Literary Notices. clxiii 



thought or nature. Upon the basis above suggested it would be easy 

 to construct a geometry ignoring the tridimentional element. 



Reason originates by a differentiation of the formal and the sen- 

 sory in experience; it is the method of our experience. Human rea- 

 son is the reflection of the world reason, the former is rational only in 

 so far as it agrees with the latter; it is a mental picture of certain qual- 

 ities of reality. We do not find the treatment of reason wholly intel- 

 ligible. 



The distinction insisted on between cause and reason on one 

 hand and effect and consequent on the other is one which might well 

 be more carefully observed. Causes are motions or happenings. 

 Cause is not equal to the effect but the total amount of matter and 

 energy is not altered. Cause is not mere succession it is the transfor- 

 mation of energy from one form into another, it is another statement 

 of the law of conservation of energy. 



" A world of which all events are factors of causation is necessarily 

 a teleological world — a world of law, an orderly arranged universe, a 

 cosmos. The actions of a free man are the immediate expressions of 

 his character. The actions of a man that is not free are not the ex- 

 pressions of his character. The ultimate springs of reality are spon- 

 taneous forces and their manifestations are a true exhibit of the nature 

 of his being. The spontaneity of nature is analogous to the action of 

 a free will. Free will, then, is the uncoerced natural output of a man's 

 being under the given conditions. To the last section, that on psy- 

 chology, we shall not, at present, refer. Enough has been quoted to 

 show that there is much suggestive and some really valuable matter in 

 the book, which, like others from the same pen, is characterized by an 

 earnestness and directness which convince us of sincerity back of it. 

 With the ultimate applications we cannot agree but trust that the sys- 

 tem may serve to hasten the total collapse of that which passes for 

 metaphysics in many of our colleges. [ C. L. H.] 



Injuries of the Temporal Lobe.' 



" It has been shown by clinical and experimental investigations 

 that deaf-mutism may be caused not only by lesion of the peripheral 

 organs either before or after the birth of the individual, but also by 

 disease of the cerebrum, i. e. of the regions of the temporal lobe. 



'Seppii.I.i, Guiseppi. Affections of the Temporal Lobe, (i) a case of deaf- 

 mutism, (2) of lesion of the left temporal lobe without verbal deafness in a left- 

 handed man. Alienist and Neurologist, XTV, 2. 



