. The Open court . 86. 50c net. The Praise of Hypocrisy is an essay based on the public confessions of hypocrisythat many champions of religion have made in these days, and on the defenses they haveput forth in support of the practice of deceit. Not that the sects now accuse eacli otherof insincerity, nor that the scolTer vents his disgust for all religion, luit that good men(as all must regard them) in high standing as church nieml>ers have accused them-selves. By exhibiting the implications and tendencies of the ethics thus professed anddefended, and by sharp comment on the same, the auth
. The Open court . 86. 50c net. The Praise of Hypocrisy is an essay based on the public confessions of hypocrisythat many champions of religion have made in these days, and on the defenses they haveput forth in support of the practice of deceit. Not that the sects now accuse eacli otherof insincerity, nor that the scolTer vents his disgust for all religion, luit that good men(as all must regard them) in high standing as church nieml>ers have accused them-selves. By exhibiting the implications and tendencies of the ethics thus professed anddefended, and by sharp comment on the same, the author of this essay designs toarouse the conscience of the church, to sting it into activity in a region of life where itsproper functions have ceased. This is not an attack on the church, nor even a mere criticism; it is the languageof righteous indignation hopefully siimnioniin. the rhnrrli to Iio lionr>;t with itself, to beloval and faithful to its master. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING 1322 Wabash Ave . Chicago. Aristotle on His Prede-cessors. Being the first bookof his mctaph5sics. Translatedfrom the text of Christ, with intro-duction and notes. By A. , M. A., Fellow of MertonCollege, Oxford; FrothinghamProfessor of Philosophy in Mc-Gill University, Montreal. Cloth, 75c net. Paper, ->.3cpostpaid. This book will be welcome to allteachers of philosupliy, for it is a transla-tion made by a competent hand of themost important essay on the history ofGreek thought down to Aristotle, writtenby Aristotle himself. The original servedthis great master with his unprecedentedencyclopedic knowledge as an introduc-tion to his Metaphysics; but it is quiteapart from the rest of that work, formingan independentessayinitself, and will re-main forever the main source ofourinfor-mation on the predecessors of the importance of the book, it is strange that no translation of it appearsto have been made since the publication of that by Bekker in 1831. The
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