THE first edition of Miss Martineau's version of the “Positive Philosophy” was published in the autumn of 1853. The considerable space of time which has since elapsed cannot have been due to any ...

WE have repeatedly expressed our admiration of the system of philosophy which Mr. Spencer is engaged in working out. Mr. Fiske, in giving an outline of this philosophy, has called it Cosmic; a name ...

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