New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-06

Seeming are .ser.asl AppssrAncs n oeHs
,hsu 4. ehA1s., uuler the ItIsrce % ehsii-'
TRACTION or sfei:y, or from o:ner causes !
ta:.s or 81 oniy pFt0r' on Nu'0h ~ -.
.re founded. Ns.aTs .sys me iozndation' .os"
;Le superstTgcture. us!,ner me one nor 'He 0'"''
.abj.ci 20 0sT ~-L-
The revelation OF beng. "a doubled within Us
r,,ry ,s.,os a. ,lere Az. Outside Oi -, - uany
,bon,bs 40 a, discover within us henoe two sef'ss
u c.nsera phenomena, internal and e1'erna'
rbvs;c,l .nd Intellectual. Perception - tae nrs'"
ot thought the VISION Of external and inie'nA- o-
II, sffirms that which sppeGrs. Given perception
~ 20 beyond; reflect, se compare, we aostiso''
We gereralze ara 81 tins Is thought. The elements
Of tnoush ht correspond 70 the elements OF obects-a
which appears in natnre, appears also IN tAe iniee'
pt.Iec. II the mirror OF nature. In 'houghtthere' as
II things. e1is, individuals and genera g. sensa-
tons arG tess-both acquired uDreducabie and indi-
visible eemen.s Ideas acquired once hsve TO be re-
,ccui-.d--i T., drawn from every thought every per
e.p:on then only csn they be called abstract, aud
d. bv mean. 0: ab.rac:ions that generalization are
reached.
Tbon,h.. by neans u perception, sfiirms wns' ap-
p.ars: by means Of reflection, sflrms that "hcn
ough, 20 appear, proceeding from the known 20 tue
unknown. from premises TO consequences. Given tne
thought i.s movemen. leads 20 system ohsnce does
70, dominate thought. The unity Of our orgahila-
tiops dominates the variety Of appearances.
Error commences when thought departs from reaity'
when dissdence arises between logic ana na'ute
logic aims a. mathematical Judgment n'ure JUDGES
Arbitrarily. Al the moment in which think, ns'ure
changes. heroe my thought grows old, before the
eternal youth of a nature always new. Error l. re-
naired by fresh arrangement Of our thought, sug
ees.ed by the revelation which is extended thus our
intelligence rect6es itself, forming fresh system
which tske. the place OF the former.
Nsv,r.hesss. intelligence remsips systematic
,b,ouchout the indefinite series of dogmas which It
accents and leaves behind. The actual system Is
true but it is a relative, therefore mu,able truth
Society is system, ard passes from to all possible
.y.tems. Ns,ure forces men into Society Society IS
man. who cannot tolerate contradictions, who ever
STRUGGLES 70 exclude them who desires order in ideas
order in the revelation OF nature The unity OF the
bnmsn race ia the hypothesis of our life, which evil
IDENTIFY aspres at universal association. This IL de-
duced, not only from the revelation OF lite and 0i
Justice. but also from the revelation of beings who
suffice of themselves to attract Us toward humanity oy
the material impulse of inventions, discoveries, of
arts, and of industry. Applying hstheory to history
he deduces that ideal history is one, eternal in which
the particular histories Of all nations take place IN
time. Each people lives on condition of representing
one Of the moments of ideal life fast or slow, OBJ
.cure or glorious il cannot withdraw from the eternal
life OF all the peoples. Ideal history from all
points of the earth leads to humanity the diversity
of worship issues from It's epochs each worship is
phase of the series of systems and is step toward
ff..tn
Of huns nifty There ere epochs of social incredu-
lty in history; ncredulty, ike imposture, is an ind
yiduai phenonenon. What society has ever ele-
waited doubt 70 principle Athwart the change Of
dogmas, truth progresses, verified by realitynever
by abstract criterion. From China to the Uoited
States We see in diveree countries the diverse mo-
ments of the eternal history of systems displayed
the germs of which exist in the mind of every man.
Historical Providence is TO be found, therefore, in
our thought, which, starting from the data OF our
organisation progresses it is TO be found uniform
in all people, and conducts men gradually toward
the only system in which the arrangement of appear
snces longer vary, and in which natural reve
istion will be recognized in its fullness.
In another book LA Federo=iOne RspubieanaJ
1850 Ferrai delireates the new phase to which soc
ETY. tends e., to the progressive propagation of
science which will take the place Of the fables and
the fatal contradictions of metaphysics. He formu-
lates the law of the historical progress, of na.ura
revelation; establishing three moments-religion,
metaphysics, science which three moments de-
termined by critcism-religion ignores it-meta-
phy,ics admits without recognizing ts powers
science admits il in its full extension.
ANsOSIO FRANCm (CRIsTOFORO BONAyINO).
Ausonio Franchi considers the specification Of the
first moment to be inexact because the character of
religion so and generic that it cannot rgor
ously speaking be said to belong to one moment of
history more than 10 another and he calls mythology
and poetry the first moment adds theology to meta
physics in the second period; and, in the third, re-
places the term science by explicit conception
rational and natural philosophy. Ansono Franchi
ha. pierced to the very heart Of the queston-hss
struck at the very root Of dogma,ic philosophy-at
Catholicism. BY dint OF very clear method, he has
populsIized philosophical studies among the youth of
Italy, has dvested them of the ssperity the mystic
la1 gusge in which the schoOlmsn had enveloped
them has destroyed, by inhexible and victorious
dsleetics the facttOus grandiosity Of the systems
elaborated by Gioberti, Rosmini, Mamiani, Father
Ventura ard other dogms.ists. The importance Of
this work can only be estimated by those who are
fully aware Of the magic power exercised by those
great names over the souls of Italians-of the fatal
effect Of these theories, rendered attractive by the
boundless science of Roemni and Gioberti, by the
pure and elegant dicticn of Msmian in alternating
our youth from the pursuit Of truth in philosophy
politics, and religion. OF Frauchis powers as
critic, would be impossible to give fair sample in
the present sketch. Criticism is his forte; in this
department his skill is unrivslled and, in fact,
Of bis philosophical adyeraries have ever accepted
his renea.ed challenges The titles Of bis works are