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may be that many lovers of philosophic thought do not sufficiently understand the possible importance that attaches to the proposed "World's Philosophical Congress," to be held in Chicago during (probably) the latter part of August, 1893. Much effort has been expended in order to bring the Congress to the notice of that class of scholars; but the absence of anything resembling an organized philosophical body, compels a vast amount of detailed work, producing the desired result indeed, but much too slowly for the time at our disposal. Therefore the aid has been asked of the philosophical journals, seeing that through them a multitude could be reached by a single letter. Moreover the writers for such journals and their readers are precisely those from whom a Philosophical Congress must be formed.

It is significant that every journal has, like this, in the interest of philosophy, promptly and cordially offered its pages to the "Local Managing Committee," in order to aid both this committee and the philosophic world to act and co-operate in the endeavor to assemble a Congress that shall truly represent the present status of philosophy in the civilized world.

The World's Congress Auxiliary is constituted as follows: – '''1. A Central Organization,''' authorized by the Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, and recognized by the Government of the United States as the proper agency to conduct a series of World's Congresses in connection with the Exposition.

2. A Local Committee of Arrangements for each Congress. This Committee constitutes the means of communication and action between the Auxiliary and persons and organizations that will participate in a given Congress. This Committee of Arrangements consists of a comparatively small number of persons who, with few exceptions, reside in or near the place where the Congress is to be held.

3. Advisory Councils. Each Committee has adjoined to it, and constituting its non-resident, but active, branch, an Advisory Council, composed of persons eminent in the work involved, and selected from many parts of the world. The members of such Councils co-operate with the proper Committees by individual correspondence.

4. General Honorary and Corresponding Members are also appointed. They are invited to give their advice and co-operation in relation to the whole series of the proposed Congresses.

5. Committees of Co-operation, appointed by particular organizations, are recognized by the Auxiliary as representatives of Societies or Institutions, and are cordially invited to an active participation in the World's Congress work.

The General Objects of the World's Congress Auxiliary are 1. To provide for the proper presentation of the Intellectual and Moral Progress of the World, in connection with the Columbian Exposition of 1893, in a series Rh