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...MODERN PIHLOSOPHY.The concluding lecture by Professor Royce is as follows...
Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy. Lecture XIII...
Such being the general point of view of the lecture, the particular topics next discussed were: (1) The objection that the modern doctrine of evolution, in assigning a "low origin" to all significant things, deprives the world of all higher and ideal significance. (2) The objection that empirical students of evolution are often unaware of the teleological and ideal nature of their own presuppositions, so that it seems doubtful whether their presuppositions actually have this ideal character. To both these objections the same response was made. The doctrine of evolution has its purely naturalistic as well as its teleological side...
Professor Royce was unable to furnish his usual synopsis of his lecture on Modern Thinkers for today's issue. It will appear tomorrow...
This evening Professor Royce gives the twelfth lecture in his course on "Modern Thinkers." There are now but two lectures left; one on "The Philosophy of Evolution;" one on 'Optimism and Pessimism." The first is of a nature to interest a rather large and varied class of students, so far as the subject is concerned; whilst the other is especially popular in the method of its treatment and could in the main be understood by itself without reference to the preceding series. The former of the two is the lecture for this evening; it should call forth a large attendance...