CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME, 



INTRODUCTION. 



I. Thought, the hidden world, 1 ; The only moving principle, 2 ; History of 

 Nature, how to be understood, 2 ; Not intelligible without intellect, 2 ; 

 History of savage tribes, what is it ? 3 ; Two ways in which thought enters 

 into history, 4 ; Definition of thought impossible, 4 ; Relation of outer 

 and inner worlds undefined, 5 ; Many meanings of thought, 5 ; Thought 

 of the present age, 6 ; Contemporary history, to what extent possible 

 and valuable, 6 ; Supposed objectivity of historians, 7 ; Value of contem- 

 porary records, 8 ; Mystery of the life of thought, 8 ; Latent thought the 

 material for genius, 8 ; Contemporary record of thought more faithful, 

 10 ; Events of the immediate past, 10 ; Changes of language, 11 ; Coining 

 of new words, 12 ; Object of this work, 13 ; Not a political history, nor a 

 history of science, literature, and art, 13 ; Influences which have a result 

 on our inner life, 14 ; Personal knowledge necessary, 14 ; American influ- 

 ence only touched upon, 14 ; Only French, German, and English thought 

 treated, 15 ; Unity of thought, a product of this century, 16 ; Voltaire, 

 16; Adam Smith, 16; Coleridge and Wordsworth, 17; Mme. de Stael, 

 17 ; Paris the focus of science, 17 ; Babbage, Herschel, and Peacock, 18 ; 

 Liebig's laboratory, 18 ; Comte's philosophy, 18 ; Constable's influence in 

 France, 19 ; Science become international, 19 ; The light which etymology 

 throws on the history of thought, 20 ; Goethe, 22 ; Peculiarity of the 

 German language, 22 ; New thought has found new words, 23 ; De Bon- 

 aid and Max Miiller, 23 ; Thought, how expressed in French and Ger- 

 man, 24 ; Philosophy of history, 25 ; Want of precise terms in German 

 and French, 26 ; Carlyle, 26. 



