Leaving the religion to develop itself in the future, let us ascertain what we have without it in the philosophic system. Within, we have a prolonged series of feelings; without, we have a possibility of sensations; both regulated by the most unbending laws of necessity, within the limits of experience and a reasonable distance beyond; and beyond that beyond-if there be such-a land of darkness and eternal silence. This is the cold region into which thought, as it moves on in its orbit, has brought us, in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. And is this, then, what is left us after all the dialectic conflicts, and as the result of all the scientific discoveries of the last two thousand five hundred years that have elapsed since reflective thought was awakened? We know how keenly some patriotic and high-minded Frenchmen feel when they are obliged to contemplate the present state of their country, and to confess how great the humiliation implied in the bloody revolutions through which they have passed, ending in a military despotism, which restrains on all hands liberty of thought and action. I am sure that a like feeling will rise up in many noble and hopeful minds when they are made to see that all these discussions, philosophic and religious, in the past, that all these throes and convulsions of opinion and sentiment have left us only a series of feelings and a possibility of sensations, beginning we know not with what, and carrying us we know not whither,— all that we are sure of being, that the sensations and feelings are conveyed along pleasantly or unpleasantly, and ranged into companies suitably or unsuitably, and

our very beliefs generated, by a fatalistic law of contiguity and resemblance. Some may be content with this lot, as being caught in the toils and despairing of an escape but there will be others-I venture to say nobler and better-who feel that they must be delivered from this mental bondage at all hazards, and will hasten to attempt it even at the risk of new conflicts and new revolutions. It should not after all be so difficult for humble and sincere men to escape from this net which sophistry would weave around them. Let them follow those intuitions and ultimate beliefs, the existence and the veracity of which Mr. Mill has acknowledged-while he has declined to pursue them to their consequences; let them gather around them a body of acquired observations with their appropriate sentiments; and, as they do so, they will reach a body of truth, practical, scientific, and religious, sufficient to stay the intellect and satisfy the heart,-while what still remains unknown will only incite to further explorations, and lead to new discoveries.

APPENDIX.

SIR W. HAMILTON'S PHILOSOPHY.-See p. 13.

I HAVE taken exception to certain doctrines of Hamilton in the Method of Divine Government (M. D. G.); in the North British Review, Nos. liv. and lix. (N. B. R.); in Dublin University Magazine, Aug. 1859 (D. U. M.); in Intuitions of the Mind (1. M.); in Supernatural in Relation to Natural (s. N.); in Appendix to Stewart's Outlines (s. o.); and now in this work (D. F. T.)

1. His Method.-N.B. R. liv. 427; I.M. 96; D.F.t. 34. 2. His ambiguous use of Consciousness.-N. B.R. liv. 428;. D.U.M. 159, 160; I.M. 96; d.f.t. 25-30.

3. His omission among the Reproductive Powers (Metaph. vol. ii.), of the Recognitive Power by which we believe the remembered event to have fallen under our notice in time past.-D.U.M. 160; D.F.T. 174.

- 4 His view of Time and Space.-N.B.R. liv. 429; I.M. 178, 179.

- 5. His doctrine of Unconscious Mental Operations.—D.U.M. 161, 162; D.F. T. 196-198.

6. His unsatisfactory way of appealing to Faith without explaining its nature.-N.B.R. lix. 150, 151; I.M. 168-173 ; S.N. 355.

7. His view of all Knowledge implying Comparison.—I.M.

207-210; D.F.t. 222.

-8. His defective view of the Relations which the mind can discover.-D.U.M. 162, 163; I.M. 211.

9. His doctrine of the Relativity of Knowledge.--M.D.G. 536-539; N.B.R. liv. 428-429; D.U.M. 163, 164; I.M. 109, 340-341; s.o. 132; D.F.T. 218-221.

10. His doctrine of Nescience.-M.D.G. 520; N.B.R. liv. 430-431; I.M. 342-345; D.F.t. 219.

11. His defective doctrine as to our idea of the Infinite.M.D.G. 534; N.B.R. liv. 430, lix. 150, 154, 156:

I.M. 193-197; s.N. 141.

12. His axiom that truth lies between two extremes.—I.M. 304, 338.

13. His doctrine of Substance.-I.M. 146, 148.

14. His doctrine of Causation.-M.D.G. 529, 530; N.B.R. liv. 430; D.U.M. 164.

15. The application by Dr. Mansel of the doctrine of Relativity to Moral Good and Evil.-N.B.R. lix. 157; s.N. 356, 357.

16. His view of the Theistic Argument.-M.D.G. 520; N.B.R. liv. 431, lix. 152; s.N. 355; s.o. 140.

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