The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
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page 37 of 304 (12%)
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"Leibnitz als Denker,"--Hartenstein's "De Materiae apud Leibnit.
Notione,"--and Adolph Helferich's "Spinoza u. Leibnitz: oder Das Wesen des Idealismus u. des Realismus." To these we must add, as one of the most valuable contributions to Leibnitian literature, M. Foucher de Careil's recent publication of certain MSS. of Leibnitz, found in the library at Hanover, containing strictures on Spinoza, (which the editor takes the liberty to call "Refutation Inedite de Spinoza,")--"Sentiment de Worcester et de Locke sur les Idees,"-- "Correspondance avec Foucher, Bayle et Fontenelle,"--"Reflexions sur l'Art de connaitre les Homines,"--"Fragmens Divers," etc. [2], accompanied by valuable introductory and critical essays. [Footnote 2: A second collection, by the same hand, appeared in 1857, with the title, _Nouvelles Lettres et Opuscules Inedits de Leibnitz_. Precedes d'une Introduction. Par A. Foucher de Careil. Paris. 1857.] M. de Careil complains that France has done so little for the memory of a man "qui lui a fait l'honneur d'ecrire les deux tiers de ses oeuvres en Francais." England does not owe him the same obligations, and England has done far less than France,--in fact, nothing to illustrate the memory of Leibnitz; not so much as an English translation of his works, or an English edition of them, in these two centuries. Nor have M. de Careil's countrymen in times past shared all his enthusiasm for the genial Saxon. The barren Psychology of Locke obtained a currency in France, in the last century, which the friendly Realism of his great contemporary could never boast. Raspe, the first who edited the "Nouveaux Essais," takes to himself no small credit for liberality in so doing, and hopes, by rendering equal justice to Leibnitz and to Locke, to conciliate those "who, with the former, think that their wisdom is |
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