… feelings by bringing natural philosophy (in the words of Joseph Addison ) ‘out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses .' 1 1 . [Joseph Addison], The Spectator, …
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… of his new periodical was to urbanise moral philosophy: ‘to bring Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses’. 4 In this list, Addison identified the …