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Picton. — THE MYSTERY OF MATTER AND OTHER 

 ESSAYS. By J. Allanson Picton, Author of " New Theories 

 and the Old Faith." Crown 8vo. los. 6d. 

 Contents :— 7%i? Mystery of Matter— The Philosophy of Igno- 



ranCi — The Antithesis of Faith and Sight — The Essential Nature 



of Religion — Christian Pantheism. 



Sidgwick.— THE METHODS OF ETHICS. By Henry 

 SiDGWicK, M.A., Prrelector in, Moral and Pohtical Philosophy in 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. Second Edition, revised throughout 

 with important additions. 8vo. 14^'. 



A SUPPLEMENT to the First Edition, containing all the important 

 additions and alterations in the Second. 8vo. 2s. 



^^ This excellent and very welcome vobane Leaving to meta- 

 physicians any further discussion that may be needed respecting the 

 already over-discussed problem of the origin of the moral facility, lie 

 takes it for granted as readily as the geoMetrician takes space for 

 granted, or the physicist the existelice of 7?iatter. But he takes little 

 else for granted, and defining ethics as ' the science of conduct,^ he 

 carefully examines, not the various ethical systems that have been 

 propounded by Aristotle and Aristotle s follmva-s downwards, but 

 the principles ttpcn which, so far as they confine themselves to the 

 strict province of ethics, they are based." — Athenaeum. 



Thornton. — OLD-FASHIONED ETHICS, AND COMMON- 

 SENSE METAPHYSICS, with some of their Applications. By 

 William Thomas Thornton, Author of "A Treatise on Labour.' 

 8vo. los. 6d. 



The present volume deals with problems which are agitating the 

 minds of all thoiiglitful men. The folloWittg are the Contents : — 

 /. Ante-Utilitarianism. II. History's Scietitific Pretensions. HI. 

 David Hume as a Metaphysician. IV. Huxleyism. V. Recent 

 Phase of Scientific Atheism. VI. Limits of Demonstrable Theism. 



Thring (E., M. A.)— THOUGHTS ON LIFE-SCIENCE. 

 By Edward Thring, M.A. (Benjamin Place), Head Master of 

 Uppingham School. New Edition, enlarged and revised. Crown 

 8vo. 7 J. dd. 



Venn. — THE LOGIC OF CHANCE : An Essay on the Founda- 

 tions and Province of the Theory of Probability, with especial 

 reference to its logical bearings, and its appHcation to Moral and 

 Social Science. By John Venn, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of 

 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Second Edition, re- 

 written and greatly enlarged. Crown 8vo. lOr. bd. 

 " One of the most thoughtful and philosophical treatises on any sub- 

 ject connected with logic and evidence which has been produced in 

 this or any other country for many years.'" — Mill's Logic, vol. ii. 

 p. 77. Seventh Edition. 



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