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OF

SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY.

VOLUME XII.

EDITED BY WM. T. HARRIS.

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ST. LOUIS :

G. I. JONES AND COMPANY.

1878.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by

WILLIAM T. HARRIS,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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(1) Sonnet to the Venus of Milo; (2) Emanuel Hvalgren's System;
(3) Notes on Hegel and his Critics; (4) Sentences in Prose and Verse.

Notes and Discussions: In Memoriam,

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(1) The Moral Purpose of Tourguéneff; (2) Dr. Parson's Translation

of Dante's Purgatorio.

(1) The Universe; (2) Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell; (3) Ueber

die Aufgabe der Philosophie in der Gegenwart; (4) Municipal Law, and
its Relations to the Constitution of Man; (5) Life and Mind — Their
Unity and Materiality; (6) An Essay on Science and Theology; (7)
The Relation of Philosophy to Science; (8) Neues Fundamental Or-
ganon der Philosophie, etc.; (9) The Jurisdiction of Probate Courts;
(10) The Natural Theology of the Doctrine of Forces; (11) Views of

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As a rule it may be said that, at a time when readers are so overwhelmed with work as they are at the present day, all purely critical and destructive writing ought to be reprobated. The half-gods generally refuse to go, in spite of the ablest criticism, until the gods actually have arrived; but then, too, criticism is hardly needed. But there are cases in which every rule may be broken. "What!" exclaimed Voltaire, when accused of offering no substitute for the Christianity he attacked, "je vous délivre d'une bête féroce, et vous me demandez par quoi je la remplace!" Without comparing Mr. Spencer's definition of Mind either to Christianity or to a

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béte féroce," it may certainly be said to be very far-reaching in its consequences, and, according to certain standards, noxious; whilst probably a large proportion of those hardheaded readers who subscribe to the Popular Science Monthly and Nature, and whose sole philosopher Mr. Spencer is, are fascinated by it without being in the least aware what its consequences are.

The defects of the formula are so glaring that I am surprised it should not long ago have been critically overhauled.

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