10 FEBRUARY 1872, Page 14

THE DUBLIN REVIEW ON THE FOUNDATION OF MORALS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE Bractrivroa.1 SIR,—I have to thank you for your very kind appreciation of my last article on Mr. Mill, but I am bound in fairness to make one explanation. The argument which you select (I think quite justly) as the strongest of those directed ad hominem against Mr. Mill, did not originate with me. I derived it (as I expressly state in my article) from Mr. Mivart's " Genesis of Species "; who pro- fesses himself indebted for it to Rev. Father Roberts, a Catholic priest of high ability and well versed in things philosophical.—I