Excerpt from Course of the History of Modern Philosophy, Vol. 1 of 2
M. Cousin's "Course of the History of Modern Philosophy" is here, for the first time entire, presented to the English reader. It consists of Lectures delivered at Paris in the years 1828-9. "The delivery of these Lectures," says Sir Wm. Hamilton, speaking of the first volume, "excited an unexampled sensation in Paris. Condemned to silence during the reign of Jesuit ascendancy, M. Cousin, after eight years of honorable retirement, had ascended again the chair of philosophy; and the splendor with which he recommenced his academical career, more than justified the expectation which his recent reputation as a writer, and the memory of his earlier lectures, had inspired. Two thousand auditors listened, in admiration, to the eloquent exposition of doctrines unintelligible to the many, and the oral discussion of philosophy awakened in Paris, and in France, an interest unexampled since the days of Abelard. The daily journals found it necessary to gratify, by their earlier analyses, the impatient curiosity of the public; and the Lectures themselves, taken in short hand, and corrected by the Professor, propagated weekly the influence of his instruction to the remotest provinces of the kingdom." These remarks of the noble Edinburgh Professor, which contain no exaggeration, might be extended, with equal propriety, to the other two volumes.
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