ntention.

On the subject of independence of thought it may be proper shortly to
refer to the work of Dr. Paul Carus, who has been, since the end of
1887, closely associated with the Open Court Company and its
publications. Only two things need be said here. In the first place, it
was owing to the need he felt for keeping his independence of thought
that he resigned a post in Germany and came, first to England and then
to America. In the second place, his views, which are also, broadly
speaking, the views for which the Open Court Company works, may be
characterized both as monism and positivism, though his philosophy
differs considerably from Haeckel's monism, which is practically
materialism, and even more so from the French positivism of Comte and
from agnosticism, its English equivalent. In his philosophy, _form_
plays the most important part. Form is the significant feature of both
objective existence and subjective thought. Matter and energy only
denote reality, but form characterizes quality. Science traces form, and
the nature of all things, the human character included, is constituted
by form. In the formal sciences again, that which is the core of their
usefulness as general propositions is the character of _anyness_, the
use of which justifies the method of generalization. Here lies the root
of the kinship of Dr. Carus's philosophy with modern logic, and allows
him to reconstruct the old artistic and religious ideas upon a new and
modern ground. In this sense, he himself has characterized his
philosophy as a _philosophy of form_.

A Partial List of Books in the
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PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE
BY FEDERIGO ENRIQUES

Authorized translation by Katherine Royce, with an introduction
by Josiah Royce. =Pp. 375. Price, $2.50.=

"The end for which we ought to strive today is a scientific education,
which shall enable the workers in any field whatsoever to understand
better how the object of their own research is subordinated to more
general problems."

The author is professor of projective geometry and geometric drawing in
the University of Bologna, and is one of the most conspicuous of
contemporary Italian scientists.

The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution By E. D. Cope

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The Soul of Man B