Phylosophie Of Malebranche

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF
MALEBRANCHE

BY

WILLIAM CURTIS SWABEY, A. M.



A THESIS

Presented to the Faculty of theGraduate School

op Cornell University for the Degree of

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PREFACE.

In the following pages, I have attempted merely
to give an accuratehistorical account of the main
philosophical opinions of Father Malebranche; the
perhaps more important task of making a critical ap-
praisal of the truth of these opinions has been largely
left to some future date. It is, at any rate, clear that
the system of Malebranche, as a chapter in the history
of the Platonic tradition, deserves more consideration
than it has hitherto received. I must take...