INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS. October, 1890. Vol. I. No. I. CONTENTS: THE MORALITY OF STRIFE. By _Professor Henry Sidgwick_. THE FREEDOM OF ETHICAL FELLOWSHIP. By _Felix Adler_, Ph. D. THE LAW OF RELATIVITY IN ETHICS. By _Professor Harald Höffding_. THE ETHICS OF LAND TENURE. By _Professor J. B. Clark_. THE COMMUNICATION OF MORAL IDEAS AS A FUNCTION OF AN ETHICAL SOCIETY By _Bernard Bosanquet_, M. A. DR. ABBOT'S "WAY OUT OF AGNOSTICISM." By _Professor Josiah Royce_. A SERVICE OF ETHICS TO PHILOSOPHY. By _Wm. H. Salter_. This is the first number of the _International Journal of Ethics_, which is intended to take the place of the _Ethical Record_. In the opening article, Professor Sidgwick affirms that the idea of a universal and complete harmony of the earthly interests of all human beings is "an optimistic illusion as to human relations, which in the present age of the world has nearly faded away." Nevertheless, "a very substantial gain would result if we could remove from men's minds all errors of judgment as to right and wrong, good and evil, even if we left other causes of bad conduct unchanged." What is practically wanted is improvement in moral insight, and the aim of the paper is to aid in the solution of certain intellectual difficulties which arise when we try to get a clear idea of duty. Warfare among modern nations "is normally not a mere conflict of interests, but also a conflict of opposing views of right and justice." Disputants may therefore be brought into harmony if they can be really and completely enlightened as to their true rights, as distinguished from their interests. The international law administered by arbitrators may be most useful "in removing minor occasions of controversy and in minimising the mischief resulting from graver conflicts," but it will not provide a settlement of all occasions of strife. Where the sphere of arbitration ends that of the moral method of attaining international peace begins; "if we must be judges in our own cause, we must endeavor to be just judges." The impartiality required is difficult, but "the judicial function—which, in a modern state under popular government, has become, in some degree, the business of every man"—might be performed with success, "if national consciences could be roused to feel the nobility and grapple practically and persistently with the difficulties of the task."