text:  Those who have been trained in a different school of thinking those who have adopted the metaphysics of the transcendental philosophy will find much in these volumes to dissent from; but no man be his pretensions or his tenets what they may who has been accustomed to the study of philosophy can fail to recognize and admire in this author that acute patient enlarged and persevering thought which gives to him who possesses it the claim and right to the title of philosopher