OF

SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY.

VOLUME XII.

EDITED BY WM. T. HARRIS.

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,

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Boole's Logical Method, .......... George Bruce Halsted, 81

Brute and Human Intellect, . . . . .. ..... William James, 236

Christianity and the Clearing-up, . . . . . . . Francis A. Henry, 171, 337

Fichte's Criticism of Schelling (Tr.), ...... A. E. Kræger, 160, 316

Hegel on Symbolic Art (Tr.), . . . . . . . . . William M. Bryant, 18

Hegel on Classic Art (Tr.), . . . . . . . . William M. Bryant, 145, 277

Hegel on Romantic Art (Tr.), .. .. William M. Bryant, 403

Jacobi, and the Philosophy of Faith, ..... Robert H. Worthington, 393

Nation and the Commune, The, .......... Theron Gray, 44

Schelling on the Historical Construction of Chris-

tianity (Tr.), .............. Ella S. Morgan, 205
Schiller's Ethical Studies, . . . . . . . . . . . . Josiah Royce, 373
Science of Education, The (Paraph.), ..... Anna C. Brackett, 67, 297
Spencer's Definition of Mind, ......... William James, 1
Some Considerations on the Notion of Space, . . . . . . J. E. Cabot, 225
Statement and Reduction of Syllogism, . . . . George Bruce Halsted, 418
Von Hartmann on “ The True and False in Dar-

winism” (Tr.), ............ Henry I. D'Arcy, 138

World as Force, The, .............. John Watson, 113

Notes and Discussions, . ................... 92

(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, ....214

Notes and Discussions, .

.. . . .

(1) Sentences in Prose and Verse; (2) Spiritual Epigrams; (3) A

Fragment of the “Semitic" Philosophy; (4) Dr. Pleiderer's Philoso ,

phy of Religion; (5) On the Multiplicity of Conscious Beings; (6) Poly-

crates sends Anacreon Five Talents.

Notes and Discussions, ................... 427

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

of Dante's Purgatorio.

Book Notices, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

(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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Nature and of the Elements; (12) Outlines of the Religion and Philoso-
phy of Swedenborg; (13) Zwei Briefe Ueber Verursachung und
Freiheit im Wollen ; (14) Hartmann, Duehring, and Lange; (15) George
Stjernhjelm; (16) Philosophische Monatshefte; (17) Verhandlungen der

Philosophischen Gesellschaft.
Book Notices, . ...................... 217

(1) Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie und Philosophische Kritik; (2) Professor Watson on Science and Religion; (3) Principia or Basis of Social Science; (4) Soul Problems, with other Papers; (5) A Series of Essays on Legal Topics; (6) Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer; (7) Elements de Philosophie Populaire; (8) Inaugural Address, by S. S. Laurie; (9) The Historical Jesus of Nazareth ; (10) A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant; (11) Philosophische Monatshefte, Leipzig, 1877; (12) Die Phantasie als Grundprincip des Welt Processes ; (13) Philosophie de la Religion de Hegel; (14) The

Princeton Review.
Book Notices, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

436

436 (1) Krauth's Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences; (2) Stirling's Burns in Drama, together with Saved Leaves; (3) Pfleiderer's Religions Philosophie auf Geschichtlicher Grundlage; (4) Bascom's Comparative Psychology; (5) Eucken's Geschichte und Kritik der Grundbegriffe der Gegenwart; (6) Bascom's Philosophy of Religion; (7) American Journal of Mathematics.

ERRATA.

Page 45, line 28, for such, read each.
Page 51, line 23-4, for a plain man, read explain now.
Page 54, line 5, for assuming, read assuring.
Page 56, line 19, for Free, read True.
Page 56, line 28–9, for diction, read dictation.
Page 57, line 34, for interest, read increase.
Page 60, line 12, for law-rule, read law-rule.
Page 67, line 17, for the reappear, read there appear.
Page 383, line 21, for sobriatur, read solvitur.
Page 400, line 11, for on, read or.
Page 401, line 8, for succeeded, read superseded.
Page 402, line 30, for an, read our.
Page 402, line 33, for an, read our; for even, read ever.

REMARKS ON SPENCER'S DEFINITION OF MIND AS

CORRESPONDENCE.

BY WM. JAMES.

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 béte féroce, et vous me demandez par quoi je la remplace!” Without comparing Mr. Spencer's definition of Mind either to Christianity or to a “ 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.