Beschreibung:
Excerpt from Introduction: "James Balmes is well and favorably known to the public by his excellent work on European civilization, -a work which has been translated into the principal languages of Europe. In that work he proved himself a man of free and liberal thought, of brilliant genius, and varied and profound learning. But his work on the bases of philosophy is his masterpiece, and, taken as a whole, the greatest work that has been published on that important subject in the nineteenth century."