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 432 NEW BOOKS. Vol. vi. 284-7, to some strictures hazarded in these pages on the opening of his polemic against Mill's philosophy in 1878. Concerning this polemic, it is not unimportant for Jevons's credit now to learn that it was first begun as far back as 1868 (or in thought even earlier, see p. 225), and might have been carried through in Mill's lifetime if " the editor of one (if the leading magazines" had not declined to publish the three articles first written. Historic Aspects of the A Priori Argument concerning the Being and Attri- butes of God. Being four Lectures delivered in Edinburgh in Novem- ber, 1884, on the Honyman-Gillespie Foundation, with Appendices and a Postscript. By JOHN GIBSON CAZENOVE, D.D., Sub-Dean and Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Edinburgh. Lou- don : Macmillan, 1886. Pp. x., 150. In these Lectures, which are not altogether philosophical in tone (see, for example, p. 105, where we are told what is likely to be the sentence passed on Agnostics at the Day of Judgment), an attempt is made to trace the history of " the a priori argument for the Being and Attributes of God," by which the author ineans chiefly the conclusion from the idea to the necessary existence of a perfect being, " suggested by Plato, re-stated by Augustine, and elaborated by Anselm ". He is unable to decide whether Anselm may not have borrowed hints from Scotus Erigena, "but have been unwilling to acknowledge the obligation on account of the bad reputation of Scotus Erigena on the ground of orthodoxy " ; " since in all ages many great and good men have held it lawful to be reticent concerning the source of some true and brilliant suggestion, if they have thought that mention of the work whence it was derived would either spread the knowledge of what might do mischief, or else prejudice hearers and readers against an argument which in itself was sound and valuable" (p. 52). The Anselmian argument, he concludes, had no widespread and acknowledged influence on theology until it was taken up by Descartes in the early portion of the 16th century (p. 55). Of those who have employed some form of a priori argument since Descartes, the chief writers discussed are Clarke and the late "W. H. Gillespie, in whose honour the Lectureship held by the author was founded. The lectures themselves are followed by an " Appendix A" (pp. 99-129) in which (1) references are made to "schools of thought, or authors who do not seem to have attained to a true Theism," and (2) speci- mens are given from "authors who do appeal 1 to have grasped, as far as human understanding can, what is implied in the word God " ; and an "Appendix B" (pp. 130-6) on necessary truths in science. After the Appendices comes a " Postscript " (pp. 137-44) on (1) Kant and the a j>riuri argument, (2) "the alleged Pantheism of Plato," and (3) "the famous
 * ide from Judaism, Pieiiedirt Spino/a" (see p. 60). Lastly there is an

"Addendum" (pp. 145-6) on "the force and practical authority of truths for which the proof falls short of absolute demonstration". Works of THOMAS HILL GRKKX, late Fellow of Balliol College and Whyte'.- Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Edited by II. L. XKTTLESHIP, Fellow of P.alliol College, Oxford. Vol. II. 1']iilo*npln<-al U'rk*. London : Longmans, Green, 1886. Pp. xliv. r 568. Following vol. i., which brought together (see MIND, Vol. x. 461), with some small additions, all of Green's previously published philosophical writings except the Pro/ MA ;>.--, the present volume consists of selections from his unpublished philosophical papers. "It was his practin, both as college-tutor and as p- write out and keep full notes for