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      The Conquerors Of The New World. The Con...

      Mother who have assisted us , so that we should arrive here and behold this sea , will favour us that we may enjoy all that there is in it . ' " Every great and original action has a prospective greatness , not alone from the _thoughts of the man who achieves it , but from the various aspects and high thoughts which the same action will continue to present and call up in the minds of others to the end , it may be , of all time . And so a remarkable event may go on acquiring more and more significance . ' In this case , our knowledge that the Pacific , which Vasco Nunez then beheld , occupies more than one half . of the earth ' s surface , is an clement of thought which in our minds lightens up and g'ives an awe to this first _o-a _/ . e of his upon those mighty waters . To him the scene might not at that moment have suggested much more than it would have done to a mere conqueror indeed , Feter Martyr likens Vasco Nunez to Hannibal showing Italy to his soldiers . " We could go on quoting and quoting indefinitely , but enough has been quoted to give the reader a familiar idea of the contents of this Avork , and so we leave it , anxiously awaiting the continuation .

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      NOTICES OF BOOKS Ought Electors to Elect ?—Ten Minutes Talk on the Ballot . Illustrated by Diagram ? . By Jelinger Symons , Esq ., Barristcr-at-Law , & c . Effingham Wilson This is a very admirable and timely pamphlet , by a writer eminently entitled to consideration and respect from his long official experience , clearly and succinctly disposing of the curre 7 it and cant objections to secret voting in a few sentences , thrown into the form of questions and answers . For instance , the most received and most commonplace accusation against the ballot is , that it is " un-English . " Observe how Mr . Jelinger Symons dismisses this ridiculous pretension : — " I wish every elector to have the power of voting entirely according to his own will . I object to the ballot solely because I think it attended with great evils , and that it would not effectively prevent the foul influences . First of all , the Ballot is not an English , that is to say , a manly mode of voting .

      " P . Whether the ballot be English or not , in the sense in which you apply the term , entirely resolves itself into the general question—whether it be good or bad ? If the ballot is shown to prevent corruption , bribery , and intimidation , it is good ; and what is good , is , I presume , not un-English ; unless bribes and bullying are manly and English , which God forbid any Englishman should consider them . How can you call that cowardly in poor men , which rich men and great military heroes resort to daily in their clubs , when they ballot for members , to protect themselves from the resentment of the gentlemen they blackball in secrecy ? They don't seem to think it unmanly or un-English . You have an evident prejudice against the

      ballot because it is secret . Now secrecy abstractedly is good or bad according to the purpose to which it is applied . There are many things which it is right to do secretly , and which it were wrong to do openly . There is no reason why voting should not be as well done in secret as in public , especially when rich and powerful men set the example . Immense evils are admitted to exist under open voting : every attempt has been made to remedy these evils consistently with open voting , and they have all signally failed . If these evils can be remedied by secrecy , surely secrecy becomes a benefit . Tho most , I can admit you is , that the question resolves itself into a balance between the iniquities of tl . o public system , and an abstract dislike to secrecy , though realizing immense and positive good . "

      Would the ballot destroy the influence of property , as landowners , who drive their tenants up to the poll like their own cattle , assert : — "P . I believe , on the contrary , " replies Mr . Symons , "that , it would greatly enhance the just and legitimate : influence of property ; whilst "to its manifold abuses it would prove a death-blow . The man of property who diffuses around him the kindly influences of charity , kindness , and sympathy—who applies his wealth to the alleviation of the wants and sufferings of the poor—who is a kind neighbour , a liberal landlord , and a just man — will lind h ' mself possessed of a degree of moral influence and real power , which not all the gold of Oriesus could purchase , and which being based in the hearts of the people , will operate just as strongly and just as surely in secret as in public To this moral influence , and to the cultivation of judgment and thought among the people , I am convinced the ballot would force the aristocracy to have recourse . "

      I he results ol universal suffrage and the ballot in h ranee are often triumphantly appealed to by the denouncer of " tin-Ktiglish " practices : — "P . Is the abuse of a filing an argument against ; its proper user You may _destroy the effect of any system by violence or fraud . " ..- / . Some people think that many of the voters are too ignorant fo know how to vote . " li . The ballot , will be an _« 'v < _'oll < mt motivo to the _url . _itocnu-y to instruct I . hem . Put this is a point which refers to the su If rage , and not to the ballot . " ..- ¦/ . Are not , fhe two connected ? " 11 . Not . necessarily ; though in one sense tbe ballot would at , once extend fhe suffrage , for it would enfranchise , the constituency , of whom one-half are enslaved , and therefore mere fools to others . I must , again remind you that , the ballot , is alone I . o be regarded as realizing that power in electors which it is unconstitutional antl criminal to deny . "

      The want ol voters has been once more shamefull y ' conspicuous these last few days , notably in Westminster , where the show of hands was all one way and the votes ( under lady-like intimidation ) another . The pamphlet is accompanied with diagrams illustrating _flits practical application of the ballot to elect ions . HOOKS ON OUK , _TAHblO . Hutfcr ' s Aualoyy of _R-elit / ion , A ' atura f antl . llevealcd ; to which are added . Two brief Dissertations on- Personal . Identity antl the Nature of Virtue ; antl Fifteen Sermons . New _-Pdjlion , with Analytical Introduction , Kxpliiinilory Notes , and an Index . It y a . Member of the University of Oxford . ( Holm ' s Standard- Library . ) II . O . Holm .

      fins edition of tho great bulwark of orthodoxy , lluflers Analogy , has a wry valuable addition in the shape of a luminous analysis prefixed ft ) the work , and mine analytic recapitulations in the footnotes , which will greatly facilitate the reader ' s comprehension of the chain of argument . An index also is given . In -pile _<>| " thin work being old anil well known , we feel it strong temptation to grapple with its main positions ; and may still , af some more leisure season , gratify that desire . Meanwhile , as it is fhe business of all advocates of free thought to iniike

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      themselves acquainted with the strongest works on both sides , we recommend Butler ' s Analogy to students . Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America , By A . von Humboldt and A . Bonplantl . Translated by Thomasina Ross . In Three Vols . ( Bohn's Scientific Library . ) Vol . II . ' H . G-. Bohn . The second volume of Humboldt ' s travels in Mr . Bohn ' s English edition : a work _whieh surpasses , both in solidity and in interest , almost every book of travels pretending to scientific value .

      The Pant And Future Of Hungary. By C. T....

      The Pant and Future of Hungary . By C . T . _Hennnagsen . " _Colbnrn ' s United . Service Magazine . Memoirs of Lord Langdale . By T . D . Hardy . 2 vols . Bentley ' s Miscellany . Bentley ' s Shilling Series . —Broad Grins from China . Fraser ' s Magazine . The People ' s Illustrated Journal . Part II . Bleak House . Part V . Writings of Douglas _Jewold—Calces and Ale . Part II . Sponge ' s Sporting Tour . _Household Narrative . Musical- Times . Handel ' s Oratorio . The Picture Pleasure Boole . Part III . The Golden Bird . Part III . The Charm : a Magazine for Boys and Girls . Part III . The Westminster Review . Tail ' s Edinburgh Magazine . Fenny Maps . Falconry in the Valley of the Indus . By R , P . Burton . Walks after Wild Flowers : or , the Botany of the Bohereeus The Journal of _Psychological Medicine The New Quarterly _Retncic . Part III Lawson ' s Merchants' Magazine . J he Journal of _Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology . Jonn L . mircmii The New Quarterly Benieic . Part III . "' Hookham and Son . Lawson ' s Merchants' Magazine . C . Hastings . The Poetical Remains of William Sidney Walker . By Rev . J . Moultrie . J . W . Parker and Son . The Drama of a Life , and Aspiranda . By J . A . Langford . J- Hughes , The History of the Painters of all Nations . By M . Chariest Blanc . J . Cassell Discovery of America , Conquest of Mexico , anil Conquest of Peru . By Dr . Pirscher . * J Whittaker and Co The Physician ' s Holiday ; or , a Month in Switzerland in ihe Summer o / _" 1848 . By J . Forbes . W . S . Orr and Co The Zoist . No . XXVIII . H . _Baillifcre Bohn ' s Scientific Library—On the Power , Wisdom , and Goodness of God . By the Rev . W . Kirby Vol . II . H . G . Bohn Bohn ' s Classical Library—The Orations of Marcus Tallins Cicero . By C . D . Tonge . Vol . IV H . G . Bohn and Mental Bohn ' s Standard Library—Memorials of Christian Life : in Augustus Meander . " Bohn ' s Standard Library—Frederika Bremer ' s Works . Translated by Mary Howitt . H . G . Bohn Blondellc : A Story of the Day . E- Bentley T . C . _Ne-wby Colburn and Co R . Bentley R . Bentley R . Bentley J . W . Parker and Son Office , 11 , Bouverie-street Bradbury aud Evans , Punch Office . Bradbury and Evans . 10 , "Wellington-street A . Novello . A . Novello Addey and Co Addey and Co Addey aud Co John Chapman Sutherland and Knox Chapman and Hall J . Van Voorst Dowden ( Richard . ) J . Van Voorst John Churchill Hookham and Son C . Hastings B 3 the Early and Middle Ages . By Dr H . G . Bohn

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      COMTE'S POSITIVE _PHILOSOPHY Bt G- . H . Lewes . Part XIV . —The Science of Life . I now approach the great and intensel y _interesting Science of Life , improperly called Physiology , a name which it must continue for some time to bear , because certain quacks with customary ignorance have vulgarized and distorted the term Biology , antl applied it , in contempt of Greek ami science , to their Mesmeric operations . Matter endowed with a peculiar property , by us named vital force ; having the faculty of nourishing itself , of reproducing itself , and , in its higher complications , of feeling ; nourishing itself by a process which is

      identical throughout the whole series of organized beings—namely , by cellular formation ; reproducing itself also by an identical process—cellular fission ; possessing , in the animal series , sensibility and locomotion , in virtue of two special tissues , the nervous and the muscular ; exhibiting itself in a wondrous progression of combinations from the structureless cell of the lowest plants , up to the complex structure of the highest animals ; acting in strict conformity with certain laws , chemical and vital , and so producing all the variety of organized beings ; becoming more and more heterogeneous in organs and functions as it ascends the scale ; passing through determinate stages of gerniiiuvtiou _, growth , maturity , decline , and death ; everywhere iutlissolubly connected with the great Life of the Whole , and terminate stages ot gerniiiuvtiou , growth , n everywhere iutlissolubly connected with the _y speaking iu mysterious hieroglyphics , we but encompassing and all-sustaining" Power , the which for ever presses on our souls—that is all the other sciences arc torches . It is the upon the final Social Science . The study of Man antl the . stud y of the < eternal two-fold problem of philosophy _, may serve as the point of departure of the . dimly interpret , of that " all-! burden and the mystery of the object of Ihology . To it .: torch whereb y wc can look external world constitute the As Cointe says , each of these other . Hence two radically

      opposed philosophies --one proceeding tt _> consider the world according to our subjective conceptions - that is to say , explaining eosmical phenomena by the analogies of our internal sentiment * and affections ; the other proceeding to consider man as subordinate to tiie laws ot" the external world , and as _explicable only by the _explanations of the properties of matter recognised in operation in the external world . The former of these philosophies is , as 1 have endeavoured _f . o demonstrate in the . Biographical History of Philosophy , essentially met _uphysical and theological . It rests upon the old assumption of man ' s inin d being the normal measure of all things : it makes Into the correlate of i . dea ; it makes the universe subordinate to man . The second is tht : _scientific and positive philosophy . That the Metaphysical Method should predominate iu the Htudy oi" Life , long after if has disappeared from Ph _ysics , and only lurks iu odd corners of Chemistry , every one sees tt ) he a i latural _consctpicnce , and accordingly ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1852, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10071852/page/21/