Excerpt from The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1864, Vol. 46 Standing on some lofty peak of the Andes, the traveler may see the head-waters of the great South American rivers min gling in one. But soon they separate, and, becoming more and more divergent in their course as they rush onward toward the sea, their months are at last separated by the length of a whole continent. SO the student in philosophy, standing on the ele vated plain of analytic thought, discovers that the two great philosophic systems which have divided the sufi'rages of learned men, and placed them on totally opposite poles of thought, have their common starting-point in the one question, Are there any ideas in the human mind which have not come in through the senses from the external world 3 Here are the head-waters of the sensational and transcendental schools of phi los0phy mingling in one, and just as the Amazon and La Plata flow on in opposite directions until they have reached the extremities of the continent, so from the yea or may of this great question, the rivers of philosophic thought flow on in diverse courses until they have reached the antipodes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.