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The seventh treats of history, the eighth of progress, and the ninth of the connection of things. In no part of the work is there so much to be found that is new as in this. Quite at the be ginning, where he discusses the creation of man, and in con nection with this the constancy of natural development, and the acts of free interference with nature on the part of God, Lotze holds up a mirror in which both the so-called believers with their childish fear, and those who, in their arrogance, take weak hypotheses for absolutely certain knowledge, may see themselves and learn something. A further point of the greatest interest is Lotze s nominalistic view, particularly if we compare it with the opposite view of Fechner. It comes into prominence where he speaks of the education and pro gress of humanity. prev next |