WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ANCIENT RELIGION AND MODERN THOUGHT. Second Edition, Demy 8vo, 128. CHAPTERS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY. With an Introductory Dialogue on the Philosophy of History. 2 vols. Demy 8vo, 21s. A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION. Revised. Demy 8vo, 12s. Second Edition, ON RIGHT AND WRONG. Second Edition, Revised. Demy 8vo, 12s. ON SHIBBOLETHS BY WILLIAM SAMUEL LILLY PUBLIC "Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth: LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED 1892 [All Rights reserved ] $. THE NEW YORK 276145 TILBEN FOUNDATIONS, 1914 WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. ย To ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, LITT.D., LL.D., Principal of Owens College, Manchester, MY DEAR WARD, If the following pages contain anything helpful towards the solution of the problems which I discuss, it is largely due to the masters of Teutonic thought cited by me from time to time. It has been their mission to reassert; in the language proper to the age, the idea of perfection as an inward condition of mind and spirit: to main. tain the truth, which underlies all rational philosophy, that the great mechanism of the world exists for something beyond itself: that it exists for the realization of moral worth-worth in character and in conduct. Kant and Hegel, Trendelenburg and Lotze, furnish an antidote to the dissolvent doctrine of sensualistic individualism, by which the French intellect seems hopelessly poisoned, and which has disastrously affected many an excellent understanding among ourselves. They, more than any other modern writers, have vindicated the conception of human society as organic and ethical. То you I directly owe it that b |