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or may not be true, but which is at any rate perfectly 

 intelligible, whereas if Von Hartmann's meaning is 

 anything like what Mr. Sully says it is,* I can only say 

 that it has not been given to me to form any definite 

 conception whatever as to what that meaning may be. 

 I am encouraged moreover to hope that I am not in the 

 same condemnation with Von Hartmann if, indeed, 

 Von Hartmann is to be condemned, about which I know 

 nothing by the following extract from a German 

 Eeview of ' Life and Habit.' 



"Der erste dieser beiden Erklarungsversuche, ist eine 

 wahre ' Philosophic des Unbewussten ' nicht des Hart- 

 manu'schen Unbewussten welches hellsehend und wun- 

 derthatig von aussen in die naturliche Entwickelung der 

 Organismen eingreift, sondern eines Unbewussten welches 

 wie der Verfasser zeigt, in alien organischen Wesen an- 

 zunehmen unsere eigeiie Erfahrung und die Stufenfolge 

 der Organismen von den Moneren und Amoeben bis 

 zu den hochsten Pflanzen und Thieren und uns selbst 

 auf warts uns gestattet, wenn nicht uns nothigt. Der 

 Gedankengang dieser neuen oder wenigstens in dieseui 

 Sinne wohl zum ersten Male consequent im Einzelnen 

 duvchgefuhrten Philosophie des Unbewussten ist, seineu 

 Hauptziigen nach kurz angedeutet, folgender." t 



* ' Westminster Keview,' vol. xlix. p. 124. 



t Translation: " The first of these two attempts is a true ' philosophy 

 of the unconscious,' not Hartmann's unconscious, which influences the 

 natural evolution of organism from without as though by Providence 

 and miracle, but of an unconscious, which, as the author shows, our 

 own experience and the progressive succession of organisms from the 

 monads and amcebse up to the highest plants and animals, including 

 ourselves, allows, if it does not compel us to assume [as obtaining] in 

 all organic beings. This philosophy of the unconscious is new, or at 

 any rate now for the first time carried out consequentially in detail ; 

 its main features, briefly stated are as follows." 



