MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, ETC. 55 



Feeling. " Learning and Science" says the author, "are claiming 

 tlie right of building up and pulling down everything, especially 

 tlie latter. It has seemed to me no useless task to look steadily at 

 wJiat has happened, to take stock as it were of men's gains, and to 

 endeavour amidst new circumstances to arrive at some rational 

 estimate of the bearings of things, so that the limits of what is 

 possible at all events may be clearly marked out for ordinary 



readers This book is an endeavour to bring out some of the 



main facts of the world." 



Venn. THE LOGIC OF CHANCE : An Essay on the Founda- 

 tions and Province of the Theory of Probability, with especial 

 reference to its application to Moral and Social Science. By JOHN 

 VENN, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 

 Fcap. 8vo. 7-y. 6d. 



This Essay is in no sense mathematical. Probability, the author 

 thinks, may be considered to be a portion of the province of Logic 

 regarded from the material point of view. The principal objects of 

 this Essay are to ascertain how great a portion it comprises, where 

 we are to draw the boundary between it and the contiguous branches 

 of the general science of evidence, what are the ultimate foundations 

 upon which its rules rest, what the nature of the evidence they are 

 capable of affording, and to what class of subjects they may most 

 Jitly be applied. The general design of the Essay, as a special 

 treatise on Probability, is quite original, the author believing that 

 erroneous notions as to the real nature of the subject are disastrously 

 prevalent. "Exceedingly well thought and well written" says the 

 Westminster Review. The Nonconformist calls it a "masterly 

 book." 



LONDON I K. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL. 



