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CONTENTS.
| 30. | Return. Philosophy deals with necessary truths—therefore retarded by their prescription, | 23 |
| 31. | How ill the necessary truths hare fared in Germany and in our own country, | 24 |
| 32. | Secondly, How is the unsatisfactory state of philosophy to be remedied? Short answer, | 26 |
| 33. | A remedial system uniting truth and reason, not impossible, | 28 |
| 34. | Single canon for the right use of reason, | 28 |
| 35. | This system of Institutes claims both truth and demonstration, but rather demonstration than truth, | 29 |
| 36. | It is a body of necessary truth. Its pretensions stated, | 30 |
| 37. | An objection to its method stated and obviated, | 31 |
| 38. | The polemical character of this system, | 31 |
| 39. | Why philosophy must be polemical. She exists only to correct the inadvertencies of ordinary thinking, | 32 |
| 40. | This might be abundantly proved by the testimony of philosophers, | 33 |
| 41. | The object (or business to do) of philosophy renders her essentially polemical, | 33 |
| 42. | The charge of disrespect which might be supposed to attach to philosophy on account of her polemical character, obviated, | 34 |
| 43. | This system also adverse to psychology—and why, | 34 |
| 44. | What philosophy has to do, again distinctly stated, | 36 |
| 45. | Its positive object still more distinctly stated. Definition of metaphysics, | 36 |
| 46. | Why philosophy undertakes this object, | 38 |
| 47. | How philosophy goes to work. Adherence to canon—proposition and counter-proposition, | 38 |
| 48. | Further explanations as to how philosophy goes to work, | 40 |
| 49. | Advantages of this method, | 41 |
| 50. | Disadvantages of not contrasting distinctly the true and the false, | 41 |
| 51. | General unintelligibility of systems is due to their neglect to exhibit this contrast, | 42 |
| 52. | This system contrasts distinctly the true and the false, | 45 |
| 53. | The three sections of this institute. Arrangement explained and proved to be essential (§§ 54-62), | 46 |
| 54. | The section called ontology naturally comes first,—but is truly last in order, | 46 |
| 55. | It must be made to revolve away from us, in order to bring round the epistemology, which, though it naturally comes last, is truly first in order, | 47 |
| 56. | Epistemology and ontology the two main divisions of philosophy, | 49 |
| 57. | The epistemology does of itself afford no entrance to ontology. Why not?, | 49 |
| 58. | Because "Absolute Existence" may be that which we are ignorant of, | 50 |
| 59. | This consideration necessitates a new section of philosophy called the agnoiology. Its business, | 50 |
| 60. | Now we can settle the problem of ontology—and how, | 51 |
| 61. | Recapitulation of the three sections. 1. Epistemology. 2. Agnoiology. 3. Ontology. This arrangement not arbitrary, but necessary, | 52 |
| 62. | The necessity of keeping these divisions perfectly distinct, | 52 |
| 63. | The natural oversights of thought are rectified in these three sections, | 53 |
