Abstract

Books Review

This article presents information on the books "The History of Twenty-Five Years," vol. 3 and vol. 4 by Spencer Walpole and "Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, or Genetic Logic," vol. 2, "Experimental Logic, or Genetic Theory of Thought," by James Mark Baldwin. Readers who have discovered the excellence of the first half of Walpole's work will be glad to know that he had brought his history so near to completion, at the time of his death last summer, that it has been possible to edit his manuscript and issue these final volumes. The author of the second book continues the working out of his purpose with the same industry, and with the same quality of ability, if not perhaps in so full measure, as in the first volume. The motive of logic has always been to get possession of a method for determining the values of arguments. Now, it is obvious that whatever bearing the truth of one thought may have upon the truth of another will depend exclusively upon what the states of things are which the two thoughts represent to be real.