The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 5: September to December, 1858 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 5: September to December, 1858 In these two earliest types of civiliza tion, the synthesis was affected not by the equilibrium and harmony of the sub ective and objective elements of human ife, but by the predominance of the subjective in India, and of the objective in China. In China there was a State, but no free mental action; in India much ia tellectual and imaginative development, but though there were ancient codes of law, as that of Menu, scarcely the rudi ments of a State. Hegel has acutely remarked, that history and a State almost imply each other, and are the reciprocal conditions of each other's existence. We observe, accordingly, that China has had a full and exact h1story from a remote antiquity, but little literature and no 8 calative philosophy; whereas India, t ongh abounding in poet and specula tion, 13 almost entirely wit out a history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.