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ton, be next addicted himself to the study Of Ger
man, that most difficult of the modern European
tongues and of which the philosophical speech and
nomenclature compose by themselves distinct dia-
lect, comprehensive only to the initiated few; and
in 1917 and 1918 he spent portion of each year in
q making voyage of discovery in Germany itself
At Munich and Heidelberg he met with jacob, and
Schelling and Hegel by whom he was personally
indicted into the mysteries of their respective sys-
TENS, that of the lastnamed being, however as yet
in embryo though rapidly piping its shell, to wit,
the Natare-F h'tosophte OF Schelling, from which
| Hegelianism evolved. On his return to Paris
he resumed the examination Of the Scottish philoso
ply with which he had commenced his lectures
meanwhile maturing his views as to the comparative
merits of the rival German schools In 1890 he
visited Italy in order to collate some manuscripts
necessary to the publication of the inedited works
of Proclus which he had determined to bring to the
light. On his return to France he found the Jesuits
in the ascendant, under the well-remembered admin
isration Of NJ. de Villele Sharing the fate of his
colleagues, Nj. Guizot and Royer-Collard, he was
dismissed from the Faculte DIES Lettres
During the period of this Punishment from the
scene OF his former labors he was not idle Besides
roclus, he now determined to translate the works
of Plato into French using the version of the great
German nationalist, Schleiermacher, as his chief
guide. he also made another trip to Germany, in
the company of his young protege, the Due de Mon
tebello In 1927 he was restored by the Martig-
nae Ministry to his original position The brilliant
success which attended his next public course OBJ
serves Mr. Morell, must be looked upon as forming
the zenith of his renown professor of philoso-
ply Never, perhaps, (without going back to the
days of Abelard was so large concourse assembled
to listen to series of lectures on intellectual philo-
sophy Moreover, when we consider that these
lectures were accompanied by contemporaneous
courses under Guizot and Vileman, which were
listened to with equal ardor, we can hardly fail to
regard the whole as forming in itself a remarkable
era in the literary history Of France.
In 1880 the month of July brought new revo-
luton; Guizot and Villemain vacated the profess
sonal chair and assumed the ministerial bench
under Louis Philippe. Cousin, however, refused
for the present to abandon his favorte studies and
was promoted to the Presidency of the Ecole Nor
male. In 1882 he was made " Peer of France
and in 1910 was appointed Minister of Public In
struction, but held the Office only one year From
that time to the present he has quietly occupied
himself IN labors partly philosophical and partly
literary, collecting his own works. editing various
philosophical writings, and inditing essays for the
Reviews With this brief notice of the great author
of Eclectcism, insert the following observations
on the origin and necessity of the system ITSELF we
quote from the work before u.s.
:" The philosophy which preceded Des Carries was theo-
logy The philosophy of Des Carries is the separation
I'of philosophy from theology it is thus to speak, the
introduction of philosophy upon the stage of the world
under its proper The philosophy of the eighteenth
century is the development of the Caresian in
two opposite systemsthe spritualism of the Scotch
school and of the German school one hand and Eng
ish and French sensaonaism, the other In regard
TO sensationasm, none 90 beyond the eighteenth
century in England and in France Take it at its point
of departure in Locke, follow it to days in its
last representatives and you will nothing is wanting
to this great moyement-psychoogy, metaphysics, mo-
rails politics. history of humanity history of philosophy,
all that great philosophical movement produce
sensatonalism has produced Il only remains to adopt
without the hope Of adding any thing very consd
able to 1T that is II is necessary suppose that phio
sophy is completed that it has no other future than
monoonous repetition of the past and that the human
mind must stop at the of the nineteenth
century. This is important stand to take; and yet
there Is no other for there IS not single great
sequence TO be drawn from the philosophy of sensation
On the other hand who will atter himself in regard TO
idealsm, to beyond the system Of FIGHTER ldeasn,
still weak among the wise but timd philosophers of Scot
land already manifest in the too subjective philosophy
OF KANT has arrived Mt its last term in the absolute sub
eeyity of the doctrine Of Fchte And this doctrine
has received all its possible development, it has had
its psychology its metaphysics its morals its politics, its
history of humanity and Of philosophy it remains to do
by the ideasm Of the school of Kant only what remains
for to do with the sensationasm of the school OF
Locke-that is it is necessary stop it, sleep upon it,
rs it were upon the topmost limit of thought if in
this point of time and space where all truths
had been revealed at least to the human mind and
thing more remained to be sought beyond
"Do you content yourselves with either Of these
two exclusive systems Then you condemn your thought
to immobity or it is necessary to leave the system Of
Kant well that of Locke beyond them and
do, humanity and the world do which l think have
desire to stop at the end Of the eighteenth century Be-
hold yourselves therefore, seeking system. But
seek much you please study PROBE compare all the
systems that have appeared for three thousand years. and
you will see that in the last analysis they may be all
to those which you have just and
sensationasm so that you neither be able TO EN-
brace them yet forsake them 1t is demonstrated tc
you that neither the the other the last effort
OF the human race and is also demonstrabe to you
that there is system which is not reducibe TO
the other OF these two What is then to be done Hav
ing avoided these two vicious solutions Of the problem
namely, the adoption Of or the other of these two
systems, or the tormenng ourselves in search Of
one, which shall be neither the the other more
or less modified arrive at the only solution that is
efthe abandonment of all the exclusive sides by which
the two systems repe each other the adoption Of oil the
truths which they contain and by which they estab
hshed and the Cancellation Of all these truths in point
OF view more elevated and extended than either
system, and which shall be capable of containing them
OF explaining them, and Of completing them both. You
see to what wish to After the subjective ideal
ism Of the school Of Kant after the empiricsm Of the
school Of Locke developed and exhausted to their las
possible results there is in my opinion longer any
other combination than the union of these
ries-l mean apparent conrares-in the centre Of
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