[48] M. Abel Rey, author of a work on the _Theory of Physical Science in the hands of Contemporary Scientists_ (_La Théorie de la physique chez les physiciens contemporains_). In this book (I have not had the time to examine it carefully) M. Rey examines the theories and methods of Newton, and also of modern thinkers like Mach and Ostwald, reaching the conclusion that the philosophy with which physical science is most compatible is a “modified form of Positivism,” which bears a striking resemblance to “Pragmatism” and the “philosophy of experience.” The English reader will find many useful references to Rey in the pages of Father Leslie J. Walker’s _Theories of Knowledge_, in the “Stoneyhurst Philosophical Series.” [49] _Ibidem._ [50] It was impossible to procure a copy of this work of M. Blondel. I have tried to do so twice in Paris. [51] M. Lalande in the _Philosophical Review_ (1906), p. 246. [52] _Ibid._ pp. 245–246. [53] I am inclined to attach a great importance to this idea (Kant obviously had it) of “consulting moral experience directly,” provided only that the “moral” in our experience is not too rigidly separated from the intellectual. And it would so far, therefore, be only to the credit of Pragmatism if we could associate it with a rational effort to do justice to our moral experience, as indeed possibly presupposing a “reality” that transcends the limits of our mere individuality, a reality that transcends, too, the subjective idealism that figures but too prominently in modern philosophy. See my eighth chapter, p. 223, where I criticize Dr. Bosanquet for not consulting moral experience directly. [54] _Phil. Rev._, 1906, p. 243. [55] See p. 160. [56] See p. 200 _et. ff._ [57] See p. 64.