MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, ETC. 59 



Maurice (F. "D ^—continued. 



for freedom, rwi chains ; far education, not stcppression. He 

 has abstained from the use of pkilosaphical terms, and has touched 

 on philosophical systems only when he fancied "they were inter- 

 fering with the rights and duties of wayfarers.'" The Saturday 

 Review joyj.' "We rise from them laith detestatifm of all that is 

 selfish and mean, and with a Kirinig impression that there is such a 

 thing as goodness after all." 



MORAL AND METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY. Nevr 

 Edition and Preface. Vol. I. Ancient Philosopiiy and the First to 

 the Thirteenth Centuries^ ; Vol. II. the Fourteenth Century and the 

 French Revolution, with a glimpse into the Nineteenth Century. 

 2 Vols. 8vo. 25^. 



This is an Edition in two volumes of Professor Maurice's History of 

 Philosophy from the tandiest period to tke present time. Jt wa^ 

 formerly scattertd throughout a number of separate volumes, and it 

 is believed that all admirers of the author and alt stuAnts cf 

 philosophy will welcome this compact Edition. The subject is one- 

 of the highest importance, and it is treated here with fulness and 

 candour, and in a clear and int-eresting;}nanner. In a lofig intro- 

 duction to this Edition, in the form oj a dialogue. Professor Mauria 

 justifies some of his own peculiar views, and touches upon some c^ 

 the nwst important topics of the time. 



Murphy. — HABIT AND INTELLIGE-NCE, in Connectioin 

 with the Laws of Matter and Force : A Series of Scientific Essays. 

 By Joseph John Murphy. Two Vols. 8vo. i6j. 



The author's chief purpose in this work has been to state and to dis- 

 cuss what he regards as the special and characteristic principles of 

 life. The most important fart of the work treats of those vital 

 principles which belong to the inner domain of life itself, as dis- 

 tinguished from the principles which belong to the border-land 

 where life comes into contact with inorganic matter and force. In 

 the inner domain of life we find two principles, which are, the 

 author believes, coextensive with life and peculiar to it : these are 

 Habit and Intelligence. He has made as full a statement as 

 possible of the laws under which habits form, disappear, alter under 

 altered circumstances, and vary spontaneously. He discusses that 



