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juftice to fech as are condemned without 
atrial. In this manner ali that enjoys 
the mild government of Frederick Wil- 
liam, profpers and blofloms under the 
fhade of the olive-tree, blefled by all who 
are not open to party rancor and venal 
to foreign intereft. 
<¢ Open the Gates, the Jews are com- 
ing!” This is the title of a pamphlet, 
relating, as a dozen of others, to the 
writings pro ef contra on a di‘pute, which 
has already for a year been carried on 
with very unequal arms, and whofe ob- 
yeét is very well expretied in another new 
pamphlet by the following alternative, 
«« Muft the Chriftians be circumcifed, or 
the Jews baptized ?”” The honeft banker, 
Cox. w at Berlin got himfelf baptized ; 
and as this is now rendered as eafy and 
void of {candal for every Jew as poffible, 
jt ts not readily underftood why this re- 
fource is not laid hold of as foon as poffi- 
ble.—In the Catholic part of Germany a 
wery ative tendency towards reforming 
the ceremonies of worfhip and dogmas 
$s to be obferved.: There are ‘* Rational 
Explanations of the Mafs,” and “ Plain 
‘Sermons on the ftations of the holy crofs- 
owey during Lent.” Particularly do the 
fermons feem to acquire more moral ten- 
dency, and the true {pirit of Chriftianity ; 
and, inftead of the ejaculations of the je- 
fuitical pulpit-thumpers, a RIGET or 
WELTZHOFEN, twenty good Catho- 
lic books of fermons and devotion may 
be diftinguifhed-in this catalogue. It 
follows, of courfe, that neither do the 
Proteftants negleét the Science of Divi- 
nity ; dozgmatics are almoft every where 
chenged into an unbiafled examination 
aod well-founded hiftory of dogmas, and 
the learned Exegetes do not fuffer them- 
felves to be puzzled by the accommodat- 
ing fyftem and myflicifm refulting from 
a Wrong interpretation of the new philo- 
fophy. . A German Commentary on the 
three firft Evangelifts, by D. PauLus at 
Jena, is a very agreeable prefent; and 
exainples of good fermons cannot be want- 
ing, when, as in this fair, the names of 
REINHARD, TELLER, RYBBEK,SCHU- 
DERCF, WELAND, OLsHaUSEN, &c. 
promife fo rich a harveft. 
The fpirit of critical philofophy, and 
the rage of paradoxes to which it has 
‘given rife, fhows itfelf likewife in this 
Catalogue.» Asa new tranflanon of Plato 
is in t:and, in which it wil be clearly 
fhown that Plato was.a Kantean philofos 
pher without Knowing it; the venerable 
philofopher of Koenigsberg, who has 
again fhown the unimpaired ftrength of 
9 
_ pointed refutation 
Sketch of the principal Works in the laft Leipzig Fair. 
his genius in an “ Introduétion to JACH- 
MANN's Defence of Kant’s Religious 
Philofophy, will not take it amifs, if we 
call him the Plato of Koenigsberg. As, 
formerly, five academic fchools fprang 
forth from Platonic philofophy, fo new 
fe€ts are fhooting every where from the 
Kantean {fchool, even during the life-time 
of their mafter; who is often rudely 
abufed by the new feétaries. In battle 
array the adherents of the Kantean fyf- 
tem advance againft HERDER’s well- 
which they call a 
metacritical invafion; zez treatifes of this 
kind are named in the Catalogue. To 
FicutTe’s Atheifm the faithful continue 
to demand tranquillizing anfwers; whilft 
his ‘* Deftination of Man’”’ is fent for in 
great quantities from Copenhagen and the 
Catholic part of Germany ; and‘ his 
‘¢ Doérine of Science’’ 1s paflionately at- 
tacked in writing and converfation at the 
place of his former abode, by the ex- 
Benediétin ScHap, now Leéturer of 
Philofophy at Jena. REINHOLD and 
Jacosr write letters to him; but the 
penetrating JEAN Paty fights againft 
him with the moft powerful arms of 
ridicule, in his Clavis Fichtiana. Un- 
der the names of JacoB, JORDENS, and 
KrucG, the amateurs will find examples 
of a rational application of critical phi 
lofophy, and will eafily forget the errors 
of thofe authors who write moral doc- 
trines for children after the Kantean phi- 
lofophy, or who, like Stace, will bring 
even the mythology of the Romans to 
general principles. Concerning its appli- 
cation to natural philofophy, a capital 
work SScHELLING's Syftem of Tranfcend- 
ental Idealifm. is publifhed. His fyftem 
of natural philofophy tends, as he affirms 
himfelf, on the dynamic road, upon 
which he is lately arrived, to fet up the 
generak principles and leading ideas for 
al] future inquiry concerning nature. 
During this conteft, Jurifprudence does 
noc remain tranquil. The Jus Nature and 
the ¥us Criminale are now the order of 
the day. The names of GROLMANN, 
FEUERBACH,;KLEIN,KLEINSCHRODT, 
Kruc, HEYDENREICH, MiUuLLeR, 
ZACHARIA, are here prefixed either to 
journals, deftined for philofophical difeuf- 
fions and inquiries in thete fciences, or te 
peculiar woiks which deferve a particular 
confideration, and on account of this crowd 
the Carolina of the Chancellor Kocn, and 
HODERMANN’scompendium on the fame, 
are almoft loft out of fight.—For medical 
police Profeffor NieMANN at Kiel con- 
tributes in his ** Sheets for Police and Cul- 
ture,” 
