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Smilli' book is ne of rare excellence, and eli orth of the stud of men and women, thoughperhaps no transcendentes nough for ur modem philosophers, male an female. t is reali aston. ishing o much of the est o everything, stompatriotism to nonsense, is tot mund in his volume of shetches. Yo ma rea it through, Dyour fidescan ea suci an accumulation o laughter, illigi ea benefit; and Dyo ope itinny here, o Can'trea three sentences Without Comin acros Some, it mant, common thought, an osten original nough, belle expresse Mand su than volt everiefore sam it

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The lectures on the Assections the Passion and Destres, an on Study, Ne ould have verybodyto rea an e oy. Sedg vic is a disserent, and as a Whole an inferior man; ut a man ver inch of him, an an Englistiman too, in his thoughis, an in his fine mothe wit an longue. He has in themidst os allhis confusio an passionaleness, the me instinctos philosoph the me venati sense of objective truth. e know nothing etter in the main than his demolition os What is unime, an his reductiono What is absurd, and his taking the wind ut os What is tympanitic in the notorious rati s Wedon' say he tways oes justice to hat is reatly good incit his mission is to execute justice son it, and that he does. His remares in Ohen and OKen, an his quotations homir Clarke' admirabie papero the De Logmm of the riuus, in the Cambri κ ilosos ica Transactares, e ould recommend Oour medica mends. The ver confusion of Sedg- chris the re outcome of a deep and ac nature it ut us in ind of What appened When an Eng-listiman was lookin With astonishment an dis stat a Colchman eatin a finge sheep' head and

Wa asked by the eater What he thought of that disti l Disis, Sir, do ou cal that a disti l Disti or nodisti, rejoine the Caledonian, there' a dealis fine confuse feedin abootest, let me teli ou.'

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tion rom Arnauid the frien o Pascat, and the intrepid antagonis of the Vatica and the Grand

perfecting ou reason justnes of minclaein infinitelymore important than ali the speculative 'nowledgewhich, can obtain by means os sciences the ostsolid. his ought to lea wis me to malle their sciences Me Xercise an nor Me occupatio of theis mental f era. Men re not om to emplo alltheir times in measurin lines, in considering the

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variotis movements of matter thei miiad are too

ching. Arma virumque, Ool an a man to se

oculo incenso acie acerrimcl. Lookin is a voluntaryact,-it is the man within Comin to the indo ;Seein is a State,-paSSive an receptive, and at thebest, litile more than registratiVe.

Since itin the bove, e have read With great satisfactio Dr. Forbes' Lecture delivere besore the Chichester Literar Societ an Mechanics Institute, an publishe at their equest It subjectris, Happines in iis relation to or and nowledge. It is orth of it author, an is, e thinh, more larget an finely embue with his persona ch,

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affect Some ne hin in clites, uni him ali hingsare distastem an tedious.' e illiso spoli his litti volume by Gring any account os t. I et urreadem et it an rea it. The extracta sto his Thetis, De Mentis Exercitatione es Alicstate mini

vigour an bent of his ind, and indicatin also, vince me identit and the growm of his thoughis during the lapse of thiri three earS. We ive the last par raph, the sense and the filia affectio os,hichiare althe admirabie. Hav- in mentione to his earer that me fa in im-ses a livin illustratio of the truth of his position

Is ou ould further destre o no to halbesides I am chiefl indebie for so enui te a tot, I Would say-1st Because I ad the good fortuneto come into the ori Withis ealthful frame, and with a sanguine temperament ad Because I ad n patrimony, and was heresore oblige to trus tomy Nn exertions sor a livelthood ad Because Iwas bom in a land where instructio is greatly prizedand readit accessible. 4th, Minus I was roughturit a profession hicli notioni compelle mental exercise but supplied forciis se materials of the mosi

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than iself o quippe he sent them forti into the ori to figlit Lila' batile, leavin the issu in the and of God confident, however, that thoughthe might ait o achieve renown or o conquerFortune, the possesse Mat hich, i rightly used, could in for them the et igher rige of APPI

du in spirit an expression w don' kno any belle modet for mani cotirage, good senSe, and seeling, and the are as et writte a the arethought. There are the work of another man, ne of the

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greatest, o oni o our, ut os an time, to hic n

V mea the philosophica writings of Sir illiam

Hamilton. We no no more invigorating, quiCkening recti*ing in os exercise than ea ling itha ill anythin he has ritten pon permanently important subjecta There is aureatnes an simplicity, a Closenes of thought, a lance een and Wide, a play of the entire nature, an a truthfuinessan do rightness, Wim an amount, and C racy, and vivification o learning suchos e no os in

Lethnitet; and we no no ritings hichiso hole-somel at orace exalt an humbi the reader, mahelii De What is in him, and what he an an may, as ellos liat he annot an nee neve laope toknow. In this respect Hamilton is a gran asPascat, an more simple he exemplifies everwhere his o sublime adaptation o Scripture-untes ama hecome a ille Child, he cannot enter into me hingdom hetenter the temple stooping, ut hepresses on intrepid an alone, O the inmost a Flum, Worshippin the more the eam he et to the inaccessibi stirine, otiose vel no mortat an has eve rent in ain An We nam aster im, thethoughtsul, candid, impressivellitile volume of his pupil, his frien d an his successor ProseSSO Fr O.

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here are two oris of ignorance se philosophige to escape ignorance, and the consummationis

our philosophyris ignorance we Stari rom the ne, we repose in the offer the are the oals stomwhicli, an to whicli, we tend; and the pursui ofknowledgeris ut a Course l)etwee two ignorances achuma lis is itfel ont a travelling rom grave to

The highest reac o human scienc is the scientiscrecognition o human ignorance Quid nescit Ignorare, ignorat scire.' This learne ignorance is the rationes convictio by the human min os iis in ilit to transcend certain limits it is the nowledge of urseives,-the science of man. This is complished by a demonstrationi of the dispropo tionae,een halcis to e nown and ur faculties of knowing,-the disproportion to it bet en the infinite and the finite. In laci, the recognition othuma ignorance is no only the ne highest, but theone me, nowledge an iis first ruit, as has beensaid, is humility. Simple nescience sono proud; consummate science is positivel humble. For this

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Nam nesciens quid scire sit, Te scire cuncta actitas. V

- Quo magis quaerimus magis dubitamus. V The gran resultis human wisdom is thus Onlya consciousnes that What weano is a nothin toruliat weanow not, Quantum est quod nescimus i in -an articulate confession in faci, by ur naturalreason, of the truth declare in revelation that meto me through a glas darkly. 'His pupil writes in the fame spirit an to the sameend - discovery by means o reflectio and mentes experiment of the limati fanowle e is thehighest an mos universali applicabie discover of est; tris the ne inrough,hichisu intellectual life mos strihingi blend with the mora an practicalpari O human nature Progress in nowledge is osten paradoxicali indicate by a diminution in the parent bura of What we now. Whateve helps towor o the dregs of salse opinion, an to puris themtellectua mass haleve deepens ur convictionos ur infinite ignorance reali add to, although it

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somelimes seem to diministi, the rationes possem

lis Iates representatives It is by this standard that Socrates an Kant meastare the hie resulis of their