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— — — — The Open Court A -WEEKLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Work of Conciliating Religion with Science. Entered at the Chicago Post-Ofl&ce as Second-Class Matter. -OFFICE, 169—175 LA SALLE STREET.- No. 63. Vol. II.—37- CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 8, li CONTENTS THE SPIRITUALISTS' CONFESSION. Moncure D. A Short History of the War of Secession. R..\sseter Conway - 1295 Johnson ; 1303 THE HIBBERT LECTURES AND THE GAULISH My Predecessors. F. Max Muller 1303 PANTHEON. S. Arthur Strong 1297 The Ethical Record, Vol I. No. 3 1303 POETRY. NOTES 1303 Introduction to a Poem. Louis Belrose, Jr 1302 FICTION. BOOK REVIEWS. The Lost Manuscript. (Continued.) Gustav Freytag. 1304 KOELLING & KLAPPENBACH, Three Introductory Lectures THE LEADING ORGAN of British Thought on the American Continent IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN BOOKS AND PERIODICALS, The Science of ThoMht "THE WEEK," A Canadian Journal ol Politics, Society, and 48 DEARBORN STREET, (First published in The Open Court of June, July, and August, 1887.) Literature. 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He is prepared to give " The lectures are in their way interesting, even to to reach the professional and cultured classes of those who disagree with the author's views." four lectures on The hitellectual Development of The Canada. It is read by people who can purchase Critic. Wovien^ and three on The Poetry of Robert Brown- what they want and pay for what they purchase. " ing. He also has lectures on George Eliot, Charles Max Muller's supremely simple theory is hotly None but the choicest business announcements disputed, but it is easily vindicated, provided Darwin, Robert Browning, and Emerson. During one is not a dualist on principle." Boston Beacon. will be taken. 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WALTER THOMPSON, (Times Building), address is Dedham, Mass. Times Star. NEW YORK. — THE OPEN COURT. idealist to deny the existence of matter. The materialist behold THE OPEN COURT. ing the imperfection of the senses may pronounce them to be, by one, incompetent witnesses, and declare them to be PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY one illusions. But the fact is, both exist, object and subject, matter THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. and mind." MoNcuRE D. Conway, on Agnosticism, in No. 47. Editor. EDWARD C. HEGELER, President. DR. PAUL CARUS, Mr. Moncure D. Conway, in reference to the philosophical exposure of Agnosticism in the editorial article of Nos, 43 and 44 of is a radical journal which holds that Religion and The Open Court The Open Court, declares that the Unknowable cannot in the Science, rightly understood, do not contradict each other. The apparent di- least concern the religious nature. Only weariness of wing can vergencies have arisen from the false dualistic conceptions of world and life; and the Conciliation of Relitjion wilh Science is to be found in Monism-lo have brought free thinkers to seek rest on this raft. Religion does Coupt_^ present and defend which is the main object of The Open not follow abstract and vague gods, it follows Jesus, Buddha, Mary, Monism is that view which recognizes the Oneness of All-Ex who may be known and loved. On the truth and moral value of As a Philosophy, Monism is the basis of modern science. It teaches that truth is one and the same. One truth can not contradict another truth. Cog- these great figures, man can base his life. Mr, Conway concludes nition must agree with facts and be free from self-contradiction, constituting with the remark that the ethical side of monism has not as yet conception of Reality. a clear and systematic been made clear. Nature seems predatory and cruelly impartial As a Religion, Monism teaches that the individual is a part of the whole. between good and evil. Adherents of error survive more comfor- The individual must conform to the laws of the All in order not only to live, but also to lead a moral life—a lite that is worth living. tably and increase more extensively than the disciples of truth. The religion of Monism thus becomes the scientific basis of Ethics which May it not be more truly said that there is a moral law in man to relations of the individual to his fellow-beings as well as to the regulates the which nature must conform in order to be elevated and transfig- co«mical laws of the All. ured to a nobler existence? Mr. Conway's critical remark if it Translations from the most prominent authors of Europe have been pro- cured, and eftorts are made to present the very best and most advanced thought were unanswerable from the standpoint of Monism would drive re- bearing on scientific, religious, social, and economic questions. ligion and philosophy back into the dualism and supernaturalism of former times. And truly the supernatural, if it is justifiable at RATES OF ADVERTISING. all, must be recognized in the moral nature of man, unless man position, per line For Each Insertion, without choice of S .10 is proven to be a part of nature The editor's answer to Mr. " •' " " " " percolumn 12.00 expatiates on the " " " " Conway's criticism, in the same number, " *' per page . 20.00 Oneness of and Nature, thus showing that humanity, cult- Agate measure, 14 lines to the inch, 126 lines to the column. Man For specified position, 20 per cent, will be added to regular rates. ure and civilization are but a higher stage of the natural, and advertisements The Open Court sent free to advertisers while their that morality does not stand in contradiction to, but is an observ- continue. ing of and a conforming to the cosmical order of the AH. To Advertisers.—The Open Court will be found to offer especial advan- tages for the advertisement of Current Literature and the insertion of Pub- ERNST mach. Its numbers being on file in all the prominent hotels, libraries lishers' notices. 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