Nature and General

The contents of this book were originally delivered at trinity college in the autumn of 1919 as the inaugural course of taner lectures. The Taner lectureship is an occasional office founded by the liberality of Mr. Edward Tarner. The duty of each of the successive holders of the post will be deliver a course on “the Philosophy of the Sciences and the relations or want of relations between the different departments of knowledge. the present book embodies the endeavor of the first lecturer of the series to fulfill his task.