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that, to a great extent, modern nations lack sonic factor essential to 

 any civilization worthy of the name. The future will show whether a 

 fuller devotion to materialistic philosophy or a return to true (not " extra- 

 vagant and contemptible ") spiritual ideals will put this essential factor 

 within our reach. Our individual convictions with regard to this point 

 must certainly influence our judgment of the motives which rule those 

 German statesmen and soldiers who have desired and brought about the 

 present war. Mr. Elliot denies that these men should be classed as 

 " materialists," because they prof ess to follow spiritual impulses. On this 

 question I may perhaps quote one whom ]\Ir. Elliot will not presumably 

 class among " lower grade journahsts." Professor D. S. Cairns in "An 

 .\nswer to Bernhardi " {Papers for War Time, No. 12, Oxford Univ. Press) 

 writes : — " All the virtues, on this view [that there is no effective authority 

 higher than the State], become simply means to national existence and 

 greatness, to the possession of ice -free harbours and gold-mines, provinces 

 rich in coal and iron, over-sea markets, and so forth. This is plainly 

 materialism of a very elementary kind. The strange thing is that the 

 wTiter does not seem to see this, and uses idealistic, religious, and even 

 Christian language with the most edifying fervour." 



G. H. Carpenter. 



NOTES, 



BOTANY. 



Botanical Notes from Co. Tyrone. 



In my rambles in search of lepidoptera I have noticed the following 

 plants, some of which are uncommon, and others are only recorded from 

 the west end of the county : — Thalicirum flavum, in a damp wood off 

 west shore of Lough Neagh, near Arboe. Aquilegia vulgaris, on lime- 

 stone rocks, near the village of Tullyhogue. Cardamine amara, very 

 abundant along a small river in Tullylagan Demesne, four miles from 

 Cookstown. Sisymbrium Alliaria, on a gravel ridge, near Arboe Rectory. 

 Epilobium angustifolittm, on rocks in a small stream, half-a-mile south 

 of Lough Fea. Lobelia Dortmanna, abundant at the south end of Lough 

 Fea. Vaccinium Oxycoccus, in a bog on the west side of Lough Fea, at 

 about 800 feet. * Lysimachia Nummularia, in a damp meadow in Killy- 

 moon Demesne, beside the Ballinderry River. * Mimulus guttatus, 

 naturalised along the Lissan River, also grows on damp gravel on the 

 edge of carriage drive in Lissan demesne. Pinguicula lusitanica, frequent 

 on the bogs around Lough Fea. Orchis pyramidalis, on the lawn in front 

 of Killycolp House, near Cookstown. Scirpus sylvaticus, on the bank of a 

 mill-race in Tullylagan demesne. Osmimda regalis, five clumps of this 

 fern in a wet wood on Lough Neagh. Eqiiisetum hyemale, very abundant 

 in Tullylagan demesne on moist banks, and in a wet wood. Lycopodium 

 clavatum, growing in the middle of a plantation on red sandy soil, in 

 Lissan demesne, a curious station for this generally mountain plant. 



Curylasson , Ste wartsto wn . 



Thomas Green. 



