Excerpt from Outlines of Metaphysic: Dictated Portions of the Lectures of Hermann Lotze It affords me, therefore, the pleasure that comes from the hope of being useful to a wide circle of persons, to announce that I have arranged to trans late and edit several, if not all, of those little books called 'outlines' which have been given to the pub lic in Germany since the death of their' lamented author. These 'outlines' cover the entire ground of Lotze's mature teaching in the University upon the subjects of Logic, Metaphysic, Philosophy of Nature, Psychology, festhetics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and History 'of German Philosophy since Kant. A word of explanation as to the origin of these books will suffice to assure the reader that he is to be put into com munication with the thoughts of this philosopher in a way which he can trust both as to substance and form of expressmn. The German from which the translations are to be made consists of the dic tated portions of his latest lectures (at Gottingen. 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.