History of Philosophy.
A History of Philosophy: AN EPITOME.
BY DR. ALBERT SCHWEGLER.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN, BY JULIUS H. SEELYE.
12mo. 365 pages. Price $1 25.
This translation is designed to supply a want long felt by both teachers and students in our American colleges. We have valuable histories of Philosophy in English, but no manual on this subject so clear, concise, and comprehensive as the one now presented. Schwegler's work bears the marks of great learning, and is evidently written by one who has not only studied the original sources for such a history, but has thought out for himself the systems of which he treats. He has thus seized upon the real germ of each system, and traced its process of development with great clearness and accuracy. The whole history of speculation, from Thales to the present time, is presented in its consecutive order. This rich and important field of study, hitherto so greatly neglected, will, it is hoped, receive a new impulse among American students through Mr. Seelye's translation. It is a book, moreover, invaluable for reference, and should be in the possession of every public and private library.
From L. P. Hickok, Vice-President of Union College.
"I have had opportunity to hear a large part of Rev. Mr. Seelye's translation of Schwegler's History of Philosophy read from manuscript, and I do not hesitate to say that it is a faithful, clear, and remarkably precise English rendering of this invaluable Epitome of the History of Philosophy. It is exceedingly desirable that it should be given to American students of philosophy in the English language, and I have no expectation of its more favorable and successful accomplishment than in this present attempt. I should immediately introduce it as a text-book in the graduate's department under my own instruction, if it be favorably published, and cannot doubt that other teachers will rejoice to avail themselves of the like assistance from it."
From Henry B. Smith, Professor of Christian Theology, Union Theological Seminary, N. Y.
"It will well reward diligent study, and is one of the best works for a text-book in our colleges upon this neglected branch of scientific investigation."
From N. Porter, Professor of Intellectual Philosophy in Yale College.
"It is the only book translated from the German which professes to give an account of the recent German systems which seems adapted to give any intelligible information on the subject to a novice."
From Geo. P. Fisher, Professor of Divinity in Yale College.
"It is really the best Epitome of the History of Philosophy now accessible to the English student."
From Joseph Haven, Professor of Mental Philosophy in Amherst College.
"As a manual and brief summary of the whole range of speculative inquiry, I know of no work which strikes me more favorably."