Abstract
(1)THIS book cannot be adequately reviewed without embarking more or less on an examination of the distinguished author's whole system as largely presented in his earlier monumental works. Moreover, being concerned with technical philosophy—though a philosophy which accepts and includes science—its appeal is primarily to readers other than those of this journal. It will suffice, therefore, to indicate briefly its scope and purport. The essence of the pancalistic doctrine is its emphasis on beauty. Science tells us what is true; that is science's prerogative. But the universe has beauty and goodness as well as truth. How reconcile and unify? The pancalistic answer is that the good and the true is so because it is beautiful. The final court of appeal is aesthetic. Nothing can be true without being beautiful, nor anything that is in any high sense good. The ascription of beauty, a reasoned, criticised, thought-out ascription of æsthetic quality, is the final form of our thought about nature, man, the world, the all. The volume under notice is an unfolding of this idea, dealing with the aspects of morphology, interpretation, religion (mysticism), and logic.
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