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THE INDIAN PEOPLE.

By W. W. HUNTER, C.I.E., LL.D.

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XV. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.

XVI. India under the British Crown (1858 to 1881).

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ON MR. SPENCER'S UNIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE.

By MALCOLM GUTHRIE,

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CONTENTS.-On Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge.-Reply to Mr. Spencer's Criticism.-Miscellaneous. -An Examination of the "Principles of Psychology" with regard to its Position in the System for the Unification of Knowledge.-An examination of the "Principles of Biology" with regard to its Place in Mr. Spencer's System.

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISHADS

AND ANCIENT INDIAN METAPHYSICS.

AS EXHIBITED IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED TO THE Calcutta Review.
By ARCHIBALD EDWARD GOUGH, M. A.,

Lincoln College, Oxford; Principal of the Calcutta Madrasa.

Those interested in the General History of Philosophy will find in this book an account of a very early attempt, on the part of thinkers of a rude age and race, to form a Cosmological theory. The real movement of philosophic thought begins, it is true, not in India, but in Ionia; but some degree of interest may still be expected to attach to the procedure of the ancient Indian Cosmologists. The Upanishads are so many "songs before sunrise"-spontaneous effusions of awakening reflection, half poetical, half metaphysical, that precede the conscious and methodical labour of the long succession of thinkers to construct a thoroughly intelligible conception of the sum of things. For the general reader, then, these pages may supply in detail, and in the terms of the Sanskrit texts themselves, a treatment of the topics slightly sketched in the third chapter of Archer Butler's first series of "Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy." The Upanishads exhibit the Pantheistic view of things in its most poetical, and, at the same time, in its coarsest form.

Language as the Expression of National Modes of Thought. | The Connexion between Dictionary and Grammar.
The Conception of Love in some Ancient and Modern

Languages.

The English Verbs of Command.

Semariology.

Philological Methods.

The Possibility of a Common Literary Language for all Slavs.
The Order and Position of Words in the Latin Sentence.
The Coptic Language.

The Origin of Language.

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