George Thomas White Patrick was born in Boscawen, 

 New Hampshire, in 1857. After studying at the State Univer- 

 sit}^ of Iowa and at Yale, he received the degree of Ph.D. from 

 Johns Hopkins in 1888. In 1894 he studied philosophy at Leip- 

 zig University. Beginning 1887, he had a long and honored 

 term of service as professor of philosophy at the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa. He also founded the psychological labora- 

 tory at that institution. He is author of The Psychology 

 of Social Reconstruction; The Psychology of Relaxation; An 

 Introduction to Philosophy; The World and Its Meaning; 

 What Is Mind; and other works. Dr. Patrick's book, Jn Intro- 

 duction to Philosophy, published in 1924, is one of the best 

 treatises on that subject available for readers who wish a popu- 

 lar presentation, but at the same time one conveying complete 

 and sound knowledge. He is a philosopher rather than a scien- 

 tist. But his approach is scientific, and readers will concede that 

 his paper has so direct a bearing on the paradox of life as af- 

 fected by religion that it could not well have been omitted from 

 a study of this nature. 



