I am a free-thinker, but I am a father also, and what would you have a father do when two pretty arms take hold of your neck and a sweet little coaxing voice whispers to you, "Let me go there, my darling papa.

Mill was a learned scholar, a great thinker, a good man, partly in consequence, partly in spite of it....

She was a thinker, might even have read a book lately.

The pre-Kantian thinker had proceeded to the discussion of knowledge without raising the question of the possibility of knowledge.

The organ of the school, the Zeitschrift für exakte Philosophie, now edited by Flügel (the first volume, 1860, contained a survey of the literature of the school), was at first issued by T. Ziller, the pedagogical thinker, and Allihn.

In the one case, philosophy is as far as possible exact science, in which the person of the thinker entirely retires behind the substance of the inquiry; in the other, philosophy consists in a sum of artistic conceptions, which derive their content and value chiefly from the individuality of the author.

Like Eduard von Hartmann, who will be discussed below, Julius Bahnsen (died 1882; The Contradiction in the Knowledge and Being of the World, the Principle and Particular Verification of Real-Dialectic, 1880-81; also, interesting characterological studies) seeks to combine elements from Schopenhauer and Hegel, while K. Peters (Will-world and World-will, 1883) shows in another direction points of contact with the first named thinker.

This was represented in an extreme form by B. Höijer (died 1812), a contemporary and admirer of Fichte, who defended the right of philosophical construction, and more moderately by Christofer Jacob Böstrom (1797-1866), the most important systematic thinker of his country.

. BY THEODORE THINKER.

"O yes, Mr. Thinker, tell us all the stories the old sailor told you.

Tall, strong-boned, and granite-headed, he was the student whom Sir William Hamilton himself had signalised and honoured as already a sterling thinker, and the strength of whose logic, when you grappled with him in argument, seemed equalled only by the strength of his hand-grip when you met him or bade him good-bye, or by the manly integrity and nobleness of his character."

"A sound thinker gives equal consideration to the probable and the improbable.

The happy and the thoughtless, the thinker and the sickare alike at home here.

In the rainy twilight the fierce tension of the Rodin "Thinker" in front of the Pantheon loomed huge and tragic.

How long could she have stood there, under the shadow of that terrific Thinker, consumed quite as much as he by the pain of trying to rise above mere nature?

Outside, across the city, on his bronze pedestal, the tortured Thinker, loyal to his destiny, still strove terribly against the limitations of his ape-like forehead.

It was not for nothing that our profoundest political thinker, Thomas Jefferson, attached so much importance to the study of the township.

WETHERILL, RICHARD W. The creative thinker; special advance notice.

SEE WILLIAM JAMES: THE MAN AND THE THINKER.

All those things which to the Eastern thinker are but an obstruction and a veil, to the Western have become the very means of spiritual ascent.

To the educated trained thinker, who by long and arduous discipline has developed his mental powers, that book contains the revelation of the thought of a great mind; whereas to the uneducated person it is merely a bundle of paper with words printed on it.

Le Contre-un, that republican treatise by De la Boetie, written in 1546, and circulated, at first, in manuscript only, was inserted, between 1576 and 1578, in the Memoires de l'Etat de France, and passionately extolled by the independent thinker Michael de Montaigne in his Essais, of which nine editions were published between 1580 and 1598, and evidently very much read in the world of letters.

I read somewhere not very long ago, that Balzac was the greatest thinker that had appeared in France since Pascal.

Of Pascal's claim to be a great thinker I confess I cannot judge.

"I tell you," Doctor Keene used to say, "that old woman's a thinker.