Editorial note — B. — Aristotle’s Doctrine.

[The following Abstract — when not translation — of six books (Γ, E, Z, Η, Θ, Λ) out of the fourteen included under the title ‘Metaphysica,’ may be said to cover the whole of Aristotle’s dogmatic exposition of First Philosophy. According to the view of Brandis, now in its main features generally accepted, the exposition continued through Books Γ, E, Z, Η, reaches back to Books A and B, and comes to an end with Book Θ. Still it is only with Book Γ that the properly didactic treatment begins, Book A being a historical review of previous opinion, and Book B a mere collection of ἀπορίαι subjected to a preliminary dialectical handling; while, at the other end, Book Λ, though it has no direct connection with Book Θ, is, especially in its latter part, of undeniable importance for Aristotle's metaphysical doctrine.