stance, by Fichte as the absolute
I., by Plato and Hegel as the absolute Idea, by Schopenhauer as Will,
and by himself as a blind, impersonal, unconscious, all-pervading Will
and Idea, independent of brain, and in its essence purely spiritual,
and he taught that there could be no peace for man's heart or intellect
until religion, philosophy and science were recognized as one root,
stem and leaves all of the same living tree.

It is curious to trace how these various philosophies, recognized by
Van Hartmann under different names to be one, can be merged into the
sublime Christian philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, who taught that
religion, philosophy and science were indeed one--root, stem and leaves
of the one life-giving tree, which is God.

All that is deepest and most profound is to be found in this modern
German philosophy, which is diametrically opposed to the flippant and
sensual philosophy of the Voltarian school. However far the German
philosophers are from true philosophy as seen in the light of Christian
truth, they command a respect as earnest thinkers and workers, which it
is impossible to accord the eighteenth century French school.

ENGLISH.

No country in the beginning owed so much to the language and literature
of other nations as the English.

Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Norman-French, Cymric and Gaelic have all been
moulded into its literature.

Three periods stand out in its history--the first beginning with the
end of the Roman occupation, to the Norman conquest--this includes the
literature of the Celtic, Latin and Anglo-Saxon tongues. The second
from the Norman conquest to the time of Henry VIII, embracing the
literature of the Norman-French, the Latin and Anglo-Saxon; the gradual
evolution of the Anglo-Saxon into English; and the literature of the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The third period includes the Reformation, and the golden age of
Elizabethan literature; followed by the Restoration, Revolution, and
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Another division is called the Old English, Early English, and Middle
English. The latter was used by Chaucer, and with a little care in
reading can readily be understood by any educated person at the present
day, though it contains many words nationalized from the French. It is
a curious fact that the Anglo-Saxons, who in the present day, through
their descendants, the English, have the strongest national life and
literature, cannot boast