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 PHILOSOPHICAL PEEIODICALS. 435 morally disadvantageous in its tendency to relax the sense of obligation, if not to indulge the feeling of antagonism, to general society. But the very detachment from multifarious interests makes it easier to take a larger view of life, and is so far favourable to the formation of ideals. The intellectual freedom and intercourse foster truthfulness and sympathy.] W. L. Cook. 'Ten Years of War and the Hague Treaty.' [The next practical step in the development of the peace idea is that mediation be accepted as obligatory by the signatories of the Treaty.] Mary E. Richmond. 'The Eetail Method in Reform.' ["The whole of social ^form is in the retail method, when we follow faithfully wherever its ireful working out may lead."] C. F. Yonge. ' Suicide : Some of Its Causes and Preventives.' I. W. Howerth. ' The Industrial Millen- nium.' [" The industrial millennium is a perfected industrial democracy. Before it can come, in anything but form, the spirit of democracy lust grow."] R. C. Cabot. ' Ethical Forces in the Practice of Medicine.' ). H. MacQregor. ' The Practical Deductions of the Theory of Know- idge.' [An idealist theory of knowledge does not yield trustworthy eleological deductions.] F. Arnold. ' The So-Called Hedonist Para- lox.' [Argues that there is no paradox in the search for pleasure.] C. Myers. ' The Vivisection Problem : a Personal Explanation.' Book Reviews. Vol. xvi., No. 3, April, 1906. J. Royce. ' Race Questions and Prejudices.' [In dealing with race-problems we are prone to confuse "ic accidental with the essential ; to take as fundamentally characterising race what is only a product of special conditions ; and to regard as in- iperable difficulties that are due to defective organisation. Race- jroblems are elemental social antipathies intensified, through suggestion id habit, into racial hatred and prejudice.] J. MacCunn. ' The Ethical Doctrine of Aristotle.' [The moral end is realisable here and low in the action that best meets the concrete situation. Practical isight is the outcome, first, of the valuations which themselves imply 5th moral nurture and individual experience, and then of the settled labits that come from deliberate action. Truly moral conduct involves le organic union of character and intelligence, of predisposition and ever- lew adjustment.] J.G.James. 'Revivals: their Ethical Significance.' "Revivals are significant as the. forward swing following on periods of lecadence in morals, although steady and continuous progress would be preferable to these extremes. They are significant also as indicating lat personality is the most potent force in human life and the highest itegory in ethics.] M. Sturge Henderson. ' Some Thoughts under- ling Meredith's Poems.' Dickinson S. Miller. ' Matthew Arnold on le " Powers " of Life.' [He enumerates the powers of conduct, of itellect and knowledge, of social life and manners, and of beauty. We lay add those of bodily life and the senses, of the affections, and of eligion. Rightly viewed, the power of conduct includes all.] G. Spiller.
 * A Method of Dealing with the Labour Problem. ' [An account of Ernst

Vbbe and the regulations of the Karl Zeiss Stiftung in Jena.] Book leviews. REVUE NEO-SCOLASTIQUE. Fe"vrier, 1906. G. Vsselmuiden. 'Ba- >nian Induction.' [Science inquires into the forms of simple natures, le ' nature ' being the sensible quality, and the ' form ' its innermost jality, as motion is the ' form ' of heat.] A. de Poulpiquet. ' The Central Point of the Controversy of the Distinction of Essence and Existence.' [The point is this, that between actual existence and lothingness there is a mean, potentiality, which has a " reality distinct rom actuality, irreducible to actuality, permanent under actuality ".] S.