52 PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



But there still remains a large and important section 

 of the philosophical literature of the century in all the 

 three countries which is not covered by the foregoing 

 developments, but into which they all enter. This arises 

 out of the peculiarity of philosophical thought to which 

 I referred in the third part of the general introduction 

 to this history. 



43. I there tried to show how philosophy occupies an 



Inter- 

 mediate intermediate position between scientific thought which is 



position of 



tet!reen hy capable of clear definition and enunciation and that 

 reifon and other and opposite region of thought which I have 

 variously termed Individual, Subjective, or Religious 

 Thought. In fact, we may say that one of the objects 

 of philosophy has always been to effect a reconciliation 

 between science and religion, or, expressed in different 

 words, to show the relations between definite and detailed 

 knowledge on the one side and our beliefs and convic- 

 tions on the other. The philosopher is bound to have 

 an eye as much for the latter as for the former. 



44. There have indeed existed many philosophical attempts 



Monistic 



doctrines, to establish what is usually termed the monistic view by 

 starting from one undisputed principle, or from one 

 coherent and self-consistent body of facts, and to dis- 

 countenance any compromise between apparently con- 

 tradictory regions of thought. Especially in the course 

 of the nineteenth century various efforts were made to 



science of reality." Trendelenburg's 

 criticisms, though they influenced 

 several prominent living thinkers, 

 have generally been too little appre- 

 ciated, especially out of Germany. 



structive effort, and was more easily 

 satisfied by the brilliant construc- 

 tions of Schopenhauer and v. Hart- 

 mann than by the historicism and 

 eclecticism of Trendelenburg or the 



When he wrote, the philosophical cautious and circumspect analysis 

 mind still hoped for a new con- ' of Lotze. 



