AN

ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHY

OF

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.

Containing an Analysis of Reason
and the Rationale of Love.

BY

P. F. FITZGERALD.

"The logical formulæ are the real predicates of God."-HEGEL.

"The confidence of reason give,

And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!"
-WordswortH, Ode to Duty.

"Tis a base abandonment of reason to resign our right of thought,
our last and only place of refuge."

-LORD BYRON.

"Unless we see that God is involved in our Self-Consciousness, His
existence must be for us ever contingent and unnecessary.'

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.

1882.

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