A Theory of Reality

PROF. TRUMBULL LADD'S “Theory of Reality,” though intelligible in isolation, is a sequel to his “Philosophy of Knowledge” published in 1897, and a link in a chain of development beginning so far back as 1887. The Yale professor makes severe demands upon his public. His voluminous and discursive activity has now produced its fifth harvest, and we take it that there is at least a sixth to come. A certain condensation, therefore, and the taking of some things, e.g. the propriety of metaphysics, for granted, would not be out of place. Whatever be the case with the category of time, the reader's time is not unlimited. As compared, however, with its immediate forerunner, the irrelevance and repetition in the present work are only relative. And the review of his intellectual progress, with which the book closes, accounts in a not uninteresting way for his tiresome method of exposition.A Theory of Reality.By Prof. George Trumbull Ladd. Pp. xv + 556. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.)