266 PHILOSOPHY 



LACHELIER, E. BOUTROUX; teachers in lycees, colleges, 

 private and technical schools, such as D. PARODI, FONSE- 

 GRIVE, MALAPERT, BAZAILLOS, CRESSON, DUNAN, PIAT, 

 SERTILLANGES, HALEVY, LECHALAS. It is possible from 

 time to time for the foreign student to come into direct 

 contact with the thought of some of these men through 

 the special courses arranged from year to year at the 

 ficole des Hautes fitudes sociales and the College libre 

 des Sciences sociales and through the discussions of the 

 Societe fran^aise de Philosophic. This latter society, 

 founded in 1901, has become the great clearing-house 

 for philosophical ideas in France. The hospitality of its 

 meetings, held monthly from December to May, is not 

 infrequently extended to foreigners through the courtesy 

 of some member. 



At the College de France and at the Sorbonne the 

 greatest freedom is allowed the lecturers in the choice of 

 the subjects which they treat; consequently no definite 

 description of courses can be given. At the College de 

 France BERGSON lectures twice a week, one hour pre- 

 senting some phase of his own philosophy, the other hour 

 expounding the work of some classical philosopher. 

 During 1914-15 and 1915-6, LsRov of the Lycee Saint- 

 Louis has been substituting for Bergson. He has been 

 lecturing on the modern criticism of experimental science 

 and its philosophical consequences, a theme which he 

 brilliantly developed a few years ago in a series of studies 

 in "La Revue de metaphysique et de morale," 1899-1901. 

 IZOULET, who occupies the chair of Social Philosophy, 

 usually treats of some phase of French social development 

 in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. He is widely 

 known for his work on "La cite moderne." Pierre 

 JANET, perhaps the most distinguished representative of 

 pathological psychology today, treats of a wide range of 

 subjects within his field. 



