Guide to the George H. Sabine papers, [ca. 1886-1960]

Collection Number: 14-21-547

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
JK
Date completed:
December 12, 1961
EAD encoding:
Ann Hubert, October 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
George H. Sabine papers, [ ca. 1886-1960 ]
Collection Number:
14-21-547
Creator:
George Holland Sabine, 1880-1961.
Quantity:
5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Notes, drafts, correspondence, scrapbook.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Abstract:
Largely notes for and rough drafts of the revised edition of Sabine's chief work, A History of Political Theory, as well as additional books and correspondence.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Philosophy, dean of the Graduate School, and vice president of Cornell University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Largely notes for and rough drafts of the revised edition of Sabine's chief work, A History of Political Theory; supplemented by four books with underlining and marginal comments: A Treastise of Human Nature; After Utopia; Critique of Pure Reason; and What Is to Be Done. Includes reprints, book reviews, and examinations and other material pertaining to his professional life; a scrapbook (1900-1905) on his student days at Cornell; notes and correspondence concerning the publication of the diary of Cornell's first president, Andrew Dickson White; and genealogical papers on the Sabine family. Administrative and professional correspondence, and drafts and copies of Sabine's book reviews. Includes correspondence concerning Sabine's participation in the American Political Science Association. Correspondents include George Boas, Arthur C. Cole, Arthur H. Cole, Gustavus Watts Cunningham, Edmund Ezra Day, Dixon Ryan Fox, Ludwig F. Freund, George H. Gallup, Milton R. Konvitz, Harold J. Laski, Glenn R. Morrow, Frank Thilly, Charles M. Wiltse, and Carl F. Wittke.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Sabine, George Holland, 1880-1961.
Boas, George, 1891-
Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-
Cole, Arthur Harrison, 1889-
Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Fox, Dixon Ryan, 1887-1945.
Freund, Ludwig Franz, 1898-
Gallup, George Horace, 1901-
Konvitz, Milton Ridvas, 1908-
Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950.
Morrow, Glenn R. (Glenn Raymond), 1895-
Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934.
Wiltse, Charles Maurice, 1907-
Wittke, Carl Frederick, 1892-1971.
American Political Science Association.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University--Administration.
Cornell University. Dept. of Philosophy.
Cornell University. Graduate School.

Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
George H. Sabine papers, [ca. 1886-1960] #14-21-547. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Cornell Law Quarterly, Mar. 1945
Box 1
Journal of Philosophy, Nov. 9, 1933
Box 1
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Dec. 1929
Box 1
Folder containing correspondence with Raymond P. Morse regarding William C. Pruyn 1903 , check forger
Box 1
School and Society, Sept. 12, 1931
Box 1
Lenin, V.I., What Is To Be Done?
 Box 1
Packet of cards relating to membership in the "Royal Society"
 Box 1
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
 Box 1
Shklar, After Utopia
 Box 1
Hume, Treastise of Human Nature
 Box 1
Family Genealogy within volume entitled "Record"
 Box 1
International Journal of Ethics, Jan. 1926, Apr. 1927 (two issues)
Box 1
Yale Law Journal, Dec. 1940
Box 1
Ethics, July 1938
Box 1
Journal of Philosopy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Nov. 25, 1915
Box 1
Journal of Philosophy, June 4, 1931
Box 1
Sabine, George H.
 Box 1
  • "What is Political Theory?" reprint from the Journal of Politics, Feb. 1939
  • "Radical Empiricism as a Logical Method" reprint from Philosophical Review, Nov. 1905
  • "Professor Bosanquet's Logic and the Concrete Universal" reprint from PR, Sept. 1912
  • "The Concept of the State as Power" reprint from PR, July 1920
  • "Hume's Contribution to the Historical Method" reprint from PR, Jan. 1906
  • "Bosanquet's Theory of the Real Will" reprint from PR, Nov. 1923 (2 copies)
  • "Descriptive and Normative Sciences" reprint from PR, July 1912
  • "Philosophical and Scientific Specialization" reprint from PR, Jan. 1917
  • "The Concreteness of Thought" reprint from PR, Mar. 1907
  • "The Pragmatic Approach to Political Science" reprint from American Political Science Review, Nov. 1930
  • "Political Science and the Juristic Point of View" reprint from APSR, Aug. 1928
  • "The Material of Thought" reprint from PR, May 1907
  • "Henry Adams and the Writing of History" reprint from the University of California Chronical, Jan. 1924
Vlastos, Gregory, "Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies" reprint from Classical Philology, July 1947
Box 1
Review of Nesbit's The Quest for Community reprinted from the Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, June 1953
Box 1
Sabine, G.H.
 Box 1
  • "Democracy and Preconceived Ideas" Lecture delivered at Ohio State, May 1945
  • "Logic and Social Studies" reprint from Philosophical Review, Mar. 1939
  • Review of Irving Babbit Book Democracy and Leadership reprinted from University of California Chronical, Apr. 1925
  • "Beyond Ideology" reprint from Philosophical Review, Jan. 1948
  • "Social Studies and Objectivity" reprint from University of California Publications in Philosophy, 1941
  • "Freedom and Reform" Philosophical Review, Sept. 1947
  • "The Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin" reprint from "Persecution and Liberty"
Personal Scrapbook from undergraduate days at Cornell
 Box 1
The Utilitiarians: Palley, Betham, Mill, Austin
 Box 1 Folder 1
Utilitiarianism: Seminary Notes - Bentham, Mill
 Box 1 Folder 2
Political Theory - Mill, Green
 Box 1 Folder 3
Political Theory - German Idealism
 Box 1 Folder 4
Fascism
 Box 1 Folder 5
American Political Thought
 Box 1 Folder 6
Contemporary Political Theory Notes
 Box 1 Folder 7
Contemporary Political Theory Notes and Syllabus
 Box 1 Folder 8
Lectures: Recent Political Theory
 Box 1 Folder 9
Scientific Method Correspondence
 Box 1 Folder 10
Scientific Method, Preliminary Reading List
 Box 1 Folder 11
Scientific Method, Poincare, Eddington, Bridgman
 Box 1 Folder 12
Scientific Method: Keynes, Ogden and Richards, Broad
 Box 1 Folder 13
Types of Science, Course Notes
 Box 1 Folder 14
Scientific Method, Illustrations
 Box 1 Folder 15
Arts Survey
 Box 1 Folder 16
Aristotle - Metaphysics A
 Box 1 Folder 17
Aristotle - Metaphysics B
 Box 1 Folder 18
Aristotle - Metaphysics TE
 Box 1 Folder 19
Aristotle - Metaphysics Z, H
 Box 1 Folder 20
Coherence
 Box 1 Folder 21
Nicomachean Ethics
 Box 1 Folder 22
Plotinus
 Box 1 Folder 23
Berkeley
 Box 1 Folder 24
R. Staminler
 Box 1 Folder 25
Princeton Centennial
 Box 1 Folder 26
Contemporary Political Theory
 Box 1 Folder 27
Political Theory, Second Term, 1952-1953 , Northwestern
Box 1 Folder 28
Political Theory, Fall Quarter, 1952 , Northwestern
 Box 1 Folder 29
Genealogical Material
 Box 2 Folder 1
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
 Box 2 Folder 2
Photographs of Smith
 Box 2 Folder 3
Chapman Etchings
 Box 2 Folder 4
"My Reminiscences of Ezra Cornell"
 Box 2 Folder 5
Aristotle
 Box 2 Folder 6
Culture
 Box 2 Folder 7
Plato
 Box 2 Folder 8
Memory
 Box 2 Folder 9
Evolution
 Box 2 Folder 10
"A Frenchman Who Remade the World"
 Box 2 Folder 11
German Philosophy and the War
 Box 2 Folder 12
"The Point of View of Idealism"
 Box 2 Folder 13
"The Social Basis of Idealism"
 Box 2 Folder 14
"Types of Idealism"
 Box 2 Folder 15
"The Prophets of Zwickau"
 Box 2 Folder 16
The History of Modern Philosophy - References
 Box 2 Folder 17
Syllabus - Elementary Ethics - Philosophy II
 Box 2 Folder 18
Nietzsche: A Sentimental Individualist
 Box 2 Folder 19
The Ethics of International Relations
 Box 2 Folder 20
Administration, St. Lawrence University, Jan. 18, 1951
Box 2 Folder 21
Leninism
 Box 2 Folder 22
Leites - Bolshevism
 Box 2 Folder 23
Communism
 Box 2 Folder 24
Marx
 Box 2 Folder 25
Communism
 Box 2 Folder 26
Marxism
 Box 2 Folder 27
Marxism, Seminar 1956-1957
Box 2 Folder 28
Kant, Critique of Judgment
 Box 2 Folder 29
Kant, Critique of Practcial Reason
 Box 2 Folder 30
Political Theory, Exams
 Box 2 Folder 31
Scheler-Wissenforman Erkenntnis and Arbeit
 Box 2 Folder 32
Dewey - Quest for Certainty - copyright date, 1929 , notes for Sabine's review
Box 2 Folder 33
Emil Lederer - The State of the Masses
 Box 2 Folder 34
Notes: Gierke
 Box 2 Folder 35
Bradley and Moore, Value Theory
 Box 2 Folder 36
Latin Averroism Circle
 Box 2 Folder 37
Ethics of Bolshevism
 Box 2 Folder 38
Soviet of Science, NY Times, July 1959
Box 2 Folder 39
Mao, Djilas, "Criticism of Communism"
 Box 2 Folder 40
Notes for Possible Lectures
 Box 2 Folder 41
Leibniz
 Box 2 Folder 42
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
 Box 2 Folder 43
Justice
 Box 2 Folder 44
Logic and Social Studies, 1939
Box 2 Folder 45
Becker - Introduction
 Box 2 Folder 46
Russian-American Ideology, Prospects of Democracy, Creighton Club, Apr. 1947
Box 2 Folder 47
Charles A. Beard, Discussion of Human Affairs
 Box 2 Folder 48
"Where Did Science Come From?" Research Club 1931
Box 2 Folder 49
Mannheim - Ideology and Utopia - Man and Society
 Box 2 Folder 50
Notes: Objectivity and Social Studies
 Box 2 Folder 51
Interests and Historical Evidence
 Box 2 Folder 52
Marx
 Box 3 Folder 1
Communism
 Box 3 Folder 2
Notes on a Book
 Box 3 Folder 3
An Episode of the Puritan Revolution
 Box 3 Folder 4
From Status to Contract
 Box 3 Folder 5
Conservatism, Rossiter, Kirk
 Box 3 Folder 6
Berlin, Isaiah
 Box 3 Folder 7
Winch - Peter
 Box 3 Folder 8
Rawls - Justice as Fairness
 Box 3 Folder 9
Hartz-Liberal Tradition
 Box 3 Folder 10
Free Societies and Free Men
 Box 3 Folder 11
G.A. de Laguna
 Box 3 Folder 12
Lectures - Kluckholn, Kelly, Bidney, Mowter
 Box 3 Folder 13
Riesman, Lonely Crowd, Morality to Morale
 Box 3 Folder 14
Definitions of Culture
 Box 3 Folder 15
T. Parsons - Theory of Action, Social Stratification
 Box 3 Folder 16
Tonniew - Gemeinschaitt
 Box 3 Folder 17
MacIver - Web of Government
 Box 3 Folder 18
Whitehead - Adv. of Ideas
 Box 3 Folder 19
Inkeles - Startification in Russia
 Box 3 Folder 20
White - Organization Man
 Box 3 Folder 20
Rawls - Two Concepts of Rules
 Box 3 Folder 20
Ashley, Wildman, Becker
 Box 3 Folder 21
Leibniz - Americana, Fichte - Americana
 Box 3 Folder 22
Moral Communication
 Box 3 Folder 23
Democracy - Rochester 1947
Box 3 Folder 24
Duverger - Poltical Parties
 Box 3 Folder 25
Mills - White Collar, Warner - American Life
 Box 3 Folder 26
Hart - Natural Law
 Box 3 Folder 27
Historicism - Hegel
 Box 3 Folder 28
Hart - Ascription, Waismann - Veritiability
 Box 3 Folder 29
Morrow - Plato's Laws
 Box 3 Folder 30
Chambers - Witness
 Box 3 Folder 31
Party - Key, Hyneman
 Box 3 Folder 32
Population - Notestein
 Box 3 Folder 33
T.H. Green
 Box 3 Folder 34
Denial of Metaphysics - Philosophy Club 1948
Box 3 Folder 35
Mead - Mind, Self, Society
 Box 3 Folder 36
White Diary
 Box 3 Folder 37
A.E. Murphy - On Practical Reason
 Box 3 Folder 38
Lee - Language and Custom
 Box 3 Folder 39
Mannheim, Leites
 Box 3 Folder 40
Sapir - Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry
 Box 3 Folder 41
Dollard - Frustration and Aggresion, Minorities - Colonial Administration, Murrag - Personality
 Box 3 Folder 42
Toulmin - Reason in Ethics
 Box 3 Folder 43
Role Personality - Whorf, Pritchard, Newcomb, Merton, F. Kluckholn
 Box 3 Folder 44
Toynbee
 Box 3 Folder 45
Conant - Science and Common Sense, English Marxist
 Box 3 Folder 46
Ginsberg, Malinowdki, Lasswell, Benedict, Horney, Mead, Musdock
 Box 3 Folder 47
Herring - Politics of Democracy, Hogben-Retreat from Reason, Dennis-Dynamics of War
 Box 3 Folder 48
Dewey - Logic; Criticism of Dewey's Philosophy
 Box 3 Folder 49
Spanish Arcitecture
 Box 3 Folder 50
Howism Lecture
 Box 3 Folder 51
Eugene 1950
Box 3 Folder 52
Irrationalism
 Box 3 Folder 53
Reviews and Letters
 Box 3 Folder 54
Sutton, Winstanley
 Box 3 Folder 55
Leighton, Lynd, Frank, Sherif
 Box 3 Folder 56
Northrup - Meeting of East and West, Ideological Man
 Box 3 Folder 57
Digger Biography
 Box 3 Folder 58
Personal Psycology
 Box 3 Folder 59
Liberalism
 Box 3 Folder 60
De Tocqueville
 Box 3 Folder 61
Natural Law
 Box 3 Folder 62
Papper - Open Society, Historicism
 Box 3 Folder 63
Ideological Conflict, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
 Box 3 Folder 64
The Ideological Conflict in the Struggle for Power
 Box 3 Folder 65
The Law of Nature
 Box 3 Folder 66
DeLaguna Lecture
 Box 3 Folder 67
James Burnham
 Box 3 Folder 68
Social Science Research Center
 Box 3 Folder 69
Banking Records
 Box 3 Folder 70
Max Weber - Wissinchaftslchre
 Box 4 Folder 1
Democrary and Preconceived Ideas
 Box 4 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Reading Notes
 Box 4 Folder 3
Political Theory - Fact and Value
 Box 4 Folder 4
Miscellaneous Papers on Fact, Value Dialectic
 Box 4 Folder 5
Scientific Method and the New Physics
 Box 4 Folder 6
The Liberal Arts College
 Box 4 Folder 7
Bodin-Heptaplomeres
 Box 4 Folder 8
The Proletarian Movement
 Box 4 Folder 9
Lilburne and Cromwell
 Box 4 Folder 10
Ethical Theory
 Box 4 Folder 11
Ancient Philosophy
 Box 4 Folder 12
Syllabus, History of Philosophy
 Box 4 Folder 13
Logic
 Box 4 Folder 14
Nature of Political Theory
 Box 4 Folder 15
Political Theory - The Greek City State
 Box 4 Folder 16
Political Theory - Pre-Platonic
 Box 4 Folder 17
Political Theory - Plato
 Box 4 Folder 18
Plato - The Laws
 Box 4 Folder 19
Estate of Wilfred S. Sabine
 Box 4 Folder 20
Political Theory - Aristotle
 Box 4 Folder 21
Political Theory - Post-Aristotelian to Polybins
 Box 4 Folder 22
Political Theory - The Roman Lawyers
 Box 4 Folder 23
Political Theory - Cicero Seneca
 Box 4 Folder 24
Political Theory - Cicero
 Box 4 Folder 25
Cicero Outline
 Box 4 Folder 26
Political Theory - 9th Century Feudalism
 Box 4 Folder 27
Political Theory - 10th and 12th Centuries
 Box 4 Folder 28
Political Theory - Middle Ages - Church and Empire
 Box 4 Folder 29
Political Theory - St. Thomas Aquinas
 Box 4 Folder 30
Phillip the Fair and Boniface VIII
 Box 4 Folder 31
Political Theory - Marsiglio and Conciliaris ts
 Box 4 Folder 32
Political Theory - Rise of Nations - Machiavelli
 Box 4 Folder 33
Political Theory - The Reformers - Luther and Calvin
 Box 4 Folder 34
The Monarchomachs
 Box 4 Folder 35
Divine Right of Man
 Box 4 Folder 36
Jean Bodin
 Box 4 Folder 37
Althusis
 Box 4 Folder 38
Political Theory - Grotius
 Box 4 Folder 39
Bacon
 Box 4 Folder 40
Political Theory - England 16th Century
 Box 4 Folder 41
Diggers
 Box 4 Folder 42
Political Theory - Milton
 Box 4 Folder 43
Harrington
 Box 4 Folder 44
Filmer
 Box 4 Folder 45
Halifax
 Box 4 Folder 46
Political Theory - Locke
 Box 4 Folder 47
England - 18th Century
 Box 4 Folder 48
Descartes
 Box 4 Folder 49
Hume
 Box 4 Folder 50
Germany - 18th Century
 Box 4 Folder 51
Rousseau
 Box 4 Folder 52
France - 18th Century, Montesquieu and Helvitus
 Box 4 Folder 53
French Revolution
 Box 4 Folder 54
Hume and Burke
 Box 4 Folder 55
Fascism
 Box 4 Folder 56
French Reaction, Bonold, DeMaistre(?)
 Box 4 Folder 57
Political Theory - Hobbes
 Box 4 Folder 58
Levellers
 Box 4 Folder 59
Letters A-Z, 1940-1943
Box 5
Letters A-Z, 1946-1948
Box 5
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, 1937-1943
Box 6
Advisory Committee to the Collection of Regional History, 1947
Box 6
Committee on Research, 1947
Box 6
Kallen Festschrift, 1945-1947
Box 6
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1946
Box 6
Winstanley Correspondence, 1938-1941
Box 6
Textbook Committee, American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, 1941-1942
Box 6
History of Political Theory
Box 6
Milton Konvitz, 1945-1946
Box 6
Book Reviews, 1940-1950
Box 6
Amercian Political Science Association, Nomination Committee, 1948
Box 7
Correspondence relating to Maximilian Beck, 1947
Box 7
Burr Volume
 Box 7
Correspondence relating to The William P. Chapman Print Collection
 Box 7
Coulburn Correspondence
 Box 7
Committee on Classification of Universities and Colleges, Associatioof American Universities
 Box 7
Cresswell Correspondence
 Box 7
Review - H.R.G. Greaves, The Foundation of Political Theory
Box 7
Lectures away from Cornell; Invitations; Conferences, 1937-1943
Box 7
Lectures of Recommendation
 Box 7
Paine, E.T. - Reappointment, 1935-1936
Box 7
Morrow Correspondence
Box 7
Pulitzer Prize Jury
 Box 7
Winstanley - Reviews and Letters of Comment on the Book Itself
 Box 7