In commenting on their failure, an Athenaeum critic has explained the pre-established fitness of the ottava rimathe first six lines of which are a dance, and the concluding couplet a "breakdown"for the mock-heroic.

Thirdly, that the short-story must be subjected to compression; "in the whole composition there should not be one word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design."

So far, however, as it is the principle and the first cause of all things, and is pre-established as the object of desire to all things, so far it appears to be in a certain respect indigent of the things to which it is related.

To judge from Mr. Cushing's letter, he has studied this organ of the sympathizers with the Pre-established Harmonies,certainly there is a singular coincidence in the sentiments of both, so far as we can make them out.

Metaphysics: the Monads, Representation, the Pre-established Harmony; the Laws of Thought and of the World 2.

And with this our thinker appearsas Pfleiderer emphasizesclosely to approach the pre-established harmony of Leibnitz.

Metaphysics: the Monads, Representation, the Pre-established Harmony; the Laws of Thought and of the World.% Leibnitz develops his new concept of substance, the monad, in conjunction with, yet in opposition to, the Cartesian and the atomistic conceptions.

This general idea of a pre-established harmony finds special application in the problem of the interaction between body and soul.

Over the numberless lesser miracles with which occasionalism burdened the Deity, the one great miracle of the pre-established harmony has an undeniable advantage.

A special inferential value accrues to this position from the system of pre-established harmonyit is manifest that the complete correspondence of the manifold substances in the world, which are not connected with one another by any direct interaction, can proceed only from a common cause endowed with infinite intelligence and power.

Leibnitz's two leading ideas, the theory of monads and the pre-established harmony, were most of all affected by this process of toning down.

He limits the application of the pre-established harmony to the relation of body and soul, which to Leibnitz was only a case especially favorable for the illustration of the hypothesis.

This constant disturbance proceeds from "universal nature," which, as the common principle of organic and inorganic nature, as that which determines them for each other, which founds a pre-established harmony between them, deserves the name of the world-soul.