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ophy has demonstrated beyond criticism, first, that the visible 

 universe always exists primarily in and for a momentary per- 

 ceptive consciousness limited in space, and second, that the 

 unseen universe is always primarily a conceptive construction 

 whose validity is always verifiable within the realm of momen- 

 tary perceptive experience. The material universe, whether 

 conceived phenomenally or existentially, participates in one case 

 in the content, in the other in the being of absolute personality, 

 and as such, so far as individual man is concerned, is the objec- 

 tification of the conditions of higher individual development. 



Mr. Dearborn's paper was offered as a critique of the first of 

 the three Lotzean hypotheses concerning the nature of the 

 retinal local signs. Experiments to determine the accuracy of 

 the motor impulse, as shown by the ability to fixate directly 

 eccentric visual stimuli forty degrees to the right of the primary 

 line of regard, found an average error of corrective movements 

 considerably in excess of the threshold value of local discrimi- 

 nation for the same part of the retina. These discrepancies 

 between the accuracy of the motor impulse and the delicacy of 

 local discrimination seem to necessitate some modification of the 

 traditional view in regard to the nature of the local signs, or 

 at least in regard to the relative importance of the motor factor. 



In the paper by Dr. Davies only the four chapters con- 

 tributed by Professor Dewey to the above work were considered. 



Toward the right understanding of the work two conditions 

 of a historical character must be borne in mind. One of these 

 is the relation of recent logical theory to the Kantian dualism 

 of sense and reason which tended to separate thought from its 

 object. The other is the influence of the evolutionary method, 

 which drives the investigator to study logical distinctions in the 

 light of their genesis in experience. 



Both of these conditions exert a profound influence over 

 Dewey's thought. For it is the essence of his contribution to 

 logical theory that he shows that the obstinate manner in which 

 logicians have accepted the Kantian reading of experience is 

 the most fruitful historical cause of the contradictions, c. g., in 

 Lotze's " Logic " as well as in that of Bradley and Bosanquet. 



