Excerpt from Philosophy of the Infinite: A Treatise on Man's Knowledge of the Infinite Being, in Answer to Sir William Hamilton and Dr. Mansel

In the present edition, this work is very greatly enlarged. Besides containing a distinct reply to the letter of Sir W. Hamilton, it embraces an answer, in detail, to Dr. Mansel's Bampton Lectures on the Limits of Religious Thought.

The course which the discussion has taken, since the publication of the former edition, has convinced me of the need for entering with much greater fulness into the consideration of those fundamental principles, to which I had previously been contented to appeal. I have accordingly attempted a careful examination into the nature and authority of our belief in the existence of the Infinite Being; the relation of faith and knowledge; and the characteristics of knowledge and thought. The chapters on these subjects may, I hope, prove an important addition.

The only change of view to be noted, concerns our conception of Time and Space. The conclusions which I have been led to adopt, are sufficiently indicated in the chapter demoted specially to the subject.

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