“Philosophy is not a statement of things as they are, but a physiological biography of the human soul under the exciting causes of the Universe.”
About Sydney Dobell
5 April 1824–22 August 1874
Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…