PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



tinct currents of thought, which in Germany were 

 represented by two different schools, has helped to 

 give to recent works on Logic in this country notably 

 to those of F. H. Bradley and B. Bosanquet a char- 

 acter of originality and comprehensiveness which places 

 them in the forefront of modern treatises on Logic and 

 the theory of Knowledge. As logic has, mainly through 

 their labours, fully justified its traditional position as 

 an independent science, the special doctrines elaborated 

 therein hardly enter into a general history of thought. 

 The latter, however, has to take note of the change 

 which has come over the general points of view from 

 which, and the interest in which, logical science has 

 been reconstructed. In this respect there are two 

 points which seem to me to have a general bearing on 

 the development of modern philosophical thought. 

 The first refers to the breaking down of the older 



lnt' to see the 'Xorum Or- 



for the study of inductive lope. 

 Prominent authorities on the Con- 

 tinentsuch as Prof. Alois Riehl 

 (see his article in ' Systematisehe 

 Philosophic.' 1907, p, 84) main- 

 tain that this distinction does not 

 belong to Bacon, "a ini*i and 

 dilettante,' bat to GalOeo a riew 

 firtiitr 1 on the Continent by a 

 celebrated pamphlet of Justus 

 Liebig (1862), mad iluaji^iin of 

 the /oHe etMMVXMe of the Baconian 

 method so prevalent in this coun- 

 try. The third article, in the llth 

 edition (1911), is by Mr H. W. 

 Blunt. It is thoroughly op to 

 date, and does full justice to the 

 "*""' of Lotze and the new en 

 in the science lepnacuted mainly 

 by Bradley and Bosanquet. 



in the year 1882, and 

 in consequence does not embrace 

 the more recent ilimiiinmiinilsj 

 largely to be traced to the in- 

 fluence of Lotze. As being of 

 permanent raJue up to this point, 

 it is i stiff ink to know that it 

 has been lepabfished. Hie second 

 B an article published in the 

 " X ew Volumes " just twenty rears 

 later (1902). This article is writ- 

 ten by Prof. Case, and contains a 

 Tery trenchant criticism of recent 

 logic, which in its distinctive and 

 hopeful reforms is considered by 

 the author to be approaching the 



position occupied by the genuine 

 Aristotelian logic in antiquity a 

 view which was held similarly by 

 Trenddenbonr in Germany a gen- 

 eration earlier. In addition to 

 the strong recommendation of 

 the Aristotelian 'Organon,' it is 



