CONTENTS

I. Locke and the Frontiers of Common Sense page 1

Paper read before the Royal Society of Literature on the

occasion of the Tercentenary of the birth of John Locke.

With some Supplementary Notes

II. Fifty Years of British Idealism 48

Reflections on the republication of Bradley's _Ethical Studies_

III. Revolutions in Science 71

Some Comments on the Theory of Relativity and the new Physics

IV. A Long Way Round to Nirvana 87

Development of a suggestion found in Freud's _Beyond the

Pleasure Principle_

V. The Prestige of the Infinite 102

A review of Julien Benda's _Sketch of a consistent theory of

the relations between God and the World_

The Author's acknowledgments are due to the Editors of _The New Adelphi_,

_The Dial_, and the _Journal of Philosophy_, in which one or more of these

Essays originally appeared.