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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROEM. The highest truths of transcendental metaphysics will one day reach the populace. Not only the standard of intellect, but that of morality, will he raised. The race of the Papinians, the Cromwells, and Marvels, will he multiplied. It was once said all could not learn to read, write, and account . Now they do learn these and other things. They will one day learn all things. Intellect will conquer all obstacles, and teach the human race to realise untold perfection. But it will bo accomplished piecemeal. Progression is a series of stages. Individuals first, then groups, then classes, then nations, are raised. You can no more introduce, at once, the multitude to the highest results of philosophy, than you can take a man to the summit of a monument without ascending the steps, or reach a distant land without travelling the journey. This hook is a stage. As the preceding ones in this scries, it is designed for the class of young thinkers to whom knowledge has given some intellectual aspiration, and fate denied the moans of its scholastic gratification. It Is therefore neither elementary nor ultimate, but a medium hetween the two. It addresses itself to a want. It deals in results. It dictates doing. Spontaneous life is the life of the people. Their knowledge is confined to phenomena. Their practical philosophy is the reality of Hobbism. Disguise it as we may, their sensation is suffering, their reflection, revenge?their solo business, the hettcrance of their condition. All yon can do is to guide their rude interpretation of nature, men, and manners?to give plain method to their classification, coherence to their inferences, justice to their invectives. They want no new philosophy. There are more old ones which are gc-jd than they can study. There is more wisdom extant t...

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