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THE EVALUATION OF LIFE.
[Vol. VII.

school, which has insisted upon the exercise and perfection of man's distinctive nature, with equal truth has fastened upon the ideational and constitutive principle. The error of each has been in insisting upon one aspect of the Good to the neglect of the other.[1]

To vindicate more fully the necessity and value of the objective aspect of the Good, to exhibit its nature as an ideal of conduct, to show its organic relation to the evaluative side, and also to ask whether this two-fold aspect is final, or whether the two views can be brought together into a higher unity, will demand a separate and extended discussion.

Walter G. Everett
Brown University..
  1. For an impressive statement of the opposition of these schools, see J. Seth, A Study of Ethical Principles, Part I, Chaps. I and II.