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 438 PHILOSOPHICAL PEEIODICALS. does not agree with M. Stanley Hall about the genetic psychology sketched by him and the scientific and practical value he claims for it.] G. Belot. ' Esquisse d'une morale positive.' [States briefly the main conclusions of a book which will be published shortly. Life in society is the common condition of all human activities and ends, whatever they may be. Society is the supreme end because it is the universal mean. Consequently the general formula of practical morality is " Faire exister la societe," and in most cases the particular problems of ethics consist in harmonising needs, interests, or institutions already existing. Founded on this principle, ethics would be at once rational and positive, and appears to be essentially suited to a democracy, not only as originating from it, but principally as preparing its very com- pletion : for it organises the functions of the individual and forms the person by the self-same work by which it orders society, and it tends to realise the unity and life of the social whole, not through the enslave- ment but through the freedom of the individuals.] P. Gaultier. ' Le Role Social de 1'Art.' [Art is social in itself simply because there is no aesthetic emotion, in the heart of its admirers and of the artist, without living sympathy, intimate communion and reciprocal penetration. Every work of art is social in its effects because it is social in its principle, and the more beautiful it is, the more social it is : nothing is more social than a masterpiece inasmuch as there is nothing that arises out of a more profound and more universal love. But neither a moralising purpose nor an explicitly social end is to be assigned to art. It is social and moral without intending to be so, merely in striving to fulfil its specific function, which is, first of all, to manifest and to evoke in others the aesthetic emotion.] Notes et Documents. G. H. Luquet. ' Note sur un cas d'association des idees.' Analyses et comptes rendus. Revue des Periodiques etr angers. REVUE DE METAPHYSIQUE ET DE MORALE. 14e Annee, No. 2, March, 1906. J. Lachelier. ' La proposition et le syllogisme.' [Logicians ought to distinguish between propositions of inherence and propositions of relation. The latter constitute syllogisms fundamentally different from those of the Aristotelian logic. Lachelier proceeds to criticise the tra- ditional analysis and classification of the propositions and syllogisms of inherence.] G. Belot. 'En quete d'une morale positive.' [The con- cluding article of this series, continued from the issue of September last.] Mario Pieri. ' Sur la compatibilities des axiomes de I'arithmetiqne.' [A study in the new philosophy of mathematics.] L. Couturat. ' Pour a Logistique.' [A lengthy and detailed reply to Poincare's criticisms of the positions taken up by Russell and Couturat.] C. Bougie. ' Note sur les origines chretiennes du solidarisme.' [' Solidarisme ' is not of Christian origin. The modern attempt to reorganise society on scientific and rational principles is due to recognition of the insufficiency of the subjective feelings of love and charity as a basis for the duties of active benevolence.] Livres nouveaux, etc. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE UND PHYSIOLOGIE DER SINNESORGAXE. Bd. xli., Heft 2 und 3. G. Hey mans. ' Untersuchungeu uber psychische Hemmung. iv. Schluss.' [The visual experiments show that suppres- sion and intensive contrast may be subsumed under inhibition. The author appends some theoretical conclusions as to the distribution of mental energy.] K. Goldstein. ' Merkfahigkeit, Gedachtnis und Asso- ziation : ein Beitrag zur Psychologie des Gedachtnisses auf Grund von Untersuchungen Schwachsinniger. n.' [Experiments on memory.