CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. No. I. PAGE 1 II. 29 III. 53 LITERARY Policy of the Church of Rome Methodist Quarterly Review, for July, 1844. Sixteen Lectures on the Causes, Principies, and Results of the Cours de Droit Naturel, professé à la Faculté des Lettres de Catholicism compatible with Republican Government, and in Edward Morton. By s. 8. C. P. Clerkenwell, Esq. VI. THE Recent ELECTION The Recent Election. The Democratic Policy. VII. LITERARY Notices AND CRITICISMS IV. 76 V. 98 130 134 No. II. 137 194 III. PARKE ERISM, 222 . 1. THE CHURCH Against No-Church The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, January, 1845. Art. VI. The Church. II. SALVE FOR THE Bire of The Black Serpent Onguent contre la Morsure de la Vipère Noire, composé par le OR INFIDELITY 2. The Excellence of Goodness. A Serinon preached in the Church of the Disciples in Boston, January 26, 1845. By the IV. Miss FULLER AND REFORMERS 249 V. CATHOLIC MAGAZINE AND OURSELVES Woman in the Nineteenth Century. By S. Margaret Fuller. 258 The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review. Edited by Rev. CHARLES I. White and Very Rev. M. SPAULD ING, D. Ď. Vol. IV. No. III. March, 1845. VI, LITERARY NOTICES AND MISCELLANTES . 263 bury. same. . No. III. 1. TRANSCENDENTALISM, OR LATEST Form of INFIDELITY A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion. By THEODORE II. PROTESTANT Love of LIBERTY The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. By Rev. Na- THANIEL WARD. Edited by David PULSIFER. III. R. HILDRETH's Joint LETTER A Joint Letter to 0. A. Brownson, and the Editor of the North American Review. By R. HILDRETH, Author of “Theory of Morals." IV. THE EPISCOPAL OBSERVER VERSUS THE CHURCH The Episcopal Observer, Vol. I., No. III. Boston. May, 1845. The Æsthetic Letters, Essays, and the Philosophical Letters of Schiller ; translated, with an Introduction, by J. Weiss. 1. The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern. By the Abbė Mac GHEOGHEGAN. Translated from the French, by PATRICK O'Kelly, Esq. Parts I. and II. 2. Catechism of the History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern. By W. J. O'Neill Daunt, Esq. 1. TRANSCENDENTALISM, OR LATEST FORM OF INFIDELITY A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion. By THEODORE BROWNSON'S • QUARTERLY REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1845. Art. I. — A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion. By THEODORE PARKER. Boston : Little & Brown. 1842. 8vo. pp. 504. In our last Review, we established the fact, that the Transcendentalists assume, as their rule of faith or method of philosophizing, the truth and rectitude of human nature ; that man in his spontaneous or instinctive nature, which we identified with the inferior or sensitive soul, is the measure or criterion of truth and goodness; and therefore, that, in order to ascertain what is proper for us to believe or to do, we have only to ascertain what our nature spontaneously or instinctively approves. We now proceed to consider the second fundamental principle we have charged them with maintaining, namely, RELIGION IS A FACT OR PRINCIPLE OF HUMAN NATURE. In strictness, perhaps, the Transcendentalists do not mean to assert that religion itself is a fact or principle of human nature, but simply, that it has its principle and cause in human nature; and, consequently, this second principle might be resolved into the third principle we enumerated, namely, All the religions which have been or are have their principle and cause in human nature. It is possible that we should have been more strictly scientific in our analysis, if we had omitted the second proposition altogether, and embraced the whole teachings of the school within the first and third. Nevertheless, there is a sense in which the second proposition is true, and includes a portion of the teachings of the school, which we could not, without some inconvenience, discuss otherwise than under a separate head. 52 VOL. II. NO. IV. |