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130 PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. consciousness.] W. B. Pillsbury. ' An Apparent Contradiction in the Modern Theory of Judgment.' [The definitions of judgment as (1) com- posed of subject and predicate, and (2) the acquisition of meaning by mental states are incompatible.] F. J. E. Woodbridge. ' Of what sort is Cognitive Experience ?' [Discussion of Dewey, II. 15.] II. 22. S. I. Franz. ' The Re-education of an Aphasic. ' J. Dewey. ' Immediate Empiricism.' [Reply to Bakewell, II. 19, "mediation, continuity, recon- struction and growth are facts which transcendentalism has failed con- sistently to define and account for " ; but concepts are not unempirical and " meanings may be and are immediately experienced as conceptual ". ] W. B. Pitkin. ' Universals ; a Criticism.' [Of an 'ultra-psychological' treatment.] INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS. Vol. xvi., No. 1, October, 1905. J. H. Hyslop. ' Why are we Imperialistic ? ' [Imperialism, as a ruling principle counteractive of the tendency to independence and individualism implied in modern democracy, has taken the place of the older principles of aristocracy and authority. It is inevitable so long as the dominance of economic and commercial interests is not tempered or controlled by a spiritual ideal, which shall similarly take the place of the moral and religious ideals associated with the older principles.] Helen Bosanquet. 'The Intellectual Influence of Women.' [Women have shown conclu- sively, in our colleges and universities, their capacity for the assimilation or reproduction of knowledge ; but their best influence upon intellectual progress cannot be secured until they obtain, through endowments or otherwise, the same opportunities as men for independent constructive or productive efforts.] It. A. Woods. ' Social Work: a New Profession.' [Social work, as a profession, means the effort, on the part of the privileged and cultured, to study and to serve, by getting to the heart of the life of the great masses of humanity, their present and pressing needs and aims. Some definite financial provision should be made for this purpose.] W. R. Benedict. ' Greek Thought-Movements and their Ethical Implications.' [Greek thought is a progressive distinguishing and reuniting of outward and inward, matter and spirit, fact and mean- ing.] EC. W. "Wright. ' Evolution and Ethical Method.' [An evolution- ary interpretation of morality enables us to recognise both its relative character, as dependent on the desires and impulses of individuals, and its absolute authority ; the virtues being authoritative as necessary factors in the progressive organisation of conduct.] M. V. O'Shea. ' The De- velopment of Ethical Sentiment in the Child.' [Moral sentiment in the individual originates through the endorsement or the resentment of instinctive actions by the social environment, and develops in proportion as this environment widens and deepens.] EL S. Salt. ' The Ethics of Corporal Punishment.' [" Corporal punishment, as the very antithesis of moral suasion and the compact embodiment of brute force, is an out- rage on the supremacy of the human mind and the dignity of the human body " ; and " must be uprooted and abandoned before any true measure of civilisation can be attained".] J. laneham. 'Sin and Sacrifice.' [The advance from external or ceremonial to internal or moral concep- tions of sin and of sacrifice is a corollary of the emergence of the doctrine of the immanence of God in man.] Book Reviews. REVUE DE PHILOSOPHIE. ler Aout, 1905. B. Noblet. 'The Cultiva- tion of the Moral Imagination.' J. Breuil. ' A Study of the First Artistic Efforts of Young Children.' [Interesting.] Dr. de Buck. ' Facts of Mental Pathology Bearing on the Associationist or Deterrninist Theory.' [He promises to prove by physiology and pathology that association of