FACT AND IDEA. 1093 
No. 6—THE PLACE OF MUSEUMS IN UNIVERSITY 
EDUCATION. 
By Miss L. Macponaup, M.A. 
(Read Monday, January 10, 1898.) 
No. 7—THE PERMANENT PLACE OF LITERATURE 
IN EDUCATION. 
By Rev. C. J. Prescorr, M.A. 
(Read Monday, January 10, 1898). 
No. 8—THE FUNCTION OF CLASSICAL STUDY IN 
EDUCATION. 
By FP: V. Pratt; M.A. 
(Read Monday, January 10, 1898.) 
No. 9.—FACT AND IDEA. 
By C. J. Brennan, M.A. 
(Read Tuesday, Janwary 11, 1898.) 
§ CociTaTtuR is the most comprehensive statement of the 
Universe. 
The ordinary view of the world, which every man daily makes 
use of andassumes, may beshortly expressed thus : space-occupying 
bodies whereof oneis mine, on theonehand ; on theother, awareness 
of these bodies and various feelings in relation to them, this 
awareness and these feelings forming a unity of consciousness, 
mine. The last concept of this phase of consciousness, the final 
statement of this view, is the separation of the whole into two 
divisibilia, two disparates—Matter and Mind ; whereupon, the old 
metaphysical scruple—How came this world here ?—insinuates 
itself under this form: How then can one disparate know the 
other ? 
From the point of view just analysed, no answer can be given ; 
the question can merely be stated. Deeper analysis removes the 
scruple altogether, seeing that the view of the world from which 
