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the purpose of this world-evolution is the happiness of man, as 
many think, Hartmann regards asan illusion. The ancient world 
placed happiness in the present life of the individual, the Christian 
world in a future life. Hartmann not only regards these as 
illusions, but also that hope which looks for happiness in a future 
ameliorated condition of humanity. This last one, found by 
experience to be a deception, there will be no further illusion 
possible. The sum of actual pain and misery will in no wise tend 
to diminish, but greater evils will spring out of an advancing 
civilization than any benefits that it brings. An ever-increasing 
discontent must of necessity mark its path. It is useless for the 
individual to strive against the unhappiness and misery of social 
life, for they are irremediable. ‘ Existence is a huge blunder,” 
and Hartmann consequently looks forward to the extinction of 
all conscious life as the only panacea for the evils engendered by 
its existence. This conclusion is founded on three bases : Ist, 
Metaphysical ; 2nd, Scientific ; and 3rd, Empirical. Mr. Hasel- 
wood only examined the last, and adduced some of the criti- 
cisms which Sully and others brought to bear on a method which 
they considered faulty. Finally he gave his own reasons for dis- 
senting from the conclusions of the German philosophers, and 
seeing that ignorance was at the bottom of much of the evil 
which existed in the world, looked forward confidently to a time 
when wider intelligence and more perfect knowledge, both in 
governors and the governed, would be able to abate much of the 
misery which surrounds human life by meliorating the conditions 
under which it at present exists. 
JANUARY [3th 1888. 
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THE MINUTE ANATOMY OF ANIMAL TISSUES. 
BSP SE yy OP Bhs © feed = oe 2 
With Oxy-Hydrogen Lantern, at 
CENTRAL SCHOOLS, CHURCH STREET, BRIGHTON. 
Mr. H. EDMONDS, B.Sc. 
