JOURNAL OF ETHICS A Quarterly Devoted to the Advancement of Ethical Knowledge and Practice GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, LTD., London THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Sendai CONTENTS FOR VOLUME XXXIV ALBERTSWORTH, E. F. Current Religious Thought and Modern Juristic BOARDMAN, NORMAN. The Ethics of the Problem BORDEN-TURNer, Colonel D. International Relations and the League BROGAN, A. P. Group Estimates of Frequency of Misconduct BURNS, C. DELISLE. Labor and the League Philosophy in the University of Cambridge BUTLER, J. M. The League in the Development of Political Institutions COPELAND, EDITH AYRES. The Institutional Setting of Plato's Republic DEMOS, RAPHAEL. Legal Fictions. DOUGLAS, PAUL H. The Necessity for Proportional Representation FINKELSTEIN, MAURICE. The Functional View of Legal Liability. GEIGER, JOSEPH ROY. The Effects of the Motion Picture on the Mind PAGE 385 105 TURNER, J. E. Personal Immortality as an Ethical Principle. WIGMORE, JOHN H. The League of Nations from a Lawyer's Point of WILDE, NORMAN. The Meaning of Rights. WILLIAMS, ROTH. The Technique of the League of Nations BURNS, C. DELISLE. The Contact between Minds: A Metaphysical DICKINSON, G. LOWES. War: Its Nature, Cause, and Cure. By P. J. ELLIS, HAVELOCK. The Dance of Life. By M. Jourdain HADFIELD, J. A. Psychology and Morals: An Analysis of Character. By LEIGHTON, JOSEPH ALEXANDER. Man and the Cosmos. By M. C. Otto NEUMANN, HENRY. Education for Moral Growth. By Frank Thilly POUND, ROSCOE. Interpretations of Legal History. By M. Jourdain THORNDIKE, LYNN. A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era. By James Westfall Thomp- 399 91 400 NOTES EDITORIALS THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS Volume XXXIV OCTOBER 1923 THE FUTURE OF THE JOURNAL In entering upon its thirty-fourth volume, the International Journal of Ethics desires to make an important announcement. Hitherto, with the exception of two numbers in Volume XIX, the editors have been also the responsible publishers. Hereafter, the Journal is to be published by the University of Chicago Press. A brief statement as to the past history of the Journal and its future conduct seems appropriate at this juncture. The first number of the Journal appeared in 1890. It indicated an increasing interest in ethical thought and ethical practice which had begun to manifest itself in many ways. The settlement movement, which has recently been so finely surveyed by Woods and Kennedy in The Settlement Horizon, was in the flush of early enthusiasm; ethical societies in several of the larger cities had been established; in Cambridge, Henry Sidgwick, and in Oxford and many other centers the brilliant group of scholars inspired by Thomas Hill Green were productive writers. The new subject of sociology was gaining a hearing in America, and turning the minds of scholars toward social problems, even as the extraordinary developments in the world of affairs and the rapid growth of cities with the incoming tide of immigrants compelled attention. Problems which had earlier seemed to belong more to the domain of the church, on the one hand, or of the government on the other, now challenged the thought of many who did not identify themselves with either of those institutions, or who felt that the |