interesting book for the sopher is Edmond Holmes's ilosophy without Metaphysics,'
exposition in four chapters showing how Philosophy should be freed from the bondage of Metaphysics. The author maintains that metaphyties claims the whole field of] philosophy, and "cramps its style In the old days Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology, Ethics, were arrested for grip of Metaphysics—a science which relies on pure thought and reason, omitting entirely -the need of Intuition and Experience as factors in the solution of the Supreme Problem. In the first chapter, "Logical Metaphysics," the philsopher desires to sock wisdom through ever widening and deepening ex-
truth. Then follows a discussion of ci presented as a formulated fence, while the _metaphysician
the more modern school of Empircal thought aad finally a chapter fon the third branch of metaphysics Which the author designates as Popular Metaphysics. In this scction of the book Mr. Holmes examines "two metaphysical systems that belong to the people rather! than to the schools; namely Saperyuralism and Materialism." Then hho passes on to Agnosticism, "the. Philosophy of intellectual despair." This discussion is interesting and a propos of modern thought. The last chapter is a plea for Intuitionism versus Metaphysics and includes; the statement "that Intuitionism sets each of us free to have his; own philosophy, to be-a lamp wata himself." The little volume closes with the statement that each one of us must have "his own manner of responding to the pressure of his environment and the challenge of his existence." What better creed could
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