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PORTER ON THE HEIMAN INTELLECT.
The thinking mind of New England still
leads the speculative movement of our country.
And little Connecticut, a mere patch upon the
map of the Union, continues, as of old, to be the
generous nurse of a large proportion of the
thinkers of New England. Her elm-embowered
literary capital, New Haven, is gathering, from
generation to generation, associations that bid
fair to rank it with the groves of Academia.
While Cambridge tends, as it would seem inevita
bly, to the more aesthetic and literary side of
culture, and while its deepest thinkers are only
ambitious to be thought oracular, in New Haven
there has ever prevailed a conscientious and sci
entific spirit, which has aimed to grasp and pre
sent in communicable, pedagogic form, the truth
of man's spiritual nature and existence. Prof.
Porter, Prof. Fisher, and Prof. Day are living
examples of this practical, healthful, orthodox
tendency. But Prof. Porter's volume. just issued; is
and will be its monument. No such complete,
comprehensive, and valuable metaphysical trea
tise has appeared, we venture to say,iti the 'Eng
lish language, and very few out of it. ,DlM•ell's
History of Philosophy is the only one that ap
proaches it, and that does not claim to be, or to
furnish, as this does, a system. Prof. Porter, in
a comparatively small compass, gives us here a
system of spiritual, theistic philosophy, a view
of cotemporary and antecedent opinions, and a
critique of such as he feels bound to oppose. It
is a complete metaphysical library in itself; and
the choice of types is such, that beginners, as well
as more advanced students and 'private reathrs,
may use it with equal ease and profit.
It must be admitted that, since the days of
Hamilton, the weight of ,intellect engaged in
metaphysical studies has been upon the side of
materialism. A dark shadow seems to have been
gathering upon the continent and in Great
Britain, under the influence of such names
as Comte, Stuart Mill, Bain, Buckle, and Her
bert Spencer. Prof. McCosh, who has rendered
such valuable services in this conflict, is no
longer on the ground, but ie with us in this coun
try. Neither Prof. Porter nor Prof. ‘McCosh
can be said to equal, in originality, force, of
genius and popularity of address, the Coryplien
ses of materialism we have , named. Prof. Hic
kok, formerly of Schenectady, more closely ap
proaches the European materialists in the orgi
nality of his conceptions, but his system can
scarcely be termed popular. Prof. McCosh has
not attempted to give us a syston2, but'to carry
on a controversy. On the whole, Prof. Porter's
" Human Intellect" is the beat service rendered
to spiritual and theistic philosophy for a genera
tion, if no more. It is a convenient store
house of facts and weapons on every aspect of
the question; it is as guarded against the vague
ness of idealism as against the grossness of ma
terialism ; it is clear and natural in' style, copi
ous and happy in illustration, and taking the
line of the French rather than the German met
aphysicians, it quite strips metaphysics' - of its
conventional repulsiveness, and makes it an at- 1
tractive study. So we felt sure Prof. Ptirter
would make it, when more than twenty . years
ago, we sat at his feet with a chosen company of,
youth, whose thirst for knowledge could not be
quenched with the ordinary course of study, and
whose aspirations he guided and encouraged by
his quickening, sympathizing instructions. We
are scattered afar now, but there is not one of us
living who will not rejoice at this matured and
precious fruit, which crowns the career of
nearly a quarter of a century then just begun.
Svo., pp. 700.' Price, $5.
IicCOSHW WORKS.
Very appropos to ihe arrival and inauguration
of Dr. Mc:Cosh as. President of Princeton Col_
lege, his publiShers, MESSRS. CARTER & BROS.,
have re-issued the valuable series ofmetaphysical
works which bear his name. These are: First,
THE METHOD OF THE DIVINE,crOVERNMENT,
his earliest and, most successful work, of which
eight editions have been issued in England; a
work designed to exhibit and explain the Gov
ernment of God in Providende, and in
,the con
science of man. Second, TYPICAL FORMS AND
SPECIAL ENDS. IN CREATION, in which Nature
is SO artfully questioned as to yield surprising
and beautiful responses as to the ,great laws of
order and adaptation which regulate it, and
which point upward to the mind of man and
the revealed word,; as higher theatres for the il
lustration of the same truths. Third, THE IN
TUITIONS OF THE MIND INDUCTIVELY INVES
TIOATED, a treatise upon a special branch of
mental philosoPhy, which is of the highest im
portance, and which greatly needs to be elucida
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,the basis of ascertained
truth. Dr. McCook not only vindicates the ex
istence and high place of intuition, but gives us
a science of this part of the functions of the
mind, guarding it as well against exaggeration
as undervaluation; something hitherto unat
tempted in the degree to whichlt is here suc
cessfully carried. Fonrthi AN EXAMINATION
OP MR. 7,,5. MILLS'S PHILOSOPHY, BEING A
DEFENCE OF FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH. In this
argument,: the dangerous positions of, the, pok
tive, materhaistie philosophy, now so prevalent•in
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1868.
England, are examined in all their bearings upon
the great fundamental truths of a spiritual
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the LETTERS OF GERRIT SMITH, Esq., to Mr.
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whole followed by an " Appendix on the Theolo
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fundamental principles of revealed religion as
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the Bible. Instead of being a man of progress,
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, to the very position of explo
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