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mentary ideas of all the parts of the law 
of nature, and is divided into five fec- 
tions; the firft of which treats of the 
principles of law in general; the fecond, 
of the principles of law in a ftate of na- 
ture, or of the abfolute law of nature ; 
the third, of the principles of law in 
a ftate of fociety, or of the hypothe- 
tical law of nature; the fourth, of the 
principles of the general law of ftates ; 
and the fifth, of the principles of the law 
of nations. 
MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 
Among the numberle{s attempts to in- 
troduce the principles and tenets of KANT 
into the circles of familiar life, and to 
expound his abitrufe notions by the cleareft 
and moft convincing illuftrations, the fol- 
Jowing is one of the moit fuccefsful; «+ Po- 
pular Effays on fuljess of PraMical Philo- 
Sophy,” with a view to promote a previous 
acquaintance with the ideas peculiar to 
Kant, by J. C. GREILING, p. 19. and 
198. Lhe frequent opportunities which 
the author had to observe that, particu- 
Jarly in mixed company, many perfons 
who had the leaft knnowledge ot Kant 
and his philofophy, would {peak of both 
in a decilive manner, induced him to pub- 
lith thefe eflays which he has deligned 
chiefly for men of Butinefs who cannot 
devote the portion of time requifite to 
the ftudy of his fyftematic works. ‘The 
fubjetts of theft treatifes are as follow: 
.1. On the influence which family {pirit 
difplays on the morality and welfare of 
mankind. 2. The Golden Age. 3. On 
the weaknefs of charaéter. 4. On the 
affinity between the acithetical and moral 
fenfe. 5. On the value of an eftablithed 
religion; and 6. On the diftinétion fub- 
hiting between prudence and morality, as 
weil as between the doétrine of prudence 
and that of duty. The ftyle ot the au- 
thor is throughout polifhed, and adapted 
to philofophic fubjects ; it is correct with- 
eut being ornamental, but neverthelefs 
pleafant and lively. 
Morals and Education,” by &. G. Bauer, 
A.M. &c. p. xvi. and 366, well deferve 
the perufal of every tutor and guardian of 
afamily. All the compofitions of this 
refpectable author are, like the prefent, 
diftinguifhed by pure principles, by a 
conftant application of philofophy to mo- 
ral purpofes, and by a diftinét arrange- 
ment and deduction of his ideas. “* The 
Inquiries into the Prozrefs of Nature in the 
developement of the Human Rare,” by 
the author of Liexbard and Gerirud, p. 
234, 8vo. arean interefting publication 
not only on account of the oyprinalviews 
ef manand his relations in lifé, but like- 
MonTuLy Mac. No. Xt, 
“<< Effays on fubjeds of 
wife on account of the energetic and lively 
manner in which the author expreffes hia 
ideas, Another attempt to account for 
the final purpoles, to which the author 
of nature feems to devote the human 
race, is the tellowing finall work, ‘* Oz 
the Deftixation of Man,” a philofophic in- 
quiry upon the principles of critical phi- 
lofophy, by J. Lenz, profeffor, p. 135, 
8vo. The author of this perfpicucus and 
popular eflay announces himfeif here as an 
enli¢htened man who has much reflected on 
his deftiny, and who endeavours to render 
his own convictions more general, for the 
improvement of mankind. “* A Sketch of a 
Philofophic Doétrine of Religion,’ by G.C, 
MuLieER, Part I. pp. xxiv. and 281, 
8vo, ‘This outline is not undeferving of 
a liberal thare of approbation aid encou- 
ragement ; the idea of a philofophic re- 
ligious doétvine is developed with much 
acutenefs and difcrimination; the poffi- 
bility as well as the reality and advan- 
tage of fuch a doétrine, if it were uni- 
verfally adapted, is placed in the moft 
obvious point of view. The author can- 
didly examines the apinions of other 
philofophers, and cenfures them with 
great liberality ; his mode of writing is 
clear and precite. “* Views of the Terri- 
tories of Hiftory and Philofophy,” Part I. 
by G.F. D. Goxss, profefior, &c. .p. 
vi. and 153, vo. 1798. Under this 
whimfcal title the learned author propo- 
fes to publifh annually a {mall volume 
(in preference to a monthly or other pea 
ricdical form) in which he impartially re- 
views and compares the hiftorical events 
ot the day with the precepts of a found 
and ftrict philofophy, and by which he 
hopes to procure a more general and he- 
neficial circulation to many important 
philofophic truths. As the fubje€ts of 
thefe effays are rather curious, we fthail 
infert here the heads and contents of thofe 
contained in this fmall volume: t. On 
the influence which the Pruflian govern- 
ment is likely to have on the German 
principalities in Franconia. 2. On the 
final purpofe of man. 3. An: attempr 
towards a deduction of the criginal rights 
of man: and 4. On the progrefs of the 
ciences in Germany. ‘° ‘Oz Righjs and 
Obhvations in general, and thofe of Civil 
Scciety in» particuizr,” pv. 303. S8vo. 
J. G. E. Maass, profeficr of philofophy 
at Halle. This work is already favour- 
ably known to the ftudent and profeflor 
of the law of nature. The excellent author 
is one of the few German writers, whofe 
compofitions are claffically concife, with- 
out being aphoriitical, and who juftly va- 
lues himielt-en his elegant and infrucs 
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