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...Emile Boutroux will deliver the seventh in his series of eight lectures on "Contingency and Liberty" in connection with Philosophy 4, this afternoon in Emerson J at 4.30 o'clock. In this lecture, M. Boutroux will discuss the question of whether novelty, in the development of things, could not, in an analogous way, be accounted for by an appeal to the properties of conscious life...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. "Contingence et Liberte." VII. M. Emile Boutroux. Emerson...
...Emile Boutroux delivered the sixth of his lectures in connection with Philosophy 4 yesterday afternoon on the general subject, "Contingence et Liberte." The next lecture will be delivered in Emerson J next Monday at 4.30 o'clock...
...yesterday's lecture M. Boutroux pointed out that the three postulates of science are: a world real, well ordered, and admitting of novelties; but science cannot account for these, save by referring them to chance, whereas we have seen that human consciousness, considered as feeling, attributes a true meaning to the word reality. An analogous justification of the postulate of orderly relation is supplied by another form of human consciousness, intelligence. By this is meant, not scientific intelligence, but living intelligence, which creates relations of harmony between real beings...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. "Contingence et Liberte." VI. M. Emile Boutroux. Emerson...