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commentators of Hegel that we have yet seen, Mr. Stirling can always be understood by an intelligent and attentive reader. He writes as if he wished to make himself plain to the meanest capacity, and he has a facility of language and illustration which lights up the driest and most abstract reasonings of his master."

From the Temperance Spectator.

"A great book has just been published, entitled 'The Secret of Hegel,' which, sooner or later, must attract the attention, and influence the conclusions, of true thinkers."

From the Weekly Despatch.

"A very elaborate, conscientious, and earnest work. We express our high estimation of the ability and research displayed in it."

From the John Bull.

"If anything can make Hegel's 'complete Logic' acceptable to the English mind, such faith and industry as Mr. Stirling's must succeed. Those who wish to form a complete survey of the great field of German philosophy will do well to study these volumes."

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From the London Review.

"We welcome most cordially these volumes.

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which is the monument of so much labour, erudition, perseverance, and thought."

From the Athenæum.

"To say that this is by far the most important work written in the English language on any phase of the post-Kantian philosophy of Germany would be saying very little. One of the most remarkable works on philosophy that has been seen for years."

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From the Churchman.

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"The book itself is of much value, especially at the present time. . . It will repay those well who will give the necessary attention to its reading. We have to thank Mr. Stirling for setting these obscure dicta in as clear a light as they can be set in, and making them as intelligible as they can be made.”

From the Eclectic Review.

"All readers who have the taste and patience necessary for the encountering such tasks will be glad to receive Mr. Stirling's exposition. We have read it with deep interest. It was a very tough task, and he has wrought it in a determined and intelligent manner."

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From the Westminster Review.

Has approached nearer to an intelligible exposition of the Hegelian philosophy than has yet been accomplished in England. The Preface a remarkably vigorous and masterful piece of writing-the book able in the highest degree."

From the Globe.

"Mr. Stirling has certainly done much to help the English student. . . He is a writer of power and fire—original, bold, self-reliant, and with a wealth of knowledge and thought that must soon make him distinguished among the teachers of the teachers of this country.

From Professor Masson.

"The book deserves a cordial welcome."

From Mr. Cupples.

"The whole work is in my view a masterpiece—a great book. The style, manner, method, and art of it enchant me-to use a loose expression among general terms. I consider it to be completely successful in what it proposes to do. Its appearance should constitute an era at once in the literary and the philosophical aspect. The ease and fulness of philosophical expression in it-the power and wealth of illustration, comparison, assimilation, analogy, metaphor, literary filling out and accommodation, and finish—are to my mind unique. The labour, the patience the instinct for truth and for metaphysical tracks and trails-the constant connection with life-the explanatory method of resuming and taking up, so that the reader is taught without almost any stress on his own thought-these things continually rouse my admiration and delight. The whole book is colossal—a wonder of work. The style of it is unique in raciness, original

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force, and utterly unaffected prodigality of wealth--expository, ratiocinative, illustrative, literary, familiar, discursive. characterisations of the man Hegel are delicia of literary touch."

From the Caledonian Mercury.

"Whatever may be said of the speculative German himself, the ability of his expositor is superior to question. Mr. Stirling has brought to his work an able and instructed mind, and an unwavering confidence in the power and majesty of his master. He is in himself a host of critics and disciples."

From the Scotsman.

"The critic, the historian, the sociologist, the physiologist, the student of natural science, will find ideas in exploring after the secret of Hegel that will be useful in arresting other secrets."

From the North American Review.

"The author is a man of classical accomplishments, of the sturdiest and, at the same time, keenest intellectual faculty, of imagination enough to stock an aviary of popular poets."

From the British Controversialist.

"It is granted to few in any age--and especially in this age of critical rather than of effective thought-to gain by a single effort the highest place in any department of literature. This rare feat has been accomplished by James Hutchison Stirling. To him 'familiarity has been converted into insight; the toils of speculation have made him strong; and the results of speculation have made him wise.' thinking seemed exhausted, and panting souls toiled after truth At a time when philosophic apparently in vain; when realism and psychology appeared to be triumphant over idealism and metaphysic; when the diviner element in man was losing the consciousness of itself, and had begun to be ignored in speculations upon human nature; and when the outward forms of Being looked as if they were certain not only to win, but to monopolise the entire attention of mankind--one arose, suddenly as an apparition, capable of changing all that. A philosopher in good truth-one who, stirred by the love of wisdom, had toiled long and longingly to acquire a

knowledge of the hidden roots of thoughtful life, and who, unrestingly though unhastingly, devoted the vigour of manhood's prime to that researchful study which alone repays the thinker with revelations-came forth from the seclusion of a selfimposed discipleship to lay upon the library table of reflective men the results of a 'ten years' conflict' with the mighty mysteries of human thought and feeling. Solid, judicious, and capable men saw in the book matter for profound consideration, and determined to bestow on it a loving perusal and a careful judgment. The value of the book is so great that

merely to read it is an education in philosophy."

From Der deutsche Pionier of Cincinnati.

"So blieben die Sachen stehen bis vor ungefähr einem Jahrzent als zu gleicher Zeit in England und in America dem Studium deutscher Philosophie ein neuer bisher unerreichter Aufschwung gegeben ward in England geschah diess namentlich durch J. Hutchison Stirling."

From the Troy (U.S.A.) Daily Press.

"Dr. James Hutchison Stirling, the newest and deepest thinker of Great Britain, has for the first time reproduced German philosophy, with sufficient insight and culture to render it thoroughly intelligible. Dr. Stirling has not only proved that such men as Kant and Hegel understood themselves, but he has duly scalped the quacks who have met transcendentalism with sneers instead of brains."

From Letter of Prof. Rosenkranz to Journ. Sp. Phil. "In an article, 'Theism and Pantheism,' you have, in speaking of Hegel, adopted an interpretation of his system to which I adhere, and which is also represented on the part of the English by Dr. Stirling (‘Secret of Hegel'). Hegel not only does not deny God, freedom, and immortality, but he teaches them as the highest consequences of his speculation. He rejects atheism and pantheism in the clearest words. Freedom is the soul of his ethical view of the world. In regard to immortality he has nowhere propounded a credo in catechism form; but the manner in which he expresses himself in his 'Philosophy of Religion,' in treating of the Egyptian religion, can surely leave no doubt on the subject."

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From the Scotsman.

"Mr. Stirling has published a separate thin volume, justifying his hostile criticisms by details, and dealing altogether a blow to the reputation of Sir W. Hamilton's doctrine of perception more ponderous than that dealt by Mr. Mill; for it is a blow struck from a higher altitude, and directed by an eye that commands a wider range than Mr. Mill's.

From the Aberdeen Journal.

"Mr. Stirling's works in exposition of the Hegelian philosophy stamped him as a writer of the first rank on philosopical subjects. . . We unreservedly give Mr. Stirling high praise as a controversialist; he had already earned his laurels as an expositor in the field of philosophy. His vision is large, clear, and minute; and as a mental anatomist, he cuts neatly, cleanly, and to the core."

From the Glasgow Herald.

"We place a very high value upon this analysis. It shows that the author writes from fulness of knowledge, and after a careful thought; and it also exhibits ingenuity, dexterity, clear decided convictions, and vigorous expression."

From the Guardian.

"It is the genuine product of a peculiar mind which is really original and thoughtful."

From the Edinburgh Courant.

"His knowledge of metaphysical subjects is plainly thorough and extensive; and his book, as it stands, will very well reward the attention of the student."

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