This, if not the only, is the easiest and surest criterion between the idea of God and the notion of a 'mens agitans molem'.

The subject and object of their compositions, and the principles and opinions they are calculated to support, constitute a far more important criterion, and one to which it is usually altogether as easy to refer.

The criterion by which their delinquency may be determined, is fortunately very obvious: no scene can be tolerated in description, which could not be contemplated in reality, without a gross violation of propriety: no expression can be pardoned in poetry to which delicacy could not listen in the prose of real life.

The official dynastic histories apply to the course of Chinese history the criterion of Confucian ethics; for them history is a textbook of ethics, designed to show by means of examples how the man of high character should behave or not behave.

Whatever shocks or gives the least offence To virtue delicacy truth or sense Try the criterion tis a faithful guide Nor has nor can have Scripture on its side.

[Mr. CYRIL SCOTT, the musical composer, in his recently published volume on The Philosophy of Modernism in its connection with Music, states that the criterion of lofty music, the method of gauging the spiritual value of art, "is only possible to him who has awakened the latent faculties of the pineal gland and the pituitary body.

Criterion of the Head Attitudes.

Examine the criterion for the fixed attitudes of the head.

[Illustration: Criterion of the Eyes.]

The nine expressions of the eye may be verified by the criterion.

A criterion of the face is indispensable to the intelligent physiognomist, and as the lips and nose have much to do with the expression of the face, we offer an unerring diagnosis in the three following charts: Criterion of the Profile of the Lips.

A criterion of the face is indispensable to the intelligent physiognomist, and as the lips and nose have much to do with the expression of the face, we offer an unerring diagnosis in the three following charts: Criterion of the Profile of the Lips.

Criterion of the Profile of the Nose. SPECIES.

But the means of putting into practice these valuable preceptsthe criterion to establish their truth, the touchstone which may distinguish the pure golddoes not appear!

They would take away from it altogether the power of determining and establishing a criterion between right and wrong.

Do we not need some criterion of goodness to guide our judgment?

and does not Green himself use such a criterion when he appeals to the tendency of certain institutions and habits to "make the welfare of all the welfare of each," and of certain arts to make nature "the friend of man"?

But his metaphysical view does not exclude them; and if they are included, morality disappears for lack of any criterion between good and evil.

And here the criterion is the same as before, and equally subjective.

The point is, that it does not advance us at all towards determining the validity of this approval, or towards an objective criterion for distinguishing 'good' from evil.

The second remark which has to be made on this final point is, that neither on the method of system and self-assertion nor on the method of expansion and self-sacrifice has the author given or suggested any criterion for the distinction of good and evil.

But we hardly need to read between the lines in order to see the prominence of the moral interest in all that Green wrote; and it was after he had shown the inadequacy of the empirical method in the hands of Hume to give any criterion or ideal for conduct that he made his significant appeal to "Englishmen under five-and-twenty" to leave "the anachronistic systems hitherto prevalent amongst us" and take up "the study of Kant and Hegel."

Some criterion is needed for deciding between competing ideals.

Moral consciousness and reality, 128. environment, 70 ff. experience, 131. ideas, origin of, 1 ff. order and cosmic process, 46 ff. value, criterion of, 1 ff., 75. Natural selection, 35, 43 ff., 49. in morals, 55.

There is not a single criterion which can serve as the measure of the non-existent, of the non-human.