Since the above was written M. Liard has republished this exposition as one chapter of an interesting and admirably lucid account of the progress of logical science in England. After a brief but clear introduction, treating of the views of Herschel, Mill, and others concerning Inductive Logic, M. Liard describes in succession the logical systems of George Bentham, Hamilton, De Morgan, Boole, and that contained in the present work. The title of the book is as follows:—Les Logiciens Anglais Contemporains. Par Louis Liard, Professeur de Philosophie à la Faculté des Lettres de Bordeaux. Paris: Librairie Germer Baillière. 1878. (Note added November, 1878.)
Spectator, September 19, 1874, p. 1178. A second portion of the review appeared in the same journal for September 26, 1874, p. 1204.
Mind: a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. No. II. April 1876. Vol. I. p. 206.
Portions of this work have already been published in my articles, entitled “John Stuart Mill’s Philosophy Tested,” printed in the Contemporary Review for December, 1877, vol. xxxi. p. 167, and for January and April, 1878, vol. xxxi. p. 256, and vol. xxxii. p. 88. (Note added in November, 1878.)
Mind, vol. i. p. 222.
Fortnightly Review, New Series, April 1875, p. 480. Lecture reprinted by the Sunday Lecture Society, p. 24.
Sir W. Thomson’s words are as follows (Cambridge Mathematical Journal, Nov. 1842, vol. iii. p. 174). “When x is negative, the state represented cannot be the result of any possible distribution of temperature which has previously existed.” There is no limitation in the sentence to the laws of conduction, but, as the whole paper treats of the results of conduction in a solid, it may no doubt be understood that there is a tacit limitation. See also a second paper on the subject in the same journal for February, 1844, vol. iv. p. 67, where again there is no expressed limitation.