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(1) IT is said that the reader of a once famous book entitled “The Secret of Hegel” remarked when he closed the volume that whatever the secret might have been it had been very successfully kept. No difficulty of discovery is likely to baffle the reader of Dr. Ladd's “Secret of Personality.” His secret is an open one, and in the author's genial treatment personality is not mysterious either in the sense of inspiring awe or in that of suggesting occult sources of knowledge. Philosophy itself throws a strange light on man's personality in the attraction it has for us in our youth and in our old age, with the eclipse of interest it undergoes in the stress of active life. So in this little book we feel the professor's keen enjoyment in his old age (he was born in the same year as M. Clemenceau), writing not to instruct us, not to guide us in metaphysical or psychological research, not even to console us, but to give expression to his own reflections on the problems of philosophy.
(1) The Secret of Personality: The Problem of Man's Personal Life as Viewed in the Light of an Hypothesis of Man's Religious Faith.
By Dr. George Trumbull Ladd. Pp. ix + 287. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
(2) The Philosophy of Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll. With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works.
Edited by Philip E. B. Jourdain. Pp. 96. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1918.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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(1) The Secret of Personality: The Problem of Man's Personal Life as Viewed in the Light of an Hypothesis of Man's Religious Faith (2) The Philosophy of Mr B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works. Nature 103, 303 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103303a0
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