The Modern Schoolman

The December 1927 issue of the SCHOOLMAN contained Father Lord's forceful statements contending that philosophers could do nothing more conducive to their scholastic success than give forth again the philosophy they had assimilated by writing it out. The present vivid story is proof that Father Lord himself had "practiced what he preaches," for he wrote it during his own philosophate career. It is through the kind permission of the Editor of America, that this article appears in our magazine.

While it is no doubt a good pedagogical principle to stress the most convincing proof in the first learning of a philosophic thesis, yet a man with any pretence to philosophic effeciency should certainly have at his beck and call several proofs to do service in various situations. Mr. Brown indicates a few subsidiary proofs in connection with the subject of materialsm, a consideration of grave import in the philosophical world today.

Herein are presented excerpts of papers read at the Philosophical Academy at Spokane this year. Should you wish to read more of any of these papers, it is suggested that you write to either Mr. Holloran, or to the author of the paper.

Taking the well known and much disputed question of miracles as an example, Mr. Gasson of Westom, Massachusetts, suggests as the proper way of seeking a rapprochment with our adversaries in any of the disputed points of philosophy the uncovering of their fundamental suppositions.

It is a matter of suprise to some that St. Thomas ever wrote implicitly concerning education. That he touched educational matters incidently we know, as in his possibly unexcelled theory of play which Dr. Leibell has included in his "Readings in Ethics." But De Magistro is different. It descends immediately to the bed rock of education, and should remind modern man of his place in the educational scheme.

Conscience is an early phenomenon in everyone's life, but a philosophic knowledge of it is altogether different. Mr. Witte presents this exposition of a knotty subject to MODERN SCHOOLMAN readers.

Father Hugh P. O'Neill, professor of the Classics at St. Stanislaus Seminary, Florissant, gives us in this paper a few of the ways in which training in Logic can be of assistance to the grammarian. Father O'Neill's thoughts run in an original and thought-provoking vein, and we feel fortunate in being able to present his articlewhich may prove an added incentive to many.