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SHIELDS'S PHILOSOPHY. | SCHLIEMANN'S MYCENÆ. CELAIN. THE PRINCE OF ARGOLIS. EDITORIALS. THE DIDACTIC NOVEL. | PARAGRAPHS. MISCELLANEOUS. RESPONSE. J. G. W. THE SPELING REFAURM. THE INDEX SOCIETY. Justin Winsor. NOTES AND QUERIES. TABLE TALK. NOTES AND NEWS. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. IT TRIBUTE. George Wm. Curtis. of Mr. Cook must often, on the announcement of his "subject," recall the celebrated definition of the preacher's "text"—a simple point of departure. opinions; and this will result in showing have borne any one. of half a dozen. other that, instead of being science, they are only titles, as the one which it has taken from the personal dogmatisms and matters of irrelig-second lecture contained in it; but hearers ious faith. Another general need in all these discussions is to abandon the habit of collecting all scientists and all religious people into mutually exclusive and hostile camps. This is an injustice to scientists, the vast This journal is no place in which to dismajority of whom are, and always have been, cuss at length the proper matter of these religious. It is also an injustice to religion, lectures. But with every desire to find in as it allows any irreligious dogmatism to their form or material a contribution to usurp the name and prestige of science, to thought upon the great themes handled, we which it is not entitled; and then it proves have to confess our inability to discover anyits theory not by an appeal to facts, but by thing which can be honored with such a calling itself science. Moreover, the judicial designation. Mr. Cook has been content reason must always be impatient of setting with borrowing the entire substance of his up any court of appeal besides itself. What discussion from authorities accessible, with it wants to know is, not whether a theory or slight exception, to superficial inquiry. ECHOES TO THE WHITTIER fact is religious or scientific; but whether it When we reflect upon the large number of is true. And since the conflict is solely as clergymen to be found in Tremont Temple to the possibility or impossibility, the truth of a Monday noon, and upon the books and or falsehood, of certain facts, no discussion studies which were embraced in their courses can be decisive which deals with generalities of theological education, and to which they, and does not address itself to the knot of the with ordinary diligence, should have attendproblem. On this account the critic must ed, we are simply astonished at the presumpjudge the work in hand to have contributed tion that can present such lectures as the very little to a solution. It contains much first in this volume, for instance, as "the rehistory, but little philosophy. The title of sults of the freshest German, English, and the book is entirely misleading. The author American scholarship." The actual subject does not assume that the last word has been of this first lecture is Intuition. The reader spoken; and the title is descriptive only in will recognize the great animation and earthe sense that the work is the latest publica- nestness of the lecturer, and if he be a warm tion in this department. What he seems to adherent of the Intuitional Philosophy may mean by the title is that the true philosophy be deceived by Mr. Cook's formidable array will finally be reached; and then science of numbered propositions (each presumed and religion will be found in harmony. Un-to be incapable of contradiction) into think fortunately the end is far off, for "the com- ing the result of the battle a complete vicBut let him ask pletion of the final philosophy itself, it need tory for Intuitionalism. scarcely be said, can only be the work of himself if, in fact, he can imagine, as Mr. Cook's first proposition concerning space many minds through coming generations." assumes, all matter non-existent; if he can, in truth, under the light of modern science, imagine more than a simple change of location or of form in space for any object, or even dream of absolute space entirely evacuated of matter? Will it be "perfectly easy" for him "to vacate all time of all events?" SHIELDS'S PHILOSOPHY.* BORDEN P. BOWNE. COOK'S TRANSCENDENTALISM.* T seems there is at Princeton a professor of "Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion;" and this treatise is offered as a specimen of the work done. The greater part of the work is devoted to a sketchy history of the relations of science and religion since the birth of the former. This is interesting reading, but quite indecisive of any question at issue between belief and unbelief. We do not so much care to know what opinions have been held, as rather what opinions are true; and this question can never be solved by any historical research, but only by appeal to facts as interpreted by the laws of thought. That there are conflicting opinions we all know; what we look for from a 'Harmonizer, etc.," is some means of judg ing which of them are best supported. Part II of this work is entitled "The Philosophi- ism," the same method, on a slightly enlarged scale, adopted cal Theory of the Harmony of Science and for the lectures on Biology, we present three signed articles upon it, by writers of different religious schools. The auReligion;" and we find it more unsatisfac-thor of the first, Rev. N. P. Gilman, of Bolton, Mass., is a tory still. The author claims, rightly enough, representative Unitarian clergyman; Rev. Dr. Dorus that philosophy must be the umpire between Clarke, of Boston, the author of the second, is a Trinitarian religion and science, and gives a fair criti-Congregationalist of the stanchest sort; while Rev. Dr. J. cism of positivism and of some absolutists' theorizings. But in all this flood of exposition we miss anything which comes to close quarters with the problem. What we most need in this direction is a true theory of knowledge, founded upon the laws of thought and the facts of consciousness. This will serve to show that there is only one method for all investigation, scientific or religious, viz.: (1) to determine all the facts, (2) to seek their rational explanation. What we next need is a criticism of particular irreligious even of the very thought of his own mind, by which he attempts to empty time of every phenomenon? Let him ask himself if there is any other fundamental reason why we must believe "that every change not only has but must have" a cause, except this, that we find ourselves completely unable to conceive space and time, previous to any change, as utterly empty of phenomena which may serve as predecessors and causes of that change? Can he imagine something coming out from nothing? If he cannot, then the weakness of Mr. Cook's metaphysics is evident. Yet if he shall consider himself able to answer these questions and to remain an Intuitionalist, we shall not quarrel with him. But as for the Temple lecturer, it is a mild thing to say this: - Any scholar who pretends to discuss the subject |