The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851Various
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The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
We are indebted to the Messrs. Westermann, of this city, for the ninth
and tenth parts of Dr. ANDREE'S admirable work, entitled, _Amerika_,
of which we have before spoken at length. These parts conclude the
first volume, of 810 octavo pages, printed with an elegance which,
among us, is not generally attributed to German books. This volume
is devoted to North America, and these two parts, are divided into
chapters upon:--the New England States; the Middle States; the Southern
Atlantic States; the South on the Gulf of Mexico; the Western Slave
States; the Non-slaveholding, West and North; the Far West, and the
Pacific Coast. Each state and territory is treated with extreme
clearness and comprehensiveness, and with a correctness that seems
astonishing, when we consider that the book was written in Germany.
This volume is dedicated to Dr. Hermann E. Ludewig, of this city, in
three or four pages, giving an account of the motives which induced
Dr. Andree to write the work; we translate the dedicatory paragraph:
"This book, honored sir, I dedicate to you. The literature of North
American history is greatly indebted to your valuable labors; for
these ten years no small part of your time has been devotedly spent
in disinterestedly aiding, by advice and assistance, our emigrating
countrymen on their arrival in New-York. In your new country, which you
understand so keenly and so profoundly, you are still a cultivator of
German science, holding your old fatherland in appropriate honor. You
are in America a worthy and most estimable representative of German
culture and German integrity. Receive friendly this inscription, and
the cordial greetings I send you beyond the sea!" We trust the other
volumes of this work may speedily appear: the second will be upon
Mexico and Central America, and the third upon South America.
* * * * *
SPINOZA'S _Tractatus Politicus_ is the subject of a work recently
published at Dessau, by J. E. HORN. The author defends Spinoza's
political ideas as of a practical nature, and not at all connected with
the analogous theories of modern German metaphysicians. The work is the
result of much thought, and of all the industry which seems to belong
to every scholar of Germany.
Another work on Spinoza, is by Professor ZIMMERMANN of Olmütz, and is
entitled, _Uber einige logische Fehler der spinozistischen Ethik_. It
attempts to prove at length that the syllogistic method of the great
Jew can only be correct on the supposition that in substance the idea
and the reality are coincident, which supposition Spinoza himself
expressly affirms. The radical fault of this method, according to the
Professor, is the application of mathematical demonstration to things
not susceptible thereof. On the whole this publication adds little to
the treasures of philosophy.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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