Title: Prospectus of a course of lectures, historical and biographical, on the rise and progress, the changes and fortunes, of philosophy, from Thales and Pythagoras to the present times
Subtitle: the lives and succession of the distinguished teachers in each sect; the connection of philosophy with general civilization; and, more especially, its relations to the history of Christianity, and to the opinions, language, and manners of Christendom, at different æras, and in different nations