An Introduction to the Philosophy of Primary Belief. By Richard
Lowndea. (Williams and Norgate.)—Tho anther's original intention was to write a "plain, popular epitome" of Sir William Hamilton's metaphysical theories, but finding that ho did not entirely agree with Sir William's philosophy of the Unconditioned, he drew up in preference the volume before us. In the earlier part of the work he follows Hamilton in making the existence of primary beliefs or innate ideas the foundation of his system, but in the later he maintains the existence of a faculty of pure reason, by which the mind of man is enabled to think what it cannot imagine, and therefore to conceive the infinite. If Mr. Lowndes's views be accurate, the negative part of Mr. Mansel's Bampton Lectures falls to the ground. Into so abstruse a subject we cannot enter here, but students of metaphysics will find these much debated points clearly and concisely discussed.
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