[Ads-l] Antedating of "Nihilist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

nihilist (OED 1854)

1845 Asa Mahan _A System of Intellectual Philosophy_ 273 (Google Books)

So Cousin ... must, to be consistent, be a sensualist with Locke, a spiritualist with Fichte, a pantheist with Schelling, and a nihilist with Hegel.

Fred Shapiro

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