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 436 PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. Deploige. ' The Conflict of Morals and Sociology.' [Points out the- difficulty experienced by M. Durkheirn in denning Sociology. Like a chemical body, a society has properties other than the sum total of the properties of its individual components.] EEVUE DE PHILOSOPHIE. ler Avril, 1906. G-. Bertier. ' Rational Beauty.' [That beauty consists in entirety and proportion of parts, and adaptation of the whole to the end, and is not, as Tolstoi says, tout ce qui plaH.] F. Wax-rain. ' The Triad of Eeality.' [Eeality is composed of three roots, which in isolation are inconceivable, unknowable, unin- telligible, namely, as Wronsky enumerates them, being, knowing, and a neuter element which is the union of the two.] J. Ingegnieros. ' Physiology of Musical Language.' [That the centres specialised for musical language are true sub-centres to those of ordinary language, standing to them in the relation of part to whole.] l er Mai, 1906. W. James. ' Pragmatism.' [Address to the University of California : a series of articles on Pragmatism is promised.] Baron Charles Mourre. ' The Duality of Self in Sentiment.' [There is in every sentiment an idea and an emotion : the idea consists in an opposition of self to self, the present self being compared with the past or future.] F. Warrain. 'M. Couturat's Principles of Mathematics.' [Logic and mathematics interpenetrate one another so intimately that they may be said to make one science, called General Logic, the science of all formally necessary reasoning.] R. Meunier. ' Vegetarianism, a Hygiene for a Philosopher.' l er Juin, 1906. E. Baudin. ' The Philosophy of Faith in Newman,' analysis of H. Bre'mond's Psychologic de La Foi. [An appeal from formal reasoning to the illative sense : " for faith thus conceived reason is the enemy, or almost so ".] J. G-ardair. ' The Divine Being.' [Of the positive knowableness of God as the great Exemplar, on the principles of St. Thomas, in reply to Pere Sertillanges, O.P., who speaks of "the superiority of night over day for declaring what God is ".] C. Mourre. 'The Duality of the Ego in Emotion.' [That every emotion involves some glance at self.] C. Dessoulavy. 'A Finite God,' based on Mr. Schiller's ' Riddles of the Sphinx'. Altogether a good number. REVUE PHILOSOPHIQUE DE LA FRANCE ET DE L'ETKANGEK. 31 e Annee. No. 2, Fevrier, 1906. Andre Lalande. ' Pragmatisme et Pragmaticisme.' [In this article, the recent philosophical movement generally called prag- matism is briefly characterised in its various forms : i.e., the pragmatism of Peirce, the radical empiricism and broad pragmaticism of W. James, the humanism of F. C. S. Schiller, the disirrigidimento of theories and beliefs, as set forth by the writers of the review Leonardo in Florence, and the new interpretation and defence of religious dogmas presented, from the pragmatist's point of view, by some recent authors. According to M. Lalande the general problem implied in these various forms of the doctrine is the following : How to find something that shall control and judge the individual thought, and constitute it into truth ? He believes that the collective action and thought are able to yield a criterion and to restore for the individual mind that authority of the impersonal reason whose weakening is the most striking feature of the present state of philosophy.] Georges Palante. ' L'Ironie : etude psychologique.' [Psychologically irony has its source in the " Doppelgdngerei," i.e., in the dissociation of understanding or reason, and sensibility or intuition. Its metaphysical principle lies in the contradictions of our nature and also in the contra- dictions of the universe or of God. The ironist's attitude implies that there exists, in the heart of the things, from the point of view of our-