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 NEW BOOKS. 287 that tarns it from non-being into being. Order, therefore, in the world apart from spirit is not yet order, but is merely a rudiment of the order that is afterwards found in the world as existent in spirit. Hence the cosmological law of harmony must be followed by the psychological law which completes it : they are two parts of the same law, two real relations in which the same object is considered " (p. 597). Scientific Tlieism. (Organic Scientific Philosophy.) By FRANCIS ELLING- WOOD ABBOTT, Ph.D. London : Macmillan, 1885 ; Boston : Little, Brown, 1885. Pp. xxiii., 219. In this volume, published simultaneously in England and America, the author presents " a resume of a small portion of a comprehensive philo- sophical system," of the nature of which some indication was given in his article on " Scientific Philosophy," MIND, vii. 461, here republished as an Introduction (pp. 1-56). The novelty of the book, he says, " lies in its acceptance, on the warrant of modern science and the scientific method, of the fact that we do know the objective relations of things, and in its attempt to develop the necessary philosophical implications and conse- quences of this fact, which phenomenistic modern philosophy steadily denies '"'. The outcome of a scientific philosophy, occupying " the old Greek ground of the objectivity of relations" abandoned by mediaeval Nominalism and its successor " Kantian Apriorismus," is " Teleology con- joined with Monism," which "yields the organic theory of evolution, or Scientific Theism," to be distinguished alike from the mechanical Deism that denies the immanence of God, and from the Pantheism that denies "all real personality whether finite or infinite". Critical Notice will follow. . (1) Locke's Theory of Knowledge, with a Notice of Berkeley. (2) Agnosticism of Hume and Huxley, with a Notice of the Scottish School. (" Philo- sophic Series," V., VI.). By JAMES M'Cosn, D.D., &c., President of Princeton College. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1886. Pp. 77, 70. These two numbers of the historical part of Dr. M'Cosh's Series are intended to lead to the conclusion that the natural realism of the Scottish school is the only means of escape from the consequences of Locke's theory of knowledge as historically developed first into the idealism of Berkeley and then into the scepticism of Hume and the agnosticism of Prof. Huxley. Kant (who is examined specially in No. vii. of the Series, See MIND, Vol. x. 468) by his manner of meeting Hume has " opened the way for a more widespread and devouring infidelity than Hume's direct attacks ever did". The only effective way of meeting the idealistic and sceptical consequences of the one-sided development of Locke is to point out that "just as by the internal sense we know mind, so by the external sense we know matter" (No. v., p. 67), and, that " what we perceive originally are things, and what we perceive by the faculty that discovers relations are relations of things" (No. vi., p. 46). To the accounts of their philosophy are prefixed short sketches of the lives of Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Reid. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Part IX. London : TrUbner, 1885. Pp. 201-500. In the present Part of these Proceedings, 200 pages are filled with a " Report on Phenomena connected with Theosophy," including from p. 207 to p. 380 an "Account of Personal Investigations in India and Discussion of the Authorship of the ' Koot Hoomi ' Letters (with Appendices)," by Mr. Richard Hodgson. Nothing, apparently, could be more exhaustive (over-exhaustive ?) than Mr. Hodgson's exposure of the arts of Madame Blavatsky and her confederates of the 'Theosophic' or 'Esoteric Bud-