Remarks on Books on the Natural Sciences and Philosophy
in the Sorbonne Library

Remarks on Books on the Natural Sciences and Philosophy in the Sorbonne Library were written on separate sheets
during the first half of 1909.

Note that this document has undergone special formating to ensure that Lenin’s
sidenotes fit on the page, marking as best as possible where they were
located in the original manuscript.

| Sorbonne. New books: C. 819(7) [1] Richard Lucas, Bibliographie der radioaktiven
Stoffe , Hamburg und Leipzig, 1908, 8°. (A. 47. 191). [2] Mach , Grundriss der Physik (bearbeitet von Harbordt und Fischer), Leipzig, 1905-8, 2 Volumes, 8°. (A. 46. 979). [3] S. F . j . 587. [4] Max Planck, Das Prinzip der Erhaltung der
Energie , Leipzig, 1908 (2 Auflage) 12°. (A. 47. 232). [5] S . j . j . 63 . [6] Eduard Riecke, Handbuch der Physik , 4
Auflage, Leip- zig, 1908, 2 Volumes, 8°. (A. 47. 338). [7] S. F . j . 301 a . [8] Fénelon Salignac, Questions de Physique
générale et d’Ast- ronomie , Toulouse, 1908, 4°. (D. 55. 745). [9] C. 818 (2). [10] J. J. Thomson, Die Korpuskulartheorie der Materie , Braunschweig, 1908, 8°. S. D. e. 101 (25). [11] In the Sorbonne library: Vierteiljahrsschrift für
wissenschaftliche Philosophie , p. 5 3 ( 8 °)
(A. 16. 404). [12] Archiv für Philosophie , 2te
Abteilung, p. 48. (A. 17. 027). [13] | Sorbonne. New books: | C. 819(7) [1] |
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| Sorbonne. New books: | C. 819(7) [1] |

| Vierteiljahrsschrift für
wissenschaftliche Philosophie , 1909, Heft I. Raoul Richter’s review (sympathetic, indeed laud- atory) of: Ludwig Stein, Philosophische Strömungen der
Gegenwart , Stuttgart, 1908 (Enke) XVI+452 Seiten. (12 Mark.) Seiten 1-293—philosophical trends— 294-445—philosophical problems Ten trends in philosophy [14] : 1) neo-idealism (voluntarist metaphysics) 2) neo-positivism (pragmatism) of W. James 3) “new movement in natural philosophy” (Ostwald and the “triumph” of energetics over materialism) 4) “neo-romanticism” (H. St. Chamberlain, etc.) 5) neo-vitalism 6) evolutionism ( Spencer ) 7) individualism ( Nietzsche ) 8) geisteswissenschaftliche Bewegung [15] (Dilthey) 9) philosophiegeschichtliche [16] 10) neo-realism (Eduard von Hartmann!!!). New books: Max Schinz, Die Wahrheit der Religion nach den neues- ten Vertretern der Religionsphilosophie , Zürich, 1908, 8°. (307 pages. 6. 50 Mark.) Kr. Guenther, Vom Urtier zum Menschen , (Ein Bilder- atlas.) Stuttgart, 1909. (7-19 pfennig > < 1 Mark.) A. Pelazza, R. Avenarius e l’empiriocriticismo , 1908? 9? Torino (Bocca). 130 Seiten. Spaventa, La filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni con la filosofia europea , 1908? 9? Bari (Laterza). New books (1909): L. Boltzmann, Wiener wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen , Leipzig, (Barth). H. Strache, Die Einheit der Materie, des Weltäthers und der Naturkräfte , Wien (Deuticke). |

| P. 48. Archiv für Philosophie, 2
Abteilung =Archiv für sys- tematische Philosophie, 1908, Heft 4. Vitalis Nor- ström’s second article(Seiten 447-496)
((interesting; almost all of it about Mach)). Where is the first?? Note—is it late?? | Where is the first?? Note—is it late?? |
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| Where is the first?? Note—is it late?? |

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[14] Ten Trends in Philosophy —a list of ten chapters in the
first part of the book Modern Philosophical Trends by L. Stein.

[15] humanities
movement— Ed.

[16]
philosophical-historical— Ed.