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bring it into closer contact with the actual problems of 

 men s lives. And does not the whole history of its past 

 show that Philosophy has never been more flourishing and 

 influential than in periods when it has seemed to make 

 some response to the outcry of the human soul, to the 

 question What shall I do to be saved ? If, then, 

 Philosophy takes courage to do its duty, if it addresses 

 itself to the question of the Value of Life and grapples 

 with the Demon of Despair that besets the souls of many, 

 who shall say that there is not still in store for it a career 

 of unprecedented splendour among the forces that may 

 mould the destinies of man ? 



