New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-07
NEWBOOKSA NEW EDIIIONS


fessor HuyIey's collected Essays Cd. Appelo"
e. COZ The former of these two Vo!umes - Ue
voted to papers on the subject OF euuo"'o''
are reminders of times when rehglouS tea'"'e 80
the schools a question angry uiscuS''u' "''
ho, are still of interest because the question Is one
Gin IN debate Professor Huxley Is haughtily COM
nlaisant in his manner toward the Bible but as
he comedies its use in the schools his adVersares
could hardly ask for more. 1t may take genera
ton or two to decide on the results OF purely scu
lar schools But Mr. Huxley was right about teen
meal schools and the university system Is ih'c"
closer to his ideal than il some years ago. In
his various papers and speeches he touched man!
phases of the subect-te chnical MEDICAL ana ho''
education school boards in England, the state ana
the medical profession, universities the value Oh
the natural history sciences and vomens r!Sh's
Volume " comprises essays on "Scehce and He
breyy Tradition" to which the auth or has aided
long preface the aim OF which is found In the sem
tence: "Of nfallibity in all shapes. lay ana clerical
II Is needfu iterate with more than CatohIc per
tnacty. Delenda est" The essays attack the his
tory of Creation and the Food given In Genesis
controvert the arguments Of Mr. Gladstone on these
subjects advocate evolution IN lectures delivered In
New-York in 1876. and conclude with the famous
paper on THE Evolution Of Theology
Conservatives in thought must agree with the po-
sition taken by Professor G. T. Ladd In his adj
dress as president of the American Psychological
Association. that no method can be developed III
psychology which VIII enable us 10 dispense Win
introspecion" He declared the proposal to got rid
Of self-consciousness the medium OF knowledge
of the phenomena Of consciousness to be absurd.
The fact to be that the very processes or
psychological experiment presuppose that inner view
which in the Imagination of some people they rem
der needless 1t Is not experiments and statistics
which build up the science OF psychology. but
the guesses at truth that is universal. based on
truth that Is individual-'those leaps from what Is
self-consclously discerned TO what belongs to all
men, to human nature such" And this IS true
Of other sciences, for they also have made their
great advances chiefly through the intutive flashes
that genius which sees the general and the uni
versal as II manifests itself in the particular
Professor Ladd's address opens the first number OF
1.-The Psychological Review (Macmillan Il Coz,
which. not only by the famous names on It's title
page but in its contents gives promise OF brilliant
future There are studies from the laborat tories OF
Harvard and Yale. reviews not merely OF books
but of articles wherever published that relate 10
psychology, controversial essays. and the beginning
of a paper on The Case OF John Bunyan' by Pro
fessor Josiah Royce which Is OF high literary as
well as scientific interest. Among the contributors
TO the first number of The Review besides Pro
fessors I.add and Royce Francis Cation. Pro-
fessor William James and other weknown schol-
Dr. McCosh's article read in Chicago Reality
What Place 1t Should Hold in Philosophy" and his
essay, THE Prevailing Types OF Philosophy: Can
lshed together by Charles Scribner's Sons The
authors suggestion Is that all quests after what
Kant called the thing -in-itself' are vain, that
there is no getting behind the reality II appeals
to consciousness. He would therefore encourage
the upbuiding of an American philosophy In which
the useless effort to penetrate to reality other
than reality as known to the human mind shall be
given up He points that the real and not the
absolute the true watchword OF Greek Ihiloso-
ply, and he rehearses the dicta Of modern phioso-
ply to show that nowhere. not even in Kant does
1t recover reality. If 1t throws this away at tho
outset. Dr. McCosh's suggestion is a practical one
But speculation cannot be restrained within prac-
teal limits. The popular philosophy. not only In
America but everywhere. assumes reality, and Is as
undisturbed by the doubts Of metaphyscians as 1t
is in religion by the misGivings OF atheism. On
the other hand. there must be those 70 whom this
popular philosophy Is unsatisfactory. They VIII
concede nothing as long as 1t can be doubted. They
will continue to turn the phenomenal topsy-turvy
in the search for the real which may or may not
be there. But the world Will pay attention TO them
only when It is obliged 10 pay It,
Edward Hagaman Hall has prepared the first
year book of the New-York State Society Of the
Sons of the American Revolution. which has just
been issued from the Republic Press. 1t Is bound
In white and blue. is stamped with the medallion
from the diverse Of the society badge and Is dedi-
Gated ito the heroes OF the American revolution
whose patriotic deeds are herein commemorated."
Mr.. Hall mas prepared an essay DISCUSSING tHe
benefits conferred by the Revolution. and the
duties imposed on descendants OF Revolutionary
sres and sketching the history of the society
To this he has added a large amount OF statistical
information concerning the society," its constitution
and insignia An interesting feature Of his work
Is the introduction of copy of the Mecklenburg
Resolves the Declaration of Independence. and the
full English text OF Magma Charta-three great
documents in the library Of Liberty. fac-simile
of small portion of Magma Charta Is an attractive
curiosity. The bulk of the volume is taken up
with the roll Of members OF the society. This con-
ssts not merely OF the names Of members. but OF
a sketch under each name. tracing 1t back to the
Revolutionary ancestor and giving an account of
his life thus forming valuable collection of genoa
logical information The text is embellished with
frontispiece portrait OF Washington. a number Of
full-page engravings and prints OF Revolutionary
soldiers. and a picture Of the statue the steps
Of the Sub-Treasury.
Ncm pnbllrallons.