OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY. VOLUME XVIII. EDITED BY WM. T. HARRIS. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. LONDON: Trübner and Company. 1884. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by WILLIAM T. HARRIS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CONTENTS. Abbot, Francis Ellingwood, The Moral Creativeness of Man,. Anthropology, Problem of, by Ludwig Noiré (Tr.), M. B. Bonner, 337 444 21 121 337 112 S. W. Dyde, 287, 399 224 220 202 439 Bonner, M. B., The Problem of Anthropology by Ludwig Noiré (Tr.), . Bradley's Principles of Logic, Brinton, Dr. D. G., Prospectus of Aboriginal American Literature, Burns-Gibson, J. (book notice), Champlin, Virginia, Notice of “La Revue Philosophique,” Channing, W. E., "Gulshan I Raz," Euripides, Chorus from the Heracles of (Tr.), . Evil, Problem of, A. L. Kym's Treatise analyzed by A. D'Orelli, "6 The Dialectic Unity in Emerson's Prose, Hegelian Dialectic, Prize Essay on, Berlin Philosophical Society, Hegel's Idea of the Nature and Sanction of Law, Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Tr.), . F. L. Soldan, 174, 274 108 Iliad of Homer, D. J. Snider's Study on. (See "Homer's Iliad.'") Immortality of the Soul, C. F. Goeschel on (Tr.), Intellectual Liberty, Rise of, Kimball, William H., Creator and Creature, Kroeger, A. E., J. G. Fichte's Facts of Consciousness (Tr.), Kym's, A. L., Problem of Evil (noticed), Law, Nature and Sanction of (Hegel's Idea of), Mathematical Antinomies and their Solution, Noiré, Ludwig, The Problem of Anthropology (Tr.), Pallen, Condé B., Rosmini's Innate Idea, etc., Platonist, The (second volume), Religion, Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of (Tr.), . Soldan, F. L., Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Tr.), Space of Four Dimensions, Spence Payton, A New Theory of General Ideas, 89, 300, 425 174, 274 George S. Fullerton, 113 366 Wines, Walter B., Hegel's Idea of the Nature and Sanction of Law,. Augustus De Morgan was born, in 1806, in India, where his father was in the East India Company's service. When sixteen years old he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, to pursue mathematics, gaining, in 1825, a Trinity scholarship, and coming out fourth wrangler in 1827. He was prevented from taking his M. A. degree, or from obtaining a Fellowship, by his conscientious objection to signing the theological tests then required at Cambridge. Jevons says: "A strong repugnance to any sectarian restraints upon the freedom of opinion was one of De Morgan's most marked characteristics throughout life." At the age of twenty-two he became professor of mathematics in University College, London. As a teacher, De Morgan was particularly gifted. A voluminous writer on mathematics, he contributed essentially to those expansions of the fundamental conceptions which have rendered possible the new algebras, such as Quaternions and the Ausdehnungslehre, and have generalized the whole idea of a mathematical algorithm or calculus. But it is his logical work that will give De Morgan his most lasting fame. Here he stands alongside of his immortal contemXVIII-1 |