wider interest in Church History. The scope of the lectures would perhaps best be defined by saying that they were intended, not indeed as a general introduction to St. Augustinea much more ambitious undertaking-but as a series of introductions to particular aspects of his thought. They were intended, that is, to provide the student with a choice of startingpoints, from one or other of which, according to his tastes and previous training, he might usefully approach the study of this great and many-sided figure. That is the genesis of the studies which are here offered to a wider audience. They have been carefully revised and to some extent recast, but I have not attempted to remove all traces of their origin. In a book of this kind it is hardly necessary to give a bibliography, but among works to which I have been indebted I should like to mention especially G. J. Seyrich, Die Geschichtsphilosophie Augustins (Chemnitz, 1891); Joseph Mausbach, Die Ethik des hl. Augustinus (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1909); W. Thimme, Augustin, Ein Lebens- und Charakterbild auf Grund seiner Briefe (Göttingen, 1910); R. C. Trench, Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount drawn from the Writings of St. Augustine (London, 1869), with its valuable introductory essay. The lectures were written before I came across M. Bertrand's articles in the Revue des Deux Mondes. It seems worth while to mention this, as it gives the value of independent agreement to the concurrence of our views regarding what may be called the "economics" of the Cassiciacum period-a point which, so far as I know, had not previously been so clearly brought out. As regards the translations, I have made my own wherever it appeared desirable to do so, but in many cases I have been glad to avail myself of the generally admirable rendering in Dods' Select Works of St. Augustine (by various translators), which do not, however, include the Early Dialogues or the psychologically important De Genesi ad Litteram. W. MONTGOMERY ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS Character best seen in social relations-A fourth- Critical difficulties-Contrast between the Dialogues Variety and interest of his letters-Letter to an old pupil-The humbling of a pedant-A crisis in his parish-A scholars' controversy (with St. Jerome)— ix IV. OUTLINES OF HIS PSYCHOLOGY Preliminary questions-Origin of the soul-Relation of soul to body-Augustine's scientific caution—An unintentional experiment-The physics and physiology of sensation-The special senses-The "Inner Sense " --Memory-Imagination-Reason, discursive and PAGE -- Difficulty of doing justice to a pioneer-" We are all - His anticipation" of Descartes-Pascal's view- VII. ST. AUGUSTINE AS EXPOSITOR AND PREACHER 86 The expositor needs training--An ironic argument- Training of the preacher-Formal rhetoric undesir- PAGE 180 VIII. HIS PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, THEORY OF THE What is philosophy of history ?-How Augustine The state--Founded in social instinct-The family- Social ethics-Augustino personally ascetic in practice 222 |