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nation. It does not seem unnatural that a movement 

 so sudden and rapid, which resulted in such momentous 

 changes and even formed an important factor in the 

 great anti-Napoleonic revolution of Europe, 1 should find 

 its counterpart in an idealistic school of philosophy 

 which started in a lordly manner from the inner world 

 of thought and the supposed data of consciousness, and 

 looked down with a certain amount of contempt upon 

 the opposite school of philosophy which dealt more 

 exclusively with the problems of wealth, industry, and 

 the interests of the masses. 



The history of this movement, which may be called u. 



Both 



the idealistic movement of thought, and which will methods 



overreach 



occupy us more in detail in the course of this work, has t*eiriimit. 

 shown, quite as much as the history of the later or 

 psycho-physical movement, that any exclusive method 

 soon exhausts its resources. In trying to find the way 

 outside into nature and life it very soon arrived at 

 an impassable limit, just as I have had occasion to 

 show that the psycho-physical methods by themselves 

 lead to an impassable limit beyond which lies the inner 

 experience or introspective view which alone reveals to 

 us the specific nature of our mind. 



Both methods, the one that works from inside out 15. 

 and the other that works from outside in, have been of permanent 



value. 



great value. Perhaps one of the most important gains has 

 been the conviction to which both lines of reasoning have 

 led, that beyond the region from which each started separ- 



1 The history of this movement work which largely, as it seems to 



has been written in a masterly 1 me, in consequence of its title, has 



manner by the late Sir J. R. Seeley not gained that popularity in this 



in his 'Life and Times of Stein,' a I country which it richly deserves. 



