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all modern philosophy of every sect has been nominalistic. In a long notice of Frazer's Berkeley, in the North American Review of October 1871, I declared for realism. I have since very carefully and thoroughly revised my philosophical opinions more than half a dozen times, and have modified them more or less on most topics; but I have never been able to think differently on that question of nominalism and realism. In that paper I acknowledged that the tendency of science has been toward nominalism; but the late Dr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot in the very remarkable introduction to his book entitled 'Scientific Theism', showed on the con-