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 PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. 567 of Cracow University, ' The History of Philosophy in the East,' which he praises very highly, examining in detail the part of the work which treats of philosophy in China.] A. M. Steil. ' Das Theorem der menschlichen Weseneinheit in consequenter Durchfuhrung.' [In this, the first of two papers, the author points out the essential union of soul and body to form one being, man. It is a kind of union which transcends all imagination, and all the theories which strive to give an imaginable representation of this union are false and self -contradictory. We cannot imagine a substantia incompleta quoad naturam, such as are both body and soul, if thought apart. Only the man, the compound, is a complete nature, and the subject of all mental and physical phenomena; in man the soul is one with the body.] E. Rolf. ' Die Unsterblichkeit der Seele nach der Beweisfuhrung bei Plato und Aristoteles.' [This paper, also the first of two articles, is devoted to a long examination of the proofs of the immortality of the soul as given by Plato, especially in his Phxdo, with a critical appreciation of the strong and the weak points in those proofs.} Gr. v. Holtum. ' Vom Individuations-princip.' [What is the principle of individuation, or the intrinsic principle which makes any individual being to be that individual ? This Scholastic problem is solved by the author on the old Scholastic lines ; individuation proceeds from the materia prima signata quantitate.] RIVISTA FILOSOFICA. Anno v., vol. vi., fasc. i. January-February, 1903. F. Bonatelli. ' Alcuni schiaramenti intorno alia natura del conoscere, del volere, della coscienza e della percezione.' [In reference to an account of his philosophy by Mr. James Lindsay in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society the author takes occasion to restate and defend his views respecting the infinite self-reflexion of thought and will, the concept of consciousness as the root of every intellectual fact, and the nature of perception.] Gr. Zuccante. ' La Donna nella Dottrina di Socrate.' [Brings together a number of passages, chiefly from Xeno- phan, exhibiting the feminist tendencies of the Socratic philosophy.] V. Alemanni. ' La filosofia di Pietro Ceretti ' (cont. e fine). [Inverting the method of his master, Hegel, Ceretti begins with the concept, whence he passes through the philosophy of Reflexion to the absolute Being which is consciousness.] G. Rigoni. ' I metodi psicofisici.' [After detailing certain modern methods for the determination of minimal perceptions, the author seems to express a rather unfavourable opinion as to their psychological value, and doubts the possibility of discovering truth by recording errors whose distance from the truth cannot be fixed owing to their variability.] R. Mondolfo. ' L' educazione secondo il Romagnosi.' [In educational theory Romagnosi was an eclectic who combined the method of Rousseau with the methods of Condillac, Pestalozzi, Lancaster and Owen.] C. Cantoni. ' L' ultimo carteggio di Kant.' [Quotes from the last volume of his correspondence proofs of the enthusiastic veneration with which Kant was regarded by many of his contemporaries, and of his own confidence in the all-sufficiency of his philosophy.] Rassegna Bibliografica, etc. Fasc. ii. March-April. G. Villa. 'Dei caratteri e delle tendenze della filosofia contemporanea.' [The chief feature in recent speculation is the renewed prominence given to psychology, the immense philosophical importance of which has again become recognised as against the method that would treat it like any other special science ; while within psychology itself introspection has held its ground against the exclusive claims of biology and sociology. But the former by its theory of evolution, and the latter by its conception of aggregate souls have made contributions of extraordinary value to the right understanding of mental phenomena. In epistemology the critical