74 Sir Williiuu Hamiltou's Fmrjiueats of i'ldlosophy. 



8. The matters constituting the diluvium, both those within 

 and those without the limits of the erratic formation, wei'e con- 

 veyed by rivers and by the submarine current. 



9. The great mass of diluvium was deposited during the 

 melting or retreat of the glacier. 



Lastly, 10. The angular debris and the blocks of large size, 

 dispersed on the surface of the ground or embedded in the di- 

 luvium, but both beyond the limits of the erratic formation, 

 have been transported by masses of ice, detached from the 

 glacier. Of these masses of ice, some have been carried 

 along by rivers, and others, floating on the sea, have been 

 propelled towards the south by the force of the winds. 

 Bex, 26th May, 1842. 



Frafjinents of Philosophy. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart., 

 Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of 

 Edinburgh.* 



For some _years we have heard much of the Scottish and German plii- 

 losophy, of the former especially, which M. Ro^'Cr-Collard and M. Cousin 

 have assisted in making known by means of their eloquent lectures ; but 

 it happens in this case, as in so many others, that the word is more fami- 

 liar than the thing, and the first mentioned of these two philosophies not 

 having j'ct become the fashion, it has hitherto continued in some degree 

 of obscurity, from which it is of importance that it should be freed. 



The four philosophical dissertations translated in the work, the title of 

 which has been given above, will be fitted to throw some light on this 

 itnportant subject : they are from the pen of Sir William Hamilton, Pro- 

 fessor of Logic and Metaphysics in Edinburgh. This author would have 

 been almost unknown in France until the appearance of the work in ques- 

 tion, had not some of our professors mentioned his writings. Messrs 

 Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, Cousin, and JoufFroy, have done us this ser- 

 vice, which is undoubtedly of some value, when we consider that all 

 his productions, published anonymously in the Edinburgh Review, are 

 scarcely known, in regard to their authorship, even in their own country. 

 Sir W. Hamilton is one of those profound thinkers and true friends of 

 science, who never think jf publishing their works till they conceive them 

 to be of such a nature as to produce some solid and substantial result. 

 It happens more frequently still, that writers of this description, tliinking 



* Fra(/inciits de rhUos<qili:l(:, Ac. Translated, with a long Preface, Notes, 

 and Appendix, by L. Pcisse. Paris, 1840. 



