20 JUNE 1874, Page 3

The University of Orford appears to have obtained a Professor

of moral philosophy of no particular promise bythe recent election. The Mr. Eaton who ha.s been elected is, we believe, the editor of Aristotle's "Politics" with English notes, and a Bampton lecturer of no gre-atability. He has probably been elected in the hope and belief, which are likely to be fulfilled, that he will not make a stir or set the Isis on fire. Mr. Green, the student of Hegel, who was, we believe, one of the candidates, and is certainly a man of very con- siderably higher reputation, would have been a much better appointment ; but little good will come out of these Professorships, while the electing body is so arbitrarily and badly chosen as it is for the purposes of this professorship ; nor can the best results appear while the electors are limited, as we believe they were in this case, to the choice of an Oxford man. If they had been able and courageous enough to choose such a man as Mr. Martineau, they would have brought a new power into the University, and a spring of new ardour into the study of philosophy.