FIRST SECTION.

ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE.

VOL. I. ESSAYS I-IV. pp. 221–278.

VOL. II. ESSAYS I-XII. pp. 1-204.

Essay

International
Law.

Essays VI-X.
pp. 88-166.

Principles of political conduct.

Essay XI.

pp. 167-185.

True love of

FIRST SECTION.

Essay

xiii

VI. Review of circumstances which led to the peace of Amiens, and recommencement of the war, especially with regard to the occupation of Malta,-introductory to, and as commentary on, the subject of international law. Interposed in vindication of freedom of thought, and of the duty of searching out, and abiding by, the truth: reason and faith: extracts from Taylor and Bedell. IX. Law of nations: cosmopolitism and nationality.

VII.

VIII.

X. Law of nations continued: modern political economy: balance of European power: allegoric fable on the seizure of the Danish fleet: defence of the principle. XI. Doctrine of general consequences as the best criterion of the right or wrong of particular actions not tenable in reason, or safe in practice.

liberty. S XII. Address delivered at Bristol in ‹

Essay XII.

pp. 186-204.

1795.

SECOND LANDING-PLACE.

VOL. II. ESSAYS I-IV. pp. 207-261. Miseries of

Miscellaneous.
Essays

III. and IV.

pp. 245-261.

Essay

III. Fable of Irus (Buonaparte) and
Toxaris: Christmas within, and ..
out of, doors in North Germany:
extract from Mr. Wordsworth's

MS. poem.

IV. Rabbinical tales.

SECOND SECTION.

ON THE GROUNDS OF MORALS AND RELIGION, AND THE DISCI-

PLINE OF THE MIND REQUISITE FOR A TRUE UNDER-

STANDING OF THE SAME.

VOL. III. ESSAYS I-XI. pp. 1–216.

Principles of the Science of Method. Essays IV-XI. pp. 108-216.

SECOND SECTION.

Essay

XV

IV. Method, in the will and in the understanding: illustrated from Shakspeare: founded on observation of relations of things: want and excess of generalization necessity of a mental initiative: definition of method.

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V. Two kinds of relations in which objects of mind may be considered; 1. Law: synthetic and analytic process: Plato's view. VI. 2.-Theory: method in the fine arts intermediate: poetry and.. music: mental initiative in botany: history and estimate of the science: in chemistry.

VII. Intention of Plato's writings: zoo-
logy and John Hunter: theory
cannot supply the principle of
method: nor hypothesis: neces-
sity of an idea: contrast between
the state of science as to elec-
tricity and magnetism: law of
polarity.

VIII. True character of Plato: Aristotle:
unpleasant side of Bacon's cha-
racter: Hooke: Kepler: Tycho
Brahe reconcilement of the Pla-
tonic and Baconian methods.
IX. Investigation of the Baconian me-
thod: shown to be essentially
one with the Platonic, but in a
different direction: method the
guiding light in education and
cultivation.
X. Existence of a self-organizing pur-
pose in nature and man: illus-
trated operation of this idea in
the history of mankind: patri-
archal state: corrupted into a
polytheism: early Greeks: their
idolatry checked by the physical
theology of the mysteries: por-
tion which they represented of

Principles of
the Science of
Method.
(continued.)

Essay

the education of man: their dis-
coveries in the region of the
pure intellect and success in the
arts of imagination contrasted
with their crude essays in the
investigation of physical laws
and phænomena : Romans: He-
brews the mid-point of a line,
toward which the Greeks as the
ideal, and the Romans as the
material, pole were approximat-
ing,-Christianity the synthesis.
XI. Trade and Literature essential to a

:

nation: consequences of the com-
mercial spirit preponderating:
difference of ultimate aims in
men and nations: evidence of
objective reality in man himself:
nature and man, union and dif-
ference mere being in its es-
sence: the idea, whence origi-
nated revelation: God: the
material world made for man:
universal laws for the whole
tempered by particular laws for
the individual in nature and
man: causation : invisible nexus:
ground of union: difference be-
tween the reason and the under-
standing what they can respec-
tively achieve: method of the
will religious faith.

THIRD LANDING-PLACE.

VOL. III. ESSAYS I—VI. pp. 219.—301.

Existence of
luck or fortune

under the
Christian

scheme.

Essay I.
pp. 219-225.

I. Fortune favors fools: different
meanings of the proverb: luck
has a real existence in human
affairs how: invidious use of
the phrase.