[279] Historische Beiträge zur Philosophie, iii. 165. [280] Cf. Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik, iii. 228. [281] First Principles, § 194, p. 556. [282] Principles of Psychology, § 56, i. 140. [283] Ibid., §§ 272, 273, i. 624 ff. [284] Mind, ix. 21. [285] From "action" in this its ultimate meaning as equivalent to origination by the subject, it is necessary to distinguish "action" as a phenomenon in the external world. The latter is one of the modes in which the relation of objects is known to us, the former a characteristic of knowing. The active nature of knowledge is worked out in an interesting way in Professor S. S. Laurie's 'Metaphysica nova et vetusta,' by "Scotus Novanticus" (1884). [286] Werke, iii. 538; cf. Adamson, Philosophy of Kant, p. 138. [287] Prolegomena to Ethics, p. 161. [288] Prolegomena to Ethics, p. 165. [289] Sidgwick, "Green's Ethics," Mind, ix. 180. [290] This is implied in Hegel's well-known imperative, "Be a person and respect others as persons."--Phil. d. Rechts, p. 73. [291] Thus Höffding maintains that "the highest ethical idea" is "the idea of the human race as a realm of personalities."--Grundlage der humanen Ethik (aus dem dänischen), p. 74. [292] Bau und Leben des socialen Körpers, i. 173. [293] Cf. H. Siebeck, Philosophische Monatshefte, xx. 340. * * * * * CATALOGUE OF MESSRS BLACKWOOD & SONS' PUBLICATIONS. PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS. EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St Andrews. In crown 8vo Volumes, with Portraits, price 3s. 6d. _Now ready_-- DESCARTES, by Professor Mahaffy, Dublin.--BUTLER, by Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A.--BERKELEY, by Professor Campbell Fraser, Edinburgh.--FICHTE, by Professor Adamson, Owens College, Manchester.--KANT, by Professor Wallace, Oxford.--HAMILTON, by Professor Veitch, Glasgow.--HEGEL, by Professor Edward Caird, Glasgow.--LEIBNIZ, by J. Theodore Merz.--VICO, by Professor Flint, Edinburgh.--HOBBES, by Professor Croom Robertson, London.--HUME, by the Editor.--SPINOZA, by the Very Rev. Principal Caird, Glasgow.--BACON: Part I. The Life, by Professor Nichol, Glasgow.--BACON: Part II. Philosophy, by the same Author.--LOCKE, by Professor Campbell Fraser, Edinburgh. _In preparation._ MILL, by the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour. * * * * * FOREIGN CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS. EDITED BY MRS OLIPHANT. In crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. _Contents of the Series._