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...Boutroux will deliver the third of his lectures in connection with Philosophy 4 in Emerson J this afternoon at 4.30. His talk will consist of a survey of the conditions of experimental science, and the questions which arise from contrasting its results under the hypothesis of "contingency" or "necessity." The lecture will be open to the public...
Prof. W. James M.'69 on M. Boutroux...
Professor James says of M. Boutroux, "The word 'liberal' seems to have been coined especially to apply to him, so sympathetically has he entered, into the most diverse states of mind interpreting scientific men, philosophers and religious men to each other. His own way of thinking has many points of resemblance to what is known as pragmatism in this country. His effort, since the publishing of his first book, has been to show that concrete life exceeds our powers of abstract formulation, that what we see, feel and think in the world of reality are only approximations which the intellect...
...Boutroux's lectures on "Contingence et Liberte" are but an epitome of this, his whole method of thinking. By contingency he means the unforeseeable novelties and variations which are constantly leaking into life, the real movement of which cannot be accurately confined within our intellectual formulas. This theory of M. Boutroux's, which he is now explaining, has radically influenced modern thought in France, yet the moderation with which he applies it has made him the friend of men of the most diverse opinions...
...second of the course of Hyde lectures in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, M. Boutroux continued with a discussion of the philosophy of Auguste Comte...