Announcement.—We shall begin in our next number the publication of a new story by Mrs. Craven, author of A Sister's Story, Fleurange, etc. The work will be issued simultaneously with its appearance in Le Correspondant, the translation being made from the original MS. with the special sanction of the author from whom the exclusive right of publication in this country has been purchased.
The continuation of Grapes and Thorns, which has been delayed by the departure of the author on an European tour, will be resumed in the February number.
THE
CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. XVIII., No. 107.—FEBRUARY, 1874.[181]
THE PRINCIPLES OF REAL BEING.
II.
EXTRINSIC PRINCIPLES OF BEING.
As in chemistry, so also in metaphysics, the labor and difficulty attending the analysis of complex things is proportional to the degree of their complexity. Hence in the search after the principles of real being, which we are about to make, we judge it expedient, for the greater convenience and satisfaction of our philosophical readers, to start from the principles of the most simple among the subjects of metaphysical analysis—that is, from the principles of primitive beings.