. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . t. Louis, and came into contact with Germans of culture andoriginality, his desire for philosophical study was greatly increased and strength-ened. In 1858 he became engaged in teaching, for eight years conducting oneof the city graded schools. The first year of his stay in St. Louis he studied Kants Critique of PureReason, without, as he say
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . t. Louis, and came into contact with Germans of culture andoriginality, his desire for philosophical study was greatly increased and strength-ened. In 1858 he became engaged in teaching, for eight years conducting oneof the city graded schools. The first year of his stay in St. Louis he studied Kants Critique of PureReason, without, as he says, understanding it at all. He had been solicited andencouraged to these studies by Henry C. Brockmeyer, a remarkable and brilliantGerman, and so enthusiastic for Kantian study that he awoke a genuine fervorin Mr. Harris. They arranged a Kant class, which Mr. Alcott on one occasionvisited, and in a short time the love for philosophical study became almost fanaticism. A num-ber of highly cul-tured Germans andAmericans com-posed the circle,whose members hada supreme contemptfor the needs of theflesh, and who, afterlong days of labo-rious and exhaustiveteaching, wouldspend the nighthours in threadingthe mysteries ofKant. In 1858 claims that. T. Harris, editor of the St. Louis Journal ofSpeculative Philosophy. they mastered Kant,and between thatperiod and 1863they analyzed, or, ashe phrases it, ob-tained the keysto Leibnitz andSpinoza. The resultof this long studyis written out inwhat Mr. Harriscalls his Introduc-tion to Philosophy,in which he dealswith speculativeinsights. Everyone, he claims, will have the same insight into Kant, Leibnitz and Spinoza as he did, by reading hisIntroduction. He already has a large number of followers, many of whom,according to his confession, apply his theories better than he does himself: andhis Journal of Speculative Philosophy, started boldly in the face of manyobstacles, has won a permanent establishment and gratifying success. Among t
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