LATELY PUBLISHED BY TRÜBNER & CO. TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS, a Theological and Political Treatise, showing under a series of heads that Freedom of Discussion may not only be granted with safety to Religion and the peace of the State, but cannot be denied without danger to both the public peace and true piety. By Benedict de Spinoza. 8vo. London, 1862, pp. 359. An emended edition, 8vo. London, 1868, pp. vi. and 359. On the SPECIAL FUNCTION OF THE SUDORIPAROUS AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEMS, their vital import, and their bearing on Health and Disease. By Robert Willis, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians, &c. 8vo. London, 1867, pp. viii, and 72. NATHAN THE WISE; a Dramatic Poem, by G. E. Lessing. From the German (in verse); with an Introduction on Lessing and the Nathan, its antecedents, character, and influence, by R. Willis, M.D. 'Would you see Religion portrayed as apprehended by Spinoza, you have only to turn to the Nathan of Lessing.'-Dr Kuno Fischer: History of Modern Philosophy. In the Nathan we have an Ideal of Religious Liberty, far surpassing any that has ever existed in the world.'-Dr Carl Schwartz: History of Modern Theology, and Lessing as Theologian. 'Creations like the Nathan, coming to us as from a better world, wherein opposites are for ever reconciled, and the differences that still so aimlessly divide mankind are set at rest, are not given to us for purposeless enjoyment or mere æsthetic contemplation. Much rather are they ours as pledges that the battle of life, fairly and fearlessly waged, is ever eventually crowned by victory; that humanity, however slowly, and with whatever occasional backslidings, still advances from darkness into light, from bondage into freedom; and further, that he only counts for one among the combatants who in some wider or narrower sphere shows himself forward to hasten the coming of this glorious day, the advent of this kingdom of God upon earth.' Dr D. F. Strauss: Lessing's Nathan the Wise. |