THE

PHILOSOPHY OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.

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

RIBLIOTHECA

JAN '82

SOULEIANA

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.

1882.

[All rights reserved.]

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