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Excerpt from Darwinianism: Workmen and Work Perhaps it may be thought that, on the whole, I might very well have spared myself this small venture, but the truth is that, days, weeks, months, years, I have remained so assiduously by these matters, that I cannot but seem to myself to be still burthened with a certain responsibility in their regard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from Sir William Hamilton, Being the Philosophy of Perception: An Analysis It is to be said, at the same time, that the surprise at my own results, together with the resistance to these results which I met with at the hands of two of Sir William Hamilton's most competent and admiring students, in whose society the relative study was pretty much carried on, threw me so often back on the duty of re-investigation that, in the end, it was...

Excerpt from The Secret of Hegel, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter IN intruding on the Public with a work on Hegel, the first duty that seems to offer, is, to come to an understanding with it as regards the prepossessions which commonly obtain, it is to be feared, not only as against the particular writer named, but as against the whole body of what is called German Philosophy. It will be readily a...

Excerpt from The Mineral Structure of Some Victorian Rocks The rocks examined by me may be classed as follows. (In the following remarks I have described the rocks according to their occurrence in the several localities examined.) Rocks of the Coal District of S. Gippsland: - During the progress of the surveys of the coal-bearing areas in South Gippsland, samples of the sedimentary rocks of different localities were collected to illustrate t...

Excerpt from As Regards Protoplasm, Vol. 2: In Reference to Mr. Huxley's Second Issue, and of Preface, in Reply to Mr. Huxley in "Yeast, " When this Essay was first published, the following was the prefatory note (October 1869): - "The substance of the greater part of this paper, which has been in the present form for some time, was delivered, as a lecture, at a Conversazione of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, in the Hall of th...

Excerpt from Lectures Philosophy of Law Together With Whewell and Hegel and Mr. And Hegel Smith: A Vindication Smith, a Vindication in Regard These Lectures will, among other things, give, it is hoped, intelligence to all this, - precisely the assistance, perhaps, or even the revelation that is wanted, otherwise I shall have to confess to some disappointment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Excerpt from Of Philosophy in the Poets: Opening Lecture to the Edinburgh University Philosophical Society, November 5, Session 1884-5 While apologizing for the too evidently partial nature of this Lecture, I cannot let it leave my hands without a word of grief for the painful news just learned of the sad loss to the University and all of us of one of the kindest and friendliest voices that, on the evening in question, was heard in its refere...

Excerpt from What Is Thought?: Or the Problem of Philosophy by Way of a General Conclusion So Far The Ontological Proof - Schelling - Descartes Leibnitz The Argument Leibnitz Again The n.b. If. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from Trade Unionism, 1889: With Remarks on the Report of the Commissioners on Trades UnionsParliament having now undertaken to legislate in regard to Trades' Unions, it may be well to enquire, what has been the net result of the late investigations into that subject, and whether any principle has been evolved, which may serve as a guide for the Legislature in their deliberations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Excerpt from The Categories The latter has such expressions as these -ego and Thought are the same - Ego is Thought - every man is an entire world Of ideas which are buried in the night Of the Ego - Ego is the universal into which every particular is negated and absorbed - I or Me, sounds trivial, but it is not so to re¿ection. The brute cannot say I, but only the man, for man is Thought. Then Kant, I have already quoted him elsewhere to say:...

Excerpt from Burns in Drama, Together With Saved Leaves Mrs. Burness. But listen, sir! Surely it's no the bread o' idleness that's eaten in this house, surely it's neither what we put in us, nor what we put on us, that keeps us in your debt. We sleep little, and we work meikle. We strive and we strain, we hain and we kain, and we scrimp ourselves o' the very necessars o' life that we may be burthenless and blameless before God and before man....

Excerpt from The Secret of Hegel, Vol. 2 of 2: The Hegelian System, Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter The language just encountered must appear strange to the uninitiated English reader, and, perhaps, he may be inclined to attribute the circumstance to imperfection of translation. Let him be assured, how ever, that in German, and to the German student who approaches Hegel for the first time, the strangeness of the initiatory reception is ha...

Excerpt from Jerrold, Tennyson: And Macaulay, With Other Critical Essays The Life of Douglas Jerrold, by his son, is an excellent performance. Gracefully affectionate, gracefully filial, it is at the same time candid, modest, and truthful If one feels always that it is a reverent and loving son that speaks, one feels also that it is a sincere and loyal man. In both respects, indeed, there is that in the book that endears the writer to the rea...

Excerpt from The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form and MatterTunas has been a desire expressed that this book should not be altered - ia the fear that alteration would spoil it] My regret is that, in the way of alteration, where so much was required, so little was possible. There certainly has been the attempt - a most anxious and painful one - to mitigate for the reader, in translation and commentary, the u...

Excerpt from The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries, and Their Probable Consequences, Or an Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals The Discoveries of Gold which have been made in California, and, more recently, in our own Australasian Colonies, are well fitted to attract attention in a commercial country like ours, and, as might have been expected, we have had no reason to complain of ...

Excerpt from Text-Book to Kant, the Critique of Pure Reason: Aesthetic, Categories, Schematism, Translation, Reproduction, Commentary, Index With Biographical Sketch For such reason (indicated) it is, then, that this book is named, Text-book to Kant. The Translation has been executed with every care, and notes have been added in explanation or correction of the text. Existing translations have neither been now referred to, nor at any time, i...

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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Trade: Or Outlines of a Theory of Profits and Prices, Including an Examination of the Principles Which Determine the Relative Value of Corn, Labour, and CurrencyI have presumed to undertake, I have tried to execute honestly and in good faith. Where ever Truth has appeared to lead, I have endeav oured resolutely but reverenti ally to follow, though, by pursuing this course, I have fre quen tly arrived at conclusio...