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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by

WILLIAM T. HARRIS.

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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Butler, Nicholas Murray, The Problem of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft,"

Champlin, Virginia, Notice of Revue Philosophique,
Channing, William Ellery, Sentences in Prose and Verse, .
Classification of the Mathematical Sciences,

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J. M. Long, 417

Concord Summer School of Philosophy, The, Course of Study in Aristotle, and
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Mitchell, Ellen M., The Philosophy of Pessimism.

Morris, Professor George S., Editor of Papers published at Michigan University,

Pessimism, The Philosophy of,

Philosophic Reveries, .

Philosophy of Kant in Extracts, Letter from

Primary Qualities of Matter, The So-called,

Religion, Introduction to the Philosophy of, by Hegel (Tr.),

Riggs, J. M., The So-called Primary Qualities of Matter,
Sentences in Prose and Verse, Selected by . .

Sheldon, W. L., Agnostic Realism,

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I call these reveries, rather than conclusions or any other decisive name, not as holding that modesty offers any special promise of merit-much less as imitating the caution of the ostrich that hides its head in the sand, and leaves its body as obtrusive as ever-but rather as considering the fate by my own judgment of my own confident expression heretofore, and also the quasi shortcoming of all other philosophers in leaving to this late day anything at all worth saying. Gladly I would side with Nicias in the position that courage is due to knowledge, had not experience proved, in my own case, that a false conceit of knowledge may be as bold as knowledge itself; for boldness has an immediate charm of its own, whether in good or ill. We enjoy the effrontery of Falstaff, in his boast of being witty in himself and a cause that wit was in other men; and we cheer bravely those Dioscuri of old who stood in the streets of Athens and engaged themselves to outwit all comers; for whatever may be said of modesty-which is not much, save as modesty may be due to cir

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