20 AUGUST 1921, Page 25

Spinoza and Time. By S. Alexander. (G. Allen and Unwin.

2s. 6d, net.)—Professor Alexander's Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture is concerned with a topic that ho discussed more fully In his recent Gifford lectures on Space, Time, and Deity. He explains very clearly the consequences of Spinoza's neglect of Time as the necessary accompaniment or counterpart of Space, as an attribute of ultimate reality. In particular, he shows how a due appreciation of Time would have enabled Spinoza to avoid falling into the abyss of Pantheism. " The pantheistic Supreme Being lacks the human note." Lord Haldane, whose standpoint

this that of the lecturer's, prefixes a commendatory note to fins remarkable paper which will send readers to Professor Alexander's larger work.