New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-24
OCTOBER MAGAZINES.

with profusion of well executed ILLUSTRATIONS ana
affords even than Its ordinary variety OF mscel-
laneous popular reading Among the papers OF
broader scope the Republican Movement in Europe"
by Emilio CASTELAR, will command attention by the depth
OF its reflections and the graceful felicity Of its style.
II continues the discussions the "Germanic Peoples,
presenting singuarly acute analysis Of the philosophy
of progress art, and religion. In the view OF MCas-
telar following the suggestions Of Hegel neither art
nor religion realizes the essence of the spirit
The absolute spirit Is completely realized In
that superior sphere of philosophy where it
has for its only object the entire, divine
truth where existence arrives at last after many sue
cessve transfo mation at the fullness of its life and
the absolute possession of its consciousness The IN
finite has knowledge of itself in philosophy, where ter
inmates long journey of Being from pure logic TO
nature to the state, from the state 10 Art
from Art religion, and from religion to philosophy,
where requires the fullnes of life and possession OF
knowledge The position Of scbopenhauer whose name
within the last few years has commanded deep inter
est among the students of philosophy In regard 10 the
system OF Hege is described in few terse sentences
The philosophy Of Hegel combated and opposed
by philosopher the magic spendOr OF whose lanSIage
has given him literary fame ana scenuuc p9"eI IN
many. This philosopher Is called Arthur Schopenhauer'
When hear the opinion which he forms OF the ger
man thinkers we are asOunled at MS sen 1ivo
and his arrogance. The philosophers or suuYectiHo
idealsm objective deaisn, and OF absolute ldeaiis
gers and acrObats Of thought, ONLY despair Is peGot
of an age like the nineteenth century, and the nOI
madness OF people like the Germans, who regard
M Tor this mplacable enemy, SCIENCE wrong side out;
mass empire ideas changed by the new alchemy mo
OF carnival; orgie Of bacchants drunken with poi
soued wine; Symbolism reiuyenated and worked up
mo by the thread Of deceiving dia-
lectic; a wchcratt Of professors ana tutors
which would be considered by more sensible age as
pranks OF madcap youth; dsorganzers OF lhteuecl,
radesmen Of profitable science, hydroeephaou; pachy
converted philosophy into mine of wealth, and the
pulpit into an auction,eock, gambling WIN IDEAS az
this the first impression is that you are IN the
presence OF an original and new thinker, whose
philosophy like the philosophy of Kant in its time is to
be- the renovation Of the human spirit but the more
carefully and maurely 1t is studied the more plainly 40
You see that stgmatizes as sOphists the very
men he is copying, and as thieves those lie Is
r0bbiDg, His philosophy should be called eApeIl
founded with Platonie ideasn, and on the other slde
with the systems founded on observation Apart trolI
tins purpose winch is rather tendency than system,
of the critical school His ideas about reason
aud thought those of the materallsts,
and the ministry which he comedies TO the Will. ana It's
rce m The world are the same as those assigned by
Hege 10 the idea 1t not worth while, therefore. TO
waste so much elOqueDce in antHegcIian abuse, TO
eybsnst ali the monastic epthets OF the MiddeAces
against master to accept afterward the entire
ides 70 the will. The will is found in the
whole universe, aud rises gradually from the in-
ferior beings those which have reason and con-
science liz its progressive ascent the will escapes
from falism and seeks liberty, aud i'll its ascending
progress it 20 produce individuals, personalities
Win that proper and distinctive sign Of individual being
called character. In Inorganic beings pure causaity
dominates; in the plants II begins To nave something
like germ OF will through the movement of the SAP and
tine documentary sensblhty OF the leaves insects with
their sklful LABOR, with their artistic Instincts with
their progressive meanorphoscs when they store
honey the nge their wings like the butter
flies the cayX OF flowers announce the prophecy OF
the will Magnetism the distant power of one substance
over another the mutual virtue OF attraction, shows
that nature forms for ITSELF with It's manifold combna
tOus WILL species OF instructive and marvellous meta
physcs The Will shines with all Its vgor In To
comprenendIt well II necessary to distinguish 1t from
will the energy of being. Thought is the phenomenon;
will is the essence. Thought the light; will is the
heat. Thought is IN the lhteilSence VIII IN all the
faculties. Thought holds the subordinate; Will the soy
cregn character Thought Will not move the will If the
will does not wish 10 move ana the VIII penetrates Freely
into the nm0s realm of thought and subjects 1t TO its
commands. Even III the order OF time the first faculty
which appears che Will; for the child desires be-
understands or thinks And this philosopher of
the moral perfection in the complete anniha-
ton OF the Will lie uOes MOI preach Ile suclOe OF the
bCdy he breaches the suicide OF the soul The fulness
OF life the exaitaOn or being, are for him, for the
mystics, in seiorgetfuness IN perpetual abnegation
and sacrifice To reduce TO nothing that sovereign will
this Is the effort most worthy OF the Will ITSELF The
world after All, is worth nothing more Life Is fabric
which worth the price 1t costs The world is
hunting party which are all at once hunters and
hunted Labor battle. grief the present always pain
fur the future uncerain the hell OF Dante III the heart
the live Goals Of passion burning the blood the tree OF
life, whose roots are Aeu IN the eartI "e lts branches
are in heaven, shaking upon us all It's horrible
amities every existence tragi-cOmedy, in which the
ridiculous is mingled with the sublime and the hysteric
laughter Of transient mirth with the perpetual sObs of
/
the heaven shining with all its lights, ana the planet
Venus was blazing in the clear SKY, friend asked the
philosopher If he believed In the existence Of beings
| perior TO men in those spheres The philosopher
swered No. that organism terminated in man, and
that no being superior 10 man could have the Will to live
or humhate himself to take part in this sad and pro-
sale ira gedy existence, ending always with the
uniform OF death. And turning 10 look upon the
earth aud discovering in Its negotiations organisms
extinct generations from whom the living came, aud
whose atoms circulate in our bodies, he exclaimed,
| I" Tue dead are, alas IN u.s.
Dr. Samuel osgood, IN the Easy Chair" continues
the vein of wise and genial phosophizns IA
mar household topics which has stamped the character
of his previous attractive papers in that department
His remarks on the power of language are expressed
with his accustomed naive strength Of illustration.
"a great many people do not really speak in clear,
graceful articulation, they mouth humble puff
snort and not few swallow their words. or else send
them through nOse il the throat had ceased
he thoroughare, had been labeled dangerous pas
/ sage Even our public speakers have ceased gene
| rally 10 be orators, and they content with the
drest reading or recltng OF what they have to say
| and recently, at university dinner an accom-
plished scholar. a lawyer. iocularly said that the
narts spoken by the students from the Commencement
stage were dry enough style and duh enough
ner 70 have emanated from the justices the Supreme
Court in full bench. We may perhaps congratulate
selves that people losing the provincaisms and
! yulgarsms OF pronunciation that were once con-
spcuous and that Brother Jonathan withihs children
EQUALS If he surpass Father Bull and his brood
i'm purity OF dctiOn. Yet have class OF writers
who are perncous corrupers OF popular speech and the
nubc taste would gain greatly IL the books OF most OF
our popular humorsts thrown into the fire, and the
authors were the village schools TO learn spelling
and grammar. We may thank our leading newspapers
and our public schools for the remarkable publication
OF the general dialect within the last forty years; yet
they are doing too little TO give life and color TO Ian
guage and it may that too much reading has robbed
the voice of its living prerogave and the word OF its
telling power do what we can to give language
It's due-ake It's cearness its beauty and power Words
are on the whole richest part OF our heritage and
they tell the history and transmit the mental life of the
race II we could make a single important word speak
mn hnuv hreafnn and glow and