# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S23
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Literature. 23

1860, bibliographical index, synthetical tables and other additions by Ch. P. Krauth, D. D. 687 pp., 8vo, cloth, $1.75.
Sent postage-free upon remittance of the money.

This philosophical dictionary contains explanations of about 800
terms from logic, ethics, metaphysics, psychology, aesthetics, and
the history of philosophy. It was originally compiled for the benefit
of those students intending to attend a longer course of lectures on
moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, for which reason the
expressions and turns of phrase of German philosophy were taken into
account only insofar as they had come into more general use. But
since the book proved to be very useful, it was expanded for the
second edition for more extensive use. To this edition the American
editor has, besides other additions, appended a chronological table
of the history of philosophy from Tennemann's handbook, a small
vocabulary of German philosophical terms, and a — unfortunately very
incomplete, yet valuable — bibliographical index of philosophical
writers.

Our notice in this theological journal cannot intend a critique or a
more detailed treatment of the contents of this work, but is meant
only to serve as an invitation to bring into the service of the
Gospel whatever is useful that the book offers. We therefore call the
attention especially of young and zealous men, who would gladly raise
their intellectual powers through philosophical culture in order to
use them the more effectively for the defense of the truth and the
exposing and overthrowing of error, to this book, which is especially
suited to strengthening and cultivating the power and capacity for
thought and to sharpening the understanding. The benefit which
philosophy can render to theology has been set forth in more detail
in the preface to the fifth volume of this journal, to which we refer
for the justification of our recommendation of the above-named work.

We take the liberty of communicating here also the pronouncement of a
man impartial and discerning in this matter, which might well be
suited to call attention to the fact that, apart from the formal
training of the mind gained through philosophical studies, of which
we have just made mention, there also lie preserved, even in the
philosophical disciplines themselves, many valuable gifts of God,
which according to God's will are to be used in the church to His
honor. Augustine says, in the 40th chapter of the 2nd book of his De
Doctrina Christiana, in giving an explanation of what the passages
Exodus 3:21 and 12:25 have typically foreshadowed, the following:
"The truth, and that which is agreeable to our faith, which the men
called philosophers, especially the Platonists, may have spoken
somewhere, is not only not to be rejected with horror, but is rather
to be claimed by us as rightful property