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This translation is designed to supply a want long felt by both
teachers and students in our American colleges. We have valuable
histories of Philosophy in English, but no _manual_ on this subject so
clear, concise, and comprehensive as the one now presented. Schwegler's
work bears the marks of great learning, and is evidently written by
one who has not only studied the original sources for such a history,
but has thought out for himself the systems of which he treats. He has
thus seized upon the real germ of each system, and traced its process
of development with great clearness and accuracy. The whole history
of speculation, from Thales to the present time, is presented in its
consecutive order. This rich and important field of study, hitherto
so greatly neglected, will, it is hoped, receive a new impulse among
American students through Mr. Seelye's translation. It is a book,
moreover, invaluable for reference, and should be in the possession of
every public and private library.
_From_ L. P. HICKOK, _Vice-President of Union College_.
"I have had opportunity to hear a large part of Rev. Mr. Seelye's
translation of Schwegler's History of Philosophy read from
manuscript, and I do not hesitate to say that it is a faithful,
clear, and remarkably precise English rendering of this invaluable
Epitome of the History of Philosophy. It is exceedingly desirable
that it should be given to American students of philosophy in the
English language, and I have no expectation of its more favorable
and successful accomplishment than in this present attempt. I
should immediately introduce it as a text-book in the graduate's
department under my own instruction, if it be favorably published,
and cannot doubt that other teachers will rejoice to avail
themselves of the like assistance from it."
_From_ HENRY B. SMITH, _Professor of Christian Theology, Union
Theological Seminary, N. Y._
"It will well reward diligent study, and is one of the best works
for a text-book in our colleges upon this neglected branch of
scientific investigation."
_From_ N. PORTER, _Professor of Intellectual Philosophy in Yale
College_.
"It is the only book translated from the German which professes to
give an account of the recent German systems which seems adapted to
give any intelligible information on the subject to a novice."
_From_ GEO. P. FISHER, _Professor of Divinity in Yale College_.
"It is really the best Epitome of the History of Philosophy now
accessible to the English student."
_From_ JOSEPH HAVEN, _Professor of Mental Philosophy in Amherst
College_.
"As a manual and brief summary of the whole range of speculative
inquiry, I know of no work which strikes me more favorably."
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