Issued under the direction of the Department of No. 1. The Ethical Significance of Feeling, Pleasure, No. 2. The Dualism of Fact and Idea in Its Social Im- No. 3. Some Phases in the Development of the Subjective No. 4. The Respective Standpoints of Psychology and No. 5. The Relation of Inference to Fact in Mill's Logic. No. 6. The Woman Movement from the Point of View No. 7. The Origin of Subjectivity in Hindu Thought. No. 8. The Nature of the Relationship between Ethics $.54 .53 .54 .54 .53 .54 .54 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 5832 ELLIS AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (From French Men, Women and Books, by Miss Betham-Edwards. Published by A. C. McClurg Co., 1911.) Frontispiece to The Open Court. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. CHARACTERS IN HOMER'S POEMS, MORAL: MORAL AND ALLEGORICAL NAMES. It is clear from what we have seen thus far that Homer's stories should not be regarded as tales designed merely to pass the time pleasantly-when we look into their deeper meanings we begin to wonder whether these Epics were not Moralities, like Pilgrim's Progress, for we find that the nam ́s of the characters, like Bunyan's, are appropriate to the Vices and Virtues which distinguish them. Let us not be understood to mean that Homer preaches-he is far too good an artist to do that, as Bunyan also is. Both show men as they are, dramatically and realistically so that we love them or hate them for the traits that they reveal. An examination of the names in Homer as to their derivation and root-meaning will repay our effort and throw light upon the moral intent of these stories-we shall find Mr. Pliable, Mr. Wordly-Wiseman, Mr. Facing-both-Ways among them: Leading the vicious characters we find: Antinous-ǎvτ vous, without-mind, fool, idiot. Can this be the name that his father and mother gave him when he was a child? That is not possible.. Paris-mapiaw, I sleep beside, or with. This is the phrasing in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi for committing adultery, a crime which was decreed the penalty of drowning in the river, for both of the guilty persons. This also is not the name that the parents of this prince gave their child at his birth, nor is that of Alexander, which Homer often calls him, derived from ἀλέξω and ἀνήρ-δρός, meaning not defender of men, as has been suggested, but defended of men, which is appropriate, and a reproach to |