Section 8.—The Oriental Civilizations (continued 1)
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281 As to Vatke see Pfleiderer, as cited, p. 252 sq.; Cheyne, Founders of O. T. Criticism, 1893, p. 135. ↑
282E.g. Dr. Hutchison Stirling. See his trans. of Schwegler’s Handbook of the History of Philosophy, 6th ed. p. 438 sq. ↑
283 Baur, last cit. p. 389. ↑
284Geständnisse,Werke, iv, 33. Cp. iii, 110. ↑
285 Cp. Hagenbach, pp. 369–72; Farrar, Crit. Hist. of Freethought, pp. 387–88. On Bauer’s critical development and academic career see Baur, Kirchengesch. des 19ten Jahrh. pp. 386–89. ↑
286Die Selbstzersetzung des Christenthums und die Religion der Zukunft, 2te Aufl. 1874 trans. in Eng. as The Religion of the Future, 1886. ↑
287 See Schopenhauer’s dialogues on Religion and Immortality, and his essay on The Christian System (Eng. tr. by T. B. Samplers), and Nietzsche’s Antichrist. The latter work is discussed by the writer in Essays in Sociology, vol. ii. ↑
288 Prof. Seth Pringle-Pattison, who passes many just criticisms on their work (Philos. of Relig. in Kant and Hegel, rep. with The Philosophical Radicals), does not seem to suspect this determination. ↑
289 Baur gives a good summary, Kirchengeschichte, pp. 390–94. ↑
290 “M. Feuerbach et la nouvelle école hégélienne,” in Études d’histoire religieuse. ↑
291 A. Kohut, Ludwig Feuerbach, sein Leben und seine Werke, 1909, p. 48. ↑
292Die Halben und die Ganzen, p. 50. “Feuerbach a ruiné le système de Hegel et fondé la positivisme.” A. Lévy, La philosophie de Feuerbach et son influence sur la litt. allemande, 1904, introd. p. xxii. ↑
293E.g. “All knowledge, all conviction, all piety ... is based on the principle that in the spirit, as such, the consciousness of God exists immediately with the consciousness of itself.” Philos. of Relig. Eng. tr. introd. i. 42–43. ↑
294Essence of Christianity, Eng. tr. 1854, p. 12. ↑
295Kirchengeschichte des 19ten Jahrhunderts, pp. 393–94. ↑
296 Cp. A. Lévy, as cited, ch. iv. ↑
297Id. ch. ii. ↑
298Reden über Religion, ihr Entstehen und Vergehen, an die Gebildeten unter ihren Verehrern—a parody of the title of the famous work of Schleiermacher. ↑
299 Work cited, p. 119. ↑
300 Büchner expressly rejected the term “materialism” because of its misleading implications or connotations. Cp. in Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner’s Charles Bradlaugh the discussion in Pt. ii, ch. i, § 3 (by J. M. R.). ↑
301 While the cognate works of Carl Vogt and Moleschott have gone out of print, Büchner’s, recast again and again, continues to be republished. ↑
302 Cp. Paul Deschanel, Figures Littéraires, 1889, pp. 130–32, 171–73; Lévy-Bruhl, The Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Eng. tr. 1903, p. 190; and Ch. Adam, La Philosophie en France, 1894. p. 228. ↑
303 Adam, as cited, pp. 227–30. ↑
304 In his Mélanges philosophiques (1833), Eng. trans. (incomplete) by George Ripley, Philos. Essays of Th. Jouffroy, Edinburgh, 1839, ii, 32. Ripley, who was one of the American transcendentalist group and a member of the Brook Farm Colony, indicates his own semi-rationalism in his Introductory Note, p. xxv. ↑
305Mélanges philosophiques, trans. as cited, ii, 95. ↑
306Essai, cited, i, 232, 237. ↑
307Id. pp. 241–43. ↑
308Id. p. 221. ↑
309Correspondance, 1858–86, letter of May 26, 1833. ↑
310 Letters of August 1 and November 25. ↑
311 Cp. Ch. Adam, La Philosophie en France, 1894, p. 105. ↑
312Id. p. 84. ↑
313 Littré, Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive, pp. 123, 125–26. ↑
314 Article in 1844, rep. in Essais sur la philosophie et la religion, 1845, p. 1. ↑
315 See M. Lévy-Bruhl’s Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Eng. tr. pp. 10–15. M. Lévy-Bruhl really does not attempt to meet Littre’s argument, which he puts aside. ↑
316 Cp. Prof. Botta’s chapter in Ueberweg’s Hist. of Philos. ii, 513–16. ↑
317 Veitch’s Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, 1869, p. 54. Cp. Hamilton’s own Discussions, 1852, p. 187 (rep. of article of 1839). ↑
318 Veitch, p. 214. ↑
319 In his Church of Englandism and its Catechism Examined (1818), and Not Paul but Jesus (1823), by “Gamaliel Smith.” ↑
320 Under the pseudonym of Philip Beauchamp. See The Minor Works of George Grote, edited by Professor Bain, 1873, p. 18; Athenæum, May 31, 1873; J. S. Mill’s Autobiography, p. 69; and Three Essays on Religion, p. 76. ↑