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" Mind," or the translation of Mikrokrosmus, which 

 is to be given to the world soon, as I hear, by a 

 scholar of our Cambridge, you will be able to make 

 in English an acquaintance with this man. Proba- 

 bly the Tribune does not read the " Zeitschrift f iir 

 Philosophic," published at Halle. This is the fore- 

 most philosophical journal of its class in the world, 

 and is full of the work of Lotze and of his school in 

 modern German thought. It is unfortunate and 

 unnatural that the literary editor of " The Tribune," 

 who has the public reputation of having been a friend 

 of Theodore Parker, should appear to have no out- 

 look in philosophy beyond the Straits of Dover, or at 

 least none any later than those misleading glimpses 

 which Parker caught. If this able and honored 

 newspaper knows nothing of Hermann Lotze, it is 

 so much the worse, not for him, but for one depart- 

 ment of the New York Tribune. The doctrine of 

 established philosophy in Germany is ideal realism, 

 and that is all that I am asserting. Matter has no 

 capacity to originate force or motion. It may transmit 

 it, but it does not originate it ; -and so the power of 

 co-ordinating tissues, or of producing life, does not 

 belong to it. Besides matter, there is but one other 

 thing in the universe, mind; and so behind the 

 movements of matter there must be mind. Although 

 mind may be co-extensive with matter, the identity 

 of mind and matter cannot be asserted by any one 

 who loves clear ideas. Therefore the co-ordinating 

 power, the constitution drawn up in the cabin of 

 the Mayflower, is to be attributed to mind. 



