The Nemesis of FaithJ. Chapman, 1849 - 227 pages |
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Page 8 - The general manner of treating the subject and arranging the chapters, sections, and parts of the argument, indicates consummate dialectical skill ; while the style is clear, the expression direct, and the author's openness in referring to his sources of information, and stating his conclusions in all their simplicity, is candid and exemplary It not only surpasses all its predecessors of its kind in learning, acuteness, and thorough investigation, but it is marked by a serious and earnest spirit.
Page 20 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible; crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague^ sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being ; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror : a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
Page 17 - With great satisfaction we welcome this first English translation of an author who occupies the most exalted position as a profound and original thinker ; as an irresistible orator in the cause of what he believed to be truth ; as a thoroughly honest and heroic man. The appearance of any of his works in our language is, we believe, a perfect novelty These orations i are admirably fitted for their purpose ; so grand is the position taken by the lecturer, and so irresistible their eloquence.
Page 20 - IKISI lively edify the reader. The life of Richter is indeed a moral and a religious, as much as a literary treat, to all who have a sense exercised to discern religion and morality as a thing essentially different from mere orthodoxy and asceticism. The two volumes before us cannot be seriously read without stimulating the reader, like a good sermon, to self-amelioration ; and in this respect they are invaluable. " Richter is a thorough Christian, and a Christian with a large, glowing human heart.
Page 20 - ... unexampled; for it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearl.
Page 17 - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRESENT AGE. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated from the German by William Smith. Post 8vo, pp. xi. and 271, cloth. 1847. 6s. FICHTE.— MEMOIR OF JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE. By William Smith. Second Edition. Post 8vo, pp. 168, cloth. 1848. 4s. FICHTE.— ON THE NATURE OF THE SCHOLAR, AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS.
Page 15 - Catholicism — at least inform — and with but a partial success ; an attempt will now be made to restore the word Catholic to its primitive significance, in its application to this Series, and to realize the idea of Catholicism in SPIRIT. It cannot be hoped that each volume of the Series will be essentially Catholic, and not partial, in its nature, for...
Page 14 - Professor Norton has devoted a whole volume full of ingenious reasoning and solid learning, to show that the Gnostic sects of the second century admitted in general the same sacred books with the orthodox Christians. However doubtful may be his complete success, he has made out a strong case, which, as far as it goes, is one of the most valuable confutations of the extreme German xwf'£°VT(t, an excellent subsidiary contribution to the proof of the ' genuineness of the Scriptures.
Page 9 - There is a mastery shown over every element of the Great Subject, and the slight treatment of it in parts no reader can help attributing to the plan of the work, rather than to the incapacity of the author. From the resources of a mind singularly exuberant by nature and laboriously enriched by culture, a system of results is here thrown up, and spread out in luminous exposition."—Prospective Uevitnr.
Page 18 - is, as Fichte truly says, intelligible to all readers who are really able to understand a book at all ; and as the history of the mind In its various phases of doubt, knowledge, and faith, it is of interest to all. A book of this stamp is sure to teach you much, because it excites thought.