XX11 KANTS UNIVERSAL NATURAL HISTORY 



Faye, in his learned and original work on the 

 Origin of the World, gives an excellent historical 

 account of the Cosmogonic theories of the Ancients 

 and the Moderns, and dedicated the work, in its 

 third edition of 1896, to the memory of Arago, who 

 had introduced him to his astronomical career in 

 1842. With exemplary impartiality, M. Faye en- 

 deavours to give both Kant and Laplace their due, 

 but his criticism leads him from both to the 

 endeavour to elaborate a new modified theory of 

 his own. 1 



Kant's relations and merits as a scientist have a 

 peculiar interest for English students of the subject, 

 but knowledge of them was slow to come in England. 

 Whewell, in his History of 'the Inductive Sciences, 

 published in 1837, makes n reference to Kant's 

 scientific work, and can hardly be supposed to have 

 known it, although he mentions his name once in 

 connection with his view of the 'Moral Argument.' 2 

 Sir John Leslie, in his Dissertation on the Progress 

 of Mathematical and Physical Science, chiefly during 

 the Eighteenth Century, contributed to the seventh 

 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1842, in 

 like manner does not mention Kant, nor Thomas 

 Wright of Durham, although he refers to Lambert ; 

 and in the same volume Dugald Stewart, perplexed 

 and irritated by the growing popularity of Kant's 



1 Sur I'Origine du Monde. Theories Cosmogoniques des Anciem 

 et des Modernes, par H. Faye, de 1'Institut. 3. ed. Paris, 1896. 



2 Vol. 3,469. 



