A, E, I, 0, (the logical symbols): of Latin origin, 127; and taken from the first two vowels of Affirmo, and the first and second of Nego, 668, 669, 682.
Actual, the, (in Propositions) defined, 701.
Adrian VI. (Pope,) quoted touching the utility of Medicine, 256. Agricola (Rodolphus), his character, 206, 207.
Agrippa (Cornelius), his counsel touch- ing a reform of the University of Cologne, 468.
Aldrich (Dean): his Logicæ Compen- dium, 124, 137, 138, 141, 148, 149, 167, sq., 807.
Alexander Aphrodisiensis, 644, alibi. Algebra. See Mathematics. Alphabet of Thought: Table of, &c., 595, 8q.
Altdorf, University of, 385, 492. Ammonius Hermiæ, author of (logical) schematic diagrams, 667; recorder of inscription over Plato's school, 275; quoted pluries.
Analysis and Synthesis, often used conversely, 171.
Analytic Syllogism, 648, sq. Apocalypse, various modern opinions
regarding its canonicity, 518, 522, 523; its authority long doubted in the early Church, 516, 517; at the instance of Calvin and Beza, the Pastors of Geneva prohibited from preaching on the book, 518, sq.; the French Hugonot Pastors similarly restrained, 519; "The Evangelical Journal," its ignorance of such inter- dictions, &c., 517, sq.
Apuleius, quoted and emended, 696, sq. Archytas, the treatise on the Cate-
gories under his name a forgery, 138.
Aristotle his Categories exclude the Unconditioned, 25; not borrowed, 138, 139; metaphysical, 140; his merits in regard to Logic, 139; his logical system not perfect, 140; text emended, 271; apparently antici- pates the doctrine of the Condition- ed, 630, 631; his love of Geometry, 663; his ambiguity in regard to Breadth and Depth of Notions, 664, 692; his Syllogistic Diagrams re- stored, 664, sq.; character of his writ- ings, 771, 772; on necessity of philo- sophical study, 784; quoted passim. Assurance, (Special Faith, Fiducia, Plerophoria Fidei, &c.): in earlier Protestantism, the condition and criterion of a true Faith, but now ge- nerally, though privately, surrender- ed, 502; held by English and Irish Churches, but not by their Church- men, 502, sq.; this return towards Catholicism unnoticed, 503.
Atheism implied in Fatalism or the doc-
trine of Necessity, 618, 620, 623, 624. Augustin (Saint), his conciliation of Free Grace and Free Will, 621, 622; quoted passim.
Averroes, text of, corrected, 660; quoted pluries.
BACON (Lord): quoted, as to profes- sorial endowments, 782; as to the comparative facility of the inductive and physical sciences, 779, 819; et alibi passim.
Balfour (Robert), his character as a philosopher and logician, 120. Balliol College, Oxford, its academical eminence, 749, sq.
Barbara, Celarent, &c., of Latin origi- nal, and not borrowed from the Greek, and probably by Petrus His- panus, 126; improved cast of, 663; on Greek imitation of, its history, &c., 668, sq.
Barbarism of mind, and a knowledge of facts, compatible, 39-41, 779.
Baynes (Mr Thomas Spencer), 162, et alibi.
Benson (Mr Robert), Memoirs of Col- lier, 190.
Berkeley (Bishop), an unknown trea- tise by, 186; on his philosophy, 195, sq.; quoted pluries.
Bernard (Saint), his conciliation of Free Grace and Free Will, 622; quoted pluries.
Blemmidas, or Blemmides, not author of the Greek words for Mood and Figure, corresponding to the Latin Barbara, Celarent, &c., 668, sq. Bodinus, the foremost man of his age, 521, sq.
Boerhaave (Herrmann), 257. Boole (Prof.), 277.
Bossuet's accuracy vindicated, 501, sq.; on Liberty and Prescience, 637. Breadth and Depth of notions. See Logic.
Broun (Mr James), 119.
Brown (Dr Thomas), his philosophy of Perception, 43-98; his series of mis- takes, ib.; results of his doctrine, 95; his doctrine of Causality, 606, 612.
Browne (Sir Thomas), quoted, 308. Bucer (Martin), his character, 507. Bursa, the name by which an autho- rised House for the habitation and superintendence of academical scholars was called in Germany, 418-421.
Buschius (Hermannus), 225, sq. See Epistolæ O. V.
Butler (Samuel) quoted, on the neces- sity of philosophising, 784; on the facts of consciousness, 64.
CAJETAN (Cardinal), his doctrine in re- gard to the conciliation of Prevision and Predestination with Free Will, 622, 639.
Calvin and Beza, through their influ- ence the Pastors of Geneva prohibited from preaching on the Apocalypse, 518, 519.
Calvinism, a current representation of, erroneous, and, by the West- minster Confession, heterodox, 623, 624.
Cambridge University: its forced study
of Mathematics unimproving to the mind, and conducing to idiocy, mad- ness, death, 318, 336, 705, sq.; why so deleterious an exaggeration there maintained, 330; its Colleges about the last seminaries of Europe in which the Newtonian physics super-
seded the Cartesian, and why, 318, 330, 331, 820; its present study of mathematics condemned by Newton, 313, sq.; absurdity of the recent Examination Graces, 819; its Di- vines the precursors of the German Rationalists and their followers, 523, sq. Camerarius (Gulielmus), his character as a philosopher and logician, 121. Canvassing of academical patrons, an abomination still practised in Edin- burgh, 384, 710, sq.
Cartes (Des): his employment of the word Idea, (see Idea,) and his doc- trine of Perception, 70, 71, sq.; the first of mathematicians, he despised and renounced Mathematics, 274, sq.; which he soon even wholly for- got, 288; called his physical philo- sophy a Romance, 302; his testi- mony touching Free Will, 636. Casaubon (Isaac), on the Genevese prohibitions touching the Apoca- Îypse, 518, sq.
Categorical. See Logic. Categories: Aristotelic, 25, 139, sq.; of Thought-by Kant, 16, sq., 26, sq.-by Cousin, 9-by Author, 16, sq., 595, sq.
Catholic Italian Universities, their re- ligious liberality, 369, 373, 375. Causality, judgment of: its origin, 604, sq.; relation of, ipso facto, thought as conditioned, 34, 35; con- spectus of the various theories for its explanation, 606, sq.; explained by a new theory, that of the Condi- tioned, 613, sq.; moral and religi- ous character of this theory, 617, sq. Causes, always more than one, 605, 616.
Chapman (George), quoted, 309. Chevallier (Professor), 261. Chretien (Rev. Mr), 126. Christian (Dr), his evidence touching professorial appointments in Edin- burgh University, 711, sq. Churches of Germany, England, and Scotland, their character, 344-350. Church History, best or worst of dis- ciplines, 500.
Churchmen: English and Scottish, in different ways, have a bad profes- sional education, 344-350, 389, sq.; and the worst possible tests of com- petency, 351; among those the most ignorance, among these the least learning, of any national clergy, 352. Clarke (Dr Samuel), on the Idealism of Berkeley and Collier, 194, sq. Classical learning, its conditions, 337,
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