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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 English 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 Eeli- 

 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 fluence of Kant upon Hamilton 



of Scottish philosophy down to its ; signifies a departure from the 



latest representative, Sir Wm. Ham- j genuine spirit which pervades the 



ilton, has been written by Prof. earlier representatives of the Scot- 



Pringle-Pattison (Andrew Seth) in ; tish school notably the writings of 



the first part of his Balf our Lee- Thos. Reid, and he maintains that 



tures. He there very lucidly deals the agnostic conclusions of Hamil- 



with that special problem through ton and Mansel led " Scottish 



which Scottish philosophy came 

 into contact with German thought : 

 the problem of knowledge. It is, 

 therefore, not so much the psy- 



philosophers (to) set about a more 

 careful revision of their premises " 

 (A. Seth, 'Scottish Philosophy,' 

 1885; 3rd ed. 1899, p. 186). 



chology of the school, in which we I 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 i not unlike that occupied by Lotze 



the problem of knowledge, which will in Germany, I shall have oppor- 



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



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



