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 454 NOTES AND COERESPONDENCE. could happen to them was never to become professors, and they were quite resigned to that. Many took the advice of the ghostly father I have before referred to and did their best to believe that matter and form were really distinct. It must be remembered, in order to understand tfiis, that Jesuits profess absolute and perfect obedience to the Holy See in all that concerns the teaching or even the very existence of their Order. The Indeterminism of Molina, opposed to Thomist Determinism as understood by the Dominicans, is one of the doctrines for which the Jesuits have battled most stoutly, and yet it would suffice for Leo XIII. to say one word for them to take up the pen in favour of Determinism. Two years after the events just recorded, my relations with the Society ceased altogether ; I cannot, therefore, now say whether Atomism is dying out or no. In all probability it is. The ' scholasticates ' are recruited by novices and humanists on the one hand, for whom the question is pre- judged as settled by superior wisdom, or on the other by men who are already tired out with work and care little for metaphysical subtleties. On neither side is there likely to be any determined resistance to the all-per- vading influence of Matter and Form. Probably in a few years the last representatives of the Atomistic school will have died out ; for only pro- fessors are generally known to have held such opinions, and Jesuits, whe- ther professors or others, rarely pass the age of sixty. PROF. LLOYD MORGAN ON THE STUDY OF ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. Ill common, no doubt, with all the other readers of MIND, I have been much interested in Prof. Lloyd Morgan's views on what I may term the antecedent impossibility of a Science of Comparative Psychology ; but an attentive reading of his paper in MIND 42 fails to show me any material change in those views as previously published by him in Nature. May I refer any of the readers of MIND who care to follow the subject to the some- what elaborate examination which I have already made of them in the pages of Nature ? This will be found in one of the numbers for Februarv, 1884. GEORGE J. ROMANES. THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY. At the meeting of March 8, the discussion of T. H. Green's Prolegomena to Ethics, Book i., "The Metaphysics of Knowledge," was continued, being again introduced by the President's bringing forward some objections to the theory from marginalia of his own. On March :>:>, Mr A. F. Lake continued the examination of Kant's Critick of Practical //<">, going down to the cud of the " Dialectic " ; and this subject was concluded on April 19, by a discussion of the whole theory, introduced by a paper from Mr P. Daphne on the "Methodology". The meetings of April 5, and May 10 and 24, were occupied respectively by papers from Mr G. J. Romanes " On Mind-stuff in relation to Theism " ; from Professor Run " On the Association of Ideas" ; and from the Rev. A. L. Moore, " On Design in Organic and Inorganic Nature"; which in every instance gave, rise to interesting and animated discussions. The latter paper concluded the philosophical work of the Seventh Session of the Society. Mr. James Seth has been appointed to the philosophical chair in Dalhousie College, Halifax, N.S., vacated by Prof. J. G. Schurman, now of Cornell University, N.Y.