her goodman's breeches (1543-1607).

STILLING, JUNG, a German mystic; studied medicine at Strasburg, and
when there became acquainted with Goethe, who took a liking for him and
remained his warm friend; settled as a physician at Elberfeldt and became
professor at Marburg and at Heidelberg; he was distinguished for his
skill in operations on the eye, and is said to have restored to sight
without fee or reward 3000 poor blind persons; he is best known by his
autobiography; Carlyle defines him as the German "Dominie Sampson."

STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD, bishop of Worcester, born in Dorsetshire; was
a scholarly man, wrote on apologetics, in defence of the Church of
England as a branch of the Church Catholic, in support of the doctrine of
the Trinity, and in advocacy of harmony in the Church; was an able
controversialist and a generous minded; was a handsome man, and popularly
called the "Beauty of holiness" (1635-1699).

STIPPLE, a mode of engraving by dots instead of lines, each dot when
magnified showing a group of small ones.

STIRLING, JAMES HUTCHISON, master in philosophy, born in Glasgow;
bred to medicine and practised for a time in South Wales; went to Germany
to study the recent developments in philosophy there, on his return to
Scotland published, in 1863, his "Secret of Hegel: being the Hegelian
System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter," which has proved
epoch-making, and has for motto the words of Hegel, "The Hidden Secret of
the Universe is powerless to resist the might of thought! It must unclose
before it, revealing to sight and bringing to enjoyment its riches and
its depths." It is the work of a master-mind, as every one must feel who
tackles to the study of it, and of one who has mastered the subject of it
as not another in England, or perhaps even in Germany, has done. The grip
he takes of it is marvellous and his exposition trenchant and clear. It
was followed in 1881 by his "Text-book to Kant," an exposition which his
"Secret" presupposes, and which he advised the students of it to expect,
that they might be able to construe the entire Hegelian system from its
root in Kant. It is not to the credit of his country that Dr. Stirling
has never been elected to a chair in any of her universities, though it
is understood that is due to the unenlightened state of mind of electoral
bodies in regard to the Hegelian system and the prejudice against it,
particularly among the clergy of the Church. He was,