From the Westminster Review.

"There could not be a more vigorous and damaging onslaught on Hamiltonianism than that of Mr. Stirling—the more damaging, because we have here the result of an unprejudiced examination of the writings of that celebrated logician."

From the London Review.

"The author of this second volume under notice, bears a name that stands high in the list of modern philosophical writers. Mr. Stirling's 'Secret of Hegel,' which was noticed in our columns some time back, stamped the writer at once as a man of profound thought, wide erudition, and great independence of view. . . . As we might expect from a critic of Mr. Stirling's subtlety, earnestness, and self-reliance, the scrutiny is very close and unsparing, and we must say that Hamilton's reputation comes out of the trial considerably damaged."

From the British Controversialist.

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"This is the work of a man who is emphatically a thinker. James Hutchison Stirling has written a treatise on 'The Secret of Hegel'—which, we regret to say, we have not read. There is, however, in this harsh-spoken, trenchant, and incisive critique, proof enough of ability to give new, fresh, vigorous thought to the problems of philosophy. The vision and the insight of the man is acute and accurate. The argument against Sir William Hamilton's tenets is put in a more telling form than it has been presented by its author's 'more distinguished contemporary, Mr. Mill;' and as it is less discursive, it is more cogent. eye with which Mr. Stirling has perused the scattered writings of Hamilton has been lynx-like in its fault-seeing. The selective faculty which culled the pertinent extracts to which he refers as embodying the distinct utterances of the doctrine of Hamilton, has been choicely gifted with a sleuth-hound's infallibility of pursuit and seizure, despite of all dodges and evasions. The logical power by which comparisons have been made between passage and passage, thought and thought, is cultured and sharpened to the finest; while the language employed in the discussion is terse, animated, varied, well arranged, and most effectively put together. It would be difficult indeed to mistake the signification of any sentence in the book. Without being

so pedantically scholastic, it is as translucent as Hamilton's. The grasp of his mind is tense, the heat of his passion intense, and the language in which he expresses both is sententious, graphic, and precise."

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AS REGARDS PROTOPLASM;

SECOND COMPLETED EDITION.

From the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.

"The preface is an annihilating reply to the last rejoinder of Mr. Huxley. Indeed the pamphlet as a whole is one of the most powerful polemics ever written."

From the Athenæum.

Clearly and forcibly written, it is distinguished by a fairness of statement and a moderation of tone which are rare in controversies of this sort. If Professor Huxley intended in his essay to propound a complete theory of the physical basis of life, the honours of the controversy must be adjudged to Dr. Stirling."

From "Nature" (Dr. Bastian).

"When one of the most powerful representatives of the transcendental school of philosophy, himself possessing a knowledge of biological science, consents to do battle against the modern doctrines concerning life and its assumed material substratum, protoplasm, we may expect, at least, that the strongest arguments which can be adduced will be brought to bear against the obnoxious theories and their supposed materialistic tendencies. Still more especially must we prepare ourselves for battle à outrance when the champion that steps forward is one who

has already grappled so manfully with the 'Secret of Hegel,' and is otherwise so distinguished a leader amongst the adverse school of thinkers."

From the Watchword.

"We have space for nothing more than a sentence to accord to this splendid tractate the tribute of our highest admiration. It meets the materialism of Huxley at every point, and at every point confutes it by the clearest demonstrations, and by a wonderful surplus of overwhelming argument, at once in physiology, chemistry, logic, and metaphysics."

From the Courant.

"We may just say that Dr. Gamgee, as well as Dr. Beale, bears most emphatic testimony to the completeness and success of Dr. Hutchison Stirling's argument with Mr. Huxley."

From "Force and Matter," by Prof. Arthur Gamgee.

"To enter into a complete discussion of the whole argument would extend far beyond the limits of this lecture, and would serve no useful purpose, more particularly after the very able and exhaustive essay in which one of the leading thinkers in Europe-Dr. Hutchison Stirling-has treated the subject."

From "Protoplasm," by Dr. Beale.

"Since the first edition of this work was published, Mr. Huxley's essay on the 'Physical Basis of Life' has been submitted to a very just but clear and searching philosophical criticism by Mr. James Hutchison Stirling, of Edinburgh, whose excellent treatise I very strongly recommend my readers carefully to study. I should have taken from it many extracts, but the work is easily obtained, and readers should see it in a complete form."

From "Systematic Theology," by Dr. Hodge, of Princeton.

"This is considered to be the best refutation of the theory of the correlation of physical and vital force."

From Dr. John Brown.

"Thanks very much for the knowledge and comfort your ‘As Regards' has given me-it is lion's marrow, and disposes of Huxley and his protoplasm once for all."

From "As regards Protoplasm,” by Dr. Hugh Martin.

"The Edinburgh press has reason to be proud of producing the overwhelming exposure which Hutchison Stirling's splendid and masterly reply contains. While students of physiology will find in Stirling's 'As regards Protoplasm' a much more complete discussion of the physiological question than Huxley has supplied, those interested in the higher philosophy and natural theology will find in it a power of analysis, a cogency and conclusiveness of reasoning, a completeness of treatment, and an occasional beauty in the line of the severe and higher eloquence, which will lead them to deal with it as a charming study rather than as something to be merely perused.”

From "Fallacies of Darwinism," by Dr. Bree.

"It is impossible to read such clear logical reasoning as this without pleasure. Mr. Huxley's lecture upon Protoplasm has been dealt with, unanswerably and unanswered, by Dr. Stirling."

From the Dublin Review.

"As regards Protoplasm' brims over with fact and reasoning, and is at the same time lightly and agreeably written."

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From Sir John Herschel.

Anything more complete and final in the way of refutation than this essay, I cannot well imagine."

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WHEWELL AND HEGEL, AND HEGEL AND
REV. W. R. SMITH:

A Vindication in a Physico-Mathematical Regard.

From the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.

"The first of these lectures is a very entertaining 'Introduction to Philosophy in general,' and the others unfold, step by step, in a style such as only Dr. Stirling can write, the ideas of rights in general, of property, of criminal jurisprudence. They furnish an exceedingly valuable contribution to philosophical literature, and should be largely read in America, now that so much thought is directed towards the foundation-ideas cf government."

From the Journal of Mental Science.

"These admirable lectures upon the Philosophy of Law are not given to the public for the first time in the present volume. Originally delivered before the Juridical Society of Edinburgh, they were published in the 'Journal of Jurisprudence' in the four first months of the current year. From thence they passed into the pages of the 'Journal of Speculative Philosophy,' and are at the present time, we have reason to believe, being reprinted in book form in St. Louis, Missouri. It is satisfactory to find one work which is really valuable, highly thought of-to find that a book, which is in every way admirable, has a real marketable value, and has found favour in the eyes of publishers both in this country and in America. . Further, in

the work before us Dr. Stirling 'falls foul' of Whewell, and shows not only his ignorance of German, but his incapacity for