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Sidgwick.— THE METHODS OF ETHICS. By Henry 



SiDGWiCK, M.A., Pi-ffilector in Moral and Political Philosophy in 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. Second Edition, revised throughout 

 with important additions. 8vo. 145. 



A SUPPLEMENT to the First Edition, containing all the important 

 additions and alterations in the Second. 8vo. is. 



" This excellent and very 7mlcome volume Leaving to meta- 

 physicians any further discussion thai may be needed respecting the 

 already over-discussed problem of the origin of the moral faculty, he 

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

 granted, or the physicist the existence of matter. But he takes little 

 else for gi-anted, and defining ethics as ' thesciefice of conduct,' be 

 careftdly examines,' not the various ethical systetns that have been 

 propounded by Aristotle and Aristotle s folloavcrs downwards, but 

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

 strict province of ethics, they are based.'''' — AthenEEum. 



Thornton. — OLD-FASHIONED ETHICS, AND COMMON- 

 SENSE METAPHYSICS, with some of their Applications. By 

 William Thomas Thornton, Authorof "A Treatise on Labour." 

 8vo. lOi-. dd. 



The present volume aeals with problems which are agitating the 

 minds of all thoughtjul men. The following are the Contents : — 

 /. Ante-Utilitarianism. II. Histoiys Scientific Pretensions. III. 

 David Hume as a Metaphysician. IV. Huxlcyism. V. Recetit 

 Phase of Scientific Atheism. VI. Li?jiits of Demonstrable Theisvi. 



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^. 6(/. 



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 application 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. dd. 

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

 ject connected zuiih logic and mdence which has been produced in 

 this or any other co7intry for many years.'" — Mill's Logic, vol. ii. 

 p. 77. Seventh Edition. 



