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Joseph HOËné-WRONSKI. 2 manuscripts with autograph additions and corrections, and autograph notes for the printer, the second with autograph dedication and preface, Part Two. Réforme des Mathématiques, comme prototype de la réforme générale des sciences et de la philosophie, [1847], and Réforme de la Philosophie, au Bureau du Messianisme, [1847]-May 1848; 290 fol. pages, and 89 fol. pages, 18 of which entirely autograph. Manuscripts for Messianisme, ou Réforme absolue du savoir humain, which Wronski had begun publishing in 1847 (3 vols., Firmin-Didot frères), and of which the part devoted to the reform of philosophy seems to have remained unpublished. Let's quote the introductory pages, in the author's own handwriting: "In its practical result, establishing the peremptory constitution of the moral world, the present Reform of Philosophy is dedicated to the Heads of the three great European nationalities, viz: - To His Majesty the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland, as providential Protector of the messianic destiny of the Slavic Nations [...]. To Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, as reciprocal Guarantors of the religious destiny of the Germanic Nations [...]. To the spirits of Emperor Napoleon, as Revealer of the political destiny of the Roman Nations, and principally of the high political destiny of France", and in place of Louis-Philippe, "Political Moderator": the "Heads of the French Government, as Executors of the high political destiny of France, and generally of the political destiny of the Roman Nations"... He then summarizes some principles of his philosophy of politics, as set out in the Prolegomena of Messianism, and in particular his "political trinomy", the three fundamental laws of any "system of realities": "1° - The supreme law [...], the universal principle of truth", i.e., in politics, the "Fulfillment of justice by fixing the final goal of morality"; "2° - The universal Problem [...], this universal problem forms, in every branch of human knowledge, the fulfillment of creation by man", i.e., the fulfillment of legislative, executive, directive and judicial action "with a view to the final identity of Government and Commons"; "3e - The teleological contest [...invisible and providential basis, which serves to establish harmony in this system of realities, [...this teleological contest forms, in each branch of human knowledge, the crown of creation, the sublime work of the Creator's intelligence, which alone would suffice, in the absence of any manifestation of His absolute spontaneity, to unveil and attest His holy existence, that is, the rationality of creation", i.e., the "political harmony that must be achieved by the governing power to bring about man's gradual transition from morality to messianity"... Etc. Finally, he presents his "Program of Absolute Truths, for philosophical associations", which "will inevitably be able to save mankind"...
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Joseph HOËné-WRONSKI. 2 manuscripts with autograph additions and corrections, and autograph notes for the printer, the second with autograph dedication and preface, Part Two. Réforme des Mathématiques, comme prototype de la réforme générale des sciences et de la philosophie, [1847], and Réforme de la Philosophie, au Bureau du Messianisme, [1847]-May 1848; 290 fol. pages, and 89 fol. pages, 18 of which entirely autograph. Manuscripts for Messianisme, ou Réforme absolue du savoir humain, which Wronski had begun publishing in 1847 (3 vols., Firmin-Didot frères), and of which the part devoted to the reform of philosophy seems to have remained unpublished. Let's quote the introductory pages, in the author's own handwriting: "In its practical result, establishing the peremptory constitution of the moral world, the present Reform of Philosophy is dedicated to the Heads of the three great European nationalities, viz: - To His Majesty the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland, as providential Protector of the messianic destiny of the Slavic Nations [...]. To Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, as reciprocal Guarantors of the religious destiny of the Germanic Nations [...]. To the spirits of Emperor Napoleon, as Revealer of the political destiny of the Roman Nations, and principally of the high political destiny of France", and in place of Louis-Philippe, "Political Moderator": the "Heads of the French Government, as Executors of the high political destiny of France, and generally of the political destiny of the Roman Nations"... He then summarizes some principles of his philosophy of politics, as set out in the Prolegomena of Messianism, and in particular his "political trinomy", the three fundamental laws of any "system of realities": "1° - The supreme law [...], the universal principle of truth", i.e., in politics, the "Fulfillment of justice by fixing the final goal of morality"; "2° - The universal Problem [...], this universal problem forms, in every branch of human knowledge, the fulfillment of creation by man", i.e., the fulfillment of legislative, executive, directive and judicial action "with a view to the final identity of Government and Commons"; "3e - The teleological contest [...invisible and providential basis, which serves to establish harmony in this system of realities, [...this teleological contest forms, in each branch of human knowledge, the crown of creation, the sublime work of the Creator's intelligence, which alone would suffice, in the absence of any manifestation of His absolute spontaneity, to unveil and attest His holy existence, that is, the rationality of creation", i.e., the "political harmony that must be achieved by the governing power to bring about man's gradual transition from morality to messianity"... Etc. Finally, he presents his "Program of Absolute Truths, for philosophical associations", which "will inevitably be able to save mankind"...
