Necessity of principles founded in the reason as the basis of all genuine expedience. Essays XIV-XVI. pp. 95-118. Historic parallels. Essays I. and II. pp. 121-134. Theory of Apparitions. Essay III. pp. 134-137. Review of the work and prospect. Essay IV. pp. 137-142. On the Reason and the Understanding. Essay V. pp. 143–150. ESSAY XIV. Clearness of conceptions in the understanding essential to purity in the will: duty of commu nicating knowledge. XV. Right use of metaphysic reasoning: principles founded in reason the sole root of prudence: distinctive powers of the human mind. XVI. Supremacy of the reason: power given by acting on principle: falsehood and unworthiness of modern principles in taste, morals, and religion. FIRST LANDING-PLACE. ESSAYS I-V. pp. 121-150. I. Voltaire and Erasmus: Rousseau and Luther. III. Theory to explain Luther's visions: apostrophe on IV. Purpose of the Landing-Places: summary of the preceding essays: use of the term "reason." V. Do. continued: the reason and the understanding distinguished: their mutual and necessary rela tion: eduction of the conscience. FIRST SECTION. ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE. Three systems of political justice, or Three theories on the origin of Government. Essays I-V. pp. 153-202, ESSAYS I-XVI. pp. 153-307. I. System of Hobbes: fear and the force of custom: confutation. II. Do. continued: spirit of law: use of the phrase, "original contract." III System of expedience and prudence-adopted system of the pure reason: motives for exposing its falsehood. IV. Statement of the system: Rousseau's "Social Con tract," and Paine's "Rights of Man:" French physiocratic philosophers: Cartwright: confutation. V. Cartwright; party-spirit: Jacobins and Anti-Jacobins: inju licious treatment of the former by the latter. Personal retrospect. Essay VI. pp. 203-207. Political Reform. Essays VII-IX. pp. 208-238. International Law. Essays X-XIV. pp. 239-284. Principles of political conduct. Essay XV. pp. 285-296. True love of liberty. Essay XVI. pp. 296-307. ESSAY VI. The author never a Jacobin: pantisocracy: peace of Amiens, its character and good effects. VIL Vulgar errors respecting taxes and taxation: true principles: national debt. VIII. Classes of political reformers: elective franchise. IX. Catechism preparatory to examination of the principles of the English Government: letter of Decatur's, and anecdotes illustrative of principles X. Review of circumstances which led to the peace of Amiens, and recommencement of the war, especially with regard to the occupation of Malta, -introductory to, and as commentary on, the subject of international law. XI. Interposed in vindication of freedom of thought, and of the duty of searching out, and abiding by, the truth: reason and faith: extracts from Taylor and Bedell. XIII. Law of nations: cosmopolitism and nationality. XIV. Law of nations continued: modern political economy: balance of European power: allegoric fable on the seizure of the Danish fleet: defence of the principle. XV. Doctrine of general consequences as the best criterion of the right or wrong of particular actions not tenable in reason, or safe in practice. XVI. Address delivered at Bristol in 1795. Miseries of misgovernment in a country nominally free. Essay I. pp. 311-326. Principles of true biography. Essay II. pp. 326-332. Miscellaneous. Essays III. and IV. pp. 333-343. SECOND LANDING-PLACE. ESSAYS I-IV. pp. 311-343. I. Tale of Maria Eleonora Schöning. II. Spirit of anecdote-mongering condemned: extract III. Fable of Irus (Bonaparte) and Toxaris: Christ SECOND SECTION. ON THE GROUNDS OF MORALS AND RELIGION, AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND REQUISITE FOR A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SAME. Introduction. pp. 347-375. Dignity and necessity of speculative philosophy, and a history of its decline. Essays I-III. pp. 376-407. Principles of the Science of Method. Essays IV-XI. pp. 408-472. ESSAY ESSAYS I-XI. pp. 347–472. Letter from Mathetes (Professor Wilson and Mr. A. Blair): internal and external difficulties to a mind endeavoring to establish itself on sure principles, moral and intellectual: answered by The Friend (Mr. Wordsworth): advice and caution. I. Relation of morality and religion: pamphlets of III. Greek sophists: their character and principles: IV. Method, in the will and in the understanding: illustrated from Shakspeare: founded on observation of relations of things: want and excess of generalization: necessity of a mental initiative: definition of method. V. Two kinds of relations in which objects of mind may be considered: 1. Law: synthetic and analytic process: Plato's view. VI. 2. Theory: method in the fine arts intermediate: poetry and music: mental initiative in botany: history and estimate of the science in chemistry. VII. Intention of Plato's writings: zoology and John Hunter: theory can not supply the principle of method: nor hypothesis: necessity of an idea: contrast between the state of science as to electricity and magnetism: law of polarity. VIII. True character of Plato: Aristotle: unpleasant side of Bacon's character: Hooke: Kepler: Tycho Brahe: reconcilement of the Platonic and Baconian methods. IX. Investigation of the Baconian method: shown to be essentially one with the Platonic, but in a dif ferent direction: method the guiding light in education and cultivation. Principles of the Science of Method. (continued.) Existence of luck or fortune under the Christian scheme. Essay I. pp. 475-478. Notices of the life and character of Sir Alexander Ball, and of the circumstances of the English occupation of Malta. Essays II-VI. pp. 479-522. ESSAY X. Existence of a self-organizing purpose in nature and man: illustrated: operation of this idea in the history of mankind: patriarchal state: corrupted into a polytheism: early Greeks: their idolatry checked by the physical theology of the mysteries: portion which they represented of the education of man: their discoveries in the region of the pure intellect and success in the arts of imagination contrasted with their crude essays in the investigation of physical laws and phænomena: Romans: Hebrews the mid-point of a line, towards which the Greeks as the ideal, and the Romans as the material, pole were approximating,-Christianity the synthesis. XI. Trade and Literature essential to a nation: consequences of the commercial spirit preponderating: difference of ultimate aims in men and nations: evidence of objective reality in man himself: nature and man, union and difference: mere being in its essence: the idea, whence originated: revelation: God: the material world made for man: universal laws for the whole tempered by particular laws for the individual in nature and man: causation: invisible nexus: ground of union: difference between the reason and the understanding: what they can respectively achieve: method of the will: religious faith. THIRD LANDING-PLACE. ESSAYS I-VI. pp. 475–522. I. Fortune favors fools: different meanings of the proverb: luck has a real existence in human affairs: how: invidious use of the phrase. II. Impression left by Sir A. B. on the author: state III. Personal memoir of Sir A. B.: anecdotes of him. V. Ball's habits of mind: conduct during the siege of Valetta behavior of English to foreigners: Ball's decisive conduct with the court of Naples : unjust and unwise treatment of the Maltese by the British government. VI. Ball's popularity in Malta: jealousy of him in the government: discussion of the importance of Malta to this country. APPENDIX.. ..525 |