M. Boutroux on "Intelligence"

M. Emile Boutroux will deliver the sixth of his lectures on "Contingency and Liberty" in connection with Philosophy 4 in Emerson J this afternoon at 4.30. His subject will be "Intelligence." The lecture will be open to the public.

Summary of Third Hyde Lecture.

In the third of the series of Hyde lectures in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, M. Boutroux took as his subject "The Essence of Religion," and discussed its various phases.

Religion is not coextensive with ecclesiastical institutions, nor with traditions, nor with belief in supernatural beings, nor with faith alone; it does not consist of such philosophical doctrines as the doctrine of God and immortality: religion grows out of the consciousness of a disproportion between our destiny and our powers; it aims at overcoming that disproportion by uniting our inner being with some person more perfect and more powerful. Thus religion implies faith, love of some greater being, endowed, like ourselves, with consciousness and will.