-
Articles/Ads
Article LITERARY NOTICES. ← Page 5 of 6 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
of all the phenomena of which the globe consists ; its structure ; changeability ; inanimate components ; living beings ; vegetable , mineral , liquid and other elementary distributions . The results , indeed , of the laborious researches of every authenticated contributor to the science of natural philosophy ; invaluable maps , with an almost inexhaustible stove of interesting and useful facts . But how much more wonderful are the successful efforts of Air . Blakey ? Tangible things have their boundaries
; thought is illimitable . Physical science is demonstrable , by examination , with comparative ease ; ancl with this manifest advantage / that the proofs are apparent . There can scarcely be a mistake in the distinctions between the animal , vegetable and mineral worlds ; although differences of opinion may exist in their sub divisional classifications . Geographical discoveries , made and confirmed , are practical truths . But mental sciencewhose range comprises the pastthe presentancl the future—the
, , , first great cause , the last great consequence—the attributes of divinity ancl the capabilities of human nature—the intellectual functions of man , individual and aggregate—domestic , social , political , moral and religious duties , deducible from every variety of the reasoning process : to examine these , in every phase , from the theory of the first recorded enquirer to the latest - defining each varying system with such accuracy as may enable an attentive reader to seize on the salient points of knowledge contained
in the whole : this would seem to be beyond the patient industry and individual capacity of any man . Nevertheless , Air . Blakey has achieved it to such an extent , that henceforward , no learner nor professor of the philosophy of the mind , will have occasion to refer to any antecedent authority . . Beyond the contents of these four volumes he need not go .
lo him all languages , but his own , may be as sealed books . He need not vivify the dead , nor master the living . If not a royal , he has here , indeed , a ready road to knowledge . The essential intelligence of thousands of volumes , is made patent to him in four . In short , the arduous application of the greater portion of time , devoted to enquiries of this nature , by Air . Blakey , for a period of twenty years , results in a work , containing- all that can be required in a " History of the Philosophy of the Alind" forprobablycenturies to come .
, , , That our readers may , to some extent , estimate the value of Mr . Blakey ' s labours , we will give a brief sketch of what they comprise . He commences by describing the origin and progress of metaphysics from the earliest period of mental speculation to the commencement of the scholastic philosophy—particularizing in tbe mental philosophy of Greece , tlie Ionic School ( Thales , Anaximander , Diogenes , Anaxagoras , & c . ) ; the Italian School ( Pythagoras ) ; the EleaticSchool ( Zenophanus
, Heraclitus , & c . ) ; the Second Eleatic School ( Empedocles , Democritus , & c ; the Greek Sophists ( Socrates , Protagoras ) ; tbeCyreniemdCynical Schools ; the Schools of Megara , iilis , and Ereirin ( Euclid , Plato , Aristotle ); the Sceptical School ; the . S'to ' ca / SchooI ( Zeno , Chrissipus , & c . ); the Alexandrian School , and its numerous followers . Subsequently is mentioned the Roman School of Moral Philosophy , illustrated ! jy the genius of Cicero and Lucretius . Next come the United Philosophers of India ;
the Gnostic Metaphysicians ; the New Platonists , and the Ancient Fathers of the Church , including Origen , Isidore , Tertullian , St . Augustine , C ' assiodorus , Cyprian , Eusebius , Ambrose , Jerome , and Chrysostom . The Arabian Metaphysicians ; the Persian Sophists ; the Cabalistic Me : apbysicians ; the Philosophers of tbe Jews ( Eben Ezra , Aloses Maimonides & c . ) and the Aletaphysiciansof the Saxons , such as
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
of all the phenomena of which the globe consists ; its structure ; changeability ; inanimate components ; living beings ; vegetable , mineral , liquid and other elementary distributions . The results , indeed , of the laborious researches of every authenticated contributor to the science of natural philosophy ; invaluable maps , with an almost inexhaustible stove of interesting and useful facts . But how much more wonderful are the successful efforts of Air . Blakey ? Tangible things have their boundaries
; thought is illimitable . Physical science is demonstrable , by examination , with comparative ease ; ancl with this manifest advantage / that the proofs are apparent . There can scarcely be a mistake in the distinctions between the animal , vegetable and mineral worlds ; although differences of opinion may exist in their sub divisional classifications . Geographical discoveries , made and confirmed , are practical truths . But mental sciencewhose range comprises the pastthe presentancl the future—the
, , , first great cause , the last great consequence—the attributes of divinity ancl the capabilities of human nature—the intellectual functions of man , individual and aggregate—domestic , social , political , moral and religious duties , deducible from every variety of the reasoning process : to examine these , in every phase , from the theory of the first recorded enquirer to the latest - defining each varying system with such accuracy as may enable an attentive reader to seize on the salient points of knowledge contained
in the whole : this would seem to be beyond the patient industry and individual capacity of any man . Nevertheless , Air . Blakey has achieved it to such an extent , that henceforward , no learner nor professor of the philosophy of the mind , will have occasion to refer to any antecedent authority . . Beyond the contents of these four volumes he need not go .
lo him all languages , but his own , may be as sealed books . He need not vivify the dead , nor master the living . If not a royal , he has here , indeed , a ready road to knowledge . The essential intelligence of thousands of volumes , is made patent to him in four . In short , the arduous application of the greater portion of time , devoted to enquiries of this nature , by Air . Blakey , for a period of twenty years , results in a work , containing- all that can be required in a " History of the Philosophy of the Alind" forprobablycenturies to come .
, , , That our readers may , to some extent , estimate the value of Mr . Blakey ' s labours , we will give a brief sketch of what they comprise . He commences by describing the origin and progress of metaphysics from the earliest period of mental speculation to the commencement of the scholastic philosophy—particularizing in tbe mental philosophy of Greece , tlie Ionic School ( Thales , Anaximander , Diogenes , Anaxagoras , & c . ) ; the Italian School ( Pythagoras ) ; the EleaticSchool ( Zenophanus
, Heraclitus , & c . ) ; the Second Eleatic School ( Empedocles , Democritus , & c ; the Greek Sophists ( Socrates , Protagoras ) ; tbeCyreniemdCynical Schools ; the Schools of Megara , iilis , and Ereirin ( Euclid , Plato , Aristotle ); the Sceptical School ; the . S'to ' ca / SchooI ( Zeno , Chrissipus , & c . ); the Alexandrian School , and its numerous followers . Subsequently is mentioned the Roman School of Moral Philosophy , illustrated ! jy the genius of Cicero and Lucretius . Next come the United Philosophers of India ;
the Gnostic Metaphysicians ; the New Platonists , and the Ancient Fathers of the Church , including Origen , Isidore , Tertullian , St . Augustine , C ' assiodorus , Cyprian , Eusebius , Ambrose , Jerome , and Chrysostom . The Arabian Metaphysicians ; the Persian Sophists ; the Cabalistic Me : apbysicians ; the Philosophers of tbe Jews ( Eben Ezra , Aloses Maimonides & c . ) and the Aletaphysiciansof the Saxons , such as