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Literary Notices.
Alcuin and the A ' enerable Bede . He then carries the sciences down to the period of Locke—recording the labours of the Scholastic Metaphysicians ( Lanfrauc , St . Thomas Aquinas , St . Bonaventure , Duns Scotus , & c . ) ; and on the appearance of Dante , Raymond Lully , Erasmus , Cornelius Agrippa , Paracelsus , Luther , Calvin , Alelancthon , Knox , Lord Bacon , Hobbes , Montaigne , Descartes , Pascal , Malebranche , Spinoza , Bossuet , Huygens , Fenelon , Fontenelle , Leibnitz , ancl John
Locke . Next he proceeds as far as the first French Revolution at the close of the last century , particularizing such men as AA ollaston , Butler , Stillingfleet , Bayle , Al tiller , Berkeley , Hume , Rosseau , Turgot , D'Alembert , Reid , Home Tooke , Diderot , A ' oltaire , Helvetius , Hartley , Priestly , Darwin , Fergusson , Emmanuel Kant , Volney , Condorcet , and Cabanis ; and concludes with the present time , detailing the labours of Dugald Stewart , Thomas Brown , Coleridge , AVhewell , Alacintosh , Schlegel , Fitche , Royer Collard , Lamennais , Buchez , Benjamin Constant , Brissot , Victor Cousin , Claude Henri , Count de St . Simon , Charles Fourier , Pierre Leroux , Tommassco , Gioberti , Afamiani , Van de AA ' eyer , and
Emerson . Safely , then , may we recommend this accumulation of ideas , and condensation of opinions , to whoever would become either cursoril y acquainted , or fully informed , with respect to this ever-teeming subject . Any one part may be referred to , where an authority is sought by the doubting student ; the whole is indispensable even to the admitted professor . But we must not he supposed , by these remarks , to subscribe to all the dicta of the author . AVhat he has brought together of the
emanations of others , deserves warmer praise than we can expresshigher honour than we can confer . But from many of his own , individual , deductions , we unquestionably dissent : from his dissertation on phrenology , for instance . On some future occasion we may venture to join issue with him on such debateable grounds . Our want of faith , however , in Mr . Blakey , as a philosopher , cannot warrant us in denying to him what is honestly his due , as the historian of mental philosophy .
Fine Arts.
FINE ARTS .
Illustrated Tracing Board . By Bro . Harris . Spencer . The tracing board for the Third Degree being now completed , we have only to recommend the spirited artist , Bro . Harris , to the Craft as one who has kept pace with the masonic improvement of the age ; and in the work now presented , has earned for himself a reputation of deservedly high standing .
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Literary Notices.
Alcuin and the A ' enerable Bede . He then carries the sciences down to the period of Locke—recording the labours of the Scholastic Metaphysicians ( Lanfrauc , St . Thomas Aquinas , St . Bonaventure , Duns Scotus , & c . ) ; and on the appearance of Dante , Raymond Lully , Erasmus , Cornelius Agrippa , Paracelsus , Luther , Calvin , Alelancthon , Knox , Lord Bacon , Hobbes , Montaigne , Descartes , Pascal , Malebranche , Spinoza , Bossuet , Huygens , Fenelon , Fontenelle , Leibnitz , ancl John
Locke . Next he proceeds as far as the first French Revolution at the close of the last century , particularizing such men as AA ollaston , Butler , Stillingfleet , Bayle , Al tiller , Berkeley , Hume , Rosseau , Turgot , D'Alembert , Reid , Home Tooke , Diderot , A ' oltaire , Helvetius , Hartley , Priestly , Darwin , Fergusson , Emmanuel Kant , Volney , Condorcet , and Cabanis ; and concludes with the present time , detailing the labours of Dugald Stewart , Thomas Brown , Coleridge , AVhewell , Alacintosh , Schlegel , Fitche , Royer Collard , Lamennais , Buchez , Benjamin Constant , Brissot , Victor Cousin , Claude Henri , Count de St . Simon , Charles Fourier , Pierre Leroux , Tommassco , Gioberti , Afamiani , Van de AA ' eyer , and
Emerson . Safely , then , may we recommend this accumulation of ideas , and condensation of opinions , to whoever would become either cursoril y acquainted , or fully informed , with respect to this ever-teeming subject . Any one part may be referred to , where an authority is sought by the doubting student ; the whole is indispensable even to the admitted professor . But we must not he supposed , by these remarks , to subscribe to all the dicta of the author . AVhat he has brought together of the
emanations of others , deserves warmer praise than we can expresshigher honour than we can confer . But from many of his own , individual , deductions , we unquestionably dissent : from his dissertation on phrenology , for instance . On some future occasion we may venture to join issue with him on such debateable grounds . Our want of faith , however , in Mr . Blakey , as a philosopher , cannot warrant us in denying to him what is honestly his due , as the historian of mental philosophy .
Fine Arts.
FINE ARTS .
Illustrated Tracing Board . By Bro . Harris . Spencer . The tracing board for the Third Degree being now completed , we have only to recommend the spirited artist , Bro . Harris , to the Craft as one who has kept pace with the masonic improvement of the age ; and in the work now presented , has earned for himself a reputation of deservedly high standing .