms, ms lecture.
'4th meeting, 10/19/37,' ms lecture, largely on origin of bifurcation.
'5th meeting, 10/26/37,' on contemp dualism, ms lecture.
'6th meeting, 10/28/37,' ms lecture, on content of consciousness.
Philos. Anthropology
'7th meeting,' recapitulation and on cause and effect, ms lecture.
'Consciousness: its Existence, etc.' notes.
'12th meeting, 11/20/37,' ms lecture, on what happens when perception occurs
especially with regard to James's theories.
Philos. of Science
'Sem. '33-4, Dec. 7,' ms fragment and outlines for Philosophy of Nature seminar on
status of scientific objects.
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Historiography of Philosophy,
Syndicalism & Bergsonism, Outline for Pol Econ Club, mostly notes.
Syndicalism as a Gospel of Work, notes.
Loose ms fragments on historiography of philosophy.
'Woodbridge, notes and comments on,' notes and ms fragments.
>Historiography of Philosophy, 1938' misc. ms fragments of Present Standpoints and
past History.
'Historiography of Philosophy,' ms fragments on subject, Abstracts by Randall and
Lamprecht and AOL with some correspondence and comments. 1938-39
'Historiography of Philosophy, misc. notes.
Box 36 (Cont.)
'Psych of M.C., Methodology: Desc of Perry on,' ms fragments critiquing Perry's
views.
'Ps, of M.C., Sharps "Ethics"' notes.
'Ps of Mor. Consc., Emotions, gen.,' notes.
Misc. notes and several reports of Seminary, 1931
Political Philosophy
'Political Philosophy, Introd,' notes and ms fragments.
'Medieval Polit. Theory,' notes.
'Distrib of Pol. Power--esp. on Equality,' ms lectures, ms fragments and notes.
'16-17th Centuries, Gen Introd,' outlines, 1934-35, ms lecture, notes.
Misc loose notes.
'Hist. of Pol Philos, For Lect., 1934, Pol Philos as a Normative Science,' ms lecture.
'Machiavelli,' ms. introd lecture.
'Machiavelli: II, Analysis of Polit Ideas in the Discourses,' ms lecture.
'Machiavelli: Diagrams,'
'16th Century, Machiavelli,' notes and ms fragments.
'Pol. Philos, Introd II, Factual issues in pol. philos.' ms lecture.
'Introd; Problems and Methods of Pol Philos., II Normative Prob, cont.' ms lecture.
'Polit. Philos, 1935, Final Lecture,' ms lecture on Complexity of pol theory.
Misc. loose notes and outlines.
Box 37 (Cont.)
Pragmatism.
'Relation to Behaviorism and Materialism,' notes and ms fragments.
Several tentative Table of Contents for book on Reflections on Recent Philosophies,
to be reprints of a number of articles on Pragmatism and several new ones.
late 1930's
Ms. fragments, apparently for preface to RRP, other tentative tables of contents as
late as 1956 on revisions of RRP, ms fragments on James and FSC Schiller,
assorted loose notes etc.
Primitivism, Grants-Progress-Reports-Finance-Correspondence
Various reports on progress of the Study of Primitivism for the early 1930's, 1930-
34.
'Idea of Progress, Basil & followers,' notes
'Primitivism--Reviews,'
Misc. Notes.
Box 38 (Cont.)
Primitive Religion
'Ghosts, Soul-theory, Burial Customs, Eschatology,' notes.
'Sacrifice,' notes.
'Creation Mythe,' notes
'Manitouism Paper, Parts not printed,' ms fragments of Fundamental Concept of
Primitive Philosophy.
'Notes, Miscellaneous and Unclassified.'
''Religion Lectures,' ms fragments, some from 1905-06 and others from 1900.
1905-06 offered a course on the phenomenology of religion.
'Numinism, Taboos,' notes
Assorted loose notes and collection of notes in small envelopes, also some ms
fragments.
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Primitivism,
'The Appeal to Nature vs the Idea of Progress, Diagram.'
'Add to Plato,' notes.
'Montaigne, III, Primitivism,' ms lecture.
'Manana, 1599,' ms lectures.
'Notes on grounds and motives of early mod. primitivism.'
'James Creighton,' copy of article by him on origin of religion, 1817
'Theory of Progressive Decline, 17th Century,' notes.
'The Golden Age in the Universal Historians' notes.
'Idea of Progress in 18th century Theology,' notes.
Three photostatic copies of articles, documents on primitivism.
Folder of unclassified typed notes.
Article by Michael Kraus, on utopian ideal in Am in 18th century.
'Gognet, mainly anti-prim,' notes.
'Anti-primitivism in Bacon,' notes.
'Nature, anti-prim. in 16th century, Bodin,' notes.
'Anti-primitivism in 16th century, Bruno.' notes
Ms lecture, unfinished, on Necessary Truth, St. Louis, ca. 1914.
Assorted loose notes and ms fragments.
'Idea of Progress before Augustine,' notes
'Cosmic degeneration,' Notes
'OT and Nt courses of chiliasm, and general outlook on future,' notes.
'Pr. II, Sibyllina & Xtn Chiliasm.' notes.
'Ages of the World,' notes and ms fragment.
'Future of Mankind,' notes.
'Course of terrestrial History,' ms fragment and notes.
Misc. notes, ms fragments, and outlines.
Collection of correspondence relating to expenses on Primitivism project.
'17th Century, misc. refs.,' notes.
'Hard primitivism, late 17th and 18th centuries.' notes.
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Box 39 (Cont.)
'Hard primitivism, 18th cent. Evangelical primitivism, Buffier,' ms fragment.
'The noble savage in antiquity,' notes.
'Notes on Spenser & Primitivism,' notes.
'State of Nature in Pope,' notes and ms fragment.
'South Seas Islanders,' notes.
'Anti- and Semi-primitivism, 18th century, notes.
'Misc. refs & notes, anti- and semi-primitivism, 18th century,' notes.
Misc loose notes.
Realism, 'S. Alexander: Mental Activity in Willing and in Ideas,' notes on article and critique
of it.
'G. Dawes Hicks on "Appearance and Real Existence,"' article and notes on it.
'Aristotelian Soc. Symposium on Realism & Modern Physics, 1929,' Notes on Laird.
'P.T. Nunn, Prob. of Perception. . .' notes and ms. fragment.
'Principle of Indeterminacy,' notes.
'Log. Realism and Psychoph. Monism,' ms fragment. (Feb. 1924)
'Gestalt,' notes and ms fragment.
Reprints of a number of articles.
"Realism, H.H. Price,' notes.
Misc. ms fragments.
Box 41 (Cont.)
Reprints of several articles and pamphlet on II Neo-Realismo Anglo Americano
by Pietro Borrelli.
Reason, Understanding and Time (Typed Ms)
Apparently complete final typescript with copies of Lectures I-III in addition.
RHN (Lectures)
'Human Nature & Social Reform,' notes and ms fragments.
'Tentative Gen Outlines.'
'Descartes, Reason & the passions,' notes.
'Bont naturelle,' ms fragments and notes.
'RHN, IV & V Duplicates,' ms fragments.
'RHN IV - duplicates,' notes.
'RHN Tentative, IV or V, Abbadie,' misc. notes, outlines, ms fragments.
'RHN V, Milton's Lycidas,' notes.
'Old RHN V, Incomplete and Unarranged,' ms fragments.
'RHN, to be assorted,' notes, and ms fragments.
RHN (typed ms)
Reflections on Human Nature, final typed copy with printers notations.
Box 43 (cont.)
'Pre-Einsteinian Relativity, Optionality, Reciprocity,' ms fragments.
'Elements of Pre-Einsteinian Relativity, Isolation, Invariance,' ms fragments.
Misc. loose notes and ms fragments.
some book.
Box 45 (Cont.)
'RTK, Possible addenda to Lect I and II, 1950,' ms fragments, notes.
'RTK, III,' ms lecture typed.
'RTK. The Intuition of Time,' notes.
'RTK, III Time, Duplicates,' ms fragments.
'RTK, Anima Mundi,' notes.
'RTK IV,' ms lecture typed, ms. fragments.
'Romantic Theory of Knowledge,' Addit bibliography, 1939.
Most of the above material, especially the completed lectures, I-IV, appeared as
chapters I-IV in The Reason, the Understanding and Time, with few if any changes.
RTK, V . . . Miscellaneous
'RTK - V,' Some bibliography, also parts of ms, some typed, some handwritten.
'RTK, V, Ms drafts, Continuity.'
'RTK V Idea of Organism vs Analysis,' notes and ms fragments.
'Notes for Lecture V, Will, Becoming, Evolution.'
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Box 46 (Cont.)
Romantic Theory of Knowledge
'RTK, Preface (tentative),' ms fragments.
'RTK V List of topics' notes and outlines.
'Bergson and real duration, RTK appendix, duplicates,' ms fragments.
'Relation of Bergson to German Romanticism,' notes and bibliography
'Bergson & the indivisibility of time,' ms fragments.
'Romantic Th. of Knowledge vs analysis,' notes.
'For BRM, Negel on Contradiction,' notes and ms fragments.
'Jacobi and Romanticism, notes and bibliography.
'Vernunft, Verstand, Gefuhl in Jacobi,' notes.
'Schelling: Bibliography,'
'What is the ? Experience in the ?,' notes and ms fragments. [his question
marks]
'Intuition as instinct,' ms fragment.
'Wordsworth's Political Philosophy,' notes and ms fragment.
'Schlegel for RTK appendix, Feb. 1960,' notes.
Romanticism
'For class bibliography,'
'Romanticism, defins. of; bibliographical notes.'
'For concluding remarks after review of recent definitions.' ms fragments.
'Meaning of Romantic,' notes and ms fragments.
'Recent definitions, L. Abercombie,' notes.
Romanticism
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Box 47 (Cont.)
'Addenda,' notes and ms fragment, partially on Robinet.
'Uniformitarian Rationalism,' ms fragments.
'Character of & influence of Neo-Platonism ... on Epistemology,' notes.
Loose ms fragment.
French Romanticism
Inter-relations of Elements of Conception of the "Romantic" large chart.
'Bibliography,'
'Jos. de Maistre, De Bonald,' ms fragments.
'After 1812 (not including Hugo) to 1830,' notes and ms fragments.
French Romanticism
'Hugo,' notes, ms lectures, ms fragments.
Romantic in V. Hugo ..., Chart detaining aspects of.
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'Lamartine,' notes
'Romantique in French Lit bef. Romantic Movement,' notes and ms fragment.
Misc. loose notes.
Romanticism (German)
'Senses of Imitating Nature in Art,' diagram.
'Meaning of Romantik in Fruhromentiks,' notes and ms fragment.
'Romantic in English to 1790,' notes and ms fragments.
'Romantic and Romantisch in German before 1790,' ms fragments, notes.
'English Influences-making for German Romanticism,' notes, ms fragments.
'Romanticism and suicide,' notes.
'Sample of a Romantic landscape, print.'
'Goethe in origin of distinction, Klasich-Romantisch,' notes.
'F. Schlegel Classical Period, classified and other notes.'
'Analysis of Fichte's Grundzuge des gegeuvartigen Zeitalters.' notes and ms lecture.
'Fichte & die Fruhmantik,' ms lecture, ms fragment, notes.
Misc. loose notes, ms fragments, outlines, and several reprints of articles by others.
'Fruhromantik and Misc.,' notes.
'Romanticism and Religion, Schleiermacher,' notes.
'Romantisch, Haym's theory,' notes and ms fragments.
'Romanticism and Christianity,' notes, ms fragment.
'Fichte,' notes.
'Influence of Kant in producing anti-clerical reaction in Schlegels,' ms fragment.
'Relation of Schiller's Ueber naive usv. to beginning of Romantic movement,' ms
fragments.
'Schiller,' notes and ms fragments.
'Schiller ... duplicates and notes not used in lectures,'
'Schiller, for analysis of naive sentimentalische,' notes and ms fragments.
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Box 48 (Cont.)
'Romantisch in F. Schlegel,' notes.
'Romantisch, F. Schlegel Classicism,' notes, ms fragments.
Loose ms. fragment
Self-Consciousness
'Philos, Anthrop. Bibliographies,'
'Bibliography,' much of it in a hand other than Lovejoy's.
'Ethics & Ps. of M.C., Prinicpal Report Subjects.'
'James, "Does Consciousness Exist?", analysis and criticism,' ms fragment.
'Self-consciousness and volition, Refs and Notes, Feb 1939,'
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'The Philosophical Situation at the Turn of the Century,' typed ms., 20 pp. Very
general in observations, centers on eternalism being opposed by temporalism.
Misc. loose notes and ms fragments, several reprints of articles by others.
others not.
Vitalism
'What is Vitalism,' ms fragments.
'Howison Lecture, notes for.'
'Montgomery, E.,' notes.
'Psycho-Vitalism,' ms fragments, notes.
'Conception of Mechanism and Mechanistic Explanation,' notes, outlines, ms
fragments, some dating from 1914.
Vitalism
Typed ms. by H.S. Jennings on his attitudes toward Vitalism
Several reprints of articles by others on vitalism, Charles Woodruff article has letter to
AOL, [ 6/4/12, ?] several loose ms fragments.
'Vitalism ms. (for ck.)' ms fragment, largely on meaning of mechanism.
Misc. loose ms fragments and several abstracts of seminaries in 1913-14 on vitalism.
War
'Ethics and International Relations, Bibliography.'
'Ethics and International Relations,' ms fragments.
'Hume, Pol Philos, II Consent and Contract Theory,' ms. fragment.
'Territorial Rts., Self-determination,' ms fragments.
'The War course, The Haves and Have-nots.' ms lecture.
'War course, Econ Factors, Analysis & Crit of Angells, Argt, 1/8/35,' ms fragments.
'War course, Introd. Remarks, Oct. 9, 1935,' ms lecture, notes.
Misc. loose bibliographics, ms fragments, notes.
Miscellaneous Notes
'Ideas, Psychological Evidence for Images,' notes.
'Misc. on Mysticism, Otherworldliness,' notes.
'18th Cent. Engl Infl. on Fr. Thot.' notes.
'Notes on Crane's Lit History & Lit Criticism,' notes and ms fragment.
'Tentative ms pp. re Status of Retard, esp. defense of illusion theory,' ms fragments
related to relativity.
'17th Cent. misc. H of I notes, Morhof, Gracian,' notes.
'Prim. vs. Commerce, W. Bell, 1756' notes.
'Memory and Transcendence,' ms fragment relating to Critical Realism.
'King and Law,' notes.
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Miscellaneous Notes.
'Idea of Progress in 17th Cent. Theology,' notes.
'Letters from a Foreign Visitor,' For lectures, 1932, notes and ms fragments.
'Parsian Letters Genre,' bibliography, notes.
'Antithesis of Nature and Society.' notes and ms fragments.
'The American Student and the Social Question,' notes.
'What We Owe to Great Britain,' notes and ms fragments.
'On Lenzen, The Metaphysical Import of Scientific Facts,' article and ms fragments of
AOL comment on, also student paper on.
'Reply to Fleming,' notes and ms. fragments, reply to review of Forerunners of
Darwin.
'For RBC, notes and some ms. pps. on von Baer.'
'18th Cent., Wd. Enthusiasm' notes.
'Shaftsbury,' notes.
'Nature vs. Art, general, 17-18th cents.' notes.
'S. Clarke, Wollaston,' ms fragments and notes.
'English Influence,' notes and ms fragments on English Influence on French Thought.
'Law of Nature: Cudworth,' notes.
'So. Soc. Paper. Nature of the Psychophysical Distinction,' ms lecture.
'Types of Metaph-- Lotzian,' ms lecture, notes.
Loose ms. fragments.
'Prim. II: "Nature," Roman de la Rose,' copy of medieval poem, ms fragment of
AOL comment on it.
Box 55 (Cont.)
MS Notes on Law of Nature, Nature as Aesthetic Norm.
'Nature as Aesthetic Norm, Following nature as versimilitude,' notes.
'Nature as Aesth. Norm, Dryden,' ms fragments, notes.
'Nature as Aesth. Norm, Restriction to ideal types,' ms fragments, notes.
'Nat. as aesthetic norm, nat as the average or mode of a kind,' notes.
'Nature as aesthetic norm, attack on universalism,' notes.
'Nature as aesthetic norm, universality,' notes.
'Law of Nature, antinomian tendency,' notes.
'Shaftesbury Ethics,' notes.
'Law of Nature in sense of Nature of phys. Universe,' ms lecture, 3/10/20.
'Nature, antinomian tendency, 18th cent.' ms fragments.
'Ethics of Nature, Cumberland,' reprint of article by Sharp, notes.
Misc. loose notes and ms fragments
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'AO Lovejoy H.L. Group. 32.' notebook with reports of meetings of Home Library
Group.
Box 61 (Cont.)
Note-Book. Mathematics. A.O. Lovejoy. The notebook contains mathematical
exercises, but also contains an examination of the New Testament comparing the
Gospel accounts to attempt to determine what was historically accurate in the
accounts. Concludes that the spirit of Christ is accurate and comes through in the
way all accounts agree, but that historicity must remain an open question. The
handwriting looks as though it was done very early.
Notebook, purple and brown, contains notes and ms fragments on Greek philosophy,
also ms fragment on why study philosophy.
Black notebook, apparently of notes taken in Paris in class on Hebrew religion, 1898-
99. Probably with Vernes.
Black notebook, notes on the Old Testament.
'Nineteenth Century,' notebook of notes, biobliography and ms. fragments on
nineteenth century philosophy, especially Fichte, Fourier, Saint-Simon.
Black notebook, 'Evolution of Religion, notes,' notes, bibliography, and ms. fragments.
Black notebook,notes on totemism, probably taken on readings
in Bibliotheque Nationale, 1898-99.
Black notebook, crumbling, notes on a variety of subjects.
Loose outline and ms fragment.
'Comment on Mr. Abraham's note of epiphenomenalism' ms. criticism.
Bibliography of writings
Drafts and copies of bibliography appearing in Essays in History of Ideas. Also some
correspondence relating to the construction of it.
Early MSS
"David's Influence upon the Religion of Israel" appears to be an essay written for
some class, ms essay.
"Human Sacrifice Among the Hebrews," ms essay, for a class.
Malachi
"Messianic Prophecies in Isaah 7,14 and 9,6," ms essay, probably for some class.
Zechariah 13-14" ms essay, again, probably for some class.
Fragments of two ms essays on Biblical interpretation.
Ms essay on the nature of reality and the real, paper or essay for course.
"Alfred as Educator of his People," Oct 10, 1892, ms essay for course.
"Some Concluding Critisms on the 'Total Experience' Account of Reality, with special
reference to the 'Moment of Arrest,'" June 8, 1896. ms essay for class. A
for course.
"Have Kant's Characteristic Contributions to Philosophy a Permanent Value?" ms
essay, Phil. 20c, Feb. 15, 1897. A for the paper.
"The Ethics of Authority and the Ethics of Value," ms essay, Phil 20d, June 10,
1898.
Purchased MSS
APapers bought in book stalls along Seine, I believe,@ [circa 1898-1899], humorous
manuscript dialogues and poems in French, probably purchased by AOL during his
year of study in Paris.
Two poems by AOL in University of California Magazine, March 1895, p. 23, Rain at
Dusk; and February 1900,
p. 25, The Witness to the Day.
Stack of poems in the hand of WWL.
Several loose poems, ms., by AOL.
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Speeches
International Congress of the Arts and Sciences 1904
Fire Cults 1908
Ms. of speech given at reception for AOL and TS Eliot, 1932?, on the need for
thickness in philosophy.
Ms of speech to U.C. Alumni.
'Address to Washington Alumni, Dec. 9, 1919.' ms. speech.
'Speech before Berkeley Chapter,' chapter of AAUP, 10/10/22, ms speech.
'Speech Delivered Before AAUP Dec. 30, 1928,' ms speech on the evolution of
special societies.
"Hitler As Pacifist" Speech before American Jewish Congress, Balto. Branch,
Nov. 14,1933.
'St. Pauls Ch. Boston, June 24, 1943,' speech on "peace by consultation."
'US Foreign Policy and the Soviet Union, Pol. Econ. Club, Nov. 4, 1946,'
Speech re the intentions of the Soviets re world revolution, AOL sees that it
will be likely that they will continue to foment revolution, ms speech.
Box 66 (Cont.)
"Can the United States and the Soviet Union Settle Their Differences Without War?"
speech before Howard County Public Forum, Ellicott City, Md. 10/28/47.
Concludes that war is possible but not likely. Typed copy.
'Farmer's hist. Talk,' on the reasons why the US has to fight WWI, ms speech.
'The Child and the State' material and notes, speech to the St. Louis County
Teachers' Association, Webster Groves, Mo. 10/27/?, also account of speech in
East St. Louis, on The Child and the State.
Academic
Memberships
Legal Documents
Christabel Lovejoy (Estate)
Newspaper clippings
75th Birthday
80th Birthday
Photographs
Johns Hopkins Magazine, Feb. 1952
Biographical Data
Material relating to the estate of Christabel Lovejoy.
Scrapbook of material relating to AOL participation in delegation to England and
France in 1918.
Photographs
1915 - Organization of the AAU
1917 - Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure
Committee
Academic Freedom in Wartime
1919 - Executive Committee, AAUP
1919 - Annual Message of the President
1919 - Dr. Jordan and the Carnegie Foundation
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AAUP; gallley proofs of two items, reprints of Academic Freedom in Wartime, and
AOL Presidential Message, typescript of Report of committee of inquiry on
Conditions in Washburn College, also copies of other articles by AOL.
Philosophical Club; copies of papers read at or discusssed at the Philosophical Club
meetings.
Professional Photos
Personal Photos
Oncken Photos (William, Penelope, Martin)
Lovejoy, Sara Oncken Photos
Reports, Various
Nine pamphlets of the Univerities Committee on Post-War International Problems.
Copies of reports on post-war planning for the university.
Folder of material relating to AOL work for the AHA and the Army in writing
pamphlets during WWII, typescripts and partial typescripts of pamphlets.
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Correspondence
The box contains a variety of memoranda, committee reports, and copies of letters
relating to University affairs. Included in the committee reports are ones on the
grades of professorships, the printing of dissertations, and the establishment of a
degree in education.