THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 5

THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —Four years ago we sent a letter to the press appealing for support of the British Institute of Philosophy, which was founded in 1925 with the late Lord Balfour as its first president. The appeal was based on the existing disorganisation of beliefs in fundamental principles in every department of life, and the need of a cultivation of systematic thought that has the most intimate bearing on practice. Since then this need has not diminished. We have seen in the interval the rise of forms of political life which appear to deny those constructive forces which have been generally regarded as of first importance. On this and other accounts there is pressing need to consider what the primary standards of right and wrong in the conduct of nations should bC We, therefore, in the tenth year of the institute, venture to ask for your hospitality with a view to making its work potter known and obtaining further support that will enable it to extend its activities. These consist at present of the publication of the quarterly review Philosophy, the holding of courses of public lectures, the organisation in London and other cities of reading circles, and the arrangement of monthly evening addresses by leaders of opinion in various departments of thought, scientific, aesthetic, political, moral, and religious. —Wc are, etc.. S. Alexander. Arthur Eddington. William Ebou. W. R. Inge. A. D. Lindsay. Oliver Lodge. J. H. Muirheab. / Russell. Rutherford. Herbert Samuel. London, January 20.