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The article focuses on several socio-political issues. Intellectual Henry Maine, in his work on Ancient Law, published in 1861, made some observations on the part played, and likely to be played, in modern politics by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau's notion about the law of nature. Of the soundness and acuteness of all this, the events of 1871 in France, and of the present year in Spain, afford abundant illustration. The whole body of political and moral ideas known as Socialist, and to a large extent the polity known in Europe as democratic, rest on the theory that political society ought to be and can be rearranged in harmony with a law of nature evolved by a certain number of advanced thinkers. The judicial power of England consists of eighteen Common Law judges, four Equity judges, and one judge for Probate and Divorce, another for Admiralty, and about half a dozen whose duties are exclusively those of an Appellate Court. There is also a Court of Bankruptcy, several criminal tribunals, and a few local or city courts of limited jurisdiction.

Freedom in politics and speech is an unusual condition, the protege of forces which operate sporadically and transiently, and therefore a frequent casualty in the course of historical development. Philosophers Voltaire and Montesquieu were amazed at the freedom of speech, press and worship which they found in England. They came from a country in which the power of the king was absolute, to a country whose king had been reduced, by an alliance of merchants and nobles, to an ornamental symbol of imperial unity and a convenient instrument of national hypnotism. Returning to France, they spent a wealth of superlatives on English freedom.

The article presents information on a letter written by philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson to writer Thomas Carlyle. In the collection of T.O. Arthur of Glasgow, sold at Sotheby's, were four letters of Emerson to Carlyle. This letter contains a careful statement by Phillips, Sampson & Co., concerning Carlyle's proposal for a complete edition of his works. There were plans to print 2,000 or 4,000 copies, and then send the plates to America, where a sufficient number might be printed, the plates then returning to London.

The article reports that various agencies for the reformation of the world by means of unlimited talk are just now in full operation. The clergy are having a congress at Nottingham, England; they settled to their own entire satisfaction the proper mode of confuting the infidel, who, however, will perhaps have a kick or two left in him still. The Social Science philosophers have been employing themselves at Leeds in even more sweeping reforms. No kind of reform escapes their searching gaze. The Social Science Association has in fact succumbed to the evil, which from the first appeared to threaten it. It has been turned to account by two disagreeable classes of mankind, the bore and to speak in the CarIylese dialect, the windbag.

The article discusses the book "The French Renaissance in England," by Sidney Lee. It was pretty certain that the appearance of this book would be something of an event in scholarship Lee's long, expert acquaintance with the period made one look forward to his first large generalizations with eagerness. One of the best parts of the book summarizes the impression made upon English thought by certain Huguenot scientists and philosophers.

Comments on the legal absurdity of law from imprisonment of British philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell in England. Assertion that Russell is a threat to every form of tyranny; Depiction of a total ruin of the ostrich policy in the country; Criticism on the policy of extermination, which is no longer feasible.

Focuses on the International Congress of Philosophy held in Oxford University in England. Theme of the convention; Effect of World War I on the activity; Philosophical societies that participated in the event; Topics related to the field of philosophy discussed during the convention; Contribution of the convention to the development of philosophy; Value of the debates held during the congress to society and history.