CRIMEAN WAR. – William PALEY. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. London: J. Faulder et al., 1814. 2 vols., 8vo (208 x 125mm.) Numerous pencil and ink annotations and mounted newspaper clippings related to philosophical questions, loosely inserted contemporary notes and a letter addressed to Captain Henry Duberly. (Browning and scattered spotting throughout.) Contemporary calf (lacking spine to vol. 1, extremities rubbed). Note: Captain Henry Duberly was part of the British Light Cavalry that took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade. His wife, Fanny Duberly, travelled with him to the Crimea and published her experiences in 1856 in ‘Journal Kept During the Russian War’. In the pencil and ink annotations that Henry has made he weighs up the existence of God based on the beliefs of the great minds in history. He lists those that believe (Grotius, Locke, Watson, Addison, Paley, Newton and Bacon’ against those that didn’t believe (Hobbes, Hume, Robertson, Gibbon, Bolingbroke, Parson, Drummond, Chatham, Voltaire and Volney’. Isaac Newton baffles him. Having ‘set out as an infidel he became the firmest of believers’. Provenance: Captain Henry Duberly, Paymaster of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars (name-plate to front pastedown and ink inscribed to initial blank of vol. 2) (2).