226 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



tion of the philosophical or psychological problem in a 

 single principle. It is true that they frequently seemed 

 content with a description where others would seek for 

 explanations, and that, as for instance in the lectures of 

 Thomas Brown, who, however, approximated, on many 

 points, to the F.nglish school, rhetoric frequently takes 

 the place of argument. 



In this country the labours of the Scottish school 

 of psychology were to a great extent cast into the 

 shade by the more critical and penetrating writings of 

 James and John Stuart Mill, and by the new phase 

 of thought which has its beginning in the last repre- 

 sentative of the Scottish school. In the writings of 

 Hamilton, and those of his disciple Mansel, the slowly 

 elaborated arguments of the English and Scottish schools 

 came into contact with the foundations of religious 

 belief. The Bampton Lectures on the " Limits of Reli- 

 gious Thought " put an end, once for all, to that truce 

 which Bacon had established between philosophical 

 or scientific and spiritual knowledge. 1 But outside of 



1 The history of the earlier school floence of Kant upon Hamilton 



of Scottish r* a "*' n | J T down to its signifies a departure from the 



latest representative. SirWm. Ham- genuine spirit which pervades the 



flton, ha* been written by Prof. earlier representative* of the Scot- 



Pringle-Parason (Andrew Sethi in tish school notably the writings of 



the first port of his Balfour Lee- Thorn. Reid. and he maintains that 



tores. He there very luckllv deals the agnostic coochiaaos of Hamfl- 



with that special problem through ton and Mantel led "Scottish 



which Scottish nMnannhy came phiVisinaWM (to) set about a more 

 into contact with German thought: ; careful revision of their premises'' 



the problem of knowledge. It is, (A. Seth, 'Scottish Philosophy,' 

 therefore, not so orach the psy- i 1885; 3rd ed. 1899, p. 186). 



chnlogy of the school, in which we How this led, through a study of 



are for the moment mostly inter- Hegel, to a philosophical position 



ested. that he discusses. It is rather not unlike that occupied by Lotxe 



the problem of knowledge, which wffl in Germany, I shall hare oppor- 



occupy us in one of the following tmritins of showing in the sequel 



chapters. He shows that the in- of this History. 



