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SCHLEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY,
The Philosophy of History, in a course of Lectures delivered at Vienna, by Frederick Von Schlegel, translated from the German, with a Memoir of the author, by J. B. Robertson. Handsomely printed on fine paper. 2 vols. 12mo.
“To do a mere reviewer’s justice to such a work would require many numbers of our journal. It is quite unnecessary to do more than direct attention to a production which, beyond all others, has contributed to exalt and purify modern science and literature—a work to which, in the eloquent words of a great man, ‘we owe the attempts at least to turn philosophy’s eye inward on the soul, and to compound the most sacred elements of its spiritual powers with the ingredients of human knowledge.’”—Literary Gazette.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SOCIETY,
IN THE BARBAROUS AND CIVILISED STATE.
An Essay towards discovering the Origin and Course of Human Improvement. By W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D., &c., of Trinity College, Dublin. Handsomely printed on fine paper. 2 vols. 12 mo.
“A most able work, the design of which is to determine from an examination of the various forms in which society has been formed, what was the origin of civilization, and under what circumstances those attributes of humanity, which in one country become the foundation of social happiness, and in another perverted to the production of general misery. For this purpose the author has separately examined the principal elements by which society, under all its aspects, is held together, and traced each to its source in human nature. He has then directed attention to the development of these principles, and pointed out the circumstances by which they were perfected on the one hand, or corrupted on the other.”