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454 of course, later developed this method much further, whatever may have been his direct obligations to Shaftesbury, and from Butler we shall doubtless continue to learn, though so much of what we consider most modern in ethical speculation may be traced back to the greatest of English moralists.

But however we may differ from the editor in our estimate of the Philosophical Regimen and in our view of the position of Shaftesbury in the history of English Ethics, all students of philosophy must be grateful to Dr. Rand for the considerable labor involved in editing so much new material from the Shaftesbury Papers, and to the publishers for bringing out the volume in such attractive form.