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IX. PHILOSOPHICAL PEKIODICALS. PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW. Vol. vi., No. 2. S. S. Laurie. 'The Meta- physics of T. H. Green.' [Green's general conclusion is that "the uni- versal mind which unifies the manifold we call the world into a related whole, finds, or rather effects, a self-realisation of itself in finite n,inds, which thus are competent to unify the manifold of sense into a related whole". Objections are: (1) it is a hypothesis; (2) a unifying principle of relations need not be a self-consciousness ; (3) Green's analysis of the nature, process and necessities of finite mind is untrue ; (4) his notion of God is inadequate to the demands of the human mind ; (5) self- existing and free finite selves are incompatible with the system.] E. Albee. 'Gay's Ethical System.' [The whole outline of Utili- tarianism, in its first complete and unencumbered form, is to be found in Gay's Preliminary Dissertation."] E. S. Haldane. 'Jacob Boehrne and His Relation to Hegel.' [Critical sketch of Boehme's philosophy, showing the points of resemblance between his thought and that of Hegel. Not a strong paper.] J. E. Creighton ' Is the Transcendental Ego an Unmeaning Conception?' ["Our experience as it actually exists seems to give us as its correlate a variously coloured and multiple self" (psychological standpoint). The argument to a judging thought or transcendental ego, as distinct from thoughts and judgments, is based on the demand for unity which experience implicitly contains.] Discussions. A. Llano. 'Agnosticism and Disguised Materialism.' [There is no essential or fundamental difference between Bain and Spencer on the one hand and Buchner on the other.] Reviews of Books. Summaries of Articles. Notices of New Books. Notes. Vol. vi., No. 3. J. M. Baldwin. 'The Genesis of the Ethical Self.' [The child has two selves : the habitual, stable self, and the capricious, learning, accommodating self. One school of moralists derives the ethical sentiment from the former, from habit or custom ; another from the latter, from sympathy. Both are wrong. The child gets to the ' ought ' by way of a third self, shaped by obedience and taking the form of a law-giving personality.] D. Irons. ' The Nature of Emotion.' [Emotion is "not merely unanalysable, but also irreducible, and must therefore be regarded as an ultimate and primary aspect of mind ".] H. M. Stanley. 'An Analysis of the Good.' [The good is based subjectively on evil, arising from ancestral pain : it also exists objectively by evil, my good being another's harm. Moreover, though good un- realised is bad, good is lost in the realisation. Hence men search for a metempirical, stable good : unsuccessfully. " The perfection of organism is humanity self-consciously organised for the development of experience. In this alone will human good be fully realised."] M. Washburn. ' The Process of Recognition.' [The consciousness of familiarity is " an unanalysable bit of conscious content".] J. Seth. 'The Standpoint and Method of Ethics.' [Judgments are of fact or value : hence there 37