It has been found inadvisable to print separate programmes for distribution amongst the audience at each lecture, and the editors of the CRIMSON have been asked instead to print each Wednesday morning the topics of the expected evening lecture. On this occasion, for the sake of those who did not see the programme of the second lecture, we reprint therefrom the general notes on the "Periods of Modern Philosophy." Then follow the topics and notes to be used in connection with the lecture of this evening. Readers of the CRIMSON who intend to be present this evening, are asked to keep this copy and to bring it with them to the lecture. No printed programmes will be distributed this evening:

GENERAL NOTES.

The Periods of Modern Philosophy, as distinguished for the present purpose, are:

I. Period of Naturalism and of Rationalism: From Galileo to Spinoza.

(Its specially noteworthy characteristics are, in addition to its general interest in outer nature: (1) Its belief that the whole order of nature is subject to rigid laws of a mechanical type; (2) Its faith in the power of the human reason to know absolute truth; and (3) Its fondness of mathematical methods in Philosophy.)

II. Period of the Study of the Inner Life: From Locke to Kant.

(Its general characteristics are: (1) A critical analysis of the powers of man's mind; (2) A growing scepticism; (3) In the end a tendency towards revolutionary reconstructions of all doctrine.)

III. Period of Recent Philosophy: From Kant to the present Time.

(Beginning at the culmination of the previous critical period, the third period is at first devoted to the study of the inner life, but is later led to fresh efforts to comprehend outer nature. It is throughout much influenced by natural science and by the newer study of history. In consequence, it develops the idea of Evolution. Its problem is the synthesis and reconciliation of our knowledge of outer nature with our understanding of the inner life of man.)

LECTURE III: FROM SPINOZA TO KANT.

Topics of the lecture:

1. General characterization of this period as one of analysis, scepticism and study of the inner life.

2. Value of scepticism in philosophy.

3. The problem concerning Innate Ideas.

4. This problem in the thought of Des Cartes.