Description:Professor Carveth Read (1848-1931) was a 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. He was Professor of Philosophy at University College London. His works include: The Theory of Logic (1878), Logic: Deductive and Inductive (1898), The Metaphysics of Nature (1905), Natural and Social Morals (1909), The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions (1920) and Man and His Superstitions (1925).