THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You were kind enough four years ago to publish a letter appealing for support of the British Institute of Philosophy, which was founded in 1925 with the late Lord Balfour as its first President. The appeal was based on tile existing disorganisation of beliefs in fundamental prin- ciples in every department of life, and the need of a cultivation of systematic thought that has the most intimate bearing on practice. Since then this need has not diminished. We have seen in the interval the rise of forms of political life which appear to deny those constructive forces which have been generally regarded as of first importance. On this and on other accounts there is pressing need to consider
• what the primary standards of right and wrong in the conduct of nations should be.
. We therefore in the tenth year of the Institute ' venture to ask again for your hospitality with a view to making its work better known and obtaining further support that will enable it to extend its activities. These consist at present of the publication of the quarterly review Philosophy, the holding of courses of public lectures, the organisation in London and other cities of reading circles, and the arrange- ment of monthly evening addresses by leaders of opinion in various departments of thought, scientific, resthetic, political, moral and religious. Those of your readers who would desire to become members of the Institute (the sub- scription is NA 1s.,.. which covers the price of the quarterly review) or to obtain further information with regard to it, are invited to communicate with the Director of Studies at the rooms of the Institute in University Hall, 14 Gordon Square, London, W.C.1.—Yours, &c., S. ALEXANDER, ARTHUR EDDINGTON, WILLIAM EBOR, W. R. Non, A, D. LINDSAY, OLIVER LODGE, J. H. MUIRIIEAD, RUSSELL, RUTHERFORD, HERBERT SAMUEL. London,
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