DR. FISCHER'S WORK ON LORD BACON AND THE BACONIAN PHILOSOPHY. Just published, in One Volume, post 8vo. price 9s. 6d. cloth, FRANCIS BACON OF VERULAM: REALISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND ITS AGE. Translated from the German, with the Author's sanction, OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "After a careful perusal of Dr. Fischer's work, we believe that it will not only serve as a useful introduction to the study of Bacon in Germany, but that it will be read with interest and advan tage by many persons in England who are already acquainted with the chief works of the philosopher. The analysis which he gives of Bacon's philosophy is accurate and complete." JOHN BULL. "It is as a system of realism that Dr. Fischer more especially contemplates the Baconian philosophy. His comments on the subject are lucid and masterly; not ely as regards Bacon's own mind and times, but as regards his relation to English philosophy in general......This valuable essay has been translated by Mr. Oxenford in a clear and forcible and (a quality not often found in translations from the German) an easy style." GUARDIAN. "We give a ready welcome to this excellent translation of a valuable work. The translator has not in this case to procure a reputation for the original. Dr. Fischer's treatise obtained an honourable reputation in England very soon after it was published. It is not only a careful and conscientious work; it has, to the English reader at least, a strong savour of originality. We are accustomed to view Bacon through the medium of his own philosophy: we look upon him as the great father of modern thought, and accept his system before we examine it. He is to most Englishmen the one philosopher, in as eminent a sense as Aristotle was so to the schoolmen. It strikes us as new, in con London: LONGMAN, BROWN, and CO., Paternoster Row. |