We welcome the formation of the British Institute of Philosophical
Studies, now established temporarily at 88 Kingsway, W.C. 2. It has excellent sponsors in its first principal officers. Lord Balfour, Prof. L. T. Hobhouse, the Master of Balliol and Sir Lynden Macassey, besides a very comprehensive Council representing diverse spheres of thought and action. If materialism in life and superficiality in thought arc the sins that most easily beset our nation to-day, the task of the Institute should be of immense importance. Its purpose is to encourage, even to popularize in sonic degree, pure thought, the search for abstract truth and the application of philosophy to life in all its modern complications of religion, science, politics and industry. We trust that the philosophers who are willing to help will not be daunted by the general ignorance of philosophy among a people notoriously lacking in theoretic instincts ; nor impatient of teaching us, as it were, in words of one syllable.
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