The English group of Comtean Positivists consists mainly of Fr. Harrison, Richard Congreve, George Eliot and James Cotter Morison. The second part of the book which treats of the positivistic movement outside of the positivistic schools in England, France, Germany and other countries will be less interesting to English and American readers partly because the subject is better known to them partly because our author is apparently more familiar with his French than with his English sources. The second part begins with John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer. It mentions Bain, Lewes, Clifford, Maudsley, Darwin, Sully, Romanes, Huxley, Tyndall. Clifford’s view is sketched in sixteen lines but in such a way that it appears grotesque. As French positivists outside the schools are mentioned Taine, Ribot, Fouillée, Guyau, Charles Richet, J. Luys, Cl. Bernard, and Roberty. It is correctly said of Ribot that his doctrine of personality is most characteristic of his views. The unity of a personality in the ego does not grow from above downwards but from below upwards, but Gruber is mistaken in saying of Charles Richet, the editor of the _Revue Scientifique_, that he represents about the same views as Th. Ribot. Richet’s publication on telepathic experiments in which he confidently believes, would never be countenanced by Ribot. As the first German positivist is mentioned Eugen Dühring. Riehl, Laas, Lange, Vaihinger and Avenarius are disposed of together in the next following chapter. Several pages are devoted to Wundt. The little chapter headed _Nord-America_ (p. 171) consisting of two and a half pages begins with the words: “According to the testimony of G. Stanley Hall philosophy in the new world is in its swaddling-clothes still (_in den Kinderschuhen_). Philosophers over there are as rare as snakes in Ireland (_Schlangen in Norwegen_).[23] For scientific instruction in the United States are used as guiding stars Spencer, Lewes, Darwin, Huxley, and Haeckel.” As a representative Atheist is named Ludeking, a man unknown to fame, while Colonel Ingersoll is not mentioned at all. It is maintained that J. D. Bell, a professor in New York had proclaimed the same confession of faith as Comte in _The Modern Thinker_—a journal which we have never seen nor ever heard of. The societies for ethical culture are characterised as avowing “a purely natural religion” while in fact natural religion, the religion of science and philosophy, as a basis of ethics is as rigorously rejected by Professor Adler as any dogmatic religion, and more than half of the two and a half pages is filled with a masonic proclamation of the Sovereign Grand Commander, Albert Pike, of Washington, which preaches the belief in an unknowable God and denounces Atheism.