Cosmology, Psychology, Epistemology (Criteriology), General Metaphysics (Ontology) 

English-speaking public will have a twofold interest. The one arises from the tragic fate that befell the University of Louvain when the tide of the present ruthless war swept over the plains of landers. .. .The halls where courses of Philosophy were delivered are now the wards of a Red Cross Hospital. .. .The professors of the Institute of Philosophy are scattered, and some are in exile...The illustrious founder of the Institute, and author of most of these pages, is the Prelate who now consoles his stricken people, while his name is held in benediction in every corner of Christendom. .. .Had the world but hearkened to the truths proclaimed by such as he and embodied in lives like his, had it but held fast to the Christian Philosophy of Life, well the twentieth century might have dawned without such a baptism of blood. .. .The other interest attaches to the subject-matter of the work on its own intrinsic merits. It is an English version of the Louvain Traite elementaire de philosophic. The original is in part an abridgment of the larger Cours de philosophicl published 1S ix volumes of this larger series have been published: Logique (M ercier, 5th ed., 1910); Metaphysique generate ouontologie (Mercier, 5th ed., 1910); Psychologie (Mercier, 9th ed., 1912) ; Criteriologie generate outraite generate de la certitude (Mercier, 6th ed., 1912); Histoire de la philosophie mediivale (D eW ulf, 4th ed., 1912 ;3rd ed., English tr. London, Longmans, 1909); Cosmologie ou etude philosophique du monde inorganique (N ys, 3rd ed.). Before the war the other volumes were in preparation. Perhaps the Traitt elementaire may be considered to give an outline of these future volumes in its sections on Criteriologie speciale, Theodicee and Morale, and in so far may now be regarded as a doubly valuable supplement of theL ouvain Cours of philosophy. Volumes of the Cours- from Amzon