On the inductive philosophy, including a parallel between Lord Bacon and A. Comte as philosophers; a discourse delivered before the Sunday lecture society, Nov. 26, 1871 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... and wholly irrespective of facts or sensations, can contribute anything, is founded on the total absence of any sort of verification, or external standard, to which appeal can be made in 1 'In our common philosophical language, sensations and ideas represent the two great sources of our knowledge. We have an outward source, Nature; and an inward source, pure ideas, which terminate on the side of the Will. Sensationalism accordingly is the philosophy built upon the former. Idealism is that built upon the latter.'--Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, by J. D. Morell, A.M. Introduction, p. 67, note i., 2nd ed. Johnstone, 1847. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. iii. part 2, No. 14, 1844. 3 'The radical antithesis is not between fact and theory, but between verified and unverified inferences.'--G. H. Lewes, Aristotle, 'The Metaphysical and Scientific Methods,' p. 74. proof of such assumption, or, of that in particular which is asserted to be so contributed. The conclusions of the Idealist, as such, cannot be tested; being pure conceptions that cannot be derived from the senses.1 They may therefore be untrue; at least they cannot be proved to be true, and therefore ought not to be made the basis of positive belief. It is obvious that Theology, from its very nature, that is, a logical system or exposition of the Nature, Attributes, and Will of Deity, a kind of knowledge hardly derivable from sensible facts, must, so far as it can be treated philosophically at all, follow the method of Idealism. Accordingly it is Plato and not Aristotle who is the great philosophical authority with theologians.2 It might appear on first impression, indeed it has been by many supposed, that Idealism...
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