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unstrung pearls which they drop beyond the seclusion of system, he loved the diSjecta 1ne1nbra of Coleridge, and preferred the PI Nsieri, and Parerga und Paralipomena to the constructed work of Gioberti and Schopenhauer. He knew Leibniz chiefly in his letters, and was perceptibly affected by his law of continuous progression, his general optimism, and his eclectic art of extracting from men and books only the good that is in them; but of monadology or pre-established harmony there was not a trace. His colleague, Schelling, no friend to the friends of Baader, stood aloof. The elder Windischmann, whom he partic- ularly esteemed, and \vho acted in Germany as the in- terpreter of De Maistre, had hailed Hegel as a pioneer of sound philosophy, with whom he agreed both in thought and word. Döllinger had no such condescension. Hegel remained, in his eyes, the strongest of all the enemies of religion, the guide of Tübingen in its aberra- tions, the reasoner whose abstract dialectics made a generation of clever men incapable of facing facts. I-Ie went on preferring former historians of dogma, who were untainted by the trail of pantheism, Baumgarten-Crusius, and even :IVI uenscher, and by no means admitted that Baur was deeper than the early Jesuits and Oratorians, or gained more than he lost by constriction in the Hegelian coil. He took pleasure in pointing out that the best recent book on the penitential system, Kliefoth's fourth volume, owed its substance to Morinus. The dogmas of pantheistic history offended him too much to give them deep study, and he ,vas ill prepared with counsel for a wanderer lost in the pervading haze. Hegelians said of him that he lacked the constructive unity of idea, and knew the way from effect to cause, but not from cause to law. His own lectures on the philosophy of religion, which have left no deep furrow, have been praised by Ketteler, who was not an undiscrin1inating admirer. He sent on one of his pupils to Rosmini, and set another to begin metaphysics with Suarez; and when Lady Ashburton consulted him on the subject, he advised her to read