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withstanding all the progress it has made, it is still far from having so much as satisfactorily resolved its principal problem. But there is one circumstance which must render logic greatly dependent upon ethics. Logic seeks to ascertain the formal conditions of truth. But what is truth? "The conformity of a representation of its object," says Kant. We might state the matter a little more explicitly; but the definition will answer our present purpose, well enough. It is correct, or nearly so, as far as it is intelligible. But what is this "object," which serves to define truth? It is something real; that is, it is such that taking any individual sign or any individual collection of signs (such, for example, as all the ideas that ever enter into a given man's head). There is some character which that thing possesses whether that which that sign or any of these signs represents possesses it or not. Very well, so far: but what does it mean to say that an object possesses