CONGRESS OF Ah'TS AX J) SCIENCE. 



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Dr. Benxo Erdmann, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn, who gave 

 one of the Addresses on the Methodology of Science. 



some cases by two foreigners, in others by two Americans, but in most 

 of them by a foreigner and an American scholar in turn. 



Philosophy must again serve for illustration. The problems and 

 relations of metaphysics were grappled with by two live thinkers, 

 both authors of important recent books of a strictly metaphysical 

 nature. The first was Professor A. E. Taylor, of McGill University, 

 reputed for his firm and clear grasp of fundamental metaphysical and 

 ethical problems and an exceptional acuteness in analysis. The 

 second was Alexander T. Ormond, Princeton's influential teacher of 

 philosophy, known as one of the few profoundly constructive meta- 

 physical teachers among Americans, and a veritable paragon of syn- 

 thesis in philosophy. 



The philosophy of religion was shared by two eminent Germans. 



