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sonian Institution, 22; Michigan, 20; Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, 19; Wisconsin, 18; Pennsylvania, 17; Stanford, 

 16; Princeton, 14; Minnesota and Ohio State, 10 each. 



In his paper, Brother Chrysostom stated that it is impossible 

 either to understand the great philosophers or to appreciate 

 their influence if we limit ourselves to a purely scientific stand- 

 point. Temperament enters so largely as a factor, both in 

 determining the principles on which they lay special stress 

 and in gaining disciples for their respective schools, that we 

 are forced to consider them also from a literary view-point 

 if we would do them justice. The ingredients that form tem- 

 perament may be arranged under the following heads: (1) 

 Heredity, which is especially helpful in tracing tendencies 

 favoring the pursuit of the concrete; (2) environment, which 

 is closely interwoven with heredity and may be called a condi- 

 tion of its development as a factor in mental life; (3) race and 

 nationality — no Frenchman will treat a subject in the same 

 manner as a German; (4) the attraction exercised by the first 

 philosopher who interests a thinker; (5) the time or epoch 

 in which the philosopher lived, for history is governed to a 

 great extent by the law of reaction and adjustment, which 

 results in the formation of cycles of thought; (6) the person- 

 ality of the founder. This leads him to lay emphasis upon cer- 

 tain phases of truth to the neglect of others. To estimate his 

 influence we must attend to the elements of truth contained in 

 his system of thought. 



Dr. Montague protested first against the current paradoxical 

 view of mental processes as real occurrences that occur nowhere. 

 They should be located in space for the following reasons: 

 (1) They are naturally felt to be within the body; (2) they 

 form no exception to the generally accepted rule that an invis- 

 ible event, such as an electric current, is to be located in the 

 visible object that directly conditions it; (3) their phenomenal 

 existence in space (like their existence in time) is not in conflict 

 with the transcendental view that space and time are appear- 

 ances; (4) that they are neither punctiform nor figured is no 

 argument against their location in space, for many things — 

 notably, sounds and odors — are definitely located in space 



