New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-07
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70. III. b. Louis r. r "ihy' NC" iV "' '
A literary phenomenon of tho most remark
able import IL the publication OF this journal on inc
hanks OF the Mississippi. lt represents direction
Of thought which was decidedly IA the ascendant
half actntury since in the most intellectual portion
Of En,cpe but which has been supposed to kave re-
eeiye an eeetual QUietVs from tho subsequent pro-
rress Of Thysical science and tho influence OF tho
Positive Philosophy, which, whether IN the fora
presented BY COsnte otherwise, limits all rational
inauiry and eB acquisition 81 knowledge to the
sphere of the senses Against this tendeneyot med
sm seIence, the students OF So Louis utter Vgor-
Gus protest. With admirable YigOT and pluck, they
throw down the gauntlet to the materiaiism OF the
aud srenuousy contend for the OF the
spiritoal order in the pursuit OF truth 10 10 oAei
held aim to rebabitate the metaphysical stage OF
thought which OOmte and hrs followers IN Ehgs"hu
ahd this country regard asthe mere seahOiuhs 'U"'
Il deemed to destruction with the advance Oh kno"A
eaee toward substantial and systematic compete
aena While the native land of modern tahsoeh-
aentaism is at preeeDt almost entirely occupied 10y
the exclusive yotares VI physical research the
xtronseet signs Of reaction are manifested IN enc OF
tho 0reat commercial cities Of the West, Not only
a,poush ths medium of TRANSACTIONS from the leading
sgsran metaphy sicians but bv able original Discus
Stems dee this Journal engage IN what must bo deemed
ny shrowsl observers, bn almost desperate conflict
The strength OF the position which 1t assae rs for
sihly stated by a writer in the present numbet de
sRrns, so think not with strict correctness that
oatura science has always been materialistic. The
sames of such physicists as 0orsted Schubert Oxen,
re certainly proofs to the contrary. But IT cannot
10 denied that Just ct this time, matorialsIn IL the
Aoy note OF the leaders in the province Of physical
sssearch A the writer alluded to remarks " Of ste
saafs this scientific Inaterialism has been making
gigantic strides. Since the imposing fabric of the
Jiegelan philosophy proved but q house bullt on
sands, the scales and metre have Become our only
s0ds.D KOpt the eeOlOgist, Moeschott the piysl-
1loeist Yirehow the greatest Of living PSYCHOLOGISTS
Ehohner Iiedomsnn, and other German sa'antS
g say nothing OF the conspicuous names Of the same
category in France and England, have devoted them
selves with partisan zeal 10 the support Of matcr
shstjo views and 30 "a crusade against al faith,
Au idealisn.r The pivotal doctrine Of this schoO$
" that all existence is concrete, that existence by
stseh is an uDmeaning term, and that substance
spsFt from attrhute is q hgm6nt Of the brain.
~ IL curious, ny the way, 20 note Tire coincidence
az tiis result of modern physics with the
iiealism Of Berkeley. The good Bishop however
was at a world wide from the conclusions Of
Gle new materalistie school that matter aud force
sre equally eternal each being impossible without the
other and that the highest thought Is the physical
elaboration of the secretion Of the brain. as
iile is of the liver The only eectua barrier 10 this
current of opinion the writer urges is to be found in
she theory OF the Absolute: Demonstrate the posi-
hihty of the Absolute aud mateTialjHn is impossible
sssprove il and all other PHILOSOPHERS empty moth
ipgs7 Among the other articles in this numbera are
translation If the "MoDadoloey" OF Leibnitz. that
snbtIe thinker whose fame has been eclipsed by the
constellation of illustriOus Germans who succeeded
him in the next century the completion of Iichtes
Criticism OF Philosophical Systems" Seedlings
"IntroductiOn TO Idealism" the third part of He
eers Philosophy Of Art;' Letters on Goethes
taOst !" and paper Genesis" from a. Bronson
Alcot the Orphc poet Of Concord the wine Of whose
genius does not improve ia cleameSs il advances
IN age. The old admirers OF The DIAL if such
should happen to he among readers, win recog
Hize the voice of the mystic in the article. of
which we are tempted to give them taste 10y quot
tne its final paragraph.
N the OF iron and brass ne hard us fast weld
5sfe too Is the Promethan fire Of thought 10 iibeTe
letters science, art philosophy using the new AGENCIES
eveTy the service OF the soul OF the senses Hay
9ss recovered the omnpresence in nature graded space
fnnDeed the abyss, Joined ocean and land by living
stolen the chemistry Of atom and solar ray made
pushing its inquiries into the UNEMPLOYED region Of mans
personality for whose survey and service every modern
Instrument lends the outlay and means-faciit!es ample
AVID uDpreoedened--new instruments for the dis
eNVerers. Using no longer conenedy the eyes ~ toll
ing eircuous leSe the genius takes the track OF the
creative thought intuityey, cosmicaly, ontologicaly
eubter analysis = finely disseminated, broader
tes accurately seneTaized from the materials accumu
lSed on the mind during the centuries. the globcs
tents being gathered in from all quarters the book Of
creation newly Illustrated and posted to date The
Calculus alike serViceaOle TO natural
80 aud metaphys Dialogie for resolving things
3BiO thoughts matter into mind power into personality
into God. many into sOul in souls seen the
creative controlling sIirt, plsating all bodies, inspir
aDnDating. organizing innalsnt IN the atoms, CIR
s0,stIng center and circumference willing in All wills
personally emOOsOming al persons ~ unbroken ynthess
~ Being.
A letter from q German professor. DR.. Franz HoA
mann. gives interesting particulars concerning
The philosophical position Oi Bladder "a great and
genial teacher" who viii certainly have great
future' and who exerted marked influence on
Smelling and Hegel, giving the German idealisu a
direction from panthesm TO a deeper ideslrealis,ic
tleism.
TKE CHRISTIAN EXsMISEB EOg EoTENBfR James MIA
The biographical aud critical sketch Of Miss
frances Power CObbe which stands s the head Of this
hnDber win interest many readers who desire 70 know
SSore Of distinguished English woman whose name has
saOme familiar to them through her excellent writings